first woman to head the cia. we'll have more on gina haspel and mike pompeo after headlines. trump's decision to fire rex tillerson as secretary of state is the latest shakeup to rock the administration, which has seen an unprecedented number of top officials ousted over the last year. on tuesday, the white house also fire the fourth highest-ranking official in the state department, steve goldstein, who served as the agency's undersecretary of public affairs. before he was fired, goldstein released a statement saying tillerson had not spoken to trump and that he, being tillerson, didn't know why he was fired. goldstein was the senior vice president of bp global solutions before serving in the state department. his departure leaves the state department with only one of the six undersecretary positions filled. tillerson's chief of staff and deputy chief of staff also submitted their resignations after their boss was fired. meanwhile, president trump's personal assistant, john mcentee, was ousted on monday, after his

the cia wanted no pages released. at ended up happening is the senate released several hundred page second of summary of up report that is still not public. brennan and others at the cia were concerned about this investigation and began monitoring weather senate investigators were looking into. this is not just like we have mr. out of control prudent asset donald trump putting this horde torture and powewer. no, no, no. #resistance in terms of former intelligence people on the liberal networks, they love gina haspel. they love her. no one is saying the word boo about the fact that john brennan was the one heading the cia when the cia was spying on the unit states senate committee that was tasked with overseeing the central intelligence agency. amy: i want to go to something written in "the new yorker" by dexter filkins. actually, it was raymond bonner yorker" about questions beginning to swirl about the bush administration's use of black site in the program of enhanced the so-called enhanced interrogation. >> it is rou

it's an incredibly important job at the cia. ou kind of get the 30,000-foot view of what everyone is doing where cape officers are huddled in on up particular fiefdom you have the full picture. >> we are reading all the intelligence reports and managing all of the intelligence reports and signal intelligence that you are putting all the people together and it creates a subject matter expert. >> you are supposed to be able to travel out and meet sources and things that other collections agents do but that's not what happened. women don't know how to do what they are told. back i was told that repeatedly. >> before the cia how many different countries had to travel to? >> six and i had traveled abroad abroad. i have been all over the middle east at that point so that was a revelation. >> one place we are allowed to say where you were and this is certainly not a pleasure deployment either. this is right before the sunni awakening at a time where there was a lot of sect. violence. you got sent from one hardship deployment to the next

>> the cia, they talked about what they're looking for. you do this in the book very well. walking contradictions. the idea is you have to be completely honest because the cia needs to trust you when you are being sent overseas to lie to everyone. including your family and friends about the fact that i'm a diplomat, the second deputy agriculture attachc. the minister of shrubbery for the embassy overseas. but instead you are actually working for the agency. at the same time, you have to be honest. you have to make sure that you're not broken a law. rolled to a stop sign can sometimes even stop background checks. but you're being sent overseas to break the law of every country going to because as far as i know there's no country in the world the espionage is not against the law. >> right, exactly. they have to be sure when they're hiring you that you will not pose a threat to the united states and pose as a double agent. they want honesty and integrity. at the same time they're asking you to break the laws in other countries. so it is a wild contradiction. >> to be one of th

the martyrs? >> yes, of course. so pre-ciausband did human rights work k and he worked with a lot of organizations such as voice of the martyr. >> you mentioned risk of, i guess, talking about being former cia. can you explain what those risks are? >> so i think there's any risk with becoming a public personality. so putting yourself out there as a singer or an actor, there's a genressing because you've kind of got crazy people all over the place. but i'm also cognizant that as a former u.s. government official, former counterterrorism officer that if i'm in public places or i'm doing book signings, there's a very real risk that somebody could walk in who's a lone wolf, who's an extremist or a crazy person, they bring in a gun. that's a problem. that's the kind of risk that's always in the back of my mind. and so when we're doing public events now, we're having to get security, and we're having to make sure bags are checked before people walk in the door. >> how much risk is there for your former contacts? now that you're out?

