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Paying terribly close attention to the fight over her nomination as they tried to get pompeo through. >> i think they were definitely more focussed on pompeo. >> they were very focused on that so that kind of let her hang out in the wind a little bit and i think it helps explain behind the scenes why she was saying i don't necessarily need to have this fight, i'm willing to step out of the ring if you want me to. clearly they've changed their tone. but i think the issue for her and what you'll see on wednesday a is a debate over something that we never fully explored after the september 11th a...

And lead the agency. >> if she's asked any questions regarding enhanced interrogation techniques that took place during her tenure at the cia, that democrats say that she was involved with, she can answer them fully in an open hearing. is that your position? >> i'll let her address those questions as they come. but as we've said, we think all of the issues surrounding her record, her experience will be brought up and we're fully confident in her ability to answer those questions. >> yes, sarah. president putin in moscow was inaugurated today for a new six-year term. over the weekend, throughou...

Only appropriate woman. the fact is, in america, there are scores and scores of well qualified women who can fill key national security posts like this. and i think it's really insulting to women to say that gina haspel is the only one qualified for this job. >> and the other criticism of you and others who oppose her is that in the aftermath of 9/11, there was a different mindset. they were concerned about a second attack that these extraordinary techniques, the interrogation techniques, which are well defined now as torture and outlawed by the mccain legislation, that they were appropriate f...

Those advanced -- enhanced interrogation techniques which many people call torture. during the period of time after the 9/11 attack. she oversaw the secret u.s. detention center in thailand and so on. here's what happened on friday. got to the point and we know a couple of things were going on. first of all, she participated in a practice session leading up to her hearing which is supposed to be on wednesday. we also know she met with people from the white house. at some point on friday, things got to the point over the situation, over the question surrounding her long tenure at the cia that s...

>> exactly. no misconduct from gina haspil. paul: they never indicted rodríguez either. when the interrogation techniques were applied, they were legal, series of memos from the justice department saying that they were legal, correct? >> correct, the law has since changed and by all accounts gina is going to say at the committee that she has no intention of going back to the same program without the legal authority. paul: well, this leads to the question, if you are somebody at the cia who is tasked with protecting the united states and preventing another attack and you get a memo that says, ...