conclusions from senator feinstein, the democrats on the intelligence committee, and republican susan collins. they basically say torture happened and go into detail about it. they say it was not effective, they make the case that it did not lead to actionable intelligence. very disputed case, but they do make that case. they say that not only the public was misled, and not only congress, but the bush administration itself was misled with president bush not finding out about the details until 2006. and then they go into the descriptions of some of these quote, unquote, enhanced interrogation techniques. and it really is hard to conclude they are anything other than at least in the vernacular torture. the rectal feedings, the way that prisoners were treated, the detainees. many of these detainees, of course, brooke, were some of the more evil terrorists that walked this earth. but the report makes clear and the cia even said today that it fell short in the values this country stands for. >> so you have the dems from the senate intelligence committee putting this together, and then you have eve

i was part that have process with joel lieberman, with susan collins and jane harman. we harmed through a tough process, and we came out of a bipartisan product. we move the process forward. this is a partisan report by democrats in the senate. it does not move the ball forward. >> having said that what about the conclusions that it comes to. i understand your objections to the process, but what about the material contained inside. >> there was a systemic process of withholding information from congress and deceiving congress. from 2004 until 2011 i was recipient. he was a consumer of the product given by the c.i.a. i looked at staff and said as this report came out and said, how much of this report is stuff we never knew about? what is knew here? the response that came back, we knew 95% of this stuff. we were informed of this. i think the big gap of this report is why didn't the democrats in the senate, why didn't they look at congress' role when we were told, when we were informed, what the c.i.a. shared with us about these programs. when we didn't get the informatio

he would, his show would be about like a susan collins speech, the maine senator who some conservatives called her a rino, say she's not really conservative. i would call her a right-leaning moderate. >> host: what's the methodology or the math that you use to develop your scale? >> >> guest: oh, okay. well, that's kind of involved, and if i can pat myself on the back, it took a lot of work. it took -- i was, basically, a statistics major as an undergrad. that technically is called mathematical and computational sciences. but then that training alone would not have been enough to do the method i did. there were some courses that i took in graduate school, and i used those courses. it was called maximum likelihood estimation. so it's a technical term. but it's something you learn in the second or third year in a economics department, maybe the first or second year if you're in a statistics ph.d. program. so i was proud to say i actually used some of the things i learned as a ph.d. student. >> host: well, is this written for ph.d. students or for the lay -- >> guest: no, no. you know, i h

senator susan collins called the strategy, quote, totally contribute productive. >>> as for the democratswell not to wait too long to announce 2016 bid. the longer clinton waits, the longer elizabeth warren will reconsider her decision to not run for president. >>> jeb bush has not decided if he'll run yet, bit this isn't going to stop all the rumors out there. he announced he'll release a trove of e-mails, 250,000 of them, from his time as florida governor, possibly to get ahead of any digging opposition researchers. >>> not much digging needed here. new jersey governor chris christie might have to give up on winning pennsylvania if he gives it a go in 2016 because of this, yeah. despite growing up in new jersey, he's known as an avid dallas cowboys fan and last night at the philly/dallas game, the camera caught him sitting, cheering with cowboys owner jerry jones there, but weirder than that, perhaps this ad campaign. >> should your tire leave a snowy or icy road, resist the urge to jerk the steering wheel. overcorrecting only results in chaos, and besides, nobody likes a jerker. discov

angus king of maine, susan collins, approved the report in terms of the conclusions, also approved theelease. it is not strictly a partisan matter. >> david schuster, thank you. >>> nato is ending its combat mission in afghanistan and today the international alliance lowered the flag for its headquarters in the capital, kabul. 13 years after u.s. and nato first went into afghanistan. beyond the end of the month the coalition will keep 13,000 troops in the country to train and deploy security forces. >>> 13 years in limbo in guantanamo, prisoners are freed by the u.s. government and hand he over to uruguay. the men will be integrated into uruguayan society if they decide to stay. daniel schwindler reports. >> the uruguayan homes are a long way from where they cannot return to. they are being treated at two hospitals before their resettlement begins. >> he is hopeful now that he's out and free with proper medical care in uruguay he can get better and rebuild his life. >> uruguay is providing the men with education, housing and will help them to find work. for now they are just relieved t

