it the petraeus surge.n affair, did something wrong and copped to it now they want to demote him four years later mark they want to demote him too, why? >> it's absolutely outrageous. general petraeus is a an american hero. is he quite literally the most comprehensive general in american military general since world war ii. this is a man who took a war we were losing. we were facing a vietnam like defeat in iraq and turned it around and turned it not only around but into aza military victory. he did something wrong. he admitted what he did wrong. he mishandled classified information. pled guilty, paid a fine. was sentenced and he paid his debt to society. his reputation is in tatters. his future in public life is gone. he has paid a huge price. would would the obama administration want to humiliate this man with all the things that are happening in the world that ash carter has to worry about. syria is falling apart. iraq is falling apart. afghanistan is falling apart. yemen is falling apart. libya is falli

petraeus was forced to resign in 2012 after admitting to an affair with his biographer. but as julianna goldman reports, defense secretary ashton carter is letting the general keep his four stars and pull pension. >> reporter: in a three-sentence all right sent to the leaders of the senate armed said an army review recommended no additional action and secretary carter considered this matter closed. the decision largely ends the saga surrounding the retired four-star general who last year admitted to giving his biographer and lover, paula broadwell, several notebooks he knew contained highly classified information and initially lying about it to f.b.i. >> i can only say again how let down. >> reporter: as carter weighed whether to demote david petreaus and reduce his military pension by $40,000 a year, a number of lawmakers in both parties came to his defense. in a letter earlier this month, senators john mccain and jack reed said petraeus apologized and shouldn't face additional punishment. the former c.i.a. director's fate also comes up on the campaign trail. >> if ther

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andrea: i want to bring up this point on general petraeus.s no coincidence that there's a possible demotion in the works for this general. they're trying to, i think, bully general petraeus because he knows a lot. remember, he was leading the cia. he issued a report the night of benghazi that said this was a terrorist attack. flied in the face of what she and her state department said. mysteriously, there's some classified information in his office, and then the man -- we know what happens to him. he leaves. harris, the fact that they're talking about a demotion tells me they're hanging this over his head. he's been talking to committees on the hill. it also tells me this will backfire, because the more she talks about general petraeus, the more we are reminded that what she did is far worse. so any punishment less than what he got would be considered special treatment. this is a bad idea, to bring petraeus back, in my opinion. harris: well, and i understand it. i mean, the e-mail -- and i say e-mail because it may be only one or two with wit

have you heard something new from general petraeus? >> to the same democrats that are complaining that they heard nothing new from general petraeus had an asked and answered website up before we ever had our first hearing a year and a half ago. even if we heard something new, just stop and think for a minute, judge, when we first started. >> ambassador stevens e-mails, no other member of congress looked at. patrick kennedy's e-mails, so we have 100,000 documents, if my colleagues are not smart enough to find something new in all these documents, they either need another line of work or they need to read them a little bit more care efully. >> you're fo ethe former distri of new york, he's got this case, do you think it's going to have anything to do with the e-mails, there's admittedly top secret information, admittedly top secret information in some of these e-mails. >> i trust director comey, i think he's a straight shooter. i don't want to interfere with his investigation, it's not my job to interfere with his investigation. i'm in a

how do they affect general petraeus's on ovations bservatie days?told at the time. and there's no the clinton e-mails that effects that or contradicts that. the republicans can say we didn't have the documents at the time, but you have to be very suspicious when they use the metric in their investigation as to how many documents they receive, how many witnesses they have talked to without telling you anything of significance taken from those documents or witnesses. >> i want to ask you about north korea. as a member of the intelligence committee, you have to share concerns about their claims of a hydrogen test. how credible is this claim? do you think they're bluffing? >> well, i'm not sure how credible it is. we have seen them make boastful claims that didn't pan out in the past. you know, i think it's certainly very probable that there was a nuclear explosion. we'll know soon whether it was a hydrogen or fusion explosion or whether it was something else. but regardless, it's a provocative act. it's an effort, i think, by the regime, not only to bo

you see situations like with general petraeus, for example.e was prosecuted for a misdemeanor simply based on the way that he possessed information, not in the proper fashion. it's really not a question of whether or not secretary clinton was engaging in some nefarious activity with this material but how and under what circumstances was it possessed. >> that's interesting. if you listen to what clinton is saying, they're suggesting this could have been as main daundan sharing a news article. they're trying to say it's less serious. how bad could this be if, say, there's an issue with the fact that these e-mails are on a thumb drive and that e-mails that were considered classified when they were born, as you say, were shared. how bad could this be? >> they would have to uncover something that really shows that she did intentionally share classified information, that she took some steps to circumvent the law that were intentional in nature. if that happens she has a serious problem. if they don't find something like that, she could face a proble

