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Whether or not gina is the right symbol and signal to sent to the world. >> thats right. people who have talked to say and this is a separate issue but related in the sense people close to the president point out that the way hes talk about north korea in many ways is one indication of how views the relative importance of the state department. to be specific, just today in the cabinet room. he said kim jong-un has been very open and honorable. over the weekend he sent a tweet welcoming the news ...

In the days and weeks to come. i know you agree with me on that. >> do i. >> rand paul, he now says he will vigorously oppose the confirmation of both mike pompeo to become secretary of state and gina to become director of central intelligence. do you think these with nominations are in trouble? >> i dont know if theyre in trouble yet. republicans have 51 republicans. and if you lose one, youre already in the place to get a tie breaking vote from mike pence. so for anyone to come out, especially...

>> she has someone up to her eyeballs in the torture issue. she was in charge of the cia torture site in thailand, a place where one man was water boarded 83 times. >> haspel ordered the destruction of waterboarding tapes. according to her boss who wrote about it. "the cable left nothing to chance. it told them how to get rid of the tapes. they were to use an industrial-strength shredder." haspels defenders say those black sites have to be seen in context. the justice department and president bu...

Up dead or in gitmo thats not something they want to do. the other piece back to the options, sandra. there arent any other good ones. are we going to hold our soldiers to the same evidence standard and put them through the u.s. court system? no. its not reliable to send them back to places like yemen and pakistan where they end up being released. so thats just the final option and because yet obama refused to accept that, we are finding all of these workarounds. putting guys on ships and sailin...

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...

Number two, any language on russia that isnt critical of russia can be so bracing, like language weve heard from the president throughout the campaign, well see. i would like to have a positive relationship with this guy, and then torture, the euphemistic enhanced interrogation that as andrea puts it so well has been a flashing red light to so many. >> yes, those are the three substantive points. as much as i love and respect andrea, i have a slightly different view on the torture issue. i think...

Trump on a number of issues. >> torture is one. >> i want to play a sound. this is a clip, a clip from yesterday when the prime minister back in england was asked, in parliament, asked prime minister -- >> prime minister. >> pressed as the prime minister was asked her position on torture in relation to what donald trump has said recently. take a list. >> we have a very clear position on torture. we do not sanction torture. we do not get involved with that, and that will continue to be our positi...

Upset the president who admits is obsessed is a little bit alarming because it is a slippery slope. and you know what? there are going to be things his agencies are going to report hes not going to like. and you know what? its what happens when youre not running your own organization or your campaign. you have got to get used to it. youre the leader of the government. >> let me come back in a second because ive been told, as weve been talking about crowd size, youve got news on the cia. >> just ...

The issues he hasnt directly confronted or at least not to the degree he will at the department of homeland security. i like general mattis very much. i like how hes pushed back on the torture issue. how hes tough on russia and i hope will talk some sense into the president-elect. and very strongly supportive of nato. we are concerned, though, with appointing so many generals, and this i think is directly implicated in that statutory prohibition on filling the slot at secretary of defense with a...

Anti-torture. >> but his incoming cia director, mike pompeo, is assuming that the senate confirms him has suggested that he would be in favor of bringing back waterboarding. its more important what donald trump thinks about this. because that would be the policy that they are pursuing. and he has suggested that he would like to bring it back. >> but there is also difference of opinion within the intelligence community itself, and also the cia, where officers and people working within there have ...