used in the days weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks. reaction on the capitol hill ranges from expected justification to complete disgust. glib, thoughtless, down right insulting. health care expert jonathan gruber talks about his remarks about the stupidity of america. will his apology be accepted? >> and then rick perry -- could this be his presidential comeback campaign? hey, everybody. good morning. it is wednesday december 10th.

identity grease great to have you with me. we get so some very serious news coming out of washington, d.c. this morning, reaction continuing to pour in over the highly controversial senate report that was fiej lfinally released. the report claims the cia interrogation after the 9/11 attacks fortune tin effective and much more brutal than represented. the cia is fighting back. challenging key findings alongside former directors who have dismiss tds report as one-sided and marred by errors. di diane feinstein, spoke about the committee on the senate floor. fur up with the kid, some of the details in this report are graphic. >> detainees were subjected to the most aggressive techniques

immediately. stripped naked, diapered, physically struck and put in various painful stress positions for long periods of time. they were deprived of sleep for days. in one case up to 180 hours, that's seven and a half days, over a week with no sleep. the cia lead several detainees to believe they would never be allowed to leave cia custody alive. detainees at one facility, described as a dungeon, were kept in complete darkness, constantly shackled in isolated cells with loud noise or music and only a bucket to use for human waste. >> now, andrea mitchell reports there were even more horrifying conditions. >> dungeons where one detainee stripped naked died of hypothermia. bin laden lieutenant was water boarded for two and a half weeks

24/7 until he passed out. 9/11 plotter khalid mohammed was water boarded, nearly drowned, slammed against walls until the report says he started making you were stories, a fake nuclear suitcase bomb and a report that al qaeda was recr t recruiting in montana. >> there was also confusion about how many detainees exists. records show at least 119. but cia officials stated there were less than 100. cia records show that president bush was kept in the dark w his first briefing taking place in 2006. that's four years after the program began. one memo said the to keep details hidden from colin powell

because he may employee his stack if he were to be briefed on what's going on. this is is a train wreck waiting to happen and i intend to get the held off the train before it happens. the five-year investigation also disputes claim that is the enhanced interrogations stopped eminent attacks and lead to information that located osama bin laden in pakistan. >> the committee found that the cia's coercive interrogation techniques were not an effective means of acquiring accurate intelligence or gaining detainee cooperation. we took 20 examples that the cia itself claimed to show the success of these interrogations. our staff reviewed every one of the 20 cases. and not a single case holds up. actionable intelligence that was

otherwise unavailable. otherwise unavailable was not obtained using these interrogation techniques. >> so there was swift reaction from all sides to the report which critics said could put americans at home and overseas at risk. >> president obama priced those working to keep u.s. citizen safe. >> one of the things that sets us apart from other counteds is when we make mistakes, we admit them. and i think that as i said in my written statement, there are a lot of folks who work very hard after 9/11 to keep us safe during a very hazardous situation, a time when people were unsure of what was taking place. but what was also true is that we took some steps that were contrary to who we are, contrary to our values. as i've said before, constituted

torture in my mind. and that's not who we are. >> republican senator john mccain, himself a prisoner of war in -- >> i think it's an insult to the many intelligence officers whoever acquired good intelligence without hurting or degrading prisoners to assert we can't win this war without such methods. yes, we can and we will. i have often said and will always maintain that this question isn't about our enemies. it's about us. it's about who we were, who we are and who we aspire to be. >> he says the enhanced interrogation methods are not torture and the investigation

has been politicized. >> as bad as some people think cia behavior was with regard to these 100 or so detainees, if everyone on the planet used cia behavior as the model, the over all treatment of detainees on earth would actually improve. this report was supposed to have conducted interviews, hearings and give recommendations. it doesn't have any of those. i was in government for ten years after 9/11. and let me tell you a phrase i inform heard from anybody in any position of authority. whatever you guys do about this terrorism threat, please please don't overreact. never heard it. >> there's also debate about whether congressional critics of the cia's tactics not only knew about what were being employed but chose not to speak about it until years later. nancy pelosi was briefed in too

about the enhanced terrorism techniques. pelosi she heard about some of the methods in three but was not told at the time that water boarding was being used. he personally told her in 2002 that water boarding had been used. rodriguez also siefinds fault w jay rockefeller. we've got big news on bipartisan ship in d.c. working. congress has avoided a shut down with little time to spare on this. they revealed a 1.1 trillion dollar spending bill. a side note tbill only keeps the department of homeland security funded through february when republicans hope to roll back the president's immigration action. and a proinvestigation to

dramatically increase limits on political contributions. and for the very first time benefits benefits to retirees to be cut. money for the fight against ice and funding to fight the spread of ebola. the bill is expected to go to a vote in the next few days. the mit economist who passed on obamacare vet because of the stupid di of the american voter. he described his comments as arrogant and inexcusable. >> in excerpts of these videos i'm shown making a series of glib, thoughtless or down right demeaning comments. i knew better, i know better. i'm embarrassed and i'm sorry.

