Significant moments, the levels of energy and the response to this, the way people are feeling about this on both sides is extremely strong. That is because this is the first time in a generation we have had this level of public pressure applied by the white house onto the israelis, trying to change their tactics, and specifically using a hold on us Weapon Shipments to the israelis to do that. It is why for example hearing from republicans who were have come up republicans who were have come up with a better rebuke over the announcement last night of President Biden over this and democrats who eagerly have said they believe this is the right policy and in some cases have asked the question do they think it should have happened earlier . I was outside the Relations Committee earlier and we caught up with some of the senators during the meeting. They do not need to fight with their they do not need to fight with their fingernails, this is more political their fingernails, this is more po
national security analyst general michael hayden, the f m former director of the cia and the national security agency. good evening, sir. good evening. what a day. oh, yeah. as i said. first of all, i have to ask you about general kelly s speech. we ve used the word unprecedented so many times in the last two years. what did you make of today? i was frankly very impressed with the speech. and don, let me qualify that immediately. i think it was unfortunate the personal attack on congresswoman wilson. but if you take that out of the speech and let it stand on its own with what remains i think it was a magnificent statement. and don, the more i listened to it and read it and reread it and reflected i began to interpret it less as a defense of the president and more as a defense of the 1% of america who defend the other 99% of america and
you re at a fraternity party. a young girl gets drunk like too many do. she s nearly passing out. when you see your roommate or your fraternity brother walking her upstairs, have the gumption to step in, tell him, expose him, save him, have the nerve, look at that young woman as if she were your sister or your mother. you know it s wrong. you know. wow, lynn rosenthal, the f m former white house senior adviser on violence against
torturing. that s the problem. we shouldn t be asking senator feinstein how to interrogate, we should ask the interrogators. while we have you on, sir. thank you. the fm is good because it defines your left and right limit. what is legal and what isn t. torture is well out of bounds. it secondly gives you a tool kit to use and there s evidence based approaches that are good. i found my detainees were best when they were well rested and relatively comfortable. i needed detainees to remember minute and fleeting details i could only get when they were well rested. these are rapport based approaches that come from the fm. the other layer to this is this senate report that came out yesterday. i know you signed a letter back in february urging chairwoman feinstein to release this report. why did you want it out? well, i wanted it out it s not an information leak. this is an unclassified