CNBC anchor Joe Kernen slammed the New York Times for "moral superiority" in its reporting on the CIA interrogation while ignoring that a majority of Americans support enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding.
"If the New York Times can occupy a position of moral superiority, they run with it--but they're talking to a country that's at 51-28," Kernen said.
CNBC Washington correspondent John Harwood said Democrats can only push the issue of CIA interrogation so far before it becomes a political liability.
"The president himself, we've dropped a few drones where there may have been some unintended consequences as well," Kernen said. "And the guys we do drop them on, we were not just trying to waterboard them. I think we're trying to kill them, are we not?"
