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In perhaps the most distressing conclusion for many americans, the report finds this . thank you gentleman for joining us. vice president biden earlier today said the release of this report is a badge of honor for america, john mccain called it a stain on our national conscious, where do you think it lies or is it both. >> its both. its a badge of honor that we have gone through this truth-telling exercise. its awful what is being revealed and it is shameful that all we are doing is telling the ...

They have to protect us. congress over seas it. there are internal checks within the executive branch. what we have seen is it is complete break down. theres no over site. theres no effective management. its not just about torture but about everything we do that is covert on the war on terror or against isis or the war against anything. theres a bigger question what do do about those people who tortured, its whether we have a system that can work when it comes to these secret activities who many...

Per verse way that they go against the values of america. this is a moment we have to call to question the obama administration like what do we do now? this is not dakota, this is not the end of the story. what are you going to do about it, mr. president? you have spent millions of dollars on this report. five years, one of your senior most members of your own party, diane fienstein has now raised a clear question that a, the american people and congress were lied to, that b, torture, barbaric i...

Cant stand on the fence and say crimes occurred but no criminal committed the crime. obama has been reluctant to pick this fight. it is laid now too great detail. you cant just swear an oath to uphold the law and then not go after individuals who conducted criminal conduct found by your very own senate intelligence committee. >> one of the things revealed in this report is the sights, poland, afghanistan, thailand -- how did it happen? we know there were pay outs. some of these plays didnt have ...

We know gitmo remains a flag around which some jihadist rally. do you think that this report will have, can have, the same effect. i mean obviously this is a developing situation but in terms of how terrorist networks operate can you see this being used as a tool? >> it certainly can be and it is impossible to say right now whether it will be. we have seen terrorist groups will try to jump on anything to rally people to their cause and certainly something like this, which is an internal governme...

Deeply flawed. and fourth the cia program was far more brutal than people were led to believe. >> following fienstein, senator john mccain, former prisoner of war himself was tortured offered strong support for the reports release. >> i believe the american people have a right, indeed responsibility, to know what was done in their name. they must be able to make informed judgments about whether those policies and the personnel who supported them were justified in compromising our values, whether...

I mean, the report shows whether you think it is moral or not, it wasnt effective and probably wasnt legal. now alex you know me a little bit and you wont take this as an exaggeration, i believe i read every major intelligence report produced by congress for the last 40 or 50 years and reading this report today i was surprised, i was stunned. i thought there would be a lot of stuff i knew already and details, yeah, yeah, yeah, but actually the degree of mendacity, the amount of lying, the report...

As congress deals with the fall out of a scathing report on central intelligence agencys use of torture, congressional leaders are trying to avert another catastrophe, at any moment house republicans are expected to unveil their bill to avert a government shutdown. the legislation known as a cronney will fund almost the entire government through 2015 with notable exception funding for homeland security which will run out in february. so far the gop is insisting it has the votes to pass. >> at th...

Doing things that people will say is not necessarily constitutional is informing his desire to not prosecute what happened in this chapter. >> it is really hard to fully understand. the president from the beginning, we had a meeting with him early on and it was clear he was not interested in discussing the accountability of the torture. this is before we knew about the drone attacks. this was a president who was very reluctant to talk about the idea of prosecuting individuals for crimes from the...

And rectal rehydration on at least five detainees. one was intergated for weeks on end, slammed against walls and stuffed into boxes 300 hours, and waterboarded 180 times. during interrogation some broke down in tears and choking up. in the cia said this today. saying it has too many flaws and justice department says they will bring no new charges in response to the report. joining me now, gentleman, thanks for being here. anthony, let me start with you. >> sure. >> you know, to listen, to read