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>> rick badger, executive director of afscme 43, thank you. thaung to represent barca and also representative mason. we have more on this ahead. howard fineman on the politics of this move and former labor secretary robert reish on the impact to workers. and later, newt gingrich goes on the christian broadcasting network to address his repeated marital problems in his three marriages. can newts serial adultery be forgiven by republican forgiven by republican presidential prim but with zyrtec...

Far. joining me now, rick badger, executive director of afscme council 40 of wisconsin. thanks for joining me. >> great to be with you. i wish it was under different circumstances. >> senator millers statement says in 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in wisconsin. he also said tonight 18 senate republicans conspired to take government away from the people. where do you go from here? >> first off, isnt it breathtaking? it is just so incredible. and again, youre talking...

And never thought id see a day like this. clearly the governor and republican leadership felt that they could never get public support behind this, which is why they went to this kind of a sham of a process, procedure. so we will go forward as senator miller stated. we will continue to fight. i believe now the wisconsin public, whether republican, democrat, independent, union, nonunion, see this for what it really is, taking away peoples rights. and i can tell you one thing about wisconsin peopl...

So we will go forward as senator miller stated. we will continue to fight. i believe now the wisconsin public, whether republican, democrat, independent, union, nonunion, see this for what it really is, taking away peoples rights. and i can tell you one thing about wisconsin people. we understand fair play and have an innate sense of fairness. this is not right, this is not fair, and i dont think the wisconsin people are going to put up with this. >> rick badger, according to the e-mails we saw ...

There wasnt really negotiations. clearly nobody saw this coming. you heard from representatives to do this in darkness, i mean, we believe in clean government in wisconsin. we believe if they are good ideas, they should be open and seen by all. the fact it was done in this manner shows there was no desire to bargain in good faith on this issue. >> rick badger, is there any reason for the democratic senators to continue to state out of the state at this point? >> well, that is up to the democrati...

With the selective release of e-mails, we looked at them, there wasnt really negotiations. clearly nobody saw this coming. you heard from representatives to do this in darkness, i mean, we believe in clean government in wisconsin. we believe if they are good ideas, they should be open and seen by all. the fact it was done in this manner shows there was no desire to bargain in good faith on this issue. >> rick badger, is there any reason for the democratic senators to continue to state out of the...

>> i really appreciate you joining me in this history making moment where having all the particulars of where we go from here legislatively may not be something anyone has command of. i appreciate you guiding us this far. joining me now, rick badger, executive director of afs smee 40 of wisconsin. thanks for joining me. >> great to be with you. i wish it was under different circumstances. >> senator millers statement says in 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in wiscons...

Clearly the governor and republican leadership felt that they could never get public support behind this, which is why they went to this kind of a sham of a process, procedure. so we will go forward as senator miller stated. we will continue to fight. i believe now the wisconsin public, whether republican, democrat, independent, union, nonunion, see this for what it really is, taking away peoples rights. and i can tell you one thing about wisconsin people. we understand fair play and have an inn...

We believe in clean government in wisconsin. we believe if they are good ideas, they should be open and seen by all. the fact it was done in this manner shows there was no desire to bargain in good faith on this issue. >> rick badger, is there any reason for the democratic senators to continue to stay out of the state at this point? >> well, that is up to the democratic senators, and i have not been in contact with them on these issues. personally, i would hope everyone takes a step back, looks ...