dee dee myers, former press secretary and the author of the e book "47%." the president stressed he's willing to compromise to avoid the consequence of going over that so-called fiscal cliff at the end of the year. however, he's sticking to his guns that the wealthiest need to be asked to pay a bit more. let's watch. >> i want to be clear. i'm not wedded to every detail of my plan. i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenges. but i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit, while people like me, making over $250,000 aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. this was a central question during the election. it was debated over and over again. and on tuesday night, we found out that the majority of americans agree with my approach. >> couldn't be more direct in that. i like the clarity of it today. he said, i'll negotiate it, but not on this. >> two years ago, when he cut that deal to extend the tax cuts in return basically for a second stimulus, i thought he was going deal with at the time. he said exactly this. last time, i'm going to do this. i'm taking hostages, i'm getting more return. >> he also said this is what the election is about. >> and it was. if you look at the exit polls, you look at the numbers. mandate is a big word you used at the top of the show, but he won. at some point, he has shown he's been willing to compromise in democratic policies much more than the republicans. he will give entitlements but he has to give something in return. >> deeee, tell me what you think. what you heard today. i thought it was dramatic. he said, this election meant something. it meant fairness. >> right. that was probably single most repeated phrase of the campaign. the message was protecting the middle class and they beat romney very badly on that. >> romney in all the polls, including the one last night, didn't buy his act. >> right. >> and called for lower tax rates which didn't win the day for him. >> and the other part which is important, he said i'm not wedded to any detail of my plan. i'm open to compromise. that is really important because both sides have to give up things they care about. >> i heard an entirely different speech than we all did had romney won, and he could have won, a couple weeks ago, looked like he was headed that direction. he said he wanted the tax money from the rich because he wanted to do things. not to screw them, but to do something. he actually came out and said i want to do things. rebuild the highways. we'

he's willing to compromise. >> thank you, david corn and thank you, dee dee myers. >>> coming up, buyomney lost from the former reagan speechwriter, i think it was reagan said mitt romney's problem wasn't just shifting demographics or a fumbling campaign, it was his message. a mess avenue cutting benefits for the elderly and the poor. unless that message changes the republicans will not abe majority party. he said, also mitt romney want this week's biggest leader. how about carl cove, carl cove, not only did he save money, his tv performance tuesday night played him the poster card for the refusal for reality people. plus, how the obama campaign reacted to that disastrous first debate and why as late as tuesday night the romney people thought they had this thing won. we've got reporters from both sides. a lot of ticktock. the cia chief, david petraeus resigns he said because of an extramarital affair. we'll try to get to the bottom of that watercooler story tonight. this is "hardball," the place for politics. crisp. it's kind of like drinking a food that's a drink, or a drink that's a

want to bring back our panel, ari fleischer, alex castellanos, david gergen, gloria borger, dee dee myers, paul begala. >> the race issue is very important. if there are more white voters this time, that's good for mitt romney. i'm looking for gender. we always say that mitt romney has a large gender gap of women. but he does very well with men. so we're going to have to see how that balances out. so those are -- and younger voters as paul was talking about earlier, important to the president if he wins re-election. it gives us a sense of how divided this country is because we could in the end see a country that is divided on race, you know, on gender, and by age. >> i'm looking at it for the turnout paul mentioned young people and ari talked about minorities, that's very important. there are long, long lines we're hearing about around the country, waits of three hours, six hours. where are those occurring? who does that help? what do we read out of that? i'm not sure i know right now. i don't know where they're occurring. and i'm also looking to hear when the polls come out about when pe

dee dee myers of "vanity fair." richard lowry of the "national review." harvard university's david gergen. and our own john dickerson. then we'll talk to stu rothenberg of the stu rothenbe rothenberg political reports. allen stanford of the university of virginia center for politics, democratic pollster anna greenberg, and republican analyst leslie sanchez of the impacto group. and our own cbs news elections director anthony salvanto. we're coming to the end of the campaign 2012, and we've got it all on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning, again. most of the country is looking forward to election day, or at the least, looking forward to the campaign being over. but in large parts of the northeast, it is still the aftermath of the storm that is in the forefront of many people's thoughts. at least 110 are dead, more than 2 million are still without power. close to 1 million in new york city alone. 80% of new york city subway service has been restored, but it may be days before gas shortages are rer stored and the national guard has been called in to keep order at gas stations. the storm has caused an estimated $20 billion in damages, plus an estimated $50 billion in economic losses to the region. the state of new jersey was hit hardest, and for more on that, we're going to ben tracy in tuckerton beach, good morning, ben. >> reporter: good morning, bob. this is what so many neighborhoods all along the new jersey shore look like. they're almost frozeep in time. there is really no recovery going on here yet because these areas have just been too dangerous to get into until now. this weekend was really the first time that so many people who live around here are coming back to see how damaged their houses are. many are finding they have no home at all. across new jersey, you're still talking about nearly a million people without power, and that's becoming a real issue, because temperature here's at night are falling into the low 30s, so it's very cold for the people who decided not to go to shelters or who don't have anywhere else to go, trying to ride this situation out. of course, as the days progress here, you will start to see more debris removal, but so many of these areas are simply too hard to get into. then you have the issue of gas rationing. people are waiting in line for gas. they're trying to get fuel for their gen authors so it's a very tough situation here in new jersey. bob. >> schieffer: thank you very much. we'll turn to the other big story of the week, of course, this final week in the election. and here to give us their thoughts, their predictions, their homes, their dreams, peggy noonan is the columnist for the "wall street journal," speech writer for president reagan. richard lowry wrote this week's cover of "new york times magazine"" magazine and writes for "national review." john dickerson is our cbs news political director. on the other side, dee dee myers, press secretary for president clinton, contributor to "vanity fair," and david gergen, who is at harvard. pecky, let me just start with you. what do you think the impact of this storm is going to be? did it hurt romney? did it help the president? >> well the impact in the northeast itself has just been very bad. a lot of people suffering up there. some people calling it their katrina in a very unhappy way, of course, in part because it's cold. it's a cold katrina. and people are without heat and electricity. seats very tough. how does it play politically? we'll know in retrospect, i think like everything else, in this race. it is not known at this point how it will play. you can argue that the president looked commanding and like a leader when he came up to new jersey. you could also argue that things are starting to look a little tough in some of the neighborhood neighborhoods in new york and jersey, and so that might work against him. it's hard to say, but one thing i thi