another example one might have thought could have been more critical, maine moderate republican susan collinse, too, has come out and said she has big objections to it, as mr. yoo pointed out, principally because she said the report is flawed because of lack of cia officials and documents. >> i invited senator mccain and senator feinstein on the factor tomorrow and we hope they both appear. is this going to die out or does this carry on. >> well, it will carry on in this sense. you have people all around the world calling for prosecutions. >> rosen will handle that. >> it is going to die in congress because in a matter of a couple days, republicans and democrats alike hope to be gone for the holiday. >> new guys come in -- >> the justice department reiterated today that they looked at the senate report, conducted their own investigation, and there aren't going to be prosecutions in this. that tells you as a political matter on the hill. >> it is done. >> democrats may continue to rant, republicans don't have to fear it. >> president obama is not behind it, you can see he is equivocating. >> r

senator susan collins, republican of maine. i don't understand the approach he's taking. and i think it's unfortunate and counterproductive. senator kelly ayotte, i think this is ridiculous. lindsey graham of south carolina responded, quote, i haven't seen harry reid smile this much in years. and i didn't particularly like it. so, congress might have been entirely over by now. they would have at least been wrapping up a lot faster, had senator ted football not gotten his brilliant idea this weekend to do whatever it is he thought he was doing with all of the confidence in the world. but as it stands, the spending bill passed, as is. they passed the same one the house passed the night before. the government is not going to shut down. and because of ted cruz, democrats are going to get 20 or 25 more obama nominees through. and this one, president obama's nominee to be surgeon general of the united states. he was approved by a vote of the full senate earlier tonight. thank you, ted cruz. his nomination had been stalled for more than a year because the nra decided to wage war

as jim mentioned you have the dependent ang us king supporting it, republican senator susan collins supporting i wonder did some republicans vote to declassify some of this? are some backing the white house? >> some of them are, john mccain as jim mentioned is a perfect example. he has been out there on issues against torture as somebody who was tortured. he was of course a prisoner in vietnam for seven years. he says this has to come out, that we have to tell the american people, and the world, that the united states is different from other countries who engage in these tactics, and that was the point that angus king, the independent from maine, made this morning on "new day." listen to what he said. >> this is who we are as a country. we tell the truth, and if we make a mistake, we admit it, and we move on. i've had military interrogators tell me that, getting the report out would actually help them, because at least it starts to erase the stain that this has put on our national character. >> now, the flipside of that, the opposing argument, poppy, is that this is going to hurt the united st

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susan collins, republican of maine. i don't understand the approach he's taking, and i think it's very unfortunate and counterproductive. senator kelly ayotte says, i think this is ridiculous. asked what he thought about what senator cruz did this weekend, republican senator lindsey graham said, i haven't seen harry reid smile this much in years and i didn't particularly like it. congress might have been entirely over by now. it would have at least been wrapping up a lot faster had senator ted football not got be his brilliant idea this weekend to do whatever it is he thought he was doing with all the confidence in the world. but as it stands, the spending bill passed as is. they passed the same one the house passed the night before. the government is not going to shut down. and because of ted cruz, democrats are going to get 20 or 25 more obama nominees through before they give up control of the united states senate. the most high-profile of the nominees they are going to and have gotten through is this man, dr. vivek

want, and yesterday we heard from a number of republicans from the moderate republican senator susan collins in maine all the way to the conservative senator in arizona. they're not very happy with ted cruz. >> right now the u.s. marshalls are joining a manhunt. the authorities there captured two out of the three inmates who broke out of jail after they apparently over powered a security guard yesterday. the man you see on the right side of your screen is gemmel. he is now in police custody. also justin terrell gordon was captured yesterday. he was being held on robbery charges there. now, the county sheriff says it all started when a jailer opened the cell door because he thought one of the inmates was very sick, but once that cell was opened, the men attacked the guard and were able to flee. the state remains on high alert. the alabama state bureau of investigations is helping with the search there. >>> dick cheney weighing in once again on the senate's torture report. >> it's a very, very poor piece of work. it should not be used to judge the agency or the program. >> we asked a former u.

