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Me that theres a food fight now, because whats happened is, the democrats and that committee has gone back and said, look, it doesnt look like a lot of stuff was gotten by the bad cop. and the other people are saying, no, no, no, we think the bad cop was necessary to get him to talk to the good cop. thats the explanation as clear as i understand it as a u.s. citizen. >> all right. i want to bring in chris frates now. welcome, chris. i understand you talked again to mitchell last night. and this ...

Such as the rectal rehydration. >> stop. that was a medical procedure, that was done because of detainee health, the people responsible there for the health of these detainees saw they had become dehydrated. it was intravenous with needles which would be dangerous with a combative person. >> hummus and pine nuts -- >> those are medical procedures. >> youre defending -- >> im defending history. to give you a sense of how this report was put together. this activity which was done five times and ea...

Saw that they were becoming dehydrated. they had limited options in which to go do this. it was intravenous with needles, which would be dangerous with a noncooperative detainee. it was through the nasal passage -- >> harangue, hummus and pine nuts? >> jake, i am not a doctor and neither are you, but what i am told is this is one of the ways that the body is rehydrated. these were medical procedures. and to give you a sense -- >> are you really defending microrehydration? >> what im defending is...

Objection, they had ample opportunity to do so. >> so dianne feinstein comes out now, she didnt get on these committees until 2006 which is when her briefing started. but she comes out as if we werent told, we werent told and its like she hasnt talked to her democratic colleagues who were told. >> yeah, absolutely. interesting the cia director in 2009 when pelosi made those statements was leon panetta, a close friend of pelosi, and even he couldnt let those comments stand. he repudiated basicall...

Things right to save american lives during this time. christine, he says the cia has learned from its mistakes. >> evan perez, thank you. a top official in the bush administration out in force fighting the firestorm created by the 500-page torture report. bush era official claimed the techniques did not violate the law. cia director michael hayden said rectal feeding was not an interrogation technique. >> jake, im not a doctor. this is one of the ways the body is rehydrated. these were medical p...

Necessary to stop more attacks on the u.s. >> we didnt have the luxury time. we had a ticking time bomb situation. >> reporter: on "the lead," former cia director michael hayden defended the forced rectal feeding of detainees. >> they had limited options in which to do this. it was intravenous with needles, which would be dangerous with a noncooperative detainee. it was through the nasal passage -- >> hummus and pine nuts and -- >> jake, im not a doctor and neither are you, but what im told is t...

We are not, i repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used. >> that was then-speaker of the house nancy pelosi back in 2009 flatout denying that she and her colleagues had been brief about the cias enhanced interrogation techniques put in place after september 11th, a claim the politifact website then investigated and rated as false as you see here. claim the man in charge of the cias interrogation program is also on the record saying wa...

Detainee, not part of the interrogation program. not designed to soften him up any questioning. >> critics of the torture report, asked whats the difference between harsh interrogations under president bush and classified drone attacks under president obama. one intelligence committee member insisted the drone program is legal. >> i believe that the c.i.a. is acting within the law in the intentions right now. thats as far as i want to go. >> and all of these attacks on the c.i.a. prompted a spir...

Torture to describe interrogation practices. >> as i said, in some instances i believe them to be abhor ebt and ill let others describe them. >> he defended his agency, reminding everyone of the difficult challenges after 9/11. >> in our pain, we pledged to come together as one and to do what we could to prevent osama bin laden and his killing machine from ever carrying out another attack. >> it led to so-called enhanced interrogation techniques against detainees, waterboarding, being put in str...

It removes from that experience she doesnt care about bill cosb cosby. >> i was moved by the fact that she says she worked with young people who had been through their own share of traumas and she said she felt like a hypocrite. alisyn, thanks for joining us. ahead that the hour, growing controversy over the senate cia torture report and the newest twist. also a key figure in the cias interrogation program is breaking his silence but not breaking ranks with the spy agency that paid him milli...