Block her possible nomination to secretary of state. The president thinks we are picking on people, he really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. Senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. David petraeus will be on capitol hill tomorrow to testify about the september 11th attacks onhe u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. We now know the identity of the fbi agent who triggered the investigation into the petraeus affair. Three people have been killed after rockets were fired into southern gaza. First israeli deaths killed a hamas military commander yesterday. Bp has agreed to pay a record penalty over the gulf oil disaster. It also includes criminal charges. Popular energy drink, fi fivehour energy, is making headlines because of a possible link to more than a dozen deaths. Carrying three babies is no easy feat, especially when theyre the heaviest set of triplets on record. Look at that. That is absolutely astonishing. Simply fantastic. And all that matter. Asked whether she should consider stepping aside simply to make room for younger members. Lets, for a moment, honor thats a legitimate question. Aha ha, ha. Online petition to allow texas to withdraw from the United States has more than 100,000 signatures. These signatures are from 100,000 signatures. These signatures are from every state but texas. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Im charlie rose in washington. Norah odonnell is in new york. There is a lot to talk about after president obamas First White HouseNews Conference in eight months. It covered everything from the budget crisis to libya to the David Petraeus scandal. The president himself said that so much has happened lately, people forget the election was just a week ago. Nancy cordes covered the News Conference. She is at the white house. Good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie, norah and our viewers in the west. The president came to the white house, eager to push his message on the fiscal cliff but also was peppered about his handling of National Security, foreign policy. One question in particular got a rise out of him about his u. N. Ambassador, susan rice. In his first full press Conference Since march, president obama was asked about the criticism of u. S. Ambassador susan rice, his likely choice to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Besmirch her reputation is outrageous. Reporter rice has come under fire from some republicans for initially stating in Television Interviews that the september attack on an american consulate in libya appeared to be the result of a spontaneous demonstration. As ive said before, she made an appearance at the request of the white house, in which she gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her. If senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. Reporter and thats just what senator john mccain did a short time later. He has been one of rices fiercest critics. First and foremost, the president of the United States, the commander in chief is the most responsible. And i hope the president has no illusions about our view of his responsibility. Reporter mr. Obama was also asked about the most pressing economic issue facing him and congress, the fiscal cliff. But what im not going to do is to extend bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 that we cant afford and, according to economists, will have the least positive impact on our economy. A modest tax increase on the wealthy is not going to break their backs. One of the most frequent criticisms weve heard from members on both sides is that you havent done enough to reach out and build relationships. Are there concrete ways you plan to approach your relationships with congress in the second term . Look, i think theres no doubt that i can always do better. I think all of us have responsibilities to see if there are things we can improve on. I dont exempt myself from needing to do some self reflection and see if i can improve our working relationship. Reporter the president will be landing in new york city in about an hour and a half to tour the devastation left by Hurricane Sandy. Then tomorrow he sits down with congressional leaders from both sides to discuss ways to avoid going over the fiscal cliff. Charlie and norah . Nancy cordes, thank you. Cbs political director john dick erson is here with me. Its good to be in washington. Youve reversed roles here. Youre here and norah is in new york. Mindful of secondterm president s who overreach. There was a part of it that was restrained yesterday. The part that wasnt was when he took a whack at senators mccain and graham. That stood out in part in contrast to the other reserved approach he took to taxes, even saying he was being self reflective about dealing with congress, on the one hand, being self reflective about dealing with congress on the other hand he was so strong with mccain and graham. Mccain and graham are taking a political shot at the president by picking on susan rice. If they want to pick on anyone, they should pick on him or the intelligence chiefs who gave her the intelligence that she was repeating. Theres also some Political Considerations coming from the republican side, mitt romney yesterday had an analysis of the president. Picking up in interviews with romney folks right after the election. Basically their argument is that the president did well with minorities, africanamericans, hispanic voters and young voters because he systematically, basically, bought them off. With young voters he offered them talked a lot about College Loans and with hispanic voters, having younger hispanic voters, the children of illegal immigrants, give them citizenship. With africanamerican voters, one strategist said it was this lowering of welfare requirements. That argument was essentially the one that mitt romney made with donors yesterday in a phone call and arguing basically this is how the president did it. And also paul ryan talking about the urban vote. Norah . Thats right. John, it was almost as if romney told supporters that obama won because he gave a chicken in every pot to everybody. Exactly. And hes now become to this was essentially the sentiment at the heart of that secretly recorded video that came out during the campaign where he talked about the 47 , the people so dependent on government they would vote for the president because he was going to hand things out. Romney spent several weeks then trying to walk back from that statement. Now he seems to be embracing it aga again, the idea basically that these voters are so easily manipulated that the president merely needed to dangle a thing or two in front of them and they would rush to him at the polls. The reason you would embrace this argument if youre in the romney camp is because the alternative argument, that they totally misread the electorate is a more painful one to embrace. The notion that nancy cordes raised, is the president clearly desirous of reaching out with good intentions to republicans . Because the susan rice deal suggests that hes ready to fight. On that one, he is, because hes irritated sort of at a personal level as it was explained to me. On the tax issue, he was firm but also trying to be ambiguous. Saying you have to raise revenue somehow. You can do it one of three ways. Raise taxes on those making over 250,000, reduce loop holes, keep the tax rate the same, reduce loop holes or