news is told the fbiidirectoo sean joyce, his boss robert mueller, faced haad questtons about the failureo notify congress about the fbi petraeus investigation. and fielded questioos on the pttack, on thursday, the nation's most seniir enforcemenn officials will teetify in classified sessions toothe house and senate intelligence committees,,which will be closed to the public and to reeorters. fox news has director ddvid petraeus as voluntarily agreed to testify nothing has beennfinalized. in wwshingttn, catherine herridge, fox newss 3 &p in tonight's wwste watch report ..... 3 invooving disaster clean-up. clean-up.the washington guardian reports that the city of milwaukee, wisconnin spent almost eleven million dollars repairing a water pumpiig station thattwas damaaed in is that pumping station was scheduled to set to be shut dow. down.and pompano beach, florrda is getting criticism ccty billed the governmmnt for debris clean-up that didd't actually take place. to learn more on government waate ffoo our media partner... got to the hott topics sections of our website and click on washingtt

or you can do what fbi director robert mueller does, and text the word awake, followed by your response to 622639. and we're going to read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this monday, november 12th. there's a lot going on today, including positive science of bipartisanship. >>> and mitt romney drowns his sorrows in the bottom of a bottle of milk. let's get to the news here at 30 rock in new york city. >>> we begin with general david petraeus and his sudden and unexpected resignation as director of the central intelligence agency on friday, citing an extramarital affair. kristen welker reports. >> reporter: according to a senior federal official and close friend of david petraeus, 37-year-old jill kelly complained to fbi agents about being harassed by ball la broadwell, david petraeus' biographer. a senior official says jill kelly is involved in wounded warrior fund raising in tampa. she is married. petraeus' downfall started when kelly complained to the fbi that she was receiving intimidating e-mails from broadwell. law enforcement

director robert mueller, told congressional intelligence committee leaders today that was the primaryson they were not briefed on the investigation. the white house wasn't told until after the election. the president said the f.b.i. was following its own guidelines and he'd withhold judgment on the delayed notification. >> it is also possible that had we been told, then you'd be sitting here asking a question about why were you interfering in a criminal investigation? >> reporter: no one has been charged in case with a crime but late today the army did suspend paula broadwell's security clearance. scott. >> pelley: thanks, bob. the air force said today it is pulling jill kelly's gate pass for mcgill air force base. she was apparently given access there to facility her meetings for central command. two u.s. senators today told the president they will not allow him to make america's u.n. ambassador his new secretary of state. susan rice is widely mentioned as the replacement for secretary hillary clinton. but republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham said they questioned statem

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robert mueller -- >> my recommendation is they need to familiarize themselves before they come over oversightr a house committee and if they think they are going to make it without disclosing that name, they are still sorely mistaken. lou: is deeply troubling, if not? >> it is one the administration claims to be mostly transparent since the earth cooled. we're going to find out what happened and when dossey without the voluntary health or with the voluntary help of the people. we will have committee hearings until the lord comes back if that's what it takes. we have four murderee americans. i also found the president's reaction to what the three senators said to be disappointing. he does get defensive when he is question we didn't send susan rice. if he is upset and frustrated, he has no one to blame but himself. lou: legislators keep forgetting to put for the fact that there were three senators on this committee, not just the two men, a number of them have stepped forward to say this is rough treatment of a woman, namely ambassador rice, forgetting that senator ayotte is also amongst those.

robert mueller and shawn joyce will meet for a second straight day. paula broadwell september e-mail toss several high-ranking military officers in an attempt to undermine tampa socialite's reputation. she is friends with petraeus and it cost both some privileges. the military suspended the u.s. army security clearance and kelley's air force base pass. >>> the edge of the fiscal cliff is still a month and a half away but it is already spooking investigators on wall street. the dow posted its third triple digit loss in more than a week closing down 185 points. both it and the s&p 500 ended at the lowest levels since the summer. the nasdaq is down 10% from just september. investors say the fear of grid lock on capitol hill is driving this tailspin. president obama, though, says there is room for agreement. >>> as i've said before, i'm open to compromise and i'm open to new ideas. and i've been encouraged to hear republican after republican agree on the need for more revenue from the wealthiest americans as part of our a arithmetic if we're serious about

