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Morally objectionable, even if there is an olc opinion, what will you do? >> my moral compass is strong. i wouldnt allow c.i.a. to undertake activities that i thought was immoral even if it was technically level. >> do you believe the previous techniques armed with hindsight. were wrong? >> i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to. >> sandra: senate democrats getting tough with c.i.a. director nominee gina haspel over her role in enhanced interrogations following ...

Capitol hill shepherding this nomination is that john mccain statement and how much that may influence some people who look to john mccain on this particular issue as being a leader and well have to do the head counting on that. yesterdays hearing largely seen as a success for her but i dont know if she moved some of those no votes to yes. >> sandra: were getting word dianne feinstein said she is a no, bret. >> not a surprise. she had a real problem with especially the destruction of those tapes...

Its not something that we are going to do, its not something we are going to restart at any time, its not something shes going to support as the cia director. she knows how to get the right answers from the people to get the information from the men and women in the field that we need as a nation to have the kind of national security that all of us want. we want to be safe and secure at home in america. shes the right person to provide that security for us. >> i also thought it was interesting w...

Speaker mr. rodriguez, the deputy director for operations, made it clear that he and he alone made the decision to destroy the tapes. >> haspel said multiple reviews found there was no legal requirement to get the videos because of the interrogations were transcribed and cia cables that are official record. some democrats were not satisfied. figure do you think that a transcript that says the detainee continued to scream or the detainee appeared to be drowning has the same gravity, the same real...

And it turned out to be the beginning of a week, one week of really intense pressure on the cia on that issue. i mean, there is that jaw-dropping revelation theyve been running a network of secret prisons. the senate that week took up a proposal to create a commission like the 9/11 commission to look at what the cia had been doing to people in these prisons. that same week the judge in the case of an accused conspirator for 9/11 ordered the cia to turn over any videotapes or audio tapes of their...

And the judge ordered the cia to hand over any tapes, and congress started sniffing around say thanksgiving were going to form a commission on this subject, that week jose rodriguez turned to his own deputy, gina haspel, who had once run to his own deputy, who had one run a secret prison and told her to write a cable to destroy the tapes. they had asked for years and been told no. justice department later appointed a federal prosecutor to investigate the destruction of the tape specifically. he ...

Destination? a prison now run by the cia. nbc news decided not to reveal the location of this so-called black site because of government concerns that terrorists might retaliate. but as first reported in "the washington post" and confirmed by nbc news, the cia has been interrogating scores of al qaeda suspects in two european companies at this base near kabul, and even at one point in thailand, all with little oversight. >> november 2nd, 2005. and it turned out to be the beginning of a week, one...

Controversial things, she was following orders. listen to gina haspel, if the president of the united states, if you are confirmed and president trump calls you and says torture a terrorist, go back to those old tactics, would you do it? >> senator, i would advise -- i do not believe the president would ask me to do that. i would be -- advise anyone who asked me about it that cia is not the right place to conduct interrogations. we dont have interrogators. i would not restart under any circumsta...

Repeatedly, refused to answer that question to say do you believe its immoral? thats a real omission on her part. >> since we left the hearing, gina haspel has just said on capitol hill, shes ending a public hearing and now going into a classified hearing. she did just say torture does not work. is the information you get when you water board terrorists and do other tactics as they call it, torture, is it -- you see her right there hugging some friends and colleagues. shell have to answer more q...

Leadership, on my watch, cia will not restart a detention and interrogation program. cia has learned some tough lessons from that experience. we were asked to tackle a mission that fell outside our expertise. for me, there is no better example of implementing lessons learned than what the agency took away from that program. in retrospect, it is clear as the majority report concluded, that cia was not prepared to conduct a detention and interrogation program. today, the u.s. government has a clea...