carter thought about demoting petraeus from a four-star general to a retirement benefits. as a retired four-star general, petraeus remains liable for any wrongdoing he committed while on active duty. we'll take another look at your first alert back now to today's top stories. the waterloo- cedar falls courier reports a new years day shooting suspect has a prosecutors say 22-year- old, kristopher spates junior, shot 31-year- old ramarez gary in waterloo. gary is expected to be okay. he got caught up in spates gunfire outside of a club early new years morning. and stay with us for our 8 o'clock newscast this morning. we'll talk with norah hammond from gems of hope about their current hope blooms campaign to help cancer patients. now, a final look at the forecast... a few showers off and on >>> good morning, america. right now, it's crunch time. the candidates barnstorming iowa. the frantic hours campaigning >> u-s-a.

we don't have to strip general petraeus. i think he's suffered enough. i think we ought to leave him alone. enough. go to another battle. just leave him alone. we're always doing things like this and we ought to focus on some of the problems we have like isis as an example, like iran which is now going to be a terror -- can you imagine how bad they're going to be with all of this money that we just sent to them? just leave general petraeus alone. it is enough. but it's very serious stuff. her situation is a very grave situation. in one way i'm upset because i really want to run against her. i would love to run against her. your own fox polls have her losing to me. but i really want to run against hillary. so in a way i don't love what's happening. >> go ahead. >> i actually would love to run against her. the last person she wants to run against is me. and you know that. you've got a glimpse of that last week. but the last person she wants to run against is me. i don't like sore losers in life. lindsey graham came out today and said the battle between you

this is what paula broadwest faced when he gets information from petraeus. she was forced to resign and lost her security clearance. no other cabinet officials had a private server and kept information. this would be completely unacceptable for the d.o.d., for the secretary of defense, because you assume conversations that happened with the secretary of defense will be classified. you would assume the same for the secretary of state, that that would be classified. so this issue of willfully retaining becomes the questions that jim comey and the fbi will have to determine. >> 30 seconds, is there a criminal case here? >> no, and there's no evidence there is, and i think you have to take former attorney general mukasey's comments as a adviser with a certainly grain of salt. >> he's also working on one of secretary clinton's opponents' campaigns. when you consider the facts of the petraeus case, there was a deliberate decision to share information with a mistress, and was less than candid about it with the fbi, that is a very differed fact situation than someon

if david petraeus was brought up on charges for roughly similar hillary clinton? >> jim comey has been a good leader for the fbi, but the real retained. did the secretary of state willfully retain classified information? it has to be information that was classified on a nongovernment entity on her own computer or in this case her own serverer. faced when he gets information from petraeus. she was forced to resign and lost her security clearance. no other cabinet officials had a private server and kept this would be completely unacceptable for the d.o.d., for the secretary of defense, because you assume conversations that happened with the secretary of defense will be classified. you would assume the same for the secretary of state, that that would be classified. so this issue of willfully retaining becomes the questions have to determine. >> 30 seconds, is there a criminal case here? >> no, and there's no evidence there is, and i think you have to take former attorney general mukasey's comments as a adviser with a certainly grain of salt. >> he is a federal judge.

that's the big takeaway from the petraeus and panetta testimony. there are still people who know a lot that haven't had their chance to shed some light on this. that's why i don't think this is going away anytime soon. martha: when people see this movie, i think the question you just raised is what will be top of mind for them. the way it's depicted in the movie. places where the pentagon was mobilizing people. people are in their uniforms and climbing into airplanes yet nobody comes. i heard one of the contractors who talked to may began the other night. he said we still don't know the answer to that. we know people were ready to come in and help us. but there is nothing more agonizing in the moments of this movie when that is happening and they are sitting on the ground and someone told them not to go. >> i think what would solve this once and for all of what exactly happened and why were decisions made or not made is if the american people were able to review a ticktock with this. who made what decision when. but we just don't know. maybe we'll