perhaps, that's why robert mueller made an unexpected visit to capitol hill today to answer questions. at issue is the timeline of ooechblts and why it took as long as as it did for the pyeatt to find out that the nation's chief intelligence person was under investigation. let's just go through this timeline again. it started in may. the fbi at that time first started looking into anonymous harassing e-mails sent to jill kelley. that's where agent humphries comes in. it was late in the summer when high level officials at the fbi and justice department were told that their investigation had also uncovered an affair between david petraeus and his biographer, paula broadwell. it's not clear when mueller and holder were notified, but in mid october, the fbi interviewed paula broadwell and david petraeus. eric cantor was told of the affair by an fbi whistleblower. notified mueller of his conversation with the whistleblower. so, when it all came down to it, it wasn't until election day that james clapper is toll of an fbi probe and two days after that, november 8th, that president barack ob

if robert mueller knew about this going back weeks or months at some of the information coming out suggests does he keep that? if it compromises national security today, it compromised it on the day we learned he was having an affair. he should have been confronted immediately by that. if mueller kept it from the president orpet kept it from the country -- or if the president kept it from the country a huge scandal. >> bret: we'll follow it on foxment next up, the president talks compromise sort of as he looks over the fiscal cliff. orr had to cost a fortune. nobody said an all-in-one had to be bulky. or that you had to print from your desk. at least, nobody said it to us. introducing the business smart inkjet all-in-one series from brother. easy to use, it's the ultimate combination of speed, small size, and low-cost printing. >>> i have invited leaders of both parties to white house next week to start to build consensus around the challenges that we can only solve together. >> i'm hopeful that product tiff conversations can begin soon, so that we can forge an agreement that can pass the c

deputy director and his boss robert mueller face hard questions about the f.b.i.etraeus investigation. the acting director of the c.i.a. fielding questions about the attack. >> thursday, the nation's senior intelligence and lawmaker officials will testify in classified session to house intelligence committee that is closed to the public and reporters. fox news learned former c.i.a. director david petraeus voluntarily agreed to testify before both committees. while there are reports that the testimony could come as early as tomorrow, it remains fluid situation. and nothing has been finalized tonight, chris. >> chris: we'll stay on top of it. thank you. now to what investigators found in paula broadwell's home computer. here is national security correspondent jennifer griffin. >> as a military intelligence army reserve lieutenant can no paula broadwell has special clearance to view classified information but not to take it home with her. in addition, she could face charms under the uniform code of military justice if she was working for army at the time of her extra

of the senate judiciary committee, has september a letter to attorney general eric holder and robert muellering for details about the role of their departments in the investigation. among his questions, why wasn't the president informed of the investigation, which began in the summer, before last week? today, attorney general eric holder defended his action. >> we felt very secure in the knowledge that a national security threat did not exist that warranted the sharing of that information with the white house or with the hill. but when we got to a point in the investigation, it was very late in the investigation, after a very critical interview occ occurred on the friday before, we made that disclosure when we got to that point to share the information, we did so. >> but did they do so soon enough? lewis gutierrez joins us now, the intelligence committee and republican representative jason ch ar chaffitz. let me just start with you, representative gutierrez. are you satisfied with attorney general holder's explanation as to why he did not tell the president earlier about the petraeus affair?

he passed on the concerns to robert mueller. now, on november 2nd, the fbi said there's tho evidence petraeus committed a crime and they rule out charges, then it is election day when james clapper is first informed of the investigation. at 5:00 p.m. he called petraeus and advised him to resign. it wasn't until after the election the president was notified that the chief of the country's spy agency was under investigation and had been since the beginning of the summer. on friday, the president accepted petraeus' resignation. house and senate leaders were informed at that time. bob barrows also joins us and bob, let me ask you about this fbi investigation. it began in the early summer. the president was only informed after the election. his director of national intelligence informed at 5:00 on election day. congressional leaders were informed even after the resignation. defense secretary leon panetta was asked today whether capitol hill should have been notified sooner and said, i want to quote, that's another issue we ought to l

