john brennan was in cia while it was happening. he said he was opposed to it all along.ever saying that. because president obama made a big thing about george w. bush torturing everyone how he would end torture even though this is not torture, john brennan feels compelled to stand with the president. i wouldn't want enemy -- let them think we'll do everything. sandra: even if this is our tactic, why are we saying it out loud? harris: kennedy, seems like at this high level odd to see politics come into play. if the congressman is right and that is really what is happening here, you would want those types of decisions not to be made with the filter of politics? >> i also think that waterboarding isn't the most important issue when we're talking about foreign policy, national security and isis. mike baker, who was a cia agent talked about that you know it is actually a huge distraction. this is not something, terrorists are not ready to blow themselves up in soccer stadiums and with bombs second-guessing themselves because they might be tortured or ward boarded. this is big

richard engel. >> reporter: on the seventh floor of the cia headquarters in langley, we met director john brennan, who looking back at his agency's record, says it's had many successes but also some regrets. in particular, the use of harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding. never again, brennan said. >> we've learned lessons from the past. we have a lot of capabilities and competencies and skills, and so i don't believe that we need to resort to certain types of tactics. >> like waterboarding? >> absolutely i would not -- i would not agree to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding again. >> reporter: a rare step into a political issue by a cia director. and today republican front-runner donald trump fired back. >> i think his comments are ridiculous. can you imagine these isis people sitting around, eating, and talking about this country won't allow waterboarding and they just chopped off 50 heads. >> reporter: president obama banned enhanced interrogation technicals in 2009. >> there were absolutely some of those eits that i certainly would not countenance, not only this

. >> strong words on waterboarding from cia director john brennan. he says the cia won't do it again even if ordered by a future president. he was specifically talking about donald trump. take a listen to this. >> absolutely, i would not, i would not agree to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding. >> joining us is colonel ralph peters. >> it's grand standing. a former cia professional john brennan has thrown in his lot with the democratic party and the obama administration. he's kowtowed to obama all along so this is aimed specifically at the republicans and the message is, republicans want to torture, vote for good guys, vote for the democrats and sad to say, brennan has refused to say islamist terror. he went along with fort hood being workplace violence and everything after that so it's sad to see a former cia professional turn into a political hack. that's it. charles: all right. well, that's one for you, john kerry visiting hiroshima, the memorial. you're not happy about this, why? >> well, for multiple reasons. one, although the sta

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cia or john brennan. even if he is ordered to do so by a future president.ething donald trump is told to do today. >> i think that it is ridiculous. fifty in a cage. big steel heavy cages. drop them right into the water. we are playing on different fields. we have a huge problem with isis. the reason we cannot beat them as we cannot use strong tack tics. whether it is this or other things. trish: asking jack keane. welcome back to the show. yes or no on waterboarding. is this something in the appropriate cases and time? >> enhanced interrogation techniques. it was mind of the many techniques that were used and authorize. the most controversial. the most famous who did give us valuable intelligence with waterboarding scores of times. >> in other words, it can work. you will not get anything out of people. >> there is a debate about that. i have spoken to the central intelligence officer that was in charge of it. he absolutely guarantee that they got valuable information from them and others while doing that. most people that are opposed even includes the sena

but cia director john brennan said the agency will not engage in any harsh interrogation practices even if ordered by the next president. the tactic was banned through executive order in 2009 by president obama. when asked specifically about the practice, brennan's message was clear, adding absolutely i would not agree to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding again. and you can see the full exclusive interview with cia director john brennan tonight on "nbc nightly news." >>> just days ahead of his sentencing in a financial violation case, federal documents say former house speaker dennis hastert molested at least four boys when he worked as a high school wrestling coach. in court filings released friday, government lawyers accuse hastert of a series of sexual encounters in the '60s and '70s and say he tried to lie about it when confronted by the fbi. according to the filings hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million in hush money to a man who was 14 years old when hastert sexually abused him. a statement released by hastert's attorney over the weekend reads in part, mr. hastert ack

