John Yoo on Donald Trump’s Position on Waterboarding: He Thinks of Waterboarding as a Kind of Punishment, That’s Not Its Purpose

John Yoo, attorney and law professor who served in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department joined Kilmeade and Friends today to discuss recent comments made about waterboarding, agreeing with Ted Cruz and disagreeing with Donald Trump. Yoo weighed in on Trump’s stance, saying the point of waterboarding is not for punishment, but to get people talking to prevent future attacks. Yoo also talked about his new book Liberty’s Nemesis: The Unchecked Expansion of the State and how government is growing at an alarming rate.

Watch the interview here: