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Whether or not gina is the right symbol and signal to sent to the world. >> that's right. people who have talked to say and this is a separate issue but related in the sense people close to the president point out that the way he's talk about north korea in many ways is one indication of how views the relative importance of the state department. to be specific, just today in the cabinet room. he said kim jong-un has been very open and honorable. over the weekend he sent a tweet welcoming the news that north korea was suspended its nuclear program ahead of these talks. the president characteriz...

In the days and weeks to come. i know you agree with me on that. >> do i. >> rand paul, he now says he will vigorously oppose the confirmation of both mike pompeo to become secretary of state and gina to become director of central intelligence. do you think these with nominations are in trouble? >> i don't know if they're in trouble yet. republicans have 51 republicans. and if you lose one, you're already in the place to get a tie breaking vote from mike pence. so for anyone to come out, especially in the president's side. and from democrats like bill nelson in florida, even dianne feinstein w...

>> she has someone up to her eyeballs in the torture issue. she was in charge of the cia torture site in thailand, a place where one man was water boarded 83 times. >> haspel ordered the destruction of waterboarding tapes. according to her boss who wrote about it. "the cable left nothing to chance. it told them how to get rid of the tapes. they were to use an industrial-strength shredder." haspel's defenders say those black sites have to be seen in context. the justice department and president bush authorized the actions. the cia believed at the time the u.s. was facing another major attack an...

Up dead or in gitmo that's not something they want to do. the other piece back to the options, sandra. there aren't any other good ones. are we going to hold our soldiers to the same evidence standard and put them through the u.s. court system? no. it's not reliable to send them back to places like yemen and pakistan where they end up being released. so that's just the final option and because yet obama refused to accept that, we are finding all of these workarounds. putting guys on ships and sailing them around the world because we had nowhere to go when they were captured. and then finally i...

With more on today's meeting, nbc news foreign correspondent lucy cavanaugh. lucy, good morning. >> reporter: alex, good morning. it's definitely going to be an interesting one to watch. big differences emerge between the prime minister and president trump on a number of issues, russia one of them. torture and the importance of international organizations like the u.n. and nato. but theresa may needs a trade deal from the united states. so publicly she's glossing over the differences and said yesterday's sometimes opposites attract. that was a front page in the "guardian" today. she's under a ...