take a listen for a moment to former cia director john brennan speaking to richard engel back in aprilwould not agree to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding. >> it's come up recently in politics with some presidential candidates saying that's the first thing they would like to bring back. would this organization support that? or even follow that order? >> this organization will do what it can to protect the american public from the attacks from terrorist groups. i will not agree to carry out some of these tactics and techniques that i have heard bandied about because this institution needs to endure. >> that of course is our cia director john brennan saying the cia is not going back into the torture business. here is donald trump doubling down on april 11th on the idea that under his presidency, we would go back to torture. >> they chop off heads and they drown people in cages with 50 in a cage in big steel heavy cages, drop them right into the water, drown people. we can't waterboard and we can't do anything. we are playing on different fields and we have a huge problem

james woolsey meanwhile responded to john brennan, head of the cia.hey will not enforce waterboarding even if given a command by a future president. watch. >> it's one thing for him to disagree with the policy and say that he disagrees with it or agrees with it. it is another for him to say, for john brennan to say he would, not take an action even if he were ordered by the president to do so. bill: that is woolsey from greta last night. what do you think of this debate? >> the question here is not the cia director or the president. the question is the law and under the ndaa, under national defense authorization act as it was passed out of the senate, that process has been eliminated. so under, what we expect is the president to use the, his full authority within the law in order to prosecute the war against isis. but in this particular case, the senate overwhelmingly passed the legislation and included in that legislation, which is now law, is prohibition on that practice. bill: welcome home. thank you for your time, chairman. >> good to be back. tha

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among them asked carter, the national security adviser susan rice and the head of the cia, john brennanident's trip to saudi arabia comes amid a new debate at home surrounding 28 pages. those are the classified documents only seen by a small group of lawmakers many of whom investigated the lead up to 9/11. it is the suggestion of some that the documents could show the saudi government at some level could have had some link in the september 11th terrorist attack. former iraq envoy paul brehmer told neil cavuto he thinks those contents should be made public. >> i understand the president's concern because it could have quite an impact on the way americans view the saudi's so i can understand the concern but whatever can be declassified should be. >> reporter: the issue did not come up in the meeting between the president and king solomon. back to you. nicole: blake berman tries to persuade british voters to remain in the european union. britain will hold a referendum in june on whether to remain in the e.u. or leave, the term, what they are referring to, should britain stay or get out of

. >>> john brennan says his agency will not engage in waterboarding or other interrogation techniques. president obama banned waterboarding in 2009. donald trump and ted cruz suggested they would end the ban if elected. trump saying he would bring back waterboardsiin waterboarding. >>> severe thunderstorms in the south. meteorologist pedram javaheri has the latest. >> good morning, john and michelle. watches parts of oklahoma and on into arkansas with the severe weather threat around a three. shreveport in particular, watching it for this afternoon. significant rainfall. 1 to 2 inches. some areas could see 2 to 4 inches in jackson and birmingham over the next 24 to 36 hours. as the storm system migrates to the east, gusty winds and southerly flow ahead of the temperatures. temperatures soar into the 70s for washington. showers out of this by this afternoon. in the what happens this weekend. temperatures could be 10 to 20 degrees above average. around 70 in new york city. >> it's about freaking time. pedram, thanks. >>> the only story that michelle kosinski is talking about this mornin

former cia director is slamming john brennan saying he would go against a presidential order on waterrding calling it unacceptable. >> when madison and his colleagues were putting the constitution together on that hot summer i don't remember anybody incorporating in article 2 that the cia director could overrule the president. they didn't even have a cia director at the time. it's one thing for him to disagree with a policy and say that he disagrees with it or agrees with it. it's another for him to say -- for john brennan to say that he would take -- not take an action even if he were ordered by the president to do so. >> well, i'm hearing on protecting taxpayer information and the role could examine how the irs is keeping your personal information safe from cyber criminals and what improvements are neglects. the irs commissioner is just one of six people expected to testify in that hearing and this comes as the irs continues to shift towards more electronic filings and support services. >>> and supreme court nominee merrick garland will have one of the most important meetings yet on

