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Part of this is a 37 typical. especially with the sensitive operations we had in the agency during the height of the war on al-qaeda, things like technical surveillance of peoples e-mails, typically those meetings would be held more often down capitol hill. we would go down for example on the sensitive issue of interrogation techniques. we spoke to democrats and republicans together. the weird part is speaking omwith republicans. that is odd. you guys the apoliticians figur out what you want to ...

54-44. you can expect the final vote to be somewhere in that neighborhood. republicans supporting her nomination to be the cia director says much of the opposition because of who nominated her, president trump. >> theres a number of democrats now that have decided its not in the nations best interest to oppose president trumps nominees because they happen to be president trumps nominees. >> some of the decision was related to enhanced interrogation techniques. a key conservative said its not fai...

Particular at the c.i.a. what do you hear from them? >> yeah, thats great. i think its going to send a very powerful message. there are a lot of people that tried to hang on to this idea of enhanced interrogation techniques as the reason to vote against her. the reality is after 9/11, it was a very different world. we were desperately trying to protect our country. and the mission of the c.i.a. was to do everything they could to protect it. so to see somebody thats come up through the career ran...

Lets go live to kasie hunt. how is haspel able to pick up democratic support? >> well, stephanie, what really it was, a letter that she sent over to mark warner, the vice chair of the committee saying what he wasnt willing to say in the public hearing. she basically said we should not have used those interrogation techniques, torture. you see a piece of the letter right there. and she spelled out. and youll remember, she came under tough exchanges with senators who are trying to get her to ackno...

We have breaking news now, president trumps pick for cia director gina haspel. manu raju has the story, the scoop on the hill. what are you hearing? >> reporter: a letter just sent by gina haspel to mark warner, the top democrat in the committee tries to go into a little more detail about her views about enhanced interrogation techniques, very harsh interrogation techniques, people, things that people here call torture, like waterboarding and after hearing last week, she got a lot of criticism b...

C.i.a. is a little bit confounding to most americans i think. and in these states, maybe im wrong, though. you tell me. would it behoove the democrats to vote against her? >> certainly the controversy here, dana, is that gina haspel, of course, part of the interrogation, the enhanced interrogation techniques after 9/11 that many have called torture including john mccain. mccain, of course, going to vote against gina haspel as is rand paul which is why the republicans find themselves in this situ...

Keep in mind the context of this discussion. they were talking about john mccains opposition to the cia nominee who has a record supporting enhanced interrogation techniques. that is why they said he is dying anyway. he suffered through those kinds of torturous techniques and said he is disposable. >> happy mothers day to you. thank you for being here. its mothers day. while every mom deserves to be celebrated raising kids in a white house comes with unique challenges. well talk about that next....

Killed. the american people believe we should move forward with comprehensive immigration reform and trump is moving in exactly the wrong direction. we see the cruelty of his immigration policies when you talk about the united states government separating children from their parents. we need to move aggressively and do what the american people want towards comprehensive immigration reform. >> senator, i want to ask you one of the major nominees on the docket, gina haspel. you have announced your...

>> i think its a red herring. i cant believe democratic senators are relitigating a debate that the american people had more than a decade ago. gina haspel did not put that interrogation program into place. it was legal when it was carried out by her and then we had a great debate about it and we decided to roll back some of those interrogation techniques. i think she was right to defend the cia officers who were carrying out their duty in a constitutional and legal fashion. >> paul: kate, you s...

>> paul: president trumps pick to lead the cia facing a grilling this week on capitol hill. gina haspel, a 33 year veteran of the agency testified wednesday before the senate intelligence committee ahead of a confirmation vote there next year. has pee peel facing questions -- haspel facing questions over the role in her post 9/11 interrogation program. >> do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? >> senator, i believe that cia officers to whom you referred -- >> its a ye...