but if anybody cares to check they will know that it was mark udall. mark has been a vocal activist and effective in his fight against climate change and then his promotion of renewable energy. he was the statewide co-chair of the successful 2004 campaign to pass colorado's amendment 37 that required colorado's power comes to generate most of their electricity from renewable sources. colorado was the first state inn the union to take the issue to the voters. amendment 37 pass and mark udall was the driving force behind that effort. after his victory in the state, mark took this issue to the house of representatives. the house has twice passed national renewable electricity standards championed i mark. during his time innocent is continue to push for a national policy and his doggedness and standing up for colorado's wind energy production saved thousands of good paying jobs across the state and ensure we continue to lead the nation in developing our clean energy economy. the same is true for our -- summertime job opportunities thanks to a law mark bass

i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> on the senate floor last week, outgoing democratic senator mark udall a purge of top cia officials implicated in the torture program and cover-up, including current director john brennan. in stark language, udall accused the cia of lying. 2 the cia has long -- july overseers of the public, destroyed and try to hold back evidence, spied on the senate, made. charges against our staff, and lied about torture and the results of torture. and no one has been held to account. they are right now people serving and high-level positions at the agency approved, directed, or committed acts related to the cia's detention and interrogation program. it is bad enough not to prosecute these officials, but to reward or promote them and risk the integrity of the u.s. government to protect them is encumbrance of all. principle. the president needs to purge his a ministration of high-level officials who were instrumental to the development and running of this program. >> as senator udall urges president obama to fire john brennan, udall himself faces calls to take action of

mark udall from colorado is saying brennan is still lying about the cia you takes and on ye olde senate floor called for but the obama administration might cause a change in personnel. >> the president needs to purge the administration of high level officials instrumental to the running of this program. it needs to force a cultural change up the cia. he gives me no pleasure to say this but as i've said before tucker are brennan -- director brennan, that means resigning. >> not the first time mark udall has called for that. josh earnest called for a spirited defense. >> i had the opportunity to take a few trips with him when we were traveling with the president together. he is someone who i think adheres to the highest ethical standards that you would expect of a government official. >> the white house praises the senate report but lets them attacked the report. why is president obama straddling on all of this? >> let's speak to the udall thing. when john brennan was confirmed in march 20 he went up to the hill and to placate he basically said he was against waterboarding, thought tortur

classified pentagon papers into the congressional records and now he is urging outgoing senator mark udall do something similar -- make the full intelligence committee torture report public. we will speak to senator gravelle, then a discussion about how he came to have the papers published. we will hear from senator gravelle, robert west, former president of the association that owned beacon press, about how the government almost brought down his church, and the pentagon papers whistleblower. >> they were all over washington, not only in the pentagon, but in the cia and the state department. >> it was the government that is lawless, not the press. unanimousnd ask consent to put these papers and the record automatically. that is how it officially got into the record of the united states of america. >> all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. graphic new details of the post-9/11 u.s. torture program came to light earlier this month when the senate intelligence a 500-pageeleased summary of its investigation into the c

mark udall said the c.i.a. is lying. >> it's bad enough not to prosecute these officials, but to reward or promote them and risk the enter great o integrity of the u.s. government is incomprehensible. the president needs to purge his administration of high-level officials instrumental in the running of this program. >> it was not the first time that mark udall has called for john brennan to resign as head of the c.i.a. he called for it over the summer when the c.i.a. was accused of searching computers to compile this explosive report. they said they were not digging into the computers, and then later recanted this statement. mark udall is using his last major moments in washington to rail against the c.i.a. >> libby, how is the white house responding to these calls for accountability? >> well, they're focusing on what president obama did when he first came in to office. he banned these so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, and the president and his staffers keep pointing back to that. josh earnest was as

