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>> garrett let me ask you this, because we also heard in the briefing from mcmasters saying he says the president wants options, on u.s. justice system, options on terror suspects. what kind of options might be on the table? >> well, so i mean one of these is the question of whether he is officially declared an enemy combatant in which case he could be potentially sent to a military brig or gitmo or leave him in the criminal justice system and whether that ends up putting the death penalty on the table or taking it och tff the table. there are a number of different paths. but the problem is th...

That is just not the problem and i think we can talk about the fact that a lot of people of color don't get treated as well as they should in the criminal justice system but it's not that we need to get rid of our processes that protect people who have been accused of crimes so i'm not even sure what sarah sanders was talking about, that the process was moving too slowly. i don't know which process is moving too slowly. >> well, i would agree with you that the process is moving slowly but there is a problem with our criminal justice system. john mccain pointed out and many of us have pointed i...

I suspect because the folks who work on these issues within government, who have the experience asking the question, how do we take a bad actor like this off the battlefield for as long as possible, those folks said to the president, here are the tool and your tool kit that you want is criminal prosecution. you want this in federal court where justice can be served, where a lengthy sentence can be imposed and there's been a ton of success in the pass. >> if you look at the boston bomber, he was sentenced to the death penalty within two years. that's a pretty quick time for a death penalty case...

Diversity lottery, it sounds nice, it's not nice, it's not good. this man that came in, or whatever you want to call him, brought in with him other peopl people. and he was the point of contact, the primary point of contact for -- this is preliminarily, 23 people that came in or potentially came in with him. so we want to get rid of chain migration. i would certainly consider that. send him to gtmo, i would certainly consider that. it's very simple, what we are demanding is a merit based immigration. we want people that are going to help our country. we want people that are going to keep our c...

Sent to guantanamo? >> i think that's another issue. i'm not sure that's the most effective way to deal with this. but the idea that we treat an enemy combatant, which this person truly is, the same way we'd treat someone who committed a murder -- >> they don't have to be mirandaized. >> you can interrogate without miranda warnings to protect public safety. as to the senator's point and to the president's point, to say that we'd be better off treating this guy as an enemy combatant, i think there's a misunderstanding as to what that means because they are soldiers in wars and they get treated ...