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>> you know senator paul, you know the hugs that i remember? the hugs that i gave to the families who lost their families on september 11th. and those had nothing to do with politics unlike what youre doing by cutting speeches on the floor of the internet by pit e putting them on the internet in half an hour to raise money for your cam payable. pain. >> with iran, we would say we want him. we want our prisoners. were giving them $150 billion plus. they are going to be -- ill tell you what if ira...

Its also very expensive. we spend about $3 million per person there. we have about 115 people there. about half of those, or almost half of those have been cleared for release if we can find a suitable place to send them where they would be monitored or detained. >> super max prisons? >> the remainder would have to go to a super max prison. some can be sent to third countries and already have been cleared if we can find appropriate places to do that. the rest though are really problematic. some ...

Released and what they mean for this case against him right now. they seem pretty damning on their face. but then his defense attorney came out to say, well, hes just expressing his beliefs. hes not advocating violence in whats been released so far. >> what you are watching in that tape is a new era in federal law enforcement. it was only last year that the d.o.j. issued a memorandum and started videotaping interviews like this. until then, for decades, the format was two agents come in, one tak...

Terrorists. let me finish. we have lots of ways of fighting terrorists and maintaining a prison on this weird military base in cuba is not one of them. >> i dont think its that weird to isolate people that want to destroy this country. i will say this. he doesnt use that argument. he uses the argument if we have gitmo and if we use these enhanced interrogation techniques, i.e. torture somehow that will inflame intentions. i dont know if you can prove it to begin with. to say terrorists are pisse...

Talking about the hypocrisy of being against enhanced interrogation techniques but be willing to do drones which kill people to smith erevens you couldnt talk about hypocrisy last week. now all of a sudden we can. >> apples and oranges. >> no, its not. >> hypocrisy is hypocrisy. >> okay. if you want to put it under a rubric, fine. >> apples and apples. >> the fact of the matter is we do have countries we have relations with that are terrible human rights violators. >> china. >> china among the t...

That country. finally this months blockbuster report that revealed the cias use of enhanced interrogation techniques. joining me to look ahead to what the president will be addressing, kelly odonnell. the president has not ended this year quietly. what do you think the toughest round will be? >> i wont presume to know what the president thinks is the toughest ground from his vantage point, but its fair to say it will be challenging for him to address the sony hacking north korean example because...

United states doesnt torture. do we use legal enhanced interrogation techniques to get information about a tickling time bomb situation, yes, i think shes on the wring side of that. >> i think its the right-theres an argument that shes moved too far to the center, its a way to come back to the left. its a way to get elizabeth warren off the board. she got off on a candidacy that basically said im bills wife. so elect me again. where obama was talking about big change and all the rest of it. but ...

But last week when we were talking about the hypocrisy of being against enhanced interrogation techniques but be willing to do drones which kill people to smith erevens you couldnt talk about hypocrisy last week. now all of a sudden we can. >> apples and oranges. >> no, its not. >> hypocrisy is hypocrisy. >> okay. if you want to put it under a rubric, fine. >> apples and apples. >> the fact of the matter is we do have countries we have relations with that are terrible human rights violators. >> ...

Used to basically taunt them during the waterboarding, they knew they could only do 20 seconds. he knew it was time limited. im not saying it was a joy. but he offered a new perspective on how it actually went down. >> i was just reading an article, an interview with stanley mcchrystal, the general in both iraq and afghanistan who said that these enhanced interrogation techniques, he was allowed to use them, but he chose not to. were they convinced that this was the last resort? >> i think he sa...

Any future administration or in any future conflict. >> can that come back to haunt her? >> i think so. for example if youre being thoughtful and you read the op-ed this morning by mike mukasey, who was the former attorney general, who was asked to opine on the legal definitions of torture and enhanced interrogation techniques, very important to look at the subtleties of that, to look at what was legal, what was not. hillary clinton is walking into a place right now where once it was her husband...