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Central lines of questioning we anticipate today which is haspel's role in the bush-era interrogation program that critics call torture. it reads having served in that time i can offer you my personal commitment clearly and without reservation that under my leadership c.i.a. will not restart such a detention and interrogation program. that program was under the bush administration and it was approved by the justice department. it involved the water boarding of a handful of senior al qaeda operatives including the self-described architect of the attack khalid sheikh mohammed. critics call the p...

The fact it is against the law. the question i have, with the benefit of hindsight, do you believe the program in terms of the interrogation program was consistent with american values? >> senator, as we sit here today and with some distance between us and the events of 9/11, the congress and indeed our nation have had an opportunity to have a debate about the interrogation standards we want to use as the united states of america. we have decided to hold ourselves to a stricter moral standard for dod, that is defined in the army field manual. i support the united states holding itself to that ...

>> many of them were briefed on this program when it was actually happening. john rockefeller was the top democrat on the intelligence committee told them to be tougher on these people. no one objected when it was actually happening. only when it was leaked and the political winds changed they started to become upset. >> julie: thank you very much, marc. appreciate you coming on today. >> bill: attorney for stormy daniels posting a report online claiming a series of payments to a company associated with michael cohen called essential consultants. about 200,000 from at&t. they're looking for go...

Is in your own view of the rdi program today, given the benefit of time and hindsight, should the united states ever permit detainees to be treated the way the c.i.a. treated detainees under the program? even if you believe it was technically legal. most importantly, in your view, was that program consistent with american values? we must hear how you would react if the president asked you to carry out some morally questionable behavior that might seem to violate a law or treaty. how will you respond if a secret d.o.j. opinion authorizes such behavior and gives you a get out of jail free card? ...

I never served. >> were you an advocate for destroying the tapes? >> senator, i absolutely was an advocate if we could within and conforming to u.s. law. and if we could get policy concurrence to eliminate the security risk posed to our officers by those tapes and because of the legal -- >> were you aware of what the tapes contained? >> i never watched the tapes but i understood our officers' faces were on them and dangerous when there were unauthorized disclosures that were exposing the program. >> but it also exposed how the program was conducted because they were tapes of the actual interro...