cia it is a yes or no. did extraordinary work to prevent another attack on this country given the legal tools that we were authorized to use. please answer yes or no. senator, what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to. can you please answer the question? senator, i think i ve answered the question. no, you ve not. her lack of clarity made it clear for at least one republican senator. in a statement last night, john mccain asked his fellow senators to reject haspel s nomination. he called her a patriot but said her refusal to acknowledge torture s immorality is disqualifying. like many americans, i understand the urgency that drove the decision to resort to so-called enhanced interrogation methods after our country was attacked. i know that those who used enhanced interrogation methods and those who approved them wanted to protect americans from harm. i appreciate their dilemma and the strain of
characters out there in these races tonight. we are going to cover it all. thank you guys, we will be back in a little bit. coming up the night, new documents raising fresh questions about torture. u.s. enhanced interrogation methods as others prefer to call them and gina haspel, president trump s pick to lead the cia, all on the eve of her senate confirmation hearing, plus strong words from president trump today on why he has decided that he s giving it a chance and it is time to pull the united states out of the iran nuclear agreement. staff sergeant robert bartlett, a retired u.s. soldier injured by an iranian bomb in iraq shares is deeply personal reaction straight ahead. if the regime continues its nuclear aspirations it will have bigger problems than it has ever had before. insurance that won t replace
middle-class kids, and highly radicalized. carina: yeah. at the beginning i think they really thought they could change the system. anthony: with covert and overt support by our country, a state of emergency was declared and a right-wing dictatorship grabbed hold of the instruments of power, launching a period of repression that lasted from 1973 until 1985. supported and often guided by cia officers, trained in what we call these days enhanced interrogation methods, some of the most brutal bastards in the ugliest military juntas on earth crushed minds and bodies in cells across latin america. anthony: what kind of people were finding themselves swept up? carina: teachers. professors from university. anthony: troublesome intellectuals. carina: sometimes lawyers, or anthony: something like something like 3% to 5% of the population had gone through the prison system. i mean, we re not talking about incarceration, we re talking about they were tortured and then kept insid
boss. gina haspel won t. that s precisely the sort of intel the white house is relying upon as they make this selection of gina haspel. there is a great deal of pushback on capitol hill. a lot of democrats are concerned about her role in water boarding and other enhanced interrogation methods and that is why they are in opposition of her nomination. this will all play out interestingly this week. bill: certainly will. rudy giuliani was talking over the weekend. what s the emerging legal strategy? i want to be delicate. i don t want to overstate the strategy. rudy giuliani has been doing a bit of cleanup, if you will, bill, after the roll-out where he came out and fumbled on his first carry to use the foot ball expression and so now what the administration is doing is following his lead. get it all out there.
overly aggressive, overly zealous enforcer of that policy. well, that s a great question. you know in the last month democrats have been pushing hard to get a lot of these cables and internal memos declassified or shared with them in some form so they are not sort of caught off guard later. you know, the comment that i heard from various sources is that we don t want to name a cia director and find out later there was something in the declassified material that we didn t know. i mean, here is what s known. she ran a black site during this period. she was a supporter in the sense that many people in the cia were that were in management roles of a post 9/11 torture program enhanced interrogation methods that are now widely viewed as torture. the big issue should be right now how much new information have they received in the last