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Effort combatants would violate the constitution sole vesting of the commander-in-chief in the present. concerning the fact that congress has passed a law on this, what controls? >> we have a convention against torture. and implementing legislation which bans torture. we have an act that bans cruel treatment. we also have an eighth amendment. >> let me ask you this, does the president have the right to authorize torture if it violates the laws that have been passed by congress? >> senator, no man is above the law. >> let me ask you another question. president bush's surveillance

Post-waterboarding. is that a fair summary of the conflict? >> yes, senator, i believe it is. >> there were people in the bush administration that did not want to go down the road that waterboarding was torture. that was not the view of senator mccain or myself. at the end of the day, the detainee treatment act codified how we treat enemy combatants at a time of war in terms of for practices we can employ in terms of interrogation standards. is that correct? >> yes. >> and it also tried to come up with a system of judicial review. i was in the camp that we're at war and in past wars, you don't...

Thought it was a power grab by our democrat being colleagues that will change the nature of the judiciary for the rest our lives because what you have done is you've made it that can confirm a judge within party to peck up a have po that is lost frfr, for all that was formed to dal with a wholesale filibuster. i felt it would be body to change 100 something, almost fwp but there was a whole sale filibuster of everything bush. and there were 14 of us, i think i'm one of two or three defendant that strength byand we

Them on stage taking questions from a moderator. i'm looking at these jokes george w. spits out. some are self-deprecating and mischevious. there was mockery of george w.'s speaking style. he was ultimately an effective communicator in a way we north seeing with jeb. >> very much so. everything bush says doesn't register with anyone unless it's awkward or lands with a thud. this weekend he was saying, i could be doing so many other cool things with my time. i don't have to sit here being miserable. that's not a good campaign ad. he cannot seem to get out of his own way. trump does not have tha...

The media between the administration and that's just the way it is. and it's not fair, but i think we all understand and it's all pretty obvious with respect to the level of scrutiny that some members of the media and interest groups placed on the action of the administration based upon who the president is. >> of course the irony is that the tactics that the bush administration used, wire tapping or water boarding and certainly a case can be made against those and legal experts debated those ad nauseam during the bush administration, but the killing of suspects before a trial seems much more ...