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That we're interested in. but right now we have people going to the individuals who are looking at whoever he is associated with. running his name through every possible database both here and overseas to try to find out is this a lone operator, somebody associated with a radical group, are there others that we need to look at who may be planning similar events? this investigation is just at its very beginning. there are going to be thousands of officers involved. >> sandra: how will the suspect be handled that is now in custody? >> right now i understand he is injured. he will be taken for me...

Even if it's a lone wolf attack, somebody who pledges allegiance to isil in their mind over the internet i want to find everything we can about what makes them tick and how they got to where they're at. the public safety exception allows you to question somebody for a short duration of time in terms of their other devices around. i want to hold this person as a suspected enemy combatant for a few days, let the intelligence community talk to him, gather as much intel as we can and make a decision where to charge him and how to charge him. the first thing i want to do is treat this as an act of ...

>> right. >> being treated medically at bellevue hospital and we know he made some kind of a statement in or around or after the attack, although the police commissioner james o'neill would not tell us exactly what he said, whether it was a pledge of allegiance to isis. go ahead, senator. >> all i can say is that this has all the signature of a terrorist attack. low tech device, not part of a bigger plot. i don't know, you don't know. what i'm trying to figure out here is a system that will allow us to find as much as possible when you capture one of these guys alive so we can prevent the next...

System, but let me ask you this, senator, what history does show us is since 2001, the 9/11 attacks, more than 600 convictions -- more than 600 terror related cases have been tried and convicted successfully in the civilian federal court system and virtually none of those has been reversed. the track record as you know for gitmo for guantanamo bay military court convictions is much, much worse. does the track record not show us someone who goes through the judicial due process, you know, without being held as an enemy combatant and tried in the u.s. federal courts generally works? >> you're mi...

Need to try him in military commission. i'm not worried about that. i want to look at this as an intelligence gathering opportunity not solving a crime. perry mason not needed to convict this guy. >> what we don't know at this point if he has been given his miranda rights. >> right. >> sometimes they wait to provide those, specifically to find out if there is an imminent threat of other attacks at the time. we know in the other attack in new york city he waived his miranda rights. >> he did. >> that didn't come into play there either. >> but you are critical, believe, of the trump administrati...