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Some questions from democrats and republicans. two big lines of questioning today from the republicans, though, were dealing with judge jackson -- brown jackson's representation of detainees at guantanamo bay and also a line of attack that was telegraphed for some days now about how she sentenced defendants convicted of child sexual abuse. we have with us in this room senior legal analyst laura coats. i want to deal with the guantanamo issue. unlike the, you know, child porn issue, which we'll get to later, the guantanamo issue is on her resume. she defended those detainees who were there as a...

Leading this fight are in fact women. we're seeing something that we dent usually see, which is bipartisan agreement which is something that needs to be done. you are seeing senator claire mccaskill, kelly ayotte come together, getting tough on this issue. there's an agreement that something needs to be done. most lawmakers think that it should really address victims and how they are treated and how they are getting support in the instance of a case of sexual assault but center kristin gillibrand of new york really has the boldest plan under her bill. prosecutors, instead of military commander...

Civilian court with appropriate, judicial screening and action but at the same time we've got to recognize what happened in boston, what has happened in 9/11. we still have a threat from terrorists. >> you said a terrible image abroad. elaborate on the impact of gitmo as well as the strikes on foreign relations. >> well, obviously in pakistan it has probably hurt our policy the most. the guantanamo issue, the drone issue. on the issue of drones, the president has also made important statements. one, no longer will they be used on the basis of suspicion. there has to be eminent threat. the depa...

>> well, it's going to be tough but i think it's possible. there's momentum towards making this change. you've got to remember, alex, this was caused, this guantanamo, by illegal detention of prisoners, by por tur in the past administration. what the president has said is he wants to have the congress eliminate the ability of the president to keep the ability of the president to transfer prisoners. congress refuses to do that. he said that we can try a lot of these prisoners in civilian courts, limited military courts, that we need to close this down not just for foreign policy reasons, this t...

Talking and they had to remove her. i thought it was interesting that this was allowed to go on and that he engaged her in this discussion. i think it's because he has sympathy for her on this issue. in fact, her position is the same that he had, which is to close guantanamo bay. the problem is that he's run into a lot of obstacles and trying to do that. there is logistical issues with that, that make it very difficult for him. i think that the fact that he sympathized with her cause meant that he was kind of willing to hear her out and engage her in the way he did, which is very unusual. >> a...