lynne stewart is free.ust listening to ralph husband lynne stewart's and lynne stewart herself. i am here with juan gonzalez. who is also at the airport and played a key role in winning her compassionate release. this was not expected. talk about how this took place. the word you got. >> first of all, the application for compassionate release was approved way back around labor day. that weince labor day had been waiting. it was on new year's eve that we received word that the u.s. attorney's office would not be a processing -- opposing the attorney's office. ordinarily, a person knows well in advance the day they will be released from prison and the families in the lawyers know, so this all happened at once. the judge got the papers at about 10:00. they were signed by about 2:00 p.m.. the prison made sure everything was processed so that she was released on new year's eve. as she said, it was him was a struggle to get her out of the door because she did not know where she was going to go -- her medical care

that's where his lawyer, lynn stewart, came in.he was his attorney, and she was caught carrying messages from the shaek to the outside world. she was convicted on federal charges in 2005, sentenced to ten years in 2010 after a lengthy appeals fight. but today, she is free. after serving less than four years. how did that happen, and who signed off on this? jay is chief legal counsel for the american center for law and justice. how does it happen that someone as controversial as this, conspiracy to confraud the united states, convicted. convicted on providing material support to terrorists. how does she get a pass out of prison early. >> she gets a pass because the bureau of prisons had a policy that changed under eric holder about six months ago, which changed the criteria upon the compassionate release. she's sick, ill can cancer. they changed the policy and she fits within the policy, and the national lawyers guild, which is a far left lawyers organization, petitioned eric holder twice for her release. the director of bureau pris

lynn stewart was his attorney and she was caught carrying messages to the outside world. she was convicted on federal charges in 2005, sentenced to ten years in 2010 after a lengthy appeals fight. today she's free after serving less than four years. how did that happen and who signed off on this? jay sekulo from the american center for law and justice. how does it happen that someone as controversial as this, conspiracy to defraud the united states convicted. providing material support to terrorist activities, jay. how does she get a pass out of prison early? >> she gets a pass because the bureau of prisons had a policy that changed under eric holder which changed the criteria upon which compassionate releases -- she's ill with cancer -- they changed the policies. she's been able to fit within the policy and the national lawyer's guild which is to the extreme left petitioned eric holder twice for her release. the director of the bureau of prisons who reports to the deputy general of the united states signed off on the release. she walks out of prison, order signed and exe

we have details on the story we brought you yesterday about attorney lynn stewart.n 2010 she was sentenced to ten years in prison for conspireing to actively support this man, omar abdel rash am the blind sheikh. he's the spiritual leader of the death of thousands around the world. he is the person who bin laden deemed the fatwa that led to 9-11. the blind chsheikh was behind t 93 world trade center bombing that terror attack killed 6 people including a pregnant woman and a child. thousands more were injured. two years later the sheikh was convicted for plotting to blow up the u.n. and george washington bridge which would have potentially killed thousands. then even from behind bars he found ways to spread his evil beyond his prison cell. in 1997 his terror group slaughtered nearly 60 people at an egyptian tourist attraction. attackers tacking people to death with machetes and leaving a flier demanding the sheikh's relief inside of one victim's body. it will be relevant in a minute. years later bin laden credited the sheikh for justifying the september 11th attack.

lynn stewart has served almost four years of a 10-year prison sentence for mr.dding for his releases on behalf of her jailed client for the egyptian cleric known as the blind shake. your wife is in prison. you visited her last week. >> this is dangerous situation. and the prison wants her dead. call them death camps. >> we begin with a ruling in federal court to stop and frisk tax excuse by new york police officers are unconstitutional. shortly after the decision was announced, the plaintiffs held a news conference alongside their lawyers. >> the reason why i joined onto this case was because any of us, including myself, believe stop and frisk is police abuse and that is the lowest level of police abuse. and once police abuse -- they can do it in times of falsely arresting people and they can do it in times of planting evidence. in the most extreme cases, they can do it in times of killing people. theayor bloomberg accused judge of denying the city a fair trial. >> this is a very dangerous decision made by a judge that i think just does not understand how polici

attorney lynn stewart with with violated the rules and was convicted of helping smuggle messages from the convicted blind sheikh to his terrorist groups abroad. supposed to be behind bars until 2018, she was. now she's a free woman thankses to a helping hand from the administration. now in a "the kelly file" exclusive debra burlingame. she's sister of the late catherine charles burlingame who piloted the plane that was crashed on 9/11. she had stage four breast cancer and didn't want to die in a strange, loveless place. so pursuant to a request by the administration the judge said, off you go. now she's a free woman. supposed to be released in 2018. >> she's been trying to get out on compassionate release for some time. she was actually in remission from cancerment they expected her to live another 18 months, maybe less. she looked hail and hearty at laguardia, giving interviews to the press again. she's remorseless. she called the blind sheikh whose followers have maimed, mutilated, killed dozens of people in an effort to get him released she calls him the hero of the mujahadin. she

federal judge releasing terror loving lawyer lynn stewart from prison. six years early. hawaiian driver thankful to be alive after a sinkhole opens, swallowing her truck with her merchandise. the dodge ram pick up fell into the hole after a culvert collapsed. the driver suffered minor rib injuries, but is otherwise all right. >>> there is a lot of controversy this week over a new "new york times" report claiming that al-qaeda was not behind the attacks on our consulate in benghazi. fox news source called the report completely false. why is the times and the house so determined to blame somebody else for the attack? let's ask lieutenant colonel tony schaefer who has been on this story since the very beginning. great to see you this morning. happy new year. >> thank you, you too. >> why is the administration, she have been since the beginning, on not just this conflict, but others as well. why are they so against saying al-qaeda was involved in this or other attacks? does it bend with their narratives? >> two primary reasons. first off is the narrative doesn't fit. at the

and i want to go to lynn stewart i interviewed her over the years and represented the blind sheik whoded in the first terrorist attacks and now released because she's doing. is that the right -- david let me go to you on this. is that the right decision? >> apparently she has breast cancer and has approximately 18 months to live. but remember what she did. she was retained by the blipped shiek, and passes it to a terrorist group and much more involved than we have time to get into. she was convicted of providing material information to a terrorist group and aiding and abetting an islamic terrorist group and providing them and prompting them to attack egypt. she was convicted and given ten to attack egypt. her release date is 2018. i don't know man, this is a tough one. if there was somebody who should be denied maybe this is the one. >> this has a back story greg, she got 28 months originally and said quote i could do this ta standing on my had. ab and the judge said, oh really and gave her the longer sentence. >> you feel badly and again, i've interviewed her over the years and she h

of course referring to the now disbarred lawyer lynn stewart released on tuesday. >> maybe this guy shouldsh free and jails a vet for code violations?" >> our facebook page is up and running. >> of course, you want the bricks fixed. what if one was to hit somebody on the head or something like that. about you code an enforcement appears to be taking this too far. >> it really is ridiculous. it's still cold outside. i'm going to boca. >> i'm frozen. >>> headlines. the rest of the stories, kentucky senator rand paul making good on promises to take the president to court over nsa sweeping surveillance program. he is leading a class action lawsuit against the administration. >> the question here is whether or not constitutionally you can have a single warrant apply to millions of people. we thought what better what i to illustrate the point than having hundreds of thousands of americans sign up for a class action suit. >> we are learning more about the tragic car crash that killed actor paul walker back in november. investigators say the porsche was being ridden by his friend and was going ove