. >> are you familiar with judge lamberth and judge hogan? >> i don't know either of them. i know who they are. >> fair enough. >> they are d.c. judges, federal district court judges who are hearing habeas appeals from gitmo detainees, and i'll provide you some of the comments they have made. it is unfortunate, according to judge hogan, it's unfortunate in my view that the legislative branch of the government and the executive branch have not moved more strongly to provide uniform clear rules and laws for handling these cases. and i've got other quotes that i will provide you. what i'm trying to do here is lay the foundation for the idea that our laws thatexist today do not recognize the dilemma the country faces. the administration has determined that 48 people held at gitmo are too dangerous to let go but are not going to be subject to normal criminal proceedings. in other words,we believe the evidence suggests they are members of al qaeda. they have all gone before a habeas judge, and the judge agreed, but they are never going to be tried in a traditional fashion. is the

. >> are you familiar with judge lamberth and judge hogan? >> i don't know either of them. i know who they are. >> fair enough. >> they are d.c. judges, federal district court judges who are hearing habeas appeals from gitmo detainees, and i'll provide you some of the comments they have made. it is unfortunate, according to judge hogan, it's unfortunate in my view that the legislative branch of the government and the executive branch have not moved more strongly to provide uniform clear rules and laws for handling these cases. and i've got other quotes that i will provide you. what i'm trying to do here is lay the foundation for the idea that our laws that exist today do not recognize the dilemma the country faces. the administraon has determined that 48 people held at gitmo are too dangerous to let go but are not going to be subject toormal criminal proceedings. in other words, we believe the evidence suggests they are members of al qaeda. they have all gone before a habeas judge, and the judge agreed, but they are never going to be tried in a traditional fashion. is the a

john hogan and democratic state senator tracy potter of the prohibitive favorites to win their party's nominations. to virginia, the house democrats swept into office on mr. obama's coattails may have trouble hanging on this year. the field is rife with tea party backed republican challengers, maybe to right. six republicans are vying for the chance to take on democratic representative glenn knight -- nye. connecticut. caller: i really don't have a problem with what helen thomas said. it is her opinion, she is allowed to say it. my big thing is, i am for america. host: tie that in. what do you mean by that? caller: what i think is backed, over here, she just wanted to say what she thought and now people are jumping on her. he can't just jump on people for saying what they think. because there would be no discussion of anything. and i think that israel's interests are not in line with america's interests over all. in some certain areas i'm sure they overlap. but i think that israel has an overarching influence, more than it is a relative -- not even say population, but the amount of peo

the governor john hogan -- he is heavily favored to win the seat. democrats playing a lot of defense but this is not the place where they want to spend a whole lot of energy. instead, they are going -- wanting to be putting it into places that we talked about already. nevada, california, two of those states, as well as the many others that they have to defend. they've made the playing offense in place like kentucky or to ohio are missouri. but north dakota, not happening. host: anything surprise you? guest: arkansas was certainly everybody's biggest surprise. as i said, the iowa race, the fact that branstad cannot win in as large a margin was somewhat of a surprise -- did not win in as large a margin was so much a surprise. we got candidates out of the primary is pretty much what we thought it was going to look like going forward. . host: all right, amy walter, go to on-call, "hotline"'s website for more analysis. but we come back ben bernanke will be testifying before the house subcommittee. we will be right back. ♪ >> no candidate in this race, de