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On the recordNovember 13, 2012
I am with holding judgment with respect to how the entire process surrounding General Petraeus came up. And you know we don't have all the information yet. But I want to say that I have a lot of confidence generally in the FBI and they've got a difficult job. And so I'm going to wait and see --
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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President Obama expresses his confidence in the FBI while withholding judgment on the situation involving General Petraeus.

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