it was premeditate the what we don't know and what senator graham and jason chaffetz and others are asking, mr. president, you said the minute you learned from this attack you issued three directives including

the intelligence to this day says it was not premeditated. the question -- the other question was, was it a terrorist attack, and she didn't say that it wasn't. she didn't rule that out but she said -- she gave the best -- again, a faithful representation of would the talking points were at that time. there is no scandal here. >> she gave her sense -- her spin, the white house spin. the obama spin probably started there at that level. it is said now, for the unrolling of events in benghazi that involved four americans getting killed. >> this was five days after the events. they had minimal amounts of intelligence. they were not allowed to put in things that they hadn't already nailed down. this was what they were prepared to put out five days later. it changed a number of times repeatedly after that. but at the moment, she did nothing wrong. >> that is nonsense. look, these cia guys were in a firefight that night seven and a half hours. two of their guys, the seals with cia got killed. they came out, reported back. you had real-time intellige

all signs point to he was not premeditating this cold hearted murder. tavis: since by your own admission, this is such a departure from what we have seen you do at this point in your career, to what extent did this experience nudge you in the direction of doing other stuff, stretching out a bit more in terms of roles in the future? >> i am definitely open to it. i had a great experience. i don't really plan out what i am going to do in terms of what kind of roles. i love comedy and drama equally, and music, too. i just sort of follow my nose. whatever seemed really exciting at the time. but eventually i might want to do a rock opera. i have a couple of ideas. i have a band, tenacious d. we are always busy on the side, cooking up plans. we actually just cut a jazz album we are planning on releasing at the end of november. that is another change of pace. tavis: tenacious d does jazz. [laughter] >> nobody believes it, but rock is dead, and jazz is back, starting november 23. [laughter] tavis: how did you get into the music thing? you have been doing this f

. >> we don't have information at present that leads us to conclude this was premeditated or preplanned. >> reporter: president obama said the ambassador was presenting the intelligence information she was given. he challenged those who attacked ambassador rice. >> if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody they should go after me. >> reporter: senator mccain accepted that offer. >> the president of the united states, the commander-in-chief is the most responsible and i hope the president has no illusions about our view of his responsibility. >> reporter: mccain and graham want a watergate style committee to investigate the benghazi attack. and general petraeus will testify here on capitol hill tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. back to you. >>> president obama and republicans in congress have staked out their position on the so-called fiscal cliff. that's the package of tax increase and spending cuts scheduled to take effect in january. that's january 1st if he and congress don't reach an agreement. on wednesday the president met with business leaders to talk

>> well, we don't know the degree it was premeditated.hat's still something that's under investigation. how much advance planning was there or was this planned within 24 hours or the same day. so that's a question we still have to the get to the bottom of, but the important point in terms of the ambassador's statement on that sunday talk program is she was using the intelligence community's best estimate. at that time when she appeared on the sunday talk shows, the intelligence community still believed that that began as a protest, that, yes, there were terrorists and extremists involved, but that it began as a protest. so i don't see how we can fall the ambassador for using what the intelligence community said was their best assessment. in fact, in my view if she had deviated from that, if she had departed from what the intelligence community said they thought took place, then she would have been subject for criticism for ignoring what the intelligence community was saying. but as it was, very got it wrong. it took time for them to get i

both for premeditated murder. >> never been charged with murder.funny because i've been charged with everything else but that. co-defendant severed from me, so he could testify against me. i understand what he's doing to save himself. would i do it? i don't think so. but for each his own. what i don't understand is this is the life you signed up for. you want to go getting in trouble and then all of a sudden, you can't take the heat and you turn around and you go tell on everybody. we take an oath. for this to happen is very upsetting. >> though his lawyer has entered a not guilty plea on the new murder charges, bowles seems resigned to the likely end result, a murder conviction in at least one of the cases. he also made it clear that he had no feelings about the victim. >> you know, so many years of doing things and getting away with it, now getting caught with it. i don't really feel it. to me, honestly, i mean, you want to be dead honest, the dude's a dirt bag. to me, it felt like he had it coming. you want it as real as it gets? it's as real as

it might have been premeditated. they were using the film, which was in the news -- >> you're great at this but let's get to the heart of the argument. what they don't like on the republican side any suggestion to put -- let's put al qaeda to death, period. they think that's a pr statement -- >> let's -- >> no, let's stick to that. they're angry because they think it's presidential politics. not truth-telling. >> they're attributing more al qaeda to this attack and this group. this was a militia well established in benghazi. they had been working with the government there to do security. it wasn't an al qaeda -- >> they were armed with rpgs and attacked our facility. they were terrorists -- >> i think -- >> they were terrorists that day. >> a lot of terrorists aren't al qaeda. when she said at the beginning that the key thing here is to the security failure in benghazi, she's correct. that's not susan rice's responsibility. that's the state department -- >> i know. >> susan rice is being asked to defend all kinds of