. >> reporter: colorado democratic senate mark udall called on the president to clean house at the cia. the review conducted by former udall said an internal review of the interrogation program directed by former cia director leon panetta found the cia repeatedly misled congress about the brutal tactics. >> the president needs to purge his administration of high level officials, instrumental to the development and running of this program. for director brennan, that means resigning. >> reporter: there is no indication that is going to happen any time soon. the white house maintains the president still has full confidence in cia director john brennan and brennan will have a chance to defend himself at a news conference at the cia later on this afternoon, carol. >> jim acosta reporting live at the white house and in just a few hours we should hear more from the cia director, john brennan, in a rare public exchange, the head of the nation answer spy agency will also field questions from reporters. cnn will carry the news conference live. it is scheduled for 1:30 eastern time. >>> still to

he didn't get diverted off into other areas and he allowed mark udall, it's mark udall, right? there are two udall's. when mark udall got off on this woman's rights, women's issues thing and overkill his own position and i think that really helped. i go back to some of the points i said. grassroots, improvements, involvement all the various communities they can get involved in not just at election time. i think certainly there's a sizable growth in the hispanic population in colorado and i would be looking for individuals who are possible candidates from that community. outreach to civic organizations and religious organizations in the hispanic community now, not just at election time and finding some of the key people. whether we like it or not we are all ideological people. they think in terms of conservatism. sometimes we have to remember the average voter looks at elections in a much broader way and it may be racial, ethnic, religious or other factors that cause people to vote for someone and therefore if you can attract some of the mac community to be a candidate you are go

senator mark udall made it clear that that wasn't going to be allowed to happen on his watch, on mark udall's watch. and i'm just going to wrap up by saying to senator udall i remember when we started this battle together and we got a handful of votes. sometimes it was like 13-2 and whatever. we just thought it was going to be a long, long time before there was reform. and we went from those days to eventually getting up to 15 or 20 votes. and colleagues today to a great extent because of senator udall in the last vote for real surveillance reform, we were up to 58 votes. 58 votes for real surveillance reform. and that to a great extent is possible because of the extraordinary service of my good friend, senator mark udall from california. we westerners always make sure we stay in touch, and he knows that is going to be the case with this particular friend from the west, a wonderful united states senator, senator mark udall. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. udall: mr. president, today is an hist

udall went on to call for brennan to redesign. more with the obama administration's reaction to the senate report there mark murray. erious accusation from udall. is there a division here between the white house and fellow democrat ourselves the report, the revelations, and how to respond to the revelations? it's important to note this isn't a new call by outgoing senator mark udall for john brennan's resignation. he's been a big critic for what has been going on at the cia for some time. there's almost a little bit of a divide that has gone on in the democratic community. some people say they need to punish the cia to the fullest extend and time for brennan to resign. one of the views you often hear from the white house is the cia did feel like they had a problem where they felt like their people were being punished and selected out for something that the previous administration said was legal. they thought it was wrong. with the obama administration the white house has done is saying this type of torture program, it interrogation program is not going forward at all the moment i step in as president. but you're see

tom udall, mark's susan, the son of stewart udall, serves as senator from new mexico, and mark udall himself. what a great person. i can remember so many things about his public service but i especially remembered last night when he lost his brother and came before our caucus lunch and talked about the love he had for that man and what that loss meant to him. it touched the heart of everyone in the room and gave us an insight into mark udall as a person. he was committed to a number of causes. his wife maggie and he have given so much time to the environment and preserving our natural heritage, but he also showed great courage when it came to his service on the senate intelligence committee. even as a new member of that committee, he stepped up for principles and values, and i'm glad he did, preserving our rights and liberties as american citizens and fully supporting the disclosure that senator feinstein made yesterday with her report. i have been in the senate now for 18 years and i have seen many come and go, but we have lost, sadly, in this departure of these members some of our

incumbent senate democrats mark horner and jeanne shaheen hung on but mark udall, mark pryor and kaytheir seats. republicans joni ernst, shelley moore capito, mike rounds and steve daines took what had been democratic senate seats. >>> almost in an instant it went from fall to frigid. arctic temperatures mixed with howling winds unleashed an unprecedented snowfall in buffalo. >>> and liftoff at dawn. >> orion pushed away from pad 37 and into history. >> the dawn of orion and a new era of american space exploration. >>> today a staten island grand jury rendered its decision. no indictment for the new york city police officer who whose officially banned choke hold was cited in garner's death back in july. >> chanting slogans now synonymous with the continuing movement of police violence, protesters called for changes in the way police interact with people and in the way incidents of police violence are investigated and prosecuted. >>> during an nfl season that's often played out in the courtroom instead of a stadium, nfl owners unanimously approved a new sweeping league personal conduc

