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>> it was one of the most shameless incidents in american history. it was not just the cia. it was also the armed forces at guantanamo and our prison camps and bagram and in iraq, we radicalized a generation of jihadists. we shamed ourselves and violated international and domestic law and unlike earlier wars, you always have homicides and rains and terrible things from a tiny minority of american troops and combat, but in this case, those instructions came from the top down. that was secretary r...

Negative vote out of committee. and then you have the person who is going to replace him at the cia facing an even tougher confirmation process where someone told us she is going to have to be practically near perfect. you had these multiple distractions in multiple agencies and multiple fronts. but it should have been a triumphant week in this white house. lawmakers are looking into the enhanced interrogations techniques that many have likened to torture. that is something that bothers a certai...

Authorized techniques that were approved and determined to be lawful. they went outside of the bounds in terms of their actions as part of that interrogation process. and they were harsh, as i said in some instance i consider them abhorrent. and i will leave to others how they might want to label those activities. but for me it was something that is certainly regrettable but we are not a perfect institution. >> that was cia director john brennan in a rare live news conference earlier this week e...

Package when we make a decision about whether or not to sign it so well keep you posted on that. roberta? >> the bill contains significant rollbacks for dodd-frank reforms. im wondering what the white house makes of those rollbacks and whether the white house is worried that this is going to lead to wall street being more emboldened in terms of asking for rollbacks on these measures. >> roberta, i cant comment on some of the specific proposals. >> youve been listening to the white house press se...

Response or a nonpartisan response to come from the state department is a huge deal. when we spoke at the white house correspondents a few months ago he said we are going to have a slow start but were going to get the facts, we have to do this methodically a carefully. we will do this right. >> harris brings up the cia memo. the timing is trouble some because there is interrogations techniques that we used even though we stopped using them, but also lets telegraph the world our embassy may not b...

Interrogations techniques would not be used. we have been i think very aggressive in our enforcement of the civil rights laws. there have been a whole host of things that this administration has done, this justice department in particular that are consistent with what i think the president campaigned on and what we promised at the beginning of this administration. >> the practices changed during the last administration. the president signed the executive orders that effectively just continued wh...