architect of the cia's enhanced interrogation program the psychologist james mitchell and john justin settled their court case with three torture victims defended by the a.c.l.u. . are are our lawsuit happy society is out of control you used to be you could just you could just torture some folks without all the hubbub you know now it's like it's like a thing with lawyers involved and anyway here to discuss is our resident torture of those us. seriously don't know me i mean we are are we are we actually suing war criminals it's believe they're not war criminals they're just doing their job and someone has to employ psychology mangers . you know those college kids who are like i want to be a doctor i don't want to touch anyone take that gamble or read any books. but i do want to get rich writing a self-help book titled i think i love your curves or lose some weight that a. lot of that was there well i think i think most people go into psychology to help people i think you know i think don't psychologists don't even take the hippocratic oath so you don't have to help people they take hip

a settlement which is being heralded as a major win for human rights doctors bruce jessen and james mitchell the architects of the cia's and hands to interrogation program settled with the a.c.l.u. this week and as r.t. correspondent phil explains it's the first legal victory of its kind doctors jesson and mitchell collaborated with the cia as psychologists to develop methods of torture used at c.a.a. black sites and prisons including the into miss guantanamo bay location now both doctors have reached a settlement with the a.c.l.u. which is calling the development a historic victory this is a story victory for our clients and the rule of law this outcome shows that there are consequences for torture and that survivors can and will hold those responsible for torture accountable it is a clear warning for anyone who thinks they can torture with impunity the a.c.l.u. filed a lawsuit against the doctors on behalf of three victims of their program including one man mon who died as a result of their techniques techniques they were paid eighty one million dollars by the cia to design a cia report de

bill does but certainly it has psychologists james mitchell and john bruce justin of settle with the american civil liberties union which brought a lawsuit against the two doctors who were contracted for the cia's war on terror utilizing waterboarding extreme temperatures starvation claustrophobia and body slamming those lovely enhanced interrogation techniques per u.s. senate investigation a psychologist program received eighty one million dollars from the government and produced no useful in your money well spent here's artie's on the hill with more on the u.s. a.c.l.u. case and settlement. doctors just and mitchell collaborated with the cia as psychologists to develop methods of torture used at cia black sites and prisons including one ton i'm ok now both doctors have reached a settlement with the a.c.l.u. which is calling the development a historic victory this is the story victory for our clients and the rule of law this outcome shows that there are consequences for torture and that survivors can and will hold those responsible for torture accountable it is a clear warning for a

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the judge greenlighted a lawsuit against james mitchell and john jetson to move forward. a jury will decide if they are financially liable for the effects of their program. whatever disgraced army sergeant bowe bergdahl said in captivity will not be heard in court. that is the latest from an rv judge ahead of his court-martial trial. the judge ruling two people that were hurt searching for him would be allowed to testify. he is charged with desertion after being captured by the taliban in 2009, he was freed as part of a controversial prisoner swap facing life in prison if convicted. >> country music world is mourning the loss of a real legend glen campbell. ♪ >> campbell road into superstardom with that song, rhinestone cowboy. he sold 40 million records and inducted into the country music hall of fame in 2005. in 2011 he was diagnosed with lyme's disease, his wife kim and daughter, and "fox and friends" a few months ago. >> lost his ability to speak. >> sometimes his funny personality shines through and helps make a joke. >> holding her father's hands, holding everything

james mitchell and bruce jetson.n custody, the suit claims the men had an extreme mental torture program for the agency. mitchell once interrogated the mastermind of 9/11 and earlier this year, he maintained she and jetson will be cleared if the case went to trial. >> those things that were done by the cia and the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks were judged not one time but four or five times by the department of justice to be legal. i never heard two of these people who are suing me. until the lawsuits showed up in 2015. >> kimberly: dana, you have some strong feelings about this. >> dana: he doesn't know the people that are prosecuting on their behalf. i find the aclu defending them is shameful. this is definitely a left-wing attack on these two men. they were public servants and asked by the government to do something very difficult. none of us would want to do that but they did. i know and i am confident that their actions saved lives. especially that one interrogation. if this was a criminal case, i woul

