what he knew and when, about the scandal involving david petreas. as craig roswell reports, the president also defended an ambassador who's taking heat from the gop. >> reporter: president obama says that he has no evidence that the national security was threatened involving david petreas and the. >> i'm withholding judgment with respect to how the entire process surrounding general petreas came up. >> reporter: top law makers were angry that they were kept in the dark that led to the petreas resignation. why can't the president aggressively defended u.n. ambassador susan rice. >> if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me, but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with bengazi and was simply making a presentation, to bad her reputation is outrageous. but what i'm not going to do is to extend bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% that we can't afford. >> reporter: congress has until the end of this year to come up with a plan and spending cuts that could trigger a convers

warning her to stay is a away from petreas. that claim led to the fbi investigation that exposed petreas' extra marital affair are broadwell. ankle kelley is an unpaid liaison for florida. >> mcafee is reportedly wantedded for murder. they are looking for john mcafee, his believed neighbored grege fall was killed saturday night. mcafee is no longer connected to the sanity clara company. there are reports that after an 100 million-dollar sales of his company, he went to belize to live a life of guns, and violence. >>> the 29 million-dollar housing development features 25 single occupancy units and a medical clinic. veterans told us they are grateful. >> i have multiple sclerosis. but i still have a great desire to live with a little bit of grace and dignity. >> the china town community development -- >> in washington and around the nation. concern is growing tonight over the so-called fiscal cliff. that terms levers to automatic deep cuts in spending and tax increases at the start of next year if congress fails to compromise. th

she had extraordinary access to petreas when he running the warn afghanistan. >> they trusted me so ito get a lot of great access and i got to know his family and mentors. >> confirmed at cia more than a year ago, several source tell abc news it was an e-mail that unraveled the affair. a couple of monthsing a a bomb in the tampa area with associate with petreas and the military received a strange and harassing e-mail. she notified the fbi that launched an investigation which worried that petreas' account had been compromised. it was traced back to the computer of ball law broad well. but what they found was intimate e-mails between them described as a lot of human dramas. >> there had been rumors of an affair between them for some time. >> there is a back being released early next year. >> frankly, i didn't believe them and neither about anybody else i knew. he didn't seem the type. >> martha raddatz reported that some of his staff worried about how it looked to have broad well spend so much time with the general and told him as much. even though the fbi investigation has apparently w

petreas said he accepts all the blame for his own downfall >>> after nearly four decades in international affairs, it was an extramarital affairs that brought david petraeus' distinguished career to a jolting end. in a statement to cia employees he acknowledged the liaison, expressing his extremely poor judgment. it's unacceptable, he said, both as a husband and as a leader of an organization such as hours. >> if they found out about an extramarital affair they could use it as blackmail against you. >> he has been married to his wife holly for 38 years. they have two children. they met when he was a west point cadet and she stood by him as he raced on the fast track up the ranks to four-star general. last year he resigned his commission and was sworn in as cia director. this is the other woman. paula broadwell. a 40-year-old wife and mother of two. she's his official biographer. >> to get to know him he wanted to run with you? >> i thought i was going to test him but he was going to test me. >> seen here on the daily show with jon stewart, she is a west point graduate who traveled often w

the panel will hear from form cia director david petreas tomorrow, just one week he resigned over an extramarital affair. >> director petreas went to tripoli, and he went to many people as i understand it, that were involved. so the opportunity to get his views is i think, very important. >> at a separate session atmosphere the house intelligence committee, mike moro addressed the controversy over susan rice. rice was repeating information, she'd been provided when she initially said that a protest over an anti-muslim film led to the killings at me. >> jim harball was admitted to the hospital today, and he went to his doctor last night after feeling ill. the doctor discovered an irregular heartbeat. and advised him to have the procedure today. they were not talk about which procedure he had. but one doctor told us that there are two common treatments. >> patients that have rapid beats and they need to be shocked back to normal -- or people with repeating beats with a cardiac -- >> they're expected to be back at the 49ers facility tomorrow. >>> buster posey was named the most valuable

petreas said he accepts all the blame. >>> after nearly four decades in international affairs, it wasextramarital affairs that brought david petraeus' distinguished career to a jolting end. in a statement to employees he acknowledged the liaison, expressing his extremely poor judgment. it's unacceptable, he said, both as a husband and as a leader of an organization such as hours. >> if they found out about an extramarital affair they could use itos blackmail against you. >> he has been married to his wife holley against you for 32 years. they have two children. they met when he was a west point cadet and she stood by him as he raced on the fast track up the ranks to four-star general. last year he resigned his commission and was sworn in as cia director. this is the other woman. paula broad well. a 40-year-old wife and mother of two. she's his official buyographer. >> to get to know him he wanted to run with you? >> i thought i was going to test him but he will test me. >> seen here on the daily show with job stewart, she is a west point graduate who traveled often with petreas to res