senator mark udall is calling for him to resign. >> director brennan and his cia today are continuing to willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent torture. in other words, the cia is lying. >> the republicans mounting a coordinated attack on the senate report calling the release a danger to americans and a bet y betrayal of promises made to americans. to defend it as effective. >> we did exactly what needed to be done in order to catch those who were guilty on 9/11 and prevent further attack. we were successful on both parts. >> the controversy over the senate torture report as brennan fields questions from reporters this afternoon. you will want to catch that. cnn will carry it live at 1:30 eastern. >> it will be fascinating what he has to say. he is caught between the senate and white house and current and former cia personnel. >>> now this morning, the united nations and human rights groups bolstering the calls for any cia officials involved in what they call torture. the spokesperson for the united nations secretary-general says ban ki-moon hopes this starts the pr

senator mark udall from colorado attacked brennan as deceptive from the senate floor and called for him to resign. >> director brennan and the cia today are continuing to willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent. the cia is lying. >> republicans are attacking the report calling its release a danger to americans and betrayal of promises made to allies. some architects of enhanced interrogation are stating it is effective and necessary. >> we did what needed to be done in order to catch those who were guilty on 9/11 and prevent further attack. we were successful on both parts. >> the fallout from this explosive report will continue today. cia director john brennan will take questions from reporters at a news conference this afternoon. this will be fascinating. this man in the middle of it all. caught in between the white house and the senate and old cia officials and the current cia. the news conference at 1:30 p.m. >> caught in the middle of that and around the world, the crimes that should be prosecuted. the united nations and human rights groups bolstering the balls fo

mark udall: >> director brennan and the c.i.a. today are continuing to willfully provide interactive information and misrepresent the effaces of torture. in other words, the c.i.a. is lying. >> since the report's release, president obama has kept a low profile. >> mr. president, do you agree -- he. >> thursday brushing off shouted questions in an event centered on foreign trade. >> we're talking about exports, john, thank you. >> just before the speech, the white house praised brennan's record of service. >> that makes him a patriot and someone who has the full confidence of the president of the united states. >> part of brennan's goal, buck up morale among agency employees. >> c.i.a. officers operating in some very, very dangerous places on behalf of their fellow americans. there is concern and disappointment about what has happened. >> as calls for accountability mount, brennan was clearly uncomfortable with all the scrutiny of an agency accustomed to staying in the shadows. >> i think there's more than enough transparency that

and now the democrats are like i don't remember that. >> we have to get up and lie to cofs"zls as mark udallngress, some would say under oath, udall thinks they should be prosecuted. >> udall wanted the names of the operatives revealed and when the security concerns about these poor men and women who are just trying to defend us must be said, can get a bodyguard. thanks, senator. fzñ hey shouldn't reveal the names. >> he's on the crazy far, far left. >> i think that he actually has it right that these people did not tell congress it's good to have the light of day shine on them. >> why on earth would he -- and they went to the doj skb got a blessing and briefed congress on it. th disclosed was in addition to that. but for that he wants them prosecuted, he wants them outed. >> look, they didn't keep us safe because of torture. we found out torture didn't work. >> okay, that's #ocñ20/20. >> they said they weren't prepared for this kind of interrogation. >> don't you feel a little uncomfortable these people trying to keep us safe. there was a fear there might be a nuclear bomb set off in the un

i mean, had you democratic senator mark udall lost his election so he is leaving in a couple of weeks just yesterday saying john brennan and other top officials need to be fired are. >> later. yes, he did he. >> he would like to reign all of that in. might put more on intel agencies in terms of their behavior and activities and how tough they are going to be on terrorists. then you have the aclu that is saying mr. president, you need to prosecute people from the bush administration, from the cia, maybe even current cia officials. >> is he is not going to do that. >> john breneman around in the bush administration. is he not going to do it. here is where he will feel the pressure and where there may be some movement on all of this which is that he has loretta lynch as his nominee to be attorney general. the aclu and others on the left are saying that while they support her nomination, they are going to use those confirmation hearings which again will be run by republicans, not democrats come january to get more, even more information out of the administration about alleged torture, wha

mark udall said some people who, quote, engaged in torture are still working in the cia.d for president obama to purge his administration of them. as we reported yesterday the report found that tactics were more brutal than cia officials admitted. waterboarding sleep deprivation in a case where a detainee died of hypothermia after interrogates chained him partially naked to a concrete floor. that's part of the list, haven't seen. john brennan admits the agency, quote, made mistakes but claims the harsh interrogations saved lives. ed henry at the white house. what else is the white house saying, ed? >> shep, what's interesting is that josh earnest repeatedly said under tough questioning about joj brennan and why the president has picked somebody who oversees the policies the president now decries in terms of these harsh interrogation practices, brennan served in the bush administration at the cia before he served in the obama administration, josh earnest said he's a patriot trying to protect the country even though that's similar to what vice president dick cheney said, th

