lot of laughter. this is in his words and the words of his predecessors a special relationship and these types of bilateral meetings are aimed at strengthening that relationship, the fact she s the first leader to visit the white house holds significance. in terms of the headlines, brian, there were a couple here. president trump pressed on whether he would be scaling back and reversing the sanctions that president obama put into place. he said it s too early to talk about that. i thought that was an interesting point, didn t really show his cards on that critical matter but we do know he s set to hold a conversation with president putin on saturday, and then on mexico, he was asked about that hour-long conversation that he had with president pena nieto today. he said it was constructive. it s clear he s keeping the lines of communication open, even as he has opened up thrift, and then finally brian, we have to talk about torture, waterboarding, enhanced interrogation methods. he reaff
complications. ambassador stewart holliday. appreciate you being here. president trump talking about waterboarding, talking about how he believes it is actually an effective interrogation methods and experts in the field agree. is he right? plus other recent comments when we come back. can i give it to you straight? that airline credit card you have. it could be better. it s time to shake things up. with the capital one venture card, you get double miles on
i have spoken as recently as 24 hours ago with people at the highest level of intelligence and asked them to question, does it work? does torture work? and the answer was yes. i will rely on pompeo and mattis and my group. and if they don t want to do it that s fine. if they do want to do, then i will work for that end. i want to do everything within the bounds of what you re allowed to do legally, but do i feel it works? absolutely, i feel it works. quickly congressman here is what speaker paul ryan said. torture is not legal, and we agree with it not being legal. you look at what mr. trump said. he appears to be open to enhanced interrogation methods, you juxtaposed that, and have
michael pompemike pompeo. it is illegal to use waterboarding. pom yay-pay owe said he would consider bringing back enhanced interrogation methods during certain circumstances. republican lawmakers heard about trump s remarks while attending a retreat in philadelphia. manu raju joins us from there with the latest. what do gop lawmakers have to say about the president s comments? reporter: they re not supportive. congress overwhelmly voted to limit interrogation techniques to the army field manual voted by 78-21 margin. that army field manual excludes so-called ep hansed interrogation techniques, a lot of people call torture, including waterboarding. i had a chance to ask the number three senate republican john thune if whether he supports
complicated backdrop as well, thorny backdrop as president trump prepares to meet with prime minister theresa may who has been insistent that they are not going to engage in enhanced interrogation methods like water boarding. i think there are going to be some tough questions and we are expecting to get some questions to both of these leadest tomorrow when they meet. the president is inside the limo. the beast, and about to proceed to center city philadelphia from south philadelphia as i say it is a about a 20 minute ride in a motorcade. they obviously don t have to stop for traffic or any other impediment as they proceed down to the hotel where they will be meeting with the republican leaders. the speech from the president is going to precede another speech later from vice president pence and then a third speech today to the gathering, and this from the british prime minister who will then be in washington tomorrow for her first meeting at the white house. we are told they will have