intensity get involved with another very intense person paula broadwell, i'm surprised by the lack of discipline. you can see those two as kind of a match for each other, at least momentarily. >> rose: but first an excerpt from our conversation with the woman in question, paula broadwell when she appeared on this program to promote her book. what was it that you intended to do in the dissertation that resulted in the book. what were you looking for? >> charlie i wanted to use petraeus as a case somebody, somebody that's a maverick within an institution can galvanize institutional change. i wanted to see what was his specific role in helping to change and update our doctrine, the counterinsurgency doctrine, how he shapes the organization of our fighting forces, the training and equipment of those forces. i proposed to him he would be one of sell case studies and he agreed. >> rose: how is he different. >> i think he's willing to take an idea from anyone whether it's private, a think tank or someone from the private sector or press. he uses this technique called directive telescoping wh

paula broadwell all of this access. all of us had access to general petraeus over the years when he wants us around and tell us something. but this was different. he really allowed her to go everywhere with him. he talked to her all the time. i've talked to many aides, they were concerned about it in afghanistan. they were concerned how it looked, the optics of having this woman all the time. they described her as gushy and inappropriate talking about his thoughts. you've seen her on several programs over the last week. and things she was saying about him. that made them uncomfortable. >> well like martha, i've known him for about a decade, covered him in these war jones. he's a disciplined man, a man with incredible force of will. as much as we talk about his counterinsurgency doctrine, when i think about what happened in iraq, it was really david petraeus' will power in that battle space in the way he changed people's expectations what was possible, what was striking. so to see a man of that intensity get involved with another very intense person paula broadwell, i'm surprised by

atención, a jill kelley que fue prohibido su acceso a una base en la florida, y a paula broadwell que se le retiró el acceso a informes clasificados, los investigadores analizan documentos y correos electrónicos de las dos mujeres. >>> aunque la trama cada vez es más complicada, paula broadwell parece tranquila y jill kelley no pierde su glamour, ambas mujeres están en un escándalo que implica a las más altas personas del país. >>> el general john allen está haciendo un trabajo excelente y sigue teniendo mi confianza, suspewnder su nominación como comandante de la otan es ua buena decisión . >>> tenemos a un individuo que está al tanto de todo este repliego, el primer repliego del año, y si sacas a este individuo instrumental que ha levantado ya el reporte a las autoridades afganas sería un golpe. >>> la mayor parte de los correos electrónicos que el general john allen intercambió con jill kelley, que reveleara la relación de paula broadwell y david petraeus solo muestran algo de coqueteo, comentarios donde jill kelley le dice, te viste bien en televisión, y el genera

inadvertently exposed the affair between general petraeus and paula broadwell. meantime a team of fbi agents searched broadwell's home in charlotte, north carolina, overnight, and spent nearly five hours there wrapping up just after 1:00 in the morning. "wall street journal" is reporting that the fbi agent who launched the petraeus investigation himself is under investigation. in part because he sent shirtless pictures of himself to jill kelley. jill kelley, the woman who kicked off all of this investigation, by complaining about the e-mails that she was getting from the petraeus mistress. so the agent, who knew kelley, allegedly sent those pictures before any investigation began, but as you can see, the story is getting much more complicated. we've got team coverage of the breaking news this morning. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris, i don't even know where to begin because there's so much to talk about. let's start with general allen. what's the implications of this -- of him being brought in to petraeus scandal and what has he said about it? >> so far, from what we've heard from d

with the case. >> and there's more. a team of fbi agents searching paula broadwell's home yesterday. eight to ten agents brought cardboard boxes and searched both levels of the house. the fbi confirmed agents were there but wouldn't say what they were looking for. >> obviously, a lot going on here. we have two reports. chris lawrence of the pentagon and brianna keeler in our washington bureau. let's start with chris. chris, we're talking about two high-level government officials in a scandal, general allen sent to become the supreme ally commander for nato. first off, what's the latest on the investigation? you are hearing anything? what is going to happen to general allen? >> reporter: yeah, right now what i'm hearing is that general allen is here in washington wondering exactly the same thing. he was just 48 hours away from going before that senate confirmation hearing to take over nato. now that has been postponed. he is here and people are wondering what's going to happen to him next. from what we've been able to determine from sources at the pentagon, basically they are looking

, paula broadwell. >> get this. "the wall street journal" reports the fbi agent who launched the petraeus investigation was removed from the case after it was discovered he sent a shirtless picture of himself to jill kelly. the agent who knew kelly sent the pictures before the investigation began. he was later removed from the investigation because supervisors were concerned the agent may have become obsessed with the case. >> and there's more. a team of fbi agents searching paula broadwell's home yesterday. eight to ten agents brought cardboard boxes and searched both levels of the house. the fbi confirmed agents were there but wouldn't say what they were looking for. >> obviously, a lot going on here. we have two reports. chris lawrence of the pentagon and brianna keeler in our washington bureau. let's start with chris. chris, we're talking about two high-level government officials in a scandal, general allen sent to become the supreme ally commander for nato. first off, what's the latest on the investigation? you are hearing anything? what is going to happen to general allen? >> report

family friend of petraeus'. the fbi traced the e-mails back to paula broadwell, petraeus' biographer. and by late summer, "the wall street journal" report, the bureau linked broadwell to petraeus. that's when "the journal" says top officials informed eric holder of the situation. >> once the white house, once some staffer knows, various people find out about something, it becomes public almost instantly. you see this all the time. >> reporter: cnn contributor tom fuentes says under its protocols the fbi and justice department should have kept it inside their circles, unless there was evidence of a breach of security or criminal wrongdoing. and there was no evidence of either. "the journal" reports the fbi interviewed petraeus the week before the election. and nbc news reports the bureau wrapped up its investigation on november 2nd. we could not get comment from the fbi or the justice department on the time lines. so why didn't congressman cantor go to top congressional leaders when he got the information on october 27th? a cantor aide says the congressman's information ca

>> late last night the fbi drops by the home of paula broadwell, the woma involved in the alleged affair with cia director david petraeus with agents carrying out boxes of material. now the top military commander in afghanistan is being investigated by the pentagon for having inappropriate communications with jill kelley, the woman who first blew the whistle on broadwell's threatening e-mails. oh, boy, here we go. good morning. i'm mika brzezinski, along with joe scarborough, this is "way too early," the show that receives on average about a dozen inappropriate communications from donny deutsch every day. >> every half hour. it's a long story. by the way, shirtless as well. we will talk about that. >> that's on a good day. thanks for being up with us. shoot us an e-mail or tweet u us and let us know why you're awake right now. or do what jill kelley's twin sister does and text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. >> you kids make sure if your dad sends an e-mail, the shirt stays on. okay? seriously. i'm tired of looki

an affair, but she did receive e-mails from paula broadwell the woman whom petraeus was involved. how this relates to our nation's safety is key for you to know and understand. let's bring in national security correspondent jennifer griffin joining us on the phone from d.c. and jennifer start there, national security and why it's important. >> well, it's very important and every time a story comes out these days from about this story, the benghazi story, we keep having to-- we keep finding out it's not the whole truth. what we've learned tonight, i've spoken to sources that are close to both the petraeus family and jill kelly's family and what i can confirm, jill kelly never worked for the state department, or for the joint special operations command or for com. she's a family friend as is her sister natalie of the petraeus family and what we can confirm that jill kelly received threatening e-mails that the fbi believed could have been an attempt to blackmail david petraeus as head of the the cia. they began to investigate and that is when they came across information about the affair

