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Checking our top stories right now, a national day of mourning in haiti. one month after the earthquake that just devastated the country. thousands of people gathered in port-au-prince yesterday for a service to honor the dead. more than 212,000 people lost their lives in the quake and more than 300,000 were injured. republican senator lindsey graham spearheading a campaign to block funding of a trial of khalid shaikh mohammed. graham argued for a military commission. >> al qaeda terrorists should not receive more rights than a nazi war criminal and now is not the time to go back to the pre-...

The try in new york city. this morning republicans are continuing to pressure the president into opting for a military trial. >> now is not the time to go back to the pre-9/11 mentality of fighting crime instead of fighting a war. a civilian trial of hard core terrorists is unnecessarily dangerous and creates more problems than it solves. >> evan coleman, an nbc terrorism analyst. good morning. >> good morning. >> read the tea leaves here, is this going to a military court? >> it's a very good question. one of the biggest problems they're having with the nimby problem, not in my backyard. sena...

The weakest people, the mothers with the newborn infant, they don't get the food, the water. they hope someone gets it to them. it's really heartbreaking to see in those small, individual examples. >> absolutely so. thank you, mike, for sharing that with us. let's go to the trial of khalid shaikh mohammed. now, the mra, appears to be waivering on that. >> now is not the time to go back to the pre-9/11 mentality of fighting crime instead of fighting a war. a civilian trial of hard core ter terr terrorists is unnecessarily dangerous. >> we've talked about this

That i and the 7 other members of congress who had been briefed knew of course that umar farouk abdulmutallab was being given his legal rights not to speak or mer rmirandized and neither the intelligence community or -- gregg: are you telling me he was lying. >> he was mistaken in what he told us. because none of us were told they were going to mirandize him. my real argument is with the administration's policy. the world changed on 9/11. we found out treating terrorists as common criminals didn't work at the cost of thousands of lives and i'm concerned the current administration has gone back...

>> our reporting is trump wants to limit or reassess the power of the director of national intelligence. to be clear, this was something that was founded, recommended after 9/11, as part of the 9/11 commission hearings to have a director of national intelligence to oversee the agencies, make sure there was cooperation, intelligence sharing. as you know, that was one of the concerns. pre-9/ pre-9/11, those agencies weren't sharing information. but this is not entirely new, there's been talk about this for some time. a lot of those agencies have bristled at the idea of having some sort of overar...