this is a Fox News Alert seven o'clock in Washington DC and this is what
freedom looks like President Trump welcoming three American detainees home
overnight exactly four hours ago nobody thought we could be on this track in
terms of speed so I'm very honored to have helped the three folks they're
great people it's a great honor but the great the true honor is going to be if
we have a victory in getting rid of nuclear weapons home sweet home
while you were sleeping the men landing at Andrews Air Force Base putting their
feet on American soil yeah we have some play-by-play on what happened actually
in Ephrata bring them to South Korea and then back home but Leland Vitter is with
us right now Leland was reporting through the night with the great ed
Henry Leland so the Sun is up you're still up what can you tell us about the
arrival Steve Brian Ainsley it is not often the president United States is up
at 3:00 a.m. for a happy reason but he certainly was overnight and you can
really see these ear-to-ear smiles not only on the president but also of course
on the men who he greeted this is the very first video we're getting from the
president's Twitter account of him going on to the Air Force plane that brought
them back all the way across the Pacific from Japan to Anchorage Alaska and then
here to Joint Base Andrews he went on the planes at hello to him brought them
down a lot of handshakes a lot of smiles few peace signs cheers from the gathered
members of the Air Force there they talked to the media very briefly one
detainee said it was like a dream being home said while he was in North Korea he
was forced to do a lot of hard labor into that and the the detainees were put
on a bus and taken right to Walter Reed Medical Center it appeared as though
physically they were doing pretty well the big question is sort of what
emotional state they're in and that's something that's a psychologist at
Walter Reed are gonna start dealing with sort of reimbursing them back in to the
American culture and begin debrief them from their experience in North
Korea President Trump clearly made bringing these three men
home a priority especially after seeing what happened to another American inside
North Korea it was a very important thing to all of us to be able to get
these three great people out and I must tell you I want to pay my warmest
respects to the parents of otto warmbier who is a great young man who who really
suffered had Joyce made Andrews you had the President the Vice President the
Secretary of State huddling for about 20 minutes debriefing the Secretary of
State's meeting with Kim jong-un and now guys begins the strategy sessions for
how that summit will happen next month back to you guys
Leah thanks so much and again great job overnight because you had no idea what
was gonna be happening next and you guys filled it great I thought it was kind of
interesting what happened before they got on the plane evidently it's a
12-hour visit for the Secretary of State at which time he had a 90 visit a nine
ninety minute visit with Kim jong-un this is his second one in a matter of
weeks so this is pretty significant they're making some big gains and you
never know in the past we have sent over former presidents and important people
like Bill Richardson and Bill Clinton and you didn't know of you coming back
with the hostage so it could have been a humiliating experience for you well like
most of us y'all were sleeping in the middle of the night I woke up this
morning immediately went to the TV because I wanted to see this image right
there and it was a little after 2:00 I said I know that you know these images
are gonna be all over the TV what a great look at that it's amazing after
interviewing the warm beers parents you know all saw that interview right here
on Fox & Friends to know what he went through and to see these three Americans
just we all needed to see it for ourselves that they were in good health
and they hold up the peace sign that's the American pastor yeah and the other
two are educators involved in universities over there
they were all held for spine on North Korea or stealing state secrets and
hostile acts against North Korea nonetheless this is setting the table
for the president probably sitting down with Kim jong-un in Singapore
in the next couple of weeks and his ultimate goal well we found that out
last night at about 3:10 in the morning when he walked over with those three men
and talked to the media for 7 minutes and 10 seconds my proudest achievement
will be this is a part of it but will be when we he nuclearized that entire
Peninsula this is what people have been waiting for for a long time nobody
thought we could be on this track in terms of speed so I'm very honored to
have helped the three folks the true honor is going to be if we have a
victory in getting rid of nuclear weapons
we very much appreciate that he allowed them go before the meeting it was sort
of understood that we'd be able to get these three terrific people during the
meeting and bring them home after the meeting we're starting off on a new
footing this is a wonderful thing that he released the folks early that was a
big thing very important to me and I really think we have a very good chance
of doing something very meaningful and if anybody would have said that five
years ago ten years ago even a year ago you would have said that's not possible
so a lot I will say this a lot of very good things have happened no kidding
a so measured for a president that sometimes could get ahead of himself or
I feel free willing with this he has been so buttoned up I'm not raising
anyone's expectations we're a place we haven't been before I'm encouraged from
what I say but if it goes wrong I'll pull back and if he does have to pull
back no one will say wow look at you you
failed new he's gonna say no look at me I tried and we got this we're gonna go
back to the what it happened so quickly I feel like the president just started
negotiating that summit with Kim Jong Un's so what was it that made Kim
jong-un released these individuals we were all surprised so is the former Vice
President Dick Cheney or do we won't miss a former do we say well that's an
interesting point Ainsley because in the past North Korea has used detainees as
bargaining chips so you would think that they would keep them until the summit
but no they've really as of 3 o'clock this morning back here
