today everybody and their mother had an exclusive interview with jim mitchell. there he is, one of the air force psychologists who the senate says had no experience in interrogations whatsoever but the cia nevertheless tapped him to essentially come up with torture techniques for its interrogations. the ap had an interview with him today, reuters, vice news, the penny saver, your local church bulletin, everybody got an exclusive today with this guy. but yeah, there he is, unavoidable for comment. living off the millions of dollar, the tens of million of dollars the taxpayers paid him for services developing this program and he's all over the media today take making the case that when you're waterboarding people it's an interrogation tool. why would you deny yourself a useful tool? the issue of whether or not torturing people on purpose is the policy of the u.s. government is not a question that was settled in the past. it's still an open question. i mean, the people who executed the policy, who came up with the details of how to do it are still free, have appare

. >> cameraman lee roush begins recording an interview with assistant fire chief jim mitchell. >> jim m-i-t-c-h-e-l-l. >> okay. assistant chief? >> assistant chief. >> have you guys been busy? has it been mostly calls like these? >> haven't been too bad today. yesterday was a different story. and last night, but today's been pretty uneventful. >> but it won't be uneventful for long. >> in this situation we had some ice on the line. the bigger problem was that snow and ice had collected on the limb. >> the firemen and news crew have no idea the tree limb above the power line is about to break. >> i was, you know, doing this shooting where you're looking through the viewfinder with your right eye and my left eye, i'm looking around, see what's going on. i see the tree branch move a little bit. i kind of looked over at it, and that's when everything let go. >> they're standing only a few feet away from live power lines charged with nearly 10,000 volts of electricity. >> the power lines. more today is medical emergencies, people are out shoveling their walks. >> the electrical explosion s

james mitchell is here with us again. jim, continue.i'm sorry, you were speaking about the heroes on flight 93. >> right. what i was going to say and i'm glad we stopped because i always get teary when i talk about 9/11. honestly, at that particular time i thought if they were willing to give up their lives, these ordinary people willing to give up their lives and save the capitol building, who am i to give up my moral high ground to save additional american lives. what we forget is al qaeda try today decapitate the united states on 9/11. they hit our financial center, they hit our military leaders and they intended to take out our political leaders. the loss of life was tremendous and horrible, but the real -- can you imagine if they had managed to kill the senators as well as do everything else they did? >> the president says we reclaim our moral authority by admitting our mistakes. your thoughts on that. >> that's a truism. how could that not be true? >> he thinks it applies in this particular context. do you? >> i think the particul

>>> tomorrow night, more with our exclusive with jim mitchell. also rand paul will be here. let us know your thoughts at facebook.com/thekellyfile and on twitter @megynkelly. thanks for watching everyone. i'm megyn kelly. >>> welcome to "hannity." this is a fox news alert. more protests in new york city this weekend following the grand jury decisions in both the eric garner and michael brown cases. now, new yorkers were caught on camera calling for the killing of police officers. watch this. >> what do we want? >> dead cops! >> when do we want them? >> now! >> much more on that disturbing video coming up. but first tonight a 16-hour standoff in sydney, australia, came to a dramatic end today when police stormed a cafe in which an armed iranian-born man held a total of 17 hostages. police say three people were killed including the gunman and two hostages. four others were wounded. fox's own catherine herridge is standing by in washington tonight. and she has all the details. catherine. >> thank you, sean. a counterterrorism source tells fox news tonight there's little doubt t

mitchell and a dr. jensen-- >> jeffson jim and bruce. >> stephen: they got how much money to do this? >> $81 million.of the facts you can find out in here. >> stephen: $81 million to design this thing. i'm going to be out of a job soon. is there any way i can get some of that money? >> you needed to be a friend of theirs. they hired all their friends. they didn't know what they were doing. they had never had a single interrogation in their whole years done it. they came in with these techniques they got from the chinese communists who were torturing our p.o.w.s and said, "this is how we can take care of those terrorists." >> stephen: don't get me wrong. i believe in the rule of law. this is a country of laws, but our enemies are brutal, and don't we have to be brutal in return? >> if we mirror image the bad guys, then we're going to lose everything that we're fighting for. >> stephen: we're fighting for our lives. ( applause ) okay, we're fighting for our lives. another this is-- i mean, yes, " why this is something that we shouldn't do, but shouldn't it be like the atomic bomb-- that we, obviously,

let me introduce for a standing journalists who knew and jousted with jim brady and lived to tell about it. they are andrea mitchellante, al hunt, judy woodruff. >> thank you. mr. vice president, sarah, scott, reverend clergy and friends and colleagues, jim brady was a national treasure. at the peak of his life in the pinnacle of his career, he was shut down by an assassin's bullet. nothing could shatter his spirit and his trademark sense of humor. the man we knew as the bear was a reverent to a fault. we remember killer trees. just one example of how he could get himself in trouble on the campaign trail. he was truly one of life's originals. he was funny, honest, and true. i know i won't any arguments from the press secretaries who successors when i described him as the most honest and straight talking and fearless and best like press secretary ever. he was the most effective. it was an accolade that he had earned despite being struck down by only a few months on the job full-time. it was a trustee had earned in every job you held before that. that was on the beginning. jim was a fighter. never more so than he was