you just heard this warm tribute to mark pryor from my friend, susan collins of maine, and others i'mure will join in the course on both sides. mark pryor is a man of deep faith who takes seriously the abolition of the prophet isaiah. come now, let us reason together. y. kay hagan and mark udall, mark pryor has politics and public service in his bloodstream. mark prior is the fifth generation of transport to serve in politics in his state. the first three generations serve as sheriff's. mark pryor sir for your in the arkansas hills and four years as arkansas attorney general, 2000 elected u.s. senate. same seat his father david held in the senate for 18 years. mark pryor place on his desk the same motto that his father placed on his. it read simply common arkansas comes first. but he made his own decisions and 11 a considerable mark in the senate. halfway through his freshman term, just a new member himself, mark pryor was called to join forces with the lions in the senate. john warner, robert c. byrd, daniel inouye, to forge compromise over judicial nominations that furthered to thre

republicans from susan collins, a moderate in maine, all the way to jeff blake, a conservative in arizona for holding up the weekend. >> all right. erin mcpike, we appreciate the report. thank you. >>> we have our senior correspondent for cnn politics on the phone. talk about the sabotage and the fighting and finger pointing that we saw in the past week or so. the budget battle is open for now. when we heard from senator elizabeth warren and ted cruz and are these just warning shots because i think maybe most people knew that this was going to pass. >> it was a very unusual vote for the senate to have something like this on the weekend. you're right. it is very interesting that all of the people in the senate could possibly be running for president in 2016 all voted against it. they knew it would pass. they wanted to try to innuns and take advantage of it as a messaging tool or to get the word out that there were things in this bill that they would not like in the end here. we're going to vote against it probably the whole time. but the government is funded until the entire fiscal year. s

republican partners -- and i use the term partners advisedly, such as tom coburn and john mccain and susan collins. our committee has exposed the tax avoidance schemes of some of the most powerful corporations and wealthiest individuals. we have shined a light on abusive credit card practices. we have investigated wasteful and ineffective government programs. we have confronted market manipulators and he can posed conflicts of interest, mortgage fraud and reckless schemes by some of the most powerful banks, schemes aided by some of the largest accounting and law firms. we demonstrated how those activities helped bring our economy to its knees, destroying jobs, reducing the value of our homes and damaging our neighborhoods. the work of p.s.i. has helped lead to reforms that have strengthened our financial system and reduced credit card abuses. the power of p.s.i. lies in the in-depth work of our staffs and in the willingness to confront powerful and entrenched interests. like the senate armed services committee, p.s.i. is strengthened by a dedication to bipartisanship and a respect for the rights o

senator susan collins saying, "this reminds me very much of the shut down last year where the strategyly no sense and was counterproductive and i believe we're in the same kind of situation today." warren hatch, you should have an end goal in site if you're going to do these type of things and i don't see an end goal other than irritating a lot of people. jeff flake from arizona, "i was in the house for 14 years and i'm not opposed to lonely tactics, but if you're achieving something, that's the test. i don't see what we're achieving here. i just don't." telling, when mcconnell was asked if he was frustrated with his conservative members on saturday, he respawned to a pair of reporters with a wink and a smile. want to turn now to the reaction at the white house this morning. nbc kristen welker joins us from the north lawn. the white house was behind getting this package through and had to twist a lot of arms on capitol hill to do it. what are you doing there this morning? >> look, the white house very encouraged by what they've seen, obviously. no doubt president obama will sign this l

