mark barber's call them and he says you actually think he thought tim geithner was just you know he wasn't that he wasn't a true believer he was just a crony but that ben bernanke actually is like a true believing idealogue he. also said that he things. go badly inflated inflated ego look i'm going to say one thing these guys have all these toys it's kind of like the military if you give them or get what it's always they're going to use and they want to use them if you give them like an aerial drone in a bio carbon a we know from recent stories dealing with military men they just can't help themselves let's move on the u.s. isn't the only country that's in an election year japan is about to hold their general elections as well the liberal democratic party has nominated former prime minister shinzo it for the job again here's a clip of him explaining how he wants to improve japan's economy. the economy going struggling with. the need to solve these problems creates a stronger fluid. which basically means printing unlimited until they reach the target for inflation. i should also say i see.

barber is with us. general james "spider" marks. grover norquist, brigadier general mark kimmitt, russell simmons, and actress gloria reuben, star of the new movie "lincoln." it's monday, november 12th. as "starting point" begins right now. >>> good morning, welcome, everybody. our "starting point" this morning demand for answers in the david petraeus sex scandal. house and senate leaders want to know why they were never given the heads up on the investigation that led petraeus to resign as a cia director over an extramarital affair. with that resignation, petraeus might not have to testify this week at a congressional hearing on the benghazi consulate attack. cnn's barbara starr is following that story from the pentagon. good morning. >> good morning, soledad. well, look, at least at this point, there's no indication publicly of a national security breach. but that doesn't mean the questions aren't growing. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are questioning the timing behind the revelation. house majority leader eric cantor said

barber is with us. general james "spider" marks. grover norquist, brigadier general mark kimmitt, russell

mark kelly, did. telling loughner, you tried to create for all of us a world as dark and evil as your own. but know this, and remember it always, you failed. arizona congressman ron barber, who won giffords' seat in congress after that shooting, also had a message for loughner at a press conference just moments ago. >> i hope that these long years of incarceration that you face will give you the time to think about what you have done. and to seek forgiveness from those whose to which whose lives you brought so am tears and sadness. >> pause of a previous plea agreement, loughner does not get the death penalty. but life in prison with no parole. at 5:00 we'll hear from a former staff member of gabrielle giffords who was shot twice herself on that tragic day. keith russell, news4. >> a new misery for people in the northeast already hit by hurricane sandy. a powerful winter storm has now dropped some heavy snow. areas from new jersey all the way up to connecticut have a foot or more of snow. hundreds of thousands of people are still without power. some had just had power restored from the hurricane. a new york utility company says it probably won't have all customers back

mark flew a space shuttle mission during her recovery. we expect to hear from the man who replaced give oerdz in congress, that was ron barber.ot in the cheek and leg. he has no feeling in the lower part of that leg. in all 12 people injured, six people murdered. bill: will this put this now to rest today dan? >> there are still some outstanding questions. we don't know exactly where he will be serving his time. we know he could go back to missouri where he was in a federal prison and also a medical facility where he was being treated for schizophrenia or he could go to some other federal facility. we don't know whether or not he's going to be put on trial for -- in county, in the county case, because the d.a. here could file charges and seek the death penalty, although that seems unlikely because all of the family members who have spoken publicly have said that they support this sentence of life in prison with no chance for parole, because they don't want to go through a lengthy trial. so it's unlikely that the county d.a. would file charges and seek the death penalty, but it's still out there, he said no decision has been m

dirdirector sandy barber --he won a school record 82 games and a shared conference title but ended his tenure with a mediocre run. the bears lost their final five games this season. for their worst mark is still owed $6.9 million of the final three years of his contract. >> i went into the meeting with the decision. certainly you to evaluate over the course of the season was a difficult one for us. i believe it was the right thing to do to wait for the conclusion of the students. what continue to analyze that steps season--as i said before i had the obligation to do what is right for cal. >> i want to thank the gthe university of california for this opportunity. >> just-in-time of the holiday david lee is giving back to the community serving food to 2000 homeless and low-income families he was just happy to be a part event.of its. >> it is something good to pass along. one of the great joys is playing in the nba when we live in a community i'm from san louis a long way from here. but i want to make a positive contribution to the bay area. something i am happy to do any work out great. >> he was not just serving food he pay for it as well he donated $25,000 to the cause. the time now