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Hello, im john berman. Michaela pereira is off today. Wed like to welcome our viewers to the United States and Around The World. Breaking news at this hour. A highly anticipated and extremely controversial report due out any minute details just what cia interrogators did to Terror Detainees after september 11 and if it worked. Any minute now senator Dianne Feinstein will present this report. Youre looking at live pictures of the senate well. The senator will detail tactics and policies used duri...

Warrantless surveillance programs are enhanced or interrogation programs. >> i was not involved in crafting that. program, nor crafting the legal justifications for that program. >> also today, spectators got a glimpse of the human side of the nominee, who, when asked how he would like to be remembered, said, as a good dad and george. then he paused. >> good husband. >> i think hes getting there. >> good husband. >> thanks, diane, you helped him a lot. >> one of the few light moments today, bret...

Is replacement my greatest responsibility is to selected justice who will faithfully interpret the constitution as written. i will select someone with impeccable credentials, great intellect, unbiased judgment and deep reverence for the laws and constitution of the united states. >> the president said to make the announcement at the supreme court pic. prime time monday night. we are told one of those on the short list is a judge named cavanaugh. he could face pushback from democratic senators ov...

Situation at the school. the district has initiated a lockdown. it is not clear at this point if anyone has been injured. were working to get more information. well stay on the story and bring it to you when we get it. as i said at the top of the hour, stephanie ruhle is on assignment. shes joining me right now from england. stephanie. >> thank you, so much, my partner, ali. i am here in england. i want to talk about washington. and talk specifically about gina haspel who barely squeaked through...

Bring back these interrogation programs and whether she would if she were confirmed. take a listen. into ms. haspel you didnt actually answer the question. what would you do if the president ordered you to get back in that business? >> senator, the president has selected me -- >> thats a yes or no. >> -- to give him advice. i would not restart under any circumstances an interrogation program at cia under any circumstances. >> you know, cynthia, if she couldnt say that torture is immoral, then on...

Argue it. this was a period of time when we had been attacked -- >> is it the right move to discontinue those programs today? >> if it were my call i would not discontinue those programs. i would have them active and ready to go. >> dick cheney came out of the shadows this week to embark on a full blown campaign to bring back torture. the former vice president took to fox in us to promote the revival of so-called enhanced interrogation programs like water boarding which were utilized under presi...

The questions they posed to him in 2013, totally different than the questions that they posed to her. those three senators that questioned both of them, watch the difference. >> i think it is also important, these will be questions that i will be asking as well to ensure while we look at the programs of the cia that these programs effectiveness be measured objectively and not simply by those who are charged with implementing them. >> many people and i include myself in that number, have question...

The $20 billion in the appropriations bill that deals with infrastructure or the reauthorization of majors such as the faa could count as infrastructure legislation. aside from the -- the things in other bills, will -- will there be an infrastructure bill, yes or no. >> ever -- >> [ inaudible question ]. >> the administration as you mentioned secured some funding for infrastructure projects. we also laid out priorities that we wanted to see in an infrastructure legislation package. were going to...

From inside the senate intelligence committee hearing. you can see demonstrations, people protesting gina haspel, currently the deputy cia director. shes been nominated to be the cia director. the protests are over her role back in 2005 that engaged in water boarding. also destroying tapes. shes accepted -- expected to face some tough questions about all of this and the cia did release a statement from haspel guaranteeing that if she is confirmed the cia will not restart any such detention or in...

Day. big day. the presidents cia director nominee is expected to ensure the intelligence committee she would not authorize the resumption of detention and interrogation programs that involve torture. this is according to prepared remarks. haspel is expected to face difficult questions about her role in the use of those tactics like waterboarding used after the/11 attacks. after a brief calm, kilauea is erupting again. 36 structures, including 26 homes, have been destroyed. lava covers 100 acre...