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>> laura: hi everyone i i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. back-to-work. that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. yesterday the obama administration announced that the president would cut short his hawaiian holiday to make one more attempt to work out a deal to overt the so-called fiscal cliff. in unison, his pals in the news media repeated this white house talking point. >> president obama cutting short his vacation in hawaii, heading back now to washington. that will happen tonight to work on the fiscal cliff deal. >> the looming fiscal ...

Enterprises. get washington out of the business of medicaid and probably food stampches and housing vouchers and get that back to the states and i'm going to shrink washington. i'm going to take what's left and cut employment. and you do those things, and you have restructured the way washington works in a fundamental way. it has to happen. and then, of course, there's international but i'll stop and let you jump in. >> no, no, you went so far as to say that this election is about a battle for the soul of america. >> yeah. >> all right. so you want to shrink government. here's the problem i th...