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>> good morning. im reena ninan. >> im t.j. holmes. glad you could spend some time with us. we begin with the controversial new report on cia torture being released in hours. former vice president dick cheney is among those defending the cia saying harsh interrogation techniques were absolutely, totally justified. >> cheney accused senate democrats who insisted the report be released for trying to rewrite history. abcs martha raddatz has more. >> reporter: despite the risk, the white house suppo...

Protesters. im wolf blitzer here in washington and 9:00 p.m. in kuwait city and 2:00 a.m. in manila. thank you very much for joining us. a brand-new report on torture reports for the cia. one question examined the senate intelligence committee report, did the so-called enhance interrogation techniques help find osama bin laden. in an interview with our own candy crowley, the president strongly deefended the cia. >> were fortunate to have men and women serving on our behalf. these are patriots ...

Koran and let them play socker? >> they used valid interrogation techniques that was able to get us actionable intelligence. thats the part i dont understand. bob, what would you like to say? >> i think that a lot of this information has been out and made public already and so its not going to become a lot of news here. i dont blame them for saying, be careful when this comes out, although i think thats a state of readiness that already exists. allies theyre talking about are countries like saud...

Legalistic, specific term which he accepts -- the people who implemented this policy say it was enhanced interrogation techniques. they declined to say it was torture. >> regardless of what you want to call it or anyone wants to call it, this administration banned the use of these techniques, closed this program because we believe it is not in line with american values. regard less of what you want to call it, thats what were focused on as an administration. we dont do this anymore. >> stand by,...

Report will put americans in danger and asked her to delay its release. those concerns were echoed by mike rogers, outgoing share of the intelligence committee. >> i think this is a terrible idea. our foreign partners are telling us this will cause violence and deaths. our foreign leaders approached the government and said do you this, this will cause violence and deaths. our own intelligence community has assessed this will call violence and deaths. think of the cartoons in denmark and how many...

>> president obama said today he does not believe that harsh interrogation techniques made americans safer. over whether those tactics produced actionable intelligence. >> the use of these tactics were not worth it because of -- >> reporter: the senate report expected to be released tuesday, u.s. embassies around the world are on alert, as top republicans warn with isis already raging through syria and iraq, now is hardly the right time to putmore americans at risk. >> our foreign leaders are sa...

What information did we get with respect to detention and enhanced interrogation techniques. i think you will find the detention works. the interrogation didnt. what that means is for the future, we know what works and what doesnt. thats whats important. >> does it concern you that many say backgrounds or off the record to the media and you as well, listen, im not a sadist. i dont want to hurt people. this works, what we do, thats why we do it. does that discourage you in terms of wanting to exp...

>> reporter: good morning. you got a lot of folks on pins and needles. first of all, the intelligence community here at home and also you have the foreign governments who may have provided assistance to the united states. this is all part of a report deviling into the c.i.a.s interrogation techniques, things like sleep deprivation and water boarding which some say amounts to torture. this is being done at the behest of diane feinstein who shares the intelligence committee. she says we need a tho...

Ago basically said president obama does not believe these tactics were justified under any scenario. listen. >> what the president has been clear about is that he does not believe that the use of these enhanced interrogation techniques is justified. he does not believe that makes us safer. he does not believe thats in the core national security interest. >> reporter: when i pressed josh earnest, he said that president obama agrees with president bush that the vast majority of intelligence offici...

Alert them that foreign leaders were concerned about violence should the report be released this week. he suggested delaying it at least a week. they are fighting to release it as early as tomorrow. >> andrea, what do you imagine is in it or what have you been told that is in incendiary at this point? >> first of all, theyre going to describe practices that took place for approximately three years. those enhanced interrogation techniques. thats been referred to as torture. theyll describe not on...