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>> first of all, congress has naturalized since 1790. and most people born abroad to american parents are citizens. but that does not mean theyre natural-born citizens. the powers that get it to congress, the only power that congress has given is the power to naturalize. its quite different from a natural born citizen. congress does not have the power to effect the definition of natural born thats in article 2. >> and in your piece, you make this distinction. youre in effect saying that ted cruz...

Hes still being questioned. were going to find out the answer to that. was he radicalized before he became a naturalized american? did he get radicalized after that?jaúw i mean thats a fundamental question in the interrogation. >> its also conceivable that he had been radicalized before and he went through the naturalization process because he knew that that would give him greater access to things. i mean we dont know. this is speculation at this point. we dont know. >> well let me ask you abo...

Do you know why he changed his mind? >> no, none of us do yet. because hes still being questioned. hes still being questioned. were going to find out the answer to that. was he radicalized before he became a naturalized american? did he get radicalized after that? i mean thats a fundamental question in the interrogation. >> its also conceivable that he had been radicalized before and he went through the naturalization process because he knew that that would give him greater access to things. i m...

>> its also conceivable that he had been radicalized before and he went through the naturalization process because he knew that that would give him greater access to things. i mean we dont know. this is speculation at this point. we dont know. >> well let me ask you about the training. did we get all this -- is he the singing terrorist. roger, were finding out a lot just from him. >> primarily. much like the christmas day attempt, chris, with farouk abumuttalab. he volunteered all the informatio...

Have had an impact on( ability of those organizations out there to plan and train, or the quality of recruits theyre now bringing in simply is not the same caliber as its been in the past. if those two things are true, then that is a positive development in how were dealing with this potential threat. >> why do you think this guy would have gone through the trouble of becoming a u.s. citizen? >> its entirely possible he didnt get radicalized until after he became a u.s. citizen. or the other the...