why they didn t tell the president. dough you feel there do you feel the president knew earlier than the white house represented to us? i don t know. the foreign general didn t him, then he has to explane why. if he didn t tell him, they should explain why he didn t act. the version right now is the attorney general did not tell the president. to me the burden is on the attorney general. he had an obligation to tell the president. chairman, we thank you for your time. thank you, shannon. three weeks after super storm sandy. much of lower manhattan is dealing with the damage left behind. homes and businesses are uninhabitable. we are live in lower manhattan with a little good news. well, hello, shannon. much of the focus following the super storm sandy has been on the coastal community of new york and new jersey that have had tremendous damage.
we have to support them in any way we, and keep working on a very, very difficult problem. shannon: we do have reports that there are negotiations with egypt, trying to broker a cease-fire and indications that israel is preparing to prepare for a ground war offensive. how worried are you about that step playing out? well, very worried. the president said it best in the clips you were showing, we need to try to avoid that. israel has to defend itself. hopefully, we work with the egypts to broker the cease-fire. if there is a ground invasion, that will increase the violence and make it that much more difficult to get to a peaceful situation. israel has to do what it can to disop the rockets from raining down on the citizens. shannon: i want to turn to libya, benghazi, with the testimony from general petraeus and others, there are several g.o.p. senator who is have said that ambassador rice in the version that she gave, several days after the initial deadly
that would be a good thing and a huge blow to iran an hezbollah. elsewhere, we see challenges. hamas remain aster rorrist organization dedicated to the destruction of the fate of israel. if you look at theco innocent, they want to kill covenant, they want to kill jews throughout the world. not just in israel. there is no sitting down and negotiating with people. they shoot at us and they have to know they will take all measures to defend ourselves. that is what we ll do. shannon: you talk about the negotiations there is a report officials are in cairo now and efforts for a cease-fire. what assurance do you have at all that the owe side of the to cage woulthe of this theyd stop. we had to paralyze southern part of the country and that is not tolerable. president obama said no country would put up with that. we appreciate that. he that is the reality.
process and in cambodia, despite the lack of it, there was a wat pot monastery, with the reclining buddha and asked the monk there for prayers, for talks to avert the fiscal cliff. i always believe in prayer. i believe in prayer when i go to church, bam home and if a buddhist monk is wishing me well, i am going to take whatever good vibes he can give me. reporter: the president says he s confident he and the congress can reach a deficit reduction agreement. a lot of analysts think that s one of two questions likely to be most asked by the leaders in the summit in cambodia. the other is who will replace secretary of state hillary clinton. shannon: we know you had travel troubles. be safe and see you soon.
we are all grownups. we have a responsibility to the american people. the elements for an agreement are there. time is of the essence, the quicker we do tthe more confidence we instill, the better it is for the economy and the american people. reporter: republicans, too, have expressed optimism that the fiscal cliff can be avoided and are open to signing legislation that includes new sources of revenue. but the president wants to raise most of that new money with $1.6 trillion over a decade. republicans are not likely to go along with that. this is why. there certainly is room for negotiation oneal solution and a real solution includes both revenue, increases and spending reductions. the reason we have concern about what the president has talked about and my friends on the other side of the aisle have talked about is that it doesn t solve the problem. if we take the president s deal that he had brought to the