bush alberto gonzalez.ttorney general, you were involved in the decisions to use in the enhanced interrogation tech feek neebings. yesterday i interviewed john rizzo, he was chief counsel at the cia who came over to the white house to brief you guy, to have conversations on what was legal, what was not legal. you were in the meetings. in the email he wrote dated july 31, 2003, he writes this -- it is clear to us from some of the run-up meetings we had with white house counsel that the white house is extremely concerned secretary of state powell would blow his stack if he were to be briefed on what's been going on. and then i had this exchange with mr. rizzo yesterday. listen to this. >> could you tell us who at the white house wanted to deny this information to the then secretary of state general colin powell? >> the white house counsel at the time was alberto gonzalez. >> later became the attorney general. >> all right. so did you want to keep this information in 2003 away from general powell? >> i don't k

. >> we have alberto gonzalez.the white house counsel when they originally signed off on these enhanced interrogation techniques and later became the attorney general of the united states. it was one of those early meetings that rizzo from the cia lawyer was with alberto gonzalez. rizzo says at that meeting they said don't share this information with the then secretary of state colin powell. he could blow his stack if he hears about it. we'll speak to alberto gonzalez about those early meetings and whether to avoid telling someone like collin powell what was going on. >>> a woman coming up doused with lighter fluid 19 years young set on fire and left to slowly burn to death on the side of this rural mississippi road but it is her final words that may lead police to her killer. we'll have a live report on that next. plus, that uber ride to the airport may be cheaper and more convenient but are you paying the price with your safety? state of california is now suing the car company. we'll tell you why coming up. (vo)

alberto gonzalez included. i think they should be punished for it. i think that these are regular people like us. not any better or worse than we are. from "the washington post." that is a little bit from "the washington post." you probably saw the live tweeting that she was doing yesterday while john brennan was speaking. vincent is in new hampshire. thank you for giving me this opportunity. i would like to address some of the earlier calls. was a skew ine facts. we seem to be switching topics back and forth. this happened post-9/11. time, we had a huge threat to our national security. we were very naive at the time. official in was washington was trying so hard to make sure something like this would not happen again. -- this was a mistake that we made. we had good intentions. this is part of our history that we are not going to do again. it is controversial. that theo remember toentions were not made belittle us. it was made to instill fear. was it the best method? no. i think we got your point. this is dale in memphis. want you to know that i unde

. >> alberto gonzalez criticized the report on torture, he was the attorney-generaling doctor the bush administration. here he is with tony harris. >> the question is waterboarding, it may be cruel, but is it torture? >> what is your view about it? >> the view of the administration that if it is conducted in a way consistent with one given by the department of justice that it may not violate the stature, it may be cruel, inhumane. >> i'm acting for your view. i gate what you - what is your view of waterboarding. >> my view is it can be cruel, inhumane and degrading. if it's done in a way that is consistent with the department of justice, it does not breach the legal standard of torture. >> alberto gonzalez was disappointed by the report because he says it's partisan and does not believe it is true. >>> two neighbouring states suing colorado over legalized colorado. alaska and colorado filed a lawsuit, saying that colorado created a gap in the drug control system hurting nebraska and oklahoma's effort to fight crime. pot is legal at the federal level. our picture of the day next plus...

alberto gonzalez, president bush's white house counsel, was nominated to be attorney general. during his confirmation hearings in january of 2005, mr. gone disolz told me that the administration believed that they had legal authority to subject detainees to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. that was the first time that a bush administration official had acknowledged this legal loophole. "the washington post" called that testimony a gross distortion of the law and cited it as a key reason for opposing the gonzales nomination to be attorney general. after this revelation, senator mccain asked me if he could take the lead on legislation that i had written to ban cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. i agreed. there was no better person than john mccain who in service to the united states of america was a prisoner of war in vietnam for more than five years, a person who had been subjected to torture because of his service on behalf of our nation. it became known as the mccain torture amendment. despite a veto threat from president bush, the senate passed the mccain tortur

