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Interrogation tactics. president trump is having none of it, coming to her defense, tweeting this today, shes been and always will be tough on terror. joining me right now from capitol hill, democratic senator ed markey of massachusetts. thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> you oppose gina haspels nomination because of her role in the bush era interrogation tactics. why not be open to what she has to say, though? >> the president himself has basically said he supports torture as a method of...

The president in. but rudy giuliani took some time out this weekend from serving as the presidents lead attorney on the russia probe to attempt a conference here in washington on the iranian issue. he suggested that the president is about to take a hard line. >> we have a president who is tough, a president who doesnt listen to the people who are naysayers and a president as committed to regime change as we are. >> meanwhile, republicans on the hill signal tonight they may have the votes to get ...

How we do these things, thats all a net positive for us. i dont think this is a gender issue whatsoever. i think if it was -- there were concerns about mike pompeo because he was a fan of interrogation techniques and we all remember general matta saying i do better with a six-pack in a pack of cigarette cigarettes. i think we do need to move it back from the partisan side of this and talk about the real issue here. >> katie: i want to bring it back to 9/11 because the work that gina haspel has d...

And rudy guiliani took time out this weekend from serving as, and look at the iranian issue and suggest that the president is about to take the hard line. >> we have a president who is tough and doesnt listen to the people who are nay sayer and committed to reseem change as we are. >> in the meantime republicans may have the votes to get confirmation of gina has pel to be cia director. they had gone over to the cia headquarters to talk her from pulling out. she was concerned about democrat attac...

Of enhanced interrogation techniques. do you expect her to say the united states will not torture? what must she say to satisfy the senators? >> im confident shell say the cia will not be doing this again. a couple of reasons for that, and maybe the most important one is president obama took it off the table and legislatively, it is now no longer legal, though, at the time it was done it was declared legal by the justice department. that has now changed. the legal opinions are now firmly ensconc...

Battles. and so the fact that the president continues to support him at this point is remarkable given that he is kind of creating more problems in an arena in which they were trying to really shut things down in order to avoid this additional scrutiny. >> now, i want to ask you, josh, because as we do look at sarah sanders being preoccupied with all of these questions about e gina haspel, is she going to be confirmed by the senate, its going to focus on obviously on her background when it comes...

People that have held that position see, that gina is more than qualified to lead the agency. >> so if she is asked any questions regarding enhanced interrogation techniques that took place during her tenure at the cia, that democrats say that she was involved with, she can answer them fully in an open hearing, is that your position? >> ill let her address those he questions as they come, but we think all the issues surrounding her record and experience will be brought up and were fully confiden...

Suspects were subject to enhanced interrogation techniques. that has all been repudiated during the obama administration. president trump never fully turning his back on torture techniques, and that will be the problem for haspel during the hearing. if she is asked would you engage in this again, everyone is going to want to know what her answer is. right now, it is not permitted. if president trump were to reinstitute it, would she just follow orders, so to speak? would that be a credible defen...

Regarding enhanced interrogation techniques that took place in her tenure at the c.i.a. that democrats say she was involved with, she can answer them fully in an open hearing. is that your position? >> sarah: i will let her address those questions as they come. but as we have said, we think all the issues surrounding her record, her experience will be brought up. and we are fully confident in her ability to answer the questions. >> reporter: president putin in moscow was inaugurated on a new six...

Operations jose rodriguez. and what report found was that she followed orders. she assumed he had the clearance at the time to destroy these tapes. i think it was a bold and courageous move what jose rodriguez did to protect the case officers. he saw the wind shifting in washington and he wanted to protect the folks who were absolutely authorized by the department of justice office of legal counsel to conduct those interrogation techniques. he wanted to protect them and ordered gina haspel to do...