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Does it work? does torture work? and if answer was yes, absolutely. i want to do everything within the bound of what youre allowed to do legally, but do i feel it works? absolutely. >> elise lavin, obviously a very significant statement. president trump opening the door on an issue that frankly had been resolved which is the fact that the u.s. as of tonight no longer water boards. >> absolutely. there was legislation passed in 2015 which limits u.s. officials to the interrogation techniques that...

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. do i think it works? absolutely. >> you saw how...

Figure -- >> should he have been surprised at all that it was met by silence by leaders in congress? >> i dont think its any surprise. ryan puerto ri reince priebus and trying to enough president trump past this subject. but when trump laches ontches o something, its hard for his advisors to get him to let it go. >> were talking about the republican leadership here. now theyre dealing with a lot as they meet in philadelphia. theyre waiting for the president to arrive and speak to him. theyve bee...

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Those enhanced interrogation techniques that were used nobody said that toes enhanced interrogation techniques from torture. the controversy was over the justice department kind of bending over backwards as know very well to try to say these techniques were not torture. so the way that the president is approaching this is pretty unprecedented. frank lights been the issue that has probably put the congressional leaders most on the spot over the last couple of days. they have essentially said look...

Harsh interrogation techniques. everyone ive talked to today has said we dont think its necessary. brian, we havent engaged in waterboarding since 2004. we havent had detainees in black sites since 2006 since president bush, not president obama, president bush emptied those black sites. weve been able to protect our country for a decade out those black sites and without harsh interrogation techniques precisely because weve had well-resourced, well-planned, sophisticated counterterrorism plans. t...

Jeremy, that is a ricochet right there. thats how something uttered here becomes news around the globe. and it bangs up against national policy. >> absolutely. and we have these critical allies, we call them our five is partners, canada, new zealand, australia, and the united kingdom. they are our closest partners and they want nothing to do with harsh interrogation techniques. as i talk to intelligence professionals, they think this is totally unnecessary. torture is, first and foremost, illega...

He made headlines on this. >> reporter: that is just a fascinating exchange, david, because general mattis, now secretary mattis is saying, absolutely not. waterboarding doesnt work. its counterproductive, and he said he will take that advice now. but there you heard how firmly he believes in the other direction and how he says he has talked to people, high level intelligence people who disagree with his now secretary of defense. i am told, though, david, there is nothing under consideration rig...

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 that was useful and was used in the ultimate operation to go aga...