known for her role in the cia's torture program. the british prime minister is expected to announce reprisals against russia over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter. rejected a midnight ultimatum to answer questions about the origin of the nerve agent. also coming up this. hour well. we hear technology that helps underpin the security of the currency bitcoin could be. entire cities in future generations. in from around the world this hour welcome to our two international my names you know neal our top story donald trump fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson appointing incumbent cia director mike pump aoe to the position instead he announced a surprise reshuffle on twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying in television did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. with the series would you. run. i think it's terrible. but they're pretty. well wrecked very good i like wreck a lot. think the wreck. well rumors down tillerson was heading for the door had been circulating for months

she has spent about 30 years as an officer with the cia. was made deputy director of the agency last february. now, she spent much of her time undercover, but later in her career, haspel was heavily involved in the cia's controversial torture program. you'll hear it referred to as enhanced interrogation. in 2002, she ran a secret cia prison for suspected terrorists in thailand that used harsh interrogation tactics, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and even squeezing detainees into coffin-sized boxes. haspel oversaw the interrogation of detainees, one of whom was tortured so badly that at one point he appeared to be dead. he was waterboarded 83 times in a single month. now, in 2005, nbc news confirms that haspel took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting those investigations. in 2009, former president obama ordered the secret cia detention centers to close down. i have former fbi special agent, a ali sufant with me. he served on the joint terrorism task force. he's also an outspoken critic of harsh interrogation tacti

this any particular thoughts on where you think she needs to shine first well in the cia can i say. that we had some controversy at the department of justice and the f.b.i. we need if it is cia that provides our government strong intelligence so that we can have actionable intelligence so that we can take it in translated into policy and trick translated into actions on the ground are they great now in syria we need to draw a strong line to push back against iran in the syrian regime we need a policy d.s.t. and by our allies that it's in stand against what's happening in eastern syria and in the damascus suburbs and sort of strong messages on them on tare chemical weapons in syria will respond strongly if need sitting here in moscow tonight what might come back to mike pompei again what his appointment to cyprus taken to mean for relations ongoing with russia. well i think the president all over suspect a strong strong leadership in the united states and frankly i think you know it has to be some pushback against the russians and their allies the syrian regime and the iranian regime

the cia mossad relationship grew. in 1963 a man succeeded as -- was succeeded as the chief of mossad. -- he noted his identification with israel was a great asset for israel. asher benn aton, angleton's source, was playing a key procurement role in the program to obtain nuclear weapons. teddy alcoholic, one -- colic, later become the mayor of jerusalem. angletons israeli friends were some of the architect of the zionist state. as i learned -- came to learn this story from talking to cia veterans and israelis and reading a lot, couple of things stood out to me. first of all, the israeli recruitment of angleton was extremely astute. in the early 1950s, angleton was a rising star at the new agency, the cia but he was not a senior figure and not even particularly powerful. the israelis recognized the latent qualities that would make him powerful. second, angleton's creative intellect and his operational audacity inspired deep feelings of loyalty among the israelis. while angleton's counter-intelligent vision would become v

hospital who is known for her role in the cia's torture program will take over the agency's reign. moscow says it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the former double agent sergei screwball in the u.k. last week. and americans prepare for doomsday by purchasing survival equipment and underground bunkers as some continue to fear a north korean nuclear attack. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team trash longtime thomas certainly glad to have you with us now donald trump has fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson he says he is the first to fall in washington after president trump promised a shake up last week saying he was seeking perfection in his administration trump explained his decision by saying the two did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. but this is really when you look. at the run i think i guess. i want to read something. else. well trump used twitter to announce a few new appointments this morning so secretary of tillerson. secretary of state rex tillerson will be replaced by the cia director mike pompei now tillerson has admit

be gina who is known for her role in the cia torture program. the british prime minister is expected to another. against russia over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter rejected a. questions about the origin of the nerve agent. and also coming. change will we hear how the technology helps underpin the security of the. big. cities in future generations. coming from moscow every hour of the day this is our to international my names you know neil welcome to the program this hour's top story donald trump fired. appointing incumbent cia director mike pump to the position instead he surprised reshuffle on twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying he until they did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. press talking about. gun. rights but. when you look at iran you know i think that there are. those that want to break. the. will trump to use twitter to announce a few new appointments so secretary of state rex tillerson will be replaced by a cia director mike pompei now tillerson has admitted that he d

