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With public worker. theyve sent out letters warning them 1500 workers may get laid off if democrats dont return to the state to vote on his budget bill. 14 democrats remain holed up in a hotel just over the state line to prevent walker from having the necessary quorum for holding the vote. they protest the bill which cuts their bargaining rights and benefits as well. a democrat assemblyman was tackled by capitol police when he tried to re-enter the capitol building after it had closed. apparen...

Theres always bravado and people say it is never going to happen and it does. i havent seen one tiny bit of give on either side on this issue. >> im in touch with a lot of those people i think this is the inside story watch is happening. >> greta: i hope you are right. so far we havent seen them. what about the people of wisconsin? if indeed it is true they cant refinance the bond so they save whatever the huge numbers are, if that is a big hit for taxpayers someone has to pay the price for that...

Reporter believes that one of these democrats may come back with given enough time, hes investigating this and he said look, hes going to come back, maybe enough for republicans to have a quorum and basically leave again. >> thats interesting because it has been amazing that theyve all been in solidarity. its hard to be away from home. this stalemate has been 18 days. its hard to be away from home for weeks at a time. yesterday the governor did actually put the unions on notice that these pink s...

Political pawns. >> we would hope that he would quit putting people at economic unease and not resort to the tactics of a school yard bully. >> now, walker has said all along if he can not get this deficit managed and he has a specific plan that hes sticking to, then the layoff high school to come. >> shepard: we got word today from republicans of a suggestion of maybe a split among the run away democrats. but thats not true, right? >> well, weve got a disagreement about whether there is a split...

>> take it from my boy, brian will i am. the governor wants to do stripping. he said its the only way he knows to make ends meet. the other republican governors antd mad at madison, they are getting a thrill from this peep show, looks like they want to take it all off, too. ♪ want to take it all off ♪ its all right. its all right ♪ ♪ got to make that money while he works the pole ♪ >> this standoff has gotten so contentious that a group of 14 democrats has actually fled the capitol, le...

People believe, as long as one of the 14 decides to come in. >> right. thats what they need for the quorum to get this vote passed. wetestors leaving. i saw video when a lawmaker tried to get to his office inside the capitol last night. what happened there? >> reporter: lets look at the video. you can see for yourself what happened. this is state representative nick milroy, a democrat. he was trying to come into the office to retrieve some of his personal belongings. the police didnt want him co...

Doug has the latest on this one. >> reporter: the day love notices would not take effect for 31 days. the standoff in wisconsin with legislators hiding out to avoid a quorum is not the first time it happened. it happened in washington in 1988. senator bob packwood was literally dragged feet first into the senate chambers after harry bird ordered his arrest. the wisconsin constitution says now each house may compel the attend dafns absent members in such manner and under such penalties as each ho...

Was they didnt need the quorum. they had enough margins in both houses, they couldnt really have people leave the state and leave them unable to pass the law. thats the big difference between ohio and wisconsin. in wisconsin, you put all the protestors out because you literally have gridlock until those democratic senators come back. bill: do you consider ohio to be done deal, yes or no? >> oh yes. it will be signed sometime in march and then there are other states that are debating things. tenn...

Who has led his party down such a dramatically unpopular losing path that the only way they have left to win is essentially by employing bounty hunters like mr. dog. we all know how we got here, scott walker decided he wanted to strip union rights from public employees in wisconsin. even though there were existing unions and there was an existing right for them to bargain, governor walker decided to ignore that. he was just going to override those rights personally. he would not negotiate. he wo...

>> my hope is that they will resolve it without me intervening because it turns out ive got a lot of other stuff to do. good evening. the 14 missing wisconsin democratic senators now face being arrested if they are found in wisconsin. republican senate majority leader scott fitzgerald signed 14 separate orders finding each of the democratic senators in contempt of the senate. it is the result of a resolution passed earlier today that said if any of the 14 senators did not appear in the senate ...