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Essentially make sure this individual who doesn't read but who needs to be exposed to the briefings will be exposed to the briefings. i think mike pompeo is probably in stronger position given his political connections than she is. i think she's a slightly odd choice just because she has all this controversy fair or unfair. i don't know about the details with the baggage, the linkage with the interrogation programs and she doesn't have a political base so i think her situation is quite fraught. >> so mimi and then jake sherman on the politics of this but we haven't talked about the donc lawsui...

Welcome back. president trump's latest nominees for top post could run into opposition from his own party. today republican senator rand paul vowed once again to do everything he can to block mike pompeo for the secretary of state job, and gina haspel for the cia post. paul objects to haspel's involvement in the bush era interrogation programs. here's what senator paul and his fellow republican lindsey graham said today. >> i'll do whatever it takes, that includes filibuster. i will try to make a point to the american people and maybe the american people will rise up and say you know, we stand...

You suggest, maybe not quite as comprehensive as you just outlined. we've seen larry kudlow as you broke the story heading the nec replacing gary cohn. i like larry. he'll have the ability to navigate in the trump administration. it will take all his skills in terms of communications to navigate that effectively. >> jane, the nominee to the cia director is facing confirmation issues, reports today of just how deep her involvement was in the agencies, her willingness to take part in the agencies' interrogation programs, including sitting idly by and watching water boreding take

She was implementing the lawful orders of the president. the president approved this program. as a cia staffer, she implemented t you could argue she should are quit because the program was so abhorrent. if democrats like senator wyden think she may support these programs it's a viable question to ask her during a confirmation hearing as director of the cia will she recommend to president trump that he consider any other enhanced interrogation programs? we shouldn't assume she has any personal love of torture because she was following these lawful orders. >> one more quick one, 30 seconds, jus...

Number two fbi, what are we talking about here. we're talking about andrew mccabe, who's a 22-year veteran. he ran interrogation programs under the obama administration after the controversies about so-called enhance the interrogation. he ran cyber and terror units. he is kind of an agent's agent sen rose all the way up up through the bureau. he was appointed in 2016 by jim comey to his highest post here. that is part of why donald trump reportedly saw him as too close to comey and too close to democratic activities because of his wife's activity as a candidate. none of that, of course, to be ...