thank you, david corn and dee dee myers. >>> coming up, why romney lost. this is a good one. david frum, former reagan speechwriter, says mitt romney's problem wasn't just shifting demographics or a fumbling campaign, it was his message. the message of cut benefits for the poor, the elderly, and the middle class to pay for tax cuts for the rich. until that message changes, the republicans will not be a majority party, he says. >>> also mitt romney wasn't this week's biggest loser. how about karl rove? i'll say it again, karl rove. not only did he spend millions of other people's money with little gain, his tv performance tuesday night made him the poster child for the republican party's refusal to be part of reality people. >>> plus, inside the two campaigns, how the obama campaign reacted to that disastrous first debate and why as late as tuesday night the romney people thought they had this thing won. we've got reporters from both sides, a lot of tick tock and narrative tonight. >>> and the shocker of the day, cia chief david petraeus resigns he says because of an extramari

thank you, david corn and dee dee myers. >>> coming up, why romney lost. this is a good one. david frum, former reagan speechwriter, says mitt romney's problem wasn't just shifting demographics or a fumbling campaign, it was his message. the message of cut benefits for the poor, the elderly, and the middle class to pay for tax cuts for the rich. until that message changes, the republicans will not be a majority party, he says. >>> also mitt romney wasn't this week's biggest loser. how about karl rove? i'll say it again, karl rove. not only did he spend millions of other people's money with little gain, his tv performance tuesday night made him the poster child for the republican party's refusal to be part of reality people. >>> plus, inside the two campaigns, how the obama campaign reacted to that disastrous first debate and why as late as tuesday night the romney people thought they had this thing won. we've got reporters from both sides, a lot of tick tock and narrative tonight. >>> and the shocker of the day, cia chief david petraeus resigns he says because of an extramari

