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Time in history but as you know -- >> not the right place. >> right. but this has happened many times in the past. some 20-plus hearings of this. >> i reject these whole hearings and the questioning of whether muslims are americans. i wonder whether peter king and the people who are in favor of this hearing understand what america is about. i question whether theyre real americans. i think theyre completely and utterly un-american to suggest that one race or one ethnicity should be looked into i...

Hearings. good morning. >> good morning. >> the title of these hearings clearly have a lot of people up in arms and what peter king is calling these hearings. is the substance of the hearing something that needs to be discussed? >> well, first of all, its the first time that there has been a hearing in the house that has to do with a particular religion and terrorism. i think thats a very sad statement with respect to what my colleague, mr. king, is trying to do. the substance is that if he real...

King is irish american. in the 1980s, he was an active supporter of gerriy adams and te irish republican army. the i.r.a. was responsible for hundred of civilian deaths and effectively were terrorist attacks. >> during the 1980s i knew what gerry adams and martin ma guinness were attempting to do. a real opening if the united states would take advantage of it. bill clinton did that. >> reporter: he insists thes i.. wachlts a a legitimate force that had to be dealt with. he knows his views are st...

King is irish american. in the 1980s, he was an active supporter of gerry adams and the irish group the state department then deemed terrorists, irish republican army. the i.r.a. was responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths and effectively were terrorist attacks. >> during the 1980s i knew what gerry adams and martin mcguinness were attempting to do. said there was a real opening if the united states would take advantage of it. bill clinton did that. >> reporter: he insists the i.r.a. was a l...

Changed his opinion 100%. >> reporter: youve been called a man obsessed with the muslim radicalization. are you obsessed? >> i am very focused. i lost so many people on my district on september 11th and within a 30-mile radius a thousand people murdered on september 11th. >> reporter: his office is filled with reminders of the attack. >> funeral after funeral after funeral. that one to me captured it all. you ask me what i think about going to work every day, its 9/11 and preventing another 9/11...

Off. just the opposite. >> which is one of the good things about this country. you can hold hearings. you can do this kind of stuff. it does seem a little targeted. he doesnt see any conflict with this i.r.a. thing that even if he felt the i.r.a. was a worthwhile organization, it was at the time that he was supporting them deemed a terrorist organization by the united states. he doesnt see any issues with that. >> he actually said -- i talked to him extensively about this, spent about an hour an...

Is that he understands where those people are coming from, but he insists that it is different. he gives a number of reasons why, but i think the biggest reason that he gives is that the i.r.a. never engaged in any terrorist attacks on the u.s. homeland. so, brooke, i sort of gained that out with him. i said, lets say hypothetically it did happen and on your watch while you homeland security watch. would you call a hearing of radical irish-americans? he said absolutely. that was his answer. but ...

Hearing from the administration. we started with the administration with janet napolitano whose department was created after 9/11 to stop terrorist attacks, refusing to use the word "terrorist." she used a man-cause disaster, the subject of many jokes. there that you went to umar farouk abdulmutallab who was isolated extremist. all of it was nonsense and systemic effort on part of the administration to downplay the seriousness of the attack. what you had was a straightforward and blunt assessmen...

Aforethought. that legal black hole that president, or then candidate obama was talking about, is the fact that most of the detainees could have been held indefinitely without ever facing trial. without due process legally. and of course, the obama administration had attempted to fix that when they assigned some of the, or attended to assign some of the trials of the detainees down there, particularly khalid shaikh mohammed, the self-declared mastermind of 9/11 attacks, to a federal trial in new...

I know its hard to believe, but this year we will mark ten years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and it was the worst non-wartime terror attack in the u.s. 2,752 people died when the two planes flew into the twin towers in new york, and there is some new video that weve just gotten that actually shows the devastation from the perspective of an nypd helicopter. watch it with me, for just a moment. i know its tough to watch. i saw it this morning. it made me sick to my stomach, but video shows t...