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With umar farouk abdulmutallab and the growing chorus of concerns from people in new york about the cost of the trial. those are two concerns that will continue. we'll see whether congress is able to block the use of money in civilian court. for now the administration says it insists they have to be tried in civilian court. >> pete, some of the concerns have been that at least in terms of not having them tried in new york civilian court is that the prosecutors who are most experienced at district and lower manhattan, could they be transferred to upstate new york or another jurisdiction if the ...

For that job. all of these people have come out and said no. we don't want this in new york. you are the lone holdout. you are the ones they we are going to look scared and frightened. why? >> i will leave it to the justice department. for six years we held this guy, and he has not stood before an jury and been put to death, what i think should happen. we are looking for these extraordinary ways to try him when we have a system. we try terror trials all the time. there are two going on right now. yet the world does not shut down. we aren't in fear. we are standing up top. i'll leave it to the ...

Take into account the serious issues of security and costs that go with the trial because they thought of it a normal civilian case and it's not. >> jamie: that seems very naive. we've seen the blind sheikh and other terror trials and they have come to a conclusion that many people were satisfied with. what is so different about this case from a former federal prosecutor who handled terrorism cases, your point of view? >> well because you have the links to al qaeda, there are serious security concerns we have never seen before in civilian trial. you saw that when mayor bloomberg and the new yo...

Administration officials are saying no decision has been made yet on moving the trial. the new york city mayor michael bloomberg who first supported the plan to hold the trial in new york is now asking president obama to rethink this. today, white house senior advisor david axelrod downplayed reports on friday that guantanamo bay is again an option for the terror trials. >> no discussion of that. you know, i can't tell you where these reports are coming from but they don't reflect any discussions that i'm aware of. >> administration officials today will not say officially that new york city is...

Recalling 100,000 cars to replace the gas pedals. the company calling the move a preventative measure. florida's governor saying hundreds of earthquake victims are being flown from haiti, this after the u.s. military says it stopped medical evacuation flights for the critically injured. governor charlie crist emphasizing no hospital in florida has turned away patients. >> gregg: the obama administration may be doing a serious reversal regarding the terror trials in new york city. khalid shaikh mohammed and four others supposing on trial a few blocks from ground zero after weeks of objections, ...