are they spies for petraeus? are they conveying orders from petraeus? and how did this come to be?t gets to sort of the big issue that we talked about earlier this year, which is david petraeus's judgment. because he was so lionized and almost worshipped as america's greatest general since washington, he seemed to be able to feel like he could get away with things. and he got into that scandal with paula broadwell. and then happens obviously before that. >> right. >> but he feels he has the license to do things that other generals couldn't. >> let's get to the heart of the surgery strategy, which worked in iraq, i'm told. that's the conventional wisdom. applied then to afghanistan. how were the kagans with that whole strategy? >> the kagans pushed the surge strategy in op-eds, in my newspaper and other newspapers. they were vocal proponents for it. and then they were proponents for taking a much tougher line against the various taliban factions. while david petraeus was talking up a good game on using troops to protect civilian populations in afghanistan, what the kagans were lobby

petraeus, can you talk with us, please?news was unexpected. the reason, shocking. petraeus, a retired four-star general had quit his cia post and admitted he had cheated on his wife. petraeus' mistress was also his biographer, paula broadwell, an embarrassing exit from the public stage by one of the most respected public servants of his time. >> an impressive list. and that's only half of them. the most intriguing people of 2012, numbers five to one revealed after a quick break. it. all waking up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ it's going to be amazing. and exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. we're going to wake the world up. and watch, with eyes wide, as it gets to work. cisco. tomorrow starts here. >>> it was a movie that outraged nfl fans in 2012. the league battling with referees over money tried to use replacements from college and even high school. but after a blown call on national tv, the two sides decided it was best to settle and agreed on a new contr

we're talking about general petraeus. long-time republican, possible contender, the man who just resigned from running the cia in a sex scandal we still don't understand. here he is on tape talking about how he will have the fox news chairman run his campaign and the owner of fox news will bankroll his campaign and he raises the issue of his wife. there's a certain level of interest in this new tape because of who is on it. beyond that, there's the media factor. here's the fox news channel trying to recruit a presidential candidate for the republican party. the fox news chairman telling bob woodward once he was reporting on this, "i thought the republican field in the primaries needed to be shaken up and petraeus might be a good candidate." he said that on the record. after being caught doing it on tape. which means the fox news channel seriously is not like anything news. they officially are just a media arm of the republican party. they are a political operation serving the needs of the republican party. that's okay, bu

and ailes wasn't just encouraging petraeus to run, he put a serious offer on the table.ch was secretly taped i assume, by paula broadwell hiding under the table. (laughter) listen petraeus respond to ailes offer. >> tell him if i ever ran, but i won't, but if i ever ran i would take him up on his offer. >> okay, all right. >> he would quit fox. >> all right. >> and bankroll it or maybe i'm confused and that was rupert. >> i think one is bankrolling it. >> big boss is bankrolling it. rogg certificate going to run and the rest of russ going to be here in-house. >> stephen: okay so, if petraeus ran for president murdoch would pay for it, ailes would manage it, and fox news would sell it though their audience. now if you think about it, a news network choosing the candidate sounds like a conflict of interest. so don't think about it. because it's not really about conflict of interest. ailes said he did it because the republican field needed to be shaken up. so it was really just worried about casting his reality show. as a tv producer ailes was trying to avoid a repeat of 20

. >>> from the david petraeus scandal to the trayvon martin tragedy. the media's performance in 2012, we'll have a report card. i'm howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." >>> it was a striking moment when david gregory brandished that high ammunition magazine last sunday so much so we played it on this program. but that braumpted a d.c. police whether he violated the city's gun laws, one controversy that they fuind under assault. and eric who blogs about the media for "washington post." simple question, eric, should david gregory be prosecuted? >> well, i think he should be investigated. i'll leave that up to the prosecutors. but i definitely do believe unlike greta van susstrn and unlike you. >> and the "wall street journal" page. >> it turns out the district of columbia and lawmakers decided that any magazine in excess of ten rounds is a danger to the p public. >> you don't see this as a waste of time on the police's part. a lot of people with magazines with no bullets in them going to jail over this. >> this is the law and the police should lo

