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Mileage. she has worked for more than 30 years in the agency. she has earned the right to be there. she can go to work on day one. the other thing is that if president trump wants a nonpartisan cia director, she is the perfect choice because she is going to tell him what's going on based on the best intelligence available without filtering it through some kind of a political lens to either please him or achieve some political goal or via for a better job in government. she is the perfect choice for this particular job. brian: she is going to break a ceiling here there has never been a female c...

I've heard democrat senators make the claim, we voted for him for head of cia. now we've seen how he's been in the position, we changed our mind. i don't think that works. gina haspel is the real issue here and her role in the torture program. that's been something that a number of senators optioned. we heard from secretary mattis. i did better with pack of cigarette than beer than i did with waterboarding. she's going to be real problem here. there are number of people come out in support of mike pompeo. z including diane feinstein who was defending gina haspel against allegations that she wa...

Shores. the president there you saw him getting on the plane. we'll cover his trip as it happens here live. >> potential show down looming over senate confirmation hearings for president trump nominees to fill positions. mike pompeo for secretary of state and gina haspel for cia director. meeting with north korea's kim jong-un and ongoing rusian meddling allegations in u.s. elections. democratic senator tim kaine he may cause trouble for haspel and pompeo. >> he's going to have a lot of convincing to do based on statements he has on the record. we don't need more fire and fury. we need a diplo...

That torture. would you be a yes or no vote for her confirmation? >> again, this will go through intel and vote for it on the floor. the combination of her track record with the torture program but then her apparent involvement in destroying records and tapes about that program i think that this really sends a bad signal to put something like that as the head of the c.i.a. again, i'm going to see how she does at the hearing, but those are two really, really tough bits of history that would suggest that she's not the right person to head that agency. >> senator, david ignatius has a question fo...

Cia, two democrats on the intelligence committee sent president trump a letter protesting that appointment. protesting gina haspel's background makes her unsuitable and urged trump to declassified a description of her role in the cia's torture program. needless to say trump never did that and did appoint her to the number two job last year. now today he's nominated gina haspal to be the director as he tries to move mike pompeo out replacing the abruptly fired rex tillerson. it was said he will oppose the nomination to run cia. he says he'll oppose it for some reasons he can't talk about and fo...