and of course the fbi under robert mueller, who has so much integrity and is highly respected, arguest they were doing the right thing. the fbi agent interestingly, this is what we found out today, the fbi agent who brought this originally to congress and to eric cantor who called mueller, says he never meant to be a whistle-blower. he was not trying to make a big deal about this case. he just wanted to quietly get it moving, and he told a friend who went to a congressman from washington state where fredrick humphries is from, who went to eric cantor and that's how it got to mueller. >> okay, okay. excuse me. >> he's being incorrectly called a whistle-blower. >> sari, he goes to a congress person, going outside of his agency, about a person who is being accused -- or somebody who is making accusations of being harassed by e-mail. is that important enough, that some woman is hearing from some other woman that's jealous of her, that that's worthy of congressional attention? >> i think the fbi agent heard that general patraeus was involved in this and there had possibly been a breach of

director, robert mueller. >> brown: speaking of broadwell, you're going back to where things stand on the petraeus investigation. what do we know about why f.b.i. people were at her house? what were they looking for last night? what was that all about? >> another fascinating development last night. it happened late. that is part of the ongoing investigation. while general alen is not part of the ongoing justice investigation, paula broadwell still is. she had classified documents, they discovered, in the course of looking at her emails. she had classified documents. in her interview with the f.b.i., broadwell said that she did not get the documents from general petraeus. they interviewed general at the tray us who said he did not give the documents to paula broadwell. so the question for the f.b.i. is where is she getting the classified documents? and why does she have them? it was not a raid. she gave them theeys to her house. they went... the f.b.i. in charlotte north carolina where she lives, they went with boxes, pretty dramatic for the press there. they took photographs of the ou

he went right to robert mueller and said i just want to be sure you know what's going on here.the head of the fbi. but why would this fbi agent -- that doesn't follow protocol. seems to me he broke protocol. why would he go to a republican member of congress and blow the whistle here? >> was he with the intelligence community? >> bill: no. i know that answer. >> caller: i don't understand why he would do that. >> bill: your second point. >> caller: other than that i think the media is driving this thing. we've got bigger problems than having two generals corresponding or doing whatever they are with a woman. i think we have bigger problems than two generals, sir. >> bill: charles, i couldn't agree more. i was sitting at a restaurant last night the screens were on and everywhere you looked, all you saw all night long, all night long, right was general petraeus general petraeus, general petraeus. and i didn't see any conversation about the fact that unless congress comes to some agreement with the white house we are going to have a fiscal crisis that makes the crash of 2008 look

. >> reporter: on capitol hill wednesday fbi director robert mueller briefed congressional intelligence leaders saying the fbi did find that broadwell who had been researching a book on petraeus may have mishandled classified information. also on wednesday the army suspended broadwell security clearances and the air force base rejected kelley's access to the base. officials have said emails between kelley and allen contain nothing of a sexual nature but could be embarrassing. allen has denied any wrongdoing and has not spoken publicly but his attorney did release a statement on his behalf saying he was fully cooperating with the investigations and to the kent there's certain questions on communication with general allen he plans to resolve those questions as quickly as possible. in an interview with charlie rose in washington on wednesday night the head of u.s. special operations, maintained high praise for his colleagues. >> my time serving with david petraeus and john allen are the two finest officers i've ever worked with. i'll leave it at that. >> reporter: david petraeus is set to

judiciary committee less march smith sent a list of questions to attorney general eric holder and robert muellerformer assistant fbi director. good morning. what do these mean these new questions? >> this is going to be a very tough scrub on what did the fbi director know about this case and when did he know it? what did the attorney general learn from the fbi and when delearn it? what they want to get to, norah, is why weren't the committees told under the national security act that an investigation, not targeting, but where the cia comes up wasn't something they were notified about. >> and why they didn't feel the president should be notified. >> that's right. what does the fbi have to change the way it goes about this? >> i think the fbi and the department of justice will say we did a careful legal analysis. you're supposed to notify the white house and congress about security. this will cause them to relook and say how do we go about our analysis if we had to do over. would we do the same. was it sfligt i don't know we'll know the conclusion of that. >> is it true jill kelley tried to stop t

fbi director robert mueller went to capitol hill wednesday, to defend the bureau's handling of the casearound the same time, the president was saying he has full confidence in the fbi but is waiting for a full explanation. >> i am withholding judgment. >> reporter: even as fbi agents continued to investigate the classified documents found in the computer of petraeus' mistress, the president said he knew of no security lapse. >> i have no evidence at this point, from what i have seen. >> reporter: but the department of defense has revoked the security clearance held by paula broadwell. as for the agent, fred humphries, his home outside tampa was dark last night, other than this car racing out of the driveway shortly after abc news arrived. >> sir, abc news? >> reporter: adding another bit of spice to the soap opera in tampa, reports that humphries had sent a picture of himself shirt less to jill kelley. his lawyer said that was true, but it was a joke between friends. he was standing on a shooting range with three shooting range dummies that showed only their heads and naked torsos, and