he clearly thinks the cia director mike pompeo does. mike pompeo, i do want to remind people is someone who has spoken in interesting terms about the russia investigation, misspeaking, saying that the intelligence community found that no votes were changed by russian meddling when, in fact, they did not make that declaratory statement. what does this "did not have his back" notion mean to you, admiral? i think i've lost admiral john kirby. bob, i don't know if you heard that. bob baer, are you still with me? >> i did hear that. pompeo has gone out of his way not to bring up russia when he briefs the president. he's taken over the counterintelligence center at the cia which is in charge of the russia investigation. he personally controlled it. any russian stuff was put in footnotes which the president didn't see. mike pompeo did not drive this issue into the ground as tillerson has in other people. so i can see one reason that trump would feel more comfortable with him because this russian issue has bugged him since the election. pompeo i

so ben affleck for instance but affleck former wife jennifer got it on paper equipment out of the cia in early two thousand and thirteen americans might have found it curious to see the first lady appear via satellite at the academy awards ceremony to announce the best picture oscar for a film about the rescue of american hostages in iran in one thousand nine hundred by the cia well when i think of other films big films that have conveyed the cia's message i think argo argo was a film that talks about the daring do of a couple of cia agents who go to iran and rescue six american diplomats the iranians wanted to let go of those hostages pretty quickly they didn't really want to cause a problem with the united states of america but i had a total of khamenei who is men personified as evil and the u.s. press had made a deal with the reagan administration urged the reagan campaign at that point not to release the hostages and only after reagan had been elected strangely enough that day the hostages were released so that bill neglects to mention how pivotal regnum ministration was for break

for her role in the cia's torture program. also ahead on the program this hour that british prime minister is expected to. the poisoning of a former double agent. rejected a ultimatum to question the origin of the nerve agent. to block change we technology. security. could be defined. in future generations. here in moscow this march to forty my names you know neil alone welcome to our to international our top story. fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson appointing incumbent cia director mike pump aoe to the position instead he announced the surprise reshuffle on twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying he did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. with the sleazy. and you look at iran i think terrible. i want to record something. felt different so we're really think. we have a very similar story for us as. well correct very good i like rex a lot really a bit. i'll be thinking the record over. the rumor is that tillerson was heading for the door and have been circulating for months in the n

isn't one of trump's finest decisions this is one of the worst moves i ever heard at the cia when i sort of equity believe it because you know has or should be in the docket not in the directors of cia dina has all i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program the president is certainly a fan of torture he's come right out and said so and the only thing that stopping them from returning to this torture regime is one piece of paper called the mccain feinstein amendment it was an amendment to the national science authorization act that specifically banned it if it exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has was overseen my proposal take over from the current secretary of state rec to listen at the end of this month and report that donald trump had been considering sacking his top diplomat had been circulating for months because of the numerous sometimes public disagreements over government policy tillerson removal was announced in the end on twitter by the president and that abrupt move has got others on the social network sharing similar stor

what we may have missed it's the first woman ever chosen to run the cia. ial boy's club. frankly it is worth noting that a president who has struggled with women voters and been accused of harassing behavior became the first president to place a woman at the top of our intelligence community at the cia and whatever one thinks of haspel, it's nice to see that glass ceiling shattered in this year that we're seeing a lot of glass ceilings shattered. we'll be right back. >>> now for the lid. panel is back. i have to make a correction. john kasich grew up in rocks, pennsylvania. which is 20 miles from mck mckeesport. so tonight's special election for a district that won't exist in nine months, which is to me is so this era. what are at stakes for the party? >> it's particularly inflated when you've got a district that's on the verge of disappearing. the margin matters because it will tell you a little bit about how much trouble is republican party is going into november. one would expect a midterm under a republican president. but if you lose seats that the pres

and gina haspel working at the cia will be nominated to be the next director of the cia. the first woman, if confirmed, to hold that department. >> sandra: our reporter saying state officials said tillerson has not spoken to the president and had every intention of staying, per the statement. what we're hearing the president is saying on the ground there as he departs for california outside the white house, talking about mike pompeo, his new selection, saying he has tremendous energy and always on the same wave length. that's what i need. gina will be the first woman director of the cia outstanding. i want total confidence in pompeo said president trump. >> bill: he is getting ready to head out to california for a big trip on border security and has a fundraiser there as well as pennsylvania southwest district 18 votes on a special election. the president is taking questions from reporters in the south lawn. you'll see the tape played back in a moment and one comment he makes about his next economic adviser, larry kudlow a well-known cnbc economic contributor and apparentl

