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Leadership cia will not restart such a detention and interrogation program. i dont, for some people thats not enough. does that seem like its not enough? >> the reason its not enough donald trump on the campaign trail repeatedly said he wants to restart waterboarding. >> she said she wont. >> but the question is, she wouldnt say that it is immoral. even if she had the legal right to do so, there was an opinion it was legal for her to do it, she was ordered by the president she wouldnt say she wo...

To jesse, when you have a great concession to the president of north korea who has been seen as an international -- >> kimberly: that is not a great concession. >> kennedy: how are you going to afford that? >> greg: you are not going to elevate the person that you are going to talk to. >> kennedy: hillary clinton brought us to this point? >> juan: i hope so. >> greg: she would be dead, that is too late. president cia nominee, vowed yesterday that she would not restart another harsh interrogation...

Which is why i have xfinity xfi. its super fast and you can control every device in the house. [ child offscreen ] hey! lets basement. and thanks to these xfi pods, the signal reaches down here, too. so sophie, i have an xfi password, and its "daditude". simple. easy. awesome. xfinity. the future of awesome. ♪ >> jesse: cia nominee gina haspel, the interrogation program after 9/11 during an intense congressional hearing, but felt it would not restart under her watch. if dick cheney were still ...

Course he was fourth in line, much higher up the food chain, if you will, with the idea of the interrogation program where democrats and some republicans have said they want some answers to questions yesterday. but do you remember him getting such a tough time over that particular issue, was it commensurate with what gina haspel has faced? she was farther down the food chain in that record. -- in hah regard. >> theres a double standard, you cant explain it any other way. democrats were willing, ...

>> well, i think they need to know that it is the c.i.a., not the p.t.a. that organization exists to provide intelligence to the people who have to make hard decisions. and often the place where they earn their money is really where the moral conflict actually occurs. if its an easy decision, you dont need that sort of information. i think that the situation has changed enough now that we probably dont need an enhanced interrogation program. but if they ever get a nuclear weapon we might need an...

Interest to the american public. there were no questions about terminating the iran nuclear deal. there were no questions about the upcoming summit between the president and kim jong un and for the democrats, in particular, who are so focused on the russia investigation, no questions about gina haspels views of the russia threat of which she is really an expert, a substantive expert. brian: john mccain has weighed in and said she is a great patriot. i wont support her because she wont disavow th...

Dr. james mitchell. he is the one that the c.i.a. turned to to help craft this controversial interrogation program. we will get his take coming up. always an interesting guest here. plus this on a fox news alert. roll it. lava and destruction on hawaiis big island is not slowing down. what geologists think may happen next. how american companies are listening and helping the american worker. mr. elliot, whats your wifi password?

From chuck schumer on that as well. but lots of news there. >> bill: big headline. it will go down in singapore in june 12. brand-new reaction from the hill on the c.i.a. director nominee gina haspel facing intense scrutiny from some over the enhanced interrogation program. is her record being misconstrued? how do she explain it yesterday. well talk to a man in a moment to help create the program for the agency. he is next. the former vice president dick cheney on this topic. >> the agency is in...

Later. he was higher up than she was. and he got okayed. heres a little of the back and forth on the interrogation program with gina haspel yesterday. >> i would never ever take cia back to an interrogation program. first of all, cia follows the law. we followed the law then. we follow the law today. i support the law. i wouldnt support a change in the law. brian: and she also knows, but she doesnt want to say i imagine like jose rodriguez says. it worked. >> right. it did. we know that it worke...

Illegal cia programs of the past then on her vision for the future of the cia. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge reports from capitol hill. >> at her confirmation hearing, the first woman nominated to be the cia, said the interrogation program the critics call torture is a thing of the past. >> my moral compass is strong, i would not allow the cia to undertake activities that i thought were immoral, even if it was technically legal. >> democrats repeatedly pressed for cia veter...