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Mileage. she has worked for more than 30 years in the agency. she has earned the right to be there. she can go to work on day one. the other thing is that if president trump wants a nonpartisan cia director, she is the perfect choice because she is going to tell him whats going on based on the best intelligence available without filtering it through some kind of a political lens to either please him or achieve some political goal or via for a better job in government. she is the perfect choice f...

Ive heard democrat senators make the claim, we voted for him for head of cia. now weve seen how hes been in the position, we changed our mind. i dont think that works. gina haspel is the real issue here and her role in the torture program. thats been something that a number of senators optioned. we heard from secretary mattis. i did better with pack of cigarette than beer than i did with waterboarding. shes going to be real problem here. there are number of people come out in support of mike pom...

Shores. the president there you saw him getting on the plane. well cover his trip as it happens here live. >> potential show down looming over senate confirmation hearings for president trump nominees to fill positions. mike pompeo for secretary of state and gina haspel for cia director. meeting with north koreas kim jong-un and ongoing rusian meddling allegations in u.s. elections. democratic senator tim kaine he may cause trouble for haspel and pompeo. >> hes going to have a lot of convincing ...

That torture. would you be a yes or no vote for her confirmation? >> again, this will go through intel and vote for it on the floor. the combination of her track record with the torture program but then her apparent involvement in destroying records and tapes about that program i think that this really sends a bad signal to put something like that as the head of the c.i.a. again, im going to see how she does at the hearing, but those are two really, really tough bits of history that would sugges...

Cia, two democrats on the intelligence committee sent president trump a letter protesting that appointment. protesting gina haspels background makes her unsuitable and urged trump to declassified a description of her role in the cias torture program. needless to say trump never did that and did appoint her to the number two job last year. now today hes nominated gina haspal to be the director as he tries to move mike pompeo out replacing the abruptly fired rex tillerson. it was said he will oppo...

>> what if, in fact, he does fly through? easier for me to say. gets the job. then gina haspel will step up, be the first woman to helm the cia. you know her. tell me more about her. should her tenure at the cia overseeing the controversial torture program, should that be a black mark on her as she tries to move forward? >> no. shes not the first woman to run the central intelligence agency. technically. judgment, experience about the organization. she has a sense of humor. this will be debated ...

Gina haspel is currently serving as the deputy cia director. she mostly worked undercover. democrats have long took issue with the fact that she oversaw the torture program at the cia prison in thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded. she then destroyed videotapes documenting it all. here is what democratic senator ron widen, a member of the senate intelligence committee, told our own manu raju. >> such important policy, i think, would be, in effect, a referendum to supporting secrecy. ...

Sta state department, his deputy at the cia, gina haspel, is who the president is calling on to run the agency. she will be the first woman in that role assuming she is confirmed. but haspel is a highly controversial figure. let me tell you a little bit about her. she has spent about 30 years as an officer with the cia. haspel was made deputy director of the agency last february. now, she spent much of her time undercover, but later in her career, haspel was heavily involved in the cias controve...

Administration. president trump has nominated gina haspel. if confirmed shed be the first woman ever con dpifirmed the le the agency. she spent 30 years as an officer with the cia. she serves as deputy director. she was selected for the job last february. she has spent much of her time undercover. later in her career she was involved in the cia controversial torture program. in 2002 she ran a secret cia prison for suspected terrorists in thailand that used harsh tactics the the time says she ove...

Clandestine service and just associated with the torture program. she was running it. she was one of the architects of the torture program. and i have to say this, from my own experience, debriefing detainees in iraq, the torture program was not only, i think, useless, but it was counterproductive. and actually created more enemies for us to have to go after. >> she hasnt sat for a confirmation, so we havent gotten her updated opinions on any of these things, but she does have the past that you ...