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Good morning. im reena ninan. >> im t.j. holmes. here are some of the top headlines were following on "world news now." the house has narrowly passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill which funds nearly the entire federal government through next september. the measure now moves to the senate. full details straight ahead. in the cias first ever live television news conference, they are defending harsh interrogation techniques and say though days after 9/11 required stern measures. uva exclusive. ...

Senate who pays the bill and his workforce who does the work and he was struggling trying not to annoy any of them and i think he succeeded with the exception of senator feinstein perhaps. he had a very difficult road to hoe there and i think he did a fine job in doing that but he had to be very careful he didnt go too far or he would annoy some of the other constituents. >> hes the cia director now and before that he was an adviser to the president for counterterrorism. he was the number four a...

Made and quickly spread. the roof collapsed, the owner vows to rebuild. martha: ed henry asking white house press secretary josh earnest to explain the difference between the bush era interrogation techniques and the obama administration drone strikes program. >> . lane how the president believes it is un-american to use these techniques, but it was okay to ramp up the drone policies and basically thousands of innocent civilians killed, what is the moral equivalency there? >> there is an event c...

Interrogation techniques. >> i think its a terrible piece of work, basically. it seems to me its deeply flawed. they didnt bother to interview key people involved in the program. and i think that its sort of a classic example which you see too often in washington where a group of politicians get together and sort of throw the professionals under the bus. he is in our possession. we know hes the architect. and what are we supposed to do, kiss him on both cheeks and say, please, please, tell us wh...

Tried to advance on the compound, captured the killed the american photojournalist and also south african teacher pierre korkie. foreign relations committee is divided whether an issue should be passed on to a full congressional vote, that move is being pushed by senator rand paul who wants to place limits on the obama white house. he says to prevent the open-ended war we saw in iraq. paul believes obama overstepped his authority by launching a war against isis without the consent of congress....

>> both men say the c.i.a. is right in asserting that harsh interrogation techniques like those shown in the film "zero dark 30" prevented attacks and saved lives. but on the crucial question, the white house takes no position. >> its impossible to know the accounts are factual. its impossible to know whether or not this information could have been obtained using tactics that are consistent with the army field manual or other law enforcement techniques. >> the c.i.a. is lying. >> colorado democr...

They were heatedly debated. it was strongly felt by many in the agency the information obtained under duress from enhanced interrogation from torture was spurious, couldnt be relied on and in fact, all those were formerly recalled. thats a big deal in the intelligence community. you want to expunge it from the record as unreliable. thats what the record is the case. >> gary, its interesting. all along, there was testimony from cia officials, public testimonies saying, look. the folks doing these...

Situation. >> the nuance is, what brennan says, yes, the u.s. got very valuable information from these detainee who is had been waterboarded or had gone through some of these enhanced interrogation techniques. but they dont know if that information was a result of that so-called torture or if that information was received because some interrogator was playing nice with them and using other techniques which were not physical. >> go to the cia study and it will talk about detainee who provided lim...

Most closely. if you dont interview those, its not a complete picture. >> gary, i want to ask you about khalid sheikh mohammed. there are other reports that say that the enhanced interrogation techniques or torture as some people call them actually only produces faulty and fabricated information. so here is what the report says about khalid sheikh mohammed. it says that the interrogators first began threatening ksms children. on march 9th, 2003, ksm fabricated information, indicating that jaf ar...

Keeping back explicit plans about another attack. we know there were formal second waves of attacks sent to launch. this is the best way they thought to do it. it wasnt what they wanted to do in terms of exacting revenge. meanwhile, jose rodriguez last night was on with megyn kelly. >> thats right. you mentioned the interrogation techniques that were used and its also worth everyone going back and reading the "wall street journal" op ed by those c.i.a. officials that were not brought in to quest...