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Overly aggressive, overly zealous enforcer of that policy. >> well, thats 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 dont want to name a cia director and find out later there was something in the declassified material that we didnt know. i mean, here is wh...

Was doing. is that a safety concern, a danger and when you compare that to what congress wants to know about her time in thailand in the destruction of tapes of interrogation methods and actions, what do you think about that element? >> well, so i think transparency is always good. obviously, in an intelligence agency where you have someone who has lived a life undercover and a lot of details that maybe they cant share i think its good they are going back and try to determine are there elements ...

His real concerns about haspel because of interrogation methods used during another, george w. bush administration. how influential might he be? he is still undergoing his medical challenges, while in arizona, but he has already proven to be influential even from afar. >> what john mccain has to say about national security matters in particular carries a lot of weight and the administration has to work to get haspel confirmed simply because the republicans have a very thin 51-49 majority and the...

Prepared, tillersun will be replaced by mike pompeo who will be replaced at the cia by deputy gina haskell who will be the first woman to end the spy agency and we may not be done. the next shoe to drop will be the department of veterans affairs, and shelton, there are ethical issues. all these changes will require senate confirmation. this might jam up the senate. mike pumpeo has been through the process. gina haskell has not and there may be some issues, the so-called black sides and interroga...

Freeze until the number of register republicans and democrats on the staff were within 10% of each other. new york magazine was skeptical about the bill, noting that people could simply falsely register as republicans to gain the system. also they expressed concerns about possible follow-up for determining balance. perhaps, using enhanced interrogation methods, but that comes later. a bit of snark from new york magazine to be sure, but its refreshing to see people on the left making fun of quota...

On @cnn. i was trying to get to the bottom of the semantic game of media outlets some feeling comfortable in using the "l" word and others not doing so. can we do another one quickly? nope? okay. well do more tweet, i promise you. today president trump reinforced his belief that waterboarding works, but what about the guy who actually helped create and carry out enhanced interrogation methods after september 11th? stick around because youre about to meet him. >> would i feel strongly about water...

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 shes 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 its too early to talk about that. i thought that was...

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. its 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 dont want to do it thats fine. if they do want to do, then i will work for that end. i want to do everything within the bounds of what youre allowed to do legally, but do i feel it works? absolutely, i feel it works. >> quickly congressman here is what speaker p...

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 trumps 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 presidents comments? >> reporter: theyre not supportive. congress overwhelmly voted to limit interrogation techniques to the army field manual...