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now look, petraeus did not take that. it's not like he's controlled by fox news, by apparently roger ailes thought i'll give it a shot. the news analyst katie mcfarland, and she had more--in fact, petraeus said rupert murdoch, the owner of news corp, also reached out to him. >> you might want to chat with roger and rupert mourdock for that matter. >> cenk: rupert is after me, too, i bet. who ising going to bankroll it? who is going to lead the campaign? let's sort it out. >> bankroll it? >> maybe i'm confusing that with rupert. >> i think bankrolling is the big boss. the big boss is bankrolling it. the rest of us are going to be your in-house. >> okay. >> we're all set. >> cenk: yeah, they're all set. they were ready to go, man. they have this little thing hatched up. they send in somebody to "interview" him and give him what they would like. it's amazing. it's amazing. and then if doesn't just go one way. it goes both ways. petraeus was also asked what would you like us to do on fox news? watch. >> i love roger. >> i kno

she told general petraeus that fox news chief roger ailes would do whatever he could to get petraeuslected. she even started out by asking a very strange question coming from a news organization. >> he loves you and everybody at fox loves you. so what i'm supposed to directly from him to you, through me, is, first of all, is there anything fox is doing, right or wrong, that you want to tell us to do differently? >> is there anything you want to tell us to do differently? this is a surrogate for a national news organization asking a potential presidential candidate and someone who is in the middle of prosecuting a war if the news organization can do something differently. that person goes on to ask if general petraeus would consider the run for president, and then suggests that the chief of news corporation, rupert murdoch, and don't forget news corporation owns fox news, that that chief of news corporation would bankroll his run for president. howard kurtz joins me live now from washington via skype. he's the anchor of "reliable sources" on cnn. this is pretty overwhelming stuff, i h

. >> joy: tonight, will general petraeus actually president in 2016? if so, will we all be saying it is the adultery, stup ud plus i'll talk to tony gold win from the movie classic "ghost." your sex questions will be answered by the one and only dr. ruth on "say anything." >> joy: there's already talk of hillary running for president in 2016. you know why? because talking about the fiscal cliff is barring and requires much too much energy and it is draining. that's all i have to say about that. [ laughter ] i can't take it. joining me now, host of the jeremy kyle show, jeremy kyle himself. actress and comedienne, kim coles and current tv's own john fuglesang. welcome to the show you guys. >> thank you. >> joy: okay, 57% of people polled saying they'll back a run for hillary. that's a lot of people. what do you say about that? >> it's great but in reality they only want her in the white house so they can watch her and bill try to live with each other again. >> in england, they always say when the whole monica lewinsky thing happened he said you stay wit

but petraeus repeatedly shuts down the idea. >> my wife would divorce me. >> reporter: after petraeusrland went on fox to talk about her conversation with the general. but she never mentioned the ailes offer. >> i think that petraeus doesn't want to run. i asked him that question and he said, i'm not running for president. >> reporter: ailes told "the washington post" that he did ask mcfarland to approach petraeus, but added, it was more of a joke, a wise-a ass way i had. it sounds like she thought she was on a secret mission in the reagan administration. she was way out of line. >> the idea that rupert murdoch might bankroll a petraeus candidacy, not that far fetched, given the fact that murdoch has given on occasion seven-figure fums to the republican party. murdoch repeatedly injected himself into the race, saying on twitter last july, "met romney last week, tough chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team." and, "romney people upset at me, of course i want him to win. save us from socialism." >> you do have people over there that had candidates that th

let's start with general petraeus. >> good evening. general petraeus, according to people i talked to, is gone to ground. he's hanging out at his northern virginia home, chiefly trying to repair his badly damaged marriage, which is set to be rough sledding for him at this point. he's communicating with the outside world through only a handful of people. he's cloysered around himself, interestingly, the people who were close to him during his iraq days, which predated the broadwell affair and he has jetsonned most of those close to him in the afghanistan period, which is when the affair happened. he has hired the super lawyer, bob barnett of williamton comely here in washington, known cleavely for negotiating multi million dollar book deals. i spoke with bob barnett yesterday. he told me that general petraeus has no plans to write a book at this time. that suggests petraeus considers that he still has some legal difficulty ahead of him for which he might need top dollar legal counsel. >> bill: what kind of legal difficulties could he ha

