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Overside a veto. >> we are all united. today iran cannot become a nuclear state. today we became closer to making that a reality. >> all right, welcome to "morning joe." we are in walk. we have the washington post david ignacious, he's here in his regulation grey suit as he says. >> i was told to wear this. >> you were? >> please you look great. >> senior political editor and white house correspondent for the huffington post sam stein and senior national correspondent for bloomberg "business week" josh green. good to have you all on board this morning. >> we have a lot to talk about. we will b...

Make sure these things were never done again. obviously, when you peck your conclusion, you can cherry pick your documents to make them fit. i think any president in that circumstance, given the information either as a cia representative or as senator fine teen thinks it should have been presented, the american president i think shill would have ordered these interrogation methods. >> that the a part of an exclusive with john yu, who approved enhanced techniques for the bushed a men strax. welcome back to "morning joe." we have david ignacious and mike barnacle with us. the editing manager of ...

Actionable intelligence that was, quote, otherwise unavailable, otherwise unavailable, was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> okay. let's start with david ignatius in washington. you say, david, this was necessary to release for public accounting but what about national security? >> i found the report absolutely devastating. we've known about these techniques. we've known about this chapter in american life. but to see what it felt like for a young cia medical officer observing the first water boarding. the sense of sort of revulsion that officer felt. to read about...

President george bush new the details of the program early on? >> it was my understanding, certainly, in the nsa program. he and i talked about it before we launched it. it was not something he would buy or forget. i wasn't there for the personal briefings of president bush. i just ever you to the president's own auto biography, in which he said he personally approved the waterboard. >> we have the washington post's david ignacious with us as well. david. >> i want to focus on what mike barnacle was asking. if you read the report, there is a key passage just before the first waterboarding in u...

Actionable intelligence that was quote otherwise unavailable, otherwise unavailable, was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> all right, david ignacious, the issue of legality on many levels could be pivotal as we take a look at this we bunked in, we came in with a sound byte from john yu, you say is correct, al. >> john yu is the young lawyer of the question of the techniques the cia contractors opposed using. the 12 techniques that included waterboarding were real and acceptable and john yu wrote a memo, which had become famous as the torture memo in which he defend...