. >> i invited alberto gonzalez to join me in "the situation room" later today who was then the whitecounsel and later became the attorney general. he'll be my guest at 5:00 p.m. eastern later today. we'll talk about this memo that colin powell was not informed of what was going on even though he was secretary of state because he would supposedly blow his stack. michael hayden will join us in "the situation room" later today as well. >>> new disturbing videos are being released right now by the terror group isis. brian todd is standing by. he's got the latest information. i have a cold with terrible chest congestion. better take something. theraflu severe cold doesn't treat chest congestion. really? new alka-seltzer plus day powder rushes relief to your worst cold symptoms plus chest congestion. oh, what a relief it is. here we go! i've had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most my life. but that hasn't stopped me from modeling. my doctor told me about stelara®. it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses... ... stelara® helps me be in season. stela

alberto gonzalez, any response? >> i'm not sure that i understood all of nash's question or comment. obviously, we have a constitution. it's clear that if you are born here you are an american citizen. that's from my perspective. that's good policy. if we don't like it if the majority of people don't like it in this country, obviously, we can try to change the constitution. i'm not sure i understood specifically his question. >> i think he was just making a comment that he had gone through the process essentially. that's how -- every country has the right to protect its own borders. >> no question about that. every country is sovereign. that's one of the aspects of being a sovereign nation as i said earlier is to determine -- being able to determine who is within a country's border. we do have a process. that's why i do believe it's important that whatever we do with the folks here unlawfully that we don't disadvantage those who have been waiting in line, who have followed the rules. i think that's very very importa

i want to play some sound from former attorney general alberto gonzalez reacting to this report.ave no way -- i have no way of knowing how much of this information is, in fact, true, because there is a lot of information, quite honestly, that surprised me. and i'm sure there's a lot of information to hear that surprises president bush. >> your take? do you believe he is surprised, president bush is surprised? we know he wasn't fully briefed, president bush on this, or briefed, really in depth until april 2006. >> i find that plausible. as bob said at the very top of government, that level of detail, you would think wouldn't ordinarily come into it. the briefings. but, you know, when you're talking about the report and rebutting the report, even if one looks at the first 19 pages of the major findings, any objective read of that report heavily footnoted, it talks about things that take of the intelligence, at most, either affirmed information that was already available, or was not all that important. it's there to rebut, and to go over where that information came from. so, again,

george bush himself and go right down the line, scooter libby, david addington, his lawyer, alberto gonzalez and everybody who signed off on these authorizations for something that is against every international treaty obligation that we have made on the particular subject. the u.n. convention on human rights, the u.n. convention on torture, the geneva convention, all of which has standing as u.s. law in addition to the international treaty commitments. >> mieke, there are a number of reasons for keeping information classified and plenty of information around this subject that will remain classified as a result of this report. where would you draw the line in a situation like this about what should be classified, what shouldn't, and how would you weigh what congressman rogers is saying about the potential risk to americans of releasing the information. >> so one of the things that you want to keep classified are the identities of covert agents. you do that for their protection and the protection of the people who work with them. and the administration has been working closely with the commit

the former attorney general of the united states alberto gonzalez.

alberto gonzalez, at the time was suggesting this was all acceptable conduct and it clearly was not. >> you issued a statement calling the revelations from yesterday's report, quote, grotesque. what part of the summary shocked you most? >> every single page had something in the executive summary that shocked me. whether the rehydration or keeping people sleep deprived for 180 hours. that's not what this country is about. we have to shut it down. >> should the agency issue an apology? >> absolutely. >> what is the likelihood of, at this point, of that happening? >> there's an arrogance that exists within the cia that has to be reigned in, and i would certainly hope they would recognize that with some soul searching they have to come clean on this. how can the cia have eavesdropped on the intelligence committee of the senate and get away with it? they are not above the law. >> congresswoman, thank you. >>> let's bring in the "newsnation" panel today. former cia counter terrorism analyst also coauthor of "find fix finish." i'm joined by roger simon chief political columnist for politico

