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Cables, officers water boarded one suspect -- this guy -- 83 times in one month athas pele's prib. he told his children, i thought i was drowning and my chest was about to explode. nbc news larn-- learned haspel present at the interrogation that the cia denies. and then in 2009 obama banned this and called it torture. in 2014 the senate intelligence committee released a report about the tactics calling it an ineffective means ever -- means of acquiring information and not an effective means of acquiring intelligence. and joining us now author and former ncis special agent, mark, let me ask you...

>> to you. talk us through the last couple weeks. when did the president first get in touch with you? when did he formally offer you the role and what was your immediate reaction? >> well, the last one is easy. my immediate action was yes, honored to take the job, which was last night. >> in an uber? >> actually it started on 5th avenue because i was at one of our john katz's dinners. john, larry, mark, we have them all the time. so the phone rang and of course the place was packed and one of his militariay agitants said th president is calling. i got in an uber. >> the weather was cold, not t...

Hey, i just want to give you a thanks to my friend ken dilanian. i was just talking to mark fallon about torture. i was talking about the most brutal interrogations of any detainee. i want to clarify that gina haspel was not according to our reporting present at those interrogations. this is information we have from current and former u.s. officials who say she arrived at the base where those interrogations took place after those interrogations had occurred. so, while she is accused of doing a whole bunch of things related to interrogation and the support of it including the allegation that sh...

83 times and he is the skum of the earth. whose goal in life it is to kill americans. why should we care that he got treated badly and he felt like he was drowning? >> because as officers of the united states government we adhere to the constitution and the united states adheres to the rule of law. so the application of torture tech nikes as a state sponsored policy has been to the detriment of our national security, regardless of who we've done it to. >> let me take back to november 23rd, 2015. campaigning in columbus, ohio, donald trump said this about water bordering. >> would i approve wat...