after he made that statement, dianne feinstein, senator dianne feinstein said this report apparently is heavily redacted at the behest of the cia. what do you make of president obama coming out today and bluntly saying, i think the words he used were, there were folks who were tortured. >> yeah. i think he said, we tortured some folks. >> there it is. yeah. >> i think what we saw with president obama today was trying to walk this fine line where he was still strongly backing his former adviser and now cia director john brennan and the same time aligning himself with senate democrats. it's tough to align yourself with two parties who are battling it out right now. that seems to be what he was doing in advance of this report which is certainly going to catch people's attention from all the indications we've gotten. >> yeah, i mean, tell us a little more fact what you're hearing about this report. again, the idea of heavy redactions, dianne feinstein coming out and saying this. some people were looking at this and saying, is president obama coming forward today and actually using the wo

feinstein. she held the floor for 40 minutes and admonished the cia. not just for with holding the information, but also for literally trying to cover up these activities. she accused the cia as going as far as illegally monitoring and spying on congress to keep information out of the committee's hands. that's what rachel called death of the republic type stuff. she accused one cia lawyer specifically, a lawyer who was allegedly involved in crafting the torture program, someone who's a key subject of this investigation. a guy who until today, get this, was still working as cia lawyer in charge of coordinating with the senate, the keyword there, until, because he was effectively sidelined. finally. this is the news today. the cia got a new top lawyer, a post that had not had a permanent occupant for some time because of that feud between the intelligence community and cia. now, there's still a tooth and nail fight to keep the investigation sealed. like many, the secrets being with held from the p

dianne feinstein told politico.com today, it should not be possible for russia to walk in and take over crimea, and it's a done deal by the time we know about it. and she is the chair of the intelligence committee. congress now wants a full review. today there is a new and even uglier firestorm. the senate intelligence committee started a detailed review into the cia's detention and interrogation program under the bush administration, including the makeshift prisons the cia set up. and the results of the program and those results came with a high price tag, because the cia would only allow staffers and senators to allow classified cia cables, they would only allow those cables to be reviewed at a secure facility in virginia. that apparently helped up the cost. that report was finished in 2012. the report details how the cia misled the bush administration and congress about the use of interrogation techniques that many experts consider torture, and shows how the techniques did not provide the intelligence that led the cia to the hideout in pakistan where osama bin laden was killed by nav