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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 admitted almost two weeks ago for breathing difficultie...

It goes on from there. is it true? >> if its true, i would have added "and he loves every minute of it. "hes going to bypass the media media. hes going to make announcements that used to be made with great fanfare at 2:00 in the morning to see whos listening. >> james: will be back in a moment. will president trump bring back the kinds of harsh interrogation techniques that critics call torture. cefully stimulating the nerves in your colon. miralax is different. it works with the water in your b...

Mexico wasnt willing to pay for the wall then maybe he shouldnt show up. and in philadelphia, british prime minister theresa may is ready to speak there soon. may spoke out adamantly about illegal interrogation techniques just before she left. >> we have a very clear position with torture. we do not sanction torture. that is our position. >> george mitchell who served as a special enjoy for middle east peace understand president obama. senator, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having m...

Mattis and the group. if they dont want to do it, that is fine. if they do want to do it, then, i will work toward that end. i want to do everything within the bounds of what we are allowed to do legally. but do i feel it works? absolutely come i feel it works. >> martha: "the new york times" published a draft document, 1 of thousands that were written by various individuals, to get these policies at the trump administrn might want to pursue in executive orders. >> it is not a white house docume...

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, illegal. second of all, on the issue of whether, quote unquote, it works, it may work in eliciting some information, you dont know how reliable...

Ryan and mitch mcconnell have said torture is illegal. so the question is what is torture? we kind of defined it as the using physical pressure to get information. its ineffective to take out an entire terrorist network. the idea that torture is never useful, if someone is hitting you with a lead pipe to give you your atm number, you probably will give that up. but when youre talking about a larger segment of knowledge, rapport building is much more useful in the long run. >> can you talk about ...

When it came to harsh interrogation techniques. his defense secretary does not believe those methods work and mike pompeo said he would not follow orders for torture. it is a violation of international law. >> jim acosta, thanks very much. now to the presidents new call for a major voter fraud investigation. unrelenting focus on baseless allegations raising many questions tonight. lets bring in pamela brown. any sense on how this major investigation will unfold? >> we are still waiting on word f...

Some documents around drones. but what i think is important to underscore is we used foia even in the bush years, some of the most important litigation we did was foia litigation. we requested all of the documents relating to the torture, the authorization and use of torture and enhanced interrogation techniques, and we extracted 150,000 pages of u.s. government documents on the use of torture, given to us during the bush administration. foia officers are often civil servants. theyre folks who a...

Number of orders right off the bat. >> right off the bat. >> basically toward government freedom of information act requests and toward openness, trying to establish that the federal government under president obama would be more open to requests like that. did the obama administration actually follow through on that promise, and could the trump administration clamp down on what they release in response to a request like yours? >> yeah. well, foia is a long-established process. it is 50 years we...

A request like yours? >> yeah. well, foia is a long-established process. it is 50 years weve had this law, and different presidents have played harder or softball on foia. president obama was pretty good, not great on some things. he fought us tooth and nail on some documents around drones. but what i think is important to underscore is we used foia even in the bush years, some of the most important litigation we did was foia litigation. we requested all of the documents relating to the torture,...