the new face of american diplomacy and his successor at the cia gina. hawks nesting in washington my ponytail the new diplomat in chief of the iron fist to lead america's state department has had the president under his spell for a while already the to see eye to eye on normal most everything the issue that sunk to listen diplomatic career trump and pompei all share common spite towards iran and north korea both of them like to call torture enhanced interrogation and their fans of the n.s.a.'s warrantless bulk data collection where they stand on whistleblowers is one of the few things that trump and don't pay or don't quite agree on well they have to differ on something. it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia . i can't think of a thing that has put america in a better position as a result of this deal we're a year out from the agreement and every single action the iranians have taken has been bolder and starker than the one they took before the agreement. a

the u.s. congress to reject a donald trump's new pick for cia director over her involvement in the intelligence agency's torture program. i will welcome you watching r.t. international with me making an error and now we start this hour with breaking news the u.k.'s prime minister to resign may has said britain will expel a twenty three russian diplomats and suspend all shared bilateral meetings with russia it comes in response to the poisoning of an ex russian intelligence officer and his daughter in the city of souls bree as the investigation into the incident continues or lives we with me now live in the studio is daniel hawkins and from london we're joined by alice to see a chicken or and to see a first over to you can you tell us more about the measures being taken by the british government. well the british prime minister has said that russia is culpable of attempted murder and among the measures that the u.k. is now taking is the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats they are suspending high level contacts between the two countries the russian foreign minister's visit to the u.k. ha

operatives of the us in the time of the bay of pigs and yet this movie has the cia. first learned about him when they see that he successfully smuggling cigars from cuba the director doug lehman is the son of the house majority counsel to the kerry commission that looked into iran contra they never got to the bottom of the contra cocaine thing but his dad was generally looked upon as a good guy but i do research into personal he's the guy that made oliver north bemis it was as a result of his inept questioning that oliver north became america's hero and then i find out that this guy his father also was a personal attorney for henry kissinger personal attorney for robert best go personal attorney for michael milken and the list goes on the climate's father arthur was not part of the subsequent carry subcommittee's. field cocaine smuggling in the contras supplying that. journalist gary webb published articles in the san jose mercury to better elucidate the relationship between cia and other agencies that protected contra drug trafficking he was run out of mainstream jou

she joined the cia back in the 1980s. she has been by all accounts in the operations side of the agency for many, many years. part of the national clandestine service. this is the, you know, the most secret part of the cia. that's pretty obvious. she knows operations around the world. as the deputy to mike pompeo, she has taken on a lot of responsibility in the last year, in that job, for operations and making sure that everything is being carried out that the cia deemz deems a priority. she's said to have been involved in the so-called enhanced interrogation program in the years after the 9/11 attacks. there are stories out there alleging she was directly involved, for example, in the interrogation of abu subayeda. this is some of the -- of the questioning that she is very likely to get at her confirmation hearing, especially from democrats who have been very much involved over the years in the enhanced interrogation program. criticism. the cia may be forced it finally publicly answer whether she was directly involved in

john brennan the former cia chief under president obama said this on msnbc. watch. >> she has tried to carry out her responsibilities to the best of her ability and consistent with what cia legal authorities were. don't forget the intense interrogation program was authorized by the united states and deemed lawful by the department of justice. >> g.o.p. senator and chair richard burr has given haspel his support and senator john mccain who was tortured in vietnam says her confirmation should include a pledge to block any plan to reintroduce harsh interrogations. martha? >> martha: trace, thank you very much. my next guest sits on the house intelligence committee where he worked closely with mike pompeo before he became cia director. congressman pete king joins us now. good to see you this evening. obviously, one of the biggest reactions today. i think everybody sort of saw this coming. rex tillerson has even said in interviews, you know, i'm still here. but it felt in recent weeks as if he felt he was settling in. and yesterday he said, you know, word was out t

