the cia called it detention site cobalt. it was hard to believe that this place not only existed but was purpose-built by the world's premier intelligence agency. when the cia inspector general sent an investigator to the site, they found one person who had been chained to the wall so far as they knew, for subpoena days. the paperwork reads like an ice alaition film. isolation film. the chief of interrogation said cobalt was the closest thing to a dungeon he had ever seen. despite their treatments the u.s. never charged mohammed or khalid with a crime. the experience, they say, still haunts them in flash backs and nightmares. >> do you think there will ever be a day when you tell your children what their father has been through? >> our american story is written everyday. it's not always pretty, but it's real... and we show you like no-one else can. this is our american story. this is america tonight. >> islamabad pakistan. after 9/11, the cia was operating in the open here. picking people up and taking them to black site. mo

bush received a cia briefer every morning along with usually the director of cia. and then after that every day he would bring in his homeland security top team, the homeland security director, the attorney general, the fbi director. so it was an extension of the pdb briefing often continuing the discussion of the president's daily brief, but it was explicitly combining the foreign and domestic when it came to national security issues. >> okay. right there, amanda. >> first of all, thank you. very, very interesting. i can't wait to read the book. you mentioned early on that often times the daily brief was contrary to maybe the president's policies or whatever. how did they react to that often times? would they turn a blind eye to it? did they embrace it? did they change policy? maybe you could talk about that. >> i will. in the older cases, that is the presidents like richard nixon, you'll see the story in the book. it's unclear whether richard nixon even read the pdb every day, and that's the one president we really don't know. kissinger on the one hand said i kne

and that's where the cia comes into the predator story. because as big saw farly was starting -- safari was starting that project to arm the predator, richard clark, the counterterrorism director at the national security council, and charlie allen, a very senior cia official, had come to the conclusion that the united states needed to kill osama bin laden before he killed more americans as al-qaeda had done in bombing our embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998, and as it would do again by bombing the uss cole on october 12, 2000, killing 17 american sailors. but if they were going to kill bin laden, first the cia had to find him. so in september of 2000, the big safari crew and a ground control station at an air base in germany flew an unarmed predator over a place near kandahar, afghanistan, called tarnac farms. the cia believed bin laden was living there as a guest of the taliban and, indeed, the air force predator crew found him. at that point, big safari's product to arm the predator -- project to arm the predator went into high gear.

cia? >> even from folks who are sympathetic to the intelligence agency, saying, we really don't know if this taxpayer-funded effort to partner with silicon valley really provides useful intelligence technology, but david petraeus was very supportive of incutel, giving a speech saying these technological breakthroughs are critical for the cia and other partnered intelligence agencies. so we could give ringing endorsements. and he goes on like people should beware of clearista. they may be revealing more than their concealing. thank you very much, lee fang. lee fang, investigative journalist at the intercept covering the intersection of money and politics. we willing to his piece "cia's , venture capital arm is funding skin care products that collect dna." the headline "beauty secrets of the spies." we will link to it at democracynow.org. when we come back, we look at police killings here in california of a homeless man most recently, and we will talk about the story of alex nieto. stay with

you were not cia person. you had not worked at the cia, as far as i know. now you are the deputy director. does it suggest that the cia, in looking at the world, needed within its leadership someone who had a fine sense of the impact of financial resources on policy? david: so, i think it was less that than what the cia has historically had in its leadership and its director and deputy director is someone from the inside, someone from the outside. charlie: politicians even. david: so, when leon panetta was the director, his deputy was someone who had grown up in the agency. and i think that balance between someone like john brennan, who grew up in agency, and someone like myself, who had some interaction with the intelligence community, but was not of the intelligence community, is consistent with, at least, the modern history of the agency, of having an insider and outsider in the director and deputy director slots. charlie: what is the current rules of engagement for sort of paramilitary engagement by the -- paramilitary activity by the cia? david: we hav