dee dee myers of "vanity fair." and our own john dickerson. election 2012 is in the bookes, but the story is just beginning. and this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning, again. on this veteran's day. and we begin with senator graham who is in clemson, south carolina. senator, thank you for coming. you are on the armed services committee, of course, so i want to start out with this out-of-the blue thunderbolt that hit washington friday concerning david petraeus the c.i.a. director. he resigned, saying he had exercised bad judgment and had an affair. cbs news and several other agencies have now confirmed that the f.b.i. got on to this after a third woman told them she had received threatening e-mails from the woman he has reported to have had the affair with. so i guess i would just simply start, do you have any additional information to any of this? >> no, not really. i was just as surprised and from a national point of view, general petraeus turned around iraq. we were losing in iraq when he took over. we had it in awe good spot. unfortunately, i think the obama administration fumbled the ball with iraq. but he turned iraq around. he was a great general, and his resignation is a loss for the country. but i understand why he had to resign. >> schieffer: there are all these stories, these pieces of it that are now coming affect, that now there seems to be another woman who was involved, and she went to the f.b.i. because she was frightened of these e-mails. do you-- do you think there ought to be a congressional investigation to sort this out, or is it best to just go on and leave it where it is? >> well, if there's no effect of the affair on national security, i think we need to move on. but at the end of the day, the one thing that that's happen in my view is we've got to get to the bottom of benghazi. i hate what happened to general petraeus for his family and the families for those involved, but we have four dead americans in benghazi. we have a national security failure in the making. i don't see how in the world you can find out what happened in benghazi before, during, and after the attack if general petraeus doesn't testify. so from my point of view, it's essential he give testimony before the congress so we can figure out big. from the congress' point of view, instead of doing this in a stovepipe way, have the dodd that needs to explain itself itself, god knows the state department needs to answer for their behavior. i suggest we have a joint select committee of house and senate members and we do this together, not have three different committee ggz off in three different directions so we can get to the bottom of it like we did in watergate and iran contra. i think that would be smart for the congress to combine resources. >> schieffer: you're on record having said the administration either deliberately misled people about what led to the deaths of the ambassador and three other americans or it was just gross incompetence. now, susan rice, who is the u.n. ambassador at this point was pretty much the point person on this:j the administration. she went out on the sunday shows and first said it was not a planned terrorist attack about the was the result of a spontaneous demonstration. she is now being mentioned as one of those being considered for secretary of state. do you think what she said during the early days of this investigation, should that factor in any way on whether she should be considered as secretary of state? >> absolutely wot a doubt. i generally defer to presidential selections for cabinets and judges. i voted for both supreme court judges, not because i would have chose them, because the president has a lot leeway, and if they're qualified people, i tend to support presidential picks. however, i do reserve unto myself and other members of congress the ability to say no when justified. i cannot imagine promoting anybody associated with benghazi at this point. it's not just what he said after. how did the place become a death trap for months why did we keep it open or not reinforce it? there are too many questions to be answered. don't quite, frankly, trust her rendition of beg. i think susan rice would have an incredibly difficult time to get through the senate. i would not vote for her unless there's a tremendous opening up the information explaining herself in a way she has not yet done. >> schieffer: well, i mean, would you try to lead a move to block her from getting the nomination if in fact she is-- >> i am not-- i am not-- i'm not entertaining promoting anybody that i think was involved with benghazi debacle. we needo get to the bottom of it. the president has a lot of leeway with me and others when it comes to making appointments. but i'm not going to promote somebody who i think has misled the country or is either incompetent. that's my view of susan rice. there are other people out there. i don't want to fight with the president over something like, this but there has to be an accountability. you can't just let this happen and act as it there are no consequences. and one of the consequences to me that susan price-- susan rice needs to be held accountable. >> schieffer: let's talk a little bit about the election, a lot of talk about your party is going to have to kind of rethink some of its positions. a former chairman of your party-- >> yeah. >> schieffer:-- said to me the other day, it's the lateen organization stupid. meaning you're going to have to do manage to appeal to the hispanics. what was the impact of the election on your party, senator, and what needs to be done here? >> well, the one thing we do not need to do is abandon conservatism. and in the election poll, 50% said the government does too much and not too little. conservativi will sell with latinos. but the truth of the matter sthe immigration debate we engaged in, in 2006 and 2007, has built a wall between the republican party and hispanic community because of tone and rhetoric. president barack obama received 44% of the hispanic vote in 2004. by 2008 we were down to 28, in 2012 we are down to 27. it's the fastest growing demographic in the country and we're losing votes every election cycle and it has to stop. it's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. just don't relode the gun. i intend not to reload this gun when it comes to hispanics. i intend to pass an immigration reform bill that is an american solution to an american problem but we have nobody to blame but ourselves when it comes to losing hispanics and we get kget them back with some effort on our part. >> schieffer: would that mean finding some path to citizenship for the illegals that are in this country? >> it means securing our border which every american agrees with. it means making it hard tore hire illegal immigrants, verifying employment. we need to secure the borders. make sure you can't hire an illegal immigrant because you have documents that can't be faked. we need guest workers, and. when it comes to the 12 million, we need to be firm and fair-- self-deportation is not going to work. 65% of the people in the exit poll of this election supported a pathway to citizenship. here's what i think we should do with the 12 million. fix it in a way we don't have a third wave of illegal immigration 20 gears now. americans want more legal immigration and fix illegal immigration once and for all. have the 12 million once you security border-- and you do nothing until you secure the borders, come out of the shadows, start paying taxes, pay a fine for the law they broke. they can't stay unless they learn our language, and they have to get in the back of the line before they can become citizens. they can't cut in front of line regarding people who are doing it right, and it could take over a decade to get their green card. i think that's the answer. >> schieffer: we have just a very short time here. i want to ask you about the fiscal cliff. can the republicans find a way to get some kind of a compromise with democrats so we can avoid this horrindous situation that goes into effect if you don't act? >> fair is not an option for the country when it comes to the fiscal cliff. say yes to simpson-bowles, mr. president. i'm willing to say yes to simpson-bowles. we need more revenue in washington. we need more private sector jobs. we don't need to raise tax rates. we need to limit loopholes for the wealthy. mr. simpson, if you say yes to simpson-bowles when it comes to revenue, so will i and so will most republicans. we can get revenue without destroying jobs and both need to. no republican will vote for increased tax rates. we will insist our democratic friends reform entitlements something we've never done ask that's where the big money is at. say yes to simpson-expwoalz we'll get this behind us. >> schieffer: senator, thank you so much. and now we're going to get the other side of this picture. and joining us now, one of the architects of the president's victory, his senior campaign adviser, david axelrod, who is out in chicago. mr. axelrod, thank you so much for joining us. let me just start, on friday, the president said he was open to compromise, but he said he would not accept any approach to deficit reduction, that does not ask the wealth tow pay more taxes. speaker boehner, the republican speaker of the house, has already said that's a nonstarter. aren't we right back where we were last year? >> well, i don't think so, bob, for a am could you have reasons. first of all, i think the speaker also said he wasn't going to get into details about what he would or wouldn't accept. he didn't want to foreclose discussions, and that was a positive sign. his rhetoric has been encouraging. and i think we have also had an intervening election, and in fact the position of the president articulated friday was the position that he's articulated throughout the campaign. you look at those exit polls, and a healthy majority of americans agree with him. and that's certainly going to help him form these discussions. >> schieffer: the president won, but this was a very close victory. and it came down to those battleground states. and it was close even there. does the president feel that won a mandate? >> well, bob, on this particular issue, it wasn't close. as i said, if you look at the exit polls-- i think it was somewhere around 60% of the american people agreed with the president's position on this issue of taxes. it is obvious that we can't resolve the challenge here simply by cutting the budget. we've cut by $1 trillion. there are more cuts to be made but you need new revenues and every objective person who has looked at this agrees on that. so the question is where is that revenue going to come from? the president believes it's more equitable to get that from the wealthiest american americans who have done very well, and frankly, don't need those tax cuts. and who benefitted disproportionately from the tax cuts in the last decade. and most americans agree with that. >> schieffer: speaker boehner seemed to suggest that he was open to closing loopholes to real tax reform. can you get there by just closing loopholes or will it take more than that? >> well, look, i don't want to prejudge the discussions. and i think that the speaker's comment have been encouraging. and obviously, there's money to be gained by closing some of these-- closing some of these loopholes and applying them to deficit reduction. i think there are a lot of ways to skin this cat, so long as everybody comes with a positive, constructive attitude toward the task. . >> schieffer: let's talk a little bit about the campaign. when did you know you had this won? >> we went into election day with confidence, and we had-- i had rems of data from these young kids who do these analytics on-- based on polling and based on our other data we've gathered, and they pretty much hit it on the nose. so when the votes started coming in and matched up with the mod they'll they had created, and in one state after another, you know, we were-- we-- we knew that we were in good shape by 8:00 or 8:15 that evening, we were pretty confident that this race was going to be ours and it was just a matter of time, and less time, frankly, than we amounted. >> schieffer: was there any time during this campaign that you thought it might slip away, like, for example, after that first debate? obviously, there was some kind of a shft there. >> there was. but most of the shift after the first debate allowed governor romney to reclaim what he had lost after their convention, which wasn't very successful, and the 47% tape that became so well known across the country and was a negative for him. a lot of those republican-leaning independents who had moved away from him came back, so it was less about our losing ground and him gain anything it restored the race to the one we had before the conventions and the one we always anticipated, where we were narrowly ahead. we never relink wished that lead in our data, and obviously, looking state by state, we were pretty confident. what is remarkable about this race, bob, isn't the volatility of it. , or wasn't the volatility of it. there was this illusion of volatility that was created by the spate of public polls, many of which varied, even on the very same day. but in our own data, it was a very steady race. we maintained a strong-- a narrow lead but a consistent lead, really for months and months and months. and it didn't fluctuate by much. >> schieffer: we saw something when the president came to your headquarters to say thanks to all the young volunteers. we saw a side of president obama we don't often see. i want to just roll a little of that tape and then ask you about it. . >> and you guys, what you have done, the work that i'm doing, is important. i'm really proud of that. i'm really proud of all of you. and... ( applause ) >> schieffer: it sully seemed that the president was brushing away a tear there. we don't see that much emotion from the president. what was it like to be there? >> i was standing 10 feet away and i was brushing tears away myself as were many of those young people. so when he looked at those young kids and their sense of idealism and all the sacrifices they had made, not just for him but for the kind of country that they believe in, he really was overcome. and the president went around after that speech and he-- and he met with every single kid in the headquarters, and gave them a hug and handshake and thanks and i think that hug and handshake and thanks has sent them off in a direction where they will make great contributions in the future, and it really was a wonderful coda on a great campaign. >> schieffer: and what about you? what do you do next? >> well, i'm going down-- in keeping with that-- i'm going to spend part of my time start an institute of politics at the university of chicago. my feeling is if i can help inspire some young people to get into this arena as candidates, as strategists as journalists, then that would be a great contribution to make. >> schieffer: david axelrod, thank you so much. and we'll be back in a minute. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 low-cost investment options-- tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 like our exchange traded funds, or etfs tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 which now have the lowest tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 operating expenses tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 in their respective tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 lipper categories. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 lower than spdr tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 and even lower than vanguard. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 that means with schwab, tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 your portfolio has tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 a better chance to grow. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 and you can trade all our etfs online, tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 commission-free, from your schwab account. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 so let's talk about saving money, tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 with schwab etfs. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 schwab etfs now have the lowest operating expenses tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 in their respective lipper categories. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 call 1-800-4schwab tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 or visit schwab.com tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 to open an account today. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 funding is easy tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 with schwab mobile deposit. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 investors should consider tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 carefully information tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 contained in the prospectus, tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 including investment objectives, tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 risks, charges, and expenses. you can obtain tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 a prospectus by visiting tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 www.schwab.com/schwabetfs. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 please read the prospectus tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 carefully before investing. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 >. >> schieffer: i want to start with it peggy noonan and david gergen. i want to get back to the petraeus situation. you knew general petraeus and this woman he was allegedly involved with. >> i have known both of them for several years. i consider themselves friends. i have a very high regard for both. in the last 36 hours i have communicated with both of them. i sent them messages of support because i think this is a national tragedy. it's a tragedy not only for the families but the country. david petraeus, i think he's been one of the finest leaders of his generation. he is an iconic figure for any number of young troops. i have talked to people who served under him and they are devastated by this because they look up to him so much. >> schieffer: it seemed like they were really anxious to get him out of there once this happened. >> it's hard to tell. the accounts from mr. clapper, telling him he needed to resign, i only know that second airily through the press. the code of honor goes very deep in general petraeus, and i do believe that he is-- you know, that he has a sense of shame about this, a sense he acted dishonorably, and he would act out of a sense of honor. i can't tell you how important-- it's what they teach in the military, and it's what he lived up to all his life. un, it-- i would hope people would remember there have been other great leaders in this country-- remember president eisenhower, when he would general-- remember franklin roosevelt and lucy mercer, how important that relationship was to him in the second world war. i think we have to be understanding that as the saying goes, the best of men are still men at their best. >> schieffer: peggy, you are one of them? 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more washington gridlock. no, it's worse -- look, our taxes are about to go up. not the taxes on our dividends though, right? that's a big part of our retirement. oh, no, it's dividends, too. the rate on our dividends would more than double. but we depend on our dividends to help pay our bills. we worked hard to save. well, the president and congress have got to work together to stop this dividend tax hike. before it's too late. >> schieffer: welcome back to "face the nation." we're on page two now, and we're going to continue the discussion with peggy noonan and david gergen, adding dee myers, who was the press secretary for president clinton, is now a contributor to "vanity fair," and our own political director john dickerson. david, i want to go back to you. someone was just saying your twitter feed-- >> dee dee made that point. i want to make clear-- i'm not condoning what david petraeus did, nor what the woman did. you know, but i do think that people are human. we have worked for human leaders ourselves, dee dee. and we understand that people ought to be sort of-- take it in context and understand when people are human they make mistakes. some of our greatest moral leaders have done that. there's just a new book out about thomas jefferson and his weaknesses he experienced in life. and yet he was a great leader of this country. what i do believe is that we should see it in the larger context and that is general petrace has given this country distinguished service for over 40 years. he has put his life on the line on a continuous basis. he was nearly killed in ser