congress to reject donald trump's choice to be the new cia director of her involvement in the intelligence agency's torture program. and welcome to block chain of mill we hear how the technology that helps underpin the security of the online currency bitcoin could be the foundation of the entire cities in future generations. hello and welcome you're watching r.t. international with me mickey aaron good to have you with us this hour. now the british prime minister will shortly hold a national security council meeting which is expected to decide on reprisals against russia moscow earlier rejected to resume may's midnight all to mason to answer questions about the nerve agents used to poison a former double agent and his daughter the kremlin has again reasserted that it had nothing to do with the incident and there britain's yet to respond to its offer to help with the investigation the investigation into the poisoning is ongoing but the or thorazine believe surrogate script powell and his daughter yulia were deliberately targeted with a nerve agent first produced in the soviet union traces o

all i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program the president is certainly a fan of torture he's come right out and said so and the only thing that stopping them from returning to this torture regime is one piece of paper called the mccain feinstein amendment it was an amendment to the national fence authorization act that specifically banned it prohibited exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has bill was overseen my pump a will take over from the current secretary of state rex tillerson of all goes to plan and at the end of this month reports that donald trump had been considering socking as top diplomat had been circulating for a month or two to numerous disagreements over government policy to the since the removal was announced on twitter by the president in the end on the abrupt move has got others on the social network sharing similar stories of rejection and led them to come up with a new word tonight. if i if i now you find. thanks watch the sly play more to come to go full out of the lot to mull over a course in london to digest an

the u.s. congress to reject donald trump's new pick for cia director over her involvement in the intelligence agencies torture program. good evening just to annoy him here on this wednesday the fourteenth of march here in moscow watching r.t. international my name is kevin and first this hour tonight the news dominating our coverage again coming from the united kingdom. and it's where the promise to treason may said britain will expel twenty three russian diplomats and suspend all showed you a bilateral meetings with russia it comes in response to the poisoning of an ex russian intelligence officer and his daughter in the city's souls as the investigation into the instant continues from london and i can report well no the british prime minister has said that russia is culpable of attempted murder and among the measures that the u.k. is now taking is the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats they are suspending the high level contacts between the two countries the rush. foreign minister's visit to the u.k. has been cancelled and no british officials including members of the world family

very unusual, by the way, as cia director. i hope he can tone down some of that politics when he gets to the state department and try to get that building functioning with all the talent that it has. so we'll have to see. but certainly this issue of negotiating with the north koreans, that's not something that comes naturally to someone like mike pompeo. so he's doing that because he's trying to be loyal to the president. so let's see if by helping to kind of turn the president's vision into reality there, he can turn the reality into something positive. and this remains to be seen. >> in what condition is rex tillerson leaving the state department? >> it's really been decimated as ambassador hill points out. top officials, foreign service officers in the middle of their careers. new entrants not being hired. many of those have departed in significant numbers. morale is low as well. so we have a state department whose budget, for example, was cut by this administration by a third. now, that's not rex tillerson's fault. that's c

all i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program the president is certainly a fan of torture he's come right out and said so and the only thing that stopping them from returning to this torture regime is one piece of paper called the mccain feinstein amendment it was an amendment to the national fence authorization act that specifically banned it riveted exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has full was overseen by compile take over the current secretary of state rex tillerson at the end of this month reports that donald trump had been considering sacking his current top diplomat had been circulating for months due to the numerous often public disagreements over government policy to us and removal was announced in the end on twitter by the president than the abrupt move got others on the social network sharing similar stories of rejection and even then to come up with a new word. now you. have a news run today that's like the mood a bit before i say goodbye the save think she's a star of russian will figure skating she stunned crowds at the

so ben affleck for instance but affleck former wife jennifer got it on paper equipment out of the cia in early two thousand and thirteen americans might have found it curious to see the first lady appear via satellite at the academy awards ceremony to announce the best picture oscar for a film about the rescue of american hostages in iran in one nine hundred eighty by the cia well when i think of other films big films that have conveyed the cia's message i think argo argo was a film that talks about the daring do of a couple of cia and soon to go to iran and rescue six american diplomats the iranians wanted to let go of those hostages pretty quickly they didn't really want to cause a problem with the united states of america but i had told the khamenei who is meant personified as evil and the u.s. press had made a deal with the reagan administration urged the reagan campaign at that point not to release the hostages and only after reagan had been elected strangely enough that day the hostages were released so that bill neglects to mention how pivotal regnum ministration was for breaki