prove premeditation can do more than just help your mind. >> as you look at the radar across the nation, things are looking pretty quiet, especially in the east. high pressure in control. chilly temperatures. currently 44. 37 downtown at the inner harbor. details coming up in >> in today's consumer alert -- a large, new figures show americans cut back on spending last month. the commerce department said sales dropped 0.3% in october, following three months of gains. auto sales fell 1.5%, the most in the year. analysts say the of the bird decline may be temporary, noting auto sales of like the pick up this month as americans replace cars damaged by hurricane sandy. stores across the country and not think it will open their doors on thanksgiving night instead of on the morning of black friday. now target employees are challenging the decision. a group of holiday workers are celebrating -- circulating a petition asking the company not to open on thursday night in order to give them time at home with their families. whether you are shopping or traveling, you will have plenty of company on t

somebody told her, here's what you say, that it was a protest at a video, not premeditated, not preplanned. if somebody knew otherwise, they were lying to her. i think she has been used. >> greta: she may be used burke either she's a yes man and takes whatever is spoon fed or a robot, they wound her up and said say this. >> that would be insulting, i would hope that she said, how do you know? >> after this happen, i would hope she would call somebody and say, why did do you this to me? you set me out there to make a complete fool out of myself. now i am under constant attack. i used my credibility because of what you told me, you told me the intelligence said it was a spontaneous protest. who provided her with the quote intelligence that didn't exist? >> greta: even more troubling, we have to keep going back to the fact that there are four americans dead. this isn't a game. this is know a game of parcheesi. we are trying to get to the bottom of what happened to four americans. we need to find out what happened, how do we prevent it from happening and why are we getting the stupid stories?

. >> we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned. >> reporter: president obama said the ambassador was presenting the intelligence information she was given, to challenge those who attacked ambassador rice. >> if senator mccain and graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. >> reporter: senator mccain accepted that offer. >> the president of the united states the commander-in-chief is the most responsible and i hope the president has no illusions about our view of his responsibility. >> reporter: mccain and graham want a watergate-style committee to investigate the benghazi attack. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >>> the military has suspended the security clearance for the woman at the center of the petreaus scandal. paula broadwell a former army intelligence officer who had high clearance. cbs news has learned the identity of the fbi agent who first brought the case to the bureau frederick humphries. he is a friend of florida socialite jill kelley. she went to him when she started getting harassing

or incompetent when five days after attack she said there was no information to conclude it was premeditated. >> we will do whatever is necessary to block the nomination. >> president obama defends the u.n. ambassador to the u.n. he says he has determined whether he will nominate her for secretary of state. >>> the woman at the center of the petraeus scandal has had her security removed. she had high clearance. cbs news has learned the identity of the fbi agent who first brought the case to the bureau. frederick humphries is a friend of florida socialite jill kelley. she went to him when she started getting e-mails from paula broadwell. >>> three people are reportedly dead after a rocket attack on southern israel from the gaza strip. the attack comes after israel l a military operation this week on gaza which is governed by the palestinian militant group hamas. it began after previously rocket attacks on israel. palestinian officials say president mahmoud abbas has cut short a trip to europe to deal with the crisis. >>> two women home alone in marin county managed to fight off an armed prowl

. >> the best assessment we have today is that in fact this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. that what happened initially was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in cairo as a consequence of the video. >> jon: (whit perking) we know that that's wrong now. and we now know many in the obama administration knew immediately that that statement was wrong. that the attackers were not angry film critics. (laughter) but al qaeda or one of al qaeda's able a. teams, the ansar al-sharia mud hens. (laughter) so susan rice met yesterday with senators mccain, graham and ayotte to clear the air. how did that go? >> ambassador rice i think does not do justice to the reality at the time and in hindsight clearly was completely wrong. >> we are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got and some that we didn't get concerning evidence that was overwhelming leading up to the attack on our consulate. >> jon: here's the deal: they may be right. though on the scale of public misstatements, rice's comments seem to fall more for the embarrassing evidence of institutional

