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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 don't 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 isn't about solving any problems. this is about placing blame. that's 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 saying if you don't act at all taxes are going up on everybody as the bush tax rates expire at the e...

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 testify this week. today the "new york times" on its editorial page also joined the call for clinton to te...

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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 didn't 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 don't 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 address this debt crisis means not just 47% of americans, but every american gets hurt. >> so the hou...