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Reinstate these black fights. listen what he told abc yesterday. >> president obama said the u.s. does not torture. will you not say that? >> i have a general who i have great respect for, general mattis who said, i was a little surprised, who said he's not a believer in torture. i have spoken to others in intelligence, and they are big believers in, as an example, waterboarding, because they say it does work. >> so senator, this kind of talk according to many experts inflames terrorists and also upsets our allies. britain's prime minister was forced to repeat her country's opposition to tortu...

You're somebody i have a great deal of respect for, and i think we've got a chance to talk many times over the years. let me tell you how i see it. and let me tell you what i was trying to speak to. we live in different bubbles. and in the bubble that i live in, when you saw that alt-right movement coming, actual white supremacists, actual white nationalists. and not only were they on the scene, but more than two dozen times, donald trump was retweeting them. that sent a shock wave through my community. this is coming right after you had those nine african-americans who were killed in that chu...

Pain comes. >> did those words cause you pain? >> yeah, they struck at me. because -- not me, but what your comment was about our country. because i don't see our country that way. i don't see this election that way. to suggest there was a whitelash, in part against a president, a black president, who was twice elected with the majority, you know, a strong majority and strong white support, it was hard for me to say that is based in any kind of real objective analysis of what was going on. you heard from the folks who were up here earlier and i heard it over and over and over when i was campai...

Parties come together and say let's jack up the debt ceiling, money, and let's not let's keep provide meaningful relief to obamacare. >> why didn't you try to block the final deal? >> i could have delayed it a day or two. that would have had no impact on the outcome. i'm interested in fighting fights where you can make a meaningful difference for the american people. >> the real problem with what mr. cruz did was he turned to decent, devoted conservative americans and said i've got a shortcut. there aren't any shortcuts. it was to me an act of supreme irresponsibility to arouse the republican ...

Parties come together and say, let's jack up the debt ceiling, let's keep spending. let's keep borrowing money and let's not provide meaningful relief to obamacare. >> why didn't you try to block the final deal? >> i could have delayed it a day or two. that would have had no impact on the outcome. i'm interested in fighting fights where you can make a meaningful difference for the american people. >> the real problem with what mr. cruz did was he turned to decent, devoted, conservative americans, and said, i got a shortcut. there aren't any shortcuts. it was to me an act of supreme irresponsib...