Page 21 - John Ernest News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Covering it. he joins us live now. good morning, jim. >> good morning, carol. that's right. this is an especially important briefing this morning because it will be the first time we're hearing from white house press secretary josh ernest on camera about the release of this torture report. he commented in a gaggle with reporters on air force one yesterday and he was asked, you know, weren't the president stands by his claim that these harsh interrogation tactic which were laid bare in that torture report, whether he believes that that amounted to torture and josh ernest told reporters yes, the...

Of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. >> reporter: as for the president's claim that those harsh interrogation tactics amounts to torture, white house secretary john ernest was asked that question, he said the president still stands by that claim. >> jim acosta reporting live from. u.s. troops around the world are bracing for the threat of retaliation to the so-called terror report. the senate investigation steer bid dianne feinstein detailed the cia's brutal tactics to interrogate some 9/11 terror suspects. here is senator feinstein reeling off a long laundry list of docu...

Rhetoric. >> reporter: absolutely, michaela, that's right, and the white house reaction to john boehner's lawsuit was swift and harsh with press secretary john ernest calling it a political stunt, a new day for washington dysfunction when it's headed for a courthouse. it's a constitutional collision between both ends of pennsylvania avenue. >> this isn't about me suing the president. what we're talking about here are places where the president is basically re-writing law to make it fit his own needs. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner made official what he's threatened for weeks, that he'...

To go back to where we were. that's not in the cards. >> a new polling shows 43% believe the u.s. has a responsibility to assist iraq leaders against these insurgents. 50% say there is no american responsibility to get involved. now, 11 years after the u.s. invasion, more than seven in ten say the war in iraq wasn't worth it. well, there is more fallout this morning over the irs targeting of conservative groups. the agency has agreed to pay $50,000 to the conservative national organization for marriage. over the unauthorized release of a tax return. the nonprofit group says the irs admits to...

outright. he seemed to have all the momentum going into last night's runoff. but yesterday's vote defied conventional wisdom about getting out the vote. with nearly 56,000 more voters going to the polls. so where did the new voters come from? the cochran campaign got the help from the national republican senatorial committee and some big names in the state who helped turn out voters in strong cochran areas. and cochran supporters actively sought out african-american democrats, making the argument that cochran had delivered for mississippi. mcdaniel has called the tactics to get liber...