james mitchell, welcome to hardtalk thank you for having me on.u are after more than 20 yea rs so there you are after more than 20 years in the us air force. you are working as a consultant for the caa. the september 11 attacks happened and you see to the caa that you want to be part of the solution. -- cia. why? it was an attack on our homeland. the main thing that influenced me to want to volunteer to help out was the death and destruction. the critical thing when they asked me if i would be willing to become involved in the interrogation programme really was the falling man and the people jumping off the building. i thought it was inappropriate and wrong for them to have to choose which way they died as a result of this cowardly attack that was done by these islamist that would try to destroy our way of life. so, obviously using your experience as a clinical psychologist, working with the american military for many years could help identify, recommend techniques that would work as part of the enhanced interrogation programme. but how would you

ahead, former cia contractor james mitchell, the man who personally interrogated the mastermind of 9/11, on the dangers these leaks pose to our nation. plus a california mother of two struck and killed by an intoxicated driver, we are now learning he was known to be in the country illegally, deported five times previously. we'll debate that case just ahead. >> knowing the history that he had come out with the and so forth, just a slap on my hand and sent back. he came back. it should have been done like it should have been done like that. various: (shouting) heigh! ho! ( ♪ ) it's off to work we go! woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs. and each job created by the energy industry supports two others in the community. altogether, the industry supports over 9 million jobs nationwide. these are jobs that natural gas is helping make happen, all while reducing america's emissions. energy lives here. all while reducing america's emissions. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow

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fears the country is even more open to crime and terrorism was former cia interrogator doctor james mitchellaying wikileaks don't put america in a vulnerable position. >> criminals benefit, terrorists benefit, they are talking about doing more releases and if they release the source code that is particularly dangerous, not only criminals have that but bad guys have that as well. every day, somebody figures out some way to kill americans in the united states and imagine if they could logic catastrophic attack simultaneously with some sort of cyberweapon attack as well. makes us incredibly vulnerable. >> news chilling surveillance video of the suspect wanted to kill a police officer. you see the man running across the street moments after the deadly november shooting. investigating car break ins, he was shot execution style. earlier this week the family was presented with the lieutenant and sergeants association excellence award honoring the fallen sergeant. emergency crews racing to contain this. deadly wildfires and fierce winds in the southern plains, this wall of fire burning through asher

james mitchell . you have lawsuits against president bush. what do you think about the latest attack in syria? >> it's illegal, it's unconstitutional, only congress can make a decision to send troops into war. if you read the constitution, think about this. this is in a civil war, these are so-called locals, these are actually radical islamists. 80,000 troops have come in from 90 different countries into syria and they want -- >> shannon: are you saying u.s. forces are aligned with that group? >> american people may not be aware of it, but we are aligning with radical islamic. this is madness. >> shannon: obviously our goal has been to go after isis, are you saying it's too difficult a situation to pick sides in that region because there are so many cross allegiances and that kind of thing? >> that's a very good point, but i'll go one step further. i'm saying that no matter who we back there, they want to overturn a government, they want to put in a damascus with sharia law. the matter whose side we pick there, that's what they want. >> shann

mitchell. >> reporter: today james comey not only saying there's no evidence to back the president's tweet, claiming president obama had my wires tapped in trump tower, but also saying it's not even possible. >> so president obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone? >> no president could. >> reporter: as for mr. trump's tweet that, this is mccarthyism by the president and presumably the fbi -- >> were you engaged in mccarthyism, director comey? >> i try very hard not to engage in any isms of any kind, including mccarthyism. >> our british allies have called the president's suggestion they wiretapped him for obama nonsense and utterly ridiculous. would you agree? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: the fbi revealing they're investigating possible coordination between the president's campaign and russia's hacking of democrats. a lengthy probe that could lead all the way to the white house. russia's motive? >> putin hated secretary clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was, he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much. >> reporter: comey's appearanc

