thank you, senator feinstein, the litany goes on and on.s is a report written exclusively by democratic staffers without reviewing a single intelligence analyst at the cia, released because they know the clock is ticking, the republican congress is coming in, and i personally believe that senator feinstein is trying to rewrite history to secure her legacy. she knew, she knew all of this and saying well, she knew but didn't really know. lou: ralph, i think the senator's legacy is now assured. colonel peters will rejoin us later in the broadcast. thank you, ralph. >>> time for a look at online poll results. whether you prefer to have a president who can inspire all americans rather than tear down and divide our nation? 99% of you said yes, you would like to have an inspirational president. be sure to vote in our poll tonight, the question is are you outraged that a sitting president would say your conscience requires the trigger and the inconveniences of street demonstrations to be awakened? cast your vote at loudobbs.com. >>> the supreme cou

we know what dianne feinstein did this.so think it's a moment where we can as a country take a look at what we're doing and our behavior and understand the fear that drove it and what we ought to be doing going forward. >> david? >> i just don't agree that this is an appropriate time. of course we need to be transparent over time. i think there are time and places where you can do that. when you can have a more rational, calmer conversation. but when you're in the middle of a conflict with people who are beheading their hostages and dressing them up as if they're detainees of americans and want to use this against us. i'm not sure i'd want to play into their hands. so many americans are questioning authority coming out of ferguson and all these race issues. i'm not sure this is a time to put another log on that fire. >> all right, guys. we're going to continue this discussion, full analysis. a lot more of the details. all of our reporters and producers, they're going thro h through. and i have it right here. these hundreds

that is the fundamental flaw of senator feinstein's report. they did not go and ask the professionals themselves and they have depicted them as a bunch of masochists running around torturing people for no good reason. host: the report says the cia used brutal interrogation techniques and that's our focus on this sunday. michael from bakersfield, california, good morning. caller: good morning. g mr. i'm a former united states marineross,. i know all about these techniques. we were not trained under those type of techniques. something you are not paying this analto is technique is not a technique. the stuff that was going on with the cia is not only illegal and unconstitutional but you should be brought up on war crimes. pretendto sit here and like this was about waterboarding, that's a fallacy. i have read that report and it is sickening. guest:. thank you very much that was the one technique we learned about that was new. rectal rehydration. first of all, thank you for your service in the core. when michael hayden was asked about this pointedl

is that what dianne feinstein did here? >> looks like it. they want to investigate, they fought jerry sponge ability -- they do it in private. don't do it in public because the first rule of foreign policy should be first do no harm. what we doing by this? endangering americans at home and abroad, putting out intelligence community in danger and we are frankly a generation of intelligence communities. we did this in the late 1970s. when senator frank church ran for president, and air cia and dirty laundry, he did not run for president but as a result of what he did, for generation, we have for our ability to collect human intelligence. lou: he got it, clandestine forces as a result, interviews of money. is there a political coincidence here? if at this report was released by dianne feinstein today that there was a public release of a difference of view between the white house and the couple cabinet members and the cia director about its released just as jonathan gruber was be trained the left by showing the fact that it was the fraud. obamac

guest: this is perhaps the lamest excuse we heard from senator feinstein. before i was in heritage, i was the senior counsel on the subcommittee of investigations in the senate. we investigated very controversial issues, very sensitive issues. we investigated cases where the justice department also had an interest in the case. our investigations proceeded along two tracks. we cooperated with the justice department. we found a way to do it together. we would call witnesses to hearings that would have to take the fifth amendment because the justice department investigation was going on. it is investigatory malpractice putting together this big of a report on this sensitive topic and not talking to the men and women and professionals of our intelligence community who are engaged in these practices and did these techniques and got information we needed to prevent follow-on attacks. host: 202-748-8001, our number for republicans, 202-748-8000 for democrats. you can join the conversation by sending us a tweet. you can join us on facebook. the washington post has

