Institute hosts this 90 minute of that. Good morning. Welcome to this mornings panel. Separating fact from fiction. I am a member of a task force on detention and interrogation policy. Captain bigelows recent film sparked controversy. Recentryn bigelows film sparked controvery. Its graphic depiction of eight torture. For the most part, the outrage has come from the left. You are a conservative like me, when you see the washington left with the hollywood left, your temptation is to sit back and destroyed a fight. And enoy the fight. That is why many of the cia and defenders and supporters stayed out of this debate. I interrupt while the progressives are fighting it out. But the fact is, culture matters. Many americans will form their opinions based on what they see on the silver screen. It is important for those who know the truth to set the record straight and separate fact from fiction. Today, we have a distinguished panel to help us do that. Three veterans. There were directly involv
Internationally. Well be joined by John Hoff Meister and at 9 15, the American Made movie, a documentary looking done by nathaniel mcgill. You can find that on tuesday washington journal which will start at 7 00. See you then. How you believe your members should vote. Looking at some of your facebook responses, it Cheryl Maddux says they should vote no and going in there. This has been mishandled from the beginning. Innocent lives will be lost. A says they will vote for limited strike if there are no consequences. What about charging syria with International War crime atrocities . The murder of men, women, and children should be addressed but i do not know what the response should be. We would like to know what you think. Share your comments at facebook,. Com cspan. Kids they win by the data did not play with stuff. Parents said they want to keep their kids safe. No parents have used the safety features on the programs they buy for their kids. If you just act on the data you were going
When he came into the office, the program had been suspended. He was not involved in its initial creation. He conducted a partial assessment. He gathered all the information and had to advise the president whether or not to restart it. He concluded he could not advise the president not to have an Interrogation Program. We will ask him to explain why that is. Jose rodriguez is the former director of the cia service. He was an undercover officer, becoming the head of the cias counterterrorism center. Including the Interrogation Program defected in this film. He is the author on what i considered the best book on this topic. He is in my view an american hero. John is the former chief legal officer of the cia. He spent 34 years in a cia office of general counsel. He has been called the most influential career lawyer in the cia history. In his memoir, a former director wrote, you do not call in the tough guys in a crisis. Call lawyers. Get the information they needed while staying well inbo
Helps to humanize the president. And they also raise a lot of money. I would agree with both of them. I would also not want to overlook that in ways less obvious than that, they may actually wield more historical influence. Go back to influence and image we still dont know how the full story of how important nancy reagan was behindthe scenes in terms of personnel and policies. But she was clearly hugely influential. And i would argue, based on what we do know, most of the time for the better. I think the question was, did the voters vote for first ladies. And i dont think people in 1984 thought mrs. Montel mrs. Reagan. Historians get to vote in ways that voters dont. And i think historians may ascribe a different kind of significance to the many first lady than the average voter. Well, first ladies, influence image. Monday nights. Thank you for joining us. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] season two of first ladies begins monday live at 9 00 p. M. East
Im in. Depends on your definition of attach the reforms of you get into what those words really mean, and i began to say that is not reform. There is nothing in the plan that asks everyone to pay there is nothing that ask the wealthy to be part of the solution. What we have here is a disagreement as to the basic problem. We are still hearing talk about tax on the wealthy. We just got some tax on the wealthy. It will pay for about a week of running the federal government. If we confiscated everyones income that make over 250,000 north, it pays for one year of the deficit. I am just saying, if we brought it down to what the president wanted to bring it down to. The medicare situation, the Social Security situation, medicaid, the Congressional Budget Office and everybody taking a look at it basically said it is not sustainable. The trajectory, there is no way around it. It was hit on just a minute ago, when someone said was concern, it cannot do that without taxing the middle class. Exact