dee dee myers of "vanity fair." and our own john dickerson. election 2012 is in the bookes, but the story is just beginning. and this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning, again. on this veteran's day. and we begin with senator graham who is in clemson, south carolina. senator, thank you for coming. you are on the armed services committee, of course, so i want to start out with this out-of-the blue thunderbolt that hit washington friday concerning david petraeus the c.i.a. director. he resigned, saying he had exercised bad judgment and had an affair. cbs news and several other agencies have now confirmed that the f.b.i. got on to this after a third woman told them she had received threatening e-mails from the woman he has reported to have had the affair with. so i guess i would just simply start, do you have any additional information to any of this? >> no, not really. i was just as surprised and from a national point of view, general pet

dee dee myers, who was the press secretary for president clinton, is now a contributor to "vanity fair," and our own political director john dickerson. david, i want to go back to you. someone was just saying your twitter feed-- >> dee dee made that point. i want to make clear-- i'm not condoning what david petraeus did, nor what the woman did. you know, but i do think that people are human. we have worked for human leaders ourselves, dee dee. and we understand that people ought to be sort of-- take it in context and understand when people are human they make mistakes. some of our greatest moral leaders have done that. there's just a new book out about thomas jefferson and his weaknesses he experienced in life. and yet he was a great leader of this country. what i do believe is that we should see it in the larger context and that is general petrace has given this country distinguished service for over 40 years. he has put his life on the line on a continuous basis. he was nearly killed in service earlier on. and he has been a wonderful, wonderful role model for a lot of people, and we ought to understand his humanness and appreciate that. >> i think the american people are willing to forgive leaders for their impert

