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The confirmation of pompeo and he may run into some snags there. but overall, republicans, i s i talking to are encouraged by the change and hope there can be some good solid conversations in advance of this direct meeting with north korea. >> if you can, pick up on the confirmation notion for a second here. do you envision democrats standing, trying to stand in the way of mike pompeo. he's already been confirmed once. why try to block it now? and then there is gina haskell, deputy director of the cia who would be first woman to run the agency. on the other hand, there is controversy in her pa...

Pick. he certainly knows how to manage this type of an investigation and has history, as some critics have charged, not worked as aggressively on investigations where the involvement, the intelligence agencies in some kind of inappropriate activity and that goes back to his time as the head of the criminal dision of the justice department and, of course, during his tenure at the fbi is when the bush administration initiated torture programs, warrantless wire programs, wiretapping programs and, therefore, you know, the idea that he would be as aggressive as we need him to be might be in questio...

He was involved in the torture programs of the bush administration, illegal justification for them. >> in general, do you like the idea of having a potentially, at least the ability to filibuster either party, democrats right now with the republican nominee or maybe in the future republicans with a democratic nominee. the ability to block a nomination by filibuster. do you think that's something that tradition that should continue in the senate or do you think going forward, long-term, that's something that should be a simple majority vote no matter who the nominee is? >> i think we're going t...

Rich and engel dallcalled it a despicable action. >> there is a lot of hypocrisy going on at the white house. it was critical and it is important in this report. at the same time they are droning people. it was interesting to watch annette henry press josh earnest on this. they were going head to head saying how do you claim moral authority when you are droning people yet you are so critical of the torture programs there was nothing there howe. >> i think it was an important question ed henry raised. it seems to me there is a lot of monday morning quarterbacking some years later where whether ...

Programs. >> that motivation for the report, chris, may show deep emotional feeling on the part of the senator, but i don't think it leads you to an objective report. >> wow. now the idea that senator dianne feinstein, who's pretty highly regarded on capitol hill, was simply being emotional in her desire for congressional oversight and disclosure of alleged torture programs, well, that was too much even for fox new's chris wallace to swallow. >> forgive me because you and i both know senator feinstein. you're saying you think she was emotional in these conclusions? >> what i'm saying is, first...