. >> what this began has was a spontaneous, not a premeditated response to what had transpired in cairo. cairo, as you know, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated. >> reporter: rice is now a leading candidate to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. top republicans led by senators john mccain and lindsey graham, they vowed to block her nomination. >> i don't trust her. and the reason i don't trust her is because i think she knew better and if she didn't know better, she shouldn't be the voice of america. >> reporter: today, an obama smackdown. >> if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. and should i choose, if i think that she would be the best person to serve america, in the capacity of the state department, then i will nominate her. >> reporter: but wait. isn't this supposed to be a moment for bipartisanship? as the country approaches the fiscal cliff at the end of the year, unless washington can do a deal, what kind of leadership will the newly

she could also be found guilty of second-degree murder, which would not involve premeditation. and thirdly, the jury could find her guilty of voluntary manslaughter. and that would be as her defense has allege, if she found partial self-defense. if partial self-defense was a part of her case and the jury agreed with her, she would be found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. and of course the jury could find her not guilty. i'm just getting word now from ken molestina who says that the judge has explained and allows them to go back to deliberations. and as for the jury's wishes, deliberations, they do continue at this hour and they are not being sent home. the senses, of course, the jury, they must be getting close to reaching a verdict. we will, of course, be monitoring developments. we'll bring you the verdict via twitter at andrea mccaren and at wusa9.com. of course, we'll get back on the air and get you new information as soon as it happens. again, the jury has asked for a little bit more time after a question to the judge. they want to stay and deliberate the fate of alexis

army staff sergeant robert bales is charged with 16 counts of premeditated murder and 6 counts of attempted murder. he shot and stabbed the victims including children back in march. the hearing will determine whether he faces a court marshal. he could face the defense penalty if convicted. >>> the obama administration is getting close to a decision on how many u.s. service members will remain in afghanistan. the u.s. combat mission is set to end in 2014 and decisions have to be made about what tasks remaining troops will perform. a decision is expected in the next few weeks. >>> this is the day our nation's leaders work on a plan to save the the united states from falling off the fiscal cliff. president obama plans to meet with labor leaders today and business leaders tomorrow. he's hoping to get various groups and the two major parties to reach an agreement on a budget plan. if a deal is not reached by year's end, across the board spending cuts will automatically kick in. that will be the focus of members of congress as tray get back to work today following a few weeks recess. democratic a

he is facing 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder. >> it was a shocking incident, the death of 16 afghans, slaughtered before dawn in march. among the victims were nine children. the suspect, staff sergeant robert bayless, who had been previously injured while serving in iraq, he had been reluctant to go to afghanistan. it is alleged that he returned to his base after the first attack, heading out to the second village after finally returning, covered in blood. outrage strained relations between the afghan and u.s. authorities. prosecutors at the preliminary hearing say that the sergeant should face the death penalty if he is found guilty. his attorney argues that there is insufficient evidence to hold a court martial and his family says that there are still questions that need answering. >> we are grieving deeply for the afghani families who lost their loved ones. but we must not rush to judgment. in america, due process means that innocence is presumed unless and until the trial proves otherwise. there has been no trial yet and our family member is cons

. >> we believe this guy has been premeditated and planned this out for a while. >> reporter: stewart had a beef with his targets. they say the detective had charged him with a case involving in decent exposure. the other deputy charged him with a domestic violence involving the case with the third victim, his ex-girlfriend. they say he was living here inside the trailer with his father. they raided the trailer. authorities believe the trailer was boobie trapped with explosives. thankfully it wasn't. >> he's made three bombs. he's deployed them. i don't know anything more vicious than that. >> reporter: late wednesday they were back at the scene of the blast at the country ridge subdivision. they had said shap nal pierced the family -- shrapnel pierced the family car. >> this man is a serious danger and threat to society. >> reporter: i'm ken molestina, 9news now. >>> don't you love that music. lots of goblins out there roaming the street. and of all ages too. >> absolutely. it's not just for kids. adults are enjoying a fun night out. nick. . [ no audio ] >> reporter: hallown at georg

investigators later determined it was likely a premeditated plot by extremists. the attackers killed the ambassador and three other americans. rice broke her silence wednesday in response to rising criticism from members of the republican party. >> i relied solely and squarely on the information provided to me by the intelligence community. i made clear that the information was preliminary. and that our investigations would give us the definitive answers. >> republican lawmakers are mounting a campaign against a possible plan by president barack obama to nominate rice as secretary of state to replace hillary clinton. they say she's not qualified or fit for the job. obama criticized the republicans last week. he called their attacks on rice outrageous. >>> south koreans will soon learn who will be in the running to become their next president. registration of candidates starts on sunday, kicking off election campaigning. three hopefuls have already said they're ready for the job. the ruling party is ahead in the opinion polls. pak is a daughter of former president

