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The sheriffs department brought on extra staff to make sure everything is peaceful. alex? >> scott, in terms of a vote theres one scheduled for tuesday, right? so if no democratic senators show up, what happens? >> well, two sections in the legislature. there is the assembly which is sort of the equivalent of the national house and there is the senate. the assembly really has enough people to pass this bill. there is one independent and that independent said that he will show up if there is a vo...

This was what monday looked like in madison, wisconsin. this was tuesday in madison, wisconsin. this was wednesday in madison, wisconsin. this was yesterday in madison, wisconsin. and this was today in madison, wisconsin. in the state capitol building. this is getting bigger not smaller. madison police say 40,000 people at the state capitol today. the ongoing protests in wisconsin against the governors effort to strip union rights from public workers is a story that is growing and that is not go...

Weighing in there. with regard to the vote scheduled for tuesday, though, scott, if no democrats show up, what happens? it cant happen? >> well, the state assembly took this preliminary steps yesterday to get the vote under way there. they have a huge majority. the republicans do there and they can conceivably pass that. but they have waited until late yesterday. they didnt get it done. some of the senators or some of the representatives, rather, the democrats were saying, hey, why are you start...

Gave into the pressure from republicans and came back, which is all that republicans needed. they only needed one. they passed their plan. ultimately, texas congressional delegation lost four democrats and gained four republicans. institutional balance of power shifted. when the democrats fled the state to stop republicans from using public policy to institutionally shift the balance of power in the state, to institutionalize republican rule, texas republicans needed to peel off one of those dem...

Madison police department. 40,000 people. conservative groups say they want to start staging counter protests tomorrow. more on that later in the show. fourteen people at the heart of the fight were not at the state capitol today. they are wisconsins 14 state senators that are democrats. they have left the state so republicans cant get a quorum to reconvene the senate so they cant vote to strip union rights. democrats are dug in for the standoff, say they will not be the first to flinch. we wi...

Forcing this bill to basically be at a standstill. it couldnt move forward until they have a quorum, so were waiting to see what happens over the weekend with the protests, waiting to see what happens with the governors address. right now neither side is saying whats going to happen next week. they are just waiting to see what happens. both of them just waiting the other side out, brooke. >> casey wian for us in madison. i want to get you some breaking news. i want to show you live pictures insi...

>>shepard: and this is "studio b" the bottom of the hour time for the top of the news. a like look at the state capital in wisconsin. word today that 14 senate democrats who left the state to block a budget bill could stay in hiding for days or weeks. the bill calls for sweeping changes to collective bargaining rights for thousands of state union workers as well as bigger contributions for pension and health benefits. it was nearly certain to pass but now it is stalled in the senate and no one c...

Sleep well, on the wings of lunesta. megyn: fox news alert in the battle out of wisconsin. the democrats that fled, may stay in hiding for days or weeks. keep in mind, you have 19 republicans, 14 democrats in the state senate. to have a quorum, they need 20. so the republicans are one short. they need one democrat to get back to that capital. they dont care if hes dragged back by the police, which apparently, theyre working on right now. mike tobin live from inside the capital in madison. there ...

Of the capital initiative. secondly, they had a roll call vote to zero out federal funding for the presidio trust. it is right there in speaker pelosis district in san francisco. she is vowing to restore she is vowing to restore this money in the democratic controlled senate. picking off some projects that affect democrats near and dear to their hearts. >> another story weve been willing to out of wisconsin, they do not like -- a lot of teachers dont like the new budget the government has introd...

Democrats staged a sit-in, because they cant go to work but go away, a sit-out? they are at an undisclosed location. is there any sense this jam will be broken. >> as of yet, no. in fact, one of the senators that i talked with who was in this undisclosed location, told me they will not return to the state capital here in madison, until they have a compromise, until the republicans are willing to sit down and look at the provisions and try and come up with some new solution or some new compromise...