general petraeus, all of sudden news of an affair. the man almost goes to jail for something that seems a little bit questionable that he would make that kind of error. now that kind -- he is on capitol hill. i don't think the man will say anything today. last time he tried to tell the truth he almost pot thrown in prison. sandra: one thing for sure victims and family members deserve answers. we rightly continue to pursue this. will this unveil the smoking gun? everybody thought the 11-hour marathon testimony by hillary clinton would reveal the smoking gun. it didn't. do you think andrea we'll finally get to the bottom of this? andrea: no, harris, we're not. look at the other guy testifying, lee on panetta. lifelong clinton guy. they will not get to the bottom of it in closed-door hears, they will not say what really happened and so many questions remain. why did hillary clinton look into the eye of the family members and lie about why they died? people should be in prison. harris: i want to know what the documents are so hurtful? you

remember, general petraeus has been interviewed by the house intelligence committee, but when that interview took place the committee had no access to any of secretary clinton's e-mails. they didn't have access for a reason. she had them on a private server to which no one had knowledge. and certainly access. so it has not been this committee that has delayed this activity. it was the state department and then secretary clinton's private e-mail server that has caused enormous delays and our ability to complete our investigation. >> congressman pompeo, thank you very much. >> thank you, andrea. have a great day. >> you, too. and joining me now, top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff, thank you for joining me. your testimony and more coming later in the week. >> the real answer is cover. they have been attempting this through additional interviews to make it look like the committee is something other than

they ought to fight isis, not general petraeus.hey ought to fight china and some of these countries that are ripping us off on trade. we have plenty of fights to go around we don't have to worry about general petraeus. has paid a big leave him alone. when you look at it and when you look at what she has done compared to general petraeus, it's 20 times greater. it's not even a contest. now, general petraeus has suffered greatly and you know the consequences. i mean, what he has gone through isf and she has gone $i=u nothing. and i say it's up to the president. it's up to the democrats. they're -- what the democrats are doing is preserving her to run for office. anybody else that did what she did would right now be in the clinker. >> donald, we didn't get to chance to talk about so i'm going to on this the new hampshire poll that came out. you are leading 34% and number two is ted cruz, 20 points behind you. so, anyway. next time you come back we will talk polls. donald, thank you very much. >> thank you very much, thanks, greta. >>

. >> you think about correlation with general petraeus, what he did was wrong.his information, but it was illegal, it was stupid but he was found to be illegal, he pled to it being illegal. lou: is clinton bad or worse than petraeus. >> certainly amount of e-mails, you know. that is way more than petraeus. >> information that should have been classified, she dictated this is classifies this is not, she should know better. especially when her husband of the president of the united states. states. lou: recommend prosecution? >> no, i don't think so. >> i don't think so either. >> i know. lou: i'm telling you. >> they will investigate. it political, the obama administration will have the justice department indict -- >> a democratic president with a democratic -- front runner. >> yeah. that is it. lou: you say -- >> i'm not saying legally. lou: you say public corruption covered a little bit. >> don't forget, investigations can go on for a long time, very long time. lou: none of us can forget, benghazi still goes ofor crying out loud. i want toed to ask you other que

, because the petraeus precedent does not look good for someone who has carelyless --. ought fact he was prosecuted for mishandling of classified information. >> correct; probably much less important classified information. >> wait, he gave that information to someone else. hillary clinton did not give any information. it is never been asserted that her server, privilege as it was, was violated. >> what is clear she violated the rules and what is important here, whether the careless and reckless. >> you can make a negligence argument but that would be -- that is not a legal charge, and, clearly, what petraeus --. >> wait, senator lankford said will if mishandling. let me quickly and i will tee it up for you, hillary clinton was asked about it this week and like her manager she dismissed it as political. here she is. >> this seems to me to be another effort to inject this into the campaign, it is another leak. >> juan, there are a couple of points, you have the inspector subsequent saying it is so sensitive, like a double secret probation and i did not know this existed,

and treat hillary clinton the same way that david petraeus was treated. >> a new email first obtained by the daily color shows that the state department knew about the personal account as early as august 2011 and suggestions to use a government blackberry and a ..gov account were rejected by hillary clinton's aide, houma abedin. >>> i went to a john kasich town hall meeting and asked him about the latest revelations in the clinton email scandal. >> you, you can't be fooling around with stuff like that. especially you know when you get to the stuff that is really highly secret. it all has to be gone through. we'll have more with governor kasich on his campaign and more about hillary clinton a bit later. coming up, senator ted cruz from his campaign bus a short time ago. one of the lightning rods of recent presidential campaigns is now teaming up with the man who has received the most attention this year. chief political correspondent carl cameron is here in new hampshire. but his story now is breaking in ames, iowa. >> did. >> formally endorse the billion developer, by sarah palin. she