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Including some about kudlow. the president did not answer. ed? >> ed: ed, thank you very much gina haspel facing potentially contentious hearings, democrats and some republicans may be opposing the nomination, stating her role in the enhanced interrogation techniques used during the bush and administration. joining me now, republican congressman, ron desantis, good to see you. lets start with the democrats, can you believe the democrats, in an election year, might try to -- the senate democrats,...

Name was on a cable ordering the destruction of tapes. youu support her? >> i do. she clearly presided over a massive, illegal operation that violated both u.s. law and international law. im sure those orders came down from above her but that is no excuse. >> sean:cu typical left-wing attacks about haspel. jose rodriguez, remember him? the former head of the cia national clandestine service. he prays to the intelligence that was gained from these black sites, like the one that haspel ran. here i...

Evil radical islamic terrorists that think theyre doing gods will by killing innocent people, but they killed 3,000 americans. to me, shes a hero. >> thats why i wrote the book because we are at war with evil. the left wants to attack a female appointee of a republican president. they couldnt care less about whether we torture people or not, these are all politicians -- they were briefed behind closed doors, they have no issues with interrogation techniques, but all they do. lets go back in time...

Reporters shouted questions, including some about kudlow. the president did not answer. ed? >> ed: ed, thank you very much gina haspel facing potentially contentious hearings, democrats and some republicans may be opposing the nomination, stating her role in the enhanced interrogation techniques used during the bush and administration. joining me now, republican congressman, ron desantis, good to see you. lets start with the democrats, can you believe the democrats, in an election year, might tr...

>> i cannot confirm or deny the location of the place. thats classified. however i interrogated. the senate select committee intelligence report, was cooperating way before the techniques and waterboreding and it was based on regular interrogation techniques not by the enhanced interrogation techniques that was later done by contractors. however, i think my concern with her nomination is not only the torture, my concern with her nomination is the destruction of evidence regarding the torture. th...

To the president when you disagree and are you willing to leave if the president asks you to do something inappropriate, illegal or immoral? >> as you know shes a career cia officer. youre referring to what happened after 9/11, back in 2002 when she was involved in what was called the cia black site in thailand. >> yes. >> where they used what they called enhanced interrogation techniques. you have serious questions about that. >> i do. >> given what was going on there then, there are some, incl...

And i think it is our right and the congress right and the american peoples right to ask her some tough questions about this. there are so many men and women of the cia. and i know that from my personal experience, who stood up against torture, who complained about it, who went all the way to their inspector general and complained about enhanced interrogation techniques and what they were seeing on the black sites. if you look at the report of the inspector general of the cia, he talks about all...

Well, sadly that is what you have to do because you are dealing with evil. >> she spent time in turkey, central asia, she was running the new york office for the cia and was a liaison to the fbi. and the obama years, when usama bin laden, as you mentioned, was killed. this was someone who, yes, she was involved in the black sites, where you had enhanced interrogation techniques, critics call it torture. youre right. theres already been abated we can expect there will be t an en bigger debate in ...

Questions. they deserve to have those questions answered and it needs to have an open hearing setting. i have a number of questions. ive had a good working relationship with her the last year but rightfully theres questions to be asked. >> reporter: one of the black sites where there were water boarding and enhanced intelligence techniques and intelligence committee program wrote a scathing report on the program with john brennan taking the unusual step of publicly defending officers, including ...

>> what if, in fact, he does fly through? easier for me to say. gets the job. then gina haspel will step up, be the first woman to helm the cia. you know her. tell me more about her. should her tenure at the cia overseeing the controversial torture program, should that be a black mark on her as she tries to move forward? >> no. shes not the first woman to run the central intelligence agency. technically. judgment, experience about the organization. she has a sense of humor. this will be debated ...