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Today, they are ranging from the security to the defense operation to trade and innovation. we are indeed celebrating our 100 years of independence. i want to thank you for the generous gift presented to the fulbright finland foundation. i want to also to take this opportunity to create the almost 700,000 americans who have finnish origin. mr. president, we exchanged information on several international issues. our headline was security. we talked about the importance of the transatlantic bond between the european union and the united states. history has taught us europeans the value of unity....

A commercial break, senator, so i have to take one, but we look forward to talking to you again. there's a lot of pressure to get a decision so we don't have automatic defense cuts and that's something we're going to be talking more about. so we appreciate the time, from cody, wyoming, and we look forward to having you back. jon: it was our defense department that did the work of killing anwar al la lacko heo al-awlaki, it was a defense operation. we are learning now information about this operation that took out the american-born terror leader in yemen. we'll get a live report from the pentag...

>> it's overshadowed by the fiscal cliff negotiations. >> it's timed with the country hitting the fiscal cliff, $500 billion of tax increases and spending cuts. scheduled to take effect in january. ill led to the super committee to create work out cuts of $1.# trillion. on defense, 9.4% cut for every program across the board regardless of merit. in 2013 trimming $3.9 billion from defense operation and maintenance. air force and navy would be cut by $4.2 billion. afghan security forces chopped by $1.3 billion. and embassy money and consulate would lose $1.2 billion. asked about the spending cut