tap. we'll see you next fox news sunday. >> this is the fox report. tonight, new pieces to the petraeus resignation puzzle coming to light. what we now know about the mysterious women who ignited a fbi investigation of the man in charge of the cia. and lawmakers of every political stripe circling with questions about the timing of his departure. . >> he quit over a woman after the fbi uncovered his misdeed. now the head of the intelligence committee says she was never told they were in trouble. >> this is something that could have had an effect on national security. i think we should have been told. >> tonight, with petraeus gone from the cia, will we ever get the whole story about what happened the the night four americans were murdered in libya? >> and 3000 miles away from washington, in the vast mojave desert. a new effort to preserve a longstanding symbol of faith. fox reports live from the site. and-- >> americans honoring generations of veterans for keeping our freedom and liberty secure. >> a fox urgent. i'm harris falkner on the behavior tonight that ended the career of general david patriot. you may know by now, he admits he had an extramarital affair and quit suddenly on friday because of it. we knew it involved e-mails and questions of national security and a woman who was writing a book about him. and now this, just moments ago, sources close to fox news and the petraeus family confirming to us, a second woman was involved in the fbi investigation of his e-mails and she was in fact, a close friend named jill kelly. and that's her in this photo second from the right, standing right next to general petraeus, his wife, polly. we're told petraeus and kelly were not having an affair, but she did receive e-mails from paula broadwell the woman whom petraeus was involved. how this relates to our nation's safety is key for you to know and understand. let's bring in national security correspondent jennifer griffin joining us on the phone from d.c. and jennifer start there, national security and why it's important. >> well, it's very important and every time a story comes out these days from about this story, the benghazi story, we keep having to-- we keep finding out it's not the whole truth. what we've learned tonight, i've spoken to sources that are close to both the petraeus family and jill kelly's family and what i can confirm, jill kelly never worked for the state department, or for the joint special operations command or for com. she's a family friend as is her sister natalie of the petraeus family and what we can confirm that jill kelly received threatening e-mails that the fbi believed could have been an attempt to blackmail david petraeus as head of the the cia. they began to investigate and that is when they came across information about the affair with paula broadwell. however, we also cannot confirm that paula broadwell sent those threatening e-mails to jill kelly, the family friend of petraeus. there's no indication that jill kelly was having an affair with petraeus. the affair that general petraeus admitted to was with paula broadwell and his biographer, but what is interesting, what is not clear at this point is who wrote the threatening e-mails that started this daisy-chain event and may not, according to both families, may not have been paula broadwell herself. this has been painted as a fight between two women over general petraeus, but it's not clear that's what it was at all. >> harris: and that's really the problem, right, jennifer? because if somehow or another someone had gained access to either her e-mail and/or that of general petraeus, that is a compromise. that is, it's not what you want. that's access that might be nefarious and that's why they were investigating. >> reporter: and the other thing, harris, it's not just that they may have gained access to his e-mail. we don't have confirmation of that. what we have confirmation of is that people close to david petraeus were potentially being, receiving threatening e-mails that may have been in fact an attempt to blackmail the director of the cia. and so, there are more questions than answers tonight about who sent those e-mails and what was the nature of the threat. >> harris: yeah and that brings in the national security, because when you have the potential for someone at his level. we are at war, when you have someone of his level who might or might not be being black mailed, that's potentially very dangerous for the rest of the country. and jennifer-- also, harris, there's one other point i think is important to clarify, it's not clear that this is about an affair with paula broadwell at all. and the more questions we ask, it's not clear that that affair when it began, there is some indications that it began a year ago after david petraeus left the military. but there are many people close to petraeus who say that paula broadwell was a regular fixture in afghanistan, we know that, and that it was an open secret among his friends and closest friends that he did have a relationship with her and that the fbi likely would have known about that when he went through vetting to be the director of the cia and confirmation hearing. so it's not clear why this is coming out right now. >> harris: very interesting. >> reporter: especially since he was facing hearings on capitol hill that bound to be tense with the senate and house intelligence committees and now we understand he does not plan to breach those hearings and we heard from the head of the intelligence committee request that he may come in as a private citizen and ask questions. >> harris: we may see him sit in that seat on capitol hill, may not be on thursday. we know representative peter king of new york, head of the house homeland security committee said last night, there's potential he could step away for a few days and gather himself and come back and talk to him because he's a key figure and finding out what happened at the consulate where four americans, including the ambassador were killed. and jennifer, all of this days before those hearings, questions about what petraeus knew, if he could take part. but now, questions about who knew behind the scenes in washington that the fbi was looking at the head of the cia. >> reporter: well, apparently not many people knew. certainly the oversight committee on capitol hill, and this has been a trend throughout this entire benghazi story, is that the oversight committees and the intelligence committees supposed to have oversight over the cia knew very little what was going on both with the this affair-- this alleged affair and the benghazi incident. so, there have been -- there's been a great deal of secrecy surrounding the fbi investigation that led to concerns about this affair or alleged affair, and so, again, a lot of people on capitol hill wondering why they weren't told about this potential threat to the director of the cia, why is it coming out four days before hearings where they were going to finally get some answers about benghazi? it just doesn't add up. however, i will add, harris, sources close to the petraeus and kelly families tell me that his resignation does not have to do with benghazi and that the revelation of the affair with paula broadwell does not have to do with benghazi, that's according to these sources. one other point of clarification, it's really curious why did the ap run a story tonight saying that jill kelly was a -- working for the state department as a liaison officer to the joint special operations command, which the ap wrote was based in tampa, florida. the joint special operations command, everyone knows, is based in fort brag, north carolina. it is not based in florida. so, who was it that was feeding the ap that misleading information. jill kelly accord to go family sources does not work there. . >> harris: jennifer griffin with the back story. we appreciate it, jennifer. the story seemed to be breaking across this weekend almost hour by hour. we'll stay on it, if the news warrant we'll bring you back, we appreciate it. >> reporter: thank you. >> harris: new concerns tonight and questions from washington. you heard us talking about this, about why the fbi did not inform the people at the top, meaning the white house and others, and those in the intel community about the investigation that involved general david petraeus. now, the head of the senate intelligence committee, diane feinstein and jennifer mentioned her, saying she first learned about this whole thing from the media. she told chris wallace in a fox news sunday exclusive, when she found out it was like a lightning bolt. she says she's been briefed by the fbi and wants to know why she wasn't told sooner than this, saying it could have had an effect on national security. >> we received no advanced notice. it was like a lightning bolt. i think we should have been told. there is a way to do it and that is just to inform the chair and the vice-chairman of both committees. >> harris: feinstein says she doesn't think general petraeus's resignation had anything to do with the hearings the upcoming, about the killing of four americans in benghazi. he may still be called to testify. two other lawmakers say the timing of this resignation is very suspicious. and republican congressman kasich, and they want to know wh what, who knew what when and what the silence was about. >> this was the head of the cia for goodness sake, we need to know when they knew it, whether they briefed the president, if we have the head of the cia who is potentially compromised i would think and hope that would go to the president of the united states as soon as possible. and then the question is is so suspicious, days after the election, and then, you know, days after the election, and then days before he's supposed to testify. it's like a high "duh" factor here. >> a few days he's supposed to testify he's out. and he had to leave before he was supposed to go before congress, that doesn't look right, it doesn't smell right. >> congressman cha vets say he'll likely subpoena the general in the hearings on benghazi. the victims of sandy say this is it, they can't take it anymore. they are he' still without lek trichlt and how they're coping in miserable conditions in long beach, new york, anna. >> talking to the american red cross and also an amazing survival story, you'll not want to miss, a eldn elderly couple rescued by a neighbor who literally carried them on their back, that's next. 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>> reporter: yeah, absolutely, harris. these residents certainly are struggling, but we're hearing that in new york, and new jersey, that 150,000 people are still waiting to get warm and get the lights turned back on, but the numbers can be a bit misleading because they don't include tens of thousands of residents whose electrical systems are so waterlogged and corroded by salt water that the crews can't even get in there to try to fix that for them. well, after angry residents protested and angry politicians called for an investigation into the power companies, the long island power authority is contending their workers are repairing just as fast as they can and that 95% of customers do now have power. about 6400 linemen are working, they say, compared with 200 on a normal day. in addition to basic necessities, residents have been telling us they need donations of electrical wiring and equipment because there is very little on store shelves here and the red cross says they have invested 40 to 50 million dollars in superstorm sandy recovery aid. >> if you feel you're in danger, if you're uncomfortable, come to the red cross, come to a shelter, we have our arms open. we have our hearts open, we've got our sleeves rolled up and they're a safe place to stay. >> well, out of the wreckage have come some amazing survivor stories. lenny and his wife were rescued from storm surge by neighbors as water flooded their home from every direction. fearing for his life, he flagged his neighbors with a flashlight only to have the neighbors risk their own lives to rescue them. >> i was on the guy's back, 210 pounds, he just held me on his back, walked me across the street, when i got across the street, i lost a grip because i have a little-- physical problem. and i slid down to the water and then i grabbed the bar and pulled myself up and they brought us inside. >> reporter: just happy to be alive today. we heard so many stories of that, harris. and i'm told by nassau county crew, you see the sand behind me, when we rode out the storm and woke up tuesday morning, hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on streets and sidewalks taken two weeks to clear this far and two weeks to go, and the next process is sifting it, no decision has been made, but it's going to be redistributed somehow along the shoreline, back to you. >> harris: wow, you know, anna now that you mention that, i want people to get an idea that's just the sand in the street. imagine what's inside the people homes. >> reporter: they're not done yet, oh, yeah. >> harris: anna kooiman, thank you for the update on the superstorm sandy victims. the nation honors our heroes, members of our armed forces this veterans day of course. we'll tell you heroes past and present, getting together and remembering, she's precious. stay with us. it's a new day. if you're a man with low testosterone, you should know that axiron is here. the only underarm treatment for low t. that's right, the one you apply to the underarm. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18. axiron can transfer to others through direct contact. women, especially those who are or who may become pregnant, and children should avoid contact where axiron is applied as unexpected signs of puberty in children or changes in body hair or increased acnen women may occur. report these signs and symptoms to your doctor if they occur. tell your doctor about all medical conditions and medications. do not use if you have prostate or breast cancer. serious side effects could include increased risk of prostate cancer; worsening prostate symptoms; decreased sperm count; ankle, feet, or body swelling; enlarged or painful breasts; problems breathing while sleeping; and blood clots in the legs. common side effects include skin redness or irritation where applied, increased red blood cell count, headache, diarrhea, vomiting, and increase in psa. see your doctor, and for a 30-day free trial, go to axiron.com. >> oh, well, many of you will have tomorrow off observing and today is actually veterans day a reminder to honor those who keep us safe. and president obama visiting arlington national cemetery and laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns and the commander-in-chief paying tribute to the sacrifices for those who fought for our freedom that we all enjoy every day. another ceremony honoring veterans of the world war ii memorial in the nation's capital marking a special day to remember the fallen from a recent conflicts, the vietnam war. national correspondent steve centanni is live for us in washington. steve? >> hi, harris, at the vietnam memorial today, he said each soldier who served in vietnam includes himself, came home a changed person n a lesser ways, a visit to the vietnam memorial can also change a person, i was there today. everybody has a vietnam memorial on the list of places to visit when they come to washington and very few realize the emotional impact once they get here. the somber lines of people filing past the black granite walls, the names, 58,000 names carved in the wall, you can reach out and touch it and feel it and see your reflection in the shine i black surface, as if to reflect on the war and its impact on american history. a lot of raw emotion here as people remember their loved ones and they leave lists of people they leave little letters, in one case, a 12-pack of beer must have been the favorite of this particular serviceman, leave american flags and notices and letters, a personal connection people have to the names carved in this wall it's not just a monument, it's a living memorial and it's the 30th year after they built and dedicated this monument for 4 million people come here every year, and also the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the war in vietnam. >> meantime, a nonprofit group is raising money for what they call the education center the visitors center that will highlight the faces and the stories of those who lost their lives at vietnam. and to find out go to www.buildt www.buildthecenter.org. >> harris: steve, a good look at the wall today, good to see you. a lot of details coming out about the scandal that cost general david petraeus his job. we're learning more about another woman involved how she was connected to the general and why she went to the fbi, and across in the desert, rises again, in honor of special americans, those who served our nation in world war i. stay close. 