host: thank yocaller: i would hd susan collins. most of the radicals are battling anyway. i want to talk about the civil rights. what i saw yesterday with --sident obama full steam ahead. host: on president obama's announcement yesterday, he had a series of meetings at the white house with cabinet officials, law enforcement, civil rights leaders and needs leaders to talk about the situation in ferguson and how to rebuild trust between police and the community. president obama calls on congress to spend $263 million for police body cameras and better training and more monitoring of military style equipment for police departments. he also announced a new task force that will come together to better police procedures as well. they have 120 days and another 90 days to come up with their recommendation. let's go to doug in kentucky. democratic caller. caller: hi. i was just wanting to comment on the two senators -- mr. king. he is up there. the only thing i heard out of his mouth was that he wanted to repeal everything. the hammer comes down on president obama. all-america,s to

they would lose senator susan collins from maine, anyway, who always voted pro-choice. show. >> the white house says they will veto anything like that. there's no chance of this becoming legislation. >> there's no chance on this becoming federal legislation. 20 week abortion bans have been passed in about ten states now and are up for judicial review but there are states where this is actually the law already. >> do you expect a republican led congress to take any action on fair pay guarantees? >> i don't think -- the republicans have been very clear that they don't think especially in the wake of the lily ledbetter decision that any more legislation is necessary to ensure that women get equal pay or can enforce their rights to equal pay. >> i want to talk about minimum wage for a second. minimum wage is certainly a women's issue. two-thirds of workers who make the minimum wage or less are women. 14 states in d.c. raised their minimum wage in 2014, the states in yellow, by ballot measure, and those in green through the state legislature. any chance we will see a wage ra

collins director of the n.i.h. the m.d. anderson cancer center. they discuss breakthroughs. i is co-hosted by the aspen institute and trends of cancer -- friends and cancer research. it is moderated by susan >> we have c-span. let me introduce dr. francis collins director of national the largestf health upporter of biomedical research. he is renown for the leadership f human genome project and received the national medal of science and presidential medal of freedom. welcome. the president of the university m.d. anderson cancer center in houston where he leads research into the underpinnings of cancer. the s founding director of institute for applied cancer and received many honors and awards fonded several biopharmaceutical cancers. for being here today. i will pose some questions and to you.n it to we are going to answer the question how close are we to cancer? i thought we would start by looking back. received your u medical degree in 1977. after s six years president nixon declared a war on cancer. ell us what the assumptions were then about curing cancer, addressing cancer, treating cancer. did you assume that cancer would be cured by 2014? what was your expectation? >> i remember whe

susan page is the moderator. and i am so glad when not only have a full house but c-span is here so we'll have an audience. let me very briefly introduced dr. francis collins. director of the national institutes of health, the larger biomedical research in the world. he is renowned for his leadership as the genome project. many awards, the national medal of science and presidential medal of freedom. welcome. dr. ronald depinho, president of he university of texas where -- he was also the founding director of the belfry institute for applied cancer research. he has received many honors and awards and found this there will biopharmaceutical companies focused on cancer. thank you for being here today. i will post questions myself in the later open the floor to questions from you all. keep that in mind. we are going to answer the question, how close we are to curing cancer? start lookingl back. dr. collins, you received your medical degree six years after president nixon declared a war on cancer. tell us what the assumptions about curing cancer, addressing cancer, treating cancer. would bessume cancer cheered by 2014? what were your expectations? >> i remember

collins. they talk about the latest cancer breakthroughs and some of the research challenges. the forum was cohosted in october by the aspen institute. susan page of "usa today" is a moderator. >> good afternoon, everyone. it is a great privilege to be here to moderate to remarkable pioneers in the field of cancer research. not only a full house here, but c-span is here so we will have an audience that goes well beyond these wall today. let me very briefly introduce our two panelists. dr. francis collins, director of the national institute of health, the largest importer of biomedical research in the world. he is renowned for his leadership in the human genome project. he has received the presidential medal of freedom. welcome. .nd dr. ronald depinno he leads groundbreaking research into the molecular underpinnings theancer, and is also founding director of the belford institute for applied cancer science. he has received many honors and awards and founded several biopharmaceutical companies focused on cancer therapies and diagnostics. questionsto post some myself and then we are going to .pen the floor we are going to answer the question