i really thought the cia new everything. they found out quickly, no, the cia doesn't know everything. but what the cia can do and what the president's brief routinely did was narrow the cone of uncertainty. you might think all of these things are possible but we are only seeing this many are possible. that is an asset to any president. >> i think i have gotten to ask all of the questions and your answers have been stimulating. let's turn to the audience. i am sure there is questions. there is one starting in the way in the back. i would ask you to wait for the microphone so everyone can hear your question. >> could you give us an idea and it varies from president to president is this a 10-page document? 50-page? different people want different amounts and you learn that quickly. but i want to get a sense of that. and the fact you are brilliant, handsome, and articulate is important but how did you get all of these people to talk to you? >> let me answer the first question and then i will get to that. you know what, let me an

i think that isis was brewing regardless. >> reporter: he resigned from the cia in frustration. he says his intention isn't to be a whistleblower but merely to describe what it was like to be a cia case officer in war time. >> reporter: isn't the cia the mantra, you sign up, say i will not tell my war stories? >> a lot of my colleagues are upset with me, i mean livid with me about it. >> reporter: it's a ground level look how the cia operated on global war on terrorism. agency wish was left unseen. richard engel, nbc news, new york. >>> up next, a game of hop scotch, all in a day's work for this officer. (toilet flush) if you need an opioid to manage your chronic pain, you may be sooo constipated it feels like everyone can go ...except you. opioid-induced constipation, oic, is a different type of constipation, which may need a different approach. longing for a change? have the conversation with your doctor about oic, and ask about prescription geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. moderate to severe crohn's disease is tough, but i've managed. except that managing my sym

>> help people like through cia or military help. if more had been done back then, there would be no paris no, brussels, no isis? >> no, i think that's impossible to predict and impossible to say. i think that isis was brewing regardless. >> reporter: he resigned from cia in frustration. he says his intention isn't to be a whistleblower but merely to describe what it was like to be a cia case officer in war time. isn't a part of the cia that you sign up and say i will not tell my war stories? >> a lot of my colleagues are up set with me, livid with me about it. >> reporter: it's a ground look on the global war on terrorism. and a view many at the agency wish was left unseen. richard engel, nbc news, new york. >>> and up next, the game of hopscotch. all in the day's work for this officer. >>> she 4 months old now and just adorable. the new video from the columbus zoo shows norah, the baby polar bear, getting used to her surroundings, some rolling around, swimming, bear iran actions. nurtured by the intensive care unit since birth beca

fqñ >> former cia director james woolsey goes "on the record." good evening, sir. >> good to see. >> you donald trump walked this back by saying if it's legal. if he had the authority to do that. your thought on this because now he has a battle with the cia director. >> when madison and his colleagues were putting the constitution togmsp philadelphia in 1777, i don't remember anybody incorporating in article 2 that thex2u cia director could overrule the o+(y cia didn't have a director. >> he is acting big and tough brennan. >> it's one thing for him to disagree with a policy and say he disagrees with it or agrees with it it's another for him to say, for john brennan to say that he would take -- not take an action even if he were ordered by the president to do and it seems to me that depends on whether or not waterboarding is or is not torture. there is a real legal argument about this. there two legitimate views. i think people who think it is torture would have to admit it's a very strange kind of torture because it's torture that we submit all

. >> reporter: a rare step into a political issue by a cia director. and today republican front-runner donald trump fired back. >> i think his comments are ridiculous. can you imagine these isis people sitting around, eating, and talking about this country won't allow waterboarding and they just chopped off 50 heads. >> reporter: president obama banned enhanced interrogation technicals in 2009. >> there were absolutely some of those eits that i certainly would not countenance, not only this organization but other organizations from carrying out. >> reporter: but ted cruz has suggested he's open to waterboarding, and trump far more. >> i would use whatever enhanced interrogation methods we could to keep this country safe. >> i would bring back waterboarding and i'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. [ applause ] >> it's come up recently in politics with some presidential candidates saying that's the first thing that they'd like to bring back. would this organization support that or even follow that order? >> this organization will do w

