their offer, but it has to be in a way that is fair to working families and puts our country back to work. that s the test that we have on hand. i would hope that that is a way for them to understand that they need to compromise, too, and come back to us and reach a deal which is critically important today. but i think the challenge is that they have to resolve the differences in, on their side on revenue. megyn: alabama republican senator jeff sessions is the ranking member of the senate budget committee, and he is my guest now. senator, welcome to you. now there is more and more of a push on both sides to reach some sort of a deal so that the automatic cuts don t kick in. 600 billion to domestic spending, 600 billion to defense spending. and we are seeing some republicans even start to talk more about revenue hikes meaning tax hikes, including the third ranking senate republican leader, senator lamar 58 sander of alexander who argued that the republicans need to offer mor
direction. but be aware of this as crews do their work there. northbound route 27 at brink road. let me show you where it is on a map. if you re planning to head through germantown, this is south of clarksburg, another option for you to get over to the damascus area, go ahead and use route 124 to get around it. route 27 north at brink road. let s take a live look at the american legion bridge. no problems to report here. between 270 and tysons corner, everything is doing well on the beltway. we ll go over to a live look right now. if you re head from southern maryland, route four, route five, route 301, everything is fine. live at the wilson bridge through oxon hill across the bridge span and into alexandria, got a bill of volume. no big deals as you head toward 95 and 395. i ll update you on the situation over in germantown at 6:12. andrea, back to you. i ll take it, monika. all eyes are on virginia s 17th district this morning. just 86 votes separate the two state senat
sexual abuse taking place on campus? the attorney general said yesterday after a graduate student told paterno that the former coach, jerry sandusky, was in the shower with a young boy, paterno did the right thing telling his superior who was the athletic director, tim curly. curly note notified the vice president for buzz and finance, gary schulz. both of those men were charged with failing to report the abuse to authorities and charged with perjury to the grand jury. but at no time was the abuse reported to a child welfare agency, and the victim s name has never been released, never been identified s what i should say. so many people now asking, should paterno have made a call to the authorities to notify them that some type of sexual abuse was taking place? he said in a statement earlier that he never knew the specific actions taking place in the sures, so he s attempting to say that he did not understand the
political point-scoring. jon: holder says he did not know about the tactics used in fast and furious . republicans accuse him providing misleading and incomplete information about the operation. we ll have more on this developing story just ahead. breaking developments as well in the herman cain story. good morning to you, i m jon scott. jenna: the hits keep on coming in general with breaking news. we re glad you re with us for that. i m jenna lee. we re in the fox newsroom. happening now , the republican presidential candidate is getting ready to set set the record straight as he put it in a news conference hours from now. after a woman claimed he made unwanted sexual advances to her in the late 90s. called the them a fabrication without an ounce of truth. jon: sharon bialek is standing by her claims that is the blond following gloria allred. an hour ago she sat down with our own martha maccallum what she would like to hear from herman cain. i want to acknowledge at poi
this time you macon attacks our attorney if you wish. in preparing this report we attempted to contact repeatedly jerry sandusky. we also reached out to tim curly and gary schulz, the two penn state administrators indicted by the grand jury for perjury. none would give us an on camera interview. nor would j joe paterno. now, david miller reports. warning, the details are not pleasant to hear. this is a case about a sexual predator accused of using his position within the community and the university to prey on numerous young boys for more than a decade. reporter: most of what we know about the alleged crimes of jerry sandusky come from the charges filed against him which were made public november 5, 2011 by the pennsylvania attorney general. this case involves around the alleged sexual assaults he