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They are giving out fake notes to public service workers, so they can excuse their absences last week or their absences next week? you are not concerned about that? that doesnt bother you? >> im always concerned when i hear anything like that. your report was the first ive heard of it. all weve heard is from the frustration about the lack of transparency, a governor not answering questions about repealing 60 years of wisconsin law. no one condones notes like that. thats still compared to what we...

Which to individualize compensation. so, you cant sit there and do performance reviews. thats not the way a collective bargaining agreement works. so you have to have some benchmark by which salaries going up. and limiting it to inflation takes some burden off the state government. i think alex, quite frankly, some of this is going to be solved because state tax receipts have gone up recently in many states around the country, in 41 states were seeing income taxes rise and collections rise that ...

For being there on the ground for us. today on "fox news sunday" which is governor scott walker told chris wallace "democracy means you show up and participate and added that democratic lawmakers who fled the state are doing exactly the opposite. i sat down with chris for a preview of the exclusive interview. >> shannon: you kicked off with one of the most heated debates in wisconsin between the governor and the public employees europeanon as well and asked about the negotiations with the demo...

To come back. the two sides arent coming together particularly as it bargaining. 14 of the democrats left mostly in illinois. >> if only ones -- within comes back, they have a quorum. it is very unlikely at this stage of the game we are going to see the senate democrats start coming back. once they get back there is a legal remedy for the governor to force them into the chambers. >> judge jeanine: i know federal prosecutors who would indict you for less. this is taxpayers money paying these legi...

States $3.6 billion budget deficit. the states largest public employee unions now say they will pay more for their health and retirement benefits but are refusing any limits to their collective bargaining rights. >> this is not about money. its never been about money. its about the republican party trying to squash the democrats, trying to squash union rights. >> reporter: for the first time, the governors supporters joined the demonstrators in madison. >> im out here because, you know what, i w...

Guaranteeing a quorum and thats when the future 16th president of the united states jumped out of a window and ran away. who knew honest abe was starting a great american tradition? well be right back. [ robin ] my name is robin. and i was a pack-a-day smoker for 25 years. i do remember sitting down with my boys, and im like, "oh, promise mommy youll never ever pick up a cigarette." i had to quit. ♪ my doctor gave me a prescription for chantix, a medication i could take and still smoke, whil...

Of the unions. >> there is a byiennial budget and it would be impeded. i dont see any flexibility for us to move in any other direction but forward. >> what do you see to move forward? how is this going to play out? >> its really -- it really comes down to the democrats. the assembly has a quorum. the assembly recessed yesterday until tuesday. thats because of security concerns. in the senate, though, if i was able to get a commitment from one democrat to come back to work, we also could go back...

Closed because so many teachers, tens of thousands, were here at the state capital, protesting this budget deficit reduction effort thats been proposed by the states governor, scott walker. what the teachers and other state union workers are angry about is the proposal that would require them to pay more for health and pension benefits. thats a problem, they say. whats a big problem, they say, what theyre most angry about is the effort to reduce their collective bargaining rights. that, they say...

Theyre coming back? >> no one has a clue about that, randi. theyre vowing to stay outside of the state so they dont have the quorum thats needed to move this controversial legislation forward. the governor is not budging either. the democrats want him to moolt wi -- meet with the unions. ut is quiet now, but later today were expecting the largest crowds weve seen all week. supporters of the governors ruling on state unions here and require them to pay more for pensions, teachers and other unions...

Off 6,000 state workers to close this budget gap over the next two years. these protesters had some powerful allies in the minority party, the democratic party in the state, as you mentioned, they left the state, which deprived the state senate of the quorum it needs to move this legislation forward. they said they were trying to force the governor to the negotiating table with the unions. the governor held a press conference late today and said "we cant make a good-faith effort to negotiate bec...