of course you don't water board someone and have him say usama bin laden will be standing on a corner of winslow, ariz. tomorrow at 6:53 p.m.. it is not like that. that is not our intelligence works. it works by you get connections. invest mosaic as its vast puzzle together and good instincts as well, sometimes in tuition and it can be a process that has with usama bin laden takes years. i can promise from my friends within the system information we got from those enhanced interrogation techniques absolutely were critical to stopping terrorist attacks and getting usama bin laden period. lou: i would be terribly disappointed if friends in the intelligence community, dianne feinstein's or anyone was telling us which intelligence was important, which terrorism detainee was important. i would rather that remain a matter of covert, covert possession. the idea of moving the clandestine service into a squalid partisan project like this cia report from the intelligence committee is horrendous. >> the very democrats who signed off on the release of that report of the ones crying intelligence f

joining me now is former navy seal, the man who killed usama bin laden.ing with us today. >> good morning, martha, thank you for having me. bill: the story is such a tragic one, he was back after his military service and was working with people who had ptsd and one of them turned on him and killed him. look at what he went through in combat in the times he walked up the line with his own life for him to lose life that way is so tragic but this film hopefully it's going to go long ways to preserving his memory. what do you think about that? >> i'm really glad they made a movie out of it. the story is incredible, highly decorated, and then he came back to pay it forward. he was out there with somebody who maybe should have had post but express but he didn't. his life was tragically taken. martha: what do you think about the response? when you look at the stupid but the fact from everything i have heard it is an extraordinary movie and one that should probably get some nominations. it seems to not be on the short list for those so far. >> it seems that way.

did the cia help to connect and find usama bin laden? former agency leaders speaking out today saying absolutely, they believe it did. we will go into that. brand knew our on this wednesday. i am martha mccallum. bill: and i am bill hemmer. defendant needs on the 9/11 senate would not have found the not impersonal carrier any other way. here is michael hayden earlier this hour on "america's newsroom." >> these interrogations gave us a home depot like storage of information on al qaeda which we are still relying on today. martha: mike baker former cia covert operations officer an ana global intelligence and security firm, good morning, good to have you with us today. diane feinstein rolled out this report, what was your reaction? >> first thought was over the way washington works. good to have reports and the policies and procedures, no doubt about that. i was hoping despite what we already knew, over five years ago the democrats talk about how to push this report. you knew what their agenda was even before they began writing, so after fi

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the man who shot and killed usama bin laden.n. after weeks of training, 82 minutes into the flight, i'm like i'm on this mission. and we're going to kill him. >> now rob o'neil is facing backlash from the pentagon possibly for revealing classified information so, is this how our military heroes should be tweeted? our -- treated? author ever the book the last rescue. howard's waston joins us. your thoughts on this? terms of what's happened now to rob o'neil. >> good morning, connell. here is my thoughts. first of all the first word is hypocrisy. these are hypocritical people. a couple years ago a movie called "act of valor" came out and showed every capability that seal team 6 has. stuff that should never be shown. hand launched observation platforms. our boats that we used to keep covers on at seal team 6 are put on the big screen and they used active duty seals for the movie. lately, oven told stories of the navy seals has come out. you have got the museum coordinator for the museum telling everything, showing classified pictur

sue bade da is one of one of usama bin laden's top associates. bin al shibh is the guy in charge of post 9/11 planning and ksm is the loortd of leader of the 9/11 attack. all of that came about as a result of these techniques. >> karl, nice to talk to you. test test test test here's some news you may find surprising. we're for an open internet for all. we're for creating more innovation and competition. we're for net neutrality protection. now, here's some news you may find even more surprising. we're comcast. the only isp legally bound by full net neutrality rules. >>> breaking news, the star nfl quarterback seriously hurt in a car crash. carolina panthers quarterback cam newton was involved in a two car crash. the accident happened near the panther stadium. he suffered fractions to his lower back and will spend the night in the hospital. it's not clear he will be able to play next sunday. >> this is a fox news alert. a gruesome and vicious murder in mississippi. a 19-year-old girl set on fire. now the hunt is on for her killer. for the latest t

the cia says the intel stopped terror attack, saved lives and helped us find and kill usama bin laden. senate democrats say it's not true. they allege the cia did not learn anything of value and tarnished the reputation of the usa in the process. at the end of the day, the one thing getting some agreement, tonight americans at home and abroad are at greater risk than they were 24 hours ago. was it worth it? we have team fox coverage tonight with brit hume, mike roger, ed henry and former deputy white house press secretary bill burton. but we begin with our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge who is live in washington. >> reporter: on the senate floor democratic chairwoman dianne feinstein said the program shut down six years ago is a stain on america's values. >> history will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. >> reporter: on the allegation the cia program was not effective, a former cia officer with firsthand knowledge of the interrogations says 9/11 architect khalid sheikh mohamm

sue bade da is one of one of usama bin laden's top associates. ramzi bin al shibh is the guy in charge of post 9/11 planning and ksm is the loortd of leader of the 9/11 attack. all of that came about as a result of these techniques. >> karl, nice to talk to you. >> star nfl quarterback hurt in a car crash. latest on this developing news next. your hepatitis c.forget it's slow moving, you tell yourself. i have time. after all there may be no symptoms for years. no wonder you try to push it to the back of your mind and forget it. but here's something you shouldn't forget. hepatitis c is a serious disease. if left untreated, it could lead to liver damage and potentially even liver cancer. if you are one of the millions of people with hepatitis c, you haven't been forgotten. there's never been a better time to rethink your hep c. because people like you may benefit from scientific advances. advances that could help you move on from hep c. now is the time to rethink hep c and talk to your doctor. visit hepchope.com to find out about treatment options.

that is robert o'neill, the man who says he shot usama bin laden. now he's under investigation by the navy to determine whether he revealed classified information. >> this holiday time let's all spare a thought for the persecuted christians in the middle east who are suffering worse than they have in 2,000 years. leah: i have served with seems from his command. i have been told he's png from this command. >> let me start out by saying robert o'neill while in uniform did far more for our country than i ever did. however, nothing he did gives him the right to compromise classified information or operational trade craft. you have just don't do it. the navy investigation will decide whether he compromised classified information. but other seals are pad about two things. one, the trade craft, the techniques how you do it. you just don't talk about it. throughout special-ops you don't give away how you do stuff. other seals feel he's hot dogging. there is also a code of silence in the specia special-ops socie. they are tribes and they have their own triba

we have just confirmed the defense department is investigating the navy seal who says he shot usama binladen. rob ekneel told his story to fox exclusively last month. navy investigators say they are looking into whether o'neil revealed classified information illegally. we will be following this story for you tomorrow. that is it for the panel. stay tuned for a look back at some of this year's top films, not the interview that you have may have missed. here's a question for you: if every u.s. household with a computer used sleep mode when they weren't using it, how much could we save on electricity each year? up to $1 billion? $3 billion? $4.5 billion? the answer is... up to $4.5 billion. using your computer's built-in energy-saving features can generate real household savings. take the energy quiz -- round 2. energy lives here. and i quit smoking with chantix. people who know me, they say 'i never thought you would quit.' but chantix helped me do it. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it gave me the power to overcome the urge to smoke. some

jon: apparently all kinds of open arguments, the methods and techniques used to lead to obama a max usamain laden. others say no information in this report that supports that. it just seems like maybe the release of this thing is not necessarily going to settle a lot of these arguments. >> no, it won't settle these arguments because the report comes to the conclusion no actionable intelligence came from this program and the people who ran the program, the people who were intimately involved said that is absolutely false, absolutely not true and they point out this report for the people who did it didn't interview the people who really set up and ran the program. so you will see a lot of back and forth in the press, more importantly perhaps around the world. jon: it sounds like secretary kerry and others are worried this will lead to all kinds of trouble and danger for the people overseas. we will see what happens. good to have you on. >> thanks, jon scott. shannon: a daring operation that failed to rescue hostages in yemen. top american diplomat saying the u.s. didn't know about the relea

helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorist the and save lives including helped to track and kill usamain laden. president obama said in a statement, quote, rather than another reason to refight old arguments, i hope today's report can leave the techniques where they belong, in the past. the president banned the cia practices in 2009. melissa? melissa: peter, thank you so much for that report. janet yellen is feeling heat from both sides after she met with liberal groups in november. conservatives say she needs to play fair. they're calling for face time of their own at a press conference going on in d.c. antitax activist grove grover norquist is joining from us d.c. give it to me straight. give me your complaint. >> first she met, first of all the fed is supposed to be non-political. chairman yellen met with a bunch of left of center lobbyists. it was a secret meeting. there was no transcript. it was not videotaped. the whole thing was secret. she needs to be more open and trains parents. there is legislation to audit the fed. majorities in the house and senate supporting it. with the

and in our pain we pledged to come together as one and to do what we could to prevent the usama bin ladennd his killing machine from ever carrying out another attack against our beautiful country. never again we vowed, never again. and as has been the case throughout its then 54-year history, cia was looked to for answers. not only to the questions on the threats we faced but also to questions about what we were going to do be to stop future attacks. >> kt mcfarland former assistant deputy secretary of defense in the reagan administration and security analyst now. he tried to walk the line yesterday, defending his agency and at the same time disagreeing with a little bit with the president and his report. >> i'm not a big john brennan fan but i think he did a terrific job. he was able to be part of the president's administration. he stopped these activities. he didn't call them torture. he defended his agency saying look at the historical context. the crucial part which the democrat torture report said that we got no information, brennan corrected the record and said we did get a lot of i

had three former directors of the cia, deputy directors of the cia, people involved in the hunt for usama laden, they have all said they got a lot of intelligence from this. so it was legal, it was effective, why go after it now? unless the motivation's completely political. congress is changing hands, the senate is going from democrat to republican hands, and are the democrats in the senate just -- they've been evicted from the house, are they just trashing the place before they leave? shannon: well, they're certainly getting the information out there over plenty of objections. kt, thank you for your expertise. >> thanks, shannon. jon: so that is the report coming out led by democratic senator dianne feinstein of california. again, that report includes -- concludes that the former directors of the cia, george tenet, porter goss, michael hayden repeatedly inflated the value of the enhanced interrogation techniques that the cia used to get information from terror suspects in the wake of the worst terror attack ever on nation, the 9/11 attacks of 2001. again, the republican members of the i