. >>> coming up next, who was planning to make money now off "the david letterman show" petraeus sex? >>> and we have breaking celebrity news involved a quarterback and a supermodel next in "the skinny." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. celebrity news involved a quarterback and a supermodel ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ skinny so skinny >> skinny in the house! >> skinny's in the house! >> oh, willis. ♪ skinny so skinny >> skinny in the house! >> skinny's in the house! >> oh, willis. >>> and you know who else is in the house? another baby for gisele bundchen and her quarterback of a husband tom brady. >> popped it out. >> that's horrible. let's hope you're not in the delivery room some day. i'm not. i'm down in the lobby. >> boston.com, she gave birth to a bouncing baby girl, vivian. the third child for tom. he has a son with his ex, bridgette moynihan. the second child for this couple now -- they have a 2-year-old son benjamin and now a little girl, vivian. not sure if it was a water birth. remember she famously said little pain. she had the baby at h

thisas something that was nurtured, burnished, encouraged, developed, subsidized by petraeus. >> at a time whenen the country had much more stable families and divorceates were very low we had fdr and eisenhower and kennedy, a president who obviously had affairs, and they were not penalized. dulles has an airport named after him. >> a different dollars. >> it is aer the family. [laughter] -- a differerent dulles. >> may be it was the diamond- giving that did it. the irony is that in a time when divorce rates are 50%, and we react with this sort of extrememe reaction when n we have a case of that happening with a a high official -- >> i think he shoulde punished. he should pay a price, the public price apologize, be shamed, and he would be, b why can he not go back to work? >> i cannot answer that. let me ask you ather question -- to members congress read polls? it is a seriousuestion. a month ago, the gallup ll had their approvaval rating at 18%. i will put a positive spin on thatat -- it i an improvovement over august where it was 10%. you would think that during their wewell-earned

who would have thought that the hon regarded headed the cia, general david petraeus, would quit his job because of an extramaritalffair? very disciplined man. is there a lesson for this, people? or people in high-profile jobs? >> it is never learn. the idea that it is usual for the cia director to have an affair -- the sainted allen dulles used to give his wife a diamond every time he commenced a new extramarital affair. may be the rules are little different. >> it was a different time. >> but you could go forward, and believe me, subsequently, there have been directors -- you want to name them? no. but i do t understand why the president did not just tell him to apologize and go back to work. >> really? do you agree with that? >> but he did not give the president a chance. as soon as he knew the story was coming up, he resigned. first of all, he announced the affair and his resignation. >> obama wanted 24 hours to think about it. >> but he in effect said, "i am going to step down. >> what the president said, cassette and know, do not do that?" -- what if the president said, "no, do not

apparently so did david petraeus and neither one took the advice.ew york city mayor michael bloomberg's successor will have big shoes to fill according to "the new york times." bloomberg called secretary of state hillary clinton a few months ago to encourage her to enter the 2013 new york city mayoral race. but reportedly told the mayor she has no interest in the job. as deputy mayor there howard wolf son, former senior adviser to hillary clinton's presidential campaign in 2008. mayor bloomberg isn't the only 0 one giving out advice. this is great. it's bob woodward, heads are exploding as i speak. let me get to the story. woodward reports that roger ales, the chairman and founder of fox news, encouraged general david petraeus to run against obama in the 2012 election. last spring asked fox news analyst to make the pitch while she was traveling with petraeus. in a recording of the conversation between mcfarland and petraeus mcfarland can be heard saying that ales advises petraeus to reject becoming cia director and accept nothing less than chairman

what do general petraeus and tiger woods have in common? jimmy: i don't know. >> boners. >> boners. both made many mistakes. >> jimmy: all right, well, thank you for the jokes, guys. much appreciated. >> thanks to you. happy diwali. >> jimmy: happy diwali to you too. all right, thank you, guys. they're in india right now. i don't know whether justin bieber is still a virgin or not. i will ask him the next time he's here, but in light of the news that he's a single man, i thought it would be fun to pose a question to people walking past our theater, and tonight's pedestrian question is, how old were you when you lost your virginity? the way this will work, we'll see a pedestrian, introduce him or her and guess together how old that person was when that person did the deed. are you ready? okay. let's begin. >> my name is julie, and i'm from boca raton, florida, but i haven't lived there all my life so originally cleveland, ohio, east side. >> and how old were you when you lost your virginity, and what happened? >> jimmy: okay. well, they do t

general david petraeus. >> general petraeus, can you talk about this, please?as unexpected. the reason shocking. petraeus, a retired four-star general, had quit his cia post and admitted he had cheated on his wife. petraeus' mistress was also his biographer paula broadwell. an embarrassing exit from the public stage by one of the most respected public servants of his time. >> an impressive list, huh? and that's only half of them. the most intriguing people of 2012 numbers five to one revealed after a quick break. >>> this is a symbol of good why do toys for tots and hasbro trust duracell to power their donated toys? duralock power preserve. it locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. guaranteed. duracell with duralock. trusted everywhere. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ breathes deeply ] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth! time for citi pri

. >> braking is coming in regarding the chief of the cia, david petraeus -- breaking news. i'm talking about expect the unexpected. who would have thought that the highly regarded head of the cia, general david petraeus, would quit his job because of an extramarital affair. a very disciplined man. is there a lesson for people in high-profile jobs in this? >> it is not a lesson they ever learn. the idea that it is unusual for the cia director to have an extramarital affair -- the sainted allen dulles used to give his wife a new diamond every time he commenced an extramarital affair. may be the rules are different, but you can go for it -- and believe me, there have been subsequent cia directors -- >> do you want to name them? >> no, but i do not understand why the president did not just tell them to apologize and go back to work. >> really? do you agree with that? >> but he did not give the president a chance. as soon as he knew the story was coming up, he resigned. he announced it and announced his resignation. >> obama wanted 24 hours to think about it. >> but he in effect

petraeus in general allen -- and engineer allen, the debt situation got them thinking about how broad it can quickly balloon and how it can ensnare people who 20,000 pages were turned over. i think this troubles a lot of people. >> thank you. several issues here. the update and the desire to update the act has been there for some time. it has been work done for some time. whether the general petraeus situation has sharpened the focus, i will leave that to others to decide. we do not have any direct knowledge. i was suggests it was attained during a search warrant. >> how would the new changes proposed have changed this case? >> it probably would not have changed this case either way. i think that when prosecutors see a case of the utmost sensitivity, they would have proceeded with an abundance of caution. based on the tolls that were available, it really would not matter. >> we have time for one more question. >> the chairman said that he is they passed this changes. there's not really any chance of this happening this year. i'm wondering what needs to happen. it is important to remem

general david petraeus -- >> general petraeus, can you talk about this, please?s unexpected. the reason, shocking. petraeus, a retired four-star general, had quit his cia post and admitted he cheated on his wife. petraeus' mistress was also his biographer, paula broadwell, an embarrassing exit from the public stage by one of the most respected public servants of his time. >> an impressive list, huh? that's only half of them. the most intriguing people of 2012 revealed after a quick break. diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and they have six grams of sugars. with fifteen grams of protein to help manage hunger... look who's getting smart about her weight. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. >>> it was a move that outraged nfl fans in 2012, the league battling with referees over money, tried to use replacements from college and even high school. after a blown deciding call on national tv, the two side

are you surprised petraeus topped the list? >> no, i'm not. he's the top spy in america, and he can't keep an affair secret. there's some human quality in there and humor at the same time. it's remarkable to me. it's men in power thinking they can get away with it, bill clinton, john edwards, newt gingrich, and it's endemic of women in power thinking they can live by different rules. >> let's turn now to the royal family. even the royal family couldn't escape the litany? >> absolutely not. in this case, though, prince harry. he had trouble after trouble. if you invite a bunch of people to your room, get drunk, play strip poker, and allow them to take pictures, you're going to be in the press. while the duchess unfortunately for her had some expectations of privacy, she was alone on a

whether the general petraeus situation has sharpened the focus of the leave to others to decide. i will point out although i don't have direct knowledge of that particular investigation, i would suggest any evidence obtained with it gained through a search warrant and not through any type of surveillance. >> host: agent trained to, how with the new changes proposed, how would that change this case? >> guest: well, you probably would not have changed the case either way. when prosecutors see a case of the utmost sensitivity, which they certainly would've seen here, they would've proceeded with caution by using a search warrant to obtain the data and probably having lived in italy for nondisclosure of the investigation until such time as it was complete. so based on the tools available to them for the investigation, it really wouldn't matter pre-or post-amendment. they would've proceeded along the same lines regardless. >> host: we have one more question from brendan sasso. >> host: at the market the other day, chairman leahy said he's glad the past these changes and he looks forwa

general david petraeus. >> can you talk with us please? >> the news was unexpected.he reason, shocking. petraeus, a retired four-star general, had quit his cia post and admitted he had cheated on his wife. petraeus's mistress was also his biographer, paula broadwell. >> and don't touch that remote. there's more. we're going to show you who you picked as the top five most intriguing people of 2012. that's coming up next right after the break. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and they have six grams of sugars. with fifteen grams of protein to help manage hunger... look who's getting smart about her weight. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. >>> just before the break, we showed you five of the ten people who you the viewer picked as this year's mos