the president fired because the. cia director mike to take over the state department. who is known for her role in this torture program. coming up. in the british prime minister is expected to and. against russia over the poisoning of a former double agent his daughter. to answer questions about the origin of the nerve agent. to block. the technology. of entire cities and future generations. just. at nine pm in sydney on one in the afternoon here in moscow this wednesday march the fourteenth wherever you're tuning in from welcome to our to international our top story donald trump fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson appointing incumbent cia director mike pump aoe to the position instead he announced a surprise reshuffle on twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying he did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. i've been talking about this for a long. we got along really well but. when you look at iran i think it's terrible. i want to record something. felt different so we really think. we have a very similar process i think well re

it was the cia, the fbi, and then by extension the dni. those are the only ones who draw this conclusion. and director of nsa said, i agree with it but not with the same type of high degree of confidence. but once again, some of those individuals -- many of those individuals haven't had access to the raw intelligence like those of us on the committee have. and all we can do, anderson, is go look at it and then try to report on our conclusions to it and try to do it in a fair manner. >> you're saying people at the cia didn't have access to cia intelligence or fbi? >> i'm saying some of the other individuals who have, as director clapper did earlier, said that's not my conclusion, but i don't think he's gone out and looked at the raw intelligence like some of us on the committee have. >> as head of dni, would he not have had acis es to that intelligence? >> he certainly would have. it's just the fact if he took the sometime to go to it. >> the fact that devin nunes went to the white house to give them information the white house had provided

to the sun and replaces him the cia director mike pompei a plus. the palestinian authority blames rival group hamas for an attack on prime minister rami convoy in gaza. russia has missed britain's deadline for answers on the poisoning of former double agent surrogate scruple and his daughter prime minister to resign may want to know why a soviet era nerve agent was used the kremlin says it won't respond without samples of the substance maze expected to discuss britain's reply when she meets her national security council later on wednesday to be phillips reports. is this the level before the storm the british government says it's looking at ways of responding to what it believes is now re just backed by russia this is part of a pack of behavior by the putin regime and you'll seeing this reckless support for the use of chemical weapons all the way from syria to the streets of. in our country. being encouraged by the determination of our friends to stand with us except that friends aren't so predictable these days the american president shortly after s

do you know has all i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program the president is certainly a fan of torture he's come right out and said so and the only thing that stopping them from returning to this torture regime is one piece of paper called the mccain feinstein amendment it was an amendment to the national that's out there is a fact that specifically banned exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has was overseen. my pump ai will take over from the current secretary of state rex tillerson at the end of best month reports that donald trump had been considering stocking his top diplomat had been circulating for months due to the numerous disagreements over government policy some lessons when move on was announced on twitter by the president and the abrupt move has got all those on the social network sharing some of the stories of rejection and let them to come up with a new word. in other news now a right wing canadian activist has been detained in france and banned from entering britain lauren southern was held at a british border

trump announced that the cia director mike pompeo will replace and, and the current deputy cia has been tapped to take on his place. russia's top defense official says russia will respond to united states launches a missile strike on the syrian capital of damascus. moscow has been one of the key allies of the syrian president since it launched a military operation in the country. russia has said today that they would consider a missile strike on damascus the threat to the lives of the russian military who are deployed there. u.s. defense secretary james mattis is a afghanistan and met with the president and top u.s. commanders for talks in kabul. he said that he believes victory in afghanistan is possible, not necessarily on the battlefield, but in facilitating a taliban reconciliation with the afghan government. house democrats state former helped secretary tom price paid the government $60,000 for his cost on private charter flights for official business, but democrats want to know how much it cost taxpayers to fly kellyanne conway some of the same >> live, from new york. >> i am live

to take over reckless and seat of the state department and gina hospital is known for her role of the cia torture program taking over the agency's reign so it's all moved like comment on my. head to moscow says it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the former double agent surrogates crippled in the u.k. last week. americans prepare for doomsday by purchasing survival equipment and underground bunkers some continue to fear in the north korea nuclear attack. good morning just to midnight here in moscow says r.t. live from r.t. h.q. with me kevin now in the first of all the lot of changes and some of the top jobs in the u.s. to tell you about donald trump has fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson he's the first to fall in washington after president trump promised to shake up last week saying he was seeking perfection in his administration trump explained his decision by saying the two didn't really see eye to eye on a number of issues. let's start talking about. gun. rights but. when you look. around i think there are. those that want to break. their will trump used twitter to ann