>> gruber angered republicans by refusing to say how much money he received consulting for work on health care legislation. >> night before last, i was at the kennedy center honors where they honored tom hanks famously forest gump, the ultimate in successful stupid man. are you stupid? >> i don't think so, no. >> does mit employ stupid people. >> not to my knowledge. >> so you're a smart man who said come as the ranking member said, some really stupid things. and you said the same, is that correct. >> the comments i made were really inexcusable. >> so as republican tried to focus on the numbers, according to the more than 70 people enrolled in the affordable care act thus far, they wanted to

keep the focus on the success of that. >> and he did so during an interview wi interview. he said last year it would be a violation of law to shield anyone but dreamers from deportation. >> removing the issue of politics aside, what legally changed kwoem. >> well, you know, what i think changed is that having done what we did with the dream kids, my argument was not that we did not have some additional authority, my argument is that i did not have the authority to simply not deport. >> now tpresident also had a serious exchange about the record number of deportations issued earlier in his administration. >> as you were saying, you always had the legal authority to stop deportations.

then why did you deport two million people? for six years you did it. >> jorge, no, no, no. that is not true. >> so the president also said he's not concerned about being impeached over his executive action on immigration because he say what is he's done is neither illegal nor unprecedented. >> it was a mixed day on wall street with the dow and the s&p up but the nasdaq up 26 points. what arewatching for today? >> here we were plowing forward to record highs ohhn a weekly basis. and then we've gone a little soft on the market. so in the last few trading sessions we've seen the s&p off

0.8% here. we are okay. the markets are in the green largely here so i think you're going to build on that and you'll probably have a high eer session today. 18,000 is the big target. interesting story . mike jeffreys the ceo is departing. the 70-year-old is stepping down after 11 poor quarters. this is always a grim thing for a ceo, but the stock rallied eight percent on his departure. even so, it's still down 20%. >> jeff, tell us real quickly about new sentences concerning the bernie madoff scandal. >> this one just rolls on, doesn't it?

we now have a personal assistant of bernie madoff who's taken six years in the slammer. the computer specialist who worked with bernie made off is going to get two and a half years. this all the relates to how much they did or didn't know about the ponzi scheme. so this story continues to run and we are still seeing people very much affected by what bernie madoff did. >> thank you yesterday we told you about the eight finalists for times person of the people. the ferguson protesters, ebola care gives, vladimir putin,

taylor swift, tim koocook. roger goodell. who do you think should be their person of the year and why. tweets us your answers at way too early. we're going to read some of your best reasons why later in the show. still ahead here on way too early one of the nfl's top quarterbacks suffered a broken back in a north carolina car crash. we're going to bring you an update on the status of cam newton. s the something that millions of us do every day, but who among us are the most annoying at it. we're talking about fliers and bad airplane etiquette.

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in los angeles kobe bryant and the lakers joining fellow nba players in protesting donning tshorts with the words i can't breathe on them during warm ups before the game against the kings. as for the game, the lakers held off sacramento for 98-95 victory. listen to this, jn knohnny manziel is going to make his first start in sunday's game against the bengals. this comes after a dismal loss with brian hoyer. han zel who must lead cleveland to a win in the team's final home game in order to remain in the playoff contention is expected to speak to the media today. we'll see what he has to say. cam newton suffer add broken back after a car crash yesterday afternoon near the panthers staid jum.

look at these images. so sad to see this. the team says the he is in fair condition. he is expected to be released today. so thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family. this was all over social media yesterday with these images popping up. >> the roof collapsed and especially on the passenger side. he's lucky no one else was in the car with him because they would have been in serious trouble because of the way it crunched down like that. >> great hospitals in that region so i think he's going to be receiving some of the best medical care. we send him the best. what's cracking with the winter storm watch? >> still getting rid of the nor'easter, still getting a little bit of snow, icy weather in northern new england. the storm its is still sitting right over massachusetts. there's still a good deal of snow back towards syracuse,

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