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investigation. senator dianne feinstein head of the intelligence committee saying she first learned about the matter from the media and briefly told after by the fbi and she wants to know why no one told her sooner and more importantly, she's questioning whether national security was ever compromised. let's talk national immigration. a new plan is in the works to overhaul the our nation's immigration policy. two senators teaming up from both side of the political aisle. new york democrat charles schumer and south carolina lindsey graham talking about the pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants now living in the united states. >> and deportation is not going to work, fix it in a way we don't have a third wave the illegal immigration, they want more legal immigration and they want to fix illegal immigration once and for all, and after 12 billion once you secure the border, and you do nothing until you secure the border, come out shadows, pay taxes and for the law they broke and can't stay unless they learn our language and have to get in the back of the line. >> senator graham and i have talked and we are resuming the talks that were broken off two years ago. we had put together a comprehensive detailed blueprint on immigration reform, it had the real potential for bipartisan support based on the theory that most americans are for legal immigration, but very much against illegal immigration. >> harris: the plan calls for securing the border and developing a document to make sure employers know they're hiring people who are authorized to work in the the country. the death toll rising from a strong earthquake, 12 people killed and at this hour, the focus is on the missing and finding them. it's our top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds. burma-- this video from the moment the earthquake struck, the impact rocking the northern part of the country, measuring 6.8 magnitude. some 100 homes destroyed. the quake also causing a bridge and a gold mine to collapse. pakist pakistan, thousands of people venting their fury against the united states and a rally organized by religious leaders, and explosions of hate toward the uts and israel. while there's a feud. pakistan has taken more than 25 billion in aid against america since the 9/11 terror attacks 11 years ago. belgium. protesters marching against the ford motor company, ford closing one of the major european assembly plants by the end of 2014 and many belgians will lose their jobs. ford and other u.s. car makers are feeling the effects of the european debt crisis with car sales plummeting. china, more than 100 pair of squids gathering in the southwestern city for the annual twins festival. and china has a strict one child policy in most areas, but exceptions are permitted in the case of multiple births. that's a fox trip around the world. fox news and the weather, the winter storm we've been watching on the west coast is breaking records and moving east. meteorologist maria molina is live in the fox weather center. >> good to see you. it's moving east and bringing a threat for severe weather as we head into the nighttime hours, texas, arkansas and northern portions of the state of louisiana, this system has some very cold air behind it so we're seeing areas of heavy rain, showers and thunderstorms, stretching from parts of wisconsin and illinois and missouri and once they wrap up and that colder air moves in, we see that transition into some snowfall and it could accumulate late, but generally, behind the system as we head into wisconsin down through iowa and portions of missouri. now, southern portions we have very warm temperatures we're actually seeing the severe weather risk and currently have a tornado watch expiring, expiring out and basically within the next 30 minutes across portions of southwestern arkansas and northeastern texas, but again, we still do have the risk to see the tornadic activity and a low chance and keep that in mind and if you live in the any of the areas, northwestern parts of louisiana, could include not only just tornados, but large hail and damaging wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour. temperatures with the front is very strong front so we're seeing a sharp contrast in air masses, ahead of it 60's, right now in memphis, 74 in new orleans, and behind the storm, very cold. 27 in minneapolis and 34 in kansas city and of course, the storm continues to move eastward and as we head into monday night and tuesday we're going to be seeing rain across the new york city area. >> harris: yeah, it had warmed up quite a bit on the east coast and now i guess it's going to collide with the next system. every time i hear that i get nervous with the systems colliding. >> that's right, the severe weather risk, but couldn't seem like that will be a concern in new york city, the big story is the cooler air behind it and the victims from sandy still without power. >> harris: thank you very much, maria. in fact, let's talk about them right now. people who lived through hurricane katrina know a thing or two about getting back on your feet. so, hundreds of them packed up and drove east to staten island, new york, to help those recovering from superstorm sandy. they say they're just returning the kindness that so many new yorkers showed them in their time of need. dan bowens of wnyw has more. >> new york, staten island, sandy ruined hundreds of homes and we found volunteers working hard to pick up the pieces. >> and the water height is where this is. >> flood waters reached above the windows inside randy's house and several people he didn't know helped him clear out the debris. >> touching, heart warming is not near enough a ward to describe how you feel when these things are going on. and people tyke time out of their life. >> and the neighbor was feeling overwelcomed, debris everywhere in the back yard and then this group just showed up and started cleaning. >> without the 25 hands with me, i wouldn't be able to do anything. >> among the hundreds of workers and volunteers, who come to staten island today and there are hundreds assisting with the cleanup effort, we found this group, they drove up from new orleans, many were impacted by hurricane katrina. they know firsthand about the struggles that lie ahead in this community. >> it's called love. >> and jambalaya served from hurricane katrina victims, who helped those suffering from sandy. >> we pay it forward. you came to us with our dire need and thousand it's a little help from new orleans to you. >> i was on the other side of that line about seven years ago, we were lined up getting more things and it's nice to be able to give back. >> the outpouring of love and support and help is so overwhelming. >> and her family lost their home and they took these photos from the rubble, and they haven't lost their faith. >> nothing else, except for family and love, and memories. >> i love this kid. >> and he brings tears to my eyes. >> kids always know just how to put it and did you see the big pot of jambalaya? mmm. that's dan bowens from fox 5 in new york. a terrifying scene in the dark of the night. a deadly explosion forcing hundreds of people to run from their homes. and military brides getting a big gift for their big day. 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went in and pulled out two daughters and then the husband was trapped under a lot of debris, got him out, and then the wife was trapped in the recliner and finally got her out and flames started taking that house over. >> thank the lord for that neighbor. apparently it wasn't immediate obvious what caused it. investigators say it will take weeks to find out what caused the explosion. a frightening landing when a plane skids off the runway, it's our top story as we go across america. colorado. snow and freezing temperatures at denver international airport causing a southwest airlines jet to slide into a ditch. >> all of a sudden, there's a bunch of rumbling and the things start to go side ways and next thing we know we were off in the ditch. >> and passenger, were bused to the terminal. no one was hurt. california, a twister caught on tape. >> saw what looked like a sand devil, a dirt devil, whatever you call them and it started growing and it looked like it had kind of see that dark cloud where they kind of v down and where it touches the ground and it was off probably a mile or two and it just got larger and larger. >> harris: but in the end, the national weather service calling it a fairly weak tornado. illinois, a shooting clears out a shopping mall. >> somebody said that that, oh, my god, that sounded like a gunshot. >> police say two groups of teenagers got into a fight in a central area of the mall. they say one of the kids pulled out a gun and fired a shot, the bullet lodging in the wall. no one hurt, several of the teenagers now in custody. >> texas, designer wedding dresses for military brides for free. >> and this bride getting the gown of her dreams to marry the love of her life. he's 19 years army and he just came back from a deployment in iraq. >> and that's what qualifies her for the free dress, the charity brides across america donating the gowns. >> we wouldn't have been able to afford it, not this and i appreciate them making this moment, you know, happen for me. >> and that's a fox watch across america. >> it's a war memorial, which veterans had to fight to keep. and they won. now, the celebrate. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] some day, your life will flash before your eyes. ♪ me it worth watching. ♪ the new 2013 lexus ls. an entirely new pursuit. >> there was a lot of controversy over this at first, but a war memorial to veterans is rising once again for years, the cross sat on a special perch on federal land in the mojave desert. until it was ordered to be removed on the claims that it's unconstitutional. now it's going back up. capping a landmark case for veterans on similar public land. our dominique di-natale is in barstow with more. >> indeed, a lot of hope for the veterans caught up around their own memorials, because the mojave cross today was reforkr restored and rededicated for america's fallen soldiers. restoration to a memorial. the cross memorial has been through a long conflict of the its own. first raised by world war i veterans on what became public land, it found itself in the center of a national row, separation of church and state that went all the way to the supreme court. >> it's been a 13-year battle, ups and downs, and told it has to come down and we cry over there. and then hear, no, it can stay and we're happy to have it resolved finally. >> while the legal fight raged on the cross was covered and vandalized and stolen. it appeared with a note attached, but no clue who was behind the heist and at today's rededication ceremony a strong show of support, many veterans from america's he recent wars. >> this country has a place, a special place in their heart for veterans, for their sacrifice. and this cross is something special and it's sacred now. >> and it was conveyed friday by the national park service to the private hands of veterans of foreign wars which cemented the end of this debacle. >> well, harris, i'm not too sure, now they've got two crosses on their hands, what to do precisely, but found out saying, perhaps they can actually donate that to the local church and the next cement ration. >> the surgeon i has been a long one, and people who have been watching and following the story may have an idea, but it has a ripple effect, doesn't it? >> it does, indeed. because there are so many around the country and here in california, there are several disputes going on about what precisely is going to happen to war memorials, if they're on public property. a lot of people saying that the crosses represent the christian religion, but actually the supreme court's decision was saying this one in particular really reflects the crosses of u.s. fallen soldiers you see in cemeteries across europe where soldiers fought and lost their lives in the name of freedom and at the end of the day it's not necessarily about religion, but something broader stiblism, harris. >> harris: how about that coming together on veterans day, dominique di-natale, thank you very much. continuing coverage of our fox top story tonight. a statement coming in now, associated press is reporting jill kelly remember the top of the newscast, told you there are now two women involved in different ways, in this scandal that surrounds general david petraeus, who suddenly left the cia, as the head of it on friday. and jill kelly, a family friend of the petraeus family who received threatening e-mails from the computer of a former girlfriend, paula broadwell with whom petraeus was having an affair. jill kelly issued a statement to the associated press acknowledging her friendship with the former cia director and asking now for privacy. as we've been reporting tonight, the family says she and petraeus did not have an affair, but that she had received these threatening e-mails reportedly from broadwell or at least broadwell's computer and that's what tipped off federal investigators because she contacted them. kelly says in the statement that she and petraeus have been friends for years, more that be five years, she has, if you'll notice in this photograph, she's on the right there we've lit her up 0en the circle, to the right is the general's wife holly. that basically is their family photo showing they do have a relationship, she acknowledges that and now she's asking for privacy. we'll have more on the story of course, we'll stay on it. a busy day in the nfl. maybe the defending super bowl champions would rather forget, would i imagine. pete schrader of foxnews.com is coming up next. copd makes it hard to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may 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quarterback looks like eli manning out there, four touchdown passes and bengals get it it and the giants go down 6-4 and they look the at it and say what happened in ohio? >> quickly, the cowboys defeat the eagles. >> cowboys defeat the eagles in both teams desperately needed and the big headline, the starting quarterback michael vick knocked out with a concussion and insults to injuries and the eagles are in trouble, that might not be a playoff, ouch. >> harris: pete, always good to see you, stick around. what we have coming up is beautiful. >> i love beautiful things. >> harris: and that's how fox reports this sunday, november 11th. 2012, and before we go, a girl born on an army base, with a military dad, veterans day has been special. and new for all of the veterans and their families for service and sacrifice, we would not be the great nation that we are without you. ♪ o beautiful for spacious skies ♪ ♪ for amber waves of grain ♪ ♪ for purple mountains majesty ♪ ♪ above the fruited 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and paula broadwell has hired an attorney. and her father told the newspaper that this is about something else entirely and the truth will come out. there is a lot more that going to come out. you wait-and-see. there is a lot more than meets the eye. she went running this morning but has not spoken to the press. >>shepard: we have learned that both of the generals bought involved with a custody dispute with jill kelly's sister. what is that about. >>reporter: what we have learned is that both generals wrote letters on behalf of natalie, the twin sister jill kelley involved in a bitter custody battle for her four year old son and the letters were written in september as part of the custody battle. i will read from them, one from general petraeus, or from david petraeus at c.i.a., "when we hosted them and her family for christmas dinner this past year, in each case, we have seen a very loving relationship. a mother working hard to provide her son enjoyable educational and development experiences, in view of this it is unfortunate in my view that her interaction with her son has be

