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Paying terribly close attention to the fight over her nomination as they tried to get pompeo through. >> i think they were definitely more focussed on pompeo. >> they were very focused on that so that kind of let her hang out in the wind a little bit and i think it helps explain behind the scenes why she was saying i dont necessarily need to have this fight, im willing to step out of the ring if you want me to. clearly theyve changed their tone. but i think the issue for her and what youll see o...

And lead the agency. >> if shes 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 questions as they come. but as weve said, we think all of the issues surrounding her record, her experience will be brought up and were fully confident in her ability to answer those questions. >> yes, sarah. pres...

Only appropriate woman. the fact is, in america, there are scores and scores of well qualified women who can fill key national security posts like this. and i think its really insulting to women to say that gina haspel is the only one qualified for this job. >> and the other criticism of you and others who oppose her is that in the aftermath of 9/11, there was a different mindset. they were concerned about a second attack that these extraordinary techniques, the interrogation techniques, which a...

Those advanced -- enhanced interrogation techniques which many people call torture. during the period of time after the 9/11 attack. she oversaw the secret u.s. detention center in thailand and so on. heres what happened on friday. got to the point and we know a couple of things were going on. first of all, she participated in a practice session leading up to her hearing which is supposed to be on wednesday. we also know she met with people from the white house. at some point on friday, things g...

>> exactly. no misconduct from gina haspil. paul: they never indicted rodríguez either. when the interrogation techniques were applied, they were legal, series of memos from the justice department saying that they were legal, correct? >> correct, the law has since changed and by all accounts gina is going to say at the committee that she has no intention of going back to the same program without the legal authority. paul: well, this leads to the question, if you are somebody at the cia who is t...

Sally yates and refuse to follow the law. paul: dan, what do you make of this, i remember writing editorials more than a decade ago, i remember the mood at the time and i dont remember a lot of democrats waving hands and say, oh, my god, dont do these things, make sure that theres not another attack? >> im glad that you brought that up, paul, 9/11 nearly 17 years ago, both towers of world trade center collapsed, plane flew into pentagon, am i upset that the cia used enhanced interrogation techni...

The cia. those techniques used of course on terror suspects. the report is adding that top trump aides have rushed to cia headquarters. that happened late on friday. trying to convince her to stay as the nominee of the president for director of cia to take the place of mike pompeo who has moved on to be secretary of state. i want to bring in my panel to talk about this. in all fairness, i know that this may be the first time any of the four of you are hearing about it because it is, for us, as w...

Extent of what she does or her role. >> thats a good segue, but that leads me to two points. what kind of director would gina haspel be if she had to sit in front of a -- who has advocated torture or killing families of suspected terrorists, how are we supposed to have confidence in gina haspel to speak truth to power when we dont have a good understanding of what kind of role she played in the interrogation techniques? >> im not sure we dont. i think we have a good understanding. she ran a blac...

What can i say? control suits me. go national. go like a pro. all right, everybody. 52 past the hour. i know we said we could bam being a and it talk with the panel about the latest strategy for congress. thats gina haskell right there. the reason is, shes the new nominee to be director of the cia. we are getting word via "the washington post" that she has sought to withdraw her nomination. this happened on friday after a white house meeting over the controversial interrogation techniques whic...

>> exactly. no misconduct from gina haspil. paul: they never indicted rodríguez either. when the interrogation techniques were applied, they were legal, series of memos from the justice department saying that they were legal, correct? >> correct, the law has since changed and by all accounts gina is going to say at the committee that she has no intention of going back to the same program without the legal authority. paul: well, this leads to the question, if you are somebody at the cia who is t...