DONALD Trump had declared he believes "torture works" and he wants to "fight fire with fire" in the US's battle against Islamic extremism.

His comments come in the wake of reports a draft executive order has been prepared which will allow the CIA to reopen notorious 'black site" overseas prisons.

7 Reports have suggested Donald Trump's administration is preparing to bring back "black site prisons" Credit: AFP

7 He said he was in talks with the new head of the CIA Mike Pompeo Credit: AP:Associated Press

"Black site" prisons are like those which were used to waterboard and detain terrorist suspects - they were shut down by former US President Barack Obama.

The President, who has given an extensive interview with ABC, regarding his new policies, told interviewer David Muir he will speak with Defense Secretary James Mattis, and CIA director Mike Pompeo to see what can and can't be done legally to stop the spread of radicalism.

In the interview, Trump said "people at the highest level of intelligence" told him torture works. It is something military experts have claimed is incorrect.

He added: "When ISIS is doing things that no one has ever heard of, since medieval times, would I feel strongly about waterboarding?

"As far as I'm concerned, we have to fight fire with fire."

His argument stemmed from ISIS beheading people and posting videos online and radical groups "chop off the citizens or anybody's heads in the Middle East, because they're Christian or Muslim or anything else."Trump added: "We have that and we're not allowed to do anything. We're not playing on an even field."

He concluded: "I want to do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally. But do I feel it works?" 7 Trump revealed he would also speak to Defense Secretary James Mattis about the issue

7 The interview with ABC's David Muir airs in the US on Wednesday evening Credit: ABC News

Trump then said of using torture tactics, "absolutely I feel it works."

ABC referred to the comment in a discussion about the interview which airs in the US on Wednesday evening.

Correspondent Jonathan Karl said in a teaser as he discussed with David Muir the content: "He tells you that General Mattis surprised him by saying he doesn't think that waterboarding works – he doesn't think that torture works.

"And then he made it very clear that Donald Trump still very much believes that torture works, and he said in the last 24 hours he has spoken to top intelligence people who say it does work."

7 Numerous reports suggested a draft order had been created which suggested Guantanamo Bay could be used to torture detainees Credit: Getty Images

7 Obama had stopped sending new detainees to the prison Credit: AP:Associated Press

7 However White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said of the paper it was "not a White House document" Credit: EPA

The New York Times reported the Trump administration is preparing another executive order which will allow the CIA to reopen black site prisons.

It claimed a three-page draft order had been prepared which was called the “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants.”

However the order, has been branded inaccurate by the Trump administration.

On Wednesday White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said: "It is not a White House document. I have no idea where it came from. But it is not a White House document,' Spicer declared.'

Several news outlets reported the "draft order" would undo many of the other restrictions on handling detainees that Obama originally put in place in the wake of policies by the George W. Bush administration.

Trump would revoke Obama’s directive to give the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all detainees in American custody if he signed it.

This would be another step on the road to reopening secret prisons which can operate outside normal wartime rules which were put in place by the Geneva Conventions.

However statutory obstacles remain.

The document also outlined that Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, which Obama refused to send detainees to, directed the Pentagon to continue using the site “for the detention and trial of newly captured” detainees.

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This was in reference to suspected members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban and Islamic State detainees.

During his campaign Trump was vocal on his thoughts about methods of questioning suspects, and vowed to bring back waterboarding and a “hell of a lot worse.”

He said he planned to do this because torture works,” and even “if it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway.”

Elisa Massimino, the director of Human Rights First, told the paper the draft order was “flirting with a return to the ‘enhanced interrogation program’ and the environment that gave rise to it.”

She added: “It would be surprising and extremely troubling if the national security cabinet officials were to acquiesce in an order like that after the assurances that they gave in their confirmation hearing."

The reports on the draft came as Trump signed an executive order to build the wall on the Mexican border on Wednesday.