it interviews every single one of the former cia directors. he lined up with president obama's idea on terror. it's not necessary to do that right now. aside from undermining the next president. why tell the bad guys what you're willing and not willing to do. you should step away from that, i do agree with you, whoever it is, most likely if it's a republican president, they'll be someone who lines up a lot more with the republican ideas of how they interrogate terrorists. >> getting stuff done, yeah. >> didn't they carve out an exception for the ticking timebomb scenario? even obama keeps that in his back pocket. >> it's more for the ex-gent circumstances. no one's talking about abusing the situation. we're talking about doing what is actually legal and lawful to be able to do. it's going to be up to who the next president is. the hypothetical situation where brennan's like soft like brie cheese is not interesting to me. >> is this what you want the cia director doing? we're not going to touch you, we're going to be nice? >> who said that? >>

they're not necessary, and the cia doesn't want to get back into that business again. and numerous legal obstacles have been put in place that would make it extraordinarily difficult for a future president to try to force the cia to get back into the business of waterboarding and others, and now we have very publicly an acting cia director saying they won't go back. >> and, richard, just to short of draw that out a little bit, i mean, you've had years of experience talking to intelligence officials. do you get the sense that brennan is speaking for the internal culture of the cia or is there a chance you get a new president, you get a new cia director who may be more amenable to some of these techniques? >> it wouldn't just be a matter of switching the cia there have been -- there was a justice department memo that was used as a justification for this -- legal opinion i should say that was used to justify the program under the bush administration. that has since been repealed. there's the mccain amendment. the fact that in 2009 it was made to be illegal. so many laws w

general hayden at cia. mike mcconnell at dni. judge yo kc -- mukasey. cyber, that we had to put it in category,rd to do this administration has made progress in terms of dividing responsibility, the role of fbi, cia, and others, that it is still in question whether we have that right and whether we are getting the uplift across the community that we can, and that brings me back to your question is if i were advising somebody in terms of the next president, what improvements would we have or what questions should that person ask. one question i would ask the president -- or i would have the president at his leaders, and say, do we have the authority that we need right now mr. or mr. secretaryor of defense, to defend the nation's critical if researchers in the case of a cyberattacks? been endlessw warnings and testimonies that that is one of the top threats facing the country. the president needs to ask the question do we have the property authorities and organization. i do not want to hear from 2020 from a commission to review the attack on the nation's

one of the remarkable stories you tell us is pdb represents the views of the community but not the cia. >> that has changed over time is getting input although not required. they did not know the president was getting but in recent years that has changed the president's daily brief is the wider intelligence community and has been for more than 10 years and as such anybody in the intelligence committee can write for the prefab their briefers who receive it can come from city where the intelligence community from the way that it was previously always incorporated the big difference who was right to get up and delivery get? >> there is an ebb and flow in the beginning jfk with the national security visors no one else saw it the secretary of state the secretary of defense the yegg giving orders based on that. it does little good if it goes to the president but they do not enact foreign policy so they got that in six months this so that they never got to was the vice president but when they cut into office after the assassination of jfk he didn't know this even existed for those to read to

i was at the cia headquarters this weekend. and we were on the seventh floor, which is the executive floor, and i was there to interview the cia director brennan, to talk about something else. we were talking about successes against al qaeda, against the strategy for fighting isis. in the course of our interview, we were talking about lessons learned and mistakes made in the past. this came up. and he actually brought it up. he said that the enhanced interrogation program is not coming back. that waterboarding in particular is not something that the cia will do again. that this is something that they have learned from in the past, and are not going to engage in it. i think you have a clip cued up. >> this organization will do what it can to protect the american public from the attacks from terrorist groups. i will not agree to carry out some of these tactics and techniques that i have heard bandied about because this institution needs to endure. and as i said, we have learned lessons from the past. we have a lot of capabilities

