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Deeply flawed. and fourth the cia program was far more brutal than people were led to believe. >> following fienstein, senator john mccain, former prisoner of war himself was tortured offered strong support for the report's release. >> i believe the american people have a right, indeed responsibility, to know what was done in their name. they must be able to make informed judgments about whether those policies and the personnel who supported them were justified in compromising our values, whether they served a greater good, or whether as i believe they stained our national honor. >> the report...

I mean, the report shows whether you think it is moral or not, it wasn't effective and probably wasn't legal. now alex you know me a little bit and you won't take this as an exaggeration, i believe i read every major intelligence report produced by congress for the last 40 or 50 years and reading this report today i was surprised, i was stunned. i thought there would be a lot of stuff i knew already and details, yeah, yeah, yeah, but actually the degree of mendacity, the amount of lying, the report, diane fienstein accuses the cia saying they lied to the white house, the justice department, an...

As congress deals with the fall out of a scathing report on central intelligence agency's use of torture, congressional leaders are trying to avert another catastrophe, at any moment house republicans are expected to unveil their bill to avert a government shutdown. the legislation known as a cronney will fund almost the entire government through 2015 with notable exception funding for homeland security which will run out in february. so far the gop is insisting it has the votes to pass. >> at the echbd tnd of the day

Doing things that people will say is not necessarily constitutional is informing his desire to not prosecute what happened in this chapter. >> it is really hard to fully understand. the president from the beginning, we had a meeting with him early on and it was clear he was not interested in discussing the accountability of the torture. this is before we knew about the drone attacks. this was a president who was very reluctant to talk about the idea of prosecuting individuals for crimes from the beginning, way before the fienstein report launched and certainly before its preparation he made ve...

And rectal rehydration on at least five detainees. one was intergated for weeks on end, slammed against walls and stuffed into boxes 300 hours, and waterboarded 180 times. during interrogation some broke down in tears and choking up. in the cia said this today. saying it has too many flaws and justice department says they will bring no new charges in response to the report. joining me now, gentleman, thanks for being here. anthony, let me start with you. >> sure. >> you know, to listen, to read