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Report. but i think theres no doubt, you know, if you look at the tempo of things like a drone strike or other instruments that have had to be used, you know, each president has to make that determination, and certainly this president has made the determination that some of those things are more effective than say sending in 5,000 troops. >> so lets look at the cia director john brennans unprecedented news conference in response to that scathing report on interrogations. brennan said that intell...

Left before me. >> as you see -- >> once the enhanced interrogation techniques, once the torture started, they left. >> exactly. once they started seeing all the things happening, they disagreed. the enhanced interrogation techniques didnt start until the summer. but they were different interpretation of what they called standards interrogation techniques. and whats the level of the standard interdpagsz tech neegs. its like what i described to the senate with the music or the sleep deprivation a...

Mistakes again. >> torture is profoundly illegal. fighting an enemy trying to eliminate you using lethal weapons is obviously something thats been the conduct of war for centuries. but that doesnt mean there arent ethical questions here and the remove that a drone strike allows, the fact that you can kill from so far away, obviously raises moral and ethical implications, even if the result is the same. of you know, a kind of a mortar attack from a closer distance. so -- i think that these issues...

Deadline saturday going into sunday. the senate has to get this done. otherwise it has the potential for a shutdown. back to you guys. >> i dont think the american people benefit when you sign a bill thats over 1,700 pages long. >> nobody has read it. nobody has any idea whats in it. >> when are we going to stop doing that? >> 1,774 pages right to the last click of the clock. >> everybody is going to have something they dont like in it. you give a little, you get a little. not always my way or t...

I think we should vote them off the island. is it too late? >> you got a couple more years. we should do that one friday. >> vote them all off -- >> lets do an all no negative story. >> its only positive stories, good stories, feel-good stories. >> greg, we good? were good with that? >> he said yes. he said yes. we are going to go to a not so happy story. its right, our lead story. the first time ever the head of the cia hosted a live news conference to defend the agency from the scathing sena...

Whether or not the eits were the method that you had to use. and brennan is not actually answering that question. he says the answer is unknowable. but when you look at the records, you can see that plenty of information was gained prior to the use of the eits themselves from those detainees. >> lets listen to what he said about these interrogation techniques and whether or not they are torture. >> first of all, i certainly agree that there were times when cia officers exceeded the policy guidan...

The idea that somehow or another these techniques -- we knew about canary wharf and heathrow and on military bases abroad from people who were subjected to these techniques and provided useful information. >> you know, brennan doubled down on that. he said for someone to say there was no intelligence value that came from those detainees once subjected to those enhanced interrogation techniques lacks any foundation at all. he said again that he wishes they just asked someone who was actually ther...

A lot of people were with us and they were shocked. and as i testified, the only statement under it involved in the program, some of the people there, the cia left before me. >> as you see -- >> once the enhanced interrogation techniques, once the torture started, they left. >> exactly. once they started seeing all the things happening, they disagreed. the enhanced interrogation techniques didnt start until the summer. but they were different interpretation of what they called standards interrog...

Record that i read that were concerning and disturbing to me. >> now, they have called for him to resign. president obama has made strong statements against these practices. >> that is not who we are. thats not how we operate. >> the white house saying that torture under mines the morale authority and standing in the world. how does it not under mine the moral authority to do keep people on that were involved during that era. >> those individuals that are serving the president of the united stat...

The report was full of. i wont say that on a family friendly morning show. dick cheney said the report was full of this. seth myers says this. >> cheney attacked critics of the c.i.a.s interrogation techniques saying what are we supposed to do? kiss him on both cheeks and say, please, please, tell us what you know? though, to be fair, getting kissed by dick cheney is also banned by the geneva convention, its very clear. it is very clear. >> a tough week, a little humor doesnt hurt at all on a fr...