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All kinds of other federal agencies. today defense secretary leon panetta put out a memo to defense department employs warning if they dont get a deal in the next few days there is going to be painful cuts to the defense department next year. shep? >> right now this isnt about solving any problems. this is about placing blame. thats what this exercise tonight is all about. to place the blame on the president. >> partly because you are right the republicans have been on defense, the president say...

Been described as a smoking gun warning because it foreshadowed how four americans, including stevens, would eventually die on 9/11 as well as the groups responsible. >> to what level did those cables get reviewed? >> well, they certainly would have been reviewed up through assistant secretary level and it may be that some of my colleagues on the seventh floor saw them as well. >> that seventh floor reference is designed to point to mrs. clinton, whose aides say she was not well enough to testif...

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They just passed the one bill that would replace massive cuts in defense spending at the pentagon with cuts to domestic spending. this was to try to get more republican support. they didnt want to just be dealing with a tax issue. they also wanted to be cutting. well, in the pitch, a star voice from the 2012 campaign on the republican side made his pitch. >> we dont just have a fiscal cliff. we have a fiscal abyss in front of us. and that is the debt crisis that is on our horizon. failure to add...

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But we begin tonight with a fox urgent. the house of representatives is voting tonight on what republicans call plan b in the standoff over the fiscal cliff. the white house insists its a waist of time with just 12 days to go until we take the plunge. that would mean automatic spending cuts, expiring tax cuts and possibly another recession. a live look at the house floor now. the republican leaders say their plan will extend tax cuts for more than 99 persian of taxpayers. it lets those cuts expi...

Spokesman has said that she is recovering now, recovering from a concussion. catherine herridge has been following the hearings and she is live for us this evening in our washington newsroom. catherine, officials talked about some warnings that they got before the attacks. >> well, shep. senators today pushing secretary clintons deputies on classified state department cables warning the threat from terrorists in benghazi was spiking. >> you were aware of the security risk there. we have read the...

Shep? >> shepard: and mike a happy holidays to you as well. the white house says president obamas latest offer may not be his final offer but staffers also say there is not much further he can go. we are live at the white house coming up inside fox report. first though the state department made mistakes and needs to hold itself accountable. that acknowledgment came just hours ago during hearings on capitol hill. state department officials were there testifying about the attack on our consulate i...