notorious killers. i have said it before. gina haspell and many people who worked with her and work with her for decades guess what, they say she is without a doubt an american hero. she is smart, she s diligent and she s brave. most importantly, our actions in the wake of 9/11 kept this country safe and brought justice to those people, and thoseot terrorists look at usama bin laden. he s at the bottom of the sea in part due to the work by people like haspell. jose rodriguez told us right here on this program that the enhanced and terry interrogation programs were vital to the war on terror. it led to the career which led to bin laden. watch this. so you are saying that these interrogation techniques were used what had been beyond what had been already disclosed.
schumer noted today that pulling out of iran will make it harder for them to give up their program but others here at the white house said the hands of both pompeo have been strengthened by pulling out of the iran, and another member of his team. cia member tina haspell, and the sister of a pilot killed in the 9/11 terror attacks that she s glad that haspell was actually tough on terrorists.aw she added that the interrogations were lawful and that barack obama had nominated haspell to be the first cia director, she would have gotten in through an easy boat rather than the hard process. joining us now, retired cia and senior intelligence officer daniel hoffman. we appreciate you being here. i have never understood the mentality that says, we are
gina haspell tried to withdraw her nomination on friday. her nomination has been controversial because of her role in treatment of terror suspects who people have labelled as torture. michelle kaczynski is joining me now from washington. it appears that haspel will continue to our confirmation hearing on wednesday, right? reporter: this is a difficult issue as laid out by the washington post. as you put out there we knew her confirmation would be very difficult. her time in the cia, she s more than qualified, she s spent more than 30 years in the cia, but she did help oversee a secret detention camp in thailand,
back and forth and i would refer you to president s outside counsel. reporter: yesterday the president threatened to get involved in the justice department if memos were not turned over in a finally manner to the house intelligence committee. what actions is the president considering taking and what does a timely manner mean to the president? how soon does he want the un unredacted version of the special counsel probably yesterday. as the president likes to say, we ll see what happens. reporter: would you remind us what the president s position is regarding a potential use of an interrogations tactic i m not sure what you re trying to connect. i know that acting director haspel has done everything appropriate under the law and she ll be a great cia director. we look forward to her being confirmed. reporter: thank you, sarah. question on russia. this morning the financial times
tread very lightly. but knowing bob mueller, if he feels he needs to i have to cut in here. sarah sanders has just come to the podium. the president encourages people of all faiths across the country to join together and pray for our nation. in that same light, president trump extends his thoughts and prayers to the nine victims and their families of yesterday s military plane crash in savannah, georgia. the nine members of the puerto rico national guard who had a combined 167 years of service were on an official mission. the president has been briefed on the incident and will work with the department of defense to provide assistance and resources to the puerto rico national guard. as you all know, president trump s nominee to lead the cia, gina haspell is scheduled to