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President dick cheney, who blasted the report on fox news. >> i think it's a terrible piece of work. we did exactly what needed to be done in order to catch those who were guilty on 9/11 and to prevent a further attack and we were successful on both parts. >> this report says it was not successful. >> the report is full of crap. >> to the agency's former director, michael hayden. >> what stunned me about the report most was the fact that it was written in the way it was written. it's an unrelenting prosecutorial document. >> both men say the c.i.a. is right in asserting that harsh interrogatio...

Search came from enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and stress positions. >> actionable intelligence that was "otherwise unavailable" was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> reporter: the cia and senate republicans dispute that saying detainees in cia custody who had been the subject of those techniques helped lead the agency to a man named abu achmed al kuwaiti. >> the al qaeda facilitator who served as osama bin laden's personal courier and the man who led cia intelligence analysts and the navy seals to bin laden himself. >> re...

That right. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> come back. >> i want to be back. thank you. >> montel williams. coming up, did you see the movie "zero dark 30?" how about the tv series "24?" a new study says you may be more supportive of torture. we'll talk to a woman behind the fascinating study next. ♪

Bro'. your jihad is over. >> that was "zero dark 30" that chronicled the manhunt for osama bin laden. the message of torture were not from this hollywood blockbuster. you read the details. ice water baths. rectal feedings. slappings. sleepless nights. all practices the senate report suggests were ineffective and more brutal than allegedly thought. for hollywood, torture scenes are working. the number of torture scenes in television have skyrocketed and there was a recent study that shows that when people see torture as being effective in fictional tv scenes, they are more likely to support it....

Presidential directive. >> does the president agree with former cia officials that the interrogation techniques did result in actionable intelligence or does he agree with the senate committee's conclusion that they did not. >> well, jim, you are acknowledging that there are a couple of sides of a very vigorous ongoing debate. this is a debate that occurred around the announcement of a successful mission to take osama bin laden off the battlefield. there was a similarly robust debate that occurred around the release of the movie "zero dark 30" that examined issues around the bin laden mission....