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In a friend that she could have stopped him if she had tried. so let me just back this up a little bit, because danny's absolutely right. what she did is disgusting, it's immoral, it's depraved. the question is whether or not it's criminal. it's going to come down to a simple question. does her speech only encourage him or does her speech actually assist him. we see these frankly a lot with the terrorism cases, where if somebody's making tickets, that's enough for us to convict somebody for providing material assistance. did her texts provide material assistance? it's a question of fact, i bel...

Guantanamo, or let's be easy and let him be prosecuted by the justice department. in fact, the successes have been by the justice department and the catastrophic failures in delays have been in guantanamo. so the idea that this is somehow going easy on him or behaving inappropriately for the protection of the country seems to me just absurd. they're doing exactly what they should be doing. >> mr. mukasey? >> well, i think that the dichotomy that was just drawn is a little bit exaggerated. first of all, the military commissions that are being run in guantanamo are not being run the way military...

And the catastrophic failures and delays having been in guantanamo. the idea this is going easy on him or behaving appropriate inappropriately for the prevths country seems absurd. they're doing exactly what they should be doing. >> mr. mukasey. >> well, i think the dichotomy that's been drawn is a little exaggerated. first of all, the military commissions that are being run in guantanamo are not being run the way military commissions were run in world war ii. what they've done is neeshl to make them as much like civilian trials as possible. and put a good deal of obstruction in the way of the...

Number one. number two, would they accept the assistance from the united states? >> i think the russians have been much more eager to take in kind of material assistance. if we can provide them devices that can help detect improvised explosives. if we can provide them devices to help scan people coming into venues. those are gifts that they're very happy to take because it doesn't actually provide any information back to us. >> but why now? it's been six, seven years or something. >> i think the realization is that the russians recognize that this is a much bigger problem and endeavor than the...

Let's ask ambassador john bolton, former u.s. ambassador to the united nation -gs hanna fox news contributor. no surprise i suppose that the iranians deny any official involvement, or even unofficial involvement in this plot. >> right, but it's been known for a longtime there have been al-qaida elements in iran, including relatives of osama bin laden, and it's always been a little bit of a conundrum, are they there using iran as a base of operations, are they being held by hostages by iran or some combination. i think the way the mounties described this yesterday was quite interesting that the...