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Mentioned, i don't even have a social media account. but i wouldn't use wallway products. >> senator, time expired. >> thank you. >> thank you for your courtesy in meeting with me yesterday. however, i regret to have to say there is no greater indictment of this nomination process that be the fact that you are deciding what the country gets to know about you and what it doesn't. so far the american people have only been given information that is designed to help you get confirmed. everything else has been classified. i've got some questions. i think they're fairly short. some i hope we can do ...

What should we know about her. >> i think that's exactly right. she does have a spine of steael. she's a smart person. and she's the kind of person who can do the right thing. she is very ethical, she's also an incredibly nice person. thoroughly experienced. i think she's the most experienced at least in overseas clandestine operations, most experienced director we have had since -- or will have since bill colby back in the '70s. we had career analysts be cia director, but it has been a long time since we had someone with her kind of experience in foreign operations. >> you know many of the qu...

That is what you have human rights advocates, the u.n. special report on torture. we'll call it that. that was -- she oversaw one cia site where there was a suspect who was waterboarded. she also oversaw the destruction of cia interrogation tapes. so this is somebody we do want to reckon with our history during the bush administration over the last 18 years of the war on terror as a country that i think we need to be very critical of people like gina haskell and the history and record that she has had working. so i think that that at least is a welcome step if she feels that she's going to be ...

Cia's destruction of interrogation tapes being destroyed in 2005. during a discussion with senators, she was nominated earlier this month, and she's made it quite clear that that was a different time. in her words, it was a post-9/11 mindset, it was a different set of laws then. in 2015 congress passed legislation to outlaw torture across the government. she told senators, wolf, she will follow the law and noted very clearly that waterboarding is not permissible under current law. in addition to that, wolf, she has told senators that that 2005 destruction of tapes were ordered not by her but b...

>> jesse: playing greg's loud music. >> dana: they would play that in a prison. >> greg: they play a lot of metallica and slayer. >> dana: one of the hardest briefings i ever had to do at the white house, i woke up in the morning, got "the new york times" and there is the story that the cia has destroyed interrogation tapes, and i thought oh, my gosh. i talked to everybody, the president, the vice president, former cia director, national security advisor. i remember having a private moment with steve hadley before i went to the briefing and he said dana, i want to explain something to you. in ...