>> the white house counsellor at the time was alberto gonzalez. >> who later became the attorney generalwas chairing the meeting that i described in that e-mail. now, if i said he said that, he said that. but i don't know whether this was mr. gonzalez himself or someone higher than him had told him and he was relaying it. i'm not sure after all these years. >> but obviously, if they have the actual e-mail, and you're saying it is accurate, what you wrote, but you were describing the reaction from white house officials and why they would keep all this information secret from the secretary of state. >> yeah. and as a coda to this, the secretary of state was briefed into the program. not immediately after the program began but some months later and as it turned out, secretary powell did not blow his stack. >> do you think he was given all the specific details? because in this report that the, dianne feinstein, the chairman of the committee released said they were still not sharing all the sordid details even with high ranking officials. >> i can tell that you all of the techniques were scri

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c-span, our conversation with former attorney general during the george w bush administration, alberto gonzalez. he comments on the c.i.a.'s enhanced interrogation techniques which begin after 9/11 and detailed in the senate intelligence report released this week. here is a look. >> sir, what was your role when knowing o approving or about the interrogation techniques used? >> i'm not sure these are the kinds of questions that can be discussed very quickly as you said in your introduction, but 'm happy to talk about them. i was white house council, of course, in 2002 when discussions about enhanced george es began and tenet was c.i.a. director felt strongly he had information about pending attacks and needed to find a way to gather that information consistently with the law and so he brought to the members of the national security council this predicament that he was in and talked about or presented the possible option of doing enhanced techniques. and, of course, that began to dial up primarily between the department of justice and c.i.a. in terms of what would those techniques look like and b

the chair of the house intelligence committee mike rogers and former former attorney general alberto gonzalez. in the senate tonight members are debating a $1.1 trillion spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown. a live look here on the senate floor. today house republicans earlier passed a stop-gap measure to keep the government open until at least wednesday if need be. senator barbara mick ullstromky who chairs the appropriations committee speaking now about the spending bill, the $1.1 trillion measure, on the senate floor while leaders are negotiating behind the scenes to attempt to schedule a final vote on that bill. watch the senate live on our companion network c-span 2. this afternoon former national security agency contractor edward snowden spoke via video conference at a cato institute conference on government surveillance. the justice department has charged snowden with violating the espionage act for leaking n.s.a. documents and he is currently living in russia where he has been granted asylum. he discusses the impact of the leaked documents and how to protect privacy o

compassionate approach to immigration reform is the new book by former attorney general alberto gonzales and david strange. judge gonzalezs us from nashville, tennessee, where he is dean of the belmont ski s1 f law. judge gonzalez, we'll judge will get into the book in a second. i want to ask a couple of questions about the cia and the interrogation and what's been going on here in washington. sir, what was your role when it came to approving or knowing about the interrogation techniques used? >> sure. well, i'm not sure these are the kinds of questions that can be discussed very quickly, as you said in your introduction. i'm happy to talk about them. i was whitehouse counsel, of course, in 2002 when discussions about enhanced techniques began. and they relate d to -- george tenant, who was cia director, felt strongly that he had information about pending attacks. and needed to find a way to gather that information consistent with the law. so he brought to the national security council or members of that council this prediblctmepr he was in. that was between the department of justice and the cia in terms of what would t

>> es que alberto es residente legal, y segÚn la acciÓn ejecutiva personas sin documento no importa que edad, solo que sean ciudadanos pueden solicitar la acciÓn diferida. a la abogada gonzÁlez no puede reclamarla hasta naturalizarse. >>> pero en esta situaciÓn puede tener la acciÓn diferida. >>> y otro ejemplo de otra persona que se puede beneficiar es un hombre que se haya casado y su pareja tenÍa hijos menores de 18 aÑos, ciudadanos o residentes legales. >>> para efectos de la ley de inmigraciÓn es su hijo. >>> la abogada gonzÁlez seÑala que muchos no podrÁn aprovechar la acciÓn diferida por no estar casados legalmente. >>> y debido que cada caso tiene sus propias caracterÍsticas es importante informar como un experto legal. recuerde que el gobierno no fijo una fecha para que las personas comienzen a solicitar acciÓn diferida. >>> entre tanto amelia juega con su nieto y prepara sus documentos. >>> no me gusta dejar las cosas para despuÉs. >>> en washington, lori montenegro. ♪ >>> es momento de pausa. al regresar: vuelven a la libertad un general y otras dos al regresar: vuelven a la libertad un general y otras dos personas en colombia no le hubiera dado importancia a una