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Citizensh citizenship, you forfeit the rights involved and treat them more easily as enemy combatant. its a good idea and i hope it passes. >> bret: bill, our own contributor judith miller put up a link that questions ten big questions about shahzad and times square. she says how did the f.b.i. surveillance team tracking him in connecticut manage to lose him before he drove to the airport? how long did they lose him? a whole list we have a link on foxnews.com, you can check it out. then he gets ...

The point we saw on christmas day and last saturday. martha: and his point is very well taken, two very, very close calls. make the situation too close for anybodys comfort, at this point, catherine, i know youll continue to monitor the hearing and we are all watching the investigation, as it unfolds, thank you very much. catherine herridge in washington. we know a lot of you are watching this story, as it develops on-line, so many questions. about how this man got as far as he did. and how we g...

Enemy combatant because they will revoke your citizenship. i was talking to somebody in the green room who said, you know, the application is so outdated. it asks, are you or have you ever been a prostitute? are you a member of the communist party. they dont ask have you been to a terror training camp because if you lie on any of those things, once again, they can say you lied on that. were going to revoke your citizenship and you wont have the benefits of being an american citizen. >> they migh...

Read their rights quickly. and here was the response from the attorney general who says its to the governments benefit to do that. >> it is not conferring a right on somebody or giving them -- treating them in a special way. it is allowing us to make sure that statements that they give to us are going to be admissible in court. >> reporter: now, the other side of the argument is that someone like a suspect of this nature, even though he is an american citizen, could be deemed an enemy combatant,...

He had been working with the pakistani taliban. right now, there is nothing that links him to the pakistani taliban, but authorities are intensely investigating this, and they also want to try and corroborate his claim that he received bomb making training in pakistan, something that they have not yet been able to do. last point ill make, the pakistans interior minister now saying this morning that he believes shahzhad was not working alone, but this is part of the investigation that still has a...

As well. then there is questions about u.s. taxpayer dollars. we support the international monetary fund. we are the biggest supporter. the imf is essentially bailing out greece. so there are questions there. megyn: the german chancellor angela merkel said there is no alternative if we want to secure the financial stability of the euro. we is saying we have got to bail them out. but they placed conditions saying you have got to get your act in order. the response to it trying to do that are thes...

55,000 people have taken part from that -- in that survey. martha: wow. bill: 79 percent say try him as an enemy combatant. martha: we had the move by senator lieberman, basically you saying you give up your citizenship when you attack your country. its an interesting argument. werewere going to hear more about that. bill: 55,000 in ten hours. thats remarkable. martha: news is breaking on americas economy, folks. we just got the new weekly jobless claims numbers, 444,000 americans sought first-t...

Joint terrorism task force and that is all a -- of the moment in what were talking about, now, were also learning that faisal shahzad in the days before this attempted bombing attack, scoped out times square. and were also talking a lot about what happened once he was apprehended. and, exactly how he should be prosecuted and how he should have been questioned. as an enemy combatant or as, you know, a civilian, in these cases. lets bring in catherine herridge, tracking the story for us. there is ...

He is entitled to it. if you dont give it to him you blow the whole case. >> he doesnt have to be given rights because he can be tried in a military tribunal where you dont have to have your miranda rights. i was saying not check with congress, but check with the cia, check with the director of the national intelligence because -- >> when do you do all this checking, and under what circumstances would this guy be tried in a military court? he wasnt -- he is an american citizen. >> he was carryin...

Winning a pyrrhic victory and having it thrown out by the courts? >> the military tribunal is a valid trial for an enemy combatant. the point im making, this person could have such knowledge, such information, such intelligence, remember, he has been as far as we know in a terrorist training camp. we could tell us where that camp is. he could tell white house the instructors are. he could tell us are there any other americans at the camp. >> larry: apparently he is. >> we dont know. >> the quest...