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I support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to. i would never ever take cia back to an interrogation program. first of all, cia follows the law. we followed the law then. we follow the law today. i support the law. i wouldn't support a change in the law. but i'll tell you this. i would not put cia officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky controversial activity again. >> ms. haspel, my question is this. on a going forward basis, if this president asked you to do something that you find morally objectionable, even if there is an olc opinion, what wi...

Of the president, but here's what he had to say about the news. >> i think if the president had gone through with this or tries to go through with this on a going forward basis, we're in unchartered territory, we're into the real question of fundamentals of our democracy. are we still going to be a country where rule of law pervades and no one even the president is above the law? my hope will be come next week that the congress will take up bipartisan legislation that was around last year that would protect the special prosecutor from these kind of arbitrary actions. >> reporter: now, you noti...

Over the late summer, early fall when there was speculation that the president could be thinking about firing the special counsel. but it died down because not only the president, but his aides, his lawyers insisted he was not considering firing robert mueller. it wasn't even on the table. and we now know with this bombshell "new york times" report that the president not only made the decision to fire robert mueller but order the white house counsel to do so and only backtracked because the counsel threatened to quit over it. that actually was not true. the president was actually considering i...

Going as far to say it wasn't on the table. we know this bombshell report confirmed by cnn that is not the case and the president actually considering firing mueller and that's why the talks are starting back up on capitol hill. the leading democrat on the senate intelligence committee which is conducting its own investigation into this russia probe and he had to say this about making sure that bob mueller cannot be fired by the president. >> if the president had gone through with this or tries to go through with it on a going forward basis, we're into unchartered territory and the real questi...

Eight years to do. >> yep, that's why it's incumbent upon republicans to lead on this, and here we see really the key differences that we spent an entire eight-year period arguing and, by the way, i've lost track of how many democrats have lost on this issue of trying to preserve obama care. you know, the number of house members, democrats, senators, and governors who have lost is since obama care passed is just astonishing, but on the going forward basis, we have won that argument that obama care needs to be replaced. what we haven't done is we've done the harder -- haven't done the harder wo...