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Career ambassadors are expressing serious concerns about her nomination. with us is a former intelligence at the cia and is the author of "the president's book of secrets." you say this should not be a referendum on harsh interrogation techniques, that this is about joogina haspel, t she's qualified. how do you oversee her role in overseeing a black site shortly after 9/11 from that? she's tough on terrorism? >> we as a country made a decision about that. it was ten years ago. we're not doing that anymore. it's off the table. there's only a few people that

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 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 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. >> senator cornyn? >> miss haspel, i note that one prominent national security expert h...

Commitment enough -- for enough democrats to excuse her path? >> it depends on the democrat. we saw that in this hearing, right? somebody like congresswoman harris who said, do you think that those enhanced interrogation techniques that some people called torture, was it immoral? it was a question she didn't answer. she kept asking and she just was say the united states is on a different sort of moral ground now in terms of this. and she agrees that with this particular place america's approach to torture and enhanced interrogation techniques. you saw joe manchin just ask kind of open-ended qu...

Getting back in that business. >> thank you. >> the senator's time has expired. >> you didn't actually answer the question. what would you do if the president ordered you to get back in that business. >> senator, the president has selected me to give him advice. i would not restart under any circumstances in an interrogation program at cia. under any circumstances. >> thank you. you have repeatedly said that at xx of interrogation techniques like waterboarding were determined to be legal. now there was an opinion written by the office of legal counsel. i don't believe those actions were ever l...

Directed by the president who as a candidate enthusiastically endorsed water boarding and more. >> i would bring back waterboarding and a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. >> i would not restart under any circumstances an interrogation program at cia under any circumstances. >> reporter: pressed however, haspel with not say if she considered the torture program immoral. >> do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral. >> senator, i leave that cia officers to whom you referred -- >> it is a yes or no answer. >> do you believe the previous interrogation techniques...