the cia can't operate outside of the law.hat's still going to be a question she will get from senators. that i think will be of concern to americans. >> it will be a question she has to answer. there's no one more opposed to detention interrogation programs than some people in the cia. they were the ones to put it crassly, holding the bag with this program. when sometimes changed, they were left to undergo intense scrutiny from not only law enforcement but congress itself. i think you will find very few champions within the intelligence community of restarting any program even resembling this. director pompeo did not speak for his future work force and i suspect you will hear a very similar answer from gina haspel. the difference is she lived through this period and she knows the horror that inflicted not only upon the agency but our moral standing. >> malcolm, do you share the view we're not going back to a world in which torture is countenance by our administration and government. there are some people who believe it should

and the cia got it wrong. did they know that the u.s. intelligence committee doesn't? >> some of that is classified. i heard the bit by former dni clapper. and i agree it started out as a campaign to create chaos and pour acid on every wound of politics to divide people. it came clear that donald trump had a chance to win, then you saw more efforts for russians to intervene and be helpful. part of that is dumping the clinton campaign e-mails. >> do you believe the cia got it wrong? the fbi got it wrong? the dni got it wrong? >> no. i believe their intelligence agencies. thing they got it right and i had a chance to visit the headquarters. were democrats consulted on this at all. >> no. and i heard adam schiff would have been contacted first. and i heard he was not told and i had not heard anything. >> our democrats going to issue their own report and if so, when can we expect it? >> i can't speak officially for the democratic members but my vote is that we issue our own report and i suspect everyone will agree

this is a sensitive center within the cia. this is the part of the cia specifically that turned up intel that helped start the investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. while he was at cia, mike pompeo did a little reorganizing that made it so that unit reports directly to him. he reorganized the cia so that unit is the only part of the cia that reports to him and not to the deputy director or some other official. and there is not much else that we know in terms of behind closed door stuff from mike pompeo's time. he's sometimes said things about russia that are completely untrue. when the community released the report on efforts to influence the 2016 election, that report was quite clear that the intelligence community wasn't making any assessment as to whether these activities or attack affected the outcome of the 2016 election. they did not look, we did not make an assessment of the impact that russian activities had in the outcome of the election. that was the intelligence committee's repo

the cia believed at the time the u.s.r major attack and that wake of 9/11. >> gina someone i have great confidence in. having a professional, having someone who is nonpartisan and is not going to engage in policy will be seen as a breath of fresh air. >> trump spoke during the campaign about reinstating waterboarding. few in this ea would now supported. members of the paramilitary committee have welcomed haspel's nomination. defense secretary jim mattis is a big proponent as well. >> bret: with all of this happening, while secretary mattis is in kabul, afghanistan, interesting. >> secretary mattis is talking about how the military strategy is proceeding and whether the afghan president believes reconciliation talks with the taliban could work. you will remember the taliban wrote an open letter to the american public suggesting as much on valentine's day. >> all wars come to an end. you don't want to miss an opportunity because you weren't alerted to the opportunity. you need to have the door open, even as you increase the

you know has bush should be in the dock at the hague not in the director's office at cia do you know has all i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program the president is certainly a fan of torture he's come right out and said so and the only thing that stopping them from returning to this torture regime is one piece of paper called the mccain feinstein amendment it was an amendment to the national fence authorization act that specifically banned it it exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has bill was overseen my pompei i will take over from the current secretary of state rex tillerson at the end of this month ok we're not going to take you back live to westminster where the british prime minister to resign may is now speaking lecithin and i'm carrying a range for somebody to provide a briefing to me as the member of parliament as to precisely what happened. can i say screw my old friend i'm very happy to do that as he will be aware that the police investigation does continue and we cannot say where that investigation is going to take the p

