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Thank you very much. gina haspels confirmation hearing is this morning before the senate intelligence committee. the cia nominee is expected to face difficult questions about her role in the use of harsh interrogation tactics like water boarding in the aftermath of 9/11. cia releasing an excerpt of her remarks guaranteeing the cia will not restart any such detention and interrogation program. most democrats oppose her nomination, even though she has backed -- shes backed by colleagues includin...

Memoir former cia counsel general john rizzo described how in 2005 jose rodriguez was promoted to be deputy cia director for operations, and installed as his chief of staff an officer from the counter terrorism center who had previously run the interrogation program. is that you? >> senator, i am 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. it is true that it is hard for -- >> my understan...

You were within the law, but did you want to destroy the tapes? >> senator, i did not run the interrogation department. in fact, i was not even let into the interrogation program until it had been up and running for a year. >> were you an advocate for destroying the tapes? >> senator, i absolutely was an advocate, if we could, within and conforming to u.s. law. >> now, again, her position was, this was done to protect people. and those of us who dont understand, you understand it better than any...

Interrogations, we never did historically and are not getting back in that business. >> what would you do if the president ordered you to get back in that business? >> the president has selected me to give him advice. i would not restart under any circumstances an interrogation program at cia, under any circumstances. >> thank you. >> lets go to our correspondent m manu raju. gina haspel was also asked several times if she would refuse an order by the president based on moral grounds, what was t...

This is the last president i would expect to have our back to go out and do something edgey if things begin to unwind. >> during the course of the confirmation hearing response from questions from senator harris of california, gina haspel refused to say if the enhanced interrogation program or the torture program back after 9/11 was immoral. with hiends signdsight can, can stand up to the president? >> absolutely. what i usually say is i thank god that i didnt have to face the decision that geor...

Intelligence committee. this is way out of her comfort zone because she is someone who spent 32 years doing covert operations so she had cover for 32 years in the agency. today she seemed steady. she was not flustered. she took them head on about the controversial bush era interrogation that included waterboarding and the critics call torture. rather than dismiss the c.i.a. men and women who took part in that program that was approved by the bush administration justice department, she simply sai...

Going to take advantage of this opportunity to wish my daughter scarlet, who will be 6 tomorrow, a happy birthday. and with that i will take your question. jeff? >> sarah, you mentioned the cia director nominee gina haspel says today that the president asked her to do anything, to restart the interrogation program that the cia was criticized for that she would not do. is that something that the president would ever ask. >> im not aware of any requests by the president to the past cia director or...

Haspel took sharp questions from diane feinstein. >> were you an advocate for destroying the tapes. >> i was an advocate if we could confirming to u.s. law and get policy concurrent to eliminate the security rick posed to our officer by the tapes. >> reporter: there were a number of demonstrations throughout hearing and they were disrupted and the senior republican said if there were any more, he would remove everyone from the room who was not there in a official capacity. and republicans, one o...

>> harris: confirmation hearings wrapping up. they will go behind closed doors. if she is confirmed as cia director, the spy agency will not start an interrogation program like the one used after september 11. >> my father is watching today. my parents gave me a strong moral compass. i support the higher, moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to. i would never, ever take cia back to an interrogation program. first of all, cia follows the law. we followed the law then, we fo...

That. they need to put their petty partisan politics aside for the safety of americans. america will be safer with her as the cia director. and its an opportunity to appoint a woman to a position that no woman has ever been appointed to before. pete: you were there as a part of the interrogation program after 9/11. what does this -- what does this pick say about how serious president trump takes on the threat of radical islam? >> i think it says that he intends to keep his promise to americans t...