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Costs by $65 billion. those mandatory cuts to defense and to general spending include items like education and veterans benefits. a third cost reduction, the payroll tax holiday, that expires. $95 billion is saved there. finally, the other category here on top, that includes a mix of emergency employment benefits, health care and tax cuts, and benefits. all of those end. that saves the largest chunk. if all of that happens, next year's deficit improves $607 billion. the deficit would go down almost 40%, but it's only good on paper. it would come at a price, a great price that the economy would...

>> bret: more on this with the panel. thank you. federal deficit topped $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row. the numbers $1.1 trillion in red for fiscal year 2012 which just ended. that is $207 billion less than the previous year. government spending fell 1.7%. tax revenue rose 6.4%. higher gasoline costs drove wholesale prices up. dow broke two-day losing streak. >> disseption in ranks of the "new york times" over the libya story later in the grapevine. up next, the still unreleased video of the benghazi attack. what does it show? [ male ann] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where...

$807 billion, and 4,486 lives, and it's a difficult thing to estimate the iraqi deaths, but a shocking number of iraqi lives. i was struck by two things about this. first of all, the way that we feel about the end of the iraq war as opposed to the way we feel about the beginning, and the president said it was easier to end a war than begin one, and i think it was profound and true, but this was the defining political issue of a generation in some ways. a whole covert of people got active in politics and the war. we had two elections during the iraq war. and president obama is president today b...

Rory cellan-jones, bbc news. >> maybe this will help microsoft get more cutting edge. apple changes the world every day with its products and microsoft is trying to stay edgy. >> skype not being the most profitable company, get these numbers. users of skype, 207 billion minutes of voice and video calls last year, almost 400,000 worth. only 5% of active skype users actually pay for it. >> watch for changes if you use skype a lot, it could cost you. they have to make some cash. coming up after the break, they are attractive young women who use their best assets to fight crime. >> somehow get t...

Built has internet service. skype and microsoft is the biggest deal in the software giant's 36-year history. microsoft plans to marry skype to the xbox and outlook e-mail and smartphones. just last year they made 207 billion minutes of free voice and video calls. it's a unit of comcast. fresh off the take down of osama bin laden, president obama is focusing on a problem on the domestic front. the subject is immigration reform. moments ago he boarded air force one and he's on his way to el paso, texas, where he will talk about a need for a change in the immigration policy.