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A fox news commentator. >> laura: they think you are the devil, you are the trump whisperer, youre getting them to do all neoconservative stuff and you say? >> im doing the best i can but i think everyone should understand on the national security advisor, im not the national security decision-maker. he makes the decision. he knows what hes doing. >> laura: john bolton, great to see you, thanks for joining us in prime time. >> it was a fun interview with john bolton in the end of the new deal ha...

>> laura: they think you are the devil, you are the trump whisperer, youre getting them to do all neoconservative stuffe and you say? >> im doing the best i can but i think everyone shouldm understand on the national security advisor, im not the national security decision-maker. he makes the decision. he knows what hes doing. >> laura: john bolton, great to see you, thanks for joining us in prime time. >> it was a fun interview with john bolton in the end of the new deal has put israel on high a...

Era detainee interrogation program that critics call torture. >> to me, as i said when i came out, i think there really is a prospect of this setting of very ominous precedent. if this is allowed to go forward as what i have called a secret confirmation process, it sure wont be the last one. >> public confirmation hearing wednesday is expected to put the justice department approved program that water boarded terrorists under fresh scrutiny. cia director john brennan was a key decision maker and ...

Of senators and rand paul seems to be a no vote at this point. he indicated to us friday that he had nothing on the calendar to meet with her but he was certainly open to it, shep. >> shepard: some of the haspel supporters say that they see a double standard at work here. >> just for some context, john brennan was a top decision maker for the detainee interrogation program. he was at the table and making a lot of decisions on policy. haspel supporters say there shouldnt be a double standard here...

Sheikh mohammed would disqualify her. >> as far as we know the senate never confirmed somebody with operational role in the use of torture. that would be a first and it is a new low for the country if its confirmed. >> it is important to give folks at home context. the former c.i.a. director john brennan was a top decision-maker for this controversial interrogation program. he was confirmed by the senate as the c.i.a. director under president obama. gina haspel at that time was a mid-level manag...

Body to go down there. >> i am a recovering lawyer, but it doesnt take lawyer the know that the central lesson on watergate is that no one is above the law, not the president. not anybody else. and there is nothing in the constitution that says the president needs to be treated differently when it comes to routine things like interviews with a prosecutor. and also keep in mind that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and robert mueller are very aware that the president might fire them. yet th...

Lying to investigators. for a leak that the inspector general said was only motivated to preserve his own reputation having nothing to do with the fbi and the publics right to know. >> conflicted. i like hm as a person. even good people do things they shouldnt do. i read the report. im not the decision maker in the case. its accountability mechanisms working and they should work because its not acceptable in the fbi or the justice department for people to lack candor. its something that we take ...

Criminal referral or what will happen but thats part of accountability and examination of what the consequences will be. for a leak that the inspector general said was only motivated to preserve his own reputation having nothing to do with the fbi or the publics right to know. >> conflicted. i like him very much as a person but sometimes even good people do things they shouldnt do. have read the report. im not the judge in the case. im not the discipline -- decision maker in the case. it is acco...

Even good people do things they shouldnt do. i read the report. im not the decision maker in the case. its accountability mechanisms working and they should work because its not acceptable in the fbi or the justice department for people to lack candor. its something that we take really seriously. >> one of the exampled in the report is that mccabe claimed that he told james comey, his boss that he was going to authorize a disclosure, that he had authorized a disclosure of information to a wall s...

Recommendation for getting rid of comey in the memo. he was annoyed that he was not the main player, the guy who made the final call who said, youre fired. he was retaking that narrative back in that lester holt interview, donald trump is the man in charge, donald trump is the decision maker, is the firer and in so doing, he has now directly contradicted what hes trying to argue now. donald trump is the one who said the russia thing was what was the real reason that he had already decided to get...