harassing e-mails that the fbi linked back to paula broadwell, that agent grew concerned that the investigation had stalled and contacted a member of congress, even though the white house was still unaware of the case. chair of the senate intelligence committee, senator dianne feinstein, says she is growing more concerned as the story unfolds. >> generally, what we call the four corners, the chair and rankings of both committees are briefed on operationally sensitive matters. this is certainly an operationally sensitive matter, but we weren't briefed. i don't know who made that decision. and i think, you know, that makes it much more difficult. this thing came so fast and hard and since then it's been like peeling an onion, another day another peel comes off and you see a whole new dimension to this. my concern has actually escalated over the last few days. >> meanwhile, the fbi is defending its handling of the petraeus investigation. nbc news chief justice correspondent pete williams has that part of the story. >> reporter: law enforcement officials say the fbi began by tracing w

that paula broadwell, the woman who wrote the biography of general peatry was was sending harassing e-mails to another woman that prompted the fbi to investigate. also we know from that source that the investigation led to the discovery of e-mails between broadwell and petraeus that indicated the affair. that second woman hasn't been identified and the official we spoke with didn't know the nature of that woman's relationship with the former director. but more details are coming out about the time line of events and when u.s. officials were notified of the circumstances of this investigation. senior u.s. intelligence official tells cnn the fbi informed the director of national intelligence, james clapper, about the investigation on tuesday night, election night, just as some polls were beginning to close, and that director clapper as a friend, colleague, fellow officer and admirer, urged petraeus to step down from his position. we know as well from that intelligence source that director clapper informed the white house about the investigation on wednesday, and then of course on thursd

days before he was to receive about benghazi add up. >>> plus, who is paula broadwell, the woman at the center of the scandal. how she became so close with petraeus, along with the warning signs that something may have been wrong. and an "outfront" investigation into complaints the red cross is not doing enough to help victims of sandy. are donations getting to the people who need them? let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, a risky affair. there are new questions about the affair that led cia director david petraeus to resign and when did he pose a national security threat. the affair came to light during an investigation of so-called jealous e-mails sent by paula broadwell to this woman in tampa. her name is jill kelley. tonight a u.s. official confirms to cnn that petraeus told broadwell to stop sending harassing e-mails to kelley. who is kelley? along with her husband, she's known petraeus and his family for more than five years. that couple met the four star general when he was stationed at medil air force base in tampa. now, what abo

mist rest, paula broadwell is taking the brunt of the ridicule. to women pay the price when it comes to high-profile affairs? david wright takes a look. >> reporter: the general and biography, juicy enough to take down america's spy master, obvious fodder for "saturday night live." >> next, author paula broadwell -- >> reporter: opening this weekend with a parody of a paula broadwell book reading. >> lock the door, said the general, with my skirt hiked up above my waist -- >> reporter: her david petraeus biography as "50 shades of grey." >> pull my hard and spank me. >> reporter: the humor and criticism came mainly at the woman's expense. >> i think it's very clear from the media treatment of the personalities involved that this is a form of theater and that it is a sexist form of theater. in which whoever the woman is, she's always mocked, derided, and you know, that kind of mo mockery is not really aimed at the man. >> reporter: powerful men do pay a price for their sex scandals n petraeus' case it cost his job and quite possibly a bright political future, though it's not ent

discovered the affair between petraeus and his biographer, paula broadwell, while investigating harassing e-mails broadwell sent to another woman. >> the private g-mail account that apparently paula broadwell had access to i think raises real security questions. >> if general petraeus was gearing up to testify concerning the deadly attacks on our u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. >> i don't see how in the world you can find out what happened in benghazi if petraeus doesn't testify. >>> members of congress get back to tuesday on the exact same place they left. the edge of a fiscal cliff. >> it won't kill the country if we raise taxes on millionaires. half of them voted democratic. half of them live in hollywood. >>> in indianapolis two people were killed in an explosion that damaged 31 homes. they suspect a gas leak. >> it looked like a war zone. >>> two weeks after superstorm sandy, 120,000 homes are facing another day without power. >> 70% have been flooded. the tide mark is at its sixth highest since records began 130 years ago. >>> the crews are at it. tempers have boiled over in phoeni

in the middle of the case? plus, federal agents descend overnight on paula broadwell's home. >>> happening now, emergency on the mountain. two snowboarders stranded in a blizzard for two nights on mt. rainier, sending distress calls from a snow cave. searchers racing to track them down before it's too late. >>> millionaire business titan on the run. we know him as the man who developed the software that protects our computers. now he's accused of killing his neighbor. he speaks out about why he's hiding from police this morning. >>> and she's just 12 singing with a turkey leg. meet the new viral sensation. starring in this explosive holiday music video. but this is the latest contender for worst song ever? she's getting face, whether you like it or not. ♪ >>> good morning, everyone. hello to robin. as you all know, she's recovering from her bone marrow transplant. welcome back to amy robach. and, boy, you really need a flowchart to keep track of the sex scandal. let's get it all straight. it's cost david petraeus his job. and now, overnight, the commanding general of ameri

paula broadwell tiene in informaciÓn clasificada en una c computadora en su casa. >>> aunque el presidente barack obama dijo que no tenÍa evidencia que la seguridad na nacional se vio comprometida, paula broadwell podrÍa enfrentar cargos, dpavid petraeus insisti a una pereriodista que nunca l d dio informaciÓn clasificada a b paula broadwell que tambiÉn es u u su biografa y que no ha vuelto a hablar con ella, dsesde el es n escÁndalo, paula broadwell estÁ en casa de su hermano en la k capital, sin embargo dos semanas antes de david petraeus renunc renunciara y que el fbi supiera de la relaciÓn, ambnosos se fvi en una fiesta. >>> la inteligente intcia intet es diftr a lerente a la inteeli amorosa, hombres y mujeres a la hora de enamorarse no reaciona d de nmanera inteligente. >>> no para hablar del esc escÁndalo, sino para presentar s su reporte sobre el ataque de o consulado estadounidense en ben begben bengasi, libia. >>> ya hay temores que la pre n presencia de david petraeus en e el kcapitolio seda una un circ l los medios. >>> james hlolmes, el pre presupuestaripresu

petraeus and his biographer, paula broadwell, in late summer. we'll have more on how in just a moment. so the fbi reportedly knew in late summer that the head of the cia was having an affair, but it wasn't until months later after election day that president obama found out, and the house and senate intelligence committees didn't find out until friday. congressional leaders from both parties are angry, they say they should have been notified sooner that there were potential national security issues. senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein said today she is going to investigate why the fbi didn't tell oversight committees about the investigation. >> a decision was made somewhere not to brief us which is atypical. it is very puzzling and i think was a mistake because this thing just came so fast and so hard, and since then, it's been like peeling an onion. every day another peel comes off and you see a whole new dimension to this. >> there's still a lot we don't know tonight. analysts say there's no evidence, no evidence that the affair led to any security breaches a

scandal widens. >> the fbi discovered the affair between petraeus and his biographer paula broadwell. paula says to another woman in a private g-mail account raises security questions. >> if general petraeus was gearing up to testify concerning deadly attacks on u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. >> i don't see how in the world you can find out what happened in benghazi if general petraeus doesn't testify. >> members of congress get back network on tuesday to the exact same place they left, the edge of fiscal cliff. >> republican party will fall on the swords and half republicans voted democrats. >> an explosion that damaged 31 homes. >> looks like a weather zone. >> two weeks after superstorm sandy, thousands are facing another day without power. >> 70% of the city is flood. >> the crews are at it. contact between jeff gordon and clint bowyer. >> all that -- >> not a great night offensively for the chicago bears. >> for the first time in four years an nfl game has ended in a tie. >> -- and all that matters. >> on this day we thank all of our veterans for reminding why america is and always

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cia director david petraeus and his biographer, paula broadwell. a pentagon official told reporters allen who commands the war in afghanistan is adamant he did nothing wrong. a senior official close to allen tells cnn of kelly there is no affair, she's a bored socialite. a u.s. official says there appears to be nothing criminal involved. but allen is now under investigation for what is called inappropriately flirtatious e-mails to kelly. >> secretary directed it be referred to inspector general of department of defense. >> the fbi found up to 35,000 pages of documents, some dating back two years during the investigation. according to a senior official close to allen, one message the afghan commander sent warned kelly she had been threatened. the official says allen had received an anonymous message, now believed to be from broadwell. the pentagon was called in because allen is subject to military law. but why did this only come out now in public view? >> we have a large amount of alleged material that went between these individuals, as much as 30,000 pages. it's not clear whether th