james mitchell. he helped the cia develop its enhanced interrogation program. dr. e in common is that hateful ideology. you know, we like to pretend that it's not based in the radicalized version of that religion, but it is based in it. and i think until we recognize that the teachings of -- there is over 100 verses in the quran calling on people to attack and kill and harm infidels and nonbelievers. and the literal interpretation of that is part of the problem. steve: right. the president and his national security team are going to be convening later today at camp david to try to figure out what to do going forward. but, you and i were just chatting during the commercial break, and you said we are going about this the wrong way. we're at the wrong end of the terrorist pipeline. >> yeah. i would say yes and. in the sense that we need to do all those things at the business end of the pipeline that we find ourselves at, with the radical jihaddists who are attacking and killing us. but it's a little bit like trying to stop a bathtub from overflowing without turning the

james mitchell and dr. john ruse jessen to court on behalf of two detainees and the family of a third detainee who froze to death in prison. the suit claims the men were taken into custody and tortured during the war on terror. the psychologists were contracted to craft the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques after 9/11. a federal judge said monday they can be sued, ruling private contractors who work for the u.s. government are not immune from litigation. >>> the deadline for next year's obamacare contracts in late september. the exodus of insurers has already begun. anthem announcing it is pulling out of nevada's marketplace completely and cutting its presence in georgia by half. right now nearly 10,000 americans in 17 counties are at risk of no option. no option on the obamacare exchange next year. 2.7 million may only have one option. and anthem is blamed for much of the current instability. anthem participated in 14 states this year but withdrew from ohio, indiana, wisconsin, and much of california

the psychologists james mitchell and bruce jessen were sued by the american civil liberties union on behalf of two former cia prisoners who were tortured and the family of a man who died after being tortured in a secret cia prison. the undisclosed settlement was reached just before the case went to trial. aclu attorney dror ladin said -- "this outcome shows that there are consequences for torture and that survivors can and will hold those responsible for torture accountable." in voting rights news, the state of texas has been ordered to redraw the map of its congressional districts after a federal court determined some of the districts were designed to dilute the power of latino and african-american voters. the maps were drawn by texas's republican led state legislature. mother jones reports this is the seventh time since 2011 that a federal court has found that texas intentionally discriminated against voters of color. in news from florida, two members of the ku klux klan who worked as prison guards have been convicted of plotting to kill an african-american prisoner after his relea

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james mitchell and dr.en to court on behalf of two cia detainees and the family of a third detainee who froze to death in prison. the suit claims the men were taken into custody and tortured during the war on terror. a federal judge said monday they can be sued. ruling private contractors who work for the u.s. government are not immune from litigation. >>> 40 minutes past the hour. president trump isn't the only world leader facing a lack of confidence. a vote underway in south africa could see the president and his entire cabinet ousted. we'll go live to south africa next. how to win at business. step one. point decisively with your glasses. abracadabra! the stage is yours. step two. choose laquinta. where you'll feel like the king of the road. check out our summer rates now at lq.com. need a hair smoother? get super fruit moroccan argan oil with sleek & shine leave-in cream long lasting frizz control for up to 3 days of sleek hair fructis sleek & shine the #1 treatment in america super fruit. super hair.

james mitchell is the author of enhanced interrogation. how he would help identify the white house. dr., thank you for joining us. whether you are jeff sessions or general john kelly is chief of staff, no understanding there's a problem of leaking, not knowing where it is, whether it's in the white house for the department. walk us through how you get your arms around identifying what he thinks he would use. >> two things i would do if i were a leader like they are is the first thing i would do is make it clear that those people who are leaking are potentially in trouble and those people who have knowledge of who is leaking and protecting those people are also in trouble. possibly jail time trouble. whoever five-step person voluntarily provided information that helped them out these flakes would get the best and clearest deal from the government in order to limit the impact on their careers. the next thing i would do as i would give the fbi involved because the fbi is brilliant at this and most people do not know that in the course of thei

james mitchell joins us today from florida. dr. mitchell, thank you very much. terrorists who took part in this. some looked like they were 16, 17, 18 years old. and it's heart-breaking to think that so much hate gets instilted in somebody at such a young age. >> it is heart-breaking. but in some sense we share some of that responsibility. because have you got to remember that when i spoke with ksm in 2004-2005, he predicted that we would see this. he predicted what we would see is the increase in the small jihadi network lone wolf attacks using low tech technology. he said we are going to be able to do that because they could exploit our freedoms. i'm not against restricting any of our freedoms. we do need to understand they are a double-edged sword. he could use our tolerance and freedom of movement to enter into places where they would be able to set up these jihadi networks. that they could use our freedom of religion to establish radical mosques especiallily westminster especially was buy mosque where they could use this to spread freedom of hate if we try