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also, dana bash who just spoke with senator dianne feinstein. senior white house correspondent jim acosta, pentagon correspondent barbara starr and with us from cairo where there are security concerns is ian lee. first, we want to go to evan perez with a look at what this report will say. good morning, evan. >> good morning, john. there's no doubt this is going to be a really ugly day for the cia. this report has been fought over for years now. for the last few months the cia has been working with the white house and with the senate to try to decide what to release in this report. the findings are going to be really ugly in the sense that we're going to learn a lot more about what went on in this program. we know for a fact that there's going to be more information about the detainees, what they were subjected to. we also know that the report will portray the cia as going beyond what the methods that were authorized by memos that were done by the justice department and that it misled, according to the democrats who did this report, that it misle

jon: senator dianne feinstein of california speaking now in the u.s.ate about the release of this report on the cia and its enhanced interrogation techniques. let's listen. >> the report, released today, examines the cia's secret overseas detention of at least 119 individuals and the use of coercive interrogation techniques, in some cases amounting to torture. over the past couple of weeks, i've gone through a great deal of introspection about whether to delay the release of this report to a later time. this colorly is a period -- clearly is a period of turmoil and instability in many parts of the world. unfortunately, that's going to continue for the foreseeable future whether this report is released or not. there are those who will seize upon the report and say see what the americans did? and they will try to use it to justify evil actions or incite more violence. we can't prevent that. but history will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. there may never be the ri

dianne feinstein. the next person to speak after senator feinstein was a republican senator john mccain of arizona. the former presidential candidate is known to be a tough defender of homeland security, one of the toughest in this nation. he is a tough defender of our military and an extreme defender of our intelligence community, but today, senator john mccain welcomed the release of this report and thanked the democrats on the intelligence committee for their work. senator mccain obviously has first hand knowledge of the effects of torture because his study of practices that i believe not only failed their purpose to secure actionable intelligence to prevent further attacks on the u.s. and our allies, but actually damaged our security interests as well as our reputation as a force of good in the world. >> i believe the american people have a right, indeed responsibility, to know what was done in their name. >> senator john mccain. president obama stopped the torture of detainees after he was elected

general let me add my thanks to the work of senator feinstein and former secretary george schultz and former mayor my good friend willie brown to i'll of you to say a happy occasion we match the dedication with fleet week we don't know how inspiring it is for the city we also made a promise over 82 years ago to get the dedication define i was reminded to remind i that charlotte shurts was not around 80 years ago to make that promise (laughter) but thanks to her and george and the incredible veterans committee raising all the funds a special thanks to steve and everyone on that list that you see today, this came to fruition over a year ago i mohammed in the eye and naomi he said we've got to make sure all the agencies honor our veterans by getting this memorial done not only did they go to work as a team with the arts and rec and park and the public works and the veteran war memorial committee and trustees they went to work almost as if they were called to go into the beach so thank you to all the city agrees for working so well together to honor our veterans this is another example as

and what do you make of dianne feinstein's silence on that issue in comparison? >> yeah, it's very interesting because, you know, this administration actually does not take any prisoners. they prefer to kill them from afar using drones. and somehow they feel that because they kill from a distance somehow it's more ethical. more ethical than the difficult and messy and unpleasant task and mission of actually interrogating a prisoners. i think it's a distortion of what our values are. you know what our values are -- >> i'll give you a choice, get waterboarded or get drilled with a drone strike. i think i'll take the waterboarding. >> i think i'll take the waterboarding, too. >> it's sad that you have to go through this, jose, because i view you and the work that you did to save america and keep america safe as an integral part of the fact that we've not been attacked in a major way since. so thank you for all you've done. we appreciate it. >> well, thank you very much. and thanks to all the people who are actually involved in the years that it took to destroy the a

listen. >> senator feinstein did not.s, gang of four and the gang of eight, knew this from the very beginning. >> so as michael hayden acknowledges, some did not know. plenty of others did. megyn. >> which begs the question, of course. because dianne feinstein had no right to know earlier than when she ascended to her position on the intel committee. those who were in those top positions were told. and now she's pretending like that didn't happen. that's at least how it seems based on the evidence. trace, thank you. well, the democrats went with this report despite repeated requests from secretary john kerry and others to at least delay its release out of concerns for the safety of our american military personnel. so now we're hearing questions about whether the woman in charge, senator feinstein, has an ax to grind here with the cia. we'll take a look at that next. >>> plus a 9/11 family member joins us to speak for those he says are not being heard in this debate. his powerful message ahead. so,as my personal financial

