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Manchin and dianne feinstein today. arriving today ahead of her wednesday hearing for confirmation. we are talking about what she will be asked about and the criticism from the left. that they cant support her, they are saying. some democrats dont like her history in interrogations. lets talk about this. lisa boothe is here. and brad gerstman is here, democratic strategist and attorney. i was explaining to the audience, lisa, we talked about this last hour. part of her confirmation will be on he...

Shes expected to face tough questions. she is expected to tell senators that she would resist any effort by political leaders to order the cia to ever again engage in brutal interrogations. she is a highly qualified nominee who has dead katded over three decades of service to her country adding her nomination will not be derailed. so leets talk a little bit about this. joining us from washington, the coauthor of the political play book. >> so president trump has will the troubled nomination head...

The director of the cia has a conflict of interest here, because theyre in effect in charge typically of declassification. so on friday, i and a number of my colleagues wrote the director of national intelligence asking him to declassify this matter that gina haspels cia wont get into. >> senator ron wyden, thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> our pleasure. joining me now is ned price, former national security counsel spokesperson, and nbc national security analyst. ned, youve w...

Her nomination over concerns that reopening the debate about brutal interrogations could damage the spy agency that shes been part of for three decades. last-minute visits to langley by top white house officials and a call from the president persuaded her to hang in. but it could backfire. press secretary sarah sanders tweeting a veiled threat at senator feinstein, who commissioned that explosive torture report on interrogation practi practices. sanders tweeting -- >> joining me now is democr...

Not sure theres some grand strategy in what hes saying, i think hes just scared. and you know, this is also a good message that from the movies, we think of interrogations as like people yelling at you, bearing down on you. the way you do a good interrogation is with preparation. is with having documents. having e-mails. having phone records that you can put in front of a witness so that they cant wiggle out of things. thats what muellers been doing. its the preparation, not the threats that are...

Than we wall our own soldiers. there were specifically things that were put in place by the cia to ensure that the kind of had damage that he is alleging couldnt have occurred. let me just kind of go through it. there was a special collar that was wrapped around his neck to specifically prevent his head from hitting the wall and to stop whiplash. in addition to that, he was evaluated by physicians when he arrived at the site before the interrogations, during the interrogations. immediately after...

Many others around the country including dismembering daniel pearl just because he was jewis jewish, we see better medical care than our veterans with less wait time, by the way, and better medical care than the average american. i just dont buy this idea that he is suffering from some kind of brain damage. >> martha: as you point out, you all painstakingly documented and took measures to make sure this didnt happen to him. >> i dont know if they did mris. but the point is that they had physicia...

Are fighting to save his life and im sure youre right that they are just trying to sort of pepper the ground and humanize him in some way, but you make it very clear -- you say that if theres any brain damage in his brain, it didnt come from anything that you folks did. >> what we have to keep in mind is that he was a jihadist who fought in battles for years before he was detained by the cia. his interrogations took place in two months, march and april of 2003. its been 15 years. we have no idea...

Side programs saying that collegiate mohammed was water boarded 183 times and subjected to walling where his head was bashed against walls between interrogations. the lawyers also fully acknowledge that the mri scans were badly flawed in that 75% or more of the data was unusable. defense lawyers want the pentagon to pay for another, more complete series of mris. the pentagon has refused saying the lease on the portable mri machine at guantanamo expired. the machine was originally brought into th...

Vociferously starting in 2019. and they have every constitutional and legal right to do so. trumps own justice department does not have the right to in any sense compel him to be interrogated by his own underling, mueller. mueller works for the president. that is just the reality of the legal situation. >> do you look at these questions, do you look at these question as interrogations. they were written by supposedly trumps own team. >> i do. the american people people knew these allegations. i ...