she was one of the tortue chieftains at the cia in two thousand and two aspell ran the operations of an agency black site in thailand where two terrorist suspects were tortured one of them was nearly killed during these so-called interrogation agents slammed his head against the wall water boarded him deprived of sleep and kept him in a coffin like box and it was hospital reportedly who later gave the order to destroy the tapes which recorded the torment along with other evidence given trump's pledge to keep the guantanamo bay operational and he's advocating of waterboarding everything falls into place it seems now the state department and the cia will have plenty in common you know in hansing not just interrogation techniques a diplomatic routine to you course you don't know if both appointees will now have to go through a senate confirmation hearings before taking office or wherever they're already being called on congress from rights groups to reject both nominations human rights watch says the track record of pompei zero hospital demonstrates that both are likely to endorse abusi

the president says he's fired because. cia director mike pompei o is set to take over the state department taking the spy agency. in this. program. the british prime minister is expected to announce reprisals against russia over the poisoning of a former double agent. moscow rejected a midnight. questions about the origin of the nerve. also coming up on the program or. will we hear technology. in future generation. this wednesday march the fourteenth good morning from moscow and welcome to our to international our top story donald trump has followed us secretary of state rex tillerson pointing incumbent cia director mike pump aoe to the position instead well he surprised twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying he until did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. with the sleep. but you look. i think terrible. i wanted. something. different so we were really. very similar. well brecht very good i like rex a lot. i'll be thinking the record over. all rumors now tillerson was heading for the door

>> well, you know, naming her to be the next cia director is this. ws, i think it sends the message that the ends justifies the means. we don't care how you do anything, as long as you get the end result. and that is a very dangerous proposition, because in the history of the cia, the times the agency has gotten in trouble and gotten presidents in trouble has been when this has been the operating ethos. that the ends justifies the means -- or ui'm sorry, the me s s justifies the ends. and the thing is, this might be something where donald trump might rue the day that he made this selection. >> john nixon, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate your insight. >> thank you. >> joining me now is michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia. michael, we just got readouts from both the prime minister of the uk, theresa may, and the white house on the call that the president had with may aboard air force one about that attack in the uk, that poisoning. the uk said it was likely russia. yesterday, sarah huckabee sanders refused to say the word "r

he was confirmed to the cia. >> first, the paper wouldn't be hard. you have to update this massive amount of paperwork. every one of the senate members will want to have a courtesy visit. they'll want to ask him questions during those visits and is customary, they're going to be some requests to follow up for him to respond with a written -- with written responses to interrogatories. my sense is the democrats will use this as an opportunity both during this phase and during the hearings to ask tough questions of the perspective secretary of state on iran and syria and north korea and trade and russia, china, wikileaks, his tenure at the cia. these are not going to be softball questions tossed up to you know, make sure that everything gets on the republicans. the democrats will use this as an opportunity to make mike pompeo and the man that nominated him bleed. they're going to be asking tough questions. pompeo is very smart, harvard grad, u.s. military background. great member of congress before. he's going to have to bring his a game to this confirm

he had a lot of time in congress before taking on the cia job. ent gets someone who is closer to his own views and beliefs on virtually every issue. rex tillerson was on the opposite side from the president. he wanted to stay in the paris climate accord, in the transpacific partnership. he wanted to afr vovoid a meltd between saudi arabia and qatar. time and again he was on the other side of the fence. now the president gets someone much more in line with his own thinking. >> it's interesting, david chalian, we're getting reporting in house that on friday the president approached tillerson about this. why then today did we wind up hearing about this? obviously it steps on his trip to california. this couldn't have been the way they planned it. >> the timing to me, chris, i think is a bit odd here. i wonder if, indeed, we'll learn a little more. it seems to me the president was quite eager to make this trip to california. again, several issues there t i.c.e. issue, sanctuary city, building the wall, looking at prototypes, these are some wheelhouse

i was wondering -- richard helms, the cia director, was an important part of the whole watergate puzzle. and he was someone when i am reading about watergate -- i said to myself it would be interesting to know more about richard helms. and someone like you who has personal knowledge of the president. do you recall anything that the president said about richard helms? it would be interesting to know more about his character or just even about anything regarding watergate. >> not to me. no. i will tell you something i would love to ask the director. not the current director of the cia. i think he is terrific. but the former rector of the