but not so long ago there was some serious talk that general david petraeus might run for president. that talk apparently even came from the top at fox news. washington post bob woodward writes about some private recordings in which fox news analyst k.t. mcfarland meeting with general petraeus in afghanistan in the spring of last year delivered a personal message from roger ales. >> he says if you're offered chairman, take it. if you're offered anything else, don't take it, resign in six months and run for president. okay. i know you're not running for president. but at some point when you go to new york next, you may want to just chat with roger and rupert -- >> well, rupert, look, what i have told people is that, you know, i truly want to continue to serve my country if it is in a -- you know, quite significantly meaningful position and there is all of about two of those in the world. >> howard kurtz, good to see you, sir. roger ailes tells the post, yes, he did tell k.t. mcfarland, made the offer but more of a -- but more of a joke. do you buy that? >> well, the reason i don't com

one has to do -- he had some interesting reaction to general petraeus.efore we get to that, the big issue that's coming up, when the u.s. troops withdrawal is going to be. how many troops remain behind. what is the u.s. force? obviously just like with the iraqis the united states will want to have some sort of frankly legal -- they want to know they're going to be protected legally in that country by karzai's government. what did he say to that? >> well, president karzai said that he is willing to talk about immunity with u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. he is aware that the united states wants to keep about 14,000 to 20,000 soldiers in afghanistan after the combat withdrawal to help train and assist afghan forces. he said it is something they can talk about with president obama and america but it is something he won't touch on until the situation with bagram detainees is taken care of. president obama and president karzai signed a strategic partnership last spring and said that all detainees will be handed over into afghan hands but he says the u.s. is in

so they're going after just her, not the cia director, david petraeus. her. think that that's says a lot. >> thank you so much. next, speaker john boehner set to visit the white house within the hour on this busy day. stay with us. [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose long dy setting up the news starts with arthritis pain and a choice. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news. >>> an extremely busy day in washington. the president and john boehner are due to meet at the top of the hour for urgent talks on the fiscal cliff. and with 12 days to christmas, boehner has had his 12 drummers drumming to the beat of spending is the problem. boehner started the day with a chart prepared by drummer boy paul ryan and after taking the serious step of launching a twitter hash tag, he declared that the president is not serious about the debt. >> here we are at the 11th hour and the president still isn't serious about dealing with this issue right here. it's this issu

but just petraeus' e-mails became public and what if we got rid of george washington? bill clinton is not the first and not the worst in petraeus is not the first for the worse. in there ,-com,-com ma done that and there's a long history in infected pains me to say that even abraham lincoln visited a prostitute. i know, say it isn't so, right? but it happened. the details are sketchy and there's not a lot of letters written about this but here is what we can piece together. lincoln's best friend was joshua. >> speed and speed was as dashing and handsome and quote unquote lucky with the ladies as lincoln was unlucky and awkward and romance. speed felt sorry for lincoln in the eyes called each other by their last names, speed them again and speed invited lincoln to work in his general store and he didn't have a place to say so he let speed stay in the general store. during the friendship he was using the services of a professional -- and you imagine lincoln upstairs with a pillow over his head trying to mind his own business as speed is doing his business. link and basic

just kidding we don't really like petraeus.d have like stood his ground and doubled down and been like a real republican and said yes, this is what we intended to do and we'd do it again but it's we're just kidding. >> a week with the reports from the highest levels in england laying out this effort to hack, bribe, penetrate secure government files and now we have this, how do we understand the murdoch empire, this is like the bad guy in a bond movie who has this desire to control politics. >> when you think of the ways roger ails continued doing this, he's bringing in a billion dollars a year and his boss is rupert murdoch seeing fox bring in a huge amount of money. one of the problems with the empire right now and they're breaking off the publishing side and t.v. movie side, you have a lucrative business and struggling business, newspaper publishing. roger ails is firmly a key part of the empire making a lot of money. >> ails oversees the t.v. rupert murdoch loves the print and open uses the t.v. empire to subs disease the pr

odierno did so as well when he was with petraeus in baghdad. they also brought in different points of view. it was really striking to me in that phase of the surge of '07, the different voices you saw around american commanders. you know, emma skye, a fashion fistic british-arab specialist, anti-american, anti-military is odierno's political adviser. you know, and if you asked general odierno why, he said because she makes me think differently, she asks the right question. the other people you saw were also asking iraqis questions. david -- [inaudible] was in baghdad, and he asked the iraqis a question about what to do in sadr city, a civil engineer, a former army officer and a religious leader, and they started talking intensely, and he said, i'm sorry if i gave an offense, they said, oh, no, you're just the first american who's asked us what to do instead of telling us. this was four or five years into the war. so getting out and about is a sign -- >> [inaudible] >> i am not an expert on the german military, i would not venture to it, and if