the notification chain typically would be from the fbi agents to their immediate boss director robert muellerediate boss attorney general eric holder. intelligence officials say this case falls outside of the norm. >> there is no rule book or history as to how you handle these kinds of events. these folks may have been making it up as they went along doing the best they could balancing all of these important interests, you know, from some sper specht teufs they may have go perspectives they may have got even it right and others wrong. >> one capitol hill source told fox knowing that the general was in the scope of an fbi investigation even if the matter seemed largely a personal matter would have changed the optics here, which petraeus' action and statements were viewed. this is key, because three days after the benghazi attack the general in what is now a controversial briefing told lawmakers that the attack was akin to a flash mob, he seemed very much wedded to the administration's narrative that was part of this anti-islam video, and this directly conflicted with statements by the fbi and

>> it seems to be, but under the new leadership in the cia and director robert mueller -- jenna: is therecooperation? >> i think so. they have been working together overseas. i think the situation is a lot better than it used to be before. jenna: we will ask you why you left the fbi. let's talk you about the bigger issues. while we are distracted on this, there are a lot of things happening in the shadows across the globe that we need to pay attention to. a couple of shocking scandals rocked washington, our enemies are still very much a work. we are at war now. it is shocking that we even have to remind ourselves about this. the hotspots and what we should be doing. we will be back right after the break al-assad's regime. then you have regional conflict that is going on. this is between iran and turkey. turkey is supporting the iranian people and iran is supporting the regime. you also have to look at it on a different level. where you have russia and china also involved on global levels with the syrian conflict. it is becoming a war of shadows and a war of different phones. the problem w

>> it seems to be, but under the new leadership in the cia and director robert mueller -- jenna: is therecooperation? >> i think so. they have been working together overseas. i think the situation is a lot better than it used to be before. jenna: we will ask you why you left the fbi. let's talk you about the bigger issues. while we are distracted on this, there are a lot of things happening in the shadows across the globe that we need to pay attention to. a couple of shocking scandals rocked washington, our enemies are still very much a work. we are at war now. it is shocking that we even have to remind ourselves about this. the hotspots and what we should be doing. we will be back right after the break jenna: right now washington is busy dealing with scandals. america's enemy is still at it. the middle east is still a hot spot. thomas friedman writes today that for obama second term, i fear that it could be the full nightmare. all of them at once, the whole middle east corrupting in one giant sound and light show of civil war. states classing and refugees dislocating is the keystone of t

especially because we are told that eric holder and fbi director robert mueller began looking into theffair last summer. we are told that mr. eric holder was told in september about it. then they spend weeks on an investigation that went so far as to open the cia director's e-mail, all without ever even mentioning it to the white house. joining me now is the former u.s. attorney general under george w. bush. there is an article in time magazine talking about you. about how you were the attorney general back in 2007. he wrote a memo that would have dissuaded or prohibited any contact between fbi justice and the white house when there is an ongoing criminal probe. you say that's nonsense. that's not what your mama said. >> that's correct. in fairness, "time" magazine, they got it right. but what the memo was meant to do and what it did was to stop contact in criminal investigation, ordinary investigation and restricted. it is permitted to have contact. megyn: so when there is an fbi investigation of this sort going on, saying mr. president, you need to know something -- >> to go further,

director robert mueller said, there is a very real possibility trainees will recruit more terrorists from among the federal inmate population and continue al qaeda operations from the inside, which is how the new york synagogue bombers were recruited. all of these things are -- we shouldn't even be debating this. the ayotte amendment is one that would take care of this. we don't have to worry about it from year to year. we don't have to anguish over this thing that we've decided several times. i can remember, i guess it was back in the early administration of obama, when he identified 17 areas in the united states that would be appropriate for incarcerating terrorists, that we would take out of gitmo. and one of those places happened to be fort sill in my state of oklahoma. i went down to fort sill. i looked at the facility that we had that was housed within fort sill facility. and there was a lady there whose name was sergeant major carter. i can remember when she came up to me, she said, senator, why in the world -- go back and tell these people back there that they don't understan