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the judge green lighting a lawsuit against james mitchell and jess ton move forward.y will decide if they are financially liable for the physical and psychological effects of their program. ainsley? ainsley: thank you, jillian. president trump vowing to fight and win the opioid epidemic that's plaguing millions of american families. >> nobody is safe from this epidemic that threatens young and old, rich and poor, urban and rural communities. everybody is threatened. i'm confident that by working with our healthcare and law enforcement experts, we will fight this deadly epidemic and the united states will win. ainsley: here to weigh in on this is dr. nicole saphier. he obviously -- good morning, nicole. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: he obviously wants to tackle this issue setting up that commission with governor chris christie to help folks that are dealing with this problem. how did we come to this point? >> this has been going on for decades. this isn't just something that happened overnight. president trump walked into this. ainsley: why are we hearing about th

but if north korea actually goes through with it james mattis promised swift military action. andrea mitchell has the story. >> reporter: tonight defense secretary mattis confidently telling reporters the u.s. would know within moments in a north korean missile is fired at guam and we'll take it out. adding if they fire at

architect of the cia's enhanced interrogation program the psychologist james mitchell and john justin settled their court case with three torture victims defended by the a.c.l.u. . are are our lawsuit happy society is out of control and you used to debate you could just you could just torture some folks without all the hubbub you know. well it's like it's like a thing with lawyers involved that anyway here to discuss is our resident torture those years they only go on a. series you don't know me i mean are we are we actually suing war criminals it's believe they're not war criminals they're just doing their job and someone has to employ psychology mangers. you know those college kids who are like i want to be a doctor i don't want to touch anyone take a more read any books. but i do want to get rich writing a self-help book titled i think i love your curves or lose some weight that a. lot of that was a well i think i think most people go into psychology to help people i think you know don't psychologists don't even take the hippocratic oath so they don't have to help people they take

james mitchell. >> thank you, sir. stuart: something completely different now.est one of the biggest names in college football. former notre dame coach lou holtz joins us now. welcome to the program. i want to talk of politics. you were original and strong supporter of president trump. a lot of his supporters are walking away from him right now. are you still with him gung-ho full time? >> i'm not walking away from the president regardless. the media has been on him all over. first is was russia, russia. now the fact he is a bigot. president trump was born at night but he wasn't born at last night. never in one time during his entire career anybody accused him of being a racist. i do have great concerns about this country for the first time, i have great concerns. we all had the same objective before. that is to give the people a chance to be successful. we had a difference of opinion. democrats had philosophy we ought to do this, republicans had a philosophy we ought to do that now everybody has their own objective but getting absolutely nothing done. the media

i like to listen to admiral james, our own andrea mitchell, who said blinked, maybe not blinked, maybe opened his eyes a little. what's he really doing? >> here at the pentagon they're still assessing what he's saying. in a lot of way theys don't take a lot of stock in what kim jong-un dawes. hay they look at what he does. he's move missiles around, km-17s, mobile launchers that can be launched at any moment. you look at the second part of what kim jong-un said. he said if the u.s. persists with these operations, those are war games, scheduled to take place august 21st, three-week war games, just talking to officials about this, really what they are is the first week is cry us is and the second two weeks are planning for conflict, that's the north invasion of the south. again, all strategic, all theoretical war games, but they go all the way up to the president of south korea. stephanie? >> again, twice in a row, scary times. all right, hans. thank you so much. going to take a quick break. next, my favorite par of the show, "money, power, politics." we are five minutes from the opening

but if north korea actually goes through with it james mattis promised swift military action. andrea mitchellas the story. >> reporter: tonight defense secretary mattis confidently telling reporters the u.s. would know within moments in a north korean missile is fired at guam and we'll take it out. adding if they fire at the u.s., it could escalate very quickly. it's called war. if they hit the u.s. including guam, mattis said, if they do that, it's game on. u.s. officials say china is the key to a diplomatic solution, but today the president is launching an investigation into beijing's theft of u.s. trade secrets. >> this is just the beginning. i want to tell you that. >> reporter: mr. trump eager to keep a campaign promise. >> we can't continue to allow china to rape our country. >> reporter: but slamming china now could be a problem, just as the joint chiefs chairman was arriving in beijing. earlier in south korea saying china is key to cracking down on kim jong-un. >> it's going to require china not only to do what they did at the united nations security council which was to vote for sanc

