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The 327 million dollar state deficit. it would also eliminate half of the public schools. detroits cuts and budget woes have been poppy harlows beat for a while now. is this the best option at this point? >> i think its the only option, kyra. what is going on in detroit is what arne duncan, the education director, calling ground crisis. people are fleeing detroit when you take a look at the last decade. the population of the city fell 20% but the public school enrollment fell by half. parents ar...

It is beyond wisconsin. it is throughout the country, whether ohio, new jersey, new hampshire. you see the attacks on workers. >> reporter: labor officials in wisconsin are being unfairly targeted for deep cuts. they get smaller raises, more out of pocket for pensions and health care and lose bargaining rights for both. the republican governor staring at a $3.6 billion state deficit says he needs to cut somewhere. hes getting air cover from house speaker john boehner. the president knows wiscons...

Youre just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions. >> reporter: the president knows wisconsin is just round one in the national battle for control of the budget message. so he sent his outside political team organizing for america to help build even larger crowds. and union officials are vowing to keep up the fight in key 2012 political battlegrounds. and this is beyond wisconsin, it seems? >> absolutely. it is beyond wisc...

This morning. the bill heads to the senate with two weeks remaining before the funding is set to expire. in wisconsin thousands of employees storm the state capital to propose budget cuts from governor scott walker. he grapples with a growing state deficit. more than a dozen lawmakers fled the state to delay the vote. first, tunisia, then egypt. now a popular up rise sg sweeping the at least. people are upset about housing, unemployment, political corruption and personal freedoms. the epicen...

Indiana and other big 2012 political battle grounds. wisconsin is just a start. >> its just a start, just a start. youll start to see it all over the country, andation said this is payback for some of these, you know, folks. >> reporter: labor officials charge teachers in wisconsin are being unfairly targeted for deep cuts. they get smaller raises, pay more out of pocket for pensions and health care and lose collective bargaining rights for both. wisconsins republican governor scott walker stari...

Requests for president obamas birth certificate. a bill introduced in state house would make copies available but cost an individual $100. the idea is to end this skepticism followed by the birther movement over the presidents birthplace and fill $800 million state deficit. lets talk about it with michael smerconish, an msnbc contributor. i believe about a request of 10 to 20 a week. its gone down to 8 a week, but a lot of people wanting a copy. why shouldnt they pay for it? >> it wont go away. ...

What about you, are you behind it? >> oh, i am so far behind it, brenda, you cant believe. no, absolutely not. look, you know, i would-- i would have sympathy actually for the union people if they were on the same grounds as private workers, but do you know that the union employees out there, first of all, by the way, these pensions are unfunded by the tune of about 165 billion dollars. so its not small change were talking about, but on the other hand, union employees, for sim lars jobs, they ge...

Measures in effect to reduce to balloon ing state deficit this woman leaves the market didnt empty back in and from what ive been used before. i didnt benefit from democracy we are so tired of this because everything became so expensive the government doesnt care about and so. people have been taking their anger to the streets over the past two weeks theyre showing the yellow card to the government the red card will follow they say if things dont change peaceful demonstrations turned violent one...