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>> 48 minutes after the hour, headlines, looks like you may have to trade in your christmas tree to a christmas cactus. trees in texas and oklahoma lost huge stock to fires. miley cyrus in favor of the wall street protests. and her new video, liberty walk, includes footage of protesters clashing with police. >> dave: pakistan putting the u.s. on notice after an apparent n.a.t.o. strike kills two dozen pakistani soldiers. that country's government now telling the u.s. to vacate an air base used for suspected drone attacks. so, how will this impact pakistan's cooperation in helping to fight terr...

Undercover bank account after returning to iran, that shows affirmative acts towards the crime being charged. it appears the feds have him on that, according to law phonement, at least odown payments for the assassination were made. the federal agents claim the fbi and dea have reported a number of phone conversations and meetings between this informant and arab-siar, some of them from iran. again, now, the target was to bomb the saudi arabians embassy and israeli embassy in washington, d.c., as well as take out the saudi ambassador. joining me now to put some perspective on this is neil livin...

Laden raid in may so at operational level we have not seen a major al qaeda attack and that is how we judge the utility but we do see key propaganda so with al-aliwalki out of the picture, another one bites the dust because you will now see more emerging figures and they thrive. there is an online forum which you can see the statements issued by hardcore al qaeda supporters, and that kind of inspiration will continue to increase the recruitment not only with al qaeda but another issue, here, we have to move beyond al qaeda, this is more than al qaeda but, also, about a number of organizations ...

spending cuts in ten years. reid would hike the debt by $2.7 trillion now and mandate an equal amount of cuts. but the congressional budget office says the boehner plan would trim spending by $850 billion, and the reid plan by $2.2 trillion. boehner went back to the board and postponed the vote that was supposed to happen today. reid's plan can't pass the house, and not only is boehner's plan doomed in the senate, a great many house republicans don't like it either. so what happens now? well, time marches on. a never-before-seen default on u.s. debt and obligations could be just six ...

a democratic source telling it differently, saying the president challenged mr. cantor for what the source called" talk out of both sides of his mouth". they'll be back at the table tomorrow. the stakes could not be higher. moody's today put america's credit rating on review hinting at a possible rating drop. ben bernanke says defaulting on the debt would be catastrophic. jessica yellin is at the white house with what her sources are telling her. what have you heard from these differing accounts? >> reporter: democratic sources say that bottom line is that the president was schooling...