. >> reporter: in the wake of tuesday's senate report, mark udall is accusing the white house and the cia of trying to cover up a legacy of torture. he's pressing president obama to clean house at the cia beginning with the current director, bronen. >> for the next cia director, fix the false record and reforms to restore the reputation from integrity and analytical rigor. >> reporter: the white house came to his defense. >> he is somebody who, i think, adheres to the highest ethical standard that you would expect of a government official. >> reporter: brennan has said mistakes were made, but they helped save lives. he's expected to defend the cia during remarks at the headquarters. 39 prisoners were subjected to water boarding, sleep deprivation between 2003 and 2009. techniques that were ineffective because they produced no intelligence. dick cheney is among republicans who denounce the report. in the first public comment, cheney called it deeply flawed. they are considering bringing charges against government officials and cia agents involved in the interrogation tacti tactics. the

colorado democrat mark udall claimed that the cia is not coming clean and president obama isn't doing enough to hold the agency accountable. >> the president needs to purge his administration of high level officials who were instrumental to the development and running of this program. he needs to force a cultural change at the cia. >> reporter: human rights groups are calling for the prosecution of top cia officials. >> from our perspective, accountability is the firmest and surest way to ensure this never happens again. >> reporter: a united nations special investigator is demanding that those responsible for crimes against international law be brought to justice if they travel overseas. but the white house said they did a review of the operatives and decided not to pursue any type of prosecution. >> the president has confidence in the criminal justice system. >> reporter: the cia pushback has been quick. john brennan saying it helped save lives. and former vice president dick cheney defending the program, telling fox news -- >> i would do it again in a minute. >> reporter: if anyone

host: this is this morning from senator mark udall. he served one term. he lost his reelection effort. he has basically said that the cia is lying. those are his words. guest: i think you will get a difference of opinion from mr. brennan, mr. hayden, and other heads of the cia and the officers themselves. unfortunately, we will really never know that because senator feinstein and her staff decided they would not interview any of the officials were the operators or analysts, the professionals who actually carried out these interrogations, to find out why they did it and whether they gleaned useful information from it. so senator udall going to the floor, calling our professionals liars, i think is untoward. guest: that goes to why the american public needs to see the report. we have the right to make judgments for ourselves. on steve's point on how the senate committee did not interview all the relevant actors, they relied on primary evidence. look at the footnotes in the executive summary. there are some 3000 footnotes in the 500 pages. they are replete w

. >> worse politician, mark udall dale the ex-democratic senator from colorado who focused obsessively on the alleged republican war on women quote on quote. udall dale was a defender, defeated by the challenger corey gardner. worse politician. okay most defining political moment, pat? >> executive amnesty by barack obama. it is going to affect the politics of the next two years entirely in both parties, poisoned the wealth for the politics of 2015. >> eleanor? >> ferguson, staten island. i can't breathe, hands up. >> tom? >> i think the downing in that makes 17 in ukraine, which shows that they did mottle ever end. >> mark? >> i would agree with eleanor. i think that what happened in ferguson was such a traumatic event for this country. and that to me was the most important event. >> the defining political moment was vladimir putin's seizure of crimea. the single act ended the 20- year post-call war period of growing cooperation between east and west. it began a new era of rising confrontation. this is the essence of the defining moment. okay. the quote of the year, pat? >> saudi arab

outgoing democratic senator mark udall delivering a passionate speech on the senate floor for nearly 50 minutes. most likely one of his last. calling for cia director john brennan to resign. he also criticized the white house for not holding anyone accountable and revealed details of a classified cia report from 2009. >> cia personnel tortured detainees to confirm they didn't have intelligence. not because they thought they did. director brennan and the cia today are continuing to willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent the efficacy of torture. the cia has lied to its overseers in the public, destroyed and tried to hold back evidence, spied on the senate, made false charges against our staff, and lied about torture and the results of torture. and no one has been held to account. the president needs to purge his administration of high-level officials who are instrumental to the development and running of this program. he needs to force a cultural change at the cia. >> the white house is standing by brennan calling the cia chief a "decorated professional and a patriot

