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A cowboy, his own secretary of defense, president trumps says i dont want to water board. lets focus on what works. if this suspect can be an enemy combatant and working outside of existing interrogation techniques that are afforded to law enforcement by according him his constitutional rights as a legal resident, then we can have that debate. we should have that debate. there are lots of people including on cnns air who have the experience, who have been in this terror war for a long time who c...

Good morning. In the United States the wealth of the nation. Is even Li distributed with the wealthiest 25 percent of u.s. Households owning 87 percent of the wealth which was $54.00 trillion in 2009 u.s. Households and nonprofit organizations net worth rose from 44 trillion in 2000. To 67 trillion in 2007. So what does that mean. Lets think about that we have amazing amounts of wealth in the United States. And if we could find a way to focus that wealth. On solving the major problems. And inst...

>> one -- one or two times. >> most people would say, "i would never, ever in a million years confess." >> or -- or how could you be so stupid and not know? you know -- >> uh-huh. >> and -- i was young. i didnt know. i was naive. you know, i was scared. >> robert is not alone, of course. there are people like him in situations just like his in jails and prisons all around the country, who confessed as teenagers to crimes they maybe didnt commit. in fact, to prevent that very thing, police depart...

Same time, you know, i think the last i spoke to the chairman richard burr about this he suggested that the senate committee will ultimately release a list of findings and they might not vote on the release of those findings. so thats a potentially new way of doing business for the senate committee. in past instances where youve had a very politically charged topic, the torcher report is one that comes to mind when they investigated enhanced interrogation techniques, they voted on putting out th...

Approving, anything of that sort, any memo from john yu on this topic. later in 2004, when i was assistant attorney general, the criminal division did have a fairly surgical role which was not -- underline not, in approving any interrogation technique but commenting on a public general interpretation memo by dan levin about what the statute -- what statutory standard means. that opinion, as you know, was rescinding prior interpretations that had occurred. again, i had not seen. i did not think i...

Indicates that under the new analysis, all of the techniques that were approved under the binding memo like waterboarding, would still be legal under the new memo. in other words, nothing changed. and it says it expressly had the approval of your division. do you recall reviewing and approving that memo? >> i do not recall approving, reviewing and approving that memo. what i do recall is that we provided -- we drew a line about what the criminal divisions appropriate role was. that the criminal ...

Certain or end certain investigations? these are not abstract questions or hypotheticals. and the committee must consider how mr. wray has handled such situations in the past. according to one press account, for example, mr. wray expressed his readiness to resign alongside then deputy attorney general comey and fbi director mueller in a standoff with the bush white house about the legality of the nsas warrantless surveillance program. yet john yu has testified that just a year earlier, mr. wray ...

This topic. later, and 2004, when i was assistant attorney general, the criminal division did have a fairly surgical role, which was not underlying the word, not, and approving any particular interrogation technique, but merely commenting on a public, general interpretation memo by dan live-in about what the statute stated tory means. as you know, i was rescinding prior interpretations. again, i had not seen it. i did not think it was appropriate for the criminal division to be playing any role ...

Techniques were operationally ineffective, slow and unreliable. and ultimately, harmful to counter terrorism efforts. in fact, we learned in 2002, then fbi director bob mueller ended the fbis participation in the interrogation of cia detainees because of the harsh torture methods being used and because they were undermining the investigation. in fact, he pulled his people out. this is important. the issue of interrogation techniques is not just something of the past. in february of this past yea...

The time i believe, we were already starting to investigate and in one case which led to prosecution, cases where techniques went too far and i did not think it was appropriate for the criminal division to be setting interrogation policy or providing legal advice on a going forward basis. >> the memo does not make that distinction. it simply says criminal division department of justice concurs in the analysis set forth below, which goes into detail in terms of techniques, interrogation technique...