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Evangelical support for the president. >> and the president's own campaign promises. steven cook, thank you so much for your insights. really appreciate it. up next, just one day before her confirmation hearing gina haspel secure enough votes to be confirmed. the agency should not have tortures terror suspects. you're watching msnbc. mr. elliot, what's your wifi password?
Tougher sanctions. there was a process. pompeo wanted trump to take some time so that we could say we're listening to the french. we're listening to the germans. we're not just going to pull out of the deal by ourselves. we want our allies with us because the biggest negative from what's happened in the last week is that the french presidents who trump gets along with pretty well, and the german chancellor who trump doesn't really like, both came to the united states. and their top priority was do something with us on iran and trump told his allies drop dead and over time, if you want those al...
Tough stuff there. >> sandra: meanwhile c.i.a. nominee gina haspel defending her record yesterday on capitol hill. >> i believe, as many people, directors who have sat in this chair before me, that valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda operatives that allowed us to defend this country and prevent another attack. >> sandra: several lawmakers critical of her tenure running a black site prison where terror suspects were interrogated. did she do enough to win them over? we'll ask a lawmaker who was in the hearing room, republican senator james risch. >> bill: the list is growing o...
And would she reinstate similar programs if confirmed? abc's mary bruce tonight with how she answered. >> reporter: after 30 years in the shadows as a covert agent, today, gina haspel stepped into the spotlight. >> i think you will find me to be a typical middle class american. >> reporter: but her career has been anything but typical. >> i recall very well my first meeting with a foreign agent. it was on a dark, moonless night with an agent i'd never met before. >> reporter: her history at the cia is largely classified. but what we do know today sparked protests. >> gina haspel's a torturer! ...
Make that admission but torture does remain a flash point here, these enhanced interrogation techniques. let's remember, president trump while on the campaign trail talked about how he felt like it would work, that some tactics like waterboarding wouldn't go far enough and told stories about how in the past -- acts of alleged terror or alleged torture to terror suspects, to war prisoners and he advocated the united states get back to that. now after taking office he says in conversation with defense secretary mattis he rised that perhaps that didn't work and he softened his stance but yesterda...