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Could be used for blackmail, it's not okay. the idea that one of the senior people, most access to classified material being investigated and no one could give the president a heads up -- >> eric holder, his own attorney general and somebody that he's close to would not give him the heads up that this is going on since the summer? >> there's so many questions here. the old issue, who guards the guardians? who investigates the investigators? this is going to have question after question after question about what was done, what was said, and then why certain things weren't done. this is one of t...

Benghazi frenzy. >> andrea, did he have to resign? >> a lot of people say not. that he eventually felt that he had to. we know that the head of intelligence, clapper, told him he should. the president asked for 24 hours to think it over. and then -- >> all this comes in on election night. to clapper and the white house. >> which is why conspiracy theorists are going -- running wild with it. i am persuaded as far as all of my reporting that the white house did not know about this until wednesday, that clapper didn't know about it until tuesday night. and just a word. it's veterans' day. and we ...

Oh, my god. >> call him later today. >> not call the mayor, the joke and whole fun with the split screen that will be done never that will get old never. no just fascinating. great to have you here. congratulations on your election. a lot to get to. chuck todd, let's start with this scandal about general petraeus. within this white house this had to be something that really took them by surprise but then there was a big question does he need to resign? >> it really did. the president did take -- they didn't want to fill this step. it was funny to watch so many fairly high-level white housers o...

And not just to suggest that people in the white house knew, i don't know that they did, but whoever knew, all of the people, the cast of characters who knew at a time when there were questions being raised about benghazi, there was all this stuff going on, that could have been politically volatile. on both sides, in the intelligence community and the law enforcement community, everybody somehow in the space of, like, two weeks managed to not say a word about this on the eve of an election. again, i'm obviously not positing some huge conspiracy. in our environment, in our hyperpartisan environ...

Oh, my god. >> call him later today. >> not call the mayor, the joke and whole fun with the split screen that will be done never that will get old never. no just fascinating. great to have you here. congratulations on your election. a lot to get to. chuck todd, let's start with this scandal about general petraeus. within this white house this had to be something that really took them by surprise but then there was a big question does he need to resign? >> it really did. the president did take -- they didn't want to fill this step. it was funny to watch so many fairly high-level white housers o...