but investigators later determined it was likely a premeditated plot by extremists with links to al qaeda. the attackers killed the u.s. ambassador and three other americans. rice broke her silence wednesday in response to rising criticism from members of the republican party. >> i relied solely and squarely on the information provided to me by the intelligence community. i made clear that the information was preliminary. and that our investigations would give us the definitive answers. >> republican lawmakers are mounting a campaign against a possible plan by barack obama to nominate rice as secretary of state to replace hillary clinton. they say she's not qualified or fit for the job. obama criticized the republicans last weeker calling their attacks on rice outrageous. >>> south koreans will learn who will be in the running to become their next president. registration of candidates starts on sunday, kicking off election campaigning. three hopefuls have already said they're ready for the job. pak is ahead in the opinion polls. she's a daughter of former president. she's aiming to be the

megyn: but then they said there are no signs this was premeditated, to signs.t's not true. >> yep. >> i understand, they corrected that a week later, but they never represented this as a bunch of guys climbing over a fence -- megyn: i got it. >> and throwing rocks through the window, right? megyn: i got your point. go ahead, marc. >> look, the reason the president was bristling yesterday was because he's thinking about nominating susan rice as secretary of state in which the fact that she misled the american people about an attack that killed four americans including a u.s. ambassador is entirely relevant to her confirmation. megyn: but let me jump in, but simon's point is how can you hold that against her? she said what she was told to say whether it was the white house or the cia. that wasn't susan rice misleading if someone was misleading. >> this is something that has to be investigated and, also, why did no one else who was in the loop go out there? these are things that need to be investigated. the point is this whole affair is a cloud over her name and h

the closing of the stables, and the timing of this warning indicate that there was some type of premeditated determination that on this date our park system would change. we would change so radically and so greatly that nothing would compare to it in 140 years. and so the point i'm making is is that at some point you have to reevaluate what has happened in the past, and you have to balance it with the needs of the present moment, and the needs of the present moment is that you have a very dense population of people in san francisco that need recreational opportunities, and currently they're having to drive out of the city to see those opportunities which creates a large environmental footprint, and that footprint could be reduced by bringing equestrians back to the city which would also offer a traffic resolution. it would slow down and impede this constant l.a. traffic we're seeing in our city. traffic calming is created by equestrians, and so by getting rid of the equestrians we have seen a complete increase in aggressive traffic and a reduction in the quality of life of san franciscans wh

. >> we do not have information at present that leads to us conclude this was premeditated or preplanned. >> reporter: republicans have accused her of intentionally making misleading statement, suggesting they tone down any references to terrorism for political reasons ahead of the presidential election. cia director david petraeus told congress last week that an early draft of the talking points did include a link between al qaeda and the attack. but the official told us someone in the office of the dni crossed it out because the links were deemed too tenuous to make public at that point. the head of dni is james clapper an obama appointee. clapper reviewed the points but there's no indication that he personally made the edits. clapper may be asked to plain. a statement was release saying this version differs from earlier accounts and they want answers. >>> this morning india executed the lone surviving terrorist on mumbai. he held mumbai hostage for three days in 2008 targeting luxury hotels. 166 people were kill. the gunman was hanged. the taliban called him a hero who will inspire ot

." >> we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned. >> reporter: that would later prove to be untrue, though the white house insisted rice was working off the c.i.a.'s best information at the time. several republicans on the senate foreign relations committee have suggested they might try to block her nomination. florida's marco rubio was noncommittal today. >> obviously she based those comments on directives or information she had and it's important to know who that directive came from and what exactly that information was. >> reporter: massachusetts senator john kerry, the chair of the foreign relations committee, has also expressed interest in the secretary of state job but today sources said he might be considered for secretary of defense instead if leon panetta leaves. and john brennan, the president's top counterterrorism advisor, has emerged as a leading candidate to fill the role unexpectedly vacated by david petraeus as director of the c.i.a. the news about susan rice's standing had all the feel of a trial balloon today, scot

. >> we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned. >> reporter: president obama said the ambassador was presenting the intelligence information she was given, to challenge those who attacked ambassador rice. >> if senator mccain and graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. >> reporter: senator mccain accepted that offer. >> the president of the united states the commander-in-chief is the most responsible and i hope the president has no illusions about our view of his responsibility. >> reporter: mccain and graham want a watergate-style committee to investigate the benghazi attack. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >>> the military has suspended the security clearance for the woman at the center of the petreaus scandal. paula broadwell a former army intelligence officer who had high clearance. cbs news has learned the identity of the fbi agent who first brought the case to the bureau frederick humphries. he is a friend of florida socialite jill kelley. she went to him when she started getting harassing