. >> brennan's appearance comes as a key senate democrat, mark udall of colorado is calling for his resignation and as former vice president dick chain nay weighs in to defend cia tactics now under increasing fire. joining us senior white house correspondent jim acosta and our justice reporter evan perez. jim, i'll start with you. you've got to know what the white house is saying this morning about the report. >> reporter: so far their posture has not changed. they are still not answering two very basic questions. one is should federal prosecutors go and launch a new criminal investigation into cia officials over these harsh interrogation tactics. the white house is saying that's for the justice department to decide. as evan knows, the justice department has said we'll take a pass on that. the white house is also not saying whether or not those tactics even worked which is sort of a silence is acquiescence situation because, as you point out, the cia director, john brennan who will be answering questions later this afternoon has said on the cia website in a statement he believes those tactics d

and mark udall made that emotional speech on the floor yesterday where he basically told president obamare cia director brennan. let me play what he said. >> director bren and the cia continue to with any provide information and misrepresent the efficacy of torture. in other words, the cia is lying. this is not a problem in the past, madam president, but a problem that needs to be dealt with today. >> okay. the white house standing behind brennan, but when brennan speaks in a couple hours if he continues to dispute the report in the face of what president obama said that constitutes torture that that's not who we are, should brennan be fired? >> well, i'd tell you what i'd like to hear brennan say. it will be up to the president to say whether he has confidence in the director. i'd like the director to acknowledge those techniques amounted to torture. and that was wrong and a mistake that will likely not be repeated. and whether it worked, it doesn't matter. what matters that america not engage in this kind of conduct. that's what i'd like to hear the director say. that would help instil

. >> republican leaders are celebrating incumbent senate democrats hung on but mark udall, mark pryorand kay hagan lost their seats. republicans joni ernst, shelly moore, mike brown, and steve danes took what had been democratic senate seats. >> almost in an instant it went from fall to frigid. arctic temperatures mixed with howling winds unleashed an unprecedented snowfall in buffalo. >> and liftoff. >> orion pushed away from pad 37 and into history. >> the dawn of orion and a new era of american space exploration. >> today a staten island grand jury rendered its decision no indictment for the new york city police officer whose officially banned choke hold was cited as a contributing factor to garner's death back in july. >> chanting slogans now synonymous with the movement against police violence protesters call for changes in the way police interact with people and in the way incidents of police violence are investigated and prosecuted. >> during an nfl season that's often played out in the courtroom instead of a stadium, nfl owners unanimously approved a new sweeping league person

mark udall on the senate floor wednesday. >> director brennan and the cia today are continuing to willfully inaccurate information, and misrepresent the efficacy of torture, in other words the cia is lying. thursday the president brushed off questions. just before the speech the white house praised brennan's record of service. it makes him someone who has the full confidence of the president of the united states. >> reporter: part of brennan's goal buck up moral. >> cia officers are operating in some very, very dangerous places on behalf of their fellow americans. so there is some concern and disappointment about what has happened >> reporter: he was clearly uncomfortable with all of the scrutiny. >> i think there is more than enough transparency that has happened in the last couple of days. i think it is over the top. >> reporter: and throughout his speech, it was really interesting, david, diane feinstein, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee who unveiled this report on tuesday afternoon was tweeting john brennan offering a running technique of what he was saying. afterwards

. >> mark udall said they lied. think you should be prosecuted for that. >> what are the names of the cia operatives revealed. it must be said they can get a body guard. >> he is on the far left of the fringe. >> good to have the light of day shine on that. >> he was trying to keep us safe. why did he want to do something. >> they go to doj to brief them. anything was in edition to that. >> don't you feel a little uncomfortable judging yourself harshly when they were trying to keep us safe. there was a fear there might be a nuclear bomb set off in the united states. they don't know how much time they have had. >> we don't compromise our values for the sake of that. >> good to see you allan. >> some of the top democrats attacking the cia say they were never told about the enhanced interrogation techniques. the cia says that's a lie. up next, who is telling the truth. why are we now hearing senator diane fine stein the woman in charge of the report may have an action to grind with the cia? was that the real motivation

