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Calling this person for al qaeda and yemen is an american cleric. >> an american cleric born in new mexico and lived here until the end of elementary, went to yemen and returned for college. what is key about him is he is connected to 911, fort hood and flight 253 but they believe hundreds of americans are followers of awlaki. this c.i.a. officer was a person who in 2008 identified awlaki as a threat to the united states. >> cathrine herridge, thank you. contacts and perspective on the debate over where to try the suspects. katherine -- shannon bream is live with that. >> when you caulk into a...

Insurance industry and employees. this is another ploy, example of how the airlines are out of touch with the consumer base. >> eric: southwest, you see the commercials all over the place. they don't charge for bags and they have baggage guys crying and waving bags goodbye, they don't charge. but they have a fee, don't they? don't they have a fee for heavier people? >> they do. ironic they will bless airw airways to how they treat the bags right but they treat class of citizens unfair. we think it's bad business. >> eric: hold on. the airline apologized to mr. smith and said in a where it stat...

Much evidence against the 23-year-old. >> if a prosecutor can't make a case against a guy who comes in with his underpants full of chemicals that he tries to set off, burns himself, and with 200 witnesses, you ought not to be in the business of prosecuting. >> at the heart of this discussion is the future of a little-known group headquartered at the fbi called the h.i.g. or high value interrogation group. senator bond says it should be used in the future for domestic cases. >> as far as we could tell, they were going to set up a high value interrogation unit overseas. but not in the united sta...

Barricade. bret? >> bret: greg palkot live in london. more in the panel later. in the u.s., lawmakers are concerned about the future terrorism investigations, because of the controversy over the handling of the christmas day bomb plot suspect. national correspondent catherine herridge reports the big question now is what happens next time? >> reporter: if there were a repeat of flight 253 tomorrow where alleged al-qaeda member tried to blow up american jet with 300 passengers on board, the white house says it wouldn't necessarily do anything differently. after one interrogation lastilas lastin...

National correspondent catherine herridge reports the fires were stoked again over the weekend. >> reporter: the white house counterterrorism john brennan stirred the pot sunday. >> they are going out there and they're unknowing of the facts and making charges not anchored in reality. >> reporter: he said four senator republicans and the ranking member of the intelligence committee were briefed christmas night on the attempted bombing of flight 253. specifically that the 23-year-old nigerian abdulmutallab was in f.b.i. custody. >> they know -- and f.b.i. custody means there is a process you fo...