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i would not agree to having any cia officer carrying out that. >> the head of the cia laying out the law for future presidents. why he's refusing to use water boarding again, even with a presidential order. >>> are you in the market for a new whip? the best cars and worst cars on the road. "fox & friends first" continues right now. >>> good morning to you. welcome to "fox & friends first." i'm heather childers. >> good morning. i'm abby huntsman. 30 minutes after the hour. road rage or revenge. brand new clues in the murder of former new orleans saints will smith. >> the accused killer about to face a judge as disbelief and shock hit the nfl. kelly wright is following the breaking developments for us. joins us live from washington, d.c. good morning, kelly. >> reporter: good morning to you and abby as well. this is being described as a senseless act of violence and, indeed, it is. leaving nfl fans stunned and saddened and worse a wife without her husband and three children without her father. former new orleans player and super bowl champion will smith seen in this picture with his w

the cia conducted kcanine training here last week. training dogs to dough tekt bombs using a school bus. a piece of explosive training material fell out of a package and was left behind on the school bus. the training program has been suspended. >> we want to make sure that we're not missing anything here, okay? so we just had a meeting this afternoon with the cia, with the public schools, with the fire marshal's office. and we wanted to make sure that we suspended everything with regards to this program till a thorough review is done. >> reporter: on monday and tuesday the bus with the board carried students from three loudon county public schools. >> it was a special needs bus. there were 26 students total. it went total of 145.6 miles with the substance on it. >> reporter: the school system sent out this e-mail to every family informing them of this incident. >> i'm thinking that it was probably an honest mistake, but a very poor one. something that could endanger all of us. >> reporter: the cia says it has conducted a full invento

what kind of a cia director put donald trump put forth? harris: basically andrea he followed the order with the previous administration but if there is another administration would give an order to do something like waterboarding or something else, brennan is saying he would not follow order. andrea: brennan is say he can't defy the president of the united states? he can't do that. president obama administration loves to flout the law and chain of command and protocol. cia director can not defy the president united states an he won't have to worry about that because unlikely he has the job with a cruz or trump administration. they deemed. eits, enhanced interrogation tactics water boarding as legal. the holder justice department said they are legal. why is brennan having a change of heart? >> first he claimed he was against it even if it was legal, that is what he said during the confirmation hearings. president made a big thing out of this. he talked about torture but the justice department didn't prosecute cia officials involved. harris:

>> former cia director james woolsey says the cia cannot disobey a direct order from the president. he joins me now. sir, what is your take on cia director brennan's comments. can he deny a direct order from the president? sounds like he has every plan to do that? >> feels clearly strongly ban important issue. i think the delegates in 1787 who drafted up the constitution didn't -- madison and his colleagues didn't put in a special clause that says the american president has these authorities, footnote, except that the cia can overrule the president on some things. there wasn't a cia, of course, at the time. so what your solution in something like that if you're faced with an order you can't go along with is to resign, not to try to overrule your boss. cheryl: well, it was interesting about all of this when donald trump was on fox and friends, he said look at what they're doing, look at the beheadings and the brutality of isis. do you think that we're losing the fight against isis because we've weakened interrogation tactics and that was president obama by executive order by the way?

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in an exclusive interview with nbc news cia cia director john brennan says the agency will not engage in any harsh interrogation practices, even if a future president orders the agency to do so. this issue has been thrust back into the national spotlight during the campaign for the white house, with the top republican candidates having said they are open to the use of waterboarding in the fight against terrorism. i want to bring in richard engel, nbc news chief foreign correspondent, who interviewed director brennan. richard, what did you learn from this interaction? especially about the part, even if a future president were to order them to do this? >> so i was at the cia headquarters this weekend, interviewing director brennan for a variety of subjects and we were talking abouts the policy against isis and counterterrorism and the legacy of the cia and their successes and failures, and in the course of this conversation, he said that one of the things, one of the lessons they've learned from the past were about these harsh interrogations, so-called enhanced the interrogations. and t

>> absolutely, i would not agree to having any cia officer carrying out water boarding. >> the cia director o's comment after ted cruz and donald trump said they would support using water boarding against terror suspects. nbc news chief correspondent richard engel joining me now. it's so unusual for a cia director to get into the politics of a campaign, usually they say, we don't do policy. we just follow the orders of whoever is president. >> it is unusual for them to weight in to politics and that wasn't the intention of the interview. it wasn't my intention or his intention. we were there to talk about al qaeda, to talk about the strategy against isis, to talk about drones, to talk about a variety of other things. and in the course of our conversation about lessons learned and past mistakes, this came up. and as you know, it's been such a hot subject, particularly from donald trump who says not only would he bring back waterboardiwaterboar water boarding but do much more than water boarding and in the course of the water boarding. and the cia director said we're not rolling back history.

