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Tonight. This is one of the backward and nasty Executive Orders the president has issued. Also today thousands of antiabortion protesters gathered in washington for the annual march for life. Mike pence told the crowd the president would announce a Supreme Court nominee soon and trump hinted strongly at the person hes choosing. The person i pick will be a big, big i think people are going to love it. I think evangelicals, christians will love my pick. And well be represented very fairly. Jeff ze...

Could do it without congress. something congress is likely to take issue with. >> its something i have the right to do, something i can impose if i want. we are getting along actually very well with the mexican government. well see what happens. >> reporter: a week into his presidency, he said its too early to say whether he will lift sanctions imposed by president obama against russian president vladimir putin. hes set to talk with putin by phone on saturday. after being criticized for his prai...

Since medieval times, would i feel strongly about waterboarding? as far as im concerned, we have to fight fire with fire. now, with that being said, im going with general mattis, im going with my secretary, because i think pompeo is going to be phenomenal. im going to go with what they say. but i have spoken, as recently as 24 hours ago, with people at the highest level of intelligence, and i asked them the question, does it work, does torture work, and the answer was yes, absolutely. >> that is...

Do i think it works? absolutely. steve: heres the thing about donald trump, i dont know if you have noticed, he is not a p.c. guy. he will do anything in his power to keep us safe. he said he would ask people at the highest level of the intelligence community. evidence has asked them, does torture work, they have told him, according to this, yes. absolutely it works. brian: i would actually wrestle with this word. it is enhanced interrogation. nobody is for torture. its how you define what it ta...

His word, absolutely works, but he conceded that he would follow the lead of his defense secretary james mattis and cia director mike pompeo, i have to read for you this is trumps verbatim quote we have to fight fire with fire. with that being said, im going with general mattis, im going with my secretary because i think pompeo is going to be phenomenal, im going with what they say but have spoke with the highest officials about does torture work, yes, absolutely the president went on to say i w...

Things. >> orn the other side, those who defend torture say of course it works. here is former vice president dick cheney wednesday night speaking about khalid sheikh mohammed; believe ed to be the master mind of the 9/11 attacks who was subjected to at least 183 waterboardings. >> what are we supposed to do? kiss him on both cheeks and say, please, please tell us what you know? is of course not. we did exactly what neededed the to be done to prevent a further atta attack, and we were successful...

Krauthammer. okay, george. >> this is an unprecedented press conference and i dont think its a precedent that make us hungry for more because i dont think we learned a whole lot. the contention seems to be in this town that the most important question is did the torture work. the fact is the law doesnt say torture is forbidden or unless or until its useful, its just forbidden so the question is, is this torture and did we do it. brennan seems ready to concede a number of the points. i would like...

Bore results, its true, it did, having people intergated was an important part about what we learned about al qaeda. the question is, does the torture work. i think the overwhelming evidence is that it doesnt. thats why we need to have this debate so we dont get stain back on our country a second time. >> to that end, a huge moment of clarity might come if anyone saw a copy of the cias internal document that comes to many of the same conclusions that tsenae intelligence report has should it be r...

At home who are worried about some of your views and worried about you becoming the leader of the free world. >> this was your choice f a question? >> he believes water boarding and other forms of torture work but would follow the lead of james mattis, a retired general who opposes such extreme measures. >> i dont necessarily agree but he will override because im giving him that power. >> mr. trump has had a very busy saturday. has a very busy saturday ahead chatting with several world leaders. ...

Congratulate you on what was a stunning election victory. >> it was also mr. trumps first time taking questions from the foreign press, like this one from the bbc. >> what do you say to our viewers at home who are worried about some of your views and worried about you becoming the leader of the free world? >> this was your choice of a question? [ laughter ] >> there goes that relationship. >> the president said he believes water boarding and other forms of torture work, but would follow the lead...