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Talking about is actually using enemy combatant status as a way of getting evidence. it's no longer the justification we have to isolate them in guantanamo bay. he wants to keep the status open so we get more intelligence. that shows you this path. once you cross that rubicon. >> suppose you're an american in world war ii and go join the nazi side. are you still saying the person deserves the rights of american? >> there are special rules of war -- >> are we at war? >> i don't think we are against a category of crime. >> i think a lot of people think we are. >> you know what, they're saying th...

Give them the time they need to make sure that the public is safe. after that, he will have to be mirandized, doesn't mean the end of cooperation, but no basis yet to conclude they should be treated at enemy combatants. we're talking about an american citizen on american soil. there's no evidence that i've seen yet that they were a part of an al qaeda cell or directed by a foreign government. we're very far afield from a situation which is sort of the paradigm for enemy combatant status. that is, someone captured on the balg battlefield in a theater of war. resist these charges as an enemy com...

They say that some punk 19-year-old who blew people up with a pressure cooker does not deserve the same status of a soldier we take prisoner in war. sort -- contrary to what you might think, actually some of the people that are the biggest opponents of the idea of military commissions of guantanamo are the guys in uniform who would have do the work. >> i think political issue is that you still -- have you the -- you have this cadre of people that emerged around benghazi. calling for the enemy combatant status which is ridiculous and you have a situation where you have on real difference betwee...

Enemy combatant. i think based on what we're hearing, that decision will ultimately be made by the attorney general. but i think this is the clearly the case based on what we know for enemy combatant status. that would give us more time to investigate. do we want a prosecution or an investigation. and the answer is, we need an investigation. >> julian, the public safety exception to miranda allows them to talk to him without giving him his miranda rights, for some period of time, until they sort of satisfy themselves there's no more immediate threat. and then they can mirandize him. they've do...

Hold letter in the end sign off on that. but i think this should have an a sense of outrage and a sense of justice last night that framed it the way that you did. i was disturbed at that and we're not off to a good start in terms of the prosecution based upon what i was hearing last night. >> martha: we know that he was not read his miranda rights. they used the public exemption which gives awe 48-hour period to determine whether or not he will have this enemy combatant status and be in a different category of a terrorist rather than a common criminal who bumped off a corner store. >> right. t...