cia with human intelligence. with what it brings in terms of the tactical and supporting the military. having all those people together because they were forced together, supporting in those cases the war fighter and other efforts. everyone came back and said, gosh, if we could replicate that in d.c. somehow, why does d.c. seem almost impregnable to what is going on overseas. we have tried to do things like joint duty which is taken from in terms of what the military has done with its joint duty across services and trying to do that in the community. it is a continual struggle to make what happens in a foreign expeditionary sense. including the fbi being over there and overseas thinking about what this will mean domestically and bringing it back in d.c. and kind of penetrating what seems to be the walls that are put up once you come back to d.c. there is always more progress so be made there. that's a place where the dni leadership of the intelligence community need to think beyond themselves. and to continually

i can tell you, it was a considerable amount of cia activity involved to turn them around. i don't think, which is amazing, it is clear to me the president and hillary, the secretary of state, did not know about this secret agreement made. it is just amazing to me the one administration -- one of the things i learned from a friend, i think it was maybe for clinton that they worked for, this friend got a job, a high-ranking job in the government and the first thing you discovered all of the files related nothing significant that had happened, all of the agreements made in his area, was in the state department, had been cleaned out . nothing was left. said, there were going after a guy who been doing a what of good work for us, as horrible as he was, horrible human being, that things happen inside that country to the people, but he was actively working with us on the al qaeda issue and -- i don't believe al qaeda exists there. i think the al qaeda we talked about disappeared with bin ladin, just copycats and the like to call it al qaeda. but sunni jihadists and salaft ists ex

the director of the cia is vowing to ignore a call for torture. u.s. will not waterboard even if the u.s. demands it trump has made waterboarding part of the campaign strategy. >> they chop off heads. big steel heavy cages drop them into the water and drown people and we you anything. we're playing on different fields. and we have a huge problem with isis, which we can't beat. and the reason we can't beat them is we won't use strongó b or other things.'fqñ >> former cia director james woolsey goes "on the record." good evening, sir. >> good to see. walked this back by saying if it's legal. if he had the authority to do that. your thought on this because now he has a battle with the cia director. >> when madison and his colleagues were putting the constitution togmsp philadelphia in 1777, i don't remember anybody incorporating in article 2 that thex2u cia director could cia director. >> he is acting big and tough brennan. >> it's one thing for him to disagree with a policy and say he disagrees with it or agrees with it it's another for him to say, for

cia think the cia speaks for the us government. >> you have a blurb on the front, i can't imagine a more important book for our times, why corruption threatens global security, gilbert is calling in from eagle, colorado, good afternoon, go ahead with your question. >> caller: i am glad to see this. i think -- npr -- a number of things to do. >> guest: many many thanks for the length of your memory. that goes back a wild. it is important -- so many specific stories that seem to have to do with a single country turn out to be emblematic of a broader phenomenon and this is a phenomenon that is incredibly important, both the international security, it causes us to ask a lot of questions about what is going on at home in the united states. >> host: how much is corrupted? >> guest: impossible to make that estimate. the inspector general -- >> host: just one. >> guest: he can't even find out the amount of money the united states spends in afghanistan let alone how much was stolen in that one country. the answer is no, but it is a huge -- the estimate i heard around the panama papers is $13

of course he would say i'm director of cia and cia doesn't do policy. but if you ask my view. because i always thought that was helpful. i think that's kind of the input. michael, have i missed something? >> he's shaking his head no. in one of the panels this morning, they discussed at length overseas collection of intelligence. they talked about it in various contexts, but they also talked about it in the context of section 702 which expires next year and hopefully will be reauthorized. how valuable is information about foreign leaders to the president, and what role does positive foreign intelligence play in the run-up to those types of bilateral or multi-lateral meetings? >> usually when the president would meet with a foreign leader or go on a trip, there would be kind of a one or two-page cia document that would talk about the foreign leader. those are helpful particularly for a new president who hasn't met the leaders. when you get to a second-term president, you spend a lot of time with the leaders, it is probably a lot less important. secondly, my sense of what would b