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cia director john brennan is making headlines after an interview with nbc news saying that he would neverof enhanced interrogation techniques. watch this. >> we've learned lessons from the past. we have a lot of capabilities and comp hennesseys and skills and so i don't believe that we need to resort to certain types of tactics. >> like waterboarding? >> absolutely i would not agree to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding again. this organization will do what stk to protect the american public from the attacks of terrorists groups. i will not agree to carry out some of these tactics and techniques that i have heard bantied about because this institution needs to endure. >> donald trump fired back at the comments and here's what he said yesterday. >> i think his comments are ridiculous. i mean, they chop off heads and drown people in cage with 50 in a cage and big, steel heavy cages. drop them in the water. drown people. we can't waterboard and we can't do anything and, you know, we're >> test test. >> test test . >>> here with reaction is author of the brand new book "defeati

ask your doctor... ...if switching... ...to eliquis is right for you. >>> john brennan said his agencyuspects by water boarding even if a future president orders it. richard engel, let's start with the timing here. why does the cia director make this declaration now? >> well, it emerged a little bit by accident, i think, in the course of our conversation. i was there at lankigley and wi strategy against isis and the legacy of the cia and in the course of that conversation, because, by the way, it's unusual for a cia director to weigh in on politics and i don't think he wanted to weigh in. but in the course of our conversation about lessons learned, there's certain things that have done harm to the agency and enhanced interrogations, eits, what critics called torture, was one of them and said they're not doing them again and illegal and will not do them which opened up the conversation to, anymore, they have become ill e illegal and they have not done them in the past, and i said, what do you think about this being brought up by trump? he said, we won't do it again. you can hear some of

deirdre: that is cia director john brennan.e says the agency will not engage in enhanced interrogation practices which waterboarding is one. this morning on fox news trump responded. >> i think his comments are ridiculous. i mean they chop off heads and they drown people in cages with 50 in a cage and big steel, heavy cages, drop them right into the water, down people and we can't waterboard and we can't do anything, we're brining on different fields and we have a huge problem with isis which we can't beat. the reason we can't beat them we won't use strong tactics, whether it is this or other things. so, i think his comments are ridiculous. can you imagine these isis people, sitting around, eating and talking about this country won't allow waterboarding and they just chopped off 50 heads? deirdre: trump's foreign policy advisor walid phares is with me now. walid, welcome back. >> thank you. deirdre: first of all, what is your take on cia director brennan's comments? >> well he has a position under this administration. he is not

. >>> exclusive interview with nbc news, cia director john brennan says his agency will not be usingif a future president orders it. richard engel interviewed brennan and joins me from new york. good seeing you. >> good to see you. i was at the cia headquarters this weekend. and we were on the seventh floor, which is the executive floor, and i was there to interview the cia director brennan, to talk about something else. we were talking about successes against al qaeda, against the strategy for fighting isis. in the course of our interview, we were talking about lessons learned and mistakes made in the past. this came up. and he actually brought it up. he said that the enhanced interrogation program is not coming back. that waterboarding in particular is not something that the cia will do again. that this is something that they have learned from in the past, and are not going to engage in it. i think you have a clip cued up. >> this organization will do what it can to protect the american public from the attacks from terrorist groups. i will not agree to carry out some of these tacti

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. >> tonight in an nbc news exclusive, cia director john brennan says his agency will ignore orders tothe next president. >> we've learned lessons from the past. we have a lot of capabilities and competencies and skills and i don't believe we need to resort to certain kinds of tactics. >> like waterboarding. >> absolutely, i would not. i would not agree to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding again. >> and here's donald trump's reaction to john brennan's comments. >> i think his comments are ridiculous. i mean, they chop off heads and they drown people in cages with 50 in a cage and big steal heavy cages, drop them right into the water, drown people. and we can't waterboard and we can't do anything. >> in 2009 president obama signed an executive order banning the use of torture by the cia. he also released bush-era torture memos detailing harsh cia interrogation tactics. prior to the release of these memos it was revealed that in 2005 under the bush administration the cia destroyed nearly 100 interrogation videos of alleged terror suspects depicting waterboarding. after a

interrogating terror suspects our chief foreign correspondent richard engel asked cia director john brennanther the agency might once again permit waterboarding. president obama banned it but donald trump and ted cruz have said they're open to it. in an exclusive interview brennan was unequivocal. >> absolutely i would not. i would not agree to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding again. >> you can see more of richard's interview with brennan tomorrow right here on "nightly news." >>> it was a chaotic and violent scene today in northern greece as hundreds of migrants tried to cross the border into macedonia on their way to western europe. they were turned back with force as kelly cobiella reports. >> reporter: a battle on the greek/macedonian border. macedonian police firing tear gas at refugees, shooting water cannons and rubber bullets. the refugees, many stunned, some injured, a few retaliating with rocks, most were unarmed. high winds blowing the tear was into a nearby camp of 11,000, hitting dozens of families. >> we treated around 200 people for tear gas, mostly men, but

