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United states senator, im working for a presidential campaign. im contacted by a russian agent who says ive got some hacked emails here and i want to visit with you about them. am i committing a crime? >> also, i think i should resist answering that hypothetical. >> okay. can you explain to me, not the law, but in your personal opinion, when interrogation techniques become torture? >> you may not the law? there is a statute -- as a lawyer and as a member of law enforcement organization, i would ...

Lets assume that im not a united states senator and im working for a presidential campaign. and im contacted by a russian agent who says ive got some hacked e-mails here and i want to visit with you about them. am i committing a crime? >> also, senator, i think i should resist arnsing thnswerin hypothetical. >> include to me now the law but just in your personal opinion when interrogation techniques become torture? >> you mean not the law? >> thats right. >> there is a statue that defines tortur...

Steve: told fox news that susan rice was the obama era official when she was in national security who asked for a number of trump team members names to be unmasked. brian: dozens of times she requested. she said there was a very -- there was a reason for national security interests to find out who was on the other end of those international calls. steve: she had the authority at that point. brian: nothing illegal. steve: what happened after that, thats the gray area. ainsley: lets bring in dr. j...

To you eventually they will turn on you and the american public will turn on each other in this fight. and thats when they will win. thats what were debating nau. >> definition of torture and enhanced interrogation and the need to get the most information. >> absolutely. whats at issue is whether or not we should elks tend our american 1eu68 liberties and legal protection he is to people who are not u.s. citizens and who are by their own choice trying to destroy us. and i believe thats wrong and...

Interrogation techniques that included water boarding, stress positions and sleep deprivation as well as a host of other techniques which would and did result in death and serious debilitation of detainees. it was 2004 when the public learned about the prisoner abuse chronicled in the abu graib photos and then information was leaked to the media the department of justice issued legal opinions that stated enhanced interrogation techniques were within the law unless they inflicted the kind of pain...

Administration intended not to follow. importantly, we learned that judge gorsuch advocated for the bush administration to issue a broad signing statement. he said it could be used to, and i quote, help inoculate against the potential of having the administration criticized sometime in the future for not making sufficient changes in interrogation policy. in light of the mccain portion of the amendment. this statement clearly, and in a formal way that would be hard to dispute later, puts down a m...

Administration intended not to follow. importantly, we learned that judge gorsuch advocated for the bush administration to issue a broad signing statement. he said it could be used to and i quote, help inoculate against the potential of having the administration criticized some time in the future for not making sufficient changes in interrogation policy in light of the mccain portion of the amendment. this statement clearly and in a formal way that would be hard to dispute later puts down a mark...

Highlight parts of the law the administration intended not to follow. importantly, we learned that judge gorsuch advocated for the bush administration to issue a broad signing statement. he said it could be used to, and i quote, help inoculate against the potential of having the administration criticized sometime in the future for not making sufficient changes in interrogation policy, in light of the mcclain portion of the amendment. this statement clearly, and in a formal way that would be hard...

The truth. judge gorsuchs e-mail shows a knowledge of the bush amendments position on torture. it also demonstrated he supported efrts toodify existing interrogation policies, such as water boarding and other extreme techniques. in our written questions i asked again about his views on enhanced interrogation techniques. i know something about them. the intelligence committee, while i was chairman, has in classified status over 7,000 pages with 37,000 footnotes that document this. i tried to unde...

Interrogation techniques that included waterboarding, stress positions, and sleep deprivation, as well as a host of other techniques which would and did result in death and serious debilitation of detainees. it was april 2004 when the public first learned about the prisoner abuse chronicled in the abu ghraib photos. then in june of 2004, information was leaked to the media that the department of justice had issued legal opinions that stated enhanced interrogation techniques were within the law, ...