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To the president when you disagree and are you willing to leave if the president asks you to do something inappropriate, illegal or immoral? >> as you know she's a career cia officer. you're referring to what happened after 9/11, back in 2002 when she was involved in what was called the cia black site in thailand. >> yes. >> where they used what they called enhanced interrogation techniques. you have serious questions about that. >> i do. >> given what was going on there then, there are some, including the former cia director leon panetta who said you have to take the timing of her activities ...

And i think it is our right and the congress' right and the american people's right to ask her some tough questions about this. there are so many men and women of the cia. and i know that from my personal experience, who stood up against torture, who complained about it, who went all the way to their inspector general and complained about enhanced interrogation techniques and what they were seeing on the black sites. if you look at the report of the inspector general of the cia, he talks about all these people who did it right, who stood up for the right thing. and i think it is extremely impo...

Well, sadly that is what you have to do because you are dealing with evil. >> she spent time in turkey, central asia, she was running the new york office for the cia and was a liaison to the fbi. and the obama years, when usama bin laden, as you mentioned, was killed. this was someone who, yes, she was involved in the black sites, where you had enhanced interrogation techniques, critics call it torture. you're right. there's already been abated we can expect there will be t an en bigger debate in the days ahead. democrats like chuck chuck schumer, dianne feinstein, already saying they will ask...

Questions. they deserve to have those questions answered and it needs to have an open hearing setting. i have a number of questions. i've had a good working relationship with her the last year but rightfully there's questions to be asked. >> reporter: one of the black sites where there were water boarding and enhanced intelligence techniques and intelligence committee program wrote a scathing report on the program with john brennan taking the unusual step of publicly defending officers, including haspel in what they had learned. >> it is our considered view that the detainees who were subjecte...

>> what if, in fact, he does fly through? easier for me to say. gets the job. then gina haspel will step up, be the first woman to helm the cia. you know her. tell me more about her. should her tenure at the cia overseeing the controversial torture program, should that be a black mark on her as she tries to move forward? >> no. she's not the first woman to run the central intelligence agency. technically. judgment, experience about the organization. she has a sense of humor. this will be debated about the interrogation techniques the cia used. the american people in 2002, including congression...