john brennan said even if a future president orders it, he will not use what some call torture techniquest information from anyone. during their cam pans, donald trump and ted cruz have said they don't consider water boarding to be torture. the technique was used on suspected terrorists after the 9/11 attacks. president obama banned that practice in 2009. >> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> coming up on ten minutes before 6:00. the temperatures have come down into the 40s. we are above freezing. rain falling on citizens bank park this morning is only rain. there's no rain/snow mix. though we are seeing rain in the area, it's cloudy at philadelphia international. 46 degrees with a little bit of a breeze out of the south at 11 miles an hour. it's been a little bit rainy this morning in center city. it's only been light rain so far. gusty winds, that's what we feel during the day. it's a southerly wind. that will start q warming process and have us in the 60s this afternoon. and this afternoon, we'll be done with this. the rain that is moving back into

>> in an nbc news exclusive, our chief foreign correspondent richard engel asked cia director john brennanhis agency would consider using harsh interrogation practices, ones which would include waterboarding, which critics say is torture. president obama banned it in 2009, but donald trump and ted cruz have said they are open to it. director brennan said he would not authorize it, even if ordered by a future president. >> absolutely i would not. i would not agree to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding again. >> you can catch more of richard's exclusive interview with director brennan tonight on "nbc nightly news." >>> bond has been set at $1 million for the man accused of killing former new orleans saints defensive end will smith. it appears to have started with a car accident leading to an argument between the drivers and ended with smith's shocking death. nbc's dan schenamen has details. >> reporter: at the scene of the fatal shooting, saints fans paid their respects to one of the most beloved players in team history. >> a good guy. everybody loves him. and just an absolute

john brennan said even if a future president orders it, he will not use what some call torture techniquesget information from anyone. dirg the during their campaign, donald trump and ted cruz said they don't consider waterboarding to be torture. president obamaç banned the practice in 2009. >>> the international space station is restocked this morning, thanks to a spacex cargo ship. it arrived yesterday carrying 7,000 pounds of supplies, experiments and hardware. that includes the first inflatable room for astronauts. it was spacex's first delivery for nasa in a year. a launch accident last june, you'll remember, put shipments on hold. >>> english golfer danny willett is waking up with a new green jacket this morning after winning the masters. last year's champ, jordan spieth was leading until he ran into trouble on the 12th hole and it only got worse from there. he hit two balls into the water, another into a bunker. willett took advantage and shot par or better on every hole in the final round to finish 5 under and win the tournament. >>> nine minutes before 5:00 right now. a problem o

>>> in an nbc news exclusive, our chief foreign correspondent richard engel asked cia director john brennanf his agency would consider using harsh interrogation practices, ones that would include water boarding, which critics say is torture. president obama banned it in 2009. but donald trump and ted cruz have said that they are open to it. director brennan said he would not authorize it, even if ordered by a future president. >> absolutely i would not. i would not agree to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding. >> you can catch more of richard's exclusive interview with director brennan tonight on "nbc nightly news." >>> bond has been set at $1 million for the man accused of killing former new orleans saints defensive end will smith. it appears to have started with a car accident leading to an argument between the drivers, and ended with smith's shocking death. nbc's dan schenemen has details. >> reporter: near the scene of the fatal shooting saints fans paid their respects to one of the most beloved players in team history. >> a good guy. everybody loves him. and just an absol

with a policy and say he disagrees with it or agrees with it it's another for him to say, for john brennanven if he were ordered by the president to do and it seems to me that depends on whether or not waterboarding is or is not torture. there is a real legal argument about this. there two legitimate views. i think people who think it is torture would have to admit it's a very strange kind of torture because it's torture that we submit all of our navy seals and other special forces to. they go through waterboarding and we don't pull out their fingernails. the same thing, there were a couple of three journalists who went out and got during the controversy a9é( years ago so they could write articles. i don't know any journalists who went out and this h. their fingernails pulled out so they could write about that waterboarding is different. we only did it a large number of times>q< sheikh mohammed and it produced a good deal of useful information. if a terrorist is sitting on axí$a knowledge about where nuclear weapon is in manhattan and if it's detonated can kill millions of people. the onl

