mr. sanger, nice to have you here. thank you for coming in. great to be back with you. do you have insight in terms of this disavowel by the white house? it came as quite a surprise. it did. i don t know where the document originated. it could be that these draft executive orders since they ll be signed by the presidents are circulating within the white house among white house staff, among white house lawyers, going through all the review you would expect. so where the document had its origin is less interesting to me anyway about where it is being edited, massaged, changed and the decision is bag made about whether or not president trump will sign it. what substantively if that draft executive order were prepared for the president and he signed something that looked like that, what would be the material implication of that? a couple different elements. you mentioned the black sites.
the bounds of what you re allowed to do legally. do i feel it works? absolutely i feel it works. the question of torture came up in this abc news interview tonight because this morning late last night, actually, the new york times reported draft executive orders were circulating in the white house that would move toward bringing back torture and reopening secret cia black site prisons where terror suspects were tortured abroad under the previous administration. asked about those draft orders today, the white house press secretary had an unusual response. he said those are not white house documents. and the white house knows nothing about them. and we don t know what to make of that disavowel. joining us is david sanger, the chief washington correspondent for the new york times. mr. sanger, nice to have you here. thank you for coming in. great to be back with you. do you have insight iterms of this disavowel by the white
if they do want to do then i will work toward that end. i want to do everything within the bounds of what you re allowed to do legally. do i feel it works? absolutely i feel it works. the question of torture came up in this abc news interview tonight because this morning late last night, actually, the new york times reported draft executive orders were circulating in the white house that would move toward bringing back torture and reopening secret cia black site prisons where terror suspects were tortured abroad under the previous administration. asked about those draft orders today, the white house press secretary had an unusual response. he said those are not white house documents. and the white house knows nothing about them. and we don t know what to make of that disavowel. joining us is david sanger, the chief washington correspondent for the new york times.
do you have insight in terms of this disavowel by the white house? it came as quite a surprise. it did. i don t know where the document originated. it could be that these draft executive orders since they ll be signed by the presidents are circulating within the white house among white house staff, among white house lawyers, going through all the review you would expect. so where the document had its origin is less interesting to me anyway about where it is being edited, massaged, changed and the decision is bag made about whether or not president trump will sign it. what substantively if that draft executive order were prepared for the president and he signed something that looked like that, what would be the material implication of that? a couple different elements. you mentioned the black sites.
house? it came as quite a surprise. it did. i don t know where the document originated. it could be that these draft executive orders since they ll be signed by the presidents are circulating within the white house among white house staff, among white house lawyers, going through all the review you would expect. so where the document had its origin is less interesting to me anyway about where it is being edit edited, massaged, changed and the decision is bag made about whether or not president trump will sign it. what substantively if that draft executive order were prepared for the president and he signed something that looked like that, what would be the material implication of that? a couple different elements. you mentioned the black sites. we here in a very different place than we were than black sites first opened up in thailand and poland and i think