the cia director said the cia does not steal secrets. that scared me to death. you sure want your cia stealing secrets and that tells you there might be a problem in how we're approaching strategic intelligence. if you're not stealing secrets how do you know what chinese military leaderships intentions are? when they show up we need to know their intentions. we do that to avoid miscalculation. maybe we were looking at our good friends and allies in the intelligence business you do that because sometimes your allies can get you in more trouble than you can get in yourself. you think about the defense packs we have around the world. what if japan decides they want to be aggressive? we ought to know that. what if they decide to be aggressive on pushing back without coordination in the united states. we have a defense pact with them. shouldn't we know that? shouldn't we know that germany had relationships with iran prior to the iran deal? we probably should know that. shouldn't we know what they are thinking after the iran deal? i would like to know that. if i'm dec

he would, of course, say, i'm director of cia and cia doesn't do policy. but if you ask my view. because i always thought that was helpful. i think that's kind of the input. michael, have i missed something? >> he's shaking his head no. in one of the panels this morning they discussed at length overseas collection of intelligence. they talked about it in various contexts, but they also talked about it in the context of section 702 which expires next year and hopefully will be reauthorized. how valuable is information about foreign leaders to the president? and what role does positive foreign intelligence play in the run-up to those types of bilateral or multi-lateral meetings? >> so usually when the president would meet with a foreign leader or go on a trip, there would be kind of a one or two-page cia document that would talk about the foreign leader. those are helpful particularly for a new president who hasn't met the leaders. when you get to a second-term president, you spend a lot of time with the leaders. it is probably a lot less important. secondly, my sense of what would

general hayden at cia. mike mcconnell at dni. judge mukasey and his devotion to this as -- bob mueller at the fbi. even in those cases cyber is so fundamental to what so many agencies do that we had to put into too hard category. this administration has made progress in terms of trying to divide those responsibilities in terms of dhs, nsa, the role of fbi, cia and others. but it is still a question in my mind whether we have that right and whether we are getting the uplift across the community that we can't insider. that brings me back to your question about if i were advising somebody in terms of the next president, what improvements would we have specific of what questions should a person as. one of the questions i would ask the president or i would have the president ask his leaders and say, do we have the authority that we need right now, mr. or mrs. dni, mr. or mrs. secretary of defense, mr. or mrs. attorney general, to defend the nation's critical infrastructure in the case of a cyber attack? so there has now been endless w

right now on "first look," in an nbc news exclusive, the cia director says his agency will not waterboard ever again, even if ordered by a future president. >>> donald trump sporting a new haircut is also refining his campaign. while hillary clinton pushes for votes as bernie sanders hits coney island. >>> new details surrounding the shooting death of beloved former new orleans saints player will smith and the man charged with second degree murder. >>> plus a historic visit by secretary john kerry to hiroshima this morning. also an epic masters meltdown for jordan spieth at augusta. and a hole in one like you have never seen. "first look" starts right now. >>> good monday morning, everybody. thanks for joining us today, i'm betty nguyen. in a case ripped from the pages of a novel, an active duty u.s. navy commander has been charged with spying for a foreign nation. according to multiple news sources, including "the washington post," lieutenant commander edward c. lin faces several counts of espionage and other charges including prostitution and adultery. there are reports that he passed s

this was by senator rand paul 13-hour filibuster for cia director. it's this double standard that motivated arch nobel peace prize winner which bill mentioned, do the united states and its people really want to tell those of -- who live in the rest of us that their lives are better. he elaborates on that thought in his forward. a new whistle blower has joined the ranks of edward snow den, other courageous individuals. the unnamed person who chose to remain anonymous because of the obama administration unprecedented and vigorous prosecution of whistle blowers is a member of the intelligence community. in the belief that the american public has the right to know about the fundamentally and inmorely flawed drone program, this source provided the intercept with a treasure troll of secret military documents that shine a critical light on the country's killer drone program. these files confirm that the obama administration policy and practice of assassination using drones violate the law. the documents reveal the kill chain that describes who will be targe

