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To protect america. do they have to turn around and look back and wonder if the united states is going to be with them? >> the big headlines from the senate report are that the c.i.a. interrogation was more brutal than the agency let on and wasnt subject to proper oversight, so the number of detainees subjected to enhanced techniques was underreported and the white house and congress werent told if these harsh methods were even working. >> its really about american values and morals. these value...

Because shes been on this for years. this does feed into party orthodoxy about the evils of the cia and all the rest of it, but its very hard to explain dianne feinsteins behavior here. i find it striking. look, the thing about this fight, this will renew the debate over enhanced interrogation techniques, but that debate ended years ago. one side won and it was her side. in my view, this is reopening an old wound and a debate long ago settled in favor of discontinuing the practices that she now ...

Devised this list of techniques, waterboarding, sleep deprivation among a bunch of other things that are equally as horrifying. did he when you talked with him, even though he would not confirm or deny reports that he was that man, did he defend these methods? >> yeah, michaela, he did seem to defend these interrogation techniques. he said "nothing was done to those detainees that arent done to our servicemen and women by our own training programs. i think its a national discussion. the administ...

Were for creating more innovation and competition. were for net neutrality protection. now, heres some news you may find even more surprising. were comcast. the only isp legally bound by full net neutrality rules. you are watching cnn. i want to talk more about this senate torture report. we talked about this during our breaking coverage for two hours yesterday. it says george w. bush wasnt briefed on these enhanced interrogation techniques until four years after they started. were talking mid...

Didnt he open the door to the courier which led us to bin laden, is that true, sir? >> actually, the initial information came from a facilitator called hassan ghoul going back to 2002 and 2003, he actually told us about the courier. thats when we first heard about the courier. al-libi told us that he knew about the appointment to become the chief of operations through the courier and then ksm, of course, we intercepted a message that he sent to his fellow prisoners in which he says do not say a ...

And he says the justice department has already been down that road. >> the conclusion i think we ultimately reach is because of the passage of time, and also because of the legal opinions that came from the justice department with regard to these enhanced interrogation techniques, that you could not make prosecutable cases. we took this very seriously. we took this extremely seriously. >> for more on the administrations reaction, we go to nbc news senior white house correspondent chris jansing. ...

Individual whos were instrumental in running this program. what is your thought. >> john brennan has the full confidence of president obama. one of the first steps the president took was to end enhanced interrogation techniques. he thinks they dont reflect the values of bwho we are as a country and he insisted they stop. >> i know the white house is very involved in the senate torture report theres an overwhelming amount of question, do you think given the debate between the intelligence agency ...

>> well get to it. we have three hours. general michael hayden, thank you very much. we have shown some already. we really appreciate your coming on and taking all these questions, given in some ways that are very central to this. good to see you, sir, hope to see you soon. coming up, there is so much more as pike am hayden said about the cia interrogation reports to dissect, including the official who ruled on the legality of interrogation techniques. ahead, one staffer said jonathan grubers ar...

Good evening, everyone. im erin burnett. we begin "outfront" with the breaking news. the fbi and homeland security warning local law enforcement on guard for extremists reacting to an explosive report on the cias use of torture. that report issued today. charges of the agencys enhanced interrogation techniques, that is what they call it, enhanced interrogation techniques, were more brutal than were previously stated and didnt work. they say in the report they didnt get any actionable intelligenc...

The action he did and when you see the details whof what has bn released i think people will understand thats not what we should do as america. theres other things we can do to keep our self safe besides those enhanced interrogation techniques. >> i would be remiss if i didnt mention today was internation human rights day. we have talked about our own internal record. set ago side torture if. can we expect the president will speak more about race, that is part of systemic failure in american soc...