michael hayden: yeah, you know, this is tiered.u ghraib is the one that -- tom gjelten: yeah, okay. michael hayden: -- really branded behavior, and we all agree that was incorrect, even though we argue about one or another aspect of guantanamo. tom, can i just offer just a, just a, maybe, a slightly different view, i'm talking about the deep fight. okay, for 10 or 11 years, the deep fight, unfortunately, was about one of the world's great monotheisms, and what it meant, and we have no legitimacy whatsoever in talking about that. i know we're multicultural and so on, but broadly, we're judeo-christian, we're european and african in our heritage, right? we did the same thing in the cold war. deep fight -- close fight, hold it, fold it, deep fight, ideological battle with communism. but communism is a western philosophy -- tom gjelten: [affirmative] michael hayden: -- you know, written by a german in london. so we've got legitimacy talking about that. we have almost no legitimacy talking about the meeting of the koran or the hadith. t

director general michael hayden says the resignation is sad but the c.i.a. is in good hands. >> it's a tragedy it's a tragedy for the nation, it's a tragedy for the agency, and clearly a tragedy for the petraeus' family. now, they'll move on and wish them all the best but this is very sad. the agency is healthy.

former cia director general michael hayden says of the resignation is sad, the cia will survive. >> i do not think it will affect the institution jury obviously it will have an emotional effect. in terms of the agency doing its job, not at all. >> president obama accepted his resignation on friday. president obama has officially won the vote in florida. the state finally finished counting all of those votes today and declared president obama the winner. the president got 50% of the vote compared to governor mitt romney 49.1%. is a difference of about 74,000 votes. but florida, the president now officially has 332 electoral votes to romney's 206. >> vatican computer expert got a two month suspended sentence over a scandal involving the leak of confidential documents. >> it vatican computer expert was sentenced for help with the pope's former butler still and leak confidential documents to an italian journalist. he was arrested by vatican authorities in may when they found a stash of confidence of documents on his desk at work. the pope's former butler is still serving an 18 month priso

we'll ask michael hayden, the former cia director coming up. we'll talk to kt mcfarland about all this. doug, thank you lawmakers are wonder why they were never informed. senator diian feinstein is asking about the questions that came up. >> i informed my vice chairman and i talked to the director device. this is very hard stuff. >> and are you going to investigate why the fbi didn't notify you before? >> yes. absolutely. i mean this is something that could have had an effect on national security. i think we should have been told. there is a way to do it. gregg: hard to believe but senator feinstein says she found out through the mode yaw. on a personal note she says she was heartbroken to hear of the affair. >> general petraeus as we said was scheduled to testify before congressional hearings on benghazi this week. now we're being told at least for now that will not happen but some lawmakers are saying that the general's testimony is still very essential to this investigation. here's senator lindsey graham. >> i don't see how in the world you

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director general michael hayden says the resignation is sad but the c.i.a. is in good hands. >> it's a tragedy it's a tragedy for the nation, it's a tragedy for the agency, and clearly a tragedy for the petraeus' family. now, they'll move on and wish them all the best but this is very sad. the agency is healthy. >> and hayden was in charge of the c.i.a. from 2006 to 2009. >> reverend jesse jackson did not comment today on reports that his son congressman jesse jackson jr. may be negotiating a plea agreement with federal authorities. the senior jackson spoke at the rainbow push coalition today. that plea agreement for his son reportedly covers questionable campaign spending on home improvements. jackson jr. was reelected despite sitting out the campaign to get treatment for bipolar disorder. he has not been charged. >> a 21-year-old man from crown point, indiana, was killed after a drunk driver crashed in to his truck on the dan ryan expressway. it happened near 95th street at around 1:30 a.m. this morning. police say that phillip briner of crown point was he

chief general michael hayden from the previous ministration from president bush's administration david wrote the following we carry the burden of knowing that nine eleven might have been averted but the intelligence that existed at the time we do not go. should be in the same position again when those cyber none end of levon him it is not a question of whether there's little happened it is so question of when. well senator collins certainly isn't alone and her cyber fear is as we've seen cyber security has been a very hot topic and washington not only here on capitol hill but we heard from defense secretary leon panetta waiting cyber threats acquitting it to the threat of nine eleven also saying that cyber pearl harbor is looming if congress or government officials do not take action on cybersecurity is really being hyped as one of the biggest threats to our country at this time saying that cyber threats could cripple our infrastructure and cause widespread chaos and affect everything from the finance sector to communications now this bill was backed by president obama and now that it'