make that transition from nsa, oni, and then to cia. and in his spare time since leaving cia in early 2009, he has dedicated himself to speaking and writing and is one of, as i said, one of the great stalwarts of intelligence that we have. and it's a real privilege to have mike to my immediate left. ben powell once removed there is someone -- and you know that you have a lawyer at the other end when you write off his bio, it's four pages long. very distinguished lawyer with wilmer hale now, but goes back to our life together in the national security council staff in the mid-2000s, early to mid-2000s, was very instrumental in terms of his role in the irpta. as my principal lawyer as i sat down the corridor from him at the national security council staff. anything that came out wrong in irpta, blame him. i tried to get it right. no good deed goes unpunished. he went on to become general counsel at the dni as the first general counsel under mike hayden and my self as chief of stat there at the time. then the no good deed goes unpunished, w

why does the cia director make this declaration now? >> well, it emerged a little bit by accident, i think, in the course of our conversation. i was there at lankigley and wi strategy against isis and the legacy of the cia and in the course of that conversation, because, by the way, it's unusual for a cia director to weigh in on politics and i don't think he wanted to weigh in. but in the course of our conversation about lessons learned, there's certain things that have done harm to the agency and enhanced interrogations, eits, what critics called torture, was one of them and said they're not doing them again and illegal and will not do them which opened up the conversation to, anymore, they have become ill e illegal and they have not done them in the past, and i said, what do you think about this being brought up by trump? he said, we won't do it again. you can hear some of that interview right now. >> this organization will do what it can to protect the american public from the attacks from terrorist groups. i will not agree to carry

so the cia not in the united states. fbi searches in the united states. there's a lot of sense behind these. i would say step cautiously in trying to remove any of these restrictions, other than trying to tackle, perhaps, the cyber issue. >> okay. so let's pivot once more to another kind of area. this one is more speculative in looking forward a bit. but we're on the cusp of the development of a host of new and novel collection platforms, i would say. if anybody who's seen "eye in the sky" which, by the way, is -- can i say it's a good movie? i liked it. i can't recommend it because i'm not an endorser. bullet but, yeah, one of the things in there was a drone the size of a beetle that was deployed as part of the activity which i understand is not quite operational but is not very short -- so we're going to look at drones. we're going to be able to deploy large-scale -- facial recognition technology. we're going to have large data collections that are capable of big analysis. broadly speaking, how should law approach that? are current laws sufficient, or d

cia will also conduct a mothoroh and independent review of cia's canine training program. it has performed a full inventory and accounted for all explosive training material used. >> wow, i imagine that was a big shock to parents but am glad everyone is okay in this situation. >> could you imagine that? >> no, and the inspector looking at the bus finding explosive material. just incredible. i have to be honest, when i first heard it, i said, was this an april fools something or whatever. but unfortunately, it is not april fool's joke. they say they've taken care of it. we'll see. >> suzanne, thank you. >>> two officers are being hailed as heroes after they jumped into action to save the life of a little girl who was choking on the side of the road. this is just the latest example of police going beyond the call of duty. >> it was a thursday night in the chicago suburb in illinois when the call came in. >> 911. >> a good samaritan pulled over when she noticed a frantic woman on the side of the road. an 18-month-old was having a seizure and struggling to breathe according to

it is a safe substance. >> the cia sent news4 a statement, which says it's conducting an independent review. the agency also says it's taking steps to prevent it from happening again. >>> maryland's house and senate are trying to iron out the dre unanimously to curb drunk driving in the state. but the family of officer noah leotta says one is weaker than the other. noah's law would have devices for convicted drunk drivers in maryland. it is named for the officer killed by a suspected drunk driver last year while conducting dui enforcement in montgomery county. >> we are not going to rest. we are going to be here through the end, and i want to be standing with my family beside governor hogan watching him sign this bill into law and it to be the strongest bill that it can be. >> maryland's general assembly adjourns next month. >>> 34 million people are in the path of a violent storm sweeping through the midwest and south. this tornado in mississippi one of many. the system is expected to spawn again tonight. a lot of folks are still recovering from last night's day, some rain at times.