retired army general david petraeus resigned as director of the c.i.a. when he admitted to having an extramarital affair. the commander of u.s. and coalition forces in afghanistan, general john allen, is also under investigation for sending inappropriate e-mails to a women in tampa. the former commander of africa command, general william ward, was demoted one rank after being accused of lavish spending. and brigadier general jeffrey sinclair, who was deputy commander of the 82nd airborne division in afghanistan, is facing sexual misconduct charges, including sodomy and wrongful sexual conduct. a new book looks at american generals over the last century. the author is veteran journalist tom ricks. the book is "the generals: american military commanders from world war ii to today." ray suarez spoke to him recently. welcome to the program. >> thank you. suarez: i think reading as a nonmilitary expert but an interested party, the most surprising thing was that so many men who were not really up to the task became generals in the first place. how did that hap

i do not hear anything out of petraeus. will there be any accountability for these people behind all this? guest: i am not sure if you are asking if they will be charged in the petraeus or benghazi case. amid tackle both of those. in the petraeus case, it seems there will not be charges, although his alleged mistress stands accused of e-mail intimidation, unauthorized access to classified information. as for the benghazi issue, the three officials placed on administrative leave and one official who resigned were not found by the internal review board to have intentionally disobeyed orders or have engaged in any misconduct at was will fall. in other words, the criminality lies in the intent. you can be incompetent and not criminal and you can make mistakes and not have violated the law, and you can violate the policies and rules of your job and still not be subject to jail time. that is what the accountability review board said, that these people were liable but not criminal. i do not see any other process bringing them to s

why didn't she call petraeus and say by the way, i am getting strange e-mails from an anonymous source. as your buddy, what do you think of this? she went straight to the f.b.i.. what an idiot. she was wanting publicity . the girl is broke! >> you don't feel bad for them like the tight clothes reviewed. >> don't feel bad for them. she is a vixen and a siren and loved the publicity. did you see her coming in and out of the house and flailing her hair and in and out of her car she liked the publicity. broadwell was in serious deep stuff and she hid away. you can see jill kelly looking out of her window and she hired a publicity lawyer and did charity work to show her in the favorable light. she is biggest -- ever. >> finally tonight, i was surprised by my friends at fox and friends on friday morning when they told me i had gangnum style. ♪ who knew i could dance. hey sexy lady. ♪ ♪ open gangnum tile. ♪ hey sexy lady.

petraeus stepped down as cia director early last month. he has denied giving broadwell any classified documents. live in the newsroom, keith russell, news4. >>> when we come back on "news4 at 4:00," a man in a wheelchair plummets off the side after subway platform. what had ans next is an amazing story. >> is celebrity inspiration for holiday parties. we will tell you how to look like a hollywood fashionista without breaking the bank. ♪ this girl is on fire ♪ this girl is on fire >> did alicia keys steal part of her hit? we will let you hear the similarities to a classic song so you can decide for yourself. >>> one of the most popular families from reality tv is out with their annual holiday photo. nick snapped this one of the kardashian clan. this year kim, khloe, couand th rest of the gang decided on all white. they cheated a bit. khloe admitted some of them had to be photo shopped in because of scheduling conflicts. >>> if you like you can look like kim kardashian at holiday parties this year. whether your budget allows to you splurge o

i would say general petraeus and his girlfriends. >> really?> well, i brought down -- look they almost brought down the entire central command down there in florida over with due respect two young ladies and it was a horrendous scandal and destroyed the career of one of the most famous american generals of the 21st century. >> conduct unbecoming a gentleman. >> what he said. go ahead eleanor. >> i have to agree but i must say i'm waiting for the book i'm sure he will write a book. i hadpy they jus too but my backup dsk who -- would have been the president of france if he hadn't changed a hotel chamber maid around the room in new york. that was just settled in a civil suit. he paid up big. >> i would have to say benghazi. failure of the obama administration to protect our diplomats and a ridiculous attempt to cover it up. >> dynamite. >> the cover-up has yet to be proved but petraeus has to win. i mean -- here's a career that was just going so spectacularly well. i mean just overnight another one of these sex scandals that's questionable just ho