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Bedfellows. >> indeed. thank you to you. thank you so much for today and every day and well be talking more with you tomorrow. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." join me for a live web chat today at msnbc.com. and today on the show, jose rodriguez talks about his controversial book on enhanced interrogation techniques that were used after 9/11. my colleague, tamron hall has a look at whats next on "news nation." >> looking forward to seeing that interview tomorrow with j...

sky scraper. instead tonight theres open partisan warfare that began with this ad narrated by bill clinton. >> its not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. he was referring to the hunt for osama bin ladin. what he did mean by that? given osama bin ladins role in killing 3,000 americans on 9/11. >> he had to decide. and thats what you hire a president to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. >> tha...

huge deal. set the scene. >> reporter: this is a big deal, wolf. a trip by the president of the united states to a war zone like afghanistan is extraordinary and this is only the third time that president obama has made this trip. its been over a year. the last time he was there was in december 2010 and furthermore, at the presidential palace which is where he is right now for brief remarks with president hamid karzai and to sign the strategic partnership agreement with afghanistan to ...

with this ad narrated by bill clinton. >> its not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. he was referring to the hunt for osama bin ladin. what he did mean by that? given osama bin ladins role in killing 3,000 americans on 9/11. >> he had to decide. and thats what you hire a president to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. >> that wolf blitzer tape was part of this ad. the ad provoked a sharp resp...

they should be proud moments for the country, instead, theres open partisan warfare that began with this ad narrated by bill clinton. >> its not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. he was referring to the hunt for osama bin ladin. what he did mean by that? given osama bin ladins role in killing 3,000 americans on 9/11. >> he had to decide. and thats what you hire a president to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no ...

The default option of this administration is to kill all prisoners. take no prisoners. >> the drones. >> the drones. how could it be more ethical to kill people rather than capture them? i never understood that one. >> reporter: in october last year three americans including the first american on the cias kill or capture list, anwar al-alaki was killed by drone strikes in yemen. jon: he makes an interesting point. what is the response that interview? >> reporter: in a statement, aclu saying quot...

Bin laden to stop the next attack or should you say, well, i dont want to get -- i dont want my career to be damaged. im going to step back. >> right. so along every step of the way, he would check with his superiors and he would check with the lawyers to make sure, ok, this is legal, right? this is legal, right, he was given the green light to use the enhanced interrogation techniques. of course, this administration views them as torture so this administration does not want to be accused of tha...

Enhanced interrogation techniques that many including the president called torture. next why he says he ordered the destruction of nearly 100 audio recordings that showed those controversial measures in action. plus, a court hearing for the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks of 9/11 will be on television. and just not yours. details ahead. every communications provider is different but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company. ♪ we link people and for...

Standard." rick klein, political reporter for abc news. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. steve, what about this? >> the ad, just minute and 30 seconds is an effective ad. it suggests that mitt romney would havent done the same. i think any president in the oval office at that time with that information would have made the same call. particularly as you look at the evolving nature of the relationship we had with pakistani political leadership at the time. this is something the obama camp...

Pentagon claim it will jeopardize security. they are vowing to appeal. >> a former bigwig blasting the obama administration for stopping interrogation techniques like water boarding. >> let me tell just tell you, khali shaikh mohammed would use his fingers to count the number of seconds because he knew that in all likelihood, we would stop at 10. so this doesnt sound like a person who is afraid of dying. >> jose rodriguez is the former c.i.a. head of the clandestined services and he says the int...