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International community followed us. these are questions i think as a senator i have a responsibility to get answers before making a decision to support the confirmation or not. >> i want to move to john brennan. there were no protests of chuck hagel but with john brennan, and we have not seen a ton of headlines regarding that opposition. i want to play what republican senator bob corker said in the past hour about what he anticipates will be some pushback of republicans and especially from libe...

Pentagon and for all our citizens. and, mr. president, ill always give you my honest and most informed counsel. so with the main controversy swirling around hagel and his record on issues like iran and israel, he chose unusually to defend himself in an interview with his hometown newspaper the lincoln star journal. he told the paper "the distortions about my record have been astounding." he added, "theres not one shred of evidence that im anti-israel." >> john brennan spent 25 years in the cia...

Interrogation techniques. it is clear the president is not concerned about that nominating process at this point. for the past four years john brennan has served as the presidents top counterterrorism advisor at the white house. he will face questions about the administrations expanded drone assassination program. brennan has been the, at the forefront of that program. he was the first to come out in and publicly acknowledge it back in april of last year. brennan has been notably absent of any p...

He will likely have the votes, jon. and it may be a bumpy ride to get there, but hell likely get there. and how much political capitol it takes to get there is really the question on both of these nominations. at the end of the day, the presidents usually get who they want to have in their cab tphefplt its cabinet. its a rare event when they dont. it does happen up here in washington but for the most part they can usually get the votes. jon: even more rare when a nominee is a former senator. how...

Headlines for the day a nomination battle is looming in washington. president obama getting set to unveil the rest of his new national security team. the white house saying the president will nominate former republican senator chuck hagel to be his next defense secretary and john brennan to run the cia, both considered somewhat controversial picks and will face a sufficient confirmation process. what challenges will the new national security team face. general jack keane ace former four-star gen...

At the same time who will be comfortable standing up to the generals as he works to shrink the defense department and complete the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. the brennan nomination, he has been the chief architect and public defender in the expanded use of drones. with 55 senators in the democratic caucus, the drone policy may get some attention during his confirmation hearing. back in 2008, the president wanted him for the cia spot at the time, but brennan ended up withdrawing his name u...

Now some lawmakers are upset over the film showing waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques deemed by many to be torture as one of the factors that help lead to usama bin ladens compound in pakistan. michael more relevant told agency employees last month that such techniques were not the key to finding bin laden that the film created a false impression in that regard. yet more relevant also told employees that such techniques did help uncover, quote, some of the intelligence that was ...

May be ready to change the story on doping charges. and quoting sources for the champion, but an attorney says his client is not considering is confession. >> new questions for some powerful members for the cia. concerned how the hunt for osama bin laden is depicted in a brand new hollywood movie called "zero dark thirty," they want to know what the cia told film makers after it was suggested that torture was used to track down the most wanted terrorist and a letter reads in part, what informati...

To kill bin laden. david, here is the interesting thing. the insiders cant agree. three people with access to classified information about the interrogation program have come to very different conclusions about its effectiveness. i want to share this with you. for example, today in "the washington post," jose rodriguez, the former director of the national clandestine service, wrote, i was intimately involved in setting up and administering the cias enhanced interrogation program. i left the agen...

Enhanced interrogation techniques were the key to finding bin laden. that impression is false. but then he added, some intel came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques, but there were many other sources as well. while nobody disputes there were many sources tapped in the ten-year hunt for bin laden, the senators say a recently concluded and still classified investigation by the senate intelligence committee found that aggressive tactics such as waterboarding played no role at all in fi...