is there a way to give me a number how many hours of prep time would you ask for with the president before going into this high stakes meeting? as many hours as possible. it s taking place way too fast. we didn t have a lot of prep time, we don t have a lot of people working on it but, of course, all these guys come out with a big prep book like this, will president trump read it? i hope he s taking advice by his officials? sue mi terry, come back and talk to us as we get closer. i will. thank you for being with us. coming up, it was a tough hearing for the cia nominee, but it wasn t torture. that was the subject behindmost of the questioning. we ll show you what happened when the 11th hour continues.
number, how many hours of prep time would you ask for with the president before going into this high stakes meeting? it s taking away way too fast. we zrnt a lot of people working on it. stheez guys could probably come up with a big prep like this. i hope he s taking advice by his officials. so we ll see. sue mi terry, please come back as we get closer. thank you for being with us. coming up, it was a tough hearing for the cia nominee, but it wasn t torture. that was the subject behind most of the questioning. we ll show you what happened when the 11th hour continues.
i was a strong advocate and helped put together the enhanced interrogation program. some people call it torture. it wasn t torture. frankly, i was stunned to hear that quote from vice president cheney. if he doesn t think that was torture, i would invite him anywhere here in the united states to sit in a waterboard and go through what those people went through, one of them 100-plus odd times. that s ridiculous to make that claim. this was torture by anybody s definition. they make a case that when the republicans took over the senate, you became the chairman of the committee with jurisdiction over the telecommunications committee and basically push through telecommunications reform act but in the process you raised lots and lots of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars. they said in this story, no one used the system better than pressler. when you look at the campaign that you re running now, do you look back and say, i was part of the problem? yes, i would say i was part of
let me finish tonight with the year 2014. did you notice something about the naughty or nice list? normally, it would seem jive nile or childish phrase to use on a political show. naughty, nice, are those adult words to use with those operating on the world stage? right now, it seems they are. let s start with the naughty list. is is there any doubt that dick chene, mr. perpetrator and defender of torture deserves top billing or chris christie is now seen as the real thing. the thing we hated in high school, bullying. find despicable as a grown up. isn t michelle bachman a useless, disaster of holder of public office. now the nice, pope francis
we re back with our roundtable, this is the last show before christmas. although it will be a while before politicians will have to account for themselves again to voters, here s a hardball account now. we begin with the naughty list. at the top of that is the man who not only has no remorse for the use of torture, even on some people who turned out to be innocent, but he says he would do it again in a minute, of course. i m talking about former vice president dick cheney who after all was in charge of all intelligence operations in the bush administration. let s watch him in defense. i was prepared and we did, we got the authorization from the president, and authorization from the justice department to go forward with the program. it worked. it worked now for 13 years, we ve avoided another mass casualty attack against the