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Endorse the program. >> did detainees were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques provided information that was useful. print >> sean spicer emphasize o reporters that the draft order was not a white house document. >> james: former president george h.w. bush continues to make daily improvements. a spokesman says the 92-year-old mr. bush is taking his last round of antibiotics in preparation for a possible discharge this weekend from the houston hospital where the former president was ad...

Law. its a violation -- it would be a violation under the geneva convention. that is the case now and has been the case. it was the case when we were employing enhanced interrogation techniques under the bush administration. bush, 43rd. but they were using some semantics gymnastics to get around it saying water boarding is not torture. the president of the united states admitted that waterboarding, torture and enhanced interrogation are the same thing. he said it. the united states does not tort...

Absolutely convinced. >> but its something we know as candidate trump and now president trump brought up and doing our due diligence its germane to bring it up and talk about i want. >> we have gone too far in the last ten years letting the terrorists know what we do and how we do it and i think that is a mistake. now we will and have been in debates about what sort of interrogation techniques constitutes torture or not but as far as u.s. law is concerned its really clear, its cod fied and i hav...

Torture works. i dont think its tough enough. general mattis is a strong, highly dignified person. i said, what you think of waterboarding? give me a couple cigarettes and a couple beers i do better with that than torture. >> if you were ordered by the president to restart the cias use of enhanced interrogation techniques that fall outside of the manual, would you comply? >> absolutely not. >> i will rely on pompeo and mattis. and if they dont want to do it, its fine. i will work for that end. d...

David muir, and not understanding the history of waterboarding and torture, not just that its illegal and general mattis doesnt like it but there are a lot of reasons why him as the president of the united states talking about it that way endangers our troops abroad and gives propaganda to the bad guys. >> talk about the vocabulary here. >> right. >> george w. bush and vice president cheney would both argue that what was legal was never torture. >> enhanced interrogation techniques. >> the point...

Directors of cia have endorsed these techniques, whatever label one places on them. in fact, president trump over the past few days have been very critical of the outgoing cia director, john brennan, including him him of leaking, the nazi leadership in world war ii. what appeared to be one area where donald trump and john brennan find common ground. here is john brennan. >> it is our considered view that the detainees that were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques provided information ...

President has more or less abandoned this idea for now. but he still gets credit with certain segments for talking tough on the issue, while he defers to the seasoned counsel. is that your read? >> well, actually, theyve created a dust storm with a document that sean spicer is trying to wiggle around about the use of these enhanced interrogation techniques. he didnt just go to an interview and then say of course its illegal we wont be using it. in the end, lets give him benefit of the doubt. he ...

Heard from very high posts in his cabinet. its not a united message. do you have an issue with that? >> i do. i do. look, this has been from inauguration i think the president has done a lot of good things but has derailed his message off arguments about crowd sizes, this kind of thing. ive said on torture and i hope this is really where the president is ive only heard what you have seen, but i hope in extreme circumstances when we have thousands of americans lives and we know a bomb is going to...

This this idea of bringing back waterboarding and going back to the route before that went into law. he wasnt supportiive. >> those issues are law. congress has spoken. and when it comes to enhanced interrogation techniques, my understanding is i havent seen the new executive action or whats being proposed but my understanding is theyre going to look at, examine some of those issues. with respect to torture, thats banned. the army field manual makes that very clear. the law now is tied to the ar...

Three senate republican whether he supports this idea of bringing back water boarding and going back to the route before that limitation went into law. he wasnt so supportive. take a listen. >> those issues are set in law. congress has spoken, and when it comes to enhanced interrogation techniques and that sort of thing, my understand is, i havent seen the new executive action or whats being proposed, but my understanding is theyre going to look at, examine some of those issues. but with respect...