Terror attacks and even find and kill Osama Bin Laden himself. Former Vice President dick cheney calls the report a bunch of hooey. He said that before it was released or had a chance to read it. The reaction not purely partisan. Some democrats say the report is biased. Some republicans, you heard john mccain on the floor yesterday, defending the report. Lets check jim acosta at the white house in the Briefing Room where that briefing is set to take place. What are you hearing, jim. What are we expecting to hear here today . Good morning, john and michaela. The White House Press secretary josh ernest, they scheduled an unusually early briefing this morning. But theyre saying that purely for logistical reasons but we are going to hear josh ernest take these questions head on about this torture report that was released by the Senate Intelligence Committee Chair yesterday dianne feinstein. We shall point out ernest took questions about this on air force one during a press gaggle with repo
there aror things we can t know but there s one thing the president knows. the president knows that continuing to employ these techniques descried in that report would only undermine one of the most powerful weapons in our arsenal to protect american national security and that is the moral authority around the globe of the united states of americ america. let s bring in our military analyst, mike hertling and former cia officer peter brooks. peter is also a national security expert with the heritage foundation. if i can start with you as a cia veteran. there seemed to be two real issues here. you just heard josh earnest talking about it. do these enhanced interrogation techniques, do they work and is it worth it? two separate questions. what do you think? that s a tough question to answer. what you re talking about here is putting this in context of the need for timely information. there is plenty of information about how these techniques will not work. john mccain talked about t