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Die am 3. Mai gestartete FSME-Impfaktion der Stadt Wien im Austria Center Vienna (ACV) ist erfolgreich angelaufen. Bis dato haben sich bereits 7.600 Wiener impfen lassen. Insgesamt sind im Zuge der städtischen Impfaktion 20.000 FSME-Impfungen möglich, sie läuft noch bis 11. Juni.

Lauren has the latest on this. whats going on here? >> reporter: well, this week there was an interesting observation when members of afsmy weaf afsme was sitting in the congressmans office and one of them noticed a book in the glass case and it was titled general robert e. lee soldier, citizen, and christian patriot if the was a 19th century book and it was opened to an offensive page, according to the members who were in that office. the page said the blacks are enme enmesh mercially better of...

>> -- one step behind the vice president of the united states in line for the presidency. >> i have been watching madam secretary the last couple weeks. >> how good has that been? morgan freeman, the whole bit is so great. anyway, we will get to that in a second because the tpp was one of the issues in their -- >> afl-cio, its a smaller union movement than it was when we were growing up. >> 11 million members. >> they are getting very tough on what people they consider renegades or traitors. if ...

Have problems. for example, the taft-hartley plans, the private sector unions where they provide their own health insurance, they are left out and they do not get the kind of tax breaks that the profit-making plans get. those kinds of issues have to be discussed. but these are issues that can be worked out and these are issues that can be dealt with. again, we support obama care 100%. we think that its a good thing to provide young people 26 years of age, they can still have health insurance pro...

Unions, afsme, teachers unions, firefighters, recognize that they had to fight for their very livelihood. i think it made them much leaner, meaner, and more effective political players. and once youve started to win tough battles as has happened in ohio, as has happened in a number of states nationally in november, then you start to think about what you might be able to accomplish not in a defensive position, but in an affirmative position. >> of course, the conservative movement in this country...

In 2012, they may have given it new life instead. here is someone who has been with us all yearlong covering workers issues. joining me tonight, john nichols, washington correspondent of "the nation" magazine. john, it has been a very eventful year when it comes to labor. has labor been emboldened by the obama victory in november? and is there really been a new stage set for what they can accomplish? >> i think so. i think labor changed over the last year and a half, and especially over the last...

Host of "roll call tv." guys, great to see you today. karen, i want to begin with the financial part of this equation, so to speak. afscme, the nations largest union, spent 87 million bucks in the midterm election. that was the biggest single source of independent funding, even more than karl roves conservative group. so how significant would it be if the power of the unions was busted, dismantled? >> right. well, one thing i want to remind people, though, with afsme, we know where that money ca...

Deficit reduction. lee saunders will be here afsme. so, hell be trying to get their prospectives on all of this. >> kristen welker at the white house for us this morning. thank you. tuesday political power panel. its great to have you all here. i know that the washington post has been covering the story, the e-ma e-mail smear story with general allen. as far as we know, no everyday of security leaks. lots of big bombastic headlines, this today on the "daily news." in the line of booty. showi...