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As far as i'm concerned you can go a lot stronger than water boarding. than you like. don't tell me it doesn't work. torture works. only a stupid person would say it doesn't work. it works. here's the president's nominee to be the next director of the cia, gina haspel at her hearing today. >> the president has asserted that torture works. do you agree with that statement? >> senator, i -- i don't believe that torture works. i believe that in the cia's program, and i'm not attributing this to enhanced interrogation techniques. i believe as many people, directors who have sat in this chair bef...

Xfinity. the future of awesome. >> the president has asserted torture works. do you agree that statement? >> senator, i -- i don't believe that torture works. valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda operatives that allowed us to defend this country and prevent another attack. >> is that a yes? >> no, it's not a yes. we got valuable information from debriefing of al qaeda detainees and i don't think it's knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> in november and december of

Make that admission but torture does remain a flash point here, these enhanced interrogation techniques. let's remember, president trump while on the campaign trail talked about how he felt like it would work, that some tactics like waterboarding wouldn't go far enough and told stories about how in the past -- acts of alleged terror or alleged torture to terror suspects, to war prisoners and he advocated the united states get back to that. now after taking office he says in conversation with defense secretary mattis he rised that perhaps that didn't work and he softened his stance but yesterda...

Detainees. i don't think it's knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> and then the question that ended up deciding senator john mccain's position on gina haspel. >> do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? >> senator, i believe that cia officers to whom you referred -- >> it's a yes or no answer. do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? i'm not asking do you believe they were legal. i'm asking do you believe they were immoral? >> senator, i believe that cia -- >> it's a yes or no -- >> -- did extraordinary work to ...

Trump to politicize intelligence gathering and if he does, general hayden said this, she will be the first to say no to donald trump. i understand a lot of people focused yesterday, especially the democrats running for president in 2020, who want to run for 2020 posing for the cameras, posing for their future supporters but it was depressing because there was so little discussed about north korea. so little discussed about iran, so little discussed about syria. so little discussed about where isis is. so little discussed about the very things that will determine how safe we are as americans ov...