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Business? >> senator, the president has selected me to give him advice. i would not restart under any circumstances an interrogation program at cia under any circumstances. >> west virginia democrat joe manchins announcement that he will vote for haspel seems to have put her nomination over the top as the first woman director of the cia. however, just tonight republican senator john mccain, the only senator who has been tortured, released a statement saying in part, quote, ms. haspels role in ov...

If you were watching gina haspels conif i recallation hearing yesterday and you thought, hey, this feels different -- you were right. instead of politics, lawmakers focused on morality. does the woman who president trump wants to run the cia think torture is immoral? haspel chose her answers and her words carefully. she vowed to never restart the cias, quote, detention and intier gags program. she promi interrogation program and promised not to do anything, quote, immoral. but she would not say ...

>> not at all. it is a yes or no answer. yesterday all i heard was a nominee giving evasive, scripted answers and a nominee and an agency who are doing their utmost to minimize her role in order to get her confirmed. >> mr. rizzo, one more question to you on this same topic. the republicans say its just not possible to find somebody more qualified at the cia who wasnt involved in any way with torture. or with the enhanced interrogation program, if thats how you would like to define it. is that f...

Operations and installed as his chief of staff an officer from the counterterrorist center who had previously run the interrogation program. is that you? >> senator, im so pleased you asked me that question. >> yes or no will do. >> no. and for the record, if you have your staff check, mr. rizzo has issued a correction. >> mr. rizzo, what is that correction? >> well, the correction was, this was -- just put it in context for a second, katy. this was one sentence in a 330-page book i put out four...

Elected me to give him advice. i would not restart under any circumstances an interrogation program at cia under any circumstances. >> west virginia democrats joe mancions statement -- john mccain, the only senator who has been torturetortured, made a st "i believe the senate should exercise its duty of advice and consent and reject this nominati nomination."

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2017, the i.c. issued a joint report on the russia involvement in a 2016 election. do you agree with the findings of that report? >> senator, i do. >> thank you. weve talked a bit about the statement in mr. rizzos book that you have run the interrogation program and i understand he has changed his view on that. your career timeline, 2001 with the three deputy group chief from 03 to 04 senior level, and the deputy chief national resources division. in any of those jobs, were you in a supervisory ...

Controversial things, she was following orders. listen to gina haspel, if the president of the united states, if you are confirmed and president trump calls you and says torture a terrorist, go back to those old tactics, would you do it? >> senator, i would advise -- i do not believe the president would ask me to do that. i would be -- advise anyone who asked me about it that cia is not the right place to conduct interrogations. we dont have interrogators. i would not restart under any circumsta...

Youre confirmed there will never be an interrogation program under your leadership and you addressed the issue of the fact that it is against the law. the question i have, with the benefit of hindsight, do you believe the program, the interrogation program was consistent with american values? >> senator, as we sit here today, and with some distance between us and the events of 9/11, the congress and indeed our nation, have had an opportunity to have a debate about the interrogation standards we ...

This about myself. after 9/11 i didnt look to go sit on the swiss desk. i stepped up. i was not on the sidelines. i was on the front lines in the cold war and i was on the front lines in the fight against al qaeda. i am very proud of the fact that we captured the perpetrator of 9/11 khalid shaikh mohammed. i think we did extraordinary work. to me, the tragedy is that the controversy surrounding the interrogation program as ive already indicated to senator warner, i fully understand that, but it ...