if she becomes cia director and how does the white house square that with the long held belief that torture is acceptable, on the campaign trail he repeatedly endorsed torture as a form of interrogating the president has confidence in gina haspel to lead the cia and wants to see her do exactly that and will allow her to fulfill that position and make those decisions. just to follow up on that. does the president still believe that torture works, since the campaign. i haven t had a conversation with him that recent lirks and the payments regarding mr. cohen. you said you are not able to answer these questions here in the briefing, that you would refer us to his outside counsel. could you possibly work on an arrangement where perhaps mr. giuliani or somebody who could speak on behalf of the president from a legal standpoint come into the briefing room and answer these questions so we re not on a daily basis trying in vain to ask you about all of these legal troubles facing the pr
of those conversations, what was the purpose of interrogating the general? steve: to catch him. to trap him which they succeeded in doing. brian: is that wrong, first off? i hear you say the last thing. is the premise of that wrong? in my personal view, yes. the government should not be in the business of trapping people. supreme court says it s okay, and the government does it all the time. why would they do this to the president s federal foreign policy adviser principal foreign policy adviser? general flynn had been at the ear of donald trump since june of 2015 when donald trump announced he was running for president. so why would the fbi be in a position to do that? we don t know the answer to that. flip side of this is the general used to be in charge of all the spies in the military. he was the head of the defense intelligence agency. thousands of people running surveillance to keep america safe urn him. under him. how could he not know that the fbi had transcripts of these
there are more sites now, hbcu campuses, and this victory is going to help in a major way. so it may not be there may be more to that not lack of enthusiasm or whatever. it may just be people cannot get t polls. i want to talk about it before i let you go because i think it is important, because it is not just in north carolina. there s a federal judge in ohio issued a temporary restraining order against trump friend and adviser and roger stone and his group stop the steal. that group was mobilizing to send poll watchers into areas. judge says if it prohibits or did delaying a prospective voter from reaching or leaving a polling place, or training, organizing or directing others to do the same, interrogating, admonishing, interfering with or verbally harassing voters or prospective voters. questioning voters under the guys of purported exit polling or citizen journalist operations
welcome back to hardball, a new audio recording is set to capture a 2009 conversation with mohammed emwazi. the tape documented emwazi speaking with an advocacy organization called cage, a controversial group that helps communities affected by the war on terror. in it he s complaining about an interrogating by a british official, and while he says he denied being an extremist, he said the agent didn t believe him.
would later head up the cia. in an op-ed goss writes the chairs in the ranking member of the house and senate intelligence committees known as gang of four were briefed that the cia was holding and interrogating. we gave the cia our bipartisan support. we gave the cia funding to carry out its activities. you personally briefed nancy pelosi? i did. about enhanced interrogation? we briefed here on 4 september 2002 about the interrogation of abu zabaydah. this wasn t just a courtesy call. u.s. law requires the cia to inform top congressional leaders about covert activities. one of the ranking members