that s jdb that s the coolest. that has jose in zero gravity. here s jose eating chocolate. that cool is in the eye of the beholder. in this case the rundown staff. that s going to do it for this thursday edition of the rundown. i m craig melvin in for the chocolate eating jose. up next congressman adam schick from the house intelligence committee joins us with strong words from that torture committee report. and nasty e-mails from heavies of celebrities just the latest to come out of that sony hack attack. that s next.
tactics were used did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. i think you ll hear him make a similar case. what s been striking is that the president and john brennan have disagreed so starkly on this point. president obama making the complete opposite point. and essentially saying that he supports what the intelligence report found, which is that these interrogation tactics didn t lead to actionable intelligence and they did, in fact, amount to torture. this is really the first time we re seeing this type of split between the president and the cia director. the two have a very strong relationship. the question is how will that impact their relationship moving forward as they deal with these large issues like drawing down the war in afghanistan and of course trying to close guantanamo. we ll look at what brennan has to say. kristen welker 1600 pennsylvania, luke russert on the hill for what is certainly going to be a busy day there. we
decision that he was going to outlaw many of the kinds of techniques that were contained in this report. also making it clear not only that he s not going to change that position but that he believes that the justice department now has any responsibility for making decisions about what has been the other ongoing controversy here. about whether or not somebody should be prosecuted for the kinds of techniques that were used in this report. greg. senior white house correspondent chris jansing for us. thank you as always. as we mentioned cia director john brennan speaking at 1:30 eastern. we ll bring that for you live right here on msnbc. i want to update you on that major storm system barreling over the west coast at this hour. torrential rains, and winds backpacking a hurricane punch. a one in a decade s storm for
values, but we also heard brennan say that it saves lives. he s clearly going to have to address what he thinks of the report. in addition, we have to look at this in the context of not just what happened in the past but what is going to happen going forward because john brennan has been one of the president s national security advisers obviously they have a couple of enormous things on their plate. one is what was the winding down of afghanistan and the fight against isis. and so this is also going to set the stage in some ways for where he sees the agency going forward. greg. chris, can we expect that women is going to represent the administration s final word on this? the final word comes from the president, and as far as torture goes he s been clear what his position is and in fact has been from day two when he made the
wouldn t say definitively. you re not hearing the white house put up a big fight. they say they re still reviewing the fine details of the legislation. i think what they re signaling is at this point president obama would sign that legislation. let me ask about the continued fallout from the so-called torture report. we heard from former vp dick cheney yesterday. this is just a snippet of what he said. this report says it was not successful. the report s full of crap. excuse me. said hooey yesterday. john brennan expected to respond this afternoon. any idea at this point what he s going to say? so far, john brennan has continued to defend the interrogation program, saying it wasn t torture, and it did lead to actionable intelligence. the statement released said our review indicates interrogations of detainees on whom these