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President had signed into law. on the other hand, there were those, like you, in an e-mail who laid out the case for a more expansive signing statement. you made the point that on the foreign public relations front allowing us to speak about this development positively rather than grudgingly would be helpful. you said that while we all appreciate the appropriate limitations, the usefulness of legislative history, it would be helpful as this provision is litigated, which it inevitably would be, to have a statement of policy from the executive branch on why this law was enacted. third, that you ...

Can you shed any light on his draft memo that's going around about interrogation practices? >> yes, i can lend a lot. >> which agency did it originate in -- >> it is not a white house document. those who have reported on it, this is now i think the second day that we've had a document that was not a white house document get reported on as a factual document. it is not a white house document. i have no idea where it came from. but it is not a white house document. >> has the president directed it be drafted in the first place? >> no. i mean, as i said, it is not a white house document so i'm no...

>> well, if i might -- >> to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. >> it is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal justice reform that as attorney general you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal justice reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. are y...

That they were able to pull it off and despite some of the problems, there will be another year of distance between the initial dust-up in 2015 and 2016 if there are democrats that might proudly come out and be able to say, yes, i was involved with this. i did vote for it and support for it and it's a legacy piece of the obama administration. >> we know what a whole year can do. looking ahead, senator bernie sanders said this. last week we saw hillary clinton making strong appeals to liberals in honor of a memory of robert f. kennedy. here's what she said about that. >> our values are what set...

Camps. listen to former senior obama advisor take some not so subtle shots at hillary clinton's potential candidacy. >> hillary has not said exactly what her program will be, what she's running on. i think elizabeth has -- what happened in 2008 is that hillary's candidacy got out in front of any rationale for it. and the danger is that's happening again, it's like ready for hillary, ready for what? >> and one thing hillary seems ready to weigh in on is the enhanced interrogation. >> i am proud to have been a part of the obama administration that banned illegal renditions and brutal interrogati...