senator feinstein seemed opposed to that. it didn't happen this time, and so those publishers, without that advantage, declined to do it. so when we realized that's what was going on at melville house, we decided, well, these documents must exist as a print book, they must exist as a more readable digital book, and so we jumped to do it as quickly as we could. but there were all kinds of difficulties in doing that on short notice. it's called crashing a book. it's christmas time, so it's very hard to, you know, get into the system. booksellers have already ordered their books for the season, warehouses are already shipping those books, it's hard to get on the trucks to be distributed, it's hard to get printed. the printers are very busy at that time of year, and it's hard to cut to the front of the line. so we had to pull a lot of strings, ask for a lot of favors. we had about five consecutive days of the entire staff and a team of volunteers staying up around the clock to, basically, retranscribe the book, copy edit that new

senator feinstein, thank you very much for joining us. let me just ask you first off, what do you accomplish with the release of this report? >> well, i think we accomplish a number of things. once we say to the world this is not what we stand for. secondly, we make a record that's been dark and clouded very clear. and thirdly, this was a five and a half year effort by a number of our staff to get to the truth and to look at records, look at documents that were contemporaneous that weren't reinterpreted 12 years later. >> so this report has been carried out. it's being made public, and i think what it says to the world is this must never happen again in this country. >> woodruff: senator, we've talked to some c.i.a. officials. some of them are calling ate political witch hunt. they say that no one at a top level of the c.i.a. was interviewed by an intelligence committee member. >> well, if you listened to my remarks this morning, what i pointed out is the reason why there were no interviews, and that was the fact that there was a criminal

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dianne feinstein had a lengthy explanation of why she didn't.gardless, republicans say they can't lead to a conclusion that's accurate. and they also say that the fundamental idea that as gloria said, you're hearing the same thing from the cia. the fundamental idea that there were no actionable intelligence, meaning the torture didn't work, that's just on its face not true. and then, of course, there's the politics. listen to what senator marco rubio of florida said. >> it's going to put a danger to american servicemen and women, they know it puts in danger our alliance with key partners in the war on terror and they're going to go forward with it anyway. >> you're hearing that a lot from republicans in the hallways here. orrin hatch who is not somebody who curses very much, called a political piece of crap. in the hallways today. and they do think the democratic led committee is trying to go back in time and try to unearth some things to hurt republicans, to embarrass republicans. and i will tell you the democrats led by chairwoman feinstein st

you can see it on our website and the start, here is how the chairwoman senator dianne feinstein put it to sit -- start things off. >> the representations, detainees were subjected to the most aggressive techniques immediately. strip naked, diapered and put in long stressed positions and they were deprived of sleep for days. in one case, up to 180 hours. that is seven and a half days over a week with no sleep read usually standing or in stress positions. at times with their hands tied together over their heads, ch ained to the ceiling. >> many supporters are against the release of this report. here's a counterpart -- counterpoint from mitch mcconnell. >> the serves no purpose whatsoever other than to endanger americans around the world at a time of growing concern about the rise of terrorism. and the president seem to declare the war on terror over a while back. the terrorists did not get the message. >> we heard a lot of graphic things described today as this report came out. we are jaded and cynical about this in various ways. what was the most surprising and unsettling thing you l

this is unlike her, the dianne feinstein we've known. the only thing i can say about it is she's mad at the cia over alleged spying on her staff while they were compiling this report, but she's been mad at the cia for a while. i don't say she did this in quite a fit of personal pique because she's been on this for years. this does feed into party orthodoxy about the evils of the cia and all the rest of it, but it's very hard to explain dianne feinstein's behavior here. i find it striking. look, the thing about this fight, this will renew the debate over enhanced interrogation techniques, but that debate ended years ago. one side won and it was her side. in my view, this is reopening an old wound and a debate long ago settled in favor of discontinuing the practices that she now says the american people have to be told about. well, they've known about it for years. >> now, it's just been expanded upon and brought to the national forefront. >> reopened. >> and to the danger of those men and women who are serving this country right now and c

