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On @cnn. i was trying to get to the bottom of the semantic game of media outlets some feeling comfortable in using the "l" word and others not doing so. can we do another one quickly? nope? okay. we'll do more tweet, i promise you. today president trump reinforced his belief that waterboarding works, but what about the guy who actually helped create and carry out enhanced interrogation methods after september 11th? stick around because you're about to meet him. >> would i feel strongly about waterboarding? as far as i'm concerned, we have to fight fire with fire. i'm not into it. i will tell y...

Lot of laughter. this is in his words and the words of his predecessors a special relationship and these types of bilateral meetings are aimed at strengthening that relationship, the fact she's the first leader to visit the white house holds significance. in terms of the headlines, brian, there were a couple here. president trump pressed on whether he would be scaling back and reversing the sanctions that president obama put into place. he said it's too early to talk about that. i thought that was an interesting point, didn't really show his cards on that critical matter but we do know he's se...

Complications. >> ambassador stewart holliday. appreciate you being here. president trump talking about waterboarding, talking about how he believes it is actually an effective interrogation methods and experts in the field agree. is he right? plus other recent comments when we come back. can i give it to you straight? that airline credit card you have... it could be better. it's time to shake things up. with the capital one venture card, you get double miles on

>> i have spoken as recently as 24 hours ago with people at the highest level of intelligence and asked them to question, does it work? does torture work? and the answer was yes. i will rely on pompeo and mattis and my group. and if they don't want to do it that's fine. if they do want to do, then i will work for that end. i want to do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally, but do i feel it works? absolutely, i feel it works. >> quickly congressman here is what speaker paul ryan said. >> torture is not legal, and we agree with it not being legal. >> you look at what...

Michael pompemike pompeo. it is illegal to use waterboarding. pom yay-pay owe said he would consider bringing back enhanced interrogation methods during certain circumstances. republican lawmakers heard about trump's remarks while attending a retreat in philadelphia. manu raju joins us from there with the latest. what do gop lawmakers have to say about the president's comments? >> reporter: they're not supportive. congress overwhelmly voted to limit interrogation techniques to the army field manual voted by 78-21 margin. that army field manual excludes so-called ep hansed interrogation techniq...