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aisle ask him. a i'm howard kufrts and this is "reliable sources." >>> it is for the media the perfect storm when the combined sex, scandal, war, spying, and gossip, not to mention an fbi investigation and secret e-mails. the coverage of the petraeus scandal has been relentless, sometimes breathless, a tabloid tale in which the facts are often murky. >> the extramarital affair, we're told, was with one paula broadwell. >> the fbi opened an investigation into whether broadwell had access to petraeus years e-mails or other access. >> jill kelley is apparently the woman who is apparently being called the other woman. >>> the fbi began investigating ha racing e-mails sent anonymous employ to another woman jill kellie. >> petraeus has told friends he had no romantic involvement with kelly. >>> marine has been exchanging e-mails with the woman at the center of the petraeus affair. >> what is it about david pe trags and paula broadwell that continues to mesmerize them nine days after the story broke. >> joining us now, tara mckelvey. and here in washington, rajiv chandrasekaran, senior correspondent and editor for "the washington post." rajiv, you've covered the war in afghanistan extensively. did you get invited on trips with david petraeus, how well did you know him and how well -- >> i covered him off and on first back in iraq when he was a division commander up in northern iraq and more recently when he was top commander of all u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan and in that later job i did travel around the country with him. he would give remarkable access to journalists. oftentimes it was under very strict ground rules that things were off the record but he did open himself up to press coverage because he thought it was important for the mission to get recognized out there, but also i believe because he also liked to see himself at the center of the coverage. >> so that remarkable access paid dividends for petraeus's image. would you say, would you argue with the notion that many of the jurmts who dealt with him, who know him, have tended to go easy on him on this unfortunate scandal? >> i think some have. others have been a little harder edged and fairer, but, look. that access could be intoxicating. you were in that exclusive bubble. he would bring you in to meetings he would have with subordinate commanders, at times even into sessions that involved secret material that you were told you couldn't right about. you get to zip around the battlefield on black hawk helicopters. it's a thrill traveling with a four-star, and for the journalists who got to be in there, wit as sense you were getting to see an aspect of our modern wars that your colleagues or competitors weren't otherwise able to see. it was, you know, a revealing remarkable glimpse, and so, sure, that built friendships. it wasn't just that. petraeus was an assiduous i'mer. e-mailer, howard. >> i heard that. >> i would joke he would respond faster than my wife would. if you had a question about something certainly on a story that had something to do with him, he'd get back really quickly, often times with a couple of paragraphs. he would generally have a few clear ground rules on how to use it but at one point it propertied a thought in my head, boy, don't you have a war to run here? >> tara, you write in the atlantic that petraeus was at the center of a medial charm campai campaign. explain. >> he was really good at it azra jeev was saying. pe trail spent a lot of time with the journalists and pulled them into his world and he was fun to be around. i met him at a party and he was a lot of fun to talk to and i can see how intoxicating it would be. >> you also say, tara, in that article that petraeus was a flirt. >> yeah. he was a total flirt, both with men and with women and people respond to it. they like to be flattered, and he was good at it. >> rah geofjivrajiv, in a piecen a piece he had to resign as cia director and he became famous as a general and commander that he had fallen. >> oh, indeed. both sides in some way are culpable here. both sides are responsible for building him up. yes, petraeus grasped before many of his fellow generals, the power of the media narrative in shaping the modern battlefield story and he reached out to journalists, to authors, and not to think tank experts and others bringing him to iraq and afghanistan to observe what was going on. he under thstood that the stori of the wars would not be shaped just on the ground but also in washington. what he did there was sort of -- it's now sort of become ceched wisdom within the military but back in the early day of iraq, it was sort of pioneering. >> there was a distance between the people running the war and the journalists who were covering the war. tara mckelvey, you have an acquaintan acquaintanceship with paula broadwell? she was over tour kwlo your hou? >> at the time, i read. and she and i talked about petraeus. and paula, she sort of talked about him in a way that made he wonder about their relationship. it wasn't the way i talked about my sources. >> did you think that she was being indiscreet. >> it's not that she told me anything or anybody else at the party of what they were doing but there was some kind of hint theres with a relationship that doesn't exist and i kind of wondered what was going on. >> in the avalanche of coverage over the last nine or so days where certainly some journalists are portraying petraeus as kind of a heroic but flawed figure, do you think that plau broadwell has been depicked unfairly and many people blaming her for what happened? >> savage. the coverage of paula has been savage. they've been questioning her entire professional ka reerk looking back, trying to de-seth it, trying to determine if she was really qualified to be doing the kinds of things she's been doing. >> and the coverage as well very personal, rajiv, in terms of the focus on her attire and that sort of thing, kind of painting her as if she drew david petraeus into this relationship against his will, and i guess i would say it takes two to tangle. >> it certainly does. and some of that coverage as tara has been saying is beyond the paechlt but some of it was relevant. you know, i'd assert that what she was wear wheng she was going off to tlaurt operating bases or in kabul in the capital of a muslim country, there was a suggestion that perhaps she was dressing inappropriately. i think that was important. it attracted the attention of general petraeus who at one point told an aide to get her to dress down. with regard to her past, look, she holds herself up as a scholar, as a biographebiograph national security expert. so it is only relevant to look back and say what are your bona fide s and credentials. they've been going back and looking at paula's past is a vel rant thing to do particularly in light of a book she produced, a book of -- a product of remarkable access to general petraeus was laudatory. it's been described as haig owe graphic. it didn't include much criticism at all or counterpoints of view with regard to afghanistan and his leadership of the war. having covered that war, i can say without much equivocation that there were aspects of his leadership of the strategy that he was leading over there that were controversial, that there were multiple points of view and that really didn't get surfaced very profoundly in her account. >> i take it it's fair to say she admired general petraeus. you talked about washington being a place where washington was a place where classified information was used as a pickup line. what did you mean by that? >> i knew you were going to ask me about that. i can't reveal anything more than that. >> i want to make clear that we don't know part of the fog of war here, so to speak, in the coverage, whether or not any important classified information ended up on paula broadwell's computer but certainly that's part of the story. tara's going to be tight-lipped about that one. one thing i want to point out, the 20,000 or 30,000 pages between general allen and jill kelley. you reported that there were only a couple hundred of e-mails over the source of a few years and most were routine. i heard you say there were a lot and they were sexually charged. do you worry about being spun here and having to rely on people not the principles but people around the principles who find out what the nature of that relationship was? >> indeed. and i think maybe the truth rests somewhere in the middle of all of this. those e-mails are not bottled up at the defense department in the inspector general's office. ite goes doing take some time before that report comes out. certainly people close to general allen are trying to play this down saying not so many e-mails, you know. the wording of them was more innocuous than has been suggested. but for the defense secretary, leon panetta, to refer these i'ms to two inspector general investigations suggest that they saw something in them that was potentially very concerning and to delay his domination to be the top commander in europe. so it remains to be seen. >> there are some missing pieces in here. you talked about paula broad well being savage in your review. what about the tone? i guess i'm called nr for the female perspective on the female coverage. there's no question that's been particularly savage. it's also funny to hear about the e-mail, like what kos constitutes flirtatious e-mail and so on. i saw something in "the new york times" where they described ball la as mr. petraeus's lover. its like it's something that "the new york times" has to sort out, 000 deal with the sex scandal. the tone is very strange. >> a lot of us have to sort out the brief observations? >> both with broadwell andley t. paula had a broad concern for military and veteran issues and with jill kelley, i think she really did care about the wounded families and fair children. >> i'm glad you pointed that out. >>> coming up, is the saturation of the two generals and the two women a rut shot? we'll look at the questions in a moment. but i'm still "stubbed" up. 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joining us here in washington, amy holmes, anchor of "real news" on the blaze. terence smith and margaret. terry, what do you make of all the pressing accounts. the number, were they linked to paula broadwell? is it good journalism? >> it's obsession is what it is. it's hollywood on the potomac. hollywood loves a sex scandal. and you notice the way there was an election. are you aware of that? it dropped out of the headlines, out of the news. fiscal news, boring, difficult, numbers no good. so what i was struck by, though, was the obsessive quality of the coverage. i know of one young woman who actually interviewed petraeus at a think tank on the stage. she got a call from "the washington post" saying, did he grope you in the green room. that's fishing. that's a fish iin fishing exped >> have the media been much harder on plaul broadwell and jill kelley than the two generals? >> i should say so. they were the actual public serva servants, the people who were supposed to be putting their attention on running wars, not on parentally this blizzard of e-mails to a doctor's wife in tampa. >> but you were complimentary, these nutty tampa twins. >> believe me, i'm the first to say i love a good sex scandal, but only if susan rice was involved, they would get to the bottom of that. >> what we're getting are these bits and pieces, self-serving leaks from aids, and others, and they still don't know. it's a hard story to report but we haven't shown much strain either. >> there are two things that work. one is david petraeus does have a press codery and he now has people anorthern mussily defending him. >> or not so anonymously in the case only sof columnists. >> in the case of sum. so you have him over here. how many witnesses before congress get to come and go without a picture? i mean that's the kind of bipartisan cooperation that could help with the fiscal cliff. but the other thing about the women is that, you know, we're dealing with a party planner with diplomatic immunity, you know, who seems to have gotten all kinds of, you know, generals courting her in a certain way because she raises funds for them. but this is a largerer than life person to cover. so you go there because she's a character. >> by the way york were referring to friday when former general petraeus testified in a closed door hearing on capitol hill about the attack in libya, was not asked about the affair and there were no pictures. as you say, he was kind of escorted in and out i would argue that, yes, it's koj, but there's no question when the head of the cia resigns and says in his resignation that it's because of an extramarital affair, that's a big news story and legitimate news story and it does raise the questions of was any national security compromised, et cetera. so, yes, it's obsessive. >> absolutely, but -- there is. but it seems all the stories about privacy of i'm and national security and all of that is a little bit of the figure leaf for the more salacious stuff like the shirtless fbi agent. that was pretty band then we got the picture. it looks like a joke of a photo. >> it's human nature. you think of "vanity fair" and a becky sharp character. but there hasn't been the same on general allen or general petraeus as there have been on these women. >> wa do you think of the cascade of public service. seven tips to vn an affair, how to avoid getting caught. >> i think that's kvich. love is fleeting. e-mail is forever. we forget. we're always put our femoral thoughts down. it's like a nationwide addiction. that's interesting. and then there is the serious parter the fbi. en toless rogue agent manages to set off a series of convenients. >> and he was a friend of jill kelley who toppled this investigation. >> this is huge. and do we want the fbi to have an agent who's able to do this in a series of actions? >> and there's still questions, serious questions about the fbi procedures in this. if indeed they concluded early on that there was no national security or criminal issue here, then why didn't it stop right there? >> and why did director claerp -- >> why did it become public? i'd like to know. >> why didn't director james clapper at that point say there is no reason to resign. >> oh. you're saying why didn't he say that. he's the white house official who essentially pushed petraeus out. let's come back to the media coverage. sigh these stories as an attempt to keep the story alive. jill kelley visited the white house three times. once was a tour and once when she had lunch with a low level official. even things that are technically true, with they're getting blown up. true or false. >> i would say that's true but it was also to the kwoef what type of access does jill kelley have to all these high-ranking government officials and we haven't got on the the bottom of how did paula broadwell know or think she knew about the cia annex and perhaps where militia was being held there. do we take it at face value that she didn't hear it from general petraeus or it was completely made up? i don't know. >> what about the stakeout of paula's home. what exactly did jill kelley do? we don't know at this point that she did something terribly wrong but all of these reporters are camped out on her lawn. >> she's set off this investigation. there fees not much sim pa thitic about this woman. if you make this bed, you sleep in it. >> exactly. >> conservative pundits say the mainstream media is much more interested and being protective of president obama on the very serious fatal attack that left four americans dead. >> well, howie, there's been endless coverage of the benghazi affair and susan rice performance, what was said, what wasn't said. and it was largely political. it's been pushed by one party over the other. >> in order to turn it into a scandal. >> right. they want to turn a possible secretary of state nominee into this vehicle for all that stands in benghazi when in fact the same senators said nothing and were actually favorably disposed toward condi rice when she was really secretary of state and really relying on intelligence i would have thought, terry, as student of the media you'd be a lit mrl critical. you seem to be saying, let's enjoy it. >> there are excesses. i don't dispute that for a minute. but i wanted to make a point there are substance in here too, serious issues in here too, and, hay, it's hollywood on the powe toe mitt romney. >> when we get a break, mitt romney won't talk to the press but a leaked conference call puts him in an unflattering light. here we go again. to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. and bp's also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. we're working to fuel america for generations to come. our commitment has never been stronger. begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. 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>> well, he made them. >> like the 47%. >> yeah. it reinforces that 47%. where's waldo. he's gone completely underground. we don't know where he is or what he's doing. there's simply -- there's nothing coming out. that's all we have. >> and his running mate paul ryan did give one interview saying urban turnout was really high and that's the reason his ticket lost the election. i'm just wondering whether or not -- okay, they lost. they're not happy about it. but don't they have any ability to look forward as opposed to being defined by leaks. >> well, friends like these in terms of the donors who leaked, i want to get back to president obama and the press conference with president obama. let's contrast that with the press conference that was led by jan crawford where the press coordinated the questions with mitt romney with regard to the 47% comment and asked him relentlessly to explain himself and defend himself for that closed door remarket this was during the campaign. fast forward, here we are this week and we have these sort of ping-pong questions about global warming when the real question here is been ga city, libya, what have you, the petraeus scandal and susan rice, which you're now saying was at your direction when she didn't have the facts. >> president obama was asked a tough question by jonathan karl. >> did we see the coordination of the prs asking -- >> if there was, you would have been criticizing them. i was actually supportive of jan crawford. >> cbs correspondent jan crawford. >> absolutely. where was it. >> well, it's much harder to coordinate a presidential press conference than it is a gagel of reporters on a campaign trail. >> they may be but i think he got a pretty easy press corps that week. >> this is his philosophy, i would judge from the statements. and, you know, many people put it down as sour grapes. >> and in that same conference call, terry, later came out he talked about the primary debates and he said, well, next time they shouldn't all be done by cnn and nbc, show casing liberals beating the heck out of it. first of all there were a number of debates hosted by fox news and second off all, it sounds like he's blames the media for those debates. >> anybody but himself. >> and the republican party is supposed to be a party of personal responsibility and it gives us inside how romney is a process person instead of looking at greater vision and what his campaign is about. and we saw this op piece from karl rove making similar points. >> newt gingrich got a lot of attacks in those debates but by and large, they were fair. >> he won every debate. >> it actually helped him. >> let's be graceful loser here. it's such the doubt of somebody who loses that you blame the media. you know, the republican governors' meeting got a lot of coverage by the meeting that's racing off to do 2016 that's looking who among here is the candidate. they were far more critical of romney. >> at least they did it on the record. >> on the record. amy holmes, tara mckelvey, mar graduate, terry smith. >>> up next, his next major movie project. n pick where to gt your car fixed, we can cut you a check, or, at our service center, we take care of everything for you. 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>> well, i'm not so sure it's a difficult environmental. i recognize that we're under pressures, i recognize that we have to make choices. i recognize that the amount of resources we have will be dependent upon the revenues that we have. and so that's true at the post as it is at err other news organization like the post. we have to do that. we have no choice. >> in the old days the editor would come in, hire a bunch of hot shots. these days given financial pressure and people questioning whether newspapers have a feature, why would anyone want this post? >> it's "the washington post" and "washington post" has play add defining and distinctive role in politics and policy and worrell affairs and think importantly in its own community. it's a superb staff and for me it's great to be a part of it. >> i worked there for years as you know. everyone says digital is the future. the post website unlike "the boston globe" and others doesn't charge anything. there's no pay wall. does that have to change at some point. >> that's not for me to say. that's for the people on the business side to say. i'm sure they've looked at it closely. i imagine they're continuing look at it. so far they've decided not do that but i don't what they're going to decide in the future. >> the print edition of the post which i still read every morning brings in 75% of the revenue even though everyone talks about digital and clicks online but that recovers a sizeable staff to cover it, not just the district of columbia but virginia. is it important to protect that local franchise even though it's a national news organization? >> absolutely. i mentioned it has a variety of coverage including its own community. it has to cover its own community. it's a local as well as a national paper. >> how do you keep morale up when people are seeing some of their friends leave and seeing the ambitions curtail and the globe used to do more national reporting than it does now. it's become more of a local paper. does that take a take a toll on staff? >> there's no question it takes a toll. people have certain expectations of what the staffing will be. we have to face the reality of the business environment. morale is held up by the journalism the newsroom does. there's no question the post does extraordinary journalism day-in and day-out and will continue to do extraordinary journalism with whatever resources it has. >> at the same time, you say they can't afford to do everything, a plight not similar to that of many news organizations, so you have to pick some priorities here? >> i'm sure i will have to pick priorities. i think people do that in every business, every enterprise. they have to do that in news organizations as well. i am not prepared at the moment to say what the priorities should be. >> sounds unremarkable when you say it is a business, have to have a balance of expenditures. but there's a great role of the newspapers, the work we do that somehow somebody else will take care of the financial problems. now it is the editor's job to worry about the business side. you spend a lot of time on that i am sure in boston. >> sure. i believe in the romance. i see the romance of the business. that's why i'm still in this profession and i think what we do is extraordinarily important but it is also a business, and certainly editors are having to get much more involved in business affairs than they did at one time. maybe i wish that weren't so, but it is so, and i have to deal with it like every other editor in the country. >> this is the profession we have chosen. 20 seconds. was it a hard decision to personally leave the boston globe? >> i love my colleagues at the globe, they have done extraordinary work in the decade plus i have been there, but "the washington post" has played an extraordinary role in this country and in american journalism, so ultimately it was not a hard decision to make. >> good luck at your new home. marty bar en, glad you were in town. appreciate you stopping by to talk. >> thank you very much. >>> still to come, nancy pelosi pushes back hard against a reporter's question. a white house correspondent tries to push the president into overtime, and the tv chef that cried foul over an unappetizing review. the media monitor is straight ahead. oni & cheese without freshly-made pasta. you could also cut corners by making it without 100% real cheddar cheese. but then...it wouldn't be stouffer's mac & cheese. just one of over 70 satisfying recipes for one from stouffer's. 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security clearance of paula broadwell, the former mistress of david petraeus. this is after investigators found substantial classified information on her computer and the glare being question, did broadwell's relationship with david petraeus give her access to these classified documents? "outfront" tonight, cnn national security contributor, fran townsend. she's also a member of the cia external add voizry committee and knowed a lot about what it means to have top clearance. the name of the fbi agent, frederick humphries, who was by the way, involved in foiling a terrorist attack in 1999. very accomplished fbi agent. what do you know about the relationship? >> it's interesting. apparently, i understand from a senior law enforcement official that humphries and jill kelley met when she attended the citizens academy. this is a sort of familiarization program that the fbi runs across the country in communities to familiarize people and sort of get them to understand the work of the fbi in their community so it's part of the see something, say something. this is another mean of the fbi reachin

