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Government-sanctioned torture. >> by giving us information about terrorist plans we could not get anywhere else. this program saved innocent lives. >> we dont torture people. let me say that again. we dont torture people. i know this program saved lives. i know weve disrupted plots. >> enhanced interrogation techniques were absolutely essential in saving thousands of american lives in preventing further attacks against the united states and giving intelligence that we needed to find al qaeda, to...

Network. that was true before obamacare and after obamacare. theres nothing in obamacare that mandates an insurance company make any change in doctors. thats a decision for insurance companies because obamacare is built on the private insurance system. >> can you rule out the idea that the president doesnt delay the individual mandate? >> yes, i can. >> you can? >> that will not happen happen. >>. >> that will not happen. >> theres so many changes the administration made. i wonder if you worry a...

Network. that was true before obamacare and after obamacare. theres nothing in obamacare that mandates an insurance company make any change in doctors. thats a decision for insurance companies because obamacare is built on the private insurance system. >> can you rule out the idea that the president doesnt delay the individual mandate? >> yes, i can. >> you can? >> that will not happen happen. >>. >> that will not happen. >> theres so many changes the administration made. i wonder if you worry a...

How large pieces of legislation are implemented. this is how its done with medicare, how it was done with prescription drug benefits passed under president bush is to find ways to implement it in a way best for everyone. if that includes giving people some additional transition time like we have done for businesses, thats what well do. its consistent with how laws are implemented. >> let me ask you about the debate now between the senate and the cia over past interrogation techniques. but theres...

You want to tick congress off? spy on them. democrat dianne feinstein is on a war path and darrell issa saying if its true, its treason. theyre on the same page and thats how serious this is how far up the chain of command this goes? thats equivalent to pigs flying here, thats how out of control it is. >> the t word is bad. you have to say this is certainly ugly. its certainly a messy fight between the senate and the cia. i would not use the word treason in this. what we have is the kind of figh...

Thats adversarial, particularly when its a controversial activity. you have a controversial activity of the tension and interrogation techniques. >> so lets back up. there has been an ongoing senate investigation into enhanced interrogation techniques, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. what went on during the bush administration? it has been the belief of republicans, it has been so one-sided and so skewed and so slanted that theyve just walked away from it. this is the intelligence committee bel...

>> this started a long time ago with dianne feinstein who was all in after september 11th with the cia and do whatever you need to do and she was one of these people briefed early on about waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques and she supported it until, well, until it was revealed in 2005 and then suddenly she was shocked, shocked, shocked. so theres a long history between the cia, who felt rightly betrayed by dianne feinstein for basically turning and running after supporting eve...

>> a major split -- >> explosive charges. >> -- between the cia director and senior senate democrats. >> did the intelligence agency actually spy on a congressional investigation? >> these are very serious allegations. >> senator dianne feinstein called those acts unconstitutional -- >> for the cia to be accessing a senate computer is completely unacceptable. >> getting awfully close to see senators call for brennan to step down. >> this is a relationship that has to be good for the agency and d...

The president and i will explain to him what i did and what the findings were. and he is the one who can ask me to stay or to go. >> heres the bottom line on this. there are a lot of senate democrats that simply dont trust brennan, and they think somehow his interests in this current investigation, about those bush interrogation techniques, and their fighting over what should be in the actual report itself, is somehow an attempt by brennan to whitewash. what is he whitewashing? the cias role? hi...

People saying we were just following orders. it doesnt stack up in international crimes courts and certainly not in the law of war as lawyers like to put it. so i was trying to ask him as someone who communicates and a politician and someone who has to speak to regular people and as someone who believed he was a moral person at his heart, what torture meant, he knew in answering that question there would be legal problems for each and every person who followed his own administrations orders. >> ...