News deck. Shepard first o on the fox news deck this afternoon President Trumps pick to run the cia says torture does not work and she is vowing to never again allow it. I have on this issue. I want to be clear. Having served in that tumultuous time i can offer you my personal commitment clearly and without reservation that under my leadership, on my watch, cia will not restart a detention and Interrogation Program. Shepard gina haspel appeared in front of the Senate Intelligence committee for a hearing today. The cia director nominee says there is no proof that enhanced interrogation techniques or torture helped get information from suspected terrorists. The president has asserted that torture works. Do you agree with that statement . Senator, i dont believe that torture works. I believe that in the cias program and im not attributing this to enhanced interrogation techniques, i believe as many people, directors who have sat in this chair before me that valuable information was obtain
Lawyers. Friends of mine from the middle east that say we used to go to syria. The place to go. Look what happened. Its so sad. But id like to see syria come back. We have a long way to help like with respect to the iran deal. Youll see what i mean by that over time. A lot of things will happen. [question inaudible] well, i dont know, i want to have peace in the world. Thats what i want. More so than the Nobel Peace Prize or any other prize. Id like to see peace. Ideally in the middle east, but in the entire world. We have a chance of doing it. North korea will be very important. Its a tremendous part of the world. It has tremendous potential. It has tremendous potential for its leader and its people. Well see how it works out. Right now were dealing with them. As i said, were dealing as though nothing happened. Theyre dealing with us, were dealing with them. Theyre working out times and meeting places and everything. In the meantime, if i read your various media, i find that maybe its
Haspel steps out of the shadows. Start with Stormy Daniels. Donald trumps attorney got about a half Million Dollars from a Company Controlled by a russian coal gasoligarch right e 2016 election. Nbc news reviewed financial documents that appear to support avenattis account of those transactions and we just learned, just minutes ago, that Pharmaceutical Company novartis made payments of 1. 2 million to cohens firm, essential consultants. Three times more than originally reported. Corporate giant at t also confirmed making payments. The question is why so much money went to cohens company, and Michael Avenatti raised a provocative possibility. Are you suggesting that Michael Cohen does not have a ph. D. In Aerospace Technology and pharmaceutical policy . Where youre i wont only suggest it but state that at a fact. Two real questions, i dont this guys the da vinci of our time. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is at the white house for us. I want to play the comments avenatti made here with Lawrence Od
Jongil and and the 3 americans who have been detained. This is a huge newsnight. We will get to iran, we will get to the primary races with big midterm impact. Three states had major Republican Senate contests and we are there lives with team coverage. Mike tobin is in indiana, Allison Barber in ohio and we started in West Virginia for the latest, Senate Primary that has been rather colorful. Patrick morrissey the winner, his pitch to voters, the only conservative in this contest and republicans rewarded him with a chance to challenge democratic sen. Joe manchin in the fall, who he is comparing to sen. Chuck schumer. Morrissey is the atty. Gen. He thanked donald trump for his tweeted support yesterday. He defeated congressman jenkins who was part of the president ial shout out was the target of more than 1 million in negative ads ordered by democratic super pacs. Thirdplace, Don Blankenship who tells me the constant attention on his conviction, conspiring to violate mine safety laws wa
He has copped to it in black and white. Based on recent media disclosures by the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani, we had some inkling that this disclosure might be coming. But once the claim was filed in the president s Financial Disclosure form today, it was quickly followed by a bona fide surprise. Alongside this public written declaration that he made this payment, the office of government ethics also today referred this matter to the Justice Department in a letter addressed to Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. That is not a Good Development for the president in this matter. It was a legitimate surprise when the Ethics Office released that referral today. We will get some expert help in understanding what that might mean, how serious that might be for the president , coming up in just a few minutes. Also today, the u. S. Senate released a statement from the democratic and Republican Leaders of the Intelligence Committee in the senate. Its a statement that will not sound cont