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. >>> senator dianne finestein said it hit her like a lightning bolt when general david petraeus suddenly resigned because he was having an affair. coming up, how the fbi found out about the general david petraeus affair and the timing of the fbi's revelations. >>> and a somber ceremony at arlington national cemetery... >> a wreathe was laid by president barack obama at the tomb of the unknowns and he said he will never forget the sacrifices that were made by them and their families. they toppled a dictator and greatly diminished it. >>> dedicated a flagpole and shelters founder said 15th of homeless are homeless men. afterwards a service will be held to pray for current service members. >> a flyover capped over the dedication for the veterans memorial and almost 2000 people showed up and they feet you are granite slabs each representing the cemetery. the memorial will feature brick pavers with veteran's names and they say they are still taking orders on the engravings. we have interviews with some of the families of the fallen heros. just scroll down to the video player. >> it is a veter

we heard from senator diane finestein the head of the intelligence committee say she may request that he come in as a private citizen and ask questions. >> we may see him sit on the seat in capitol hill it may not be on thursday but in days to come peter king of new york head of the homeland security committee he said last night there is potential if he could just step away for a few days gather himself and come back they still want to talk with him in he is such a key figure. that's where i want to go next with jennifer before i let you go. all of this coming just days before the hearings questions about what petraeus knew if he could take part. now questions about who knew behind the scenes in washington that the fbi was looking at the head of the cia. >> not many people knew. oversight committee on capitol hill. this is that the over site committees and the intelligence committees that are over the cia knew little about what was going on both with the affair the alleged affair and the benghazi incident. there have been -- there has been a great deal of secrecy surrounding the fbi i

senator dianne finestein and others force people to vote yes on 30. they are against raising income tacks more than 250 thoughts dollars a year. >> we know that california dreams moving out. >> the last thing we need is a tax increase and that's simply going to drive more businesses out of the state. >>> meanwhile the two conservative problems were the source of $11 million of laundering. another prop decision on the ballot is one that will reveal the death penalty. it would convert their sentences to life and others could follow suit. a quarter of test row inmates are in california. a live proposal shows more on the polls closing and also it is getting national attention. the major propositions are in full swing. >>> and care givers were arrested on suspicion of involuntary care. the state licensing division is investigating the death of a child. >>> they arrested the grandmother of a 1.5-year-old girl shot on suspicious -- suspicion. it was hours after she brought her granddaughter into the hospital with a gunshot wound to her body. family members s

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dine finestein said she wants to know what david petraeus found out on a secret trip shortly before he resigned. >> we have asked to see the trip report. one person tells me he has read it and then they tell me it hasn't been done. that's unacceptable. >> we learned what was in the unanimous harrassing e-mail sent to jill kelly. she asked the fbi to look into where the disturbing letters were coming from. >> kelly is accused of improper socializing with generals in tampa. they also have witness to the comings and goings. >> kelly's brother says his sister is a victim. >> my sister is a mother. okay? she has three kids. she is extremely dedicated to those kids. number two, she's a wife and she's extremely dedicated to her husband. >> the computer trail led to paula broadwell seen here in afghanistan. she was embedded on an intelligence mission. broadwell often talked about her security clearances and recently about the attacks to inside information. >> i don't know if a lot of you heard this but the cia annex had taken libyans prisoner and they think that the attack was an effort to get

then someone took out references that terrorists were involved in this, and this is what dianne finestein, the head of the senate intelligence committee said about this. >> do you believe that the president or anybody serving the president deliberately poli lly the american people about this attack? >> no. >> that is correct, senator. >> this whole process will be checked out and we will see who made changes in the original statement, and until we do, i think that it is unwarranted to make accusations. >> very emphatic there, jackie, and the white house saying that it changed one word from consulate to diplomatic facility in those talking points. what do you make of all of this? >> well, you know, i think that the investigation is going to continue. exactly what finestein said, but make no mistake, this issue is not going away any time quickly and particularly if susan rice is nominated to be secretary of state. you saw a lot of the senators talk talking about that as well this weekend. so i don't think that benghazi or some of the controversies surrounding susan rice is going to go a wwa

diane finestein joins me now. congressman, why did you and your colleague on the house de not know about this for all of these months? >> because a decision was made somewhere not to brief us, which is atypical. generally, what we call the four corners, the chair and rankings of both committees are briefed on operationally sensitive matters. this is certainly an operationally sensitive matter. but we weren't briefed. i don't know who made that decision. and i think that makes it much more difficult. i think it has to be said, too, that we have never violated that requirement by releasing any information on matters on which we are briefed. so there was no backstory as to why we wouldn't be. so it is very puzzling and i think was a mistake, because this thing just came so fast and so hard. and since then, it's been like peeling an onion. every day, another peel comes off, and you see a whole new dimension to this. so my concern has actually escalated over the last few days, and we're putting in place a process, meet

