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Part of this is a 37 typical. especially with the sensitive operations we had in the agency during the height of the war on al-qaeda, things like technical surveillance of people's e-mails, typically those meetings would be held more often down capitol hill. we would go down for example on the sensitive issue of interrogation techniques. we spoke to democrats and republicans together. the weird part is speaking omwith republicans. that is odd. you guys the apoliticians figur out what you want to do about it. weird is republicans-only. >> and sabrina, what do you think? >> well, i think that th...

54-44. you can expect the final vote to be somewhere in that neighborhood. republicans supporting her nomination to be the cia director says much of the opposition because of who nominated her, president trump. >> there's a number of democrats now that have decided it's not in the nation's best interest to oppose president trump's nominees because they happen to be president trump's nominees. >> some of the decision was related to enhanced interrogation techniques. a key conservative said it's not fair to reject her for that reason. >> i'm amazed these democrats can't confirm mrs. haspel who i...

Particular at the c.i.a. what do you hear from them? >> yeah, that's great. i think it's going to send a very powerful message. there are a lot of people that tried to hang on to this idea of enhanced interrogation techniques as the reason to vote against her. the reality is after 9/11, it was a very different world. we were desperately trying to protect our country. and the mission of the c.i.a. was to do everything they could to protect it. so to see somebody that's come up through the career ranks that's really put in all the elbow grease to keep america safe be not just rewarded but entrus...

Let's go live to kasie hunt. how is haspel able to pick up democratic support? >> well, stephanie, what really it was, a letter that she sent over to mark warner, the vice chair of the committee saying what he wasn't willing to say in the public hearing. she basically said we should not have used those interrogation techniques, torture. you see a piece of the letter right there. and she spelled out. and you'll remember, she came under tough exchanges with senators who are trying to get her to acknowledge that the program was immoral. she took a lot of heat that far. and then the flap with john...

We have breaking news now, president trump's pick for cia director gina haspel. manu raju has the story, the scoop on the hill. what are you hearing? >> reporter: a letter just sent by gina haspel to mark warner, the top democrat in the committee tries to go into a little more detail about her views about enhanced interrogation techniques, very harsh interrogation techniques, people, things that people here call torture, like waterboarding and after hearing last week, she got a lot of criticism by not denouncing waterboarding as immoral. in this letter we obtained, she goes further than she di...