new questions for some senators still firmly opposed to president Trump's
nominee to lead the CIA even as more Democrats get onboard here a few days
ago Indiana Democrat Joe Donnelly announcing
his support for Gina Haskell senator Donnelly facing a tough re-election
battle in his State President Trump won handily back in 2016
meanwhile others like senator Bernie Sanders they say they will not support
Haspel because of her involvement in the post 9/11 enhanced her interrogation
program but senator Sanders did support John Brennan 2013 nomination for CIA
director funny how that works right despite the fact that Brennan also has
ties to the interrogation program here is sander sanders watch i have serious
reservations about this nominee and i will oppose it but you didn't have
reservations about john brennan you voted for john brennan I guess my
question is well whatever restorations you have in between ask well why didn't
they apply it's not just yeah Jake it's not just the issue of torture it goes I
think deeper than that and that is the foreign policy that we have seen from
mr. Trump really does a good deeper than that Steve or is it actually just
politics everyone's making a fool of themselves on the sunday shows but
Bernie Sanders they had literally no answer to that very good question from
Jake Tapper and basic and and basically said it's politics I just don't like
Trump and Trump nominated her and that's that look I think that the criticisms of
Gina Haspel on the torture grounds are completely unfair both in relation to
the actual role that she played where she was not deciding this policy as a
policy if you really want to go into it that had been legally vetted and so on
there's a whole sort of history there that you can't pin on her plus the
Brennan point as we saw I think the for me a the the real objection to Jeana
hospital is not anything to do with that but the fact that every single
establishment creature in the security services in all administrations back so
she is the candidate of the deep state she
the person that is going to represent exactly that kind of failed view that I
think we need to get away from I think the only thing that could make you
relaxed about that is the fact that at least in the rest of his national
security team the president has put in some people who looked like they may be
able and willing to push back so again the inside of you that you clearly are
gonna get from Jena it really is just because she is who she is I mean look
and she's his pack but when you think about the interrogation back then don't
forget where we were right as a country in those days after 9/11 where we were
really scared and I think you know the CIA saw as its number one job kennedy as
keeping this country safe I mean thousands of people died but it wasn't
the first time that we had interfaced with torture and it had been understood
you know pretty much in every civilized country that that form of torture was
wrong and we had also invented new kinds of torture and the mistakes that we made
post 9/11 are still manifesting in Iraq and Afghanistan and arguably all over
the Middle Middle East you know right now the travails between Iran and Israel
what's going on in Syria the civil war in Yemen the way Libya has fallen apart
there are so many issues that have reverberate it because of our post 9/11
policies and so that's reason enough to question how US policy was carried out
clandestine ly through the CIA and some of you black as I understand her son
because he said it's by Jones I don't agree with senator Sanders because as I
said before I would never have voted for John Brennan and you know Hillary
Clinton has been on every stump and every continent grousing about how she
lost the election and her latest excuse is I lost it because people are sexist
and they make fun of women and how they look and so if senator Sanders is fine
saying that John Brennan is an ACCA director although he was higher up in
the agency but somehow Gina Haspel is not then that makes senator Sanders look
not only politicized but very sexy bingo well
and bingo and that is what Jake Tapper essentially laid bare in that interview
with senator Sanders is that this is about politics it's about President
Trump it's not opposition to enhance interrogation because clearly he voted
for John Brennan as did Senator McCain Feinstein and other individuals who are
now opposed to Gina Haskell voted for voted for John Brennan I also kind of
think it's funny how now we've got joe Manchin and Joe Donnelly that have come
around to Gina Haskell now that they are facing tough general election opponents
as evidenced by last Tuesday's Tuesday's results you've got Mike Braun in Indiana
and you've got Patrick Morrissey in West Virginia and now all of a sudden oh yeah
of course you know we're so when it comes down to in part because so many
Democrats want to protect their position in 18 will they eventually go along with
this she has the numbers anyway this is a bit of a moot point I mean this
conversation with Democrats have accepted from the beginning I think that
the the best way that they could have gone about this is to say
putting aside Gina Haskell as an individual because you also have a lot
of people you call it the deep state I just call it the intelligence services
who are backing her for both sides of the aisle there she's qualified for this
role but have a deep conversation about interrogation techniques about torture
the damage that we have done to people all over the world by using these
techniques that's the conversation America really wants to have and as far
as it being the results of the election results last week Joe Manchin votes with
President Trump over 60% of the time anyway maybe this is true Joe Donnelly
no campaign put out yet 62% both to the president 62% of the said oh not if
who's one of the can they wait you got to leave it there apologies but we all
right history Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley calling out former FBI
director James Comey for what he calls contradictory comments about Michael
Flynn did comments that Comey made on his book tour differ from what he told
Congress and does federal law enforcement need to clear this one up
plus our very own Harris there is live in Jerusalem for the
opening of the new US Embassy and she became the first journalist to go inside
the new u.s. ambassadors office she's joining us next with what they discussed
Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation
to determine its own capital yet for many years we fail to acknowledge the
obvious the plain reality that Israel's capital is Jerusalem this city and its
entire nation is a testament to the unbreakable spirit of the Jewish people
the United States will always be a great friend of Israel and a partner in the
