assistant police chief by the name of frank reid tried to dissuade me from taking the job. "don't take it and two weeks later if something happens they will blame you" but i like to take on jobs. well, he kind of felt sorry for me, and i had no vehicles, nothing, no employees. the door bell rang and there is a police officer outside and the chief sent these keys. you have a unmarked police car until you get a vehicle. well, i paid them back. three weeks later i was driving down venice and left on to broadway and the radio went on and strong arm robbery in pacific heights and woman assaulted and bag stolen and identified the car and two individuals and proceeding north on lawenna. gee, i am going in that direction. i have a naval aif eightor's eye and incredible eye sight and wouldn't you know it there is the vehicle coming straight towards me and the traffic was slow and could reach out and touch and i made a u turn and i got on the roo. the director of radio services had a call sign at the time and close to the police chiefs. i got on and called in and there was a pregnant

pacific joined by frank brownry in, joy reid, jonathan altar and americans for tax reform president grover until then find us at facebook.com/now with alex. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. good afternoon, andrea. >> good afternoon, alex. thank you very much. coming up here on "andrea mitchell reports," the road to nowhere. when will the real negotiations begin? we'll have the latest from chuck todd and chris cizilla. plus, the top democrat on the house weighs and means committee, sandra levin. what is hillary clinton's new read line in syria? former congresswoman jane harman joins us. and in the line of fire, we'll hear from one of the women challenging the pentagon's ban of women in combat. plus, musician, composure, teacher winston mar sal less on a quarter century of jazz lincoln center all that next on "andrea mitchell reports." want to try to crack it? yeah, that's the way to do it! now we need a little bit more... [ male announcer ] at humana, we understand the value of quality time and personal attention. which is why we are proud to partner with health care professionals who und

of the nation, erin carmoan of salon.com, msnbc contributor and queen bee of thegrio.com joy reid and frank bruni of the "new york times." >>> the fiscal cliff negotiations continue to play out like greek theater. entering from stage right, speaker john boehner issued a counter offer yesterday. from stage left a chorus of democrats who are shocked and outraged. the white house told boehner to, quote, get serious. nancy pelosi called it another assault on the middle class, seniors and our future. and senate na jorty leader harry reid took to the floor this morning. >> republicans again sided with the wealthy of this country. it won't pass. >> the gop proposal calls for $600 billion in entitlement reform, including raising the medicare age. it brings $200 billion from social security, adjusting the inflation rate and raises $800 billion in new tax revenue by reforming the tax cut and closing loopholes. the plan rejects specifically raising tax rates, but it is significant that john boehner has gotten his entire leadership team, including congressman eric cantor, kevin mccarthy and even former

and a lot of democrats, including the democratic majority leader in the senator, harry reid will support franknburg. >> thank you for sticking around. >> thanks, richard. >> you bet. president obama is in hawaii, members of congress are moment for the holidays. any chance they get a fiscal cliff deal done before the end of the year and then, one congressman who said this week, he is willing to lose his seat to support stricter gun control, he is going to join us after the break. copd makes it hard to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may increase your risk of osteoporosis and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart con

frank. i don't know if senator-elect warren once she's a senator will be on the banking committee. i'm hopeful she will. but what it will mean is she will stand up and join senator jack reid, several of us on this committee that have had a pro-consumer attitude. i've worked on legislation -- one of the reasons that wall street came in in my campaign against me, i worked to break up the trillion-dollar banks because they are too big to manage and too big to regulate leading to too big to fail. her joining us on that committee will matter. she will speak strongly to make sure wall street reform is carried out the way we meant it. to make sure it's as strong as possible and make sure we can move further. >> is dodd-frank and financial reform still in a crucial stage? >> yeah. it's still not fully implemented. the regulations still aren't fully enforced and in place. and there's more to do. we lost on my amendment to two and a half years ago to break up the six largest banks. six banks who are size from $800 billion to trillions of. they represent 65% of their assets. 65% of the u.s. gdp. they are too powerful. i'm not speaking for senator warren, but i expect her to join us

being put together by harry reid that deal is expected to be far less favorable than the potential deal they had been working on with president obama. >> republican strategist, frankuntz has been talking with voters, what is the chance you see this becomes the new compromise? >> i'm not sure if hooert side is watching very closely. we did a survey and we got two interesting questions. one that's very tough on republicans. we asked the american people who is the gop fighting for and representing, the number one answer, the rich the number two answer, big business, well back is number three hard-working taxpayers. by them fighting this on the most wealthy americans, they say once again the gop is standing up for the rich what the democrats don't understand is that the hostility towards how much washington end spends that this whole discussion of the last six weeks has been about raising taxes on the wealthy. >> let's say we get a deal and it's short-term spending cuts and people don't have someone to blame because we don't go over the cliff, but the markets don't like it the world economy doesn't like it and ultimately our currency becomes in jeopardy as the currenc

reid substitute; is that correct? the presiding officer: that is correct. ms. mikulski: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that senator frank lautenberg be added as a cosponsor to the reid substitute. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. under the previous order there will now be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on substitute amendment 3395. who yields time? ms. mikulski: mr. president, our side yields back all time. the presiding officer: is all time yielded back? mr. cochran: mr. president, we yield back all time on this side. ms. mikulski: mr. president, i ask for a voice vote. the presiding officer: the question is on the substitute amendment. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes have it. the substitute amendment is adopted. ms. mikulski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. ms. mikulski: the substitute has been amended, and now as i understand the order, we will move to final passage. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the motion to invoke cloture on h.r. 1 is withdrawn. under the previous order, the clerk will read the bill for