so in the end i have -- i really identified these three main characters james craig watson thomas ed son and maria mitchell each of whom were pass nating characters each whom had a lot on the line during the eclipse of 1878 they had sthung to prove. but frankly i've got a cast up -- dozens of secondary characters very interesting people at that time. who came out west for the eclipse as well. and i should say there's kind of another larger character and that is our nation, the united states of america. because the eclipse of 1878 the u.s. had a lot on the line. this was a time when -- you know we were a young country we had just turned 100 years old a couple of years before. we were becoming strong economically and getting attention in materials of the industrial strength but the world looked down on us in materials of our intellectual ability. europe was the center of western culture. europe was where -- you know, most of good literature and art and music and science came are from but there was a small group of american smises who were determined to show that we could compete on the global stage. and this

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dictatorship on how to combat inflation and the virginia school of james buchanan had a lasting affect and it was headed by dawn mitchell lay and constitution. then i started getting more interested in buchanan and thought what is going on here and what trail did i land on? continued to follow and it moved to north carolina in 2010 and milton freedman was my focus. he was famous, the one everybody knew about, it was like what is he doing? i am following all these connections and as you know something happened in 2010 after the mid terms here. a radicalized republican party won majorities in both houses of the legislature and suddenly all these things i was reading in buchan buchanan's work, and this is man who wrote abstract, and suddenly it was real, concrete and frightening because i was seeing these ideas play out in what i am sure you all remember and have responded to over the last few years. what i am seeing comes from buchanan. he always argued it was a mistake to focus on the question of who rules. the real question was the rules. and if you didn't like what was going on in a government in a society, which none

james lee witt, former director of fema, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. >> thanks, john. >> we want to go back now to rockport, texas. nick valencia was with aaron mitchella man whose home was completely displaced and powerless. you're understand with us again, nick valencia, right now. aaron mitchell just got ahold of his father. explain to us what happened. >> reporter: john there's a lot of reasons we get up in the morning to do our job and i think our crew here felt one of those. just a little while ago we were able to help connect aaron mitchell with his father. there's nothing i can do to describe this moment, to give it justice. we'll let you look >> okay, dad. i'm going jump on a bus. i'll be there. are you okay? yeah. i'll jump on one. yeah. i'm in rockport. okay. dad, i love you. okay. all right. i'm going to get off here. i'll be right there. yes. yes, sir. bye, dad. >> reporter: all the credit goes to our sound tech engineer for making that connection and connecting aaron mitchell to his father. behind us are buses evacuating rockport residents to austin, texas where aaron mitchell's father is. you are looking at him talking to a member of th

mitchell launches must stop immediately. we ay greed to bolster -- >> we'll continue to monitor secretary of state rex tillerson meeting with counterpart secretary of defense jamestis. you heard the secretary of state condemn clearly what's emerging as a terrorist operation in barcelona when a large, white van at high speed rammed into a crowd of pedestrians killing at least one individual, although that death toll is expected to go up, injuriing 32 others. several in critical condition in local hospitals right now. mi michael homs is getting more information. what else are you learning? >> reporter: wolf, i heard we're waiting for a catalan government to make a statement. they're in session to discuss this dreadful episode. the path this van went, it went a long way down this pedestrian way, this las ramblas, about three quarters of a mile long and the van travel add loed a l down that road, teeming with pedestrians. eyewitnesses saying it was absolutely packed, you can imagine, on a sunny summer's afternoon in a major tourist spot like barcelona, and this is the most famous street in barcelona for tourists. packed with shops, bars, restaurants, and the van "ap

. >> james, as a lead-in, maybe you could talk about, that's basically how this book -- one of the ways this book came about. >> yes. i'll answer the question ask then talk about the book mitchell backup plan at harvard was i was studying economics, and i actually don't know if i would have stuck with that. i was take can it because -- well, my brother was there he was taking economics, told me it was the best way he was way smarter than me and much easier for him. had to work hard at it. and did okay but i didn't really enjoy it a ton. don't know how many people enjoy economics, but i know there are some that do and they become extremely successful. they're the ones that wright write the checks that all the athletes are cashing. think i would have switched to sociology or african-american studies and if i do go back and finish, that is most likely what ill will be, that's what i'm much more interested in than economics. my backup plan would have been to possibly go to business school and possiblefully advertising, marketing, something like that. i thought about being an agent about after seeing how hard my agent works and how much of a hoards time i gave him, -- hard time i ga