kenneth: even then, cia director leon panetta wrote in his memoirs, biden argued that we still did not have enough confidence that bin laden was in the compound and came out firmly in his book, defense secretary bob gates said flatly, biden was against the operation. hillary clinton is also on the record saying, vice president biden remains skeptical, but she was for the raid. the white house refused to clear up the confusion. >> i don' t have any new insight to share with you. announce he' s running for president, this would be a major stumble right out of the gate. kenneth moten, abc news. shelley: a new poll of new hampshire republican primary voters has donald trump expanding his lead. the franklin pierce/"boston herald" paul puts trump at the front of the pack with 28% of support from republican primary voters. the group' s previous poll had trump at 18%. then carson him at 16%. carly fiorina was the only other candidate to receive double-digit support, but jeb bush was only 1% behind her. shelley: a judge has upheld the felony conviction of owen labrie , meaning he will face a of

emily: then cia director leon panetta said biden did suggest the raid should be postponed for a week to allow for more intelligence to be collected. randy: the nbta' s fiscal and management control board will be meeting today and several presentations will be stalled, including a repair team, tasked with improving the t experience. there are also plans to expand safety measures like automatic braking in emergencies. subway cars are getting a makeover. the agency wants to know what you think about them. possible designs for the exterior of the new orange, green, and redline cars. you can vote over the next two weeks and we have a link on wcvb.com. the first of new cars are hitting the track in 2017. emily: a new recommendation in the fight against breast cancer is causing some concern. randy: the possible unintended consequences. new this morning, saving money on holiday shopping. emily: a man scrambles to catch his flight and will be punished. why he ran onto the tarmac. antoinette: breaking news out of new york city where a police officer has been killed in the line of duty. 33-year

similarly, former cia directors leon e. panetta and john o.brennan, both of whom disclosed the identities of undercover operatives, were never charged." norman solomon, can you talk about this difference and how people are treated? >> this entire episode, which continues with jeffrey sterling, is part of a huge pattern of and then prosecution in the case of leon panetta, selective sentencing in terms of general david petraeus. and it shows how the entire judicial and executive branch process in terms of assessing a prosecuting classified leaks is just riddled with pollution and poisoned by political power. this administration, worse than any other in memory in this regard, has totally turned the prosecution of leaks into a politicized set of vendettas. i think it is necessary -- it is essential that we recognize that there is no equality ordinary equality or justice under the law in this regard. i should add that jeffrey sterling was convicted on the basis of metadata, which totally undermines the claims of this administration and defenders in

mccain: a long time ago when secretary of state hillary clinton and secretary of defense leon panetta and the directorf the cia, then general petraeus, recommended we equip the free syrian army, that is when the president said it is not a matter of whether, it is a matter of when bashar al-assad will leave. since that refusal, and of course the red line was one of the seminal moments in the history of the obama administration. my friend, that had a profound effect, not only in the middle east, but around the world. charlie: meaning that the red line was violated and the president did nothing, even though there was an agreement the russians to get the chemical weapons out of syria? senator mccain: first of all, they are still using some chemical weapons. but the point is, the president did not say if they crossed this red line we will intervene militarily. he did not say we would cooperate with the russians to get them out. he said we are going to strike if you cross this red line. and he didn't. that is why -- the saudi's just went to moscow to buy $9 billion worth of weapons. uae bought $7 billion. q

former cia director at the time, general petraeus hasn't been called. leon panetta hasn't been called. why haven't these people been called before your committee if this is about benghazi? they were all there at the time. >> chuck, we are not done. you may think this investigation ends on thursday but let me assure you that it does not. we began in may and we are going to continue. this on thursday is one more step along the way. >> so michael steele, are they at risk of undermining their own credibility to say nothing of congressman hanna and majority leader mccarthy's comments? >> you used the right word, and the key word is credibility. i believe that the work of this committee has been undermined severely, not just by the recent comments by hanna and certainly mccarthy, the staffer, but even going back to the very inception of this whole process, they politicized this from the very beginning. that was the frustration of a number of republicans at the time and still remains so. i think hillary clinton will go in, she will put that shawl of political vulnerability

the former cia director at the time, general petraeus, he hasn't been called. former defense secretary leon panetta wasn't called. why haven't these people been called before your committee if this is about benghazi? they were all there at the time. >> chuck, we're not done. you mamathink this investigation ends on thursday, but let me asre you that it does not. we began in may and we are going to ctinue. this on thursday is just one more step along the way. we may well call many of the folks that you identified there. we still have many witness, many documents that we haven't seen. as recently as last thursday we received christopher steven's e-mails. how on earth could other committees have worked effectively when they didn't even have those e-mails? we don't have them. no thanks to the democrats on the committee who opposed us all along the way. >> congressman schiff, when you joined the committee you sai you wereilling to look at this in the big picture. you have accused the republicans of not take it seriously. it's in your power. if you don't think they're taking it seriously, why haven't you

defense secretary after two-year run as director of the central intelligence agency cia welcome back secretary leon panettace to be with you. >> thank you for joining us i want to start with this iran deal we know that iran started testing, missiles that was the specific requirement that it was not o to have activity in that regard, when we signed this nuclear deal. >> i think united states and our allies have to be very tough on iran with rartsdz to enforcing the deal if iran keeps progressed trying to test whether we are series this is a moments we have to see resolve we have to show, that we're not going to simply stand back, and allow them to violent violate the terms. >> what is the practical response, to join with allies, who signed this deal, and basically, make very clear that this is not to be tolerated. i think we've got to decide when in fact this was a violation, but once they made that decision, then they've got to take steps to go right to iran, and say, you know, if you continue to do this, the detail is off. >> yeah, the other story line today is that the administration, has now ended its e