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. >>> john brennan says his agency will not engage in waterboarding or other terror techniques if a future president orders it. president obama banned waterboarding in 2009. donald trump and ted cruz suggested they would end that ban if elected. >>> danny willett is the 2016 masters champion. the englishman shot a bogey free 67 in the final round winning the season's first major by three shots. it was an epic collapse by jordan spieth. he squandered a five-stroke lead after hitting two balls in the water on the 12th. >> i cannot believe it. that is not how jordan spieth plays. >>> bond set at $1 million for a 30-year-old suspect who allegedly shot and killed former saints football star will smith. new orleans police say cardell hayes and smith's cars collided. >>> and severe thunderstorms ahead in the south. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us now with the latest. >> michelle and john, good morning. watching severe weather around the south central states in oklahoma and on into arkansas. severe weather threat actually a three. this is enhanced risk in southern arkansas and northern loui

. >>> cia director john brennan said his agency will not engage in waterboarding even if the next presidentcy to do so. represidential candidates donald trump and ted cruz suggested that they would end the ban on waterboarding but brennan said they would not engage in enhanced interrogation techniques. >>> a white house meeting today with janelle yellen and vice president joe biden. yellen said that the economy is close to full health. wall street reform will also be talked about today. >>> and for the first time since 1913 t costs less to send something in the mail. >> that story and more financial news from cbsmoneywatch.com. jill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the markets will open after another down week on wall street. on friday, stocks rose slightly. the futures are pointing to eye higher opening today. companies will be reporting earnings, and it may not be pretty. analysts are expecting the biggest year to year drop since the great recession and for the first time in nearly a century, the cost of mailing a letter is going down from 49 to 47 cents. the postal service was f

and i think that balance between someone like john brennan, who grew up in agency, and someone like myself, who had some interaction with the intelligence community, but was not of the intelligence community, is consistent with, at least, the modern history of the agency, of having an insider and outsider in the director and deputy director slots. charlie: what is the current rules of engagement for sort of paramilitary engagement by the -- paramilitary activity by the cia? david: we have a paramilitary operation that has been part of the cia since our founding. it is something that began with our predecessor. how our paramilitary officers are engaged, where they may be engaged differs widely, depending on what the mission is. it is always consistent with u.s. law. it is always consistent with the rules that have been set, if it is a covert action program, from the white house. the president controls covert action. the president assigns covert action, sets out the authorities for the cia in conducting covert action. so, the particularities differ from situation to situation, but the founda

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the cia director john brennan telling nbc news the united states will never again use enhanced interrogation techniques, include water boarding, even ifed the order came from the president of the united states. >> i would not agree to having any cia officer carry out waterboarding again. his remarks rather clumsy in in the foray into national politics. >> i think his comments are ridiculous. they chop off heads and drown people in big steel heavy cages and drop them into the water and drown people. we have a huge problem with is* which we can't beat is because we won't use strong tactics whether it's this or other things. lou: there is a reminder cias sr comments to the profession that is theirs. it's a far cry from what he said in december 2014 as he defended the cia. >> it's our considered view that the detainees who were subjected to enhanced intear yaition techniques provided information that was useful and was used in the ultimate operation to go against bin laden. lou: cia directors should constrain themselves to their business and leave politics to others who muck it up on their own w

john brennan spoke about enmanslaughtered interrogation techniques. the cia used waterboarding on terror suspects after the 9/11 attacks. president obama banned the practices in 2009. dr. brennan said the agency will continue to outlaw the practice no matter what the circumstances. to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding again. >> republican presidential frontrunner donald trump has said that if elected president, he would authorize the use of waterboarding. >>> another presidential primary is coming up, and we have a new poll about the frontrunners here. voters think hillary clinton would do a better job than donald trump on several topics, including making america great. she edged him out 33-28 in that one. voters also had them pretty close in handling the economy and creating jobs. the margin of error was plus or minus 3.3%. nbc's tracie potts tells us the battle is heating up between all the candidates. >> this is a crooked system, folks. i've won twice as much as cruz, i've won millions and millions of votes more. >> reporter: but te