dee dee myers, president clinton's white house press secretary. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> mr. speaker, before the hurricane, you were predicting that governor romney would win in a landslide with over 300 electoral votes. do you think that's still true? >> well i like your opening. i do think it comes down to turnout. i do think that the guy who gets more votes today is probably going to win. that was very impressive of you guys to package it like that. i do believe -- interestingly, michael barone also agree, rrm is going to win. presidents get the last poll number. the battleground poll is at 47, 48. that suggests to me somewhere between 51-49, which i think is where rove is, to a53-47 which is where i am. at 53-47 romney will carry over 300 electoral votes. >> you quote different sources in your analysis. >> i don't spend a lot of time quoting dick morris and krl rove when i'm doing my analysis. i agree it's all going to come down to turnout. i think that the obama campaign from the very beginning of this race, has made an argument they were going to focus on a -- winning in the battleground states. keep in mind almost half of voters have already gone to the polls and voted in those states or sent in their absentee ballots and the president is leading by a substantial margin. romney will have to make up a lot of ground if he's going to win in the key battleground states where he needs to win in order to become president. i think there's been a slight edge to the president's numbers in the last few days. i think when you add the turnout operation on top of that he has a slight edge. it's been a long time since we've been sitting here on lenlg election morning when we all agree that anything is possible. >> democrats are banking on this early vote. if that early vote is down from 2008 and you know that republican enthusiasm is up from 2008 for john mccain. does that factor in how many people are going to turn out on the republican side? >> well i mean i think more people will vote in this election than voted in 2008. i think it will be record turnout. but the numbers have been good. the numbers have been strong in the key states among the obama voters. they've registered a lot more people than republicans, particularly in recent months and have turned out people who didn't turn in 2010 were first time voters in 2008 and today they can focus on the regular voters, the democrats that always turn out and make sure they get to the polls and tlut lines and all that. there is a turnout advantage for the president, both because of organization, because of what's already happened. >> so is the big unknown in this election the intensity of the voters for the president, the urban intensity as some have called it? >> and speaker will have a different view of this but i think there's a lot more intensity among democrats and obama supporters than is being reported. my first campaign was 1984 way back in the day and vice president mondale was running before president reagan. and mondale did a rally in new york, 100,000 people turned out. you've got to look at other metrics like who is actually turning out that. favors the president right now. >> we can tell a lot from where the candidates go in these final days. mitt romney is going to campaign today in pennsylvania and ohio try not to leave any votes on the table. specifically in ohio he is going to the cleveland area a democratic stronghold. why there? >> well first of all, if i saw your map correctly -- i was looking over dede's shoulder toward the monitor down here. you added pennsylvania as a swing state. that is a big change. i think it's an accurate change. the democrats may very well lose the senate seat there to a coal executive from western pennsylvania where the war on coal is a big issue. remember that in eastern ohio the war on coal is a big issue in the river valley. going to pittsburgh today, romney gets both state's media attention. by going to cleveland he appeals basically to a large european communities, very large polish-american city very large italian-american city. i suspect what he's trying to do is appeal to the collar precincts, the suburbs which now are essentially second and third generation europeans who are very very conservative in their religious values and very conservative in their attitude toward patriotism and the work ethic. my guess is that he's trying to offset the city of cleveland with the rest of cuyahoga county and the surrounding counties. >> exciting day. newt gingrich dee it. >>> eight of nine battleground states are expected to decide this race. we'll swing through nevada >>> in dallas texas, voters are just starting to show up at the poll s polls. the presidential candidates didn't spend any time in the final days of the campaign because this state is considered a red state. there are some tight congressional races. blue skies this morning. the weather will not be a factor today. we are expecting clear skies and a high of 75. in dallas stephanie lucera for "cbs this morning." >> finally election day. we get to vote. we talk about the swing states in this election we're not just talking about ohio. we want to focus on three states that could really go either way, starting with nevada. anna werner is in las vegas. hello. good morning to you, anna. >> reporter: good morning to you. nevada helped the republicans in 2000 and 2004 voting for george w. bush but in 2008 barack obama hit the jackpot here beating john mccain by a whopping 12 percentage points.