obviously this hurts general petreas, but it hurts the country more. he's a man of extraordinary dedication, extraordinarily hard-working. >> this comes days before petreas was to testify about the attack on benghazi, libya that killed ambassador christopher stevens. good morning america will have in about an hour. >> two residents have died from eating poison mushrooms. an employee and two others are in the hospital. a caregiver pick the wild mushrooms growing at the home and cooked them as a treat. the mushrooms turn out to be poisonous. an elderly woman died yesterday morning and a second person died last night. they are investigating but sheriff's deputies say it appears to have been a tragic mistake. >> a third person connected to of a san francisco muni bus is under arrest this morning. 24-year-old adam diaz of oakland was taken into custody yesterday ask charged with felony vandalism following the giants world series win. police tell us diaz is a man in this pictures, swinging a skateboard against the bus windows. officers are still looking for

. >> obviously this hurts general petreas, but it hurts the country more. he's a man of extraordinary talent, extraordinary deadation, extraordinarily hard-working. >> this comes days before petreas was to testify about the attack on benghazi, libya that killed ambassador christopher stevens. good morning america will have for at 7:00 a.m. >> two residents have died from eating poison mushrooms. too others are in the hospital. in tuesday a care giver picked wild mushrooms growing at the home and cooked them as a treat. the mushrooms turn out to be poisonous. an elderly woman died yesterday morning and a second person died last night. they are investigating but sheriff's deputies say it appears to have been a tragic mistake. >> a third person connected to the vandalism and areasism of a san francisco muni bus is under arrest this morning. 24-year-old adam diaz of oakland was taken into custody yesterday ask charged with felony vandalism following the giants world series win. police tell us diaz is a man in this pictures, swinging a skateboard against the bus

obama will make his first comments on the federal investigation involving former cia agent david petreas. " it will discuss whether any security was breached. >> we are watching wall street this morning the dow jones there are over home on the deductions. the dow up six now. we are talking about the fiscal coming up. one of the things on the table is during away with the mortgage interest deduction. there was shelling a look at each other colleagues of its over it. >> a lot of people bought homes and they rely on the deduction to afford the mortgage. >> i am saying there are a lot of people are renters who cannot get the same tax deductions that the wealth is " super elite get, thus is not fair. >> ultimately when it comes sell it there should be a lot of compromises to the fiscal cliff. some of them will come across as weird as - 0. not everyone owns a home is rich. >> i have owned and i do roethke and your vote its. >> part of the budget was based on getting the deduction. >> part of that tax deduction always try to give americans as a home on should then we get almost 70 percent home

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. >> broad well is also a west point graduate who traveled often with petreas to research her book "all the education of david petraeus." >> do you have ever think he dropped his guard with you? >> no, no secrets. >> the e-mails were traced back to paula broad well and the affair was discovered. they praised his dedication and pastryism. he said his thoughts and prayers are with him and holly. abc news, new york. >>> hundreds of u.s. veterans will join san francisco veteran's day parade tomorrow. if you want to go here's what you need to know. the parade will march wad civic center plaza. market street will be closed off several hours in the morning. this will be san francisco's 93rd veteran's day parade. ahead, music to the ears of a world war ii veteran. ♪. >> coming up, his standing ovation, some six decades in the making. also, signs of progress and growing anger from the hurricane zone. we will check on the recovery from hurricane sandy. >> this is abc7 news. >> the occupy movement has become an effective organizer in helping with hurricane sandy relief. they have been credited wit

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. >> now to the latest of the scandal surrounding former cia director david petreas. we learned that he will testify on a congressional hearing on libya despite resigning after having an affair with his biographer paul brought well.broadwell. shd harassing the mills to eight woman that she saw as a romantic rival. possible evidence that there was another affair gondwan. presidet obama is expected make his comments on the federal investigation involving wetreas. >> and nancy pelosi is telling in the new session of congress that she will remain the house majority leader. she will remain at the helm of the party and the democrats felt to win the necessary 25 additional seats to make up the majority party. that would have made posey the speaker of the house again. >> poslesi. we're waiting for her to take the stage and make her announcement. everyone is wondering whether she will continue to remain as leader of the democrats in the house when fact it looks like she will be a spiritual and official and a few moments. 25 years of service representing san francisco. a vocal