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Suspected of being an enemy combatant within a certain period of time, 60 days, i think, the government has to present you to a federal judge and prove by a preponderance of the evidence that you are a member of the organization they claim you to be a member of. are you familiar with that? your habeas rights? >> correct, yes. >> so, as to how long an enemy combatant can be held, traditionally under the law of war, people are taken off the battle field until the war is over, they are no longer a danger. does that make sense to you? >> it does make sense and that is my understanding of the tradi...

Member of the enemy force, there is no concept in military law or the law of war that you have to release them in an arbitrary date because that would make no sense. so, all i am saying is that i think you're on solid ground. and beside an american citizen being a combatant is the history of the law of war. and i am willing to work with my colleagues to make sure indefinite detention is reasonably applied and we can find due process rights that don't exist in traditional war because this is a war without end. when do you think this war will be over? do you think we'll know when it's over? >> i...

Basically search your room without a warrant? >> i don't believe -- >> no, they can't. your constitutional rights attach to you. so, the people will say, well, he was in afghanistan. that doesn't matter. what the court is telling us, no american citizen has a constitutional right to join the enemy at a time of war. in re: curan, that case involved german german sabatures, who land ed in long island. are you familiar with it? >> i have that case and have read t. >> they were german american citizens who had context in the united states. they were seized by the fbi and tried by the military. wha...

Iran. that iran was funding the houthi rebels and they destroyed the government and making the country a terrorist hideaway. >> that's certainly the narrative. but there's very little evidence if any, there's no public evidence of iranian arming or doing any kind of significant arming of the houthis in yemen. the houthis have long-been marginalized in yemen. and they've long been a restive rebellious population. trying to roll back the outcome and install their puppet the president haidi who has now fled to saudi arabia. this idea that it's all about iran is intended to get the united states i...

When does the criticism stop? never. president obama addressed the situation in ukraine while he was in delaware on thursday afternoon. talking about infrastructure. conservatives were quick to criticize the president for not being what they say sensitive to the loss of life and continuing his speech on infrastructure. now, republicans never want to invest in american infrastructure. they don't want to do it. this is the new age of not doing anything. they like to spend your tax dollars on war. they have no problem with that. just a accounting here. iraq warrer cost $1.7 trillion. 490 billion ...