dee dee myers, former clinton white house press secretary and david corn, the author of the ebook, 47 percent. today the president stressed he's willing to compromise to avoid the consequence of going over that so-called fiscal cliff at the end of the year. however, he said he's stigeing to his guns, that the wealthiest need to be asked to pay a bit more. let's watch. >> i want to be clear, i'm not wedded to every detail of my plan. i'm open to compromise. i'm hope to new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenges, but i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i am not going to ask students and seniors and middle class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me making over $250,000 aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. this was a central question during the election. it was debated over and over again and on tuesday night we found out that the majority of americans agree with my approach. >> couldn't be more direct than that. i like the clarity today. he said i'll negotiate but not on this. david corn? >> two years ago when he cut that deal with the congressional republicans to extend the bush tax cuts in the return for basically a second stimulus, i thought it was a good deal at the time, he said exactly this. last time i'm going to do this. you took hostages, i'm paying ransom now because i'm getting more return actually, but down the road it's not going to be -- >> he also said this is what the election was about. >> and it was if you look at the exit polls, you look at the numbers. mandate is a big word you used at the top of the show, but he won, and at some point he has shown he's been willing to compromise on democratic policies much more than the republicans. he will give on entitlements but he has to get something in return. >> di di, tell me what you heard today. he said he said that election meant something, it meant fairness. >> that was probably single most repeated phrases of the election campaign talking about the middle class. they truly believe they won because the message was protecting the middle clats and they beat romney. >> and he called for lower tax rates which didn't win the day. >> but i think the other part of that that was really important was he said i'm not wedded to any detail, i'm open to new ideas and compromise. that's really important because both sides are going to have to give up things they really care about. >> i heard a totally different speech from the president as we all did from what romney would have said if he won. and he could have won. a couple weeks ago it looked like he was heading that direction. he said he wanted the tax run from the rich because he wanted to do things, not just to screw them, but to do stuff. he actually came out today and said i want to build stuff in this country, rebuild the highways. look at new york, the places that need rebuilding. look at the education needs. we have to catch up to the chinese in education, catch up to the rest of the world. >> i think the election we just had was one of the most ideological elections in modern times. >> explain it in simple terms. >> the president put forward a investigation i look at government as a way to come together communally through taxes to invest in infrastructure and innovation and education to move the country forward. the romney/ryan view, which is very simply stated, people believe this is that government is the enemy. you got to get government out of the way and let the markets work and that's how you move ahead. it was very clear cut, and one guy won and one lost. >> we're in this together. i'm beginning to like his speech. i was really tired there. i'm beginning to like it because i'm beginning to hear in it a lot of thought, a lot of thought. >> there's no question that he has -- i think david is right, this was a very ideological election, but the problem -- the challenge is still that half the country didn't vote for him, right? half -- and they sent a republican congress -- or republican house back to congress, and so that's just the reality. now, everybody agrees we have to do something about the fiscal cliff. the question becomes now that you agree you have to do something, who gets saved. the president made clear investments in creating jobs and infrastructure and education and technology are not negotiable. >> the house all revenue measures have to originate in the house. john boehner talked about the looming fiscal cliff and like the president he also hinted at room for compromise. you have to listen carefully to see the compromise that could be coming. >> it's clear that there are a lot of special interest loopholes in the tax code, both corporate and personal. it's also clear that there are all kinds of deductions, some of which make cents. others don't. everything, everything on the revenue side and on the spending side has to be looked at. >> senator chuck schumer in new york this morning on msnbc suggested that the right wing might be more willing to accept compromise now. he's being hopeful. let's watch. >> boehner wants to compromise. that's why he gave that speech. you know, boehner is not a hard right guy. he's a incompetent mainstream conservative and i think it's going to work because the hard right a chastened in a lot of ways. >> here is a republican who may not be quite in on what happens happening after the election, jeff duncan. when i look at the results of the election congressman duncan says, it becomes clear the house is the last line of defense for preserves freedom in this country. the people of south carolina rejected president obama's policies and i intend to fight on their behalf. in other words, it's the civil war. i'm standing up for south carolina and obama may be interested in this thing called the union. i'm for south carolina. what an amazing -- loyalty to your state as opposed to your country. didn't we get past that? >> i don't think so. and this is the issue -- >> i'm standing up for south carolina. what does that mean? >> we went through this last summer, two summers ago with the showdown over the debt ceiling. >> yeah. >> and at that point in time the president tried to reach a grand bargain. schumer is right, john boehner would have cut a deal, but he couldn't because at the end of the day had he done so, his own house republicans would have risen up in mutiny and he would have lost the speakership. the question now is whether he has some points of leverage against the tea party wing and whether mitch mcconnell and some of the more adult members of the republicans in the senate can put pressure on the house. if they can't change that's fundamental dynamics, we're heading in the same direction. >> i think mitch mccandle is a problem because he's up for re-election and he's worried about getting a challenge from the tea party right. mr. boehner said this is your moment, mr. president, now lead. that's an acknowledgment of reality and a bit of a trying to pass the buck but it's the truth. it is going to be up to the president to go into those negotiations and to lead and to continue to listen and find areas where compromise can be built. >> but he has to lead -- >> let me help you out. >> he has to lead publicly as well because the election -- >> sell. >> he has to sell it. there aren't a lot of republicans i think at play from -- in regards to public pressure, but there are a few and the president is going to have to work hard to find points of pressure on those people -- >> let's try -- >> they have to be willing to absorb some blows. >> remember how he ran against hillary clinton and beat her. hillary clinton had a great idea, the individual mandate for health care, self reliance -- >> actually a republican idea. >> so the president bought into an idea he had ran against. now this time everybody on the democrat side, the progressive side, said you can't go this romney direction, keep the lower rights but get rid of this some big fat deductions. now the president is being given an opening by boehner saying there is a way we can compromise. keep that 35% for the top rate but take away all the fat cat deductions. there may not be enough money there. people in that institute -- >> the tax policy center. >> is thereto enough opportunity for that kind of direction, take away a lot of deductions for state and local for example taxation which you have to pay anyway. you can have your formal 35% but you're going to pay a lot more taxes. >> i think at the end of the day, right now the white house is going to stand by, we want the top rate to go back to 39.6%. that's their opening position. we want it to start with people at 250 and above. they're going to stand by that now. going to negotiations the principle they need to protect is the wealthiest pay more. americans don't care exactly you who you get there whether it's through the tax -- >> so there is an opening here. >> there's no question there's an opening here. >> but it's the president pushing thisened a the other guy, boehner, saying i have to root for you here. >> yeah. >> the president is willing to deal, he's willing to compromise. maybe even more so than some democrats would like. but he's also able to get the votes and bring the votes to the table. all those things are open questions on the republican side. can john boehner match him in any of those departments? >> -- he said i'm open to new revenue. he didn't say whatever -- eliminating deductions -- it's not. you have to give boehner credit. he said new revenue. >> the president goes to sleep tonight he's thinking, i won. must be tremendous relief on his part. then he's thinking down the road, because he is thinking of the future, he's going wait a minute, i got two big risks. one i can't defend my philosophy which my base will hate and i will hate myself for it. michelle will hate me for it. and we need more money to do more things. the other fear is i'm going off the fiscal cliff, meaning i tried so hard to get my way that we screwed it up with the republicans like we did last august and nothing gets done and the economy tanks again for a second recession and i'm going down in history as a double failure. >> he can't let that happen. >> at some point he has to pull back from the paul krugmans of the world and the people on the far left, not far left but left, and say i'm president, you're a columnist. >> right. he has -- he's going to get a lot of flack from both his own left flank and the right. he has to accept that. he cannot as a responsible adult let the economy go -- let us go over the fiscal cliff. that would be terrible for the xhi and for the people he's trying to protect in this. it would be terrible for the middle class. >> at the same time though the way he negotiates and the way he tries to reach that compromise is going to be essential. i think people on the democratic party will be willing to yield on some issues. they'll fight and scream and make good cases for their own position but at the end of the day if the compromise is reasonable and is good and he's gotten major concessions from the right, then i think -- >> i got the solution. if it comes down to the republican party led by john boehner brings this country to economic hell to protect the very rich, they're gone. so that's what he has to do is put them in the box. the only thing separating this country from economic deliverance to a better time is a bunch of republican toadies and hacks. >> he has to set the narrative -- >> let's figure tour jack lew and the rest of them figure how to carve this so the republicans only escape is to say we're here for -- >> if he gets this right, that sets him up for suck sets in a second term. >> i'm not here to reduce the debt, i'm here to get more jobs and growth. thank you dave and deeee. coming up, why romney lost. this is a good one. david frum, former reagan speechwrit speechwriter, says mitt romney's problem wasn't just shifting demographics or a fumbling campaign, it was his message. the message of cut benefits for the poor, the elderly, and the middle class to pay for tax cuts for the rich. until that misage changes, the republicans will not be a majority party, he says. >>> also mitt romney wasn't this week's biggest loser. how about karl rove? i'll say it again karl rove. not only did he spend millions of other people's money with little gain, his tv performance tuesday night made him the poster child for the republican party's refusal to be part of reality people. >>> plus, inside the two campaigns, how the obama campaign reacted to that disastrous first debate and why as late as tuesday night the romney people thought they had this thing won. we've got reporters from both sides, a lot of tick tock and narrative tonight. >>> and the shocker of the day, cia