in the United States of America mainland so what's coming forward here's the
former Vice President Dick Cheney himself well if you told me this is
gonna happen I I would have been surprised would not have expected that
it could happen so I'm pleased that it has I think it offers the possibility of
significant progress I think we have to be very careful and I think the
president is being very careful to go operate in a way that we don't get so
too hung out to dry if they don't meet our standards then I'd walk what's
interesting is we look back at the president's first term he you know he
brought in a lot of outsiders as his national security team and he did pretty
much exactly what they said he added troops in Afghanistan he delayed the
plans to move the Israeli embassy and then he hung on to the Iranian nuke deal
now he's got a new foreign policy team in there with Pompeo and also Bolton and
he's going more with his gut because he is essentially trying to get global
leaders to do what other presidents previously had been unable to do and
that's where we are right now yeah and the next big thing they were gonna be
talking about is the whole standoff with China they're sending somebody here now
on trade 2 week so last week we were in China trying to work something out so
that's his other thing that everyone said don't start a trade war because I'm
not but this traded balance has got to change but behind the scenes President
Xi was sitting down with mister Kim Jong on last week you know it's part of that
maximum pressure thing where that probably had a lot to do with the
release of those three men over there the other drama that took place
yesterday was on Capitol Hill where Gina Haspel put her best foot forward to be
the next CIA director maybe the most qualified nominee that we've ever seen
in our lifetime but if there was pushback obviously over the enhanced
interrogation and as was pointed out earlier in the show they didn't bring up
Russia didn't bring up our on didn't bring up the challenges of China and
militarizing the South China Sea it was all about what happened in 2003 and many
of the lawmakers then were the same law make
questioning yeah so keep in mind back in 2013 when John Brennan was sitting in
that seat and he was being questioned by these same senators he was her boss at
the time number four overall at the sea that's right the questions that they
posed to him in 2013 totally different than the questions that they posed to
her there's three senators that questioned both of them watch the
difference I think it is also important and these wee questions that I'll be
asking as well to ensure that while we look at the programs the CIA that these
programs effectiveness be measured objectively and not simply by those who
are charged with implementing them many people and I include myself a member
have questions about the message the Senate would be sending by confirming
someone for this position who served as a supervisor in the counterterrorism
center during the time of rendition detention and interrogation programs
it's incredibly important for the CIA to be as open to be totally open with this
committee the reason is that there's no one else watching typically in this in
this in our country we have the public is involved the press is involved was it
a matter of coincidence that you that this decision was made to destroy the
tapes in the same week that two major stories appeared in American newspapers
to a great deal of public interest just that week in the whole interrogation
question mr. Brennan is without a doubt qualified for this position he served at
the CIA for 25 years in analytic operational and managerial capacities
you are very unique you have 30 years of undercover experience accordingly we ask
the agency that your records be declassified I think I signed three
letters in that regard to make an informed decision and ultimately Brennan
was confirmed and some of the senators who were there then and are still there
he was confirmed by Senator Warner senator Feinstein Heinrich Collins King
burr mansion Wyden and vo how many of them will be voting for
her given the fact that they gave her boss who was in charge back
waterboarding and in enhanced interrogation the thumbs up a couple of
years ago I thought she was great and I thought she was strong and while she was
also proud of what you accomplished in keeping America safe and stopping the
next attack that goes following bottom line is she does not consider enhanced
interrogation torture number two is it worked you don't get bin Laden without
it and most of these senators know it and they felt they didn't stop it when
they were there like senator Feinstein Feinstein Feinstein who's been there for
ages now all of a sudden she comes out and she has questions about what state
what happened with chaos Tom they did do the enhanced interrogation on chaos
sound when it was legal when you could do that and then that led us to the
courier that was talking to bin Laden we followed that courier and then got bin
Laden as a result and easie you made a great point right there and that was
everything that she did at that point was she said orders look they changed
the rules Congress changed their you know interpretation of what enhanced
interrogation should be and what torture is but back when they did it keep in
mind when you go back to the nine immediately after 9/11 mindset you know
anthrax came into this building people in the United States of America were
just waiting for the other shoe to drop and they were doing the Patriots at the
CIA and all the operatives around the world were doing everything they could
to stop another attack and that was her job how do you think Danny pearls family
feels about KSM getting water blower you think they're they bleed for him because
their kid's head was cut off by that guy yeah so once you get confirmed
we had Tom cotton on yesterday he said yes I thought she was very calm very
collected I learned that her dad was in the military served in the Air Force I
think she said for 33 years she's a military daughter said that she learned
discipline from her dad she'd be the first female CIA director which would be
amazing mansions in McCain is out meanwhile meanwhile the sanctuary revolt
in California is growing another city voting to break away from the state's
laws we're going to tell you about that coming up
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