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In his chair before me that valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda operatives that allowed us to defend this country and prevent another attack. >> is that he is? >> it is not a yes. we got valuable information from the briefing of al qaeda detainees and i don't think it is knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> the hearing sitting snags when protesters got rowdy. [shouting] >> 7 people were arrested. one of them a former cia officer. that did not stop haspel from gaining surprised, joe manchin says she has is that but she faces opposition from some...

>> do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? >> senator, i believe that cia officers to whom you referred. >> it's a "yes" or "no" answer. >> senator, i believe that cia did extraordinary work to prevent another attack on this country using the legal tools we were authorized. >> please answer yes or no. do you believe in hindsight that those techniques were immoral? >> senator, what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to. >> please answer the question. >> senator, i think i have answered the qu...

I would absolutely not permit it. jillian: gina haspel in the hot seat. rob: the top 5 tackling her senate confirmation hearing head on. jillian: jackie ibanez have the highlights. >> reporter: haspel's testimony lasting three hours where she was grilled about her three decade undercover career with the cia refusing to back down, confidently answering questions from democrats about her role in the post-9/11 detention program. >> the pres. has asserted that torture works. do you agree with that statement? >> i don't believe torture works. i believe that in the cia programs, i'm not attributing ...

Correspondent and filmed that heinous act. he also, after 9/11, carried out an attack on a synagogue in tunisia, auntie had other attacks planned. we were able to warn allies about a planned attack for example on heathrow airport. >> sean: you want to see the most evil, despicable act besides 9/11? go video the beheading of that reporter of which she is referring to. former top cia official jose rodriguez has been on the program many times. back in 2014, he reminded us that the interrogation program against ks m, 1 of 3 people water boarded, it actually led our intelligence officials to the ca...

32,000 feet when we had a large bang and a rapid decompression. >> my first thoughts were actually, oh, here we go, just because it seems like a flashback to some of the navy flying that we had done. but really, darren -- just very easy to communicate with, and we had to use hand signals, because it was loud, and there was -- it was just hard to communicate for a lot of different reasons. >> there is much more to this story, and you can see martha's full interview and the reaction from captain shults' husband. "20/20," this friday night, 10:00 p.m. eastern right here. we're going to move on ...