paula broadwell hired dee dee myers.l kelley is being represented by abbe lowell, who represented john edwards. and gloria allred. lots of lawyers and no one's been charged with anything. >>> the 113th congress, meantime, will have the fewest number of veterans since world war ii. just 19% will have served in active duty, down from 80% in 1977. iowa governor terry branstead wants to end the iowa straw poll. michele bachmann won this year. he thinks the move strengthen the iowa caucuses. and it looked like hillary clinton was getting a little sleepy during her trim to asia. her eyes were closed for just a little while in myanmar. >>> finally, the late show did some amazing things with photo shop and this next clip is about chris christie. >> did you see him yesterday? he was testifying before a senate subcommittee. did you see this? we have exclusive footage. here's governor chris christie. >> be the republican governors. one of the reasons why you have 30 republican governors in america and why we're the only organizatio

dee dee myers. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> mr. speaker, before the hurricane you were predicting that governor romney would win in a landslide with over 300 electoral votes. do you think that's still true? >> well, i like your opening because i do think it comes down to turnout. i do think the guy that gets more votes today is going to probably win. so i thought that was good of you guys to package it like that. interestingly, michael barone and dick morris also agree, and karl rove is not quite as bullish, but he's close. i think that romney is going to win. i think that the presidents get the last poll number. he's at 47. obama is at 47. gallup, he's at 48. rasmussen he's at 48. that suggests to me somewhere between 51-49, which is i think where rove is, to 53-47, which is where i am. so at 53-47, romney will carry over 300 electoral votes. >> dee quote different sources in your analysis of the way this is going? >> i don't spend a lot of time quoting dick morris and karl rove when i'm doing my analysis. i agree it's all going to come down to turnout and i think that the obama campaign from the very beginning of this race has made an argument that they were going to focus on winning in the battleground states. you have to keep in mind, almost half of voters have already gone to the polls in those states and the president is leading by a substantial margin. romney will have to make up a lot of ground if he's going to win in the key battleground states. i think that there's been a slight edge to the president's numbers in the last few days and i think when you add the turnout operation on top of that i think he has a slight edge. but it's been a long time since we've been sitting here on election morning where we all agree that anything is possible. >> but the democrats are banking on this early vote. if that early vote is down f

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and mistress paula broadwell has now hired the pr firm for former white house press secretary dee dee myerslley, who made the complaint that uncovered the whole affair has teamed up with abbe lowell and judy smith, and not to leave anybody out, kelley's twin sister has now been represented and retained the attorney gloria allred. that's a lot. chip reid is here with a look at petraeus's next step. chip, good morning. a lot of people are asking what does someone like general petraeus do now? >> well that's a really good question. he was not long ago one of the most admired men in america. the question now is whether he can regain that elevated status and if so how? by any measure, david petraeus's record of accomplishment is extraordinary. a four-star general, he led the surges in iraq and afghanistan. he was director of the cia, and while he denied any interest in politics, some top strategists had them on their short list for president. >> this personal failing will be a blip on the historical record. >> reporter: peter mansoor was a top petraeus aide in iraq. >> if we made adultery a disq

