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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110404:18:21:00

All. right. but whether someone who pleads guilty can get the death penalty. khalid shaikh mohammed already tried to plead guilty once and that s why this issues arises. there is potentially a way around that, and that he could try to plead guilty. the court in theory could accept his plea but if they want to pursue the death penalty, they would have to still have a trial. now, that gets us into sort of uncharted territory which is, of course, the attorney general s point and one of the points that s been made by a number of legal scholars who have looked at this and basically said we have 200-plus years of tradition in the federal courts. lots of questions resolved by the supreme court about what a defendant s rights are. we don t have that kind of a record before military commissions. and that was the attorney general s point originally, that he felt the case would be on firmer procedural footing in a federal court. presumably the military will ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110404:18:20:00

Did everything but admit his involvement in 9/11, expressed his pride in that bombing, in that attack, and yet now if he sticks to that, he may not be able to receive the death penalty, and how is that going to go down with the families and with the american people in general? that s a really big question. michael, that is the big question. i just got in statements from senators mccain and lieberman. in their statement they say it is the right decision and we strongly commend the president ant the attorney general for reaching the decision as we and many others have called for. let me go to pete williams, he was in that news conference. michael isikoff s point, you will have a lot of people today asking then is it possible that these people will not face the death penalty as a result of a military commission? eric holder saying that is still open at this point. what he said was open at this point is a much narrower question, not about whether the death penalty is available at ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110404:18:22:00

Want to get some of these issues resolve before it comes around to these important cases. military officials have said they can move quickly. they have this indictment that we learned was filed when the attorney general said these cases would be in civilian court. there s already a case ready to go. the military can have that case ready but it doesn t look like the trials would start as early even as this fall. they can get the cases filed but in terms of the trial, they re clearly months away. all right, pete. thank you so much for getting on air with us. i know you were just wrapping up inside the room where eric holder was speaking. thank you as well michael isikoff for your time. we re going to go to a quick break. we ll be right back with more news here on news nations. in here, machines tell factories when they re thirsty. so soft drink companies can manage thousands of vending machines in real time. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110404:18:00:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110404:18:01:00

Khalid shaikh mohammed and the other conspirators in federal court in new york was probably the biggest decision of his tenure as attorney general. he fought hard and pushed for this and has been completely overcome by the politics of it. opposition from new york politicians on both sides of the aisle, democrats and republicans, and, of course, ferocious resistance from a republican congress. so what we can expect now is arguments that there is little choice that the obama administration has left. that s still going to disappoint a lot of progressives, a lot of people who say this is a total abandonment of president obama s first promise as president to shut down gitmo. where are these trials going to be held? in guantanamo bay, and it s going to remind the world and remind the country that he was unable to fulfill the first thing he did as president. and, michael, going back to november 13th, 2009, eric holder at the time said, quote, i am ....

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