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Worried. >> there has to be less than 2007 and unfortunately the whiter can be higher than 2007. mark good morning, what is it like in wichita falls on the ground there? >> reporter: hi, alex. you can see here the rising floodwaters that are moving pretty quick. we are a half mile from the downtown area. this is actually supposed to be a bike path but now its under water. theres a sign out there under water with a bench that you can hardly see now. the officials have thought that they were going...

Reagan republican and when we went to wisconsin we didnt expect to cast republicans as the leads in our film but they feel very strongly, dee and there is a corrections officer and teacher who they feel like the koch brothers and the big money has corrupted their party and theyve lost their value. >> what is their specific complaint about what scott walker, about what this koch money has done to them? >> well, its stripped them of union rights. theyre not able to bargain over working conditions....

Impact on union workers. and you talked about it in the film. watch this. >> walker is a bully and i was a union man. and if it wasnt for the union, i couldnt have retired. i would have worked till i was 100. >> my wife and i are county workers and when i took the job, i took a pay cut for benefits. and im losing my benefits. >> how does the koch brothers financial interests dove tail with the agenda that we see in the gop. >> we learned that this union busting is really all about -- its a polit...

Its old news. what we have are political operatives at the dnc and dga that desperately want to switch the subject from the fact that things like us taking a $3.6 billion budget deficit and turns it into a nearly billion dollar surplus. dont want to talk about the improvements in the economy or successes weve had in our state. instead they desperately want to switch the subject on a subject thats been resolved last march. >> i want to point out again. no charges were brought against you but beca...

Multiple years looking at all the information. last year in march, he announced the end of that case. plain and simple. its old news. >> its a democratic prosecutor. its old news. the case is closed. thats his bullet points. even the folks across the street arent ready to let walker off the hook that easily. >> if county workers were doing nothing wrong, why should they be using a private e-mail account? you had a democratic district attorney spending years reviewing those documents and interv...

I use this private account quite a bit to communicate with skw, thats you, and nardelli, the former chief of staff. question, if county workers were doing nothing wrong, why should they be using a private e-mail account? >> well, but thats exactly to my point. you had a democratic district attorney spend almost three years looking at every single one of those communications, interviewing people, talking to people. and closed the case. >> did you know there was a private e-mail account? >> its on...

I use this private account quite a bit to communicate with skw, thats you, and nardelli, the former chief of staff. question, if county workers were doing nothing wrong, why should they be using a private e-mail account? >> well, but thats exactly to my point. you had a democratic district attorney spend almost three years looking at every single one of those communications, interviewing people, talking to people. and closed the case. >> did you know there was a private e-mail account? >> its on...

What we have are political operatives at the dnc and dga that desperately want to switch the subject from the fact that things like us taking a $3.6 billion budget deficit and turns it into a nearly billion dollar surplus. dont want to talk about the improvements in the economy or successes weve had in our state. instead they desperately want to switch the subject on a subject thats been resolved last march. >> i want to point out again. no charges were brought against you but because of this du...

Its old news. what we have are political operatives at the dnc and dga that desperately want to switch the subject from the fact that things like us taking a $3.6 billion budget deficit and turns it into a nearly billion dollar surplus. dont want to talk about the improvements in the economy or successes weve had in our state. instead they desperately want to switch the subject on a subject thats been resolved last march. >> i want to point out again. no charges were brought against you but beca...

The bad news is that it lead to convictions of six of his former aides and allies, that includes walkers former deputy chief of staff, kelly rynefleish. she was sentenced and served six months in jail. now, think about that, you have someone whos supposed to be doing the business of the county paid by the taxpayers but instead theyre doing political hack work footing the bill. the documents that released today provide a window into just how widespread this practice of crossing those two was amon...