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. >>> senator dianne finestein said it hit her like a lightning bolt when senator general david petraeus resigned because he was having an affair. here is more on the questions being asked about the timing of the fbi's revelations. >>> let's go to sal. we know it is veterans day and a holiday but you are sort of keeping an eye on the toll plaza? >> that is right and right now we are looking at it and we are seeing a little bit of traffic. i don't think it will be that deep but you can see some of the outside lanes are getting crowded and 6:15 is when we normally get those lights turned on. you can see traffic looks good and that's southbound on the left and northbound 880 on the right, it is a nice looking drive heading to downtown oakland. if you are driving south to union city fremont, 880 tell looks good. let's go to steve. >>> thank you very much. kind of cold out there when we had clear skies, and that's not the case here, a little bit warmer, 30s and 40s, we will start off with a cooler morning, about the same by noon, mainly favoring the north and more of the same, maybe hazy skie

diane finestein wish the president had not accepted the resignation. i'm not sure whether the personal transgression although there's a code of honor and he felt strongly that he had screwed up, and that he had to pay the consequences. after 24 hours and consulting his colleagues and other people in the national community, don't know who else, the president agreed and accepted it on the phone in a conversation this afternoon. >> andrea mitchell congratulations on this reporting that led to this scoop. i take your point this is not something to be enthusiastic about having uncovered giving the tragic nature of the news but your reporting on this was cutting edge. thank you for joining us. >> let's bring in richard engle for more. i know you've been reporting on some other developments about this case. what can you tell us? >> we know the facts and the facts are he said he was going to resign because of this extramarital affair. he didn't name any names. we know the fbi is conducting an investigation into general petraeus biographer. this is a woman who

manchin, debbie stabenow, bob menendez, sheldon whitehouse, bernie sanders, maria cantwell, diane finestein have delivered to you a great caucus, mr. leader. >> not only did every democratic incumbent in the senate win their race last night, every single one, but democrats actually picked up two seats. elizabeth warren defeated republican incumbent scott brown in massachusetts. joe donnelly defeated tea party favorite, richard mourdock, in indiana. it should have been impossible. joining us now is steve kornacki, co-host of "the cycle," 3:00 weekdays here on msnbc. happy aftermath, steve. >> i was just checking unskewedelectionreturns.com and they said republicans have 67 senate seats now, so i'm not sure what you're talking about here. >> also, mitt romney won with a anonymous vote. >> yes, in d.c., that's right. >> that's right. what happened yesterday in the senate specifically? obviously, the expectations were leaning much more toward the democrats by the time we actually voted, but the distance between patty murray having to be essentially arm twisted into taking that job and what happ

discuss that and the deadly terror attack in libya is the chairman of the senate committee diane finestein senator. welcome to fox news sunday. in a statement you said you understand petraeus's decision to resign but you wish president obama had not accepted that. after more revelations this weekend do you still feel that way? >> i talked to day petraeus twice on friday. he said to me, i have done an egregiously dishonorable thing and i need now to do the honorable thing. when i thought about it, for me it's a heartbreak. this is a truly bright man, a credible person, a great leader and could have really been a super transitional figure for the cia. this is very, very hard and i do think he did the right thing. >> now you have accepted it. >> when you realize additional complications which i did not at the time i spoke to him, i think he did the right thing. i think the president really had no choice but to accept the resignation. >> let me ask you about those additional complications. it turns out the fbi found out about this because paula brock well the mistress was sending threatening e

you heard from diane finestein, people on both sides of aisle in congress saying the same thing, notrticulating there was nothing wrong with it, but that petraeus, a really talented guy, sorry we lost him. in the end, i think we're going to look very carefully at people before we elevate them. going to have to be much better vetting. we're one of the few countries where vetting doesn't take place of high ranking people. in the cia, if you're going to work at the lower ranks you get polygraphed and a big form. >> it happens at senate confirmation hearings. you're supposed to be vetting, did you ever do this and that? >> it does happen but the director doesn't have to get vetted by the senate. that may take some introspection and changes to that as well. but if you do too much of that, of course, then you have the legislative branch, too much involved in the executive. people arguing it hampers everything. don't forget that we're in an age now where the distribution of information is as -- we're in a revolution. distribution of information is as wide as you can possibly get. anybody kn

diane finestein wish the president had not accepted the resignation. i'm not sure whether the personal transgression although there's a code of honor and he felt strongly that he had screwed up, and that he had to pay the consequences. after 24 hours and consulting his colleagues and other people in the national community, don't know who else, the president agreed and accepted it on the phone in a conversation this afternoon. >> andrea mitchell congratulations on this reporting that led to this scoop. i take your point this is not something to be enthusiastic about having uncovered giving the tragic nature of the news but your reporting on this was cutting edge. thank you for joining us. >> let's bring in richard engle for more. i know you've been reporting on some other developments about this case. what can you tell us? >> we know the facts and the facts are he said he was going to resign because of this extramarital. he didn't name any names. we know the fbi is conducting an investigation into general petraeus biographer. this is a woman who had clo

