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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, what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to. >> please answer the question. >> senator, i think ive answered the question. >> no, youve not. >> much of the senate hearing today for president trumps nominee to lead the cia, gina haspel was taken up with h...

Yes, im in favor of water boarding. okay. would i approve water boarding? you bet your ass id approve it. you bet your ass. in a heartbeat. >> i think water boarding is excellent but you have to go further than water boarding. as far as im concerned you can go a lot stronger than water boarding. than you like. dont tell me it doesnt work. torture works. only a stupid person would say it doesnt work. it works. heres the presidents nominee to be the next director of the cia, gina haspel at her h...

Hearing yesterday. struggling to say whether she thought torture was immoral. during the hearing, haspel answered questions using her role with enhanced interrogation techniques after the 9/11 attacks. last night, senator mccain proved once again hes willing to buck his party and the president. he said while he believes haspels a patriot, her role in overseeing the use of torture by americans is disturbing, her refusal to acknowledge tortures immorality is disqualifying. i believe the senate sho...

Chair before me that valuable information was obtained from senior al queda operatives that alloweds to defend this country and present another attack. >> is that a yes? >> no, its not a yes. we got valuable information from debriefing of al queda detainees. i dont think its knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> and then the question that ended up deciding senator john mccains position on gina haspel. >> do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were immo...

>> yeah, joe, youll get no argument from me. on what you just laid out. theres one other factor, i think and we saw it in its own venue, just yesterday. there is no plan b for donald trump in this administration now that he scrapped the iran accord. there was no plan b on the night of the election. when he assumed the presidency. they were shocked, stunned that they won. they had no plan. they didnt know what to do, because they never expected to be there. and thats where we are today. with iran...

As far as im concerned you can go a lot stronger than water boarding. than you like. dont tell me it doesnt work. torture works. only a stupid person would say it doesnt work. it works. heres the presidents nominee to be the next director of the cia, gina haspel at her hearing today. >> the president has asserted that torture works. do you agree with that statement? >> senator, i -- i dont believe that torture works. i believe that in the cias program, and im not attributing this to enhanced i...

Xfinity. the future of awesome. >> the president has asserted torture works. do you agree that statement? >> senator, i -- i dont believe that torture works. valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda operatives that allowed us to defend this country and prevent another attack. >> is that a yes? >> no, its not a yes. we got valuable information from debriefing of al qaeda detainees and i dont think its knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> in november an...

Make that admission but torture does remain a flash point here, these enhanced interrogation techniques. lets remember, president trump while on the campaign trail talked about how he felt like it would work, that some tactics like waterboarding wouldnt go far enough and told stories about how in the past -- acts of alleged terror or alleged torture to terror suspects, to war prisoners and he advocated the united states get back to that. now after taking office he says in conversation with defen...

Detainees. i dont think its knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> and then the question that ended up deciding senator john mccains position on gina haspel. >> do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? >> senator, i believe that cia officers to whom you referred -- >> its a yes or no answer. do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? im not asking do you believe they were legal. im asking do you believe they were immo...

Trump to politicize intelligence gathering and if he does, general hayden said this, she will be the first to say no to donald trump. i understand a lot of people focused yesterday, especially the democrats running for president in 2020, who want to run for 2020 posing for the cameras, posing for their future supporters but it was depressing because there was so little discussed about north korea. so little discussed about iran, so little discussed about syria. so little discussed about where is...