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Home. martha: cast par should know better. the zebra is baby. what does he know. bill: here's the rub. by new york law he is allowed to have the thing as a pet. game warden came in said, there is -- no such thing. so i'm thinking he is headed for a bigger place. martha: running with quite a bit of purpose. i think they're on their way somewhere in particular, christmas shopping perhaps. bill: another day. martha: another day in new york. how about this? a new way to predict obesity? researchers say the key is in newborn babies. john roberts on this for us today. he is live in atlanta. good mor...

Martha: we ran in this election saying that everybody has to pay their fair share and that that means that folks on the upper end of that spectrum, i know you believe, senator, that would be a jobs killer. but look, elections have consequences. it will be the mindset from everything we're hearing and it is a no-go. what i'm asking you is are republicans willing to hold the line, say to the president, i am sorry we will never agree to a deal that involves an increase in taxes? are they? >> i think any deal that passes up here that raises taxes and raises taxes as i mentioned earlier on small bu...

It strikes me at least that this can be resolved if the president is willing to put enlightment reform on the table. republicans have been very willing to talk about revenues, particularly in the context of tax reform which is necessary to fuel economic growth. martha: but let me jump in for one second, senator, pardon me, if i may, there is piece out this morn in "politico", the president says, you know what? i won the election and what i said was everybody has got to pay their fair share. he will not negotiate on the over 250,000 increasing, seeing increase in their taxes. he said, you know ...

Raise questions for them at the white house. the president, at least in every public way possible has shown a lot of support for her, and it real any some ways comes down to the question of whether or not he feels very emboldened by the election and believes that this benghazi thing is something that is going to go away. they have to make that calculation, because she will be grilled on these questions if she actually goes before this senate committee, no? >> reporter: they do have to think about that. they have to think about the political fallout of dealing with other things as well, getting...

1998 bombings of u.s. embassies in east africa. she was the region statel state-of-the-state liaison at the time of those attacks. >> in both cases the ambassadors begged for additional security. i asked ambassador rice what her role was. she said she would have to refresh her memory, but that she was not involved directly in turning down the request. martha: who was? right? that's one of the big questions here. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington this morning with us. what are we expecting in terms of possible answers this morning from all this. catherine...