. >> reporter: jill kelley has done fundraising for the military. paula broadwell saw her as a romantic rival. paula broadwell sent jill kelley anonymous e-mails from a secret account that her and david petraeus shared. when the fbi started poking around, agents thought someone breached david petraeus' private e-mail account but it turned out they stumbled on a secret communication system they used to communicate. some of the messages sexually explicit. david petraeus would write an e- mail, he wouldn't send it, saved it to his draft folder. paula broadwell would log on and read the e-mail, that way there was never any record of messages being sent. mean time tonight much is being made of this interview paula broadwell gave a few months ago. >> i don't know if you heard this -- >> reporter: she is talking about information surrounding the terrorist attack on the u.s. consulate in libya. >> had taken them prisoner and they think it was an effort to get the prisoners back. >> reporter: fbi found classified information on paula broadwell's computer. >> i do not know how she got that information,

believed to be the one to notify the f.b.i. and got an email from the biographer paula broadwell. >> at the top spy master david petraeus must have known something about clandestined operations but why couldn't keep his secret affair with paula broadwell under cover. the romance unraveled in a woman in california jill kelley who was familiar with broadwell and petraeus received a training and harassing email. she notified the f.b.i. that began an investigation worried that the official email account had been compromised. the trail led back to the computer of paula broadwell. yet it was not compromised security. but two people in a compromising position described as, quote human drama, including intimate transbe actions. >> there had been rumors between him and paula broadwell for some time and she didn't seem the type. >> friends know her not just for her good looks but good works. >> someone as busy as she is takes the time to help somebody like me, there's not much time left for indiscretions. >> this active duty wounded warrior and double amputee. last week she was scheduled to skydi

