Bush proposes trials for Guantanamo detainees

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President George Bush delivers an address Wednesday outlining how he wants to try prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay.
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President Bush says the U.S. has to be "capable of defending herself" so he's pressing Congress to legislate new rules for trying terror suspects. He outlines his proposal in a speech Wednesday afternoon. We also hear from Dr. Steven Miles, who has criticized doctors who participated in the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

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