that was senator feinstein on the senate floor.perhaps the lamest excuse we have heard from her. i was on the senate investigations subcommittee coverage. we investigated cases where the justice department had an interest. our investigations always proceeded onto tracks and we cooperated with the justice department, finding a way to do it together. we would call witnesses to hearings that had to take the fifth amendment because the justice department investigation was going on. there was simply investigatory malpractice, putting together this big of a report on the sensitive of a topic without talking to the men, women, and professionals of our intelligence committee that engaged in these practices and got the information that we needed to prevent follow-up attacks. host: you can join in on the conversation by calling or sending us a tweet or on facebook. "the washington post," 20 key findings on the cia report. among them, "damaged the united states resting on the inaccurate claims of the effectiveness, brutal and far worse than r

then feinstein stood up and it was a pretty even match. john mccain stood up and it was game, set, match. let's call it off. >> john walcott i want to go back to this question. what the cia does use in the report. i know they have a dispute over whether any valuable intelligence was gained through these enhanced interrogation techniques. was there anything else in the report that the cia is disputing? >> that is the main dispute. they claim that these techniques yielded valuable intelligence. after reading the report and going through the footnotes, a lot of their own officials dispute that. the report does a thorough job of tearing apart that assertion. >> john one of the key issues seems to be the claims and senator feinstein was very aggressive in making the point about general hayden that there is a web of the notion that there was a lot of deception. there were lies systematically taken to the white house and the american people. how much of that information in the report is also new and puts the cia on the defensive in terms of justi

i spoke a little while ago with senator dianne feinstein. the senate intelligence committee. i asked her about the timing of the report and the possible back lash. but if americans are killed as a result of this report and they tell you that, i assume you would feel guilty about that. >> i would feel very badly. of course. what do you think, wolf blitzer? but we lose control at the end of this year, the republicans take control and there's some evidence that this report would never see the light of day. we believe it should see the light of day. >> let's go to the capitol hill. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash is getting more reaction. the reaction has been explosive, i must say. >> reporter: people are used to seeing political warfare on capitol hill but the senate intelligence committee is usually a rare oasis of bipartisanship. not on this. >> my words give me no pleasure. >> reporter: an empassioned 58-minute floor speech, graphic descriptions of torture. >> detainees were subjected to the most aggressive technique immedia

feinstein expected to any moment release her comments there. speaking for about an hour on this 6700 page report that's coming out very shortly. andrea, part of that will be a 100-page response from the cia. any sense of what that might have in? >> i think the cia, first of all, said we did what we were told to do. why aren't you investigating? they may not say it quite as bluntly but their view is why aren't you investigating dick cheney, george bush, condoleezza rice? we're carrying out policies we were told to carry out, and you're ignoring the view after the pressure immediately after 9/11. we thought there would be another terror attack. most americans did. we thought it was part of a wider plot. we were told do anything you can to keep america safe. that the context is important. even critics of the policies -- i interviewed jeremy yesterday who was the chief of staff at the cia under leon panetta, and it was ended by gorpg bush -- excuse me the bush policies were ended by barack obama. on january 22nd, 2009 two days after he took office,

do you think that was really diane feinstein or was that her staff? >> i think most likely her staff who were clearly trying -- they saw coordinated pushback but by the end of the day on thursday after all the tweets you saw fairly conciliatory statement towards what brennan said on thursday. i think she wanted to dial that back a little bit from the hours earlier with all the tweets. i think she kind of said that brennan agreed with her that she welcomed that. i think she was trying to dial back a little bit. >> they talk to each other in great democracy. a news conference, somebody on corner tweeting outlines rebutting him. there's something unseemly about that. >> for example, on the house side you've got oversight committee, he is holding his hearing because he knows that he's about to go out. also feinstein doing that with senate intelligence committee, she's no longer going to be chair she has to go out with a big hurrah you have that social media element. once again you look at the other political element gearing up for 2016 highway is this goi

