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Devised the torture program but conducted waterboarding will tonight be my guest. >> let's listen for a second. jim sciutto walk us through what we are looking at. >> there's general james mattis in a suit. of course remember congress had to pass a waiver because he's only been out of his uniform three years, the law said seven years dating back to the 50s so they had to have a waiver for him to take this position. it's a big moment the president's first visit to the pentagon, just a reminder when the nation is at war, two of the longest wars in history.

Torture program today would simply walk away or refuse to do it. >> thank you very much. more on president trump and the president of mexico called mutually calling off the meeting for this meeting over the border wall. also backlash erupts after this grammy award winning singer performs at the inauguration and spike lee now says he won't use her music. she joins me to respond. and they're absolutely right. they say that it's hot...

And there needs to be a facility at which we can take people off the battlefield and interrogate them and not sending people to guan man toe but even that was ended. >> i don't know how in the world closing this loophole would have any effect on whether we know if drone strikes are going to be effective. if anybody has a problem like i do still has a problem. maybe more so the fact that the president promised that he was going to be trapsnsparent about this program and this is something we need to do and we broke that promise, either because he knew at the time he was going to break the promis...

Found no way to close guantanamo and there needs to be a facility at which we can take people off the battlefield and interrogate them and not sending people to guan man toe but even that was ended. >> i don't know how in the world closing this loophole would have any effect on whether we know if drone strikes are going to be effective. if anybody has a problem like i do still has a problem. maybe more so the fact that the president promised that he was going to be trapsnsparent about this program and this is something we need to do and we broke that promise, either because he knew at the time...

Covert action and programs that are being conducted. and not just the principles, but the lawyers in their departments, as well, for obvious reasons. that's an important point, right. one of the things that has come out in the years since the bush presidency is that there were officials at the time who were worn e warning what was going on with the c.i.a. torture program. it wasn't right. one of those officials was phillip zeleca, deputy secretary of state of condoleezza rice. offered memos inside the state department in 2005 and 2006. o e so toward the very end of the torture program. the pro...