general michael hayden has more on why. >> there is reasons that general petraeus will testify but frankly you want the agency to testify. you want someone who is knowledgeable about the event, what the agency knew, what the agency did, and mike morell is fully qualified to do that. now, at some later date they may want general petraeus to come back and give his personal perceptions. i understand that. but the hearing will go on and the c i'm a will tell what it knew about that event. >> michael morell is filling in as cia correct director. >>> an afghan girl testified today. staff sergeant robert bales is accused of killing 16 afghan villagers in march. the 7-year-old described via satellite how she hit behind her father as he was killed. today's hearing held at a washington military base will decide if there is enough evidence to bros cute bales. >>> an investigation is under way after two homes exploded in indiana neighborhood last night. two people died and seven others were injured. the blast damaged or destroyed more than a dozen homes. about 200 people were forced to evacuate. and t

that is still being vetted. >> reporter: former cia director michael hayden says he thinks broadwell's information is wrong. she believes she did not get it from petraeus at all. that is why he believes these kind of relationships for top level people like petraeus are wrong. he said at that time the attack was due to a spontaneous uprising in response to an anti-islam video. lawmakers were perplexed by this some even belief petraeus may have lied. jenna. jenna: more later on the story, kelly, thank you. >> how does the scandal and general's resignation going to affect the war on terror? joining us major general bob scales. happy veteran's day to you. thanks for the your service to our country and thanks for all the men and women who keep this country safe and great. general petraeus, someone i know you have a lot of respect for. so much to cover. the war on terror, how does this affect if at all our ability to keep the country >> rick i think this affects enormous and one of the issues missing in this dialogue. david petraeus is so qualified to continue the war. remember once we pull

. >>> michael hayden was director under president george w. bush. here's his reaction and his thoughts on the future of the agency. >> it's a tragedy. it's a tragedy for the nation. it's a tragedy for the agency. included, tragedy petraeus. they'll move on, but it's very sad. the agency, and director mike morrell, he was president bush's daily man. he'll keep it steady and stable during this transition period. >> michael morell is the acting cia director right now. he'll step in and speak on the benghazi attack. the president still has to pick a permanent replacement. i'll also talk with another journalist who covered the general in iraq on ideas on why he may have cheated. >>> nearly two weeks after superstorm sandy ravaged the east coast, about 127,000 people on long island, new york, remain without power. it is sparking outrage with governor andrew cuomo as well as residents and now officials are vowing to do the job they say utility companies have not. >> what we have felt here is there's an absence of leadership and we're going to step in. we'r

michael hayden explains why. >> i know some people are saying that they were hopeful that general petraeus personally would testify but, frankly, you want the agency to testify. you want someone who is knowledgeable about the event, what the agency knew, what the agency did. and mike morell is fully qualified to do that. now, at some later date they may want general petraeus to come back in and give his personal impressions. i understand that. but the hearings go on and cia will be there telling what it knew about that event. >> and michael morell is filling in as cia director until president obama chooseses a permanent replacement. >>> israel fired a warning shot into syria today after a stray mortar shell came across the border. the shell hit an israeli post in the golan heights area. jerusalem has filed a complaint with u.s. forces operating in the area. meantime, opposition groups have agreed to form a new inclusive body that could transition into a new government. >>> and closer to home now, in new york city, thousands came out to honor vets for the veterans day parade but sandy survi

cia chief michael hayden explains why. >> i smn people are saying that they were hopeful that general petraeus personally would testify, but, frankly, you want the agency to testify. you want someone who is knowledgeable about the event, what the agency knew, what the agency did, and mike morrell is fully qualified to do that. at some later dade they may want general petraeus to come back in. i understand that. the hearings -- the cia will be there telling -- >> mike morrell is filling in as cia director until president obama chooses a permanent replacement. >>> we can finally call florida for president obama. you can see that he won by just a hair over 70,000 votes. >> here is the matt. president obama ended with 332 electoral votes. mitt romney got 206, but the bigger machine really here was eight. that is the number of toss-up states captured by the president. that is a clean sweep. and while the presidential race is officially over in florida, one of the state's congressional races is still undecided. the latest totals show a close race between first term republican congressman al

