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Madison. here is the story. we are just a few blocks away from the capitol where the rally is taking place. we found this typical wisconsin middle class neighborhood and we have stumbled upon a teachers mansion. her name is susan stern. she has been a first grade teacher here in madison for the last 17 years. i want to take you inside tonight and show you who the governor of wisconsin expects to pay more to balance the budget of the state if there is a budget problem. this is what passes for a a...

Collectively. the chief challenge here -- how will eliminating bargaining in the state solve the budget problem? >> 45 states face a budget shortfall. governor walker says, if you dont make these changes, it is, the rest of society will hemorrhage far worse. do we have a piece of sound from his interview, statement just now? >> if you dont make the changes we are proposing for collective bargaining in the budget repair bill, you make it very difficult for local governments in particular to balan...

Collective bargaining because it helps them get re-elected. thats what led to going broke. the pros is broken. people elected officials use it to get re-elected and thats part of the bigger problem. >> even bigger than that and i want to switch from the union conversation and budget problem to the underlying issue, the asset base in america. we saw bill daley take $9 million out of jpmorgan before he goes to work as the chief of staff for obama. karen finney, in his last presidential campaign, t...

Kids. >> right. >> the union leader, i think this weekend made a smart move, he said go back to class. >> correct. >> i think thats great for the union cause. the second thing they did, they took everything off the table except collective bargaining which i think is great. because for us, it was about the budget. and so they took that off the table. >> right. >> now the governor looks like hes engaged in a purely ideological fight over collective bargaining. he wants to end collective bargaining...

The new battle every year, its going to cost the state money. dont they have a point? >> governor walker is showing leadership and theres a budget problem and he has a modest proposal on the table and what they need to do is fix the situation because its not going to get any better. >> a modest proposal on the table and they came back yesterday and said well agree to some concessions, get rid of the collective bargaining side of this in the debate and well move forward and the governor says no. ...

Here it is. look at this picture. the sea of red. union protesters in the rotunda in madison, wisconsin, over the move by governor walker to take on the unions in this battle. this is how the "new york times" reported it on saturday. framed the issue. the images from wisconsin with its protests, shutdown of some public services, and missing democratic senators who fled the state to block a vote, evoked the middle east more than the midwest. the parallels raise the inevitable question. is wiscons...

Escaping the state to delay a vote. >> they get paid to come to work, and they should be coming to work. >> shepard: now we are learning more about why this budget problem actually exists. tonight, full coverage of the battle in the badger state. [chanting] >> shepard: in washington, a fight over health care. republicans say if they cant repeal the presidents plan, they will just take away its money. >> my objective is to defund it entirely. >> shepard: but democrats argue that would cause chaos...

Are being punished for not walking or take being the bus. one may or alcandidate has made this a top campaign issue. they say a budget that relies on illegal behavior is bad policy. >> you need to put things into a budget that you know are reliable with some things being adjusted. making that thing fines, thats not a start thing tho do. >> reporter: the transit officials make no apologies and says no one has to get a parking citation if they keep track of their meter and read the signs. if they ...

And tell in their words the governor hears their arguments. what they seem to be upset about is that this came very quickly in their words. they say that the unions and the democratic lawmakers were not brought to the negotiating table to sort of work out a deal. the governor says this is what he campaigned on. this is what should have been well known to anyone who covers politics in wisconsin and he was not trying to take anyone by surprise. right now, though, theyre at an impasse. >> casey wia...

Wisconsin. megyn: clearly the unions are not in favor of that. but does he have the right snow was fairly he atlantic. these republicans who control the legislature are fairly elected. hes calling for a vote. >> he was voted in, the republicans control the legislature. you vote these people in, they vote, thats what you get. in the long term when people see these issues are not good for the working person, not good for middle class working americans maybe people will realize the policies and pro...