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b"CIA Director-nominee Gina Haspel finally concedes that the U.S. torture program instituted after 9/11 was a mistake, when she declined to admit as much during her public confirmation testimony last week, and has she never been held accountable for overseeing torture at a secret CIA prison she oversaw in Thailand \\u2013 but her ascension now appears to be all but assured as some Senate Democrats have committed to voting for her confirmation. The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, defended Israel's killing of more than 60 Palestinian protesters in Gaza on Monday, and the U.S. and Israel were all but isolated during an emergency session at the U.N.\\xa0 Then, amid new reports that the scheduled summit between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may now be imperiled, former Deputy Asst. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs MICHAEL FUCHS discusses the many complications that lie ahead in negotiations, the very different definitions of the concept of "denuclearization" between the two countries, the implications of Trump's violation of the anti-nuclear pact with Iran, how the Administration's current negotiating position appears to be all over the map, and whether Trump may be willing to throw allies in Japan and South Korea under the bus to make a "deal" -- any deal -- with the North. Don't miss this very insightful conversation! Finally, we're joined by Desi Doyen for the latest 'Green News Report', as the Trump Administration is blocking the release of a damning report on widespread water contamination across the U.S., a major energy company is revealed to have paid actors to pretend to be supporters of a new power plant project at a public hearing, and California mandates solar for all new residential building construction..."