senator dianne feinstein outlined the reports for major conclusions.irst, the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques, which includes waterboarding, were not effective in collecting intelligence. second, the cia misled policy makers and the public on the cia intelligent program. third, cia managers failed to supervise the program appropriately. and fourth, the program was far more brutal than the cia presented. >> question, what does senator dianne feinstein hope to accomplish by making this report public? >> she hoped to damage the bush administration. but i'll tell you what she did. what she's got here is a pretty vicious attack. it's a vindictive prosecutor's document. she didn't talk to cia people. she didn't talk to the alleged people that did these grizzly things. she talked about things we've known about ten years. she said it was a decade ago. she's dredged this all up. she's damaged our relations with foreign intelligence agencies exposed. she's damaged the reputation of the united states. and for what? we've heard these things! we've heard ab

senator feinstein -- would fill a chapter. senator feinstein -- i will miss her leadership, wisdom, friendship, and late afternoon glasses of california wine. rebels productive time in the senate has been spent with my dear friend senator mark warner. several represent the best of everything of the united states senate. ofspent literally hundreds hours together debating ideas and trying to solve major problems. we came very close. and we came very close. lessons that i will carry with me forever. as the senate goes forward under new leadership, i have two comments. first, the senate should return to regular order. senator mcconnell has indicated that will be the case and it should be. that will change by the current majority changed the institution of the senate a negative way. the rule is changed back to require 60 votes on all issues, including judges and nominees. some of those most vocal losting the rule change their elections. while the rule change did not cost them their election, the american people wanted a change in t

and i happen to trust senator feinstein. let's be clear here.the context of the democratic party and the context of liberalism. she is perceived as a hawk. she has been on the side of the intelligence community. she's recently been fighting president obama's office to some extent, to get this report released. she is somebody that i consider trustworthy. i don't always agree with her. i think she's gone too far to protect the intelligence community. but when she stands up and says, this is wrong, i listen to her, i find her credible. >> i find her credible too. but it's a little bit of cya with the democrats on this issue -- >> how does this cover them? >> now they're finding religion on this issue. this has been out there. they are responsible for the oversight of this agency last time i checked. >> they have been fighting to have oversight, fighting to release this report -- >> joan, i understand, let me finish my point and then you can chat. so the reality of is, i understand where a lot of this is coming from at this point. we don't like it a

senator feinstein says absolutely not. how are we to sort that out? >> perhaps the way to sort it out is first to carefully examine what the factual basis was of the senate report today to the extent that the committee was permitted to lay it out. but to also recognize that there is about 6,000 other pages of careful examination of a record that is now available to the government. some of it may not be public information for some time, probably in the course of time more of it can be, but all of it is now in the possession of the executive branch and of the white house and can be a teaching tool within the government for years to come. >> michael davidson, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> we're joined now by glen greenwald, the co-founding editor of "the intercept." glenn, you've anticipated a lot of what is in this report today, but now we have the actual documents. a lot of the documents, a lot of memos, a lot of e-mails. a lot of what was going on here. and with senator rockefeller's description of how much misleading wa

. >>> california's dine feinstein released a senate report blasting the cia -- dianne feinstein released a senate report blasting the cia for interrogation tactics setting off a firestorm in washington, ken bastida with way look at what was uncovered in the five year -- with a look at what was uncovered in the five year investigation. >> it says an interrogation of a pair of suspects after 9/11 was more brutal than acknowledged and tonight u.s. embassies are on high alert for fear of retaliatory attacks. suspects after 9-11 helve. repl >> releasing this report is an important step to restore our values and show the world that we are, in fact, a just and lawful society. ation. - and the agency systematically lied t effectiveness of the progra order to keep it going. add at no time did >> senator dianne feinstein says a review of a secret cia detention and interrogation program of terror suspects after 9/11 is way too important to shelve. republicans on feinstein's committee did no ing the report...a >> detainees were subjected to the most aggressive techniques immediately, stripped naked,

his spokesman says he supports it, but it's up to dianne feinste feinstein?ould stop it if he wanted? >> i said it is not formally his decision, it is completely in the hands of --- >> good question, i just want to say that every single thing charles said is true about all the risks and costs that are associated with this, all the dangers that we are assuming now, and add to that, none of that would be happening, we wouldn't have to worry about any of that if we had not water boarded people in the first place. >> we are where we are, right, chuck? >> the program ended as the program came in, that's no longer in place. >> correct. >> so a report that los angeles at what happened. >> that the tells the american people with appropriate limitations, what their government did is something we do in a democracy. >> how about a couple of years from now. >> it's never a good time, we have done it before in our history, we have done it before. >> yeah, the church report. >> and the pipe commission report and others. >> whavg the familiar youth of that. >> i think this

>> which debunks much of the information in the feinstein democratic report. you need to read the cia's rebuttal which also takes on many of the things which are said in this report assured in this report and take it off the table. >> i want to take a quick break. we have a lot more questions to ask you, bill. specifically, is it true as some of the critics of the obama administration are saying, they don't want to capture any terrorists anymore, they just want to kill them? >> i know it's very difficult to capture terrorists but i do know that when you box yourself in and say we don't want to take them to a black site, we don't want to add anybody else to guantanamo bay, it's very hard to figure out what to do with them when they capture them and it's easier for them, if it comes to be a tough decision, to just take them out. >> bill harlow, stand by. i have a lot more questions on what we heard today from the cia director, dianne feinstein's very tough response to what we heard today. much more of our special coverage coming up right after this. turn the tri

led by dianne feinstein, the senate release aid detailed 500-page excerpt of this report finding that the cia's torture after 9/11 was ineffective. that the cia misled congress and used inaccurate information to defend this program. the report also finds it was poorly managed and that the techniques were more brutal than the cia had said. senator feinstein also addressed the critics who were against releasing all this new information. >> history will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. >> what can you tell us? >> well, ari, this report as you were saying was broken up into a few different categories. among the issues it addressed and looked into was the attempted, if you will, notification of the president at the time, president bush, to see whether or not the cia attempted to brief the president about the enhanced interrogation techniques and whether or not the president knew about it. there's an attempt by senate intelligence committee about the who and when, but in those important themes the enh

>> why is dianne feinstein doing this, judge? >> i'm not clinically trained so i can't give you an analysis. >> psychological -- >> right. >> but she believes something horrible was done. now, the obama administration and eric holder and a special prosecutor, i understand, filed no charges. they investigated this, correct? >> before eric holder came into office he told the whole country that a -- that a reckoning is due for these processes, and then he took the representative and unleashed him to conduct an investigation that lasted for three years. on a friday they released a press release saying no charges would be filed. this is after the case was investigated initially in the eastern district of virginia and they didn't find anything. >> and what is amazing, nobody has better information than you on this thing. and yet, the obama administration is not coming out and saying the special prosecutor said there was nothing there. the president now comes out saying you know, we should be better than this. better than what? >> i giv

feinstein told cnn that's wrong. >> an examination of the records going back to the beginning of the program indicates that this is simply not true. >> reporter: but three former cia directors say their program helped lead to the killing of osama bin laden. in an op-ed in the "wall street journal," george tenant, michael hayden and porter goss insisted they suspected bin laden was plotting to blow up new york city with a nuclear weapon adding it felt like the classic ticking time bomb scenario every single day. many top republicans accuse feinstein of unleashing a political attack. >> it's clear this appears to be an attempt to rewrite history by the democrats to bash the bush administration. >> but one gop senator, john mccain, a former prisoner of war, defended the report saying torture does not work. >> i know from personal experience wroo that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. >> reporter: as for the president's claim that those harsh interrogation tactics amounts to torture, white house secretary john ernest was asked that question, he said the

diane feinstein has been questioned on this. >> the reporting is they were briefed all the way through and the objection of handling the cia leadership in the aftermath of 9/11. but i think it is easy during a time where we have not had an attack on american soil in 13 years to forget what it takes to maintain that status and what it takes to defend not only americans here as we go about our daily lives and protect our way of life but our interest overseas as well. >> thank you, jillian. >> thanks jon. >>> a young woman set on fire and left to die a horrible death. police are scouring video that captured some of jessica chamber's vicious attack. plus or on the spending bill past last night backed by you the taxpayer. >>> let's check out what is ahead on "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. ladies, what do you have? >> two of the most influential democrats in the white houwsuse split over the bill. >> and you have heard of work health incentives that are helping people get heathier? well what if is isn't a volunteering thing and also includes your spouse. >> and our lucky guy is going