john brennan told nbc news agency will not engage any, quote, enhanced interrogation tack it can. waterboard banned in 2009. republican candidate donald trump said he would bring it back and worse. he says, ted cruz says he would but as president he would use whatever enhanced meth to keep the country safe. historic moment u.s. secretary of state john kerry visited atomic bombing memorial in hear hiroshima japan. they neither asked for american apology some think it was prior to his arrival there, and u.s. official said one would not happen. kerry is most senior u.s. official to visit hiroshima as i understand world war ii. 140 u.s. killed when bomb troped and then another dropped in japan. japan surrendered the next day. president obama will be in japan next month for the g7 summit and hasn't made a decision whether he'll be at the moral. >> ink he's going to go. >> last year in office. he likes doing his groundbreaking things. i think he's going to go. >> if there's in i imagine he probably will. >> we'll see. sigh that i was right and a you were wrong about the window seat thin

in an exclusive nbc news interview, director john brennan says he would not agree to having any officer carry out the interrogation technique. the cia used waterboarding on terror suspects after the 9/11 attacks. president obama banned the practice in 2009. donald trump has said that if elected, he'd authorize the use of waterboarding. >>> the irs building on constitution avenue in d.c. should be back open today. if you work there, you height want to check the emergency the hotline before you head into work this morning. but it's been a puig since twee fire. the fire didn't affect the processing of tax returns because that work different location. >>> dozens of people are coming off of a rough travel day because of a bird strike. ap-american airlines flight headed to d.c. had to turn back. the pilot shut down one of the plane's engines as a precaution, but was able to land flight 4680 safely back at key west. nobody was hurt. >>> we told you about the dangers of parking your car at the horner road commuter lot. cars have been vandalized four separate times there in just there is a new p

making headlines in our world lead, cia director john brennan suggest the that tagency will n enhancedes even if a future president orders him to do so. >> i will not agree to having any cia officer carrying out waterboarding. >> brennan made those comments in an interview with richard engle. the two leading republican presidential candidates have not only defended waterboarding but would consider bringing it back. president obama banned the practice after taking office. joining me now to discuss this all is eric fehr, an army veteran who worked as an interrogator at the infamous abu ghraib prison in iraq where many were tortured and employed aggressive techniques including sleep deprivation, and others. he's out with a new book called "consequence." what is your reaction to cia director brennan's comments? >> i think it's admirable and i suspect the director would not be speaking without presidential authority so i think it also shows that president obama supports this as well. there's also an indication that the door remains wide open for these practices. we've had cia directors in t

in an exclusive interview with nbc news cia cia director john brennan says the agency will not engagepractices, even if a future president orders the agency to do so. this issue has been thrust back into the national spotlight during the campaign for the white house, with the top republican candidates having said they are open to the use of waterboarding in the fight against terrorism. i want to bring in richard engel, nbc news chief foreign correspondent, who interviewed director brennan. richard, what did you learn from this interaction? especially about the part, even if a future president were to order them to do this? >> so i was at the cia headquarters this weekend, interviewing director brennan for a variety of subjects and we were talking abouts the policy against isis and counterterrorism and the legacy of the cia and their successes and failures, and in the course of this conversation, he said that one of the things, one of the lessons they've learned from the past were about these harsh interrogations, so-called enhanced the interrogations. and those practices were stopped,

cia director john brennan is raising eyebrows, continue on with national security but in a differentis saying that there are more terrorists in the world than ever before but insisting that the united states is actually safer than it has been in 15 years. brennan told nbc news, quote, when i think about 9/11 and how al qaeda was taking advantage of inabilities in the homeland, we have strengthened our security in the homeland, to a great, great degree. we as a country are far, far safer 9/11, end quote. even if that were the case though, here are some chilling numbers. according to a global think tank which tracks worldwide terrorism deaths there were about 3200 in the year 2,000. there were more than 32 now in the year 2014. that is nearly a 10-fold increase. guy? >> there seems to be some dissew dense here when he says we're safer than ever, while acknowledging the number of terrorists on. planet has proliferated. i will say personally i'm not sure i feel or many americans feel much safer today than we did on 9/11. i will say though, that i feel much safer living in the united stat