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We have not seen this since im covering and doing this. >> yeah, look. a lot of hearings especially surrounding the issue of torture and enhanced interrogation techniques. you have seen code pink try to get in to the hearings and be excourted out. five is a lot. you know? there are serious questions to be asked and thats what senator feinstein is getting at to try to ask the questions. now, theyre not -- they say they wont let them back in and then proposal resume the hearing id assume in a few ...

You see there, senator mark werner a democrat from virginia about to introduce john brennan. there are many hot topics that theyll face this morning, everything from drones to benghazi to enhanced interrogation techniques, he has a lot to answer to. we will see what the senators ask him. lets listen in. >> raise your right hand and ill administer the oath. i, john brennan, do solemnly swear that i will give this committee the truth, the full truth and nothing, but the truth so help me god. thank...

That agency and as the presidents top counterterrorism advisor these past four years, hes done extraordinary work in the effort to combat al-qaeda. >> steve: okay. so perhaps that, the fact that mr. brennan will sit in the chair later today is the reason the white house has released it. now theyre going to be able to look with their own two eyes, the congressmen and senators will be able to look and figure out what gives the president the authority. remember, we read in one of those books, the p...

Unless police clear his name and as charlie beck just said a short time ago, ali, police are not about to clear this mans name. >> alisyn: we heard that. and thanks for the update. obviously well check back with you. the minute this news conference begins in riverside well bring you the new and latest information on the search for this man, an accused cop killer with a chip on his shoulder. plus, well have the details on that lawsuit that could change a lot of workplace rules as one group demand...

Even when no threat of attack is immediately present. that doesnt make sense. the target must have recently been involved in activities. they dont define recently, dont define activities, sounds like they can pick and choose, you know, judge, jury, executioner here. am i reading too much into that? is that too much power? >> i think youre ready exactly wys, its very, very clear and i think the last point you just made is the point that all americans should be concerned about. this gives the pres...

Course can authorize that, but it has to be passed down in a very accurate manner, and there has to be a protocol, which is more exact, even more the interrogation techniques, because that has been put to bed just a bit and its beginning to get straightened out. butch the drones are going to grow, and more and more of that warfare just us but people in other countries. so the protocol of that, in so far as today refer to a particular agency going to have to be exact and directed, and of particul...

Werent allowed to do that. staff were a part of nothing. you have to understand that youre surrounded by people who work with you and fill you in. people who are experts. we are, too. but they got to be part of this. they got to be part of when the olc is -- it should come to them, also. i strongly support the chairwomans view on that. now, in the enhanced interrogation techniques matter, a handful of former senior cia officials who were personally invested and are personally invested in defendi...

Just concern that the president, whos made a big part of his brand and a big part of his campaign promising on being transparent, that hes not living up to that, and that is something that the white house is extraordinarily sensitive to and even reactive to the fact that theyre being criticized for not being transparent, and this was a pretty good example of them really holding back on a lot of pretty significant, serious information, and even going back to 2009 when the president decided to rel...

Administration techniques? >> i think proof is tough to say. he is saying he pushed back. the president is month -- is fonder of no one more than john brennan, so the president is putting his own credibility on the line with john brennan, and its something thats supposed to be a badge of, you know, why we should trust this man, but it is tough for some democrats. i know senator mark udall and others have been days pointed in john brennans lack of attentiveness to some of their concerns on these ...

Could be used. i cant point to a single legal document on this issue. as far as im concerned waterboarding is something that never should have been employed and as far as im concerned never will be if i have anything to do with it. >> a waterboarding banned by the geneva conventions. >> i believe the attorney general also has said that its contrary and in contravention of the geneva convention. im not a lawyer or legal scholar. >> mr. rodriguez, the former cia deputy director for operations was ...