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>> bill: thanks for staying with us. im bill oreilly. in weekdays with bernie segment tonight, cbs news anchor scott pelly challenged newt gingrich about killing terrorists. >> speaker gingrich, if i could just ask you the same question. as president of the united states, would you sign that death warrant for an american citizen overseas who you believe is a terrorist suspect. >> is he not a terrorist suspect. is he person found guilty under review of actively seeking the death of americans. >> ...

>> bill: thanks for staying with us. im bill oreilly. in weekdays with bernie segment tonight, cbs news anchor scott pelly challenged newt gingrich about killing terrorists. >> speaker gingrich, if i could just ask you the same question. as president of the united states, would you sign that death warrant for an american citizen overseas who you believe is a terrorist suspect. >> is he not a terrorist suspect. is he person found guilty under review of actively seeking the death of americans. >> ...

Respect im on the other side of this one. what did scott pelly do that whereas wrong? he asked a question: if you were president, mr. gingrich, would you sign off on killing a suspected terrorist who is an american who is overseas? and who hasnt had a trial, has not had a trial? gingrich said yeah, you dont need a trial. if a panel has found you to be an enemy combatant, you dont have any civil rights. you have no right to a trial. we can kill you pelley set what? you havent been found guilty in...

Respect im on the other side of this one. what did scott pelly do that whereas wrong? he asked a question: if you were president, mr. gingrich, would you sign off on killing a suspected terrorist who is an american who is overseas? and who hasnt had a trial, has not had a trial? gingrich said yeah, you dont need a trial. if a panel has found you to be an enemy combatant, you dont have any civil rights. you have no right to a trial. we can kill you pelley set what? you havent been found guilty in...

Among a group that has some association, are you now an enemy combatant even though youre fighting for freedom. this is so sweepingly broad it has never been supported in this form by the u.s. supreme court. >> senator, i have errol lewis here. >> looking at some debate there, was this a matter of your colleagues saying, look, weight is too great, we have to pass a bill to reauthorization general operations of the military? was this just one more thing to get traded away in the course of getting...

German soldiers who were in uniform. very, very narrow case. the second was an american who was on the battlefield in afghanistan, so those two very narrow cases are very different than the incredibly broad language thats been put into this bill, which says if you have supported some group associated with some other group. now, let me give you an example. if you make a charitable deduction and that group unknow -- unbeknownst to you continues to support someone in afghanistan who is among the ta...

From the 13 that took the stand back from conference and wasnt improved, this goes so deeply to who we are as americans and the core protections given to citizens to be able to make your case in public because under this -- under this law as it stands, the government asserts, the presidents team asserts youre an enemy combatant and at that point you can be swept away into a secret prison, foreign prison, you dont get a lawyer, dont get a public trial, dont get a chance to prove youre an enemy co...

Breadth -- it would be a breath of fresh air to cut through some of the words that have been used here this morning. one line. there is no bar to this nations holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant. okay? thats not me. thats not senator graham. thats not senator mccain. thats the supreme court of the united states. >> senator levin making the case basically that the ability to hold one of the nations own citizens as enemy combatant has already been stipulated by supreme court in s...

Not clearly an enemy combatant. whether someone is an angry and misunderstood kid who is posting things on the internet and having meetings with people who are shady and who engages in some sort of edgy behavior and is, thus, the subject of investigation by local law enforcement or if someone is carrying around a rocket-propelled grenade in afghanistan and been dlu an al qaeda training camp. very different cases. but the protection of the american constitution should apply to americans unless an...

mitt romney is picking up a significant endorsement in south carolina today. one that could help boost his standing with tea party republicans who continue to question his conservative credentials. romney now has the backing of governor nikki hailey, who herself was propelled into office with tea party support. can she convince those same tea party voters to back mitt romney? joe johns is joining us now. this is a huge day for mitt romney. tell us what we know. >> mitt romney continued...