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andrea mitchell has more on this. >> reporter: james comey not only saying there is not evidence to back the president's tweets, saying president obama had my wires tapped in trump tower, but saying it's not possible. >> he could not order a wiretap of anyone? >> no president could. >> reporter: as for the tweet this is mccarthyism by the president and presumably the fbi. >> were you engaged in mccarthyism? >> i try not to engage in ism's of any kind. >> wiretapped him is utterly ridiculous. would you agree? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: they are investigating coordination between the president's campaign and russia's hacking of democrats, a lengthy probe that could lead to the white house. russia's motive? >> putin hated secretary clinton so much. the flip side is he has a clear preference for the person against the one he hated so much. >> reporter: for democrats, it was about russia and the trump campaign connection. >> this was, in part, an inside job from u.s. persons, willing american accomplices or terribly naive ones or probably both, who helped the russians attack our country and ou

nbc's andrea mitchell has more on this. >> reporter: james comey not only saying there's no evidence to back the president's tweets claiming president obama had my wires tapped in trump tower, but also saying it's not even possible. >> so president obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone? >> no president could. >> reporter: add to mr. trump's tweets that this is mccarthyism and presumably the fbi. >> were you engaged in mccarthyism. >> try very hard not to engage in any isms including mccarthyism. they wiretapped him for obama ridiculous? would you agree? revealing they're investigating possible coordination between the president's campaign and russia's hacking of democrats. a lengthy probe that could lead all the way to the white house. russia's motives? >> putin hated secretary clinton so much that the flip side of that was that he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated. >> reporter: admiral mike rodgers, the tale of two hearings. for democrats it was all about russia and the possible trump campaign connection. >> this was in part a

james comey the fbi director. that's going to do it for us on this edition of "andrea mitchell reports" an dre what will be back thererrow. thanks very much. >> see you tomorrow. >> we'll see you tomorrow. remember to follow the show on-line and facebook, follow andrea on twitter @mitchellreporters i'm at @peter alexander. craig melvin is up. >> not too tough at all, thank you. and a good thursday to you. craig melvin here from msnbc headquarters in new york city. another busy day on capitol hill, though. party's over. president trump threatening his own party with a mid term fight if they don't fall in line. what happens now? russian probe the senate intelligence committee holding its first -- holding its first hearing on those allegations that russia tampered with the presidential election and daughter in chief, ivanka trump now an official federal employee. she won't get a paycheck, but is it still a serious conflict of interest? we'll get to that in a bit. first two big stories happening right now, there is of course that senate intel

james comey at the university of texas austin. thank you for watching msnbc live, right now on msnbc, andrea mitchell reports. andrea?ll reports," judgment day, republicans scrambling with the health care bill at stake. the white house meeting right now with servetive house members to try for a last-ditch deal. for every arm twist there is a defector. will they have a vote. >> we need to partial rerepeal this, replace it, retain parts and overhaul parts. i feel this bill misses the mark. >> the house republican chair

james comey at the university of texas austin. thank you for watching msnbc live, right now on msnbc, andrea mitchell reports. andrea? >> thank you. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," judgment day, republicans scrambling with the health care bill at stake. the white house meeting right now with servetive house members to try for a last-ditch deal. for every arm twist there is a defector. will they have a vote. >> we need to partial rerepeal this, replace it, retain parts and overhaul parts. i feel this bill misses the mark. >> the house republican chair apologizing today for blind siding his democrats colleagues and sharing suspect information with president trump. >> judgment call on my part. and that's the -- at the end of the day that's -- sometimes you make the right decisions sometimes you make the wrong one, but you have got to stick by the decisions that you make. >> but has his decision sabotaged the credibility of the house intelligence investigation he leads? >>> and for the first time, the committee's democratic leader saying there is real substance to those russian connections. >> there is more than

mitchell has more. hello. >> reporter: good morning. the fbi issued a series of stunning rebukes to the president in an unprecedented intelligence hearing on capitol hill. jamesying there's no evidence to back the president's tweet, claiming president obama had my wires tapped in trump tower, but also saying it's not even possible. >> so president obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone? >> no president could. >> as for mr. trump's tweet that this is mccarthyism by the president and presumably the fbi. >> were you engaged in mccarthyism, director comey? >> i try not to be included innis innisin isms of any kind, including mccarthyism. >> reporter: the fbi is investigating possible coordination between the president's campaign and the russian hacking of democrats. a lengthy probe that could lead all the way to the white house. russia's motive? >> putin hated secretary clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was, he had a clear preference to the person running against the person he hated so much. >> reporter: comey's appearance along with mike rogers a tale of two hearings. for democrats it was all about russia and the possible trump camp