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Afghanistan has fallen to the taliban and horrible stories out of there. there's information that kandahar has fallen. we can't confirm that. we don't have people on the ground. we have oversight flight. i've been to all of those places. i think that you're going to see this go fast. this hope that the taliban is somehow going to be enlightened in the world stage and they're going to be engaged in the u.n. or anything else is just rose-colored glasses to the x degree. >> martha: preposterous given what's going on and the reports of what is coming out of afghanistan in terms of the torture repo...

An ongoing investigation of the president, whether or not he was correct about the obama, in particular, about the obama alleged wiretaps. that does not require anything other than just showing them the reports from the fisa judge. but what michael is talking about is the sensitivity of collection methods that would require going to langley, for instance, when dianne feinstein was investigating the torture reports, they had to go to a separate facility. that was one of the big issues, that they could not do that even in one of those secure rooms on the hill. >> and ali, we have confirmed that ...

All. >> andrea mitchell? >> well, i just think that the fact that comey was on the hill, that they didn't have to go to langley today, clearly, this was in response to the demands that they clear up, that the fbi clear up, whether or not there's an ongoing investigation of the president, whether or not he was correct about the obama, in particular, about the obama alleged wiretaps. that does not require anything other than just showing them the reports from the fisa judge. but what michael is talking about is the sensitivity of collection methods that would require going to langley, for instan...

Devastating as those on some of the democrats who are around the presidential campaign of hillary clinton. so i think that -- i'm not sure that anybody else received any kind of warning. my e-mail information was placed on the internet. i was never warned until it was -- until i started getting calls from all over the country. most of them nasty. we just didn't have the information at the time. >> representative cleaver, what do you think should be done right now within the house and within the senate to make sure that the american public knows what happened. do you think that the information ...

>> the majority side of the intelligence committee has spent the last four years and $40 million focused on a program that effectively ended over eight years ago while the world around us burns. >> the chair and vice chair of the select committee on intelligence released this report on enhanced interrogation techniques, the so-called torture reports. the cia's use of enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of gaining intelligence from detainees. the interrogations of cia detainees were brutal afbtd far worse than cia represented. the conditions of con finement for cia deta...