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I know you're from oklahoma. you say that a voice from god told you to do what? >> well, when i was going to the university of oklahoma i had basically had a calling, i know it was from god, to join the military. my first three years i spent as an infantry guy, then i became an interrogator. >> okay. and when you became an interrogator you eventually were posted near ticrit which was saddam hussein's ancestral birth place, but when you started the job thonn nest you weren't very good as an interrogator. >> that's right, steve. i was taught to interrogate enemy prisoners from foreign countries ...

With the white house in which they would agree to try all of the detainees and military commissions in return for which you would support the closing of guantanamo. is that true? >> i have been talking with the white house about my view of how to handle the difficult issues. some people in the white house agree with me and some don't. this is president obama's decision to make but my comment to the white house and to the viewers of this show is that this war will last long after president obama. it is not his war, it is our war. and i'm trying to create a system that will allow us to fight thi...

Are discussing a compromise with the white house in which they would agree to try all of the detainees and military commissions in return for which you would support the closing of guantanamo. is that true? >> i have been talking with the white house about my view of how to handle the difficult issues. some people in the white house agree with me and some don't. this is president obama's decision to make but my comment to the white house and to the viewers of this show is that this war will last long after president obama. it is not his war, it is our war. and i'm trying to create a system tha...

With the white house in which they would agree to try all of the detainees and military commissions in return for which you would support the closing of guantanamo. is that true? >> i have been talking with the white house about my view of how to handle the difficult issues. some people in the white house agree with me and some don't. this is president obama's decision to make but my comment to the white house and to the viewers of this show is that this war will last long after president obama. it is not his war, it is our war. and i'm trying to create a system that will allow us to fight thi...

Proud and okay with any military member being tried in the military commission system. there are some differences. enemy prisoners during a war not one of our guys committing a crime in the military. so there are some differences. but it is virtually almost identically saying to a -- same to a court-martial that's what we've been doing for 200 years. >> what's the biggest difference between court-martial and -- >> we you capture an enemy prisoner it is during a military conflict. the idea of saying i was coerced is different. all of these guys are captured on the battlefield in shoot-outs. the...