it's not just looking to find responsibility for actions committed in the past you heard senator mark udall. he wants to see action and he is calling for c.i.a.'s brennan to step down and talked about the ineffectiveness of using torture on detainees. >> libby casey for us at the white house. now part of the new c.i.a. report describes two psychologists the agency hired to create enhanced interrogation techniques. roxana saberi spoke to one of the men believed to be one of the so-called architects of the program. >> reporter: i reached james mitchell by phone in florida. he told me he could not confirm oh or deny if he was one of the two psychologists referred to the reporin the report. >> reporter: the senate report refers to two psychologists who helped c.i.a.'s use of brutal interrogation. they said they used enhanced interrogation on subjects. it identifies two contractors using the pseudonyms. their real names are reported as james mitchell and bruce jjessen. they said they were not there in realtime and the men and women in the c.i.a. without confirming or denying that i was a part of

when he wasry acting to mark udall's pious statement, he said he wasn't in the bunker.now dick cheney on 9/11 gave the order to shoot down a civilian american air liner, had it not gone down in the field before it reached washington. can you imagine what that means to deliberately kill a plane load of innocents because it had to be done given the alternative? this is a morally serious man. and he made essentially the same calculation except instead of harming in some way or abusing, as some would say, americans, we're talking about here terrorists who would do us harm and he made the calculation that he would rather inflict, lets call it enhanced interrogation, i'm not afraid to call it torture, i know the lawyers can't, because once you do, it kicks in the whole legal system, but i would say i have no qualms with using the word, if necessary to protect americans and he is right in saying that as a result of that we had 13 years of no second attack. >> what about john mccain's argument, that america as a country is better than this and it could have been achieved withou

is lying. >> colorado democratic senator mark udall called on the president to clean house at the c.i.a review of the interrogation program conducted by former c.i.a. director, leon panetta found the agency repeatedly misled congress about the brutal tactics. >> the president needs to purge his administration of high-level officials who are instrumental to the development and running of this program. for director brennan, that means resigning. >> but that is not happening. at least any time soon. the white house says the president has confidence in john brennan and the c.i.a. director will have a chance to defend himself when he holds a news conference later this afternoon. >> it is interesting that a document that was supposed to end the discussion has done nothing but begin one. alisyn? >> thanks so much. let's bring in now colonel steven kleinman, a former senior intelligence officer at the air force, he has researched interrogation for decades and appears in a campaign for human rights first, that's an advocacy group highlighting human rights failures in the u.s. government and priv

it contains, ron wyden a mark udall a richard burr and saxby chambliss. there is wide leadership changes. if you ask individual members of the committees and individual members of congress to ask for oversight because there is so much variation you don't want to it invest in one person. for oversight. >> time for one more question. >> thanks, i'm with the "washington post." not to gang on you, bob -- >> i knew what i was getting into. >> thanks. about section 215 bulk collection and president obama in his january speech made clear that his preference would be to have the government end the bulk collection of phone metadata and he asked congress to work with him on it. so far, almost a year later, still no progress so what obstacles are there to the administration moving on its own administratively to end that nsa collection of phone metadata now on its own? i know it would be preferrable to have that enshrined in legislation but why can't you move now to do it and hopefully congress will follow suit? what obstacles are there practically? >> i think if you

. >> senator mark udall, democrat of new mexico who was with alan gross. >> tom udall. >> sorry, senator. good to see you. and. >> thank you. >> you won re-election too. thank you. >> you bet. >> back here at home, former florida governor jeb bush coming out of the gate a little bit early, announcing that he is actively exploring a run for the white house in 2016. well democrats already taking shots at the potential candidate but bush may also face a challenge winning over voters in his own party. a recent poll shows mitt romney in the lead with 11% support among self-identified republican voters. jeb bush coming in second at 10%. in the meantime, among democrats, a poll shows hillary clinton at 62%, with a wide lead over senator elizabeth warren at 12%. chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in washington with the latest look at all of these polls. then we hear that governor pataki, former governor of new york may step in. a lot going on, carl. >> sure a lot of names will be thrown out there and jeb bush announcing yesterday he is creating a pac to explore presidential run a

colorado senator mark udall insisted he wants john brennan to resign. at the white house on wednesday, say... >> john brennan is a dedicated professional, dedicating his time in public service to protecting the united states of america. that makes him a patriot, and it makes him someone who has the full confidence of the president of the united states. >> you know, again, this all seems skitsio friendic. you -- schizophrenic. the have the c.i.a. director disagree with the white house. he's disagree with them. he disagrees with the report. you have the head of the intelligence committee, a power. democrat, you know, tweeting against him. then the white house says "hey, even though he disagrees with us and our person in the senate, we support him." >> well, there's currently a strong bond between president obama and john brennan. in the speech john brennan recounted his career at the c.i.a. started in 1980, and was in the upper echelons of management during the september 11th attacks. he served in the bush administration, carried over into the obama admin

