senator john barrasso, republican from wyoming, member of the senate leadership, thanks very much fore this morning. >> thanks, chuck gentleman. all right, coming up, the art of surviving scandal. how are some politicians able to weather the storm while others get swallowed up whole and where will anthony wiener land in all of this? shame versus shamelessness. >>> plus, retooling the re-election message s it time for president obama to stop talking about the past when it comes to the economy? >>> first, today's trivia question from the almanac of american politics. which member of the house beat a member of her own family to win her seat in congress? tweet me the answer at chuck todd or at daily run down. first correct answer gets a pound ff from us today. stay tuned "the daily rundown." we will be right back. [ man ] ♪ trouble ♪ trouble, trouble trouble, trouble ♪ ♪ trouble been doggin' my soul ♪ since the day i was born ♪ worry ♪ oh, worry, worry worry, worry ♪ [ announcer ] when it comes to things you care about, leave nothing to chance. travelers. take the scary out of life. just

with the president blasting lawmakers, we get a response from two senators: wyoming republican john barrasso, a member of his party's leadership team. and new jersey democrat robert menendez, who sits on the finance committee. senator barrasso, start with you the president said he thinks the republicans must and will give some ground on tax revenues. will they? is there any room for movement? >> no, there really is not. 9.1% unemployment, the worst thing we should do is raise taxes on anyone during economic times like these. we want to get people back to work. the way to increase revenue for the government is to get people back to work. a robust, growing economy is the way to have more tax revenue coming in, not by raising taxes in these economic times. >> but the argument from the president is unless we do that, we won't get an agreement, we'll have a default and that will be even worse for the economy and jobs. >> well, i think the president is making the economy worse in many ways and wanting to raise taxes in s one of them. a lot of the rules and regulations coming out of his administrat