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>> i'm sure she stood in for him when he wasn't there. i suspect she has some kind of relationship with the president. clearly he chose her for a variety of reasons. i think that's fine. pompeo had a particularly warm relationship with the president. i don't know exactly what hers is, but i'm sure it's a good one. >> now, there was a bump in her career rise. john brennan had promoted her and that promotion did not go through because there's no question that she and many others in the covert operation did follow orders on a number of cases involving the enhanced interrogation techniques known c...

President trump's choice to head the cia is deputy director gina haspel. if confirmed, haspel would be the first woman to run the agency. what more do we know about her? joining me is john mcloughlin, former acting director of cia, former deputy director, long-time deputy director and msnbc national security analyst. first of all, two things that are noteworthy. the first woman. she's also formerly the head of covert ops. i think the only predecessor in that role to take over the agency or the most recent was william colby. >> that's right. yeah. >> what does that mean? what signal does that s...

Word. >> kimberly: thank you, dana. god bless you. as if it, buddy. trump is trying to impact the psychology of the situation in afghanistan and trying to empower the people and their military they are to be able to stand up to the taliban, stand up to al qaeda, to know that they have the backing, on resoundingly, the united states. without question. i'm going to trust that he has done his homework, and listening to people that he should, that have military service, and have been in that theater and understand, yes, loss and they understand strategy and what they need to do and that geopolitic...

Together. kimberly, i'll give you the next word. >> kimberly: thank you, dana. god bless you. as if it, buddy. trump is trying to impact the psychology of the situation in afghanistan and trying to empower the people and their military they are to be able to stand up to the taliban, stand up to al qaeda, to know that they have the backing, on resoundingly, the united states. without question. i'm going to trust that he has done his homework, and listening to people that he should, that have military service, and have been in that theater and understand, yes, loss and they understand strategy a...

>> sounds low to me, but i'll go with that number. judge jeanine: sounds low? all right, let's talk about the fact we have involved ourselves in other countries's elections, without getting into people and glass houses shouldn't throw stones. how would we do that? >> well, it's a form of covert action pursuant to authority from the president of the united states. you could do it in a million ways. you could pay people. you could hack databases. you could threaten action if people don't do what we want them to. there's an endless series of techniques we could use. judge jeanine: let me ask or p...