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The thousands of dollars. now, i dont know how you build an economy when youre taking money away from people and then in the future you would be restricting their ability to go to the bargaining table in fairness and negotiate for possibly a better life. and i think this cuts right to the fabric of this state, the history of this state, where labor started back in the 1800s. it cuts right to the fabric of whether were going to build our economy in this country, or if were going to gut the middle...

Stand-off over the budge net wisconsin. democratic lawmakers have fled the state. they will keep at it for weeks, if necessary. will the protests have a ripple effect in other states? ed schultz on the ground live in wisconsin and hes going to be my guest. a prestigious university announces it is cutting tuition by 10%. how can it afford to do this when so many other colleges and universities are increasing tuition? a look at it. good "news nation" gut check weve got coming up i male high sc...

And this is bringing this state to a standstill, and a basic political debacle where someones got to give. whos going to blink first? so i do want to point out that i had a good visit with the sheriff of this county last night. all this conversation thats coming from some broadcasters in this country about violence and about where this could go, nothing, absolutely nothing could be further from the truth. in fact, these people here in madison are so conscious about the aftermath, they have peopl...

And you may wonder, well, who the heck is rj johnson? well, according to the "milwaukee journal sentinel," "a key adviser for the club for growth is rj johnson, who also worked as a political strategist for governor walkers campaign." so in the face of a grassroots labor movement, millionaires and billionaires are doing the governors dirty work for him. this isnt governor walker all by himself. and walker says the unions are being unfair. joining me here in madison tonight is john nichols, polit...

And they really believe that the governor is morally wrong. hes trying to balance the budget, and there are arguments out there that there is no budget crisis, but hes trying to do this on the backs of middle-class americans. hes trying to do this and not asking everybody in the state to sacrifice something. and that is one of the big things that there problems are. the other thing -- [ cheers ] you can sense by this crowd, i mean, there is a lot of pent-up aggression here. they want america to ...

>> if you had a chance to talk to governor walker face-to-face, what would you say? >> ill ask him, what is he trying to really do? because it is not about balancing the budget. it is not about closing a deficit. it is about destroying what we have done and busting unions and that is not right. >> how long are you prepared to do this? >> oh, im going to be here all night and im not going to go back -- >> but what about tomorrow and what about next week? >> im not going to leave until this is don...

Accomplish with this governor, if anything, at this point? >> ed, you are there in madison, wisconsin. we wish we were there with all those people who are demonstrating for what they want their governor and their elected representatives to do. but theyre not being heard. tens of thousands of wisconsinites, good, solid, hard-working wisconsinites are demonstrating just to be heard. and they are not being heard. we are -- we have left to let them know that we hear them. we hear them and we want th...

Youre seeing this in ohio. youre going to see it in florida. youre going to see it in other states as all part of a bigger plan. and this crowd unction understa. so i think the president, in my opinion, and from the people ive talked to here in wisconsin, they want him to take an unequivocal stand that the fwof nor is wrong in attacking labor like this and expecting a certain amount of people in this state to have to bear the major brunt of doing anything financially for the budget. and on the o...

In green bay or over in lacrosse or wausau or eau claire. this is having a huge impact on the state of wisconsin and people are not realizing what it is or what it means and they dont like it. >> john erpenbach, thank you for your time tonight, sir. good luck. >> all right. thank you. nobody has done better national coverage of this astonishing situation in wisconsin than my colleague ed schultz. nobody. he is right in the middle of this thing. literally, he is in madison right now in the midd...

Introduced. they rushed through a hearing and cut people off and arrested a gentlemen in the hearing room. so that people can at the very least have an opportunity to be heard and for the governor to sit down and do what he has been paid to do, be the governor, sit down at the table and negotiate with the workers of wisconsin. stand up and do what we sent you to do. not just for your friends or those special interest groups who do something for you. the bill also does not treat unions the same. ...