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The confirmation of pompeo and he may run into some snags there. but overall, republicans, i s i talking to are encouraged by the change and hope there can be some good solid conversations in advance of this direct meeting with north korea. >> if you can, pick up on the confirmation notion for a second here. do you envision democrats standing, trying to stand in the way of mike pompeo. hes already been confirmed once. why try to block it now? and then there is gina haskell, deputy director of th...

Pick. he certainly knows how to manage this type of an investigation and has history, as some critics have charged, not worked as aggressively on investigations where the involvement, the intelligence agencies in some kind of inappropriate activity and that goes back to his time as the head of the criminal dision of the justice department and, of course, during his tenure at the fbi is when the bush administration initiated torture programs, warrantless wire programs, wiretapping programs and, t...

He was involved in the torture programs of the bush administration, illegal justification for them. >> in general, do you like the idea of having a potentially, at least the ability to filibuster either party, democrats right now with the republican nominee or maybe in the future republicans with a democratic nominee. the ability to block a nomination by filibuster. do you think thats something that tradition that should continue in the senate or do you think going forward, long-term, thats some...

Rich and engel dallcalled it a despicable action. >> there is a lot of hypocrisy going on at the white house. it was critical and it is important in this report. at the same time they are droning people. it was interesting to watch annette henry press josh earnest on this. they were going head to head saying how do you claim moral authority when you are droning people yet you are so critical of the torture programs there was nothing there howe. >> i think it was an important question ed henry ra...

Programs. >> that motivation for the report, chris, may show deep emotional feeling on the part of the senator, but i dont think it leads you to an objective report. >> wow. now the idea that senator dianne feinstein, whos pretty highly regarded on capitol hill, was simply being emotional in her desire for congressional oversight and disclosure of alleged torture programs, well, that was too much even for fox news chris wallace to swallow. >> forgive me because you and i both know senator feinst...

The cias secret alleged torture programs. >> that motivation for the report, chris, may show deep emotional feeling on the part of the senator, but i dont think it leads you to an objective report. >> wow. now the idea that senator dianne feinstein, whos pretty highly regarded on capitol hill, was simply being emotional in her desire for congressional oversight and disclosure of alleged torture programs, well, that was too much even for fox news chris wallace to swallow. >> forgive me because yo...

Obviously. we have all either experienced it or at the very least seen it. and i think in many respects, the media is the principal propagator of its persistence. >> yesterday house minority leader nancy pelosi, americas first woman to serve in that role, was asked about those comments from former secretary clinton. >> from my own standpoint i never expected anything but a double standard. i dont know if its the media or people say things thats news that you have to cover. but i do think that fr...

What the details were in the agreement was between the two. >> how typical is it of the cia to ensure so they can have this kind of access? >> i do think this is a completely unique situation. this is a long conversation about the interrogation and torture programs. so i think that this in particular is contentious. >> all right, thank you so much nada for that insieg. id love to come back to you as this story unfolds.ght. id love to come back to you as this story unfolds. >> thank you. right ...

Approved the committee report last year, i believe. actually, i think it was late in 2012 to be more accurate. there was bipartisan support. i wish there was more bipartisan support because in the end, this shouldnt be a partisan issue. were all responsible to uphold the public conscience and make sure that the american people have trust in our intelligence communitys operations. the votes are there. i would hope that everybody in the committee would take a closer look at the report and realize ...

Really of how committed she is to be open and transparency and to having an intelligence agency be one that doesnt represent torture. theres a bit of an irony here that they had to twist the arm of someone who had led torture programs and she really by showing that she doesnt want this position and doesnt want to be transparent causes deep concern and it should for people in the senate. >> to that point, andrew, speaking of the senate, democratic senators dianne feinstein, henrik and widen, the ...