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In his chair before me that valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda operatives that allowed us to defend this country and prevent another attack. >> is that he is? >> it is not a yes. we got valuable information from the briefing of al qaeda detainees and i dont think it is knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> the hearing sitting snags when protesters got rowdy. [shouting] >> 7 people were arrested. one of them a former cia officer. that did not stop...

>> do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? >> senator, i believe that cia officers to whom you referred. >> its a "yes" or "no" answer. >> senator, i believe that cia did extraordinary work to prevent another attack on this country using the legal tools we were authorized. >> please answer yes or no. do you believe in hindsight that those techniques were immoral? >> senator, what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have deci...

I would absolutely not permit it. jillian: gina haspel in the hot seat. rob: the top 5 tackling her senate confirmation hearing head on. jillian: jackie ibanez have the highlights. >> reporter: haspels testimony lasting three hours where she was grilled about her three decade undercover career with the cia refusing to back down, confidently answering questions from democrats about her role in the post-9/11 detention program. >> the pres. has asserted that torture works. do you agree with that st...

Correspondent and filmed that heinous act. he also, after 9/11, carried out an attack on a synagogue in tunisia, auntie had other attacks planned. we were able to warn allies about a planned attack for example on heathrow airport. >> sean: you want to see the most evil, despicable act besides 9/11? go video the beheading of that reporter of which she is referring to. former top cia official jose rodriguez has been on the program many times. back in 2014, he reminded us that the interrogation pro...

32,000 feet when we had a large bang and a rapid decompression. >> my first thoughts were actually, oh, here we go, just because it seems like a flashback to some of the navy flying that we had done. but really, darren -- just very easy to communicate with, and we had to use hand signals, because it was loud, and there was -- it was just hard to communicate for a lot of different reasons. >> there is much more to this story, and you can see marthas full interview and the reaction from captain sh...

Professor, that john yu wrote that memo. we take that legal advice from the olc. we implemented what you americans and what you the federal government told us to do. and now youre going to turn around and put it on us? well, james bivey is a federal judge and john yu sits at berkeley. >> whione of the things we lear is there are cia agency personnel who were in these detention sites conducting these tactics and were very upset what they were doing, really wanted guidance from above and said do w...

Pressed further. >> do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? >> senator, i believe that cia officers to whom you referred -- >> please answer yes or no. >> senator, what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to -- >> can you please answer the question? >> senator, i think ive answered the question. >> no, youve not. >> reporter: during the campaign, president trump supported waterboarding. >> mr. ...

>> well see what those international companies are going to kind of pull back from engaging with iran so they dont become part of those sanctions. >> and the cia is not apologizing for her role for using enhance interrogation techniques after the september 11th attacks but is vowing not to reinstate those practices if confirmed as director. gina haspel faced tough questions over her confirmation hearing before the senate intelligence committee yesterday at one point being asked outright on her v...

Detainees and i dont think its knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> in november and december of 2002 did you oversee the enhanced interrogation which included the use of the water board has publicly reported? yes or no? >> senator, anything about my classified assignment history throughout my 33 years, we can talk about in this afternoons classified session. exposing operational information can be damaging to sources and methods, as you know. >> and as it stands no...

If you were watching gina haspels conif i recallation hearing yesterday and you thought, hey, this feels different -- you were right. instead of politics, lawmakers focused on morality. does the woman who president trump wants to run the cia think torture is immoral? haspel chose her answers and her words carefully. she vowed to never restart the cias, quote, detention and intier gags program. she promi interrogation program and promised not to do anything, quote, immoral. but she would not say ...