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Interrogation tactics. president trump is having none of it, coming to her defense, tweeting this today, she's been and always will be tough on terror. joining me right now from capitol hill, democratic senator ed markey of massachusetts. thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> you oppose gina haspel's nomination because of her role in the bush era interrogation tactics. why not be open to what she has to say, though? >> the president himself has basically said he supports torture as a method of getting information about those who we have captured. and gina haspel was actually in charge of t...

The president in. but rudy giuliani took some time out this weekend from serving as the president's lead attorney on the russia probe to attempt a conference here in washington on the iranian issue. he suggested that the president is about to take a hard line. >> we have a president who is tough, a president who doesn't listen to the people who are naysayers and a president as committed to regime change as we are. >> meanwhile, republicans on the hill signal tonight they may have the votes to get confirmation for gina haspel as the next c.i.a. director. she still has to get through a confirmat...

How we do these things, that's all a net positive for us. i don't think this is a gender issue whatsoever. i think if it was -- there were concerns about mike pompeo because he was a fan of interrogation techniques and we all remember general matta saying i do better with a six-pack in a pack of cigarette cigarettes. i think we do need to move it back from the partisan side of this and talk about the real issue here. >> katie: i want to bring it back to 9/11 because the work that gina haspel has dedicated her life too is about keeping america safe and she has now been praised by people in posi...

And rudy guiliani took time out this weekend from serving as, and look at the iranian issue and suggest that the president is about to take the hard line. >> we have a president who is tough and doesn't listen to the people who are nay sayer and committed to reseem change as we are. >> in the meantime republicans may have the votes to get confirmation of gina has pel to be cia director. they had gone over to the cia headquarters to talk her from pulling out. she was concerned about democrat attacks about her support for harsh interrogation techniques. they want to run on that in the

Of enhanced interrogation techniques. do you expect her to say the united states will not torture? what must she say to satisfy the senators? >> i'm confident she'll say the cia will not be doing this again. a couple of reasons for that, and maybe the most important one is president obama took it off the table and legislatively, it is now no longer legal, though, at the time it was done it was declared legal by the justice department. that has now changed. the legal opinions are now firmly ensconced in legislation. >> what about the president? he's been supportive of her. i was told by a white...