discuss we'll have much more on the petraeus scandal tomorrow night, plus my interview with anthony bourdain. "ac 360" starts right now. >>> we begin tonight "keeping them honest" with new questions about the scandal that's led to david petraeus resigning from the cia. that's certainly not the first sex scandal to bring down someone in washington, it certainly won't be the last. but tonight there are growing questions about the timing of how the word got out, whether more people in the government should have been told or been told sooner that the fbi was investigating a case involving the director of the cia. we're keeping them honest as we do every night not to take sides, you can get that on other cable news channels, but to look for the truth, the facts. here's what we know right now about who knew what and when. according to "wall street journal" the fbi discovered the affair between petraeus and his biographer, paula broadwell, in late summer. we'll have more on how in just a moment. so the fbi reportedly knew in late summer that the head of the cia was having an affair, but it wasn't until months later after election day that president obama found out, and the house and senate intelligence committees didn't find out until friday. congressional leaders from both parties are angry, they say they should have been notified sooner that there were potential national security issues. senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein said today she is going to investigate why the fbi didn't tell oversight committees about the investigation. >> a decision was made somewhere not to brief us which is atypical. it is very puzzling and i think was a mistake because this thing just came so fast and so hard, and since then, it's been like peeling an onion. every day another peel comes off and you see a whole new dimension to this. >> there's still a lot we don't know tonight. analysts say there's no evidence, no evidence that the affair led to any security breaches and that there are strict fbi protocols about who gets notified in this kind of investigation. but the timing of when the scandal broke right after election day and right before petraeus was scheduled to testify in the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, that certainly has a lot of people asking a lot of questions, understandably. the other angle to the story is an age-old tale of an affair between a married, powerful, highly respected man in washington and a younger woman. in this case, the woman who literally wrote the book on the general, paula broadwell. the two met when she was a graduate student at harvard. she later travelled to afghanistan, interviewed petraeus, sometimes going running with him. interviews that led to the book "all in the education of general david petraeus." the revelation about the affair is bringing new interest in all the interviews broadwell did to promote the book and what she said about petraeus at that time. take a look. >> he at the end of the day is a human, and is challenged by the burdens of command and has mastered wearing the mask of command, if you will. so he has this mask of command, you think he's really confident, but i got to see a more personal side. i'm not in love with david petraeus. >> he is quite a physical specimen. he really loves to work out. i think at the agency they call him a genetic mutant. this project started as my dissertation. i was working with general petraeus virtually, doing interviews via e-mail. occasionally running with him and interviewing. i'm not a spokesperson for him. if showing a role model to other people in the world or other readers is a repugnant thing, i'm sorry, but i think the values he upholds and tries to instill in his organizations are valuable and worth pointing out. >> that was paula broadwell then. she has not spoken subsequently. as we said, the timeline of the scandal, who got notified and when, is now under the microscope. cnn intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly has more on that. >> reporter: according to a friend of petraeus, the affair began in november last year, two months after the retired general took the helm at the cia. that same friend also reports that meetings between the two were infrequent, but at some point, petraeus and broadwell began communicating via personal e-mail accounts. e-mails that a government official describes as explicit. skip ahead to may of this year. that's about the time a government official says broadwell began sending threatening e-mails to jill kelley, described as a family friend of petraeus, who lives in tampa, warning her to stay away. that official tells us that kelley shared her concerns over the threatening nature of the e-mails with a friend of the fbi, and that prompted an investigation. sometime after petraeus became aware of the e-mails, a government official says petraeus told broadwell to stop sending them. and sometime around july, according to the friend of petraeus, the affair ended. the source tells cnn that petraeus indicated broadwell might be obsessed with him and broadwell may have felt she was warding off the competition by sending e-mails to kelly. at some point, broadwell and petraeus were interviewed by the fbi and it was after that that things began to unravel quickly. the "wall street journal" says broadwell was interviewed in september and attorney general eric holder knew about the investigation then. a senior intelligence official says director of national intelligence james clapper was notified of the investigation by the fbi last tuesday, election day, just as some polls were beginning to close. that same source says that on wednesday, clapper notified the white house. petraeus met with the president last thursday and offered his resignation, which was accepted as the ordeal became public on friday. >> suzanne kelly joins me from washington. i just got something literally on my iphone. this is from the "wall street journal." i'm going to read this to you. this is the second time i'm reading it. a federal agent who launched the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of david petraeus was barred from taking part in the case over the summer due to superiors' concerns he had become personally involved in the case according to officials familiar with the probe. the fbi officials found thate has sent shirtless pictures of himself to miss kelly, according to people familiar with the probe. so that is certainly another strange piece in this puzzle. how does he fit in, he's the one who initially raised concerns about this, correct? >> well, i haven't seen this so i have to be very up front with you right now and just say that i'm not sure that this individual is the same person that you're talking about but i can tell you for sure that there are so many strange things just like what you've just read that keep coming out about this. one of them, too, that we haven't talked much about yet is that we know how dedicated that paula broadwell was to sort of becoming the champion, i don't know if it was the self-appointed champion or not, of david petraeus but we know she was interviewed by the fbi in late summer as we just mentioned, but she reached out to cnn even last week, last monday, the day before the election, when james clapper found out about the affair, and offered to write an article and submit an article to us about it was general petraeus' 60th birthday and she wanted to write something about his leadership style. clearly even when she reached out and made that offer to cnn, she knew that people knew about the affair and she may not have known it was coming out publicly but she knew about the affair. >> paula broadwell's claims in a speech last month that the cia was holding prisoners in benghazi, that's a big deal. is there any reason to believe that it's true and whether it is or isn't, how would she have had that information? >> well, that's a bombshell accusation. as you know, the cia lost its ability legally to detain people so for paula broadwell to go out in public and say that the cia was holding prisoners and that that prompted the attack at benghazi that killed the american ambassador is huge. she didn't give her source when she made that speech and she also said that it was unveted material so that raises the very serious issue of the kind of access that she had to the director of the cia. we don't know if that information came from him, but just knowing how close the two of them were, and that oftentimes, you know, if you needed a response on something, even as a journalist, you would go to paula to get it because they're a lot quicker than the office of public affairs at the cia. she had that kind of instant access to him. >> stay with us. i want to bring in cnn national security contributor fran townsend and member of the cia's external advisory committee. fran recently visited libya with her employer, mcandrews forbes. also joining us, cnn contributor and former fbi assistant director, tom fuentes. fran, what do you make of this? as it's evolved and what we know right now? >> first of all, on the benghazi claim, she made that they were holding prisoners there, we should tell our viewers, anderson, the cia has vehemently denied that and says it's not true. look, this is a real problem for the morale and continuity of the cia. they have been through something like seven directors in eight years. this is not -- they lived through worse. they lived through the bombing where they lost members but the problem is the death by a thousand cuts. the clip you played by dianne feinstein suggests she calls it peeling layers of an onion. what we don't know is the whole story, the facts of the story. this jill kelley, it's sort of odd these harassing e-mails. why would a private citizen getting harassing e-mails merit the attention of the fbi at all? much less when they looked at it and saw there was no direct threats in it, why did they continue that investigation? >> it seems like from everything i read, i'm just citing this "wall street journal" report i just read, this initial fbi agent who according to the "wall street journal" was barred from further investigation and allegedly sent shirtless pictures to miss kelley, she approached him again according to the "wall street journal" and he's the one who kind of started the ball rolling with the fbi. but again, there's still a lot more to know about her relationship with this fbi agent, also her relationship with david petraeus. what at this point do you not understand about this, that you would like to know? >> look, there are many questions about the relationship of all of these individuals to one another, but i am troubled by the fact, the fbi requires a predicate to open up a preliminary inquiry which is apparently what they did in this case, and it's not clear that's an internal process to the fbi. did they meet that predicate and why, what was it about it, if this was -- you understand once they realized it's in some way related to david petraeus, why they continued to then try to get it resolved. but why did they really open this up, and was there sufficient basis. i think people are troubled by that because of how frequently we all use e-mail and you want to have some confidence there's a predicate to it. >> tom, what about that? why would the fbi begin to look into a citizen who says they're getting harassing e-mail? i get harassing e-mails all the time. it never occurred to me to contact the fbi about it. >> harassing is one thing, threatening is another. we don't know the exact content of these messages to the degree of the threat. but the agent that received it on a personal basis received the initial complaint from kelley, reports that in the office, the tampa office of the fbi, it's not that he's barred from the case although he did have a personal relationship with the complainant so it would go to somebody else more objective, but he didn't have the expertise so it goes to the cybersquad who is going to try to identify who is the sender, because the e-mails were anonymously sent. so that would require subpoenaing the records of the sender to identify who is that person, who else are they in contact with, are they threatening others. >> isn't this a local police matter? >> that is not something -- >> buy is it the fbi? >> because it's over the internet, the fbi would also have jurisdiction in this matter. so in this situation, to get those records, they would be working in consultation with the u.s. attorney's office in tampa to go forward with that case. if the u.s. attorney's office sees those initial e-mails and said this doesn't rise to the threshold of a criminal violation, if you identify the person, we don't think it's enough to even prosecute that person, that would be the end of the case. the fbi would not continue the case. it never would have gotten to director petraeus. >> do you buy it? >> no. see, what the fbi -- the fbi got authority under the current foreign intelligence surveillance act to issue national security letters. they can do that inside the fbi without going to a u.s. attorney. my point is there may have been a predicate here, but it's not clear that there was. if the fbi is going to investigate every harassment case, because it's on the internet, they're going to be shut for business and not be able to do anything else, right? so you make judgments about when is there a predicate and is this a priority. that's not clear until you trace this for awhile and get to petraeus, and the question i'm raising is why, what was the predicate, why did they pursue it. >> once it gets to petraeus, tom, and i want your expertise here, what would happen? because i would imagine as soon as they realized david petraeus is involved, there must be a whole series of hoops they have to jump through or markers they have to hit. >> once they identified paula broadwell as the sender of the messages to kelley, then they subpoena the rest of her records and they see an exchange of anonymous e-mails between her and another party who they didn't identify immediately, and so they subpoenaed those records, they turn out to be the records of director petraeus. that's what leads to that part of it. when they identify that it's him, they're going to look at the content of those e-mails to see is he being extorted, is he being threatened, is he either violating the law criminally or breaching national security even though he's on unclassified e-mail systems. so that would lead to the continued investigation which ultimately led to the interviews of director petraeus and broadwell by the fbi, where they basically admit that they've had a personal relationship, that they were having an affair, and it goes forward. now, as the investigation progresses, they basically determine that there's not enough, the u.s. attorney's office and department of justice determine it just doesn't quite meet the threshold that they're going to prosecute broadwell for the messages she sent kelley, and they find no evidence of a criminal violation on the part of director petraeus and they can find no breach of security committed by him. >> right. so i guess the question is why would he need to resign? beyond the damage to his family and wanting to -- i mean, if there's not some other shoe to drop, if there's not more to this, why resign? >> i think some of that comes down to paula broadwell on the monday posted this thing on the internet about petraeus' life lessons. number five is we all make mistakes. admit it, own up to it, take responsibility, learn from it and move on. and i think some of it he wanted to deal with the family issue. i think he also felt personally a violation of his own code of ethics. he realized he had let himself down. he had to deal with that and he would have if he had stayed, i think he could have stayed, to your point, but if he had stayed, he would have -- the agency would have been dealing with this press issue for a very long time. every time he stepped out of a car, every time he went on the hill, he would have had to deal with it and i think his respect and love of the work of the agency also suggests he needed to go. >> i appreciate you being on tonight. tom fuentes as well. suzanne kelly as we mentioned, appreciate your reporting. as we mentioned, some in congress are questioning the timing of the resignation, criticizing the fbi for not letting them or the president know sooner what was going on. joining me is congressman peter king. thank you for being with us. you said the elements of the story quote don't add up. to you, what does not add up? >> first of all, what fran said, the fact this became an fbi investigation to begin with, then to me, once director petraeus came within the scope of the investigation, it's almost unprecedented for the fbi to be investigating the director of the cia. if they were going to do that, they should have immediately gone to the attorney general and also to the president of the united states because david petraeus was a key part of the president's foreign policy team. i'm not talking about guilt or innocence. i'm saying he's under a cloud. i have great admiration for david petraeus. i urged him to run for president. i worked with him. he's a tremendous patriot. but once he came under this scope of the investigation, they had to have -- they should have notified the president because david petraeus was involved in some of the most sensitive negotiations around the world. >> the "wall street journal" is reporting as you know that holder, the attorney general, knew about it in september. >> first of all, i think it should have been earlier than that because this investigation started a few months before that but assume it's september. at that stage, the attorney general should have immediately gone to the president. it's the president that runs foreign policy, not the attorney general. >> do you think politics was at play here, not wanting to do this before the election? >> that