. >> joining me now is washington senator, washington senator patty murray, who of course chairs themocratic senatorial campaign committee. your job in this election is to make sure that democrats get re-elected and you don't lose control of the senate. richard mourdock could be the gift that keeps on giving in terms of indiana. do you think it has national implications. >> die think it has national implications. women and men across the country are startled that a number of men seeking the nation's highist office in the u.s. and supported by a republican party nationally have this viewpoint that somehow is framed as god's will, if a woman becomes pregnant, as a result of rape. but more so these men will be voting on these policies when they get to the united states senate. that a woman can't have an abortion if she is a victim of rape or insist. it is seriously a lot of people looking at the republican party and saying who are they and what are they representing and what is going on? and i think that is an issue that is compelling to women. i also think it is an economic issue. when

so it's -- as patty murray, a senator, said, this is the breast cancer of this decade. this is what we have to, you know, do something about. >> we got to be on your team. we got to get rid of it, find a way to cure it. i think that's great. all of us against alzheimer's. >> thank you so much for having us. and we need you. we need everyone in your audience. >> all right, thank you again for coming. i can't wait to hear some of the funny lines you write. still ahead, another day of food fun in d.c. plus, meteorologist veronica johnson will be back. >>> chopper 4 is live over a serious accident in wheaton. as you can see here, it looks like a truck crashed into a tree. bringing the tree down on a van. now, we're working to learn if there are any injuries. the intersection is shut down and it looks like it will be shut down for a while. stay with news 4 and nbcwashington.com for updates throughout the afternoon on this breaking news story. >>> we've got a happy ending to the search for a dog missing since an attack last week in northeast washington. murray is back home to

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roskam mentioned patty murray and the threats of fiscal cliff jumping him if you will. we've heard that threat from both democrats and republicans in some form. how big a risk is this? is this just an opening gambit? >> i actually don't think we'll go over the fiscal cliff. i actually think we will figure this out. i certainly hope so. again, we need to have some compromise. we need to be able to get some ravenous. i mean, what he'd said is partly true and partly not so true i think him and i think this is, all of us would love to be able to say that we're just going to get ravenous to economic growth. the problem is if the plan is to reduce taxes to the wealthiest and hope for economic growth, we did that for 10 years and got us into kind of a mess. you might have noticed that. and what we've done in the past has got us into an incredible mess, which is higher deficits and not more jobs at all. so i think the real question is what do they really mean by that. it's a really good line. we also believe that we're going to eventually, economic growth is i've you see a part

tomorrow on the show, washington democratic senator patty murray.tamron hall has a look at what's next. hi, tamron. >> it's 13 days to go. romney camp trying to put out a fire over a candidate and the comments over rape. this time it is richard mourdoch out of indiana. governor romney says he won't take back an endorsement. we'll look at this one. plus, congressman paul ryan as andrea mentioned will be giving a big speech within the hour in cleveland. his fist major policy speech addressing the american dream and poverty. our panel will weigh in on the timing of this speech and how his budget, paul ryan's budget factors in. plus, an off the record interview with the president is released and he's made some very candid comments on immigration and the importance of the latino vote. we'll have details on what the president said and what state paper this interview was conducted with. oh...there you go. wooohooo....hahaahahaha! i'm gonna stand up to her! no you're not. i know. you know ronny folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are

people like patty murray are just saying it will need to raise taxes. i'm glad to hear that oleson is not defending that. -- that alison is not defending that. we have an army of people in the united states that have to be hired. we have 1.2 million people in the compliance side. we of 1.4 million people who are underemployed. the need for simplicity is the common ground that we can go for. >> the fiscal cliff, we have heard that threat from democrats and republicans in some form. how big a risk is this, or is it just the opening gambit? think weally don't will go over the fiscal cliff. i think we will figure this out. again, we need to have some compromise and we need to be able to get some revenues. it is partly true and partly not so true. all of us would be able to say that we could just get avenues threat cannot -- through economic growth. if the plan is to just cut taxes for the wealthiest and hope for the best combat has gotten us into this mess. we did that for 10 years. i think the real question is, what do they really mean by that? we also bel

on the other side you have senator patty murray, saying that she is ready to go over the fiscal cliff secure tax increases on the wealthy, so it does look pretty dire at this stage. >> so januaohnathan, look, john boehner is a seasoned politician, do you think this is the new hand he is using to strengthen their policy against the democrats? >> it is not really new, in the past couple of weeks we've seen all kinds of discussions on the senate side. trial balloons, meetings with six or eight senators. and on the house side, it has been very quiet. and the reason why, they're not kind of trumpeting, and there is a lot going on in full swing. but the republicans are not willing to concede any ground. and they're the ones in control of the house, likely to continue controlling the house after the election. so we're not seeing any types of steps, work necessarily where you see any type of common ground in december. >> is there any sort of a guarantee know a new congress will be any better at solving the problem than the old congress? >> i don't think so, because if you look at where the po

the dogma is from people like patty murray wanting to go over the fiscal cliff for the sake of raising taxes. that's an absurd argument, actually, and i'm glad to here allyson is not defending that. the other thing, though, is this level of dissatisfaction, this level of our tax code that literally we have an army of people in the united states that have to be hired in order to comply with our own tax code saying we have 1.2 million people who are in the compliance side. we have 1.4 million people roughly under arms in the united states so it's not an overstatement to say that we need an army to comply with our own rules. those two areas,s -- ed -- the need for revenues and simplicity is an area of commonground to begin to negotiate. >> you mentioned patty maury and threats of fiscal cliff jumping, if you will, and we heard that threat from both democrats and republicans in some form. how big a risk is there or just an opening gambit, congresswoman? >> i don't think we'll go over the cliff. i think we'll figure it out. i certainly hope so. again, we need compromise, and we need to be a