Trump Defends Legalizing Waterboarding: ‘I Have No Doubt That It Does Work’

RUBIO: “Under Chris Christie’s governorship of New Jersey, they’ve been downgraded nine times in their credit rating”.

Trump expressed support for other torture tactics as well. “They think we are so stupid, you have no idea”.

“We have things that we have never seen before, as a group”, he said, The Independent reported on Sunday.

What’s more, Trump says he’ll bring back “a hell of a lot worse”.

“I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding, said Trump”.

“I mean we studied medieval times”. He said: “Oh, I could give you about 20 of them”.

Cruz said he would not “bring it back in any sort of widespread use” and noted that he doesn’t believe waterboarding meets the global definition for torture.

He also reiterated his pitch Saturday evening for defeating ISIS.

Though the new White House policy precludes ransom payments by the US government, the Obama administration did leave open the door to communication with hostage-takers — whether by the government, families of victims or third-parties — and said relatives who on their own decide to pay ransom won’t be threatened with prosecution. We need comprehensive health screenings, then we need to figure out how do we get the right nutrition and vitamins.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio declined to say definitively whether he would reinstitute the use of waterboarding.

The issue of waterboarding was front and center last night.

Kasich played up his conservative bona fides Sunday, after joking that he might have been better off running as a Democrat.

Trump said while it might not work always, but is still a useful interrogation technique. Trump has been attempting to play down the loss, saying, rather contradictorily, that Cruz “stole” votes from him, before repeatedly declaring that he had won in Iowa, despite the fact that he did not. I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they’d do to us… what they did to James Foley when they chopped off his head.

Ted Cruz discusses why waterboarding does not fit the technical definition of torture and if he would revive enhanced interrogation as president.

On the Democratic side, Sanders tops Clinton by about a 2-to-1 margin, 61% to 31%. After a disappointing showing in Iowa, he took time off from campaigning and hasn’t been a major presence in New Hampshire this week.

According to Trump, “not since medieval times have people seen what’s going on. We’re working really hard”.

At Saturday’s debate in New Hampshire, Sen. Barack Obama with a win in 2008.

“I don’t know. I don’t know”. “But I would be very much in favor of going beyond waterboarding”.