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With more on todays meeting, nbc news foreign correspondent lucy cavanaugh. lucy, good morning. >> reporter: alex, good morning. its definitely going to be an interesting one to watch. big differences emerge between the prime minister and president trump on a number of issues, russia one of them. torture and the importance of international organizations like the u.n. and nato. but theresa may needs a trade deal from the united states. so publicly shes glossing over the differences and said yeste...

Pompeo. just to be clear, it is illegal under a 2015 law, to use water boarding in interrogations. pompeo told congress in writing, he would consider bringing back so-called enhanced interrogation measures under certain circumstances. general mattis has said he wants to use the army field manual, in other words no water boarding. republicans heard about the water boarding and manu raju has the latest. what do they have to say about the comments from the president? >> well, theyre not supportive,...

The inspector general says it is not the american psychological institute says it is not. the national council of churches says its not. i say its not. >> on top of apparently this report that the trump is reconsidering the black sites overseas where said brutal interrogations of these terrorism suspects were carried out in the early 2000, other reports, that the cia director and mike pompeo were blindsided by this. what really happens at these black sites? >> under the bush separation terrible ...

Words as they happen given the context of this conversation. alex, do we have it? >> i talked about this yesterday. the language actually does matter. torture is illegal. >> also definitions because waterboarding is defined and has been in the geneva conventions for years. >> i understand that. again, so was it torture? was it waterboarding? is it enhanced interrogations? lets roll it and then we will talk about this on the other side, andrew. >> i have spoken to others in intelligence and they ...

Presidents own nominees and allies in congress. here is chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. >> cia director mike pompeo and defense secretary james mattis were not part of the initial conversations for the draft order. it calls for a review to evaluate resuming enhanced interrogation programs. in the interview, president trump said the tactics are effective. >> i have spoken as recently as 24 hours ago with people at the highest level of intelligence and i asked them the questio...

Be asked to go down this road again after all these years. >> so there was a draft that circulated, shawn spicer said it was not a white house document. there has been reporting by others, the "new york times," the "washington post" that in fact was being circulated at a very high level but not briefed to general mattist or director of dci pompeo that they were in fact telling lawmakers that both of them were shocked by this. maybe its being withdrawn or rewritten. but there certainly was a draf...

That her husband was going to carry out some kind of attack and she didnt do anything to try to stop him. now, we had been told right after the shooting, in the early investigations and early interrogations by the fbi, that she said she did have some idea he was going to do something and she tried to talk him out of it. in any event, she will appear first in northern california in oakland tomorrow morning to formal charges after the arrest and investigators will begin the process to move her bac...

Critical all the details are that i get from interrogations. but i do remember them all. you never know till much later what details really matter. jeff and i worked for a couple months, and these prisoners start providing this information, and i started to get a feel for tikrit. and i realize, every person has a life, and they have a family, and they live in a neighborhood, and theyre part of a tribe, and they go to a certain mosque. thats like this familys kids go to this elementary school. th...

Saddam hussein. >> what was your job? >> going out, conducting raids. sometimes it was going after people in the deck of cards. sometimes it was going after people that were known associates of the deck of cards. >> you cant be on the offense unless you understand the enemy. in this context, especially the people. but you cant just sit back behind walls and expect the information to come to you. youve got to go out and get it. >> we would get information that was bad information. it would identi...

So yeah, we worked real well together. >> wed interrogate all night and then maybe at 4:00, or 5:00 in the morning wed sit down and we would talk about it, and wed talk about it nonstop. >> and it became our big piece of day to day life of using those interrogations to conduct operations. >> u.s. troops carried out predawn raids in saddam husseins hometown. the army says several suspects were arrested in tikrit. >> by september, jeff and i have gone beyond just determining the guilt or innocence...