president obama s taking fire from newly empowered republicans unseemingly every front including national security. their complaint, he s made the country less safe specifically when it comes to interrogating terrorists. one congressman in particular plans on challenging the president on this issue and has the platform to do it. michigan congressman mike rogers is chair of the house intelligence committee which overseas the vast intelligence community. chairman rogers joins us tonight from washington. welcome. thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. i appreciate being here. representative rogers, you ve been critical that our interrogators, debriefers, however you want to put it, are limited to only 19 techniques. what would 20 look like? what specifically are we talking about ? let me give you an example. this is a great question. the army field manual says you can t do certain things. i can t go into a cell of somebody who is a foreign-born
president obama s taking fire from newly empowered republicans unseemingly every front including national security. their complaint, he s made the country less safe specifically when it comes to interrogating terrorists. one congressman in particular plans on challenging the president on this issue and has the platform to do it. michigan congressman mike rogers is chair of the house intelligence committee which overseas the vast intelligence community. chairman rogers joins us tonight from washington. welcome. thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. i appreciate being here. representative rogers, you ve been critical that our interrogators, debriefers, however you want to put it, are limited to only 19 techniques. what would 20 look like? what specifically are we talking about ? let me give you an example. this is a great question. the army field manual says you
through january 24th, is one workday in the united states senate? you can t explain it in real life except to say that s the way the senate works. what my hope is is that the last two years were an aberration. the democrats said, we won the election. we ll write the bill. now nothing is going to pass unless we have some consensus, like we did on the tax agreement. some republicans, some democrats. so during this long day that we re about to have, i hope that we focus on jobs, debt and terror and, you know, move the country forward. that s what we re here to do. we need to get back to that. senator lamar alexander. first day of school for you, too. long day as we said. good to have you here. thanks for being with us. thanks is avanna. much more ahead on the daily rundown. at the top of the hour, chris jansing and company live on capitol hill. among her guests, representative van hollen, representative
covert operations officer, the president of diligence and global intelligence, a security firm. mike, thanks for coming in. look, we want to ask terrorists the right questions to get the right answers to prevent future acts of terrorism. does hig, which is what it s called, work? in a short answer, no. representative rogers has this absolutely right on this issue, and he s been talking about this for some time. but the hig, this interrogation group, was put together much like the dni itself for primarily political reasons as opposed to reasons for operational efficiency. so, you know, i m completely onboard with what rogers has been talking about and, frankly, there s a lot of people in the intel community that wouldn t shed a tear if hig was disbanded. jamie: in addition, we hear a lot about the field manual and the way in which we talk to terrorists. what s the status of the field manual? well, i mean, as of this
bayonne york. what byron york. what is a momma grizzly? according to sarah palin, self-sufficient, independent tough-minded woman candidate. the thing about momma grizzlies they are very protective of their own people. they are very self-sufficient and you don t mess with them. that s her idea of a momma grizzly. i don t know how many americans really identify with the grizzly image. but it is clearly an alaska thing. she talks about going out and watching the bears and seeing how they treat their young and how fierce they are in them. interesting image for these women she endorsing. she endorsed three women, representative rogers, a republican in washington. also star parker political commentator house position in and mary fallon.