Softening her up and feeling her out when talking about the allen e-mails. metaphor rickly. i know i sensed something else may be going there. general allen, he spent all of that an inorder nent amount of time having a conversation with a housewife in tampa. i don t know. either he is a big time yenta or he is a horn dog. i am going with the horn dog. that s what i am saying. good point. bill, i have to say, you point out that you don t have a problem with the affair, bill. and i honestly don t really have a problem with the affair except for the fact that this could have been an affair with a loon gnaw particular in which case it would have completely compromised our national security. that s something to worry about, right? that is something to worry about. i am more worried about the fbi guy with the shirtless picture. that takes a certain type of dude. i have heard some rumors about you, bill, so i don t know if you want to go there. you know i don t know how
Just friendly? our national security hangs in the balance. he is on hold as investigators pour over the 20,000 documents and hundreds of messages that equaled to an inappropriate communication with tampa socialite jill kelley. allen, the top nato commander in afghanistan, quote, used terms of endearment, but not in a flirtatious way. as one official notes, if you know allen, and who doesn t, he is the kind of guy who will respond to every e-mail he gets, rut best. you are a sweetheart. that kind of thing. it was the equivalent of phone sex over e-mail which would be e-mail sex. he intends to cooperate and is as excited about it as this dog. come on, rico. let s go for a walk. do you want to go for a walk?
Billion in fraudulent medicare payments and we can make more progress in that area, as well. thank you so much. i greatly appreciate you joining us. thank you, tamron. let s bring in now nbc news military analyst retired four-star general barry mccaffrey. no big headline of the president of the series of events with general petraeus and general allen, the president saying what you have said and many others. he needs to defer until we learn more and at this point does not believe any national security issues have come about as a result of this scandal. well, look. it s the president s response is fair minded, sensible, thoughtful, dignified. that s the way he should have dealt with it. and i thought the fall on media interest was balance and went on to the big issues. this is a tragedy for petraeus and his family. it s a huge loss to the united states and our ability to defend ourselves. and i think that s all we re looking at. now the thing with general
Finding out at the time. pete williams, we thought so much more would be said of general allen and general petraeus and the president answering the questions but i think predictably avoiding getting pulled in to too much, especially with who u eve got mbenbenghazi with general petra and another set of issues and cia chief. right. and what he basically said is that he sees no classified evidence or no danger of classified evidence was in any way disclosed to jeopardize national security. and the second thing he said is, that his expectations is that the fbi followed established protocols. when chuck gave him the chance to say are you withholding judgment, the president said, yes, that s right. i m withholding judgment on what the fbi did here and then said he has great respect for the fbi and that if he had been told about the investigation in the middle of it then everybody would be asking, why was the white house informed in the middle of an investigation? so the president had two chances here basically to express any
Baldwin running for the united states senate and no one thought she could win. no one thought she could win even until the day the votes were being counted they didn t think she could win. she had to prove herself beyond it. and i think that s part of why we don t see these types of things with women leaders. is this the media s fault? how much are we playing a role in this? is. i don t think we are in this case. he was asked to resign. that s where it came from. it s us judging him as much anticipating perhaps the case. how the feed iing frenzy arod stories like had develop. that s true. it s also the cia director. this is different than a senator having an affair. the cia director more liable to blackmail. james, i have to ask this, we have two generals now, general allen, general petraeus, is this coincidence, two generals caught up in something like this or is there a culture here among the top commanders if they can get away with anything?