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At the onset of the 2016 coverage on Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley mentioned how Donald Trump discussed torturing terrorists at one appearance and then joked that perhaps Trump and GOP rival Ted Cruz “might like to try” waterboarding each other due to the heightened tensions between them.
Before tossing to correspondent Major Garrett in South Carolina, Pelley first noted that “Trump said that waterboarding is not severe enough in the effort to pry the truth out of suspected terrorists.”