cause of freedom and peace harris faulkner is live and our Drucilla bureau
but first we're gonna begin with David Lee Miller at the new US Embassy David
what is the mood there right now things are winding down it was extremely
festive a short time ago and as you can see there's have a cleanup operation
that is underway and as you point out one person more than any other was
talked about today and that person wasn't even here that of course was
President Trump the president was thanked profusely by a number of
speakers for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and then deciding
to move the US embassy here as you mentioned the president in a brief
recorded message spoke for about two minutes to the gathering here and he
said that Jerusalem was the eternal capital of Israel and of course remains
so today listen today Jerusalem is the seat of Israel's government it is the
home of the Israeli legislature and the Israeli Supreme Court and Israel's prime
minister and president Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like
every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital
the president said the embassy opening took place in his words many many years
ahead of schedule and that was made possible because the embassy actually
relocated from Tel Aviv to an existing US consular building in the our Nona
neighborhood of the city no word yet on when a new Embassy is going to be built
the US delegation included the president's daughter Ivanka and her
husband the presidential senior adviser Jared Kushner also in attendance
Treasury secretary Steve minuchin and more than a dozen members of Congress
and senators including Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu told the gathering that Israel has no better friend than the United
States what a glorious day remember this moment
this is history President Trump by recognizing history you have made this
dream now Harris tell us you're safe how close are you to some of the protests
and violence there well the Gaza Strip is is not awfully
near the city of Jerusalem which is three thousand years old
but there was a lot of focus on keeping the entire area safe because they looked
at this u.s. embassy is something that became a target so we were in one of the
safest places probably on the planet at the time Kennedy but away from that
you've heard about the unrest by the way the Israeli military did drop leaflets
to Palestinians telling them do not physically press against the border it
will be dangerous for you so they did that pre-dawn this morning and people
showed up with their families as human shields anyway it has been a mixed type
of a day like that but let's go back to the embassy which is now in the our Nona
neighborhood of southern Jerusalem for the first time in those 3,000 year
history the United States and others looking and it's a small list so far
looking at Jerusalem as the in fact capital of this nation and right over my
shoulder here you can see it that is the Knesset so obviously the people here in
Giroux see this as their government seat and
now we are joining them away from Tel Aviv you know I heard David Lee Miller
bring up something important he said we'll win will the actual mission began
it began today I was the first journalist who was allowed to go in with
ambassador David Friedman to lead the diplomatic mission here for the United
States in Israel he gave me a quick tour I think we've got a couple pictures of
that or some video of that and I asked him specifically about this unrest and
balancing it all and he says you first have to recognize the fact that you have
a capital that people can agree on and then you go forth with peace another
theme of today though away from the Ambassador although he was the master of
ceremonies today away from all of that you've heard from people who support the
administration and some of them were part of it
I interviewed Treasury secretary Steve minuchin who did the actual unveiling
today White House adviser senior adviser Jared Kushner was there along with his
wife Ivanka Trump he actually spoke at length and mentioned one of those themes
of promises made promises kept Manu Chen the secretary told me the same
thing we heard that over and over again and then in about a 2 minute 15 speech
that was piped in from the President on video he talked all about that so this
mission of peace in the Middle East is part of a greater vision that the
president has having to do with keeping his promises as he said I want to show
you one more thing that I thought was interesting can we pop up some of the
posters that are all around town they say Trump make Israel great take a peek
back to you guys all right Harris thank you so much we've got some curious
people on the couch including trish regan juris guitar loud
lisa booth and of course our one lucky guy steve hilton and they all have
questions about the the unveiling steve paris i there's one particular thing
that's got a lot of attention here we haven't talked about it yet and I just
wanted if that had filtered back to you critics of the president have been
really hostile about the choice of pastor Robert Jeffress to deliver the
prayer Mitt Romney really weighed in heaven
on that a very controversial choice in the eyes of many he was a guest on my
show last night he was very excited about everything that's going on there I
just wondered if that that argument had got back to you then what people make of
it you know people were not talking about
that the one thing that they did remark on though were the multiple faiths in
the room and the fact that you had a rabbi and a pastor you know first lead
with a benediction of sorts but also gathered together on the dais to greet
this day but you had multiple faiths in the room represented so that didn't
really get into the conversation here but what did Steve and I'm sure you've
talked about this on your program at the revolution Sunday nights don't miss it I
never do but but what people were talking about in fact was how are you
gonna balance upwards of 50 people dead on the border and you've got the Lebanon
border with you know a hundred thousand or more troops via Hezbollah I mean the
enemy wants to encircle Israel how are you gonna balance that with the US
Embassy that's you know in two different places for a little while it's
officially in Jerusalem but the Ambassador told me he's gonna go back
and forth as he has been for a while back to you all right Harris can't wait
to watch outnumbered over time thanks so much for that report and much more to
come live from Jerusalem the Senate Judiciary Chairman wants answers from
the Justice Department and the FBI why Chuck Grassley says former FBI director
Comey contradicted himself when it comes to the investigation of Michael Flynn
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