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Will end bias and more cases will go forward. and we want the bright line because of other issues. we have racial disparity of who gets punished. if you are black or brown you are two times more likely to be punished and we have data if it is a capital case you are more likely to receive capital punishment. what we heard from general milley as well as our secretary of defense, they are both open to removing all sexual assault crimes and related crimes out of the chain of command. that is a huge step in the right direction. they have never said that before. what i asked and pushed in this heari...

Weapon, particularly in a capital case where the person is saying they're innocent? >> you're exactly right. and that's exactly the question to ask. there is a principle in our legal system that applies to criminal cases called finality. the idea is at a certain point, after a defendant, even a capital defendant, after a defendant has had a certain number of pappeals, the idea is we close the courthouse doors. we simply say, i'm sorry, i'm turning away from this case, it's closed, it's done, we're not listening any longer. it's final. this is an incredibly harmful and damaging principle in the...

Me kill him or i might have said execute him. i think i was thinking as a lawyer. i thought there would be capital punishment and i could try the case. i had done that for two nazis. i only had two capital cases in my career and both of them were nazis. one had killed 7,000 people. another had killed 12,000 people. capital case is easy like that. this guy would have been -- although maybe you keep him alive and get information. brian: khalid sheikh mohammed was the master mind. >> it's absurd. the point i would like to make is that those firefighters, the police officers and lots of civilians ...

>> the anger was tremendous. when i saw president bush for the first time and he got off the helicopter, he greeted the governor, came up to me, there's a famous picture. he says to me rudy, what can i do? i said when you get bin laden, let me kill him. i might have said execute him. i think i was thinking as a lawyer. i thought there would be capital punishment and i could try a case. we only -- i only had two capital cases in my career. both were nazis. capital case is easy like that. >> dana: while the country reflects, the families of the victims are still looking for justice most specific...