again in the bush and administration led to the carrier who led to the usama bin laden raid.y to describe this is the cia has gathered a takeback. gave them the gps coordinates for where the needle was and they can't get fat by blowing people to smithereens. the agency has a right to feel betrayed by the democrats. imagine if republicans, anonymous public and staffers spend millions, ridiculed by people actually involved in the program and creating a crisis of moral competence at the cia, the lack of confidence a as the agey is to make sure you have the full backing of the government you will not be hauled into court later on. very shameful the way the media has played this, but the cia is going to defend it today by their leader. i really believe they may say yes, of course mistakes are made, but on balance the cia people who work here are noble people who don't want to go on tv. they gave up their entire careers to taking care of us we can do whatever we want to do p at bill: you make a great point. they're doing the work of us wants to be in the position to do. they report

controversial program produced valuable intelligence including intelligence that ultimately led to usaman laden's pakistan compound in 2011. on sunday talk shows former agency officials went on the offensive. >> so say that we relentlessly over expanded period of time lied to everyone about a program that wasn't doing any good, that beg as the imagination. >> reporter: the report was finished last summer but negotiations intensified in recent months over redactions and whether the senate proposal would ultimately release identities of cia officers who remain covert, bill. bill: many are warning that the senate report could further jeopardize lives. how do we understand that catherine? >> reporter: the state department has confirmed all overseas posts have been directed to review their security posture for a range of reactions that might occur in response to the senate report. and these warnings also apply to cia personnel and similar advisory is being provided to the military combatant commands. over the weekend the head of the intelligence committee amplified this point. >> i think this

olives and dates and waited five years and he would decide we are nice people and he would give up usamaaden. no one was thinking that way in 2003. martha: this is not a revenge or vengeful act, this is an act of an attempt to acquire information and that is clearly what mr. mitchell was trying to do. whatever people think about the outcome, that's what he was trying to do. thank you, robert. thank you very much, rich. it's obviously an intense and emotional discussion. megyn kelly is going to join us live to talk about hern't view with the doctor and that's coming up shortly. bill: 20 minutes before the hour. we'll check on a wall street. take a look at the market numbers. price of oil continues its free-fall. crude oil has fallen close to 50% from its peak in june, dropping to levels we haven't seen in years. that means cheap gas. we are off at the start today as well. down 65. 10 minutes into trade. martha: meet your new surgeon general. critics like which senator john a lasbarrasso believes this mans politics first. >> he founded a group called doctors for obama. the purpose? to elec

techniques provided information that was useful and was used in the ultimate operation to go against usama laden. this agency did a lot of things right during this difficult time to keep this country strong and secure. stuart: that report was heavily critical. former cia covert officer mike baker. you have been there. you have been the see i a guy on the ground. you have seen action. i am not interested in the political maneuvering. i am interested in how you guys feel about the release of that report when you are doing work in the field. >> you can separate the politics because everyone in the field understands washington is dysfunctional and this is used for political purposes but there was a political -- at the beginning. there was no real surprise from folks inside the agency and the intel community about where the democratic staffers were taking it because we knew they were not bothering to interview individuals from the administration or the agency involved in the program. we knew where the on because they said so where they were going and what they're finding was when they wrote the

how do you think we got the intel of figuring out the location of where usama bin laden was?alid he sheikh mohammed. >> waterboarded 185 times. >> in a month. >> how much of this information is reliable. not just from democrats though coming out and speaking about this personally as being a person who is in pow for a number of years. the information you get from these types of enhanced indelaware -- interrogations is worthless. >> i don't think anyone who opposes this is crazy or anything. what i am offended by though is somehow we don't have any right to talk because we are morally compromised. it's like really? the united states, whatever you think for example of the iraq war, we went in there and lost all these people. spent a trillion dollars and we didn't even take any of their oil. what country would do that? has there ever been a country that seeks to do good and pays less attention to its own interest than the united states? no never has been, there never will be. to get lectured by democratic senators we have got blood on our hands oh, be quiet. >> let us know what y

wasd a good amount of misinformation used in 2011 to credit the use of these methods for the death of usama bin laden and there is i fear misinformation being usedng tody to prevent the release of this report, disputing its findings and warning about the security consequences of their public disclosure. with the report's release, will the report's release cause outrage that leads to violence in some parts of the muslim world? yes, i suppose that's possible, perhaps likely. sadly violence needs little incentive in some quarters of the world today but that doesn't mean we will be telling the world something it will be shocked to learn. the entire world already knows that we waterboarded prisoners. it knows we subjected prisonerst to various other types ofg degrading treatment. it knowsit we used black sites, secret prisons. practices haven't been a secret for a decade.een a terrorists my use the reports reidentification of the practices as an excuse to attack americans but they hardly need an excuse for that. that has been their life's calling for a while now. what mightht come as a surprise,