the hearing, she was asked to explain to the american people, if they don't know, who is khalid sheikh muhammad. a "new york times" story, khalid sheikh muhammad -- we know he was water boarded and said he gave information to stop the waterboarding, that it was bogus. so she's going to go into a closed hearing and be asked about the treatment of khalid sheikh muhammad. the trump administration is framing the politics, who are you going to side with, a woman tough on terror or the guy that orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. >> the folks getting water boarded were not boy scouts. but that doesn't get to essential questions, one, does this align with american values, something that took a long time to get there. she didn't give a straight answer. to be fair, there are democrats and republicans who do not agree with the torture program and there are democrats and democrats who support her nomination. it's a moral question. so there's that. but then the other question, did you get good intelligence from khalid sheikh muhammad? and haspel herself said i don't know if another method could have gotten the

khalid sheikh muhammad was the architect and master mind of the 9/11 attacks. his nephew, ramsey yusef, was behind the '93 attack on the world trade center, and sheikh muhammad financed that operation. he was also behind the infamous plot in the philippines. tragically, he was the individual personally kill ed a wall street correspondent and filmed that heinous act. he also, after 9/11, carried out an attack on a synagogue in tunisia, and he had other attacks planned. we were able to warn allies about a planned attack, for example, on heathrow airport. mr. nasiri was the amir of the attack in 2000 on the "uss cole" in which we lost 17 sailors. he also was behind the attack on a french ship, "limbburg," and he was the al qaeda chief of operations in the gulf and arabian peninsula. >> i thank you for that. i think it's important to put into context when individuals are mentioned, what their role was in terrorism and why they were the focus of not only the agency, but law enforcement. with that i would like to ask the vice chairman for any closing statements he wou

custody were waterboarded including khalid sheikh muhammad who beheaded the "wall street journal" reporteroing to go back to these discussions, go back to those debates, that might harm cia as an institution. i think in her mode of really putting the agency before herself, she said, if it's going to harm cia, i don't need to be part of this. i think everyone around her said, no, you are the right person to do this, the white house bumped her up. she's going full steam ahead. >> what's the view from 1600 pennsylvania avenue on haspel's nomination? >> reporter: the president and gina haspel spoke over the weekend. sources who confirmed the reporting first by the "washington post" tell us the president has no intentions to replace her as the nominee. we're also told that the white house officials who are helping her with this confirmation process, they had one prep session today and they intend to have several more ahead of this senate intelligence committee hearing on wednesday, which as you well know, is expected to be fairly contentious, but already we've gotten an early sense of the white