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Professional misconduct but then it was kind of strange in the same report they said they didnt violate any ethics rules. bill, i taught professional ethics before. i looked through the rules and i dont see that they violated any rules. >> bill: the ruling from the justice department basically said when they told president bush that you could waterboarding khalid sheikh mohammed and some of these other thugs, they were on, what? >> that they used poor judgment in giving that advice but it wasnt ...

Intelligence service, the isi. now for a long time the cia has been accusing the isi of shellering taliban leaders, of giving them support, in effect also helping them. certainly this is something that seems to indicate that maybe for the first time the isi is getting serious about helping the u.s. find these senior taliban leaders on their territory, john. >> when it comes to interrogation, how is it that hes expected to be handled there in pakistan? >> reporter: well, its no secret that the pa...

Completely given up on it that was a major embarrassment and political setback for them to have to do that. because i think this administration sets great store by the idea of having our treatment of terrorists look a certain way to the world. im not certain how effective that view is. but i think its something that deeply preoccupies him and thats why you have interrogation methods taken off the table. you have guantanamo bay, the effort being continually made to close guantanamo bay so far uns...

When quadrupled the deficit with a stimulus package. quadrupled it and they werent bothered when the spending spree caused the c.b.o. to increase spending projections by 5.3, $5.3 trillion. how about obama will more than double the national debt that bush nearly doubled? he doubled it and he is going to double it again. its like a contest between these two. national security. this administration botched the handling of the underpants guy. they handcuffed our troops by banning interrogation metho...

Completely given up on it that was a major embarrassment and political setback for them to have to do that. because i think this administration sets great store by the idea of having our treatment of terrorists look a certain way to the world. im not certain how effective that view is. but i think its something that deeply preoccupies him and thats why you have interrogation methods taken off the table. you have guantanamo bay, the effort being continually made to close guantanamo bay so far uns...

Same people werent phased when quadrupled the deficit with a stimulus package. quadrupled it and they werent bothered when the spending spree caused the c.b.o. to increase spending projections by 5.3, $5.3 trillion. how about obama will more than double the national debt that bush nearly doubled? he doubled it and he is going to double it again. its like a contest between these two. national security. this administration botched the handling of the underpants guy. they handcuffed our troops by b...

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If you dont intend to work for the american people, why come to washington? >> melissa: you heard the statement from gina haspel who said with the benefit of hindsight -- im paraphrasing -- the enhanced interrogation program should not have been undertaken. do you think its too little, too late at this point? >> not at all, melissa. lets point out this important fact. nancy pelosi knew about the enhanced interrogation methods before gina haspel. pelosi was briefed in 2002. nevertheless, nancy pe...

Not quite what some of the headlines made it out to be. >> they should be reported more carefully. we should be toughening the sanctions, not easing them. >> even jake sullivan who worked for biden and obama and hillary clinton said it was a technical easing of sanctions. but i do think what was interesting about nikki haleys statement is that trump indicated he is willing to defer to the people he appointed in some capacity. we know with general mattis, whatever he says on enhanced interrogatio...

Also were following the daily white house briefing from sean spicer. we do expect him to address that. today expect to hear questions about that unconfirmed executive action as well as president trumps promise for a "major investigation into voter fraud." houchl there is there and why is the president calling for this investigation but not one about russian hacking? lets start with our reporters, kristen welker is in the white house briefing room and ari melber is here with me in new york. krist...