. >> senator finestein came out saying it was not fair to pillarry, her word, susan rice for using theified version of talking points that had been prepared for the house intelligence committee and agreed on by consensus of all the intelligence agencies, that is not a fair hit on her to say she's not qualified to be secretary of state. some of your colleagues, lindsey graham and john mccain have been outspoke on this point. what say you? >> there is a lot of questions to be answered here yet and one would be if susan rice has lots of briefings just like i believe she has access to the president's daily briefing information, what did she know and was she giving information she knew not to be accurate. there's a difference if all you're doing is talking from the unclassified talking points, which means you can find most of this in the newspaper, and that's all you know, or if you know something that clearly is different than what you're telling the american people, she may just know exactly what she said and at if that's the case, i'm wondering why five days later, she's the person the w

. >> dianne finestein said that, she wished he didn't resigned.ut he had no choice. >> i think he didn't have any choice. >> katrina, i know that you don't agree -- >> i think this is a personal matter. you know, it's a tragedy for the family. but i do think, it's kind of interesting to watch the coverage. because there's such venn ration for david petraeus. you would think the worst thing that the cia has ever done is engage in an extramarital affair. i think general petraeus was the architect of a failed counterinsurgency program. i think it's time for our media to pay less attention to extramarital affairs and we need to pay more attention to scandals or concerns like that and also the escalation of the drone war. which the general made a big part of his portfolio. >> you're talking about the failure, talking about afghanistan earlier -- >> talking about iraq as well. because of the counterinsurgency. he was really bargaining with the sunnis and certainly the countinsurgency in afghanistan hasn't proven to be effective. we can argue, i think, i

>> i just spoke with diane finestein. she calls this a tragic story for a human being. she says people may start saying he's a scapegoat for benghazi and the controversy in benghazi. she says that is absolutely false. she said i know what the personal story is here. it is not a coverstory. what she did say to me, wolf, is that she didn't understand why the immediate departure. you know, there are congressional hearings that are coming up next week. mr. morell will be testifying on behalf of the central intelligence agency. she says there are going to be at least three hearings and they will continue to ask who did what when and what was missing. but she said this is a deeply personal story for him. he made an egregious personal mistake. and at this point she has not given any thought to who she believes should replace him because she herself just learned about this at about the same time we did, maybe a little bit before i would venture. >> jessica, how did the president find out about this? >> reporter: hi, wolf. well, the president met with general petraeus yesterday

throw all of those papers out on to the street like you normally do. [ laughter ] >> john: diane finesteinsked her about benghazi, because i would say senator feinstein has consistently supported the president. but let's listen. >> what has concerned me about this is the politicalization that has been out. i have read every one of the five interviews susan rice did that day. she was within the context of that statement, and for this she has been pillarried for two months. >> john: indeed she was. again, i think that diane feinstein has been consistent. here is one more clip. >> for me personally this is a heart break. i respect david petraeus, and his 37 years of service to our country. i respect this great intellect that he has. where he can speak literally on dozens of subjects. various military tactics and he is one of our brightest and our best. there is no counter to that. >> john: and there is the requisite sucking up to general petraeus. i think it's possible to respect general petraeus's service and devotion and intelligence while still acknowledging the fact that afghanistan was a

the senate intelligence committee chair diane finestein says she hopes that petraeus will appear beforeof that interview. that's coming up this hour. right now, i want to go to our senior congressional correspondent, dana bash. senator feinstein was in closed-door meetings this afternoon up on capitol hill. first of all, what are you hearing? what happened? >> reporter: she came out of those meetings saying she's not the only one who really believes it is still essential for now the former director of the cia, david petraeus, to come and talk to the senate intelligence committee about what he knows, about what went on in benghazi. she said that it was -- the committee was in full agreement. democrats and republicans, that they really want to hear from them. now, earlier in the day, she had said that she hopes that that would happen on friday. that he would come and talk to people in closed session this week, the end of the week, but after the meeting, she said that she's just not sure, because they actually have to get to david petraeus to see what would work with his schedule. the only