(MCT) — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his re-election showed that the majority of voters agreed with him that taxes should be raised on the wealthiest Americans as part of a solution to reduce the nation’s gaping budget deficit.

Speaking to reporters for the first time since he was re-elected, Obama was pressed on the widening scandal that’s ensnared recently resigned CIA Director David Petraeus and Marine Gen. John Allen, but he said he didn’t think there had been any negative national security disclosures and that he’d withhold judgment on whether he should have been alerted sooner to the FBI investigation.