dee dee myers at the end of this panel, whether it is stephanie, whether it is debbie wasserman schultz who leads our party, whether it's donna brazile who was running a presidential campaign in this country almost a decade ago. the reason our party gets it, because we respect women and we need women in decision-making positions. and women see that. i will never forget looking at the convention floor, at our democratic convention, and looking at the convention floor at the republican convention and saying, this is why i do what i do. because i am so proud to be part of a party that wants to be america. and as long as we keep focusing on those issues, and as long as we fight every day to make sure women in this country have an equal seat at the table, not just because there is one or two of them but because they're the ones making the decisions. they're the ones that are actually moving the levers of power, and that's what emily's list has done. you have put w o country iseevers better for it. i am so grateful. i said all during the campaign, to emily's list, i wouldn't be in the senate in the first place without you. i sure as hell wouldn't be back without you. thank you all from the bottom of my heart and keep working as hard as we know how. >> great. thank you so much. senator mccaskill, thank you so much and we are so proud, our entire membership is so proud. our membership raised more money for claire mccaskill this election than we have ever raised for anyone. it's incredible. we are so proud of her. so thank you. and with that i want to make one more introduction of someone who i just, she has become a friend. she's always been a role model and she is just an incredible, incredible leader. debbie wasserman schultz has taken on many jobs in her life. all the a about the same time. she is a great congresswoman from southern florida. not an easy job. she is a mother. never an easy job. he has done at the helm of our great party. i mean not tonely did she insure the re-election of president barack obama, but she did it by a making sure at that there was a constant conversation about what women were facing, both economically and with their health care and with their lives every day, pulling us together, making sure every woman in this country knew what was at stake. and, i don't know if anybody gives her credit for this but i will. i think she delivered florida, which is also pretty impressive. [applause] but she has just been an incredible leader, and for our membership, someone to look at, and we really do see her as a role model for some of us. we certainly hope that i know she has three major jobs and i know the folks at emily's list are very much hoping that she keeps all three jobs because we can't imagine sighing the next two years where we have to fight to get the house back. we have one more thing we need to do and having debbie wasserman schultz as chair of the dnc will help us get there. come on up. thank you so much for being here. [applause] >> okay. so i brought cards up because there are some statistics we have to just run through and celebrate but first we need to celebrate stephanie sc h.r. iock. let me, i know these things if women don't celebrate us we see nobody celebrates us or not very often. any organization like emily's list that goes through generational change faces risks. you know when emily's list was founded by ellen malcolm, this was an organization that essentially became iconic almost interchangeably identified with her. i can tell you that i spent, you know, my whole formative, all of my formative years admiring and really just loving ellen malcolm. my very first check in my very first statehouse race was from emily's list, 20 years ago, when i was 25 years old. so this, the risks that an organization like emily's list face, faces when the next generation, the generation that began the organization moves on it was so tied to that personality and that person that it could never be the same. well, not only is it a credit to ellen malcolm that emily's list was very, very smart and wise about who they chose to succeed her and to carry the organization to the next level and through the next generations, the person that emily's list chose, stephanie schriock is just incredible. the right ahead leader for the right time for this organization. this election's results couldn't be more of a clear example of that. so congratulations. [applause] in the world of undersung and unsung herro ins for election results we can't say enough about stephanie slir yok's success in this election. i think it is important. women came out for president obama with 55% of the vote. 184 women ran for con greggal office, 40% of the u.s. population has at least one woman senator. no longer a all male state legislature in the country, nowhere. new hampshire which is my home away from home, has all woman congressional delegation and a woman governor as well as a female statehouse and state senate leader. they're not both democrats but that is okay. they're still woman. we're moving in the right direction. this is my favorite, when the 11th con aggression gavels in this january, all-time high of 21 women senators and 81 women in the house of representatives. which is awesome. that is particularly gratifying we came off, i remember being in a similar discussion just two years ago just lamenting and agonizing we dropped the number of women in congress for the first time since 1982 after the 2010 elections. you know, some of us thought, oh, my gosh, how did we lose momentum? how did we get it back? it is so critical. there was a lot of soul-searching. you know what? rather than spend two years hand-wringing, women got to work and we got to work recruiting and then thankfully, well not thankfully, we were clearly helped by the republicans because out of the gate they had a decision to make. when they took over the house majority they could have taken a more moderate path. unlikely given the tea party extremists that they elected in 2010. but h.r. 3, the third bill out of the gate if recall was the bill that would have redefined rape. that sent the clearest signal to women what was in store for us across the country. you know, they could have just left it at that. then the assault on planned parenthood. the assault on title 10. the, idea that we should refight the battle over whether we have access to affordable birth control, you know, and the list goes on. and then we know how the rest of the election played out. but i can tell you, and i will conclude with this because you guys are going to hear it. you have an amazing panel led by dee dee myers who has stayed in the fight and been an incredible and remarkable leader and also a mom. the whole ginger rogers, women do all the same thing that men do but do it in high heels backyards, that is what it is really all about. i would love to have a man spend the day in the life of the women in this room and try to get done what we balance together in order to make sure that we can make everything work and help the people that we care about thrive. but the important thing here is that we continue to move forward. we have to double down. we have to double down in 2014. i mean we've got to make sure we recruit more women to run for office because this, it is not just a slogan that when women run, women win. they do. they do. and when women run, democrats win because we have, it is, you take a look at the, take a good look when the house convenience after this, after this next congress is sworn in at what our side of the aisle looks like versus the republican side of the aisle.

you have an amazing panel, led by dee dee myers, who has stayed in the fight and did an incredible and remark leader and also a mom. the whole ginger rogers, women do all the same things that men do, but they do it in high heels backwards, that's really what it's all about. it means -- i'd love to have a man spend a day in the life of the women in this room and try to get done what we balance together in order to make sure that we can make everything work and help the people that we care about thrive. the important thing here is that we continue to move forward. we have to double down. we have to double down in 2014. we've got to make sure we recruit more women to run for office because it's not just a slogan that when women run, women win. they do. they dofment when women run, democrats win because we have -- you take a look at the -- take a good look when the house convenes after this next congress is sworn in, at what our slile looks like versus the republican slile. -- republican side of the aisle looks like. versus the republican. we have a majority minority female caucus in the d

you have an amazing panel led by dee dee myers, who has been an incredible leader and is also a mom. the whole ginger rogers that women do everything men do but they do it in high heels to back words, that is what it is all about. i would love to have a man spent a day in the life of the women in this room and try to get done what we balance in order to make sure we can make everything work and help the people we care about thrive, but the important thing here is that we continue to move forward. we have to double down in 2014. we have got to make sure we recruit more women to run for office. it is not just a slogan that when when run -- when women run they win. take a good look when the house convenes after the congress is sworn in at what our side of the eye looks like versos the republican side. -- our side of the idol looks -- the aisle looks like versus the republican side. it is pretty amazing. no matter what i do, i will be helping you double down, doing everything i can to make sure we move forward. i can look out and see a lot of other moms in the audience, and now that we m