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Essentially require the president not to have the option of detaining people for intelligence purposes and allowing our intelligence professionals to question them. it forces them to go right to federal court, and it forces our folks to mirandize these folks. bill: make that case a little more clear for us. it would give the terrorists more incentive to come here? how so? >> look, look, if youre captured in the united states right now and youre an al-qaida member whether youre a citizen or nonci...

>> for that reason, the prosecution may choose to avoid presenting evidence gathered through interrogation including any confession. they likely have enough other incriminating evidence. but with congress blocked trying the four co-differents in federal court here in the united states, it may have done holders justice department a big favor. why? under federal rules, evidence gathered without search warrants or miranda rights is not admissible in federal court, so is all other evidence derived. ...

Criticism. congress refused to fund the trials forcing the president to back down. well, you know what, that may have been a legal blessing for holders prosecutors. why? because ksm was an enemy combatant captured overseas in battlefield conditions he was not red miranda rights or granted counsel, nor was there a warrant for all the evidence seized. in a federal court that is a huge problem, a lot of the incriminating evidence, including any confession would have likely been excluded, and that i...

>> so he gets two minutes and i get 30 seconds? >> take whatever time you want. >> okay. what the law should be and what the law has been is that if you are a united states citizen, and you are detained as an enemy combatant, then you have the right to go to federal court and file a maybeious corp puts position and be provided a lawyer. that was the law before the national defense organization act and that should be the law today. you should not have -- you should not have -- if you are not an a...

>> so he gets two minutes and i get 30 seconds? >> take whatever time you want. >> okay. what the law should be and what the law has been is that if you are a united states citizen, and you are detained as an enemy combatant, then you have the right to go to federal court and file a maybeious corp puts position and be provided a lawyer. that was the law before the national defense organization act and that should be the law today. you should not have -- you should not have -- if you are not an a...

Get 30 seconds? >> take whatever time you want. >> okay. what the law should be and what the law has been is that if you are a united states citizen, and you are detained as an enemy combatant, then you have the right to go to federal court and file a maybeious corp puts position and be provided a lawyer. that was the law before the national defense organization act and that should be the law today. you should not have -- you should not have -- if you are not an american citizen, thats one thing...

getting some fuel. an american icebreaker helped a russian tanker get through the frozen barring see to deliver gas and oil. there is still a mile of ice between the tanker and the harbor. fuel will have to be piped in through a hose that is being laid out on top of the ice. on what would have been dr. martin luther king jr.s birthday, a wreath was laid at the new king memorial at the mall today. the interior department announced a correction will soon be made on an inscription there...

Iran is making latin american tour and hes in cuba, and the problem there was a nuclear scientist who was killed in iran, iran says it was the united states who did it. the united states condemned it, britain condemned it and israel said nothing so theres a lot of suspicion that israel was responsible for his death, but things have certainly heated up. if youre president of the united states with ahmadnejad visiting just down the road a little bit in cuba and all of that going on in tehran. what...

Slaves, we wouldnt have had to fight the civil war and other things that emerge in those news letters that still have not been sufficiently accounted for. he doesnt give me any warm fuzzy feelings of honesty, quite honestly. >> thanks so much for joining us. and a remind per this sunday, david gregory will moderate the final presidential debate before the new hampshire primary. the nbc news facebook debate will air on a special edition of nbcs "meet the press" and also on nbc at 9:00 a.m. sund...

Fight the civil war and other things that emerge in those news letters that still have not been sufficiently accounted for. he doesnt give me any warm fuzzy feelings of honesty, quite honestly. >> thanks so much for joining us. and a remind per this sunday, david gregory will moderate the final presidential debate before the new hampshire primary. the nbc news facebook debate will air on a special edition of nbcs "meet the press" and also on nbc at 9:00 a.m. sunday. next, are the gop candida...