. >> former cia director michael hayden talking to folks.ious is this scandal and should it have come to light sooner. joining me is john miller, former assistant director of the fbi. john, welcome. what do you make of this? tell me about the relationship here in the scandal between the fbi and the cia. many people are saying what on earth is going on. fbi investigating some weird complaint from a woman about getting some dodgy e-mails. how has that led to a full-fledged investigation that brings down the cia director? >> you couldn't have made this story up. >> you really couldn't. >> it doesn't start that way. i mean, it starts in the strangest way, because you have a woman who has these harassing e-mails, a couple of which mention david petraeus, but they're not threatening to her, nor are they accusing anyone of having an affair. so she has these annoying e-mails but they mention things that are personal information about her that she finds disturbing so she goes to an fbi agent she knows and she says can i get this investigated. and tha

there was a lot of concern when michael hayden was nominated to run the cia saying it should be a civilianis a civilian agency and the militarization of it. here's some republicans and democrats expressing their concern about this in the bush administration when hayden was nominated. >> there's a power struggle going on between the department of defense and the entire rest of the intelligence community. i don't see how you have a four-star general heading up the cia. >> we should not have a military person leading a civilian agency at this time. >> you can't have the military, i think, control, you know, most of the major aspects of intelligence. >> the fact that he is a part of the military today is the major problem. >> tom, one of the concerns there is the cia would be an independent check on pentagon intelligence. i wonder where that objection went. >> well, i actually think it's overstated. the first director of the cia was a general himself. there's always been a close o operation in a lot of ways. i think the tension seems to be between fbi and cia. there's also a direct connection

chief michael hayden. from the previous administration, from president bush's administration. they wrote the following: "we carry the burden of knowing that 9/11 might have been averted with the intelligence that existed at the time. we do not want to be in the same position again when a cyber-9/11 hits. it is not a question of whether this will happen; it is a question of when." end quote. mr. president, this time all the dots have been connected. this time we know that cyber attacks are occurring each and every day. this time the warnings are loud and clear. how can we ignore these dire warnings? how -- how can we fail to act on the cybersecurity bill, especially since the majority leader has indicated that he is willing to allow for amendments, as he should, to make this process fair. germane amendments would be allowed. so i urge our colleagues to heed the warnings from the experts and to vote for cloture on the cybersecurity bill so that we can proceed to its considerati consideration. i don't want to be here a year from now saying, why didn't we act? why didn't we listen

we will speak in "america's newsroom" with michael hayden about the resignation of general petraeus.l will testify and what he will say. and the still suffering victims of hurricane sandy, where is the government in getting help for them? see you at the top of the hour. >> steve: he is a multi platinum country music star who is here to give a special salute to our men and women on veterans day. >> gretchen: we're joined by clay walker. good morning to you n good morning. you look great today. >> steve: thank you very much. >> brian: you were looking right at gretchen when you said that, smart man. >> gretchen: thank you. >> steve: we were talking in the teasers about how you, back in 1996, got a death sentence. >> that can be very debilitating. i had so many looks attention, the dorks told me i would possibly be dead in eight years. it was very bad. but i've been able to manage the disease with a daily injection and actually have a great wife, great care partner that helps take care of me. that's why we're here today, for veterans day, first of all. and secondly, to spend tomorrow ta

general michael hayden, former head of the cia and nsa, admiral mike mcconnell, for all -- former head of the nsa, general alexander, current head of the nsa, shawn hammett, former executive assistant director of the fbi, people will have seen this from a different perspective. they don't look nearly at the headlines that someone lost 50,000 names and passwords. what they have seen in their day to day life is threats on critical infrastructure, attacks on u.s. commercial states a military networks. they see it every single day. i have been talking about this while i was in the fbi for many years. you can look me up on things i have said for years, having no idea that i would move into this space. why would i move into the space? because there is a problem and needs to be fixed. i did not move into the space to try to promoted hoping i would make a dollar. i want people to understand this thread is absolutely real. host: next call is from boston, on the democratic line. caller: from the iranian perspective, i would like to remind you that it was the united states that fired the first sh