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Charges against you? the lawyer will say yes. do you understand and hell tick off the four miranda rights. the lawyer will say yes, hes already been told or he hasnt been told. thank you for telling us. >> why dont they put this off? we have that high value interrogation unit. why cant they put it off 24 hours in order to get at this guy. >> the statute requires in different parts of the country but here in new york, 48 hours, but it also says as soon as is practical. for the reasons glenn said....

Tough interrogation, nonetheless kept us safe. obama has repeatedly attacked the way that the bush administration handled terror. well, he has to be real careful. this could destroy his presidency. he understands that and thats why theyll be more scrupulous interrogating the guys if and when they find them. >> shannon: steve, charles mentioned that high value interrogation unit. we dont know if its in place yet but knowing that the task force is involve dodd you think the administration will lea...

Dangerous terrorists who we cannot release because they will join the battle. bill: did the ball move much yesterday? would you answer yes or no to that? >> no, it did not move, it was stuck on the bull and unfortunately i dont think mr. holder has clarified anything with regard to how were going to treat dangerous terrorists. the idea youre going to mirandise themselves and have this high-value interrogation unit that can get information and detect and deter other terrorist attacks, we just rea...

Senate on, you know, the -- what happened with farouk, the christmas day bomber and that clearly republicans knew that this guy was an fbi custody, he was going to be mirandized, even though he did not specifically outline that for us. >> did he call you that day? >> i talked to him on christmas night. >> did he tell you the fbi arrested snim. >> he said this guy was in custody, he talked a little bit about the attack on christmas day. and that this guy was being questioned. and that was about i...

Much evidence against the 23-year-old. >> if a prosecutor cant make a case against a guy who comes in with his underpants full of chemicals that he tries to set off, burns himself, and with 200 witnesses, you ought not to be in the business of prosecuting. >> at the heart of this discussion is the future of a little-known group headquartered at the fbi called the h.i.g. or high value interrogation group. senator bond says it should be used in the future for domestic cases. >> as far as we could ...

That the hig was not operational, even though the administration said in august it would replace c.i.a. controversial program, which used harrial interrogation tactics in the bush administration. bond said the hig should be used domestically. >> as far as we could tell, they would set up a high value interrogation unit overseas. not in the united states. i hope its changing. >> the administration points to case of shoe bomber richard reid to justify handling of abdulmutallab but critics say its ...

Remember christmas day it seems to me almost like a little bit of who is on first that information about what happened in detroit, the president wasnt notified for several hours later not the presidents fall. i dont think secretary gates the secretary of defense was brought into any of the decision-making. it almost seems like we dont know the process once something very suspicious terrorist activity happens almost like we dont know what we are supposed to do in terms of the process. >> i know w...

Senate on what happened with farouk, the christmas day bomber and that clearly republicans knew that this guy was an fbi custody and he would be mirandized even though he did not specifically outline that. >> did he call you that day? >> i talked to him on christmas night. >> did he tell you that the fbi arrested him? >> le said that the guy was in custody and talked about the attack on christmas day, and that this guy was being questioned. and that was about it. he did not have -- >> well, let ...

>> somebody is supposed to set up the high-value detainee interrogation unit. if mr. brennan spent as much time doing that last year as getting into the political battles this year we would have been a lot safer. >> the white house calls bonds attack "pathetic." our panel, eliot spitzer, along with brian darling director of senate relations with the heritage foundation. what is your view of the politics of this and the policy of this? >> the politics of it are that is has happened is that the ad...

Happen. i said, the most important thing is to change the policy. he said, what about john brennan? i said, the most important thing is to change the policy. i will continue to talk about it until he changes the policy. he said, well, if they change the policy, what about brennan? i said, the people who have implemented that policy probably should be changed too. i think that the entire operation needs to be turned around. there are so many mistakes that have been made in the last year, our coun...