And raise the money it needed to get itself through the downturn. You can say it was locked but there will but sometimes you make your own lock in Corporate America and it was a combination of factors that cause gm to tumble. For a much for stopping by. Have a nice thanksgiving. Happyh you a very thanksgiving as well and we are back tomorrow at 7 p. M. 7 a. M. Eastern time. There is live coverage at the National Press club. They are looking at Holiday Spending and this event is just getting underway live here on c span. In fact, in every year we have conducted this survey, actual Holiday Spending has increased. These two years were 2008 and 2009 during the recession. Interpreting the results is how the proportion says it will increase or decrease spending that changed over time. Except for 2008, at the depth of the recession, the most frequent response in any year is that spending will stay about the same as the previous year. Typically about half of respondents said they plan no chang
Classified information was disclosed. This week on inside washington, a sex scandal at the top of the cia. The benghazi blame game. The American People deserve to know the facts. We cannot ever let this happen again. Why would susan rice not get our vote . I dont trust her. Defending susan rice. Senator mccain and senator graham want to go after some big, they should go after me. There are no barriers, they to sitting down and working through this process. As the fiscal cliff limbs, is there a deal in the works . Mitt romney explains why he lost. The president s campaign was focused on his base coalition, giving extraordinary gifts from the government, working aggressively to turn them out to vote. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org i just dont know where to begin this week. Do we talk about republican charges of a coverup with regard to the fatal attack in benghazi . Do we talk about sexual liaisons and emails and National Security . To talk about israel a
To sitting down and working through this process. As the fiscal cliff limbs, is there a deal in the works . Mitt romney explains why he lost. The president s campaign was focused on his base coalition, giving extraordinary gifts from the government, working aggressively to turn them out to vote. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org i just dont know where to begin this week. Do we talk about republican charges of a coverup with regard to the fatal attack in benghazi . Do we talk about sexual liaisons and emails and National Security . To talk about israel and gaza. The possibility of a deal to avoid going off the fiscal cliff . Lets start with the sex. [laughter] general David Petraeus had an affair with his biographer, paula broadwell, a married mother of two pit talk about unlimited access. General petraeus was set to testify as we were recording this program, so we dont know what he said yet. We are safer because of the work that Dave Petraeus has done. My
Episode in libya that left four people, including the American Ambassador dead. This president , this administration has either been guilty of colossal incompetence or engaged in a coverup, neither of which are acceptable to the American People. Schieffer mccain will be with us this morning, and well also get the take of the senates number two democrat, dick durbin. For analysis well bring in the washington posts david ignatius. Tom ricks, august of can the gen. And our own bob orr and margaret brennan. And well have a farewell interview with maines republican senator Olympia Snowe, whos leaving the senate because she no longer felt it was a place she could get anything done. Its been a wild week, but well try to put it in perspective on face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, face the nation with bob schieffer. Schieffer and good morning again. We want to get right to the story in the middle east. , israel continuing to amass troops on the period with
Get the information in a more accurate picture of what transpired and delivered to the American People with confidence, and pulling the pieces together in a way that we knew exactly who was responsible you know, for killing four of our americans and attacking our facilities. And, unfortunately, they didnt do that. It took so long in fact, it took 17 days for the director of National Intelligence even to issue a statement to say that it was a deliberate and organizeterrorist attack. Thats unacceptable in todays environment. Schieffer do you have any answers yet as to why we know that they had asked to maintain their the current level of security and that was turned down. Do we have any idea on what that decision was based on . No, and were still getting to the bottom of that. Thats one of my primary concerns. And thats certainly what im driving. First of all, why there was failure for Adequate Security at the temporary mission. And secondly, why they didnt assess the security risks pose