let me introduce for a standing journalists who knew and jousted with jim brady and lived to tell about it. they are andrea mitchellunt, judy woodruff. >> thank you. mr. vice president, sarah, scott, reverend clergy and friends and colleagues, jim brady was a national treasure. at the peak of his life in the pinnacle of his career, he was shut down by an assassin's bullet. nothing could shatter his spirit and his trademark sense of humor. the man we knew as the bear was a reverent to a fault. we remember killer trees. just one example of how he could get himself in trouble on the campaign trail. he was truly one of life's originals. he was funny, honest, and true. i know i won't any arguments from the press secretaries who successors when i described him as the most honest and straight talking and fearless and best like press secretary ever. he was the most effective. it was an accolade that he had earned despite being struck down by only a few months on the job full-time. it was a trustee had earned in every job you held before that. that was on the beginning. jim was a fighter. never more so than he was fighting

call an all-star list, boy@erson, don rumsfeld, jim leonard, maury draper, richard fairbanks, dick murphy, dennis ross, tony zinni, john wolf, george mitchell, martin indyk, and now frank lowenstein. you would expect with this kind of a lineup if we're using our baseball analogy, that the scoreboard would look pretty good. but the scoreboard actually shows no hits, no runs, and lots of errors, which suggests that this is one of the case studies which needs to be undertaken to find out whether or not it's the idea of an envoy in this situation, or the individual selected as the envoy, the conflict itself, or the criteria that the report has suggested. was it an absence of empowerment by a president? was it an absence of authority? were there turf battles in washington? and i think you'd find if we did this case study and we haven't done it yet, but certainly this report should simulate it and i may grab the opportunity and do it myself, i think you'd find that there are a combination of factors at play here that suggest that even some of the smartest and most senior people selected for this job, were not necessarily the right choice, and not

jim donovan's advice on what to do. we will head down to 47 degrees temperature and this is tim mitchell who is a a loyal weather watcher love this guy. he says cloudy with a light southeasterly breeze, one of the reasons we are finding temperatures as mild as they are nurse thing this morning. let me see what did we find out here 43 degrees. steve johnson says, cloud moving right along, from west to east. not a bad plan. why don't i do the same thing. let's head over, in fact why don't i ski over here we're skiing right now skiing into view jack frost big boulder, at 41 degrees, it is hard to keep snow on the slope but cloud cover will help. not burning it off with any sunlight this morning. just a wintry looking scene there and a glummy one as well. we saw rain showers this morning but i think your showers should be just about over for the the rest of the day which would be good. you don't need rain and all that snow that is, looking so, so winter-like and christmasy. in the mountains. so we have cape may courthouse 47 degrees. very light wind out of the southwest, and you can see that the the sunnies up, it is out th

jim thanks so much. we hope to talk to you over the next couple of days. we appreciate your expertise. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports."ll talk to roberta jacobson about what it may hold for the u.s. and cuba. she will be a key negotiator for the secretary of state. follow us online and facebook and twitter. ronan farrow daily. ogresso! it's ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. it's our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. apology accepted. i'm watching you soup people. make it progresso or make it yourself you don't think much about it... you never dwell on how it was made... it's just a blanket after all... but when everything else has been lost, the comfort it provides is immeasurable. the america red cross brings hope and help to people in need every 8 minutes every day. so this season give something that means something. support us at redcross.org >> 1 clack on the east coast and 10:00 on the west. a new development for air asia 8501. a news official said indonesia's government formally asked the u.s. to help in the search but hope is fading nearly 48 hours after the air asia jet liner van

call an all-star list, boy@erson, don rumsfeld, jim leonard, maury draper, richard fairbanks, dick murphy, dennis ross, tony zinni, john wolf, george mitchell, martin endick, and now frank leon steen. you would expect with this kind of a lineup if we're using our baseball anal joy, that the scoreboard would look pretty good. but the scoreboard actually shows no hits, no runs, and lots of errors, which suggests that this is one of the case studies which needs to be undertaken to find out whether or not it's the idea of an envoy in this situation, or the individual selected as the envoy, the conflict itself, or the criteria that the report has suggested. was it an absence of empowerment by a president? was it an absence of authority? were there turf battles in washington? and i think you'd find if we did this case study and we haven't done it yet, but certainly this report should simulate it and i may grab the opportunity and do it myself, i think you'd find that there are a combination of factors at play here that suggest that even some of the smartest and most senior people selected for this job, were not necessarily the right choice, and n

jim, michigan, bill, disappointed to see you and krauthammer slam the grand jury in the garner case. we're fair analysts. we put forth our opinions and we respect you and others who disagree. marvin mitchellcolorado, when rudy giuliani was mayor of new york city, his police gave blacks a hard time while his buddies on wall street robbed the country blind. perhaps you don't understand jurisdiction, marvin. financial crimes by corporations have led to the recession are federal beeves, not local situations. he had no sway over that. while he was a prosecutor, by the way, he went after white collar crime aggressively. singapore, the current unhappiness in the u usa arised not because of race but because the prosecutor has so much sway with the grand jury. i disagree. unlike your system in singapore, where i've spent some time, the u.s. criminal justice system gives those arrested and charged major rights. you must be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. therefore when a grand jury hears evidence of a crime presented by police and prosecutors, they know the individual charge will get every benefit at trial. killing patton 4,000 reviews on amazon and is your quickest selling book yet. i appr