democratic senator mark udall on the senate floor saying the president has a cia director josh brennan who served under president george w. bush approved of these tactics and yet is still in charge according to udall has been lying to congress, john brennan has. and you remember jose rodriguez top official saying the president is against these harsh interrogation tactics for dozens of terrorists when meanwhile thousands of terrorists and innocent civilians as well have been killed by the president's drone strikes. i pressed josh earnest on that contradiction. >> we've seen many cases around the world where u.s. drones have killed innocent civilians. despite those safeguards. so how do you have moral authority? >> what i'm saying there's a stark difference than the tactics that are employed by our enemies who seek to use car bombs to actually target innocent civilians. >> no one's defending the terrorists tactics. >> but you're asking about moral authority -- >> the moral authority -- >> there's a very clear difference between the tactics use by terrorists and the counterterrorism that

senator mark udall again calling for john brennan to resign before going after the obama administration for cooperating only when forced. in nearly a 50-minute diatribdi he said the company is still lying to the american people. >> so while the study clearly shows that the cia's detention and interrogation program itself was deeply flawed, the deeper more endemic problem lies in a cia assisted by a white house that continues to try to cover up the truth. >> here now to talk about the report, republican senator from arizona, john mccain. he's also the ranking member of the senate arms services committee and author of a brand new book. 13 soldiers, a personal history of americans at war. thanks for joining us as always. >> you're one of the few republicans in the senate backing this report passed largely by democrats in the intelligence committee. more importantly, as a former vietnam p.o.w., you're the only person in the senate who has actually experienced torture. what do your republican colleagues do not get? >> well, i think they are concerned that this information could somehow harm

anyway, yesterday colorado senator mark udall gave a fiery speech on the floor of the senate, calling from his administration people who were part of the cia's interrogation program, people like the director himself, john brennan. this is tough stuff for a guy on his way out. but here he is. >> torture just didn't happen afterall, contrary to the president's recent statement, we didn't torture some folks. real actual people engaged in torture. some of these people are still employed by the cia and the u.s. government. they are right now people serving in high level positions at the agency who approved directed or committed acts related to the cia's detention and interrogation program. it's bad enough not to prosecute these officials. but to reward or promote them, and risk the integrity of the u.s. government, to protect them, is incomprehensible. >> the best thing about our country, we talk about this in the open. i always talk about, when we were growing up, we had the space program. we said there's a guy on the board. before the ship took off, the russians, you never knew if the sh

. >> a taste of the angry debate this week from dick cheney and democratic senator mark udall in theof that senate report on cia interrogation methods. it's time now for our sunday group. syndicated columnist george will, julie pace, who covers the white house for the associated press. michael needham, head of heritage action for america and political analyst juan williams. we asked you questions for the panel and question got this on facebook from gregory who writes, what is the significant accomplishment in releasing a report on a program that ended a long time ago? it's like taking a scab off a cut to make it bleed some more. george, how do you answer gregory and is the release of this report good or bad for the country? >> on balance, i think, good. remember the movie "a few good men," colonel played by jack nicholson is being interrogated by tom cruise over code red. a training technique morally dubious and a cousin to torture at some point. and he exclaims, have you no idea what it takes to defend a nation. now, that's true. most of us don't. and there has to be some secrecy in

first, mark udall from colorado harshing big time on

today, though, in what may be his final speech as a united states senator, colorado democrat mark udall took to the floor of the senate and said one of the ways this whole thing is not over is that some of the people who knew about it, who were part of it, who made it happen, who did it themselves are still serving in government right now. he made the case today that the obama administration, president obama specifically, should purge those people out of government office right now. >> those who criticized the committee's study for overly focusing on the past should understand that its findings directly relate to how the cia operates today. torture just didn't happen after all, contrary to the president's recent statement, we didn't torture some folks. real actual people engaged in torture. some of these people are still employed by the cia. and the u.s. government. they are right now people serving in high level positions at the agency who approved, directed or committed acts related to the cia's detention and interrogation program. it's bad enough not to prosecute these officials, but