some combination thereof. He basically thinks theres no way to do it without some kind of tax increase but is trying not to look like a bully about it. John dickerson, thank you very much. New details in the scandal that forced cia director David Petraeus to resign. Military is taking action against the woman involved in the case, also we have learned the name of the fbi agent who triggered the investigation. Bob orr is here. Good morning. Good morning, charlie and the entire process surrounding general petraeus came up. Investigaave all the information yet. No National Security nformation had been compromised. And just this morning, while on se rip in thailand, defense secretary leon panetta says he doesnt see the scandal wi i am not aware of any others his could be involved in this issue at the present time. R intellig enb muller briefed intelligence eaders, saying that broadwell, researching a book on petraeus, may have mishandled classified information. Also on wednesday, broadwells susp security clearances were canceled and Macdill Air Force base in tampa revoked jill kelleys access to the base. Looking into the emails kelley exchanged with general allen. Officials Officials Say they contain be nothing of an explicit sexual nature but add the emails, if l naturelic, would be embarrassing. For his part, allen has privately denied any wrongdoing pokenas not spoken publicly. His attorney did release a ntatement on his behalf saying that he was fully cooperating he was with the investigations and that so the extent there are questions about Certain Communications by general allen, he shares a desire to resolve uestions stions as completely snd quickly as possible. Can you explain what ibppened . In an interview with charlie rose i rose in washington wednesday night, head of special operations remained high praise for his colleagues. My time serving with both and petraeus and john allen are two of the fine est officers i ever served with. Ill leave it at that. Petraeus is set to appear se before the house intelligence rr thanke over the attack on the consulate in benghazi that killed the ambassador and three other americans. Rst. Ots of interesting stuff to talk about first, john miller, the whistleblower, what are we phriesng about him . Fred humphries is an of theting figure in the fbi, member of the s. W. A. T. Team. He cut his teeth on the ahmed millennium yearm case when he was just a twoyear agent, because he spoke french. st he also has a medal, directors award for a shootout el hesmacdill front gate. He is known as a hard charger. What comes with that, though, a bitof people i spoke with worked with him, there was a bit f ban edge to him at Guantanamo Bay as an sborinterrogator, lef with bad blood. In this case, of course, when the agents stopped briefing him on the case that he brought in that he wasnt assigned to, he went outside the congress reporting that. Now he has asked for histleblower status. Going to on is, is he going to ee in some kind of trouble . We dont know yet. Other big question, front page of the wall street journal today is about some tension between the cia director, David Petraeus, and the head of the was that petraeus, as this stuff was about to break, wanted han had back and put out his own timeline in benghazi, a different timeline than had been put out by the white house. Petraeus this suggest . David petraeus comes into the cia as a military guy that everybody is looking at, hes at, to tne of us, who says i can challengthe challenge. I can defend my own agencies re here. I can show the troops im going t fight for them. Etsgets in that sandwich between sandwichstration account thats become a political football and going out for his agency with in tharrels. S the middle of this, a sex errupts interrupts that. To ts interesting, he wants to do it anyway. And he may tomorrow or today or tomorrow behind wased doors with congress. Was there a significant amount lsclassified material on paula broadwells computers . We saw that raid this week, that additional raid. Learning more she may have had additional materials than we thought. It may be more than we thought. The way they got to those materials in that raid, she signed a consent form. She told them what they would d nd and where they would find find ecurity has a security clearance. Thats now been revoked. Which has now been suspended, which is this first step toward ts m revoking it. But these are documents that, most likely in her job, she went and downloaded, printed or removed for her dissertation. Allen. N panetta says he has jobendous confidence in john allen, remains at the top u. S. Commander in afghanistan and Clarissa Ward is in kabul, and an has been talking to the troops about the scandal. The militr the military here keeping veran is keeping very tight lipped about this. Visit in a request to visit one of the bases here and speak with of the tre troops and we were told that that would not be sossible and that the soldiers commead no Public Comment on such matters, that they remain focused on their mission. S were able to speak to some hoficers who asked to remain anonymous. And their reactions to this to this sre really quite mixed. There were some who said that this does not affect the mission here in afghanistan, that it has that no bearings whatsoever on their daytoday operations. Met one major wrote this to me. Quote, were taught to live the rmy values and assure our soldiers, down to the lowest private, lives them as well. When one of the most seniorranking wellknown generals of our generation cant gh that, it makes it kind of hengh to make a private do it and then discipline them when they dont. Weekcbs this morning, Clarissa Ward, kabul. A week of violence along the gaza strip is escalating this morning. On wednesday israel assassinated hamas top commander. In staroute, israel, allen pichlt zzey has our story. Reporter neither side has shown signs of being able to call a truce. Sending Israeli Citizens running for cover. Poorly aimed but deadly nonetheless. Family of three died when one struck their home. They had gone on to their roof to watch an aerial display. At the same time that the family died more than 1,000 gaza residents took to the streets. The march was to bury the hamas military leader killed in an air strike. Funeral was as much a gesture of defiance as it was mourning. In the bizarre and unprecedented twist, the mini war was virtually announced on twitter. At 6 22 local time last night, the Israeli Defense force tweeted, we recommend that no hamas operatives show their face above ground. Hamas responded with their own tweet. Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are. You opened hells gates on yourselves. Minutes later the Israeli Military tweeted captured ahmed jabari, eliminated. The killing sparked even more rocket attacks. Antimissile Defense Systems intercepted a number of them fired by gaza, but some got through. All right, norah. We have some changing weather in the bay area. Just a few high clouds outside. Going to see a lot of sunshine early on then the clouds really going to thicken up toward the latter part of the day as it looks like High Pressure gets out of the way. We get ready for some rain. Temperatures right now 30s in some of the valleys, 40s and 50s elsewhere. By the afternoon still mild, mainly into the 60s. Some places near 70 degrees in the afternoon. 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