listening in to diane feinstein, tell me your thoughts and what congress is expected to do now. >> i think the last sentence really revealed just how much pressure she was under not to release this report, and it's those contents you can see why. the findings of this report, that this was not a good way to gather intelligence according to the committee; that the enhanced intear gags techniques were more brutal than anyone ever believed and they were done with little oversight and really those involved with this program deliberately mislead policy makers. those are some of the findings coming out. but again, diane feinstein acknowledged at the beginning of our speech that she was under tremendous pressure by members of the obama administration, lawmakers on capitol hill, both democrats and republicans not to release this report, and the reason why she acknowledged that she felt so strongly that this must happen, the argument that the u.s. and the world is in a period of instability and this will exacerbate the operation. and she says this is the situation no matter what, and those who

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feinstein and outside groups saying the cia and pro cia counter offensive to the report has been very strong and overwhelming and has moved to there a people saying that feinstein needs to go out and do a couple of interviews. we wanted them to come out and defend the report. you don't see many democrats, we have tried to book them on the show. there is a real effort to say we need to push back. >> and you need to read the full report. i hate to go back to twitter but read the full report. >> if winning in washington requires doing people to read a report, good luck. >> but the argument is that the report is flawed, if you actually look at the report, i agree -- it's hard to get people to read 6700 pages. the most striking thing is that you are in the realm of epistemology, you have john brennan who back in 2013 said he did not know whether the techniques had worked. now he's saying it is unknowable. that's a weird place to be. >> and the fact is it is not unknowable. you can look at the real world cases. which is what the report reports to do. we have a major exclusive story about je

we begin this evening with a look at the feinstein report, the report of the intelligence committee of the senate about the early days after 9/11 and the activities of the cia. we talk to peter baker of the new york times and david ignatius, a columnist for the washington post. >> i must say, charlie, even for people who followed this issue carefully over the years, this report is absolutely rivetting, it is painful to read, people will read it, i think, with some of the sense of anguish that people involved in the program felt at the time. >> rose: we continue this evening's with rosario dawson, one of the star of chris rock's new film "top five". >> he pushes people to think about things they may not otherwise think about and forces them to laugh sometimes as things they could not potentially imagine or fathom laughing at because he has an incredible perspective on things and that is something i hold very dear. i like people looking at the world around them and making observations and really balancing and checking them out and playing with the ideas and comparing them and has done th

. >> thank you, bret, on the senate floor today, democratic chair woman dianne feinstein says that the enhanced interrogation techniques is a stain on america. >> governed by law and the willingness to face and ugly truth. and say never again. >> reporter: the 67-page report was -- the report reaches four key findings that the enhanced interrogation program was not an effective way to gather intelligence. the program was grossly mismanaged and it was more brutal than previously known. one example, the waterboarding of al qaeda operative abu zabada. but the report says the interrogation was so extreme, he lost consciousness and was nearly blinded and it concludes extreme tacticses do not elicit credible information. >> i know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoner also produce more bad than good intelligence. >> reporter: but the cia insists detainees the nephew of khalid sheikh mohammed -- >> enhanced interrogation contributed to the wealth of knowledge that we needed to have in order to find al kuwaiti. >> reporter: the report alleges that the crime kept the president in

stay with us. >> the obama feinstein report on the cia. we talk with the former acting general counsel of the cia john next. lou: john served as a cia lawyer for 30 years. he was the top lawyer when the cia interrogation techniques were authorized. he's the author of the book company man. thank you for being here. let's begin with this router. the insistence on democrats on the intelligence committee and senator feinstein that the report be put out obviously what has always been before as a bipartisan effort. what was your reaction? >> well, as to the timing of the release, i must say, i was surprised. i was surprised especially when i learned that secretary of state john kerry, a liberal democrat from my home state, massachusetts, as secretary of state felt obliged to call feinstein personally to apparently urge her not to release the report at this time because of the ensuing threats that it would engender. a secretary of state doesn't do that unless there's serious intelligence evidence to that effect. i found that quite telling. lou: y