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Political points on the abdulmutallab case is nothing new. they have been doing that ever since michigan congressman pete hoekstra, the human sieve, sent out a fund-raising letter three days after the attempted attack, trying to raise money off of the attempted murder of americans. what is new is the administration finally releasing information about the case to rebut these now long-standing and utterly wrong political charges. what took them so long? joining us now is chris hayes, washington editor of "the nation." chris, thank you so much for coming on the show tonight. nice to see you. >> n...

Abdulmutallab, the foreign terrorist who tried to blow up a plane on christmas day. once afforded the protection our constitution guarantees american citizens, this foreign terrorist lawyered up and stopped talking. >> yeah. you know, that's just totally wrong. that was republican senator susan collins of maine, top republican on the homeland security committee, delivering the republican party's weekly address on saturday. and she's really, really factually wrong, a lot, just in that clip. for starters, the right to have a lawyer does not just apply to american citizens. it applies to anyone b...

Prior life as a criminal defense lawyer, so in my look at this, either he got himself a deal right up front, a good deal, or he has a lousy lawyer. >> i used to be a military lawyer, defense lawyer.ç i used to be a defense lawyer in the civilian world. i wouldn't let my guy talk until i knew it was to his benefit. >> wrong, wrong. white house press secretary robert gibbs responded to this particular reckless speculation in a statement today, saying in part, "abdulmutallab has not been offered anything. the department of justice will take his cooperation into consideration." in other words, t...

In other words, wrong. senator mcconnell, not only was the statement you made wrong, but the premise behind it was also -- wrong.ç of course, republicans making claims like this to try to score political points on the abdulmutallab case is nothing new. they have been doing that ever since michigan congressman pete hoekstra, the human sieve, sent out a fund-raising letter three days after the attempted attack, trying to raise money off of the attempted murder of americans. what is new is the administration finally releasing information about the case to rebut these now long-standing and utter...

Here, for example, is south carolina's lindsey graham, along with fox news's greta van sustren. and the two of them, i will warn you in advance here, are just plain making things up. >> the interesting thing, in my prior life as a criminal defense lawyer, so in my look at this, either he got himself a deal right up front, a good deal, or he has a lousy lawyer. i understand his lawyer's good, so he must have gotten a good deal. >> i used to be a military lawyer, defense lawyer. i used to be a defense lawyer in the civilian world. i wouldn't let my guy talk until i knew it was to his benefit. >>...