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Welcome back. i'm melissa harris-perry. lawmakers in washington, d.c. are still trying to get a deal done before we all go over the proverbial fiscal cliff at the beginning of 2013. if the debt ceiling debacle of last year was an indicator, it ain't looking good. the fiscal cliff will affect many. how does it look different if you're at the edge of that cliff and you're a woman? with the recession having a disparity affect on women, the fiscal cliff can't look much better. economic security is nong lower guarantee for women and their families. 26 million women have trouble paying for food. 46 ...

For defense spending? >> absolutely. i'm not in support of see quest ration, we need to figure out what the threats are. that said former chairman of the joint chiefs, mike mullen said in 2009 the deficit was the greatest threat to our national security. we needed to rebuild our strength at home, rebuild health, education and infrastructure. that is part of what we need to be strong in the world. the other part, going back to our discussion in libya, $50 billion is the entire budget for the state department. we need more diplomats, more development. we need more of the other kinds of ways in w...

And the united states senate. most important, the lack of focus on the policy and budget issues going forward. we are now drawing down from afghanistan. i hope at an accelerated pace, more quickly. virtually no questions about the mission in afghanistan, training the afghans and combatting al qaeda and its affiliates. virtually, little, if any focus on the see quest ration we will face. i focused on building submarines which we must do. he committed himself unequivocally. going forward, the strategic decisions of spending. i think that there should have been more focus on the forward looking a...