. >> bales faces counts on 16 premeditated murder charges an six counts of attempted murder. that could make him eligible for the death penalty. >>> it has been more than two weeks since sandy struck and some in new york have had enough of being without power. they're suing the long island power authority saying the utility company is taking way too long to restore electricity and it isn't being up front about how long those repairs will take. in response to that criticism, the acting chief executive of the long island power authority has resigned effective the end of the year. new york governor andrew cuomo announced plans to have a special commission investigate the going on within that utility. >>> time now for a check of the forecast once again with lynette. it is cold and we think about those people in new york, lynette, the temperatures are getting dangerous. >> i know, charley. we've been talking about this for it seems like forever now. it just gets sadder and sadder. and for us here, some of us, we do have our power, a lot of us have our power back, but it's still co

history commentators of suggested it was premeditated and planned out it was nothing nothing like that at all it was a series of you know from the first day for the first few days you're expecting a knock on the door any particular moment you're constantly on edge and then strangely when that doesn't happen you going with sort of confidence that you can survive for another couple of days and then you think in terms of weeks or maybe months and then there's a external events like inter external auditors regulatory audit you expect to expose what's going on and you you know you panic around those periods and you're maybe trade more aggressively because you're not going to get past this particular point in time and then when you do realize the realisation is that the incompetence and negligence extends further than your own organization and then you've got more time how did you fellow traders do you what you were doing and how did they feel when you got found out so this is a story that highlights incompetence and negligence and in order to be able to do that and come to be at one with yo

now susan rice says this began as a spontaneous, not premeditated response to what happened in cairo. think her language was very careful. that's why they pounced on that language. i think things were slightly settled down today because you heard from dave petraeus because he said she was giving these talking points. i don't think it's settled down completely. i think you'll probably still see john mccain and lindsey graham. >> do you think she'll be secretary of state? >> i don't know. i don't know whether she'll be nominated. that is one of the things that president obam said yesterday. he said he hadn't decided. gwen: how about is this whether she was getting a nomination or how much of not letting him tell -- >> i can nominate anyone i want to. if i want to nominate susan rice, i will. but he certainly hasn't done that right, not put in stone, so we can't do that yet. i think certainly, i have seen a couple of very negative articles in the past 24 hours, too, about her. it sort of seems there is an effort to undermine that nomination. gwen: let's not forget the big story of the we

." >> we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned reporter: but by that time, several intelligence reports had called it a preplanned attack and republicans complained that rice had been misleading. senators mccain and graham escalated the name calling today. >> and the reason i don't trust her is because i think she knew better and if he didn't know better she shouldn't be the voice of america. >> reporter: when the president then demanded that mccain and graham come after him instead, mccain did. >> if the president thinks that we are picking on people, he really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. >> reporter: john mccain and other senate republicans are now pushing for a watergate-style select committee to investigate benghazi and the administration's response. and now, scott, the president also faces an all-out battle if he nominates susan rice to replace secretary clinton. >> pelley: wyatt, thank you very much. most of the president's news conference today centered on his idea for avoiding the automatic tax inc

. >> based on information is what they this began on was a spontaneous, not premeditated response topired in cairo. >> lindsay gram is expressing doubts.)tkx today would not rye pete his vow to stand in rice's way. >> there will be questions about this discipline and others. >> the white house press secretary would not say if the president plans to nominate her. there is speculation that tim geithner's job will probably go to jack lu but there is talk of cheryl sandberg. she was chief of staff to larry summers and served on the president's job council. she serves on the walt disney board of directors and disney owns abc, as well as this tv station. with sandberg christina rover's name being flolted for the post. until two years ago the economist was chair of the council of economic advisors and google executive chairman is one more local name being mentioned in connection with the top job in treasury. leon pin yetta is planning on leaving his post. michelle fournoy would be the first woman in that job if she gets the job. one more bay area member of the cabinet to speculate about is

. >> we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned. >> reporter: last week, former c.i.a. director david petraeus told congressional panels in closed sessions that someone in the obama administration removed references to terrorism and al qaeda from his agency summary before it went to rice. a source told us the edits were made by the office of the director of national intelligence. republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham have led the call for a special committee to investigate. >> i was on "face the nation" the morning she came on and told that incredible story, and right after it, the president of the libyan national assembly said it was al qaeda. we know it was al qaeda. and yet she never changed her story. >> reporter: rice also shot back against mccain's criticisms. >> i do think that some of the statements he's made about me have been unfounded. but i look forward to having the opportunity at the appropriate time to discuss all of this with him. >> reporter: now, after rice spoke last night, several republicans told u