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The vast majority are good american people. say they have a cousin and e-mail them. say somebody thinks their cousin is a terrorist. for goodness sakes, would you drop bombs on people and say we are associated with terrorism and hes an enemy combatant. thats a lot different than someone with a grenade launcher or attacking someone. the people that they have been targeting overseas are not always using weapons. i dont want that standard. if you are attacking and it has to be an imminent threat. i...

Almost all of there are good american people. but lets say they have a cuousn in the middle east and they e-mail them. would you just drop bombs on people in dearborn and say we think hes associated with terrorism, hes an enemy combatant? thats a lot different than someone from a grenade launcher on their shoulder targeting americans. so i dont want that standard. imminent threat, no problem. if youre attacking -- but it has to be an imminent threat. the president obama said imminent doesnt have...

There are enough votes to confirm him and that vote will be today, tomorrow or saturday. i dont think that was his real goal i. think his goal was to open up the eyes of the american public to the a attitude of the white house which seems to be, we can kill whoever we want, how we want, without revealing it to the public, without even revealing it to congress and we are not even going to answer senator pauls letter about how we got here, historically, legally and constitutionally. the constituti...

I dont disagree that we need more debate, more discussion, and frankly probably more legislation to make sure that america does protect the rights of all of our citizens, to make sure at the same time that if someone is an enemy combatant, that enemy combatant has nowhere to hide. not in a cafe, not anywhere, but to say that somehow that even though we will try to take that person to say that we would hit them in a cafe with a hellfire missile, first of all, there are no drones with hellfire mis...

Okay with that. i just disagree with that. were listening to senator mccain and graham on that. kind of picking up with the filibuster that wrapped up. this is all in reference to the presidents drone program, but john mccain and lindsey graham coming out in support of what the president has done, lindsey graham calling into question where were republicans during president bushs administration when they were using drones. joining me on set is ayman mull ha dean, you know firsthand from the wor...

Ammunition to those critics who say that the rules of the senate are being abused. i hope that my colleagues on this side of the aisle will take that into consideration. i note the presence of the senator from south carolina. the senator from south carolina, as many of our colleagues know, is a lawyer. he has a military lawyer in the air force reserve for some over 20 years. if theres anyone in the united states senate that nose about this issue from a legal/technical standpoint, i would ask it ...

People are. al-awlaki who got people drond he was basically a guy who was on the list of being an enemy combatant. he was an enemy combatant against his country you trust the military officials who say all 2,000 people we killed are enemy combatants and threats to america. i dont. >> bill: i cant say whether they are right or wrong because i dont have the information. can i tell you this its legal what theyre doing. maybe its immoral but its legal. last word. >> im a constitutional scholar. i fe...

People are. al-awlaki who got people drond he was basically a guy who was on the list of being an enemy combatant. he was an enemy combatant against his country you trust the military officials who say all 2,000 people we killed are enemy combatants and threats to america. i dont. >> bill: i cant say whether they are right or wrong because i dont have the information. can i tell you this its legal what theyre doing. maybe its immoral but its legal. last word. >> im a constitutional scholar. i fe...

Against the united states, you for fit the privileges of citizenship and the fifth amendment due process. once you do that by being an enemy combatant we can drone you the way that we do an afghan or a saudi or a yemeni. there is no difference. >> bill: charles, go to the results of our poll. do you support the president for drone program. 55% do not support the program. very interesting poll. and we have a brand-new poll this evening. does it matter that president obama played golf with tiger w...

Against the united states, you for fit the privileges of citizenship and the fifth amendment due process. once you do that by being an enemy combatant we can drone you the way that we do an afghan or a saudi or a yemeni. there is no difference. >> bill: charles, go to the results of our poll. do you support the president for drone program. 55% do not support the program. very interesting poll. and we have a brand-new poll this evening. does it matter that president obama played golf with tiger w...