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If youre a national security adviser, youve got to say it the way it is and i think its important to have that kind of opinion presented to the president of the united states. >> youve said positive things about president trumps nominee to become the next director of the cia, gina haspel, you worked with her when you were cia director? snoirnl says she "needs to explain the nature and extent of her involvement in the cias interrogation program during the confirmation process." should her records...

I think hopefully the entire organization learns something from the enhanced interrogation program. and then here challenger slammed her position saying "feinstein knows better how morally and legally wrong torture is. this should be an easy call. i would vote no on confirming gina haspel in the u.s. senate." now senator feinstein is calling on the cia to release documents on the interrogation and attention program. your thoughts. >> this is a very difficult debate. its an issue that people feel...

Controversy over enhanced interrogation. that has been litigated, we did that. there were no charges brought against these people. there were legal opinions brought down, i know people disagree, but since then, what has she done? she has been great. >> ed: we were on a war footing post 9/11, there were fears of more attacks coming. >> there was. she has been the deputy director for over a year. she has done a great job. she really does a lot of day-to-day management of the agency that mike pompe...

Interrogation program during this confirmation process. i know the senate will do its job and examining her record and her beliefs about torture and her approach to current law." i should note that today is actually 45 years ago today john mccain was released from imprisonment by the north the north vietnamese. he is somebody who knows something about torture. >> and i think those questions are fine. anything on her record is fair game to ask. but i think people who are going to focus on one asp...

Involved with waterboarding someone and was gleefully sort of, you know, just expressing their joy at his suffering, i think, is the wrong kind of message to send the world. >> republican senator john mccain is voicing concern. in a statement he writes in part, ms. haspel needs to explain the nature and extent of her involvement in the cias interrogation program during the nomination process. in the senate, the gop has a very slim margin, we should say. joining us from washington is daniel lippm...

Nominees of mike pompeo for secretary of state and cia deputy director gina haspel to lead the agency. his own party is putting up blocks. >> i will oppose pompeos nomination and haspels nomination. >> rand paul points to haspels role in the cia interrogation program that water boarded an al qaeda operative. >> to reward somebody, to make them head of the cia f they were involved with something so horrendous, i think its a terrible message to send. >> senator noted that john mccain opposes her n...

Interrogation program defended her. >> the program was the policy at the time. it came from the highest levels of government. that program stopped attacks, disrupted plots and saved lives. >> republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee wants hearings in april for pompeo, telling fox hes optimistic that the process will not be as smooth as the confirmation for cia director. >> he got 66 votes in his last pass through. there will be greater scrutiny on this. there will come up be...

Relationship with secretary tillerson. i thought he gave sound advice. i enjoyed working with him very much. i knew it wasnt perfect. the president and i talk often also and look, i knew the relationship was not perfect. >> bill: catherine herridge live in washington. he told sandra, he and pompeo never met. what about the reports to nominate gina haspel. >> reporter: the confirmation hearing moving mike pompeo into the job will happen next month and he stopped short of putting a date on the cal...

This is the, you know, the most secret part of the cia. thats pretty obvious. she knows operations around the world. as the deputy to mike pompeo, she has taken on a lot of responsibility in the last year, in that job, for operations and making sure that everything is being carried out that the cia deemz deems a priority. shes said to have been involved in the so-called enhanced interrogation program in the years after the 9/11 attacks. there are stories out there alleging she was directly invol...

Interrogation program. criticism. the cia may be forced it finally publicly answer whether she was directly involved in interrogations, was she present at them or did she just oversee them and know about them as many senior cia officers did. i think her confirmation hearings are going to be exceptionally interesting. all of these issues have not played out in public for many years. and some of them still remain some of the cias most tightly held secrets. her confirmation hearing will put her in ...