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Rec perry denied an associated press report that he is in discussions to replace him. fox reports that john kelly could soon be leaving his post as chief of staff. as for attorney general jeff sessions, two republicans in regular contact with the white house say there are talks of putting epa administrator scott pruitt into his position. and there are reports that the president is adamant about getting jared kushner and ivanka trump out of there and back to new york. a friend of the president saying, quote, he thinks they've been getting hit too hard. so in the wake of rex tillerson's firing...

The cia. she shouldn't be judged by that policy and the time and endorsed her choice as cia head. do you agree, bob? >> absolutely. she used to work for me. i supervised her on her first overseas assignment, fact-based, tough. she was not the architect of the torture program. she, better than anyone, will tell you that it doesn't work, torture, and if there's any chance of getting this across to trump it's going to be gina haspel. so whatever she can do to get this guy back on track is going to be helpful. >> we do remember that trump has in the past said torture works. phil mudd, you have sai...

Especially with everything that's happening. again, this will send a chilling message in law enforcement, intelligence community. if you're willing to stand up against this president, if you're willing to testify in a criminal case, as andy is, against this president, your career will be destroyed. not only will your career be destroyed your pension will be gone. 22 years and he's going to lose his pension, i cannot look at it but, you know, the peak of pitiness here. >> let me move on to the president's pick to lead the cia. a woman by the name of gina haspel. the reason we invited to have yo...

But also america deserves the truth. we need to ask her, what does she feel about torture? did she change her opinions over the years? what was her involvement in the destruction of evidence in violation of federal judge? look, brooke, toward the end we have to look at what's happening with the cia nomination, what's happening in the fbi. and we cannot but notice the double standards. >> listening really carefully. i had someone on yesterday who knows a lot about covert options and was saying when she was overseeing this torture program she was essentially serving at the pleasure of the presid...

Standards than were in place at the time. that program stopped attacks, disrupted plots, and saved lives. so, i'm not concerned about that kind of talk. brian: go ahead. >> no. you go ahead. brian: politics and reality. you know the reality. you don't necessarily note politics. so when she is asked that question directly, did you torture people in thailand in black sites in eastern europe? how do you answer? >> i have no idea how she is going to answer that i can tell you how i would answer it. i would say no. brian: because. >> because that's not true. it's as simple as that it's just not tru...