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>> i don't mind. but does that help lose weight? >> yes. i don't know how or why, but apparently it just kind of -- you shed. >> excellent. keep at it, do what you got to do. but first, the budget crisis looming once again. president obama is suggesting a short-term fix this time. >> it's a way to put off huge cuts to the military, as well as to domestic programs, all those cuts are set to go into effect in a few weeks. abc's karen travers has the latest from washington. good morning to you, karen. >> reporter: good morning, rob. good morning, diana. deja vu all over again. another deadline ...

Top two senators reached an agreement. >> gregg: mike emmanuel live in washington. thanks very much. be sure to watch fox news sunday tomorrow. chris wallace talks fiscal cliff with u.s. senators lindsey graham and diane feinstein. check your local listings for the times. >> arthel: with a possible agreement being worked on behind closed doors to avoid going over the fiscal cliff, one casualty could be the defense department. severe financial cuts could hit every branch of the armed services. peter doocy and minutes -- examines. >> he did not say the word sequester. it would automatically cut ...

There. >> this is steve rattner, jim. i've been with some of those people who have been in the room, and i don't come away quite as optimistic as you do. the framework you've outlined i think is the sensible one, is the logical set of compromises that everybody's talking about. but then you get past some of those headline numbers, and you say how do you get that 1.2 trillion of revenue, what happens on rates, on deductions? and i don't sense that they've made any real progress toward narrowing that gap. the republicans are still saying we're not going to increase rates even though i think most...

Not just the defense budget, no. domestic programs will be impacted as well. with $500 billion in cuts, some of those are the very programs that disproportionately impact women and their families. it includes 2300 national health research grants. almost 100,000 kids losing headstart services and 80,000 losing child care assistance. add medicaid cuts and which may have to be yielded to get republicans to concede to tax hike. nearly one in ten women between 18 and 64 rely on medicaid for health coverage and social security that entitlement support. about three in ten women, age 65-plus. without ...

Much for half as many assets because these programs go on and on and on forever. it is legendary. let's society that aside. we need to fix that part of the program. it has been cajoled. legislation written against it. wait out the transformers. did thing with rumsfeld, everybody. they wait you out. this thing, this financial pressure this is something that could be used as a forcing function to get this system under control by getting your hands around its throat. so there are certain group of people in town that are looking at that. there are three groups. the people on group a, who are sayin...