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Counterinsurgency and almost nation building representing towards the targets, military style attacks. someone else will come in and pick up the ball in the cia. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. lets go to msnbc senior political analyst mark halpern if for more. mark, what are you hearing right now? >> well, to echo what michael said, theres lots we dont know, including the circumstances of the reason for his resignation. first of all, as andrew and others have suggested, this is a shock to th...

That michael morell will be offered the acting director post. there is more breaks news. the supreme court has just agreed challenge to the landmark voting rights act. lets go to nbc news justice correspondent pete williams for more on that. >> this is one of the most important civil rights laws ever passed, passed in 1965, and what it says is that areas in the south and some other parts in the united states cant make any changes whatsoever in their election laws until they get permission from t...

Innext and clearly security was sub par despite warnings and concerns of people within the compound that they were not safe. so i dont know if theres any connection, but just if people wonder why that speculation would be there, there were a lot of people pointing fingers at the cia saying those are the guys who might have dropped the ball on this. right now we just dont know enough to say whether it has anything to do with it. it has been a high pressure moment for him regardless on the front. ...

it is important breaking news this hour. the shocking resignation of the cia director germ david petraeus, stepping down because of an extramarital affair. heres part of the message he sent to employees this afternoon. after being married for over 37 years, i showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. this afternoon, the president graciously accepted my resigna...

hastily scheduled meeting for petraeus at the white house thursday. >> does the president have full faith and confidence in president petraeus? >> the president thinks general petraeus has done an excellent job. >> he believes general petraeus did an excellent job. no personnel announcements to make today. >> as the briefing was going on, details started to emerge about the resignation and letter to the c.i.a. personnel released detailing the affair. "yesterday afternoon i went to the ...

came to the president and told him that he wanted to step down. he has had a long distinguished military record of decades, architect of the surge in iraq. you will remember. in 2007 under president bush. came back and became the commander on the ground in afghanistan against president obama. the general has come under fire for the c.i.a. role in benghazi terror attack, people close to him tonight insist the resignation had nothing to do with the ips dept. this is a personal failing th...

0 combover have a scandalous affair. >> bob: i find it mind boggling that a man goes through this with his wife that there would be suspicion whatsoever this is anything do with the hearings. anybody who suggests that? what do you think he did? held back his affair -- >> greg: no. thats not what im saying. i think obviously -- look, its obvious something was happening before the election. as a favor to president obama did not do anything before the election. that is all im saying. im not saying ...

down. he has had a long distinguished military record of decades, architect of the surge in iraq. you will remember. in 2007 under president bush. came back and became the commander on the ground in afghanistan against president obama. the general has come under fire for the c.i.a. role in benghazi terror attack, people close to him tonight insist the resignation had nothing to do with the ips dept. this is a personal failing that he talked about today in a statement saying after being...

extra-marital affair. andrea mitchell just broke this story, and cease going to provide us with new details ahead. >> all that plus has the obama presidency been good for black people? we have a guest that says not really. buckle up. youre in "the cycle" for friday, november 9th. so the election is behind us, and its time to confront the fiscal cliff, or as we at "the cycle" call it until we invent poetic phrasing, the gradual fiscal slope. whatever you want to call it, its staring y...

criticized for what she said on the sunday morning talk shows, whether she was following the guidance, the talking points from the intelligence community. so i think that there is going to be some development at least to clarify later today what the status of david petraeus is what his intentions are, and how long he will stay with the administration. >> andrea we may get more information even within this hour. jay carney has his daily briefing and perhaps will offer answers to the que...