yeah. at the beginning i think they really thought they could change the system. covert and overt support of our country, a state of emergency was declared and a right wing dictatorship grabbed hold of the instruments of power launching a period of suppression guided by cia officers, trained in what we call these days enhanced interrogation methods, some of the most brings tall bastards crushed minds and bodies in cells in latin america. what kind of people were swept up? teachers, professors from university. troublesome intellectuals. lawyers. 3% to 5% of the entire population had gone through the prison system. we re not talking about incourse kars nation ano, no, no. tortured and kept in a prison system to pretty much destroy
confirmed and i think i understand the frustration of some democratic senators as knowledgeable competence and somebody changed her view of the interrogation methods. even though she did not say the words that some democrats wanted but i think she will be confirmed. it is problematic that she s unable to say that torture is immoral and it comes down to what kind of country we want to be. i believe that she will narrowly be confirmed. laura bassett and john harwood. thank you very much. what the secretary of state says is now on the table with north korea. next. born during the winter of 77. i first met james in 5th grade. we got married after college. and had twin boys. but then one night, a truck didn t stop.
always great to see you, though, gives us an excuse to talk often. jill wine banks, former assistant watergate special prosecutor. thank you ali. to the white house. kelly o donnell is standing by. she covered the mccain campaign i m sure in that press briefing that s underway with the health and human services secretary but sarah huckabee sanders hasn t started her questions yet, there are going to be a lot of questions about the mccain comments. i would expect that our colleagues in the white house press corps would ask about a staffer who made this remark about senator mccain in the context of the confirmation process for gina haspel who is the nominee to be cia director. mccain has a long standing public rohr record against the use of interrogation methods that are commonly referred to as torture. back in the bush era after 9/11 they were deemed legal under what is called enhanced interrogation technique. he has long been an opponent of that kind of aggressive sort of
exclusive interview there with the french president conducted by d.w. and by a.r.d. a short while ago now let s get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world more than thirty people have been killed after a dam burst in western kenya near the city of not cruel witnesses said that most people were asleep when the accident occurred after a severe drought weeks of two rental rains in kenya have led to flooding and mudslides that have left over eight hundred people dead. islamist militant prisoners at a high security jail near indonesia s capital jakarta have killed five police officers they took officers hostage in a prison riot triggered by dispute about food police said that they ve resolved the crisis after a tense standoff with the so-called islamic state group claimed its fighters were involved in the violence. and donald trump s nominee to have the cia has vowed that the agency would never revert to harsh interrogation methods under her leadership
most qualified person maybe ever as director of the cia. we need to support our men and women in the intelligence community who follow legal authority and follow orders and that s what she did. gina haspel testified yesterday in a public session and later in a closed door class fied session. haspel has served the cia for 33 years, first the woman to lead the agency. she tried reassuring lawmakers she would oppose any presidential order she believed was unethical or wrong. critics are focused on enhanced interrogation methods used since the 9/11 attacks. senator mccain s views are extraordinarily persuasive. i m leaning against voting for ms. haspel. i have strong reservations about her involvement in the use of torture and her failure to denounce it morally.