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Checking our top stories right now, a national day of mourning in haiti. one month after the earthquake that just devastated the country. thousands of people gathered in port-au-prince yesterday for a service to honor the dead. more than 212,000 people lost their lives in the quake and more than 300,000 were injured. republican senator lindsey graham spearheading a campaign to block funding of a trial of khalid shaikh mohammed. graham argued for a military commission. >> al qaeda terrorists sh...

The try in new york city. this morning republicans are continuing to pressure the president into opting for a military trial. >> now is not the time to go back to the pre-9/11 mentality of fighting crime instead of fighting a war. a civilian trial of hard core terrorists is unnecessarily dangerous and creates more problems than it solves. >> evan coleman, an nbc terrorism analyst. good morning. >> good morning. >> read the tea leaves here, is this going to a military court? >> its a very good qu...

The weakest people, the mothers with the newborn infant, they dont get the food, the water. they hope someone gets it to them. its really heartbreaking to see in those small, individual examples. >> absolutely so. thank you, mike, for sharing that with us. lets go to the trial of khalid shaikh mohammed. now, the mra, appears to be waivering on that. >> now is not the time to go back to the pre-9/11 mentality of fighting crime instead of fighting a war. a civilian trial of hard core ter terr te...

That i and the 7 other members of congress who had been briefed knew of course that umar farouk abdulmutallab was being given his legal rights not to speak or mer rmirandized and neither the intelligence community or -- gregg: are you telling me he was lying. >> he was mistaken in what he told us. because none of us were told they were going to mirandize him. my real argument is with the administrations policy. the world changed on 9/11. we found out treating terrorists as common criminals didnt...

>> our reporting is trump wants to limit or reassess the power of the director of national intelligence. to be clear, this was something that was founded, recommended after 9/11, as part of the 9/11 commission hearings to have a director of national intelligence to oversee the agencies, make sure there was cooperation, intelligence sharing. as you know, that was one of the concerns. pre-9/ pre-9/11, those agencies werent sharing information. but this is not entirely new, theres been talk about t...

Well discuss all that, but i want to get to fareed zakaria and jim shciuttsciutto. tonight cnn has learned that donald trump is working on ways to limit the power of the direct of national intelligence. >> this is not new. a recommendation was started from the post 9/11 panel to get better communication with all the agencies which was issued pre-9/ pre-9/11. since then, a lot of the agency heads have been concerned about bureaucracy. you have this overarching authority in the dni, does it actual...

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