could have been. if that's the case it was a real dereliction of duty because the president's main job, above all, is to be commander in chief. if the attorney general kept essential information from him which i think prevents him from carrying out his job as commander in chief, the attorney general has failed terribly to carry out his job. if the president did find out about it and didn't act on it until after the election, that's equally wrong. if holder knew about it, the attorney general knew about it in september, i believe he had the absolute obligation to tell the president in fairness to the president what was happening. >> you're chairman of the house homeland security committee. based on what you know now, do you believe national security has been compromised in any way by this affair? the fbi says it hasn't. >> we don't know enough yet. the fact is that the investigation was going on, they didn't know at that time whether it did or did not. that's when they should have gone to the president, told him what they had and let the president decide. mostly on the side of the intelligence committee. and i'll be part of the hearing this week. the fact is they did not know how far this was going to go and that's when they should have gone to the president because there were still so many sensitive -- so much sensitive negotiations that david petraeus was involved in, so many important meetings he was holding around the world. then when we had benghazi, i think if we on the intelligence committee had known about this investigation going on, we may have looked at david petraeus, the evidence he gave us, somewhat differently because most of what he told us then has pretty much been disproven since, and again, i think we may have looked at that differently. i'm just putting that out there, as something to consider. because we had no idea this was going on. certainly the chairman and ranking member didn't and i think they should have been and by past precedent, they always have been. >> how do you think it would have altered how you viewed his testimony on benghazi? >> well, if he knew that he was being investigated, for instance, if david petraeus was aware of that, he may have again tried to either tailor the testimony or modify it or do something which is not going to draw attention to himself. human nature, if you know there's a massive investigation going on, which could bring down your career, you may be less inclined to go all out. or all in. >> this thing that broadwell had mentioned about cia holding prisoners in benghazi and that might have been the reason behind the attack she said was kind of unsourced or unverified information. "a," do you think there's any truth to that and "b," if there's no truth to it, do you think she was talking based on, you know, trying to make herself look more important than she was? >> well, again, as a member of the intelligence committee, i can't comment on whether that's true or false but i will say in any event it was inappropriate for her to be talking that way. if she thought it was true she shouldn't have said it and if not, she certainly, should not have been making it up. >> fran raised questions about why the fbi initially got involved. you have similar questions. you mentioned it just briefly about why they would investigate allegedly harassing e-mails by one citizen to another. >> yeah. it seemed because there was a personal friendship between jill kelley and the fbi agent, that's what brought this along. if everyone who receives harassing e-mails got an fbi investigation as fran said, we are at cyberwar with china and libya -- china and iran, and if we are going to waste our time on something like this, which again, maybe there was something threatening there but it really seems unusual in view of the cast of characters involved. to me, that was abuse and also, whoever the fbi agent was who came and told the congressman, who told congressman kantor, he was breaching the investigation, ethics of the investigation. the fbi i don't think handled itself well at all. >> still a lot of questions, obviously. congressman king i appreciate you being on tonight. >> thank you, anderson. >>> we are talking about this on twitter right now. @andersoncooper, follow me there. >>> coming up, i will talk with retired army colonel steven boylan, who has talked to general petraeus since all of this happened. details when we continue. 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>> well, good to be with you. wish it was under different circumstances. >> yeah. >> we spoke at length throughout the past couple days. one that as everyone knows, he did have the affair. it started about two months after he was director of the cia and ended as you have reported about four months ago. he deeply regrets the harm and the damage he's brought to his family as i don't think anyone can really fathom or imagine what they are going through at this point. and also, the damage that this did to what he sees as one of the best jobs ever that he held as the director of the cia, working with the fantastic organization, best in the world. >> do you know what lengths he went to cover up the affair? i understand there was kind of, you know, anonymous e-mail accounts with a drop box, they would leave a message in and then eliminate so there was no record of it, and did keeping the affair secret interfere with his work at all? >> well, we haven't gone into any great details about how they communicated other than there were personal e-mail accounts that existed, as everyone is aware of at this point. i don't believe based on my discussions with him and knowing him that there was any crossover between his personal life that he was having with paula and his duties that he was carrying out as director of the cia, and i would like to make it clear that again, based on our conversations, that at no time did he provide paula with any classified information. >> can you characterize, i mean, his relationship with miss kelley? do you know why miss broadwell would have allegedly been harassing her? >> i don't know specifically. i think we're going to have to wait for paula to make any statements that she wishes. but as far as a relationship between the petraeuses, both holly and david petraeus and the kelleys, they got to know the kelleys when general petraeus at the time became the commander of central command. the kelleys are, my understanding, an influential couple in the tampa bay area. they threw a dinner party to kind of introduce the petraeuses to the community. they got to know each other through fund-raising events that holly petraeus was involved in and others. she's been described to me by david petraeus as an individual who has a great deal of energy and drive and support for the local military community down there and that's how they got to know each other. they still do to this day. >> colonel, the general knew for months that the fbi was aware of his affair, from all the reporting on this. you've said his affair with paula broadwell ended four months ago. do you know why he just publicly acknowledged it last week? did something trigger that? if he was aware it was being investigated for months, did he consider resigning earlier? >> we haven't discussed the timing of it. i can only kind of surmise based on knowing him a little bit that once he knew that this was probably going to become bigger than what it was, and i don't mean to be, you know, make light of it, but he felt that it was time for him to step down and resign. if you know david petraeus and it was discussed earlier in the program, part of his internal makeup would be that he would not be able to lead an organization after this kind of an event, so he tendered his resignation which was accepted the day after he gave it. >> i think there are some people, though, who are supporters of david petraeus who would say, why not stick it out? a lot of people have respect for him, democrats and republicans, like the job he was doing. plenty of people in the world have affairs, why step down, if this is all there was? >> well, if you think back to who is david petraeus, for 37 plus years, he was in uniform, and the code of ethics, the values that the military uphold is you don't have an affair. i think this goes back to the core of what and who david petraeus is. he had an affair, he has admitted it, he brought it out publicly. he deeply regrets the action and the poor decision making on his part and the poor judgment that he showed in that manner, but he felt that the way to help correct this was to resign. >> as you know, the general obviously was deeply involved in the ongoing investigation, the attacks on benghazi. he was scheduled to testify later this week. did he tell you whether or not he still intends to give testimony at a later date? >> he has not. my understanding is that -- there have been a lot of people questioning the timing of this, as you brought out. my understanding in conversations with him that this had nothing to do with benghazi. at a certain point, he made a decision to, along with the dni, that he would tender his resignation at the earliest opportunity he had to do that was i believe thursday when he met with the president and discussed it and then the president as we all know accepted his resignation on friday. >> appreciate you coming on and talking about it. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >>> general petraeus is certainly not alone. when we come back, why powerful men risk their careers, reputations and families by having affairs. >>> two full weeks after sandy hit, we found unused generators outside a 14-story building that's still without power in queens. no one's bothered to hook them up. they've been sitting in the building's parking lot for days. we're keeping them honest. >>> breaking news tonight. according to the "wall street journal" the fbi agent who launched the investigation that led to david petraeus' resigning is now being investigated. the "wall street journal" says there were concerns at the fbi that the agent may have been obsessed with the case and he was barred from it in the summer. the strangest part, the agent allegedly sent shirtless pictures of himself to jill kelley, the woman on the right who was allegedly being harassed by e-mail by paula broadwell, the woman on the left there. we're also learning more tonight about the content of those e-mails. a source says in the e-mail -- broadwell accused kelley of inappropriate behavior with generals at the military base where she did volunteer work. as the story gets stranger by the day, there's no denying general petraeus had it all, a storied military career, seat at the top of u.s. intelligence and a long marriage, the father of two children now adults. why would you put all that on the line by having an extramarital affair? only he can answer that question. however, history will forever note that he was forced from power by his behavior. in that respect, he is certainly not alone. here's martin savidge. >> reporter: politics and sex scandals are nothing new in the u.s. in fact, they date back to our country's beginning. >> of course, look, if you wanted to see what our founding fathers' behavior was like in philadelphia in 1776, we may not like all of the answers. >> reporter: more recently, president john f. kennedy's affairs were notorious. lyndon johnson was such a man with the ladies that he allegedly had a buzzer installed in his congressional office to alert him when lady byrd johnson was on the way. journalists never reported on such things back in the day, but that eventually changed. so did technology. recently, it's the digital footprint of dalliances that led to spectacular falls. remember congressman anthony weiner, who tweeted a photo of his privates. when the story broke, he denied it, claiming his twitter account had been hacked. eventually he confessed and resigned. >> i apologize first and foremost to my wife and to my family. >> reporter: there was client number nine, aka eliot spitzer, the governor of new york and former cnn anchor. when investigators followed his money, it revealed he spent thousands as a regular client of a call girl. he, too, stepped down. >> i have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and that violates my or any sense of right and wrong. >> reporter: and now comes general petraeus. done in by a simple click of the mouse. >> e-mail traffic, it's amazing that e-mail is still being used in such a careless and reckless fashion, because it's just evidence against you. >> reporter: modern science can also play a role. remember president clinton and the dna discovered on a certain blue dress belonging to a white house intern, monica lewinsky. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> reporter: if technology makes hiding an affair almost impossible, why do powerful people still think they get away with it? >> it's about narcissism and the will to power and people that strive that mightily and they start believing their own press. they start feeling omnipotent. >> reporter: of course, they aren't omnipotent. a general's fall from grace comes with collateral damage called families. martin savidge, cnn. >>> a lot of damage indeed. tonight, a question we won't stop asking until we get some answers. where is the power for nearly 60,000 new yorkers who are now heading into a third week with no heat, no lights and for some, no running water? we're keeping them honest next. ? >>> massive deadly explosion rocks an indiana neighborhood. could natural gas or a faulty furnace have caused the blast? the latest on the investigation ahead. >>> another keeping them honest report now. it's been a full two weeks as you know since super storm sandy blasted ashore and five days since the nor'easter that followed. yet tonight we're asking the same question that we were asking all last week, where's the power? what's taking so long to fix the misery that so many people are enduring? tonight, nearly 60,000 people are still without power in new york, no heat, no electricity, no phone service, and for some, not even running water. their anger understandably is i have no comment at this time. >> reporter: you're in management with the company? >> yes. >> reporter: okay. what's your name? >> michael presh. >> reporter: people have been here for two weeks -- >> no comment, sir. i apologize. it has to be run through the rest of our public outreach organizations. >> reporter: you understand the frustration that they look around them, everyone else has power. >> could you excuse me for a moment, please? >> that's how that went. incredibly, there were actually generators sitting unused in the building's parking lot. they're not connected to anything. they are enormous generators and have been there since saturday night. the building's management told cnn through its pr firm that work will begin tonight to hook up the generators and they hope to have power restored tonight. we'll see. they also said because ocean village is a private complex, doesn't get federal help as quickly as public housing does. it's not just ocean village, though. residents on long island held protests this weekend as well. anger at lipa is epidemic. >> i want some information. how long can this go on for? >> nobody knows nothing in the building. save your breath. nobody knows nothing. >> no one has any answers. there's no communication as to if it's going to come back in a day, two weeks, a month. >> infuriating, the lack of communication from this company. today, new york governor andrew cuomo indicated it won't be any time soon for many. he said roughly 58,000 customers won't be able to get back power until repairs can be made to their damaged homes. every day since sandy hit, we've asked lipa to come on the program. today we got the same response they have given every single day. they told us they quote, can't make anyone available at this time. the statement on their website said, i quote, lipa continues the massive effort to restore electricity to all customers. we will continue to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with over 9,400 linemen and tree trim crews dedicated to getting power restored. in case anyone in management is from lipa is watching, it's not the linemen who people have an issue with. they are grateful when they do show up. it's you guys, it's the management who is not communicating at all with people. half of those 58,000 lipa customers who won't get power until their homes are repaired live in the rockaways. i want to show you how close the rockaways are to midtown manhattan, where we are. we used times square as a reference point. the rockaways are to the east in the borough of queens. the area is a known flood zone, a mandatory evacuation zone as sandy approached. not everyone left. some of them stayed, the frailest with urgent medical needs. debroah feyerick reports. >> reporter: when the water rose and the lights went out, people who had planned to ride out the storm had no choice but to evacuate. >> it was a war zone. there were patients everywhere. there was stuff trying to figure out who people were and what they needed. ems was lined up with stretchers out the ambulance door. they couldn't even get into the emergency room. it was horrible. >> reporter: the rockaways has one of the highest concentration of elderly and disabled adults in the country. people vulnerable, even on a good day. they went to the one place they knew they would get help. st. john's episcopal hospital, high ground, 14 feet above sea level. >> they couldn't power their medical devices and they needed electricity to power their ventilators and they needed oxygen. some patients just needed a roof. some missed dialysis, some missed their medications and needed insulin. >> reporter: for all their efforts, st. john's says it might be on the hook for as much as $3 million for helping. why? 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