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An issue than how a high school dropout ended up privy to the super secret surveillance programs. >> i ask you if you're troubled that he was given that kind of opportunity to be so close to important information that was critical to the security of our nation. >> i have glrave concerns over that. the access that he had, the process that we did. and those are things that i have to look into and fix from my end and across the intel community. >> reporter: now, today alexander will hold an unusual classified briefing for all senators where he will give more details about some of these government...

Through. >> we're told by white house officials that the president today will say that members of congress have an obligation to all those who died here in newtown and also all the other americans who have died in mass shootings to make some movement on these gun proposals, and it's not just the president alone doing this push. tomorrow the vice president will be in washington meeting with law enforcement officials on this issue. the first lady will be headed to chicago, a place that's just been hit hard over the last few years by gun violence. she will be talking on this issue as well, so a b...

student debt. one in three for the gop. john boehner sounding the alarm saying there's a one in three chance they could lose control of the house. secret wiring, listening devices. we're not talking cia but football. new orleans saints general manager under fire this morning over allegations he eavesdropped on rival coaches. still on duty. a shocking turnaround, sanford police chief bill lee tries to resign and is denied. outcry and disappointment from trayvon martin's family has a florida town this morning trying to move forward. drying up. medicare and social security in ma...

good morning to you. this is your "a.m. wake-up call" for friday. happy friday. it's november 18th, from the time warner center in new york, i'm carol costello. here are the morning's top stories. another child sex scandal at a major university. syracuse university has confirmed that basketball assistant coach bernie fein has been put on administrative leave. one of his accusers talking about more than a decade of abuse that started in sixth grade. he thought president obama was the antichrist. the man accused of taking shots at the white house, now accused of trying to assassinate...

president returned to the country and is looking for the united states' help to keep him in power, and some of this was political in nature. >> sure. absolutely. in fact, the u.s. government discouraged him from returning to yemen, as did the saudi government. we know that from officials in both governments. he went back anyway. he is looking for support. we don't know whether or not the united states was directly involved in the killing, the yemeni government does not have the capability without u.s. assistance to get this done. >> fran townsend, hope you'll still around. many more ...