wisconsin. it s time for those state senators to come home. what i m doing and the rest of my colleagues on the senate side is doing is we are standing up for the thousands and thousands of people who have contacted us who haven t been heard on this piece of legislation who either want the legislation stopped, changed, or at the very least slowed down. so we absolutely believe we are doing our job by the action we took. shepard: the democratic senators say they will not return unless and until the governor agrees to sit down and see if there is way to reach some sort of consensus. that plan is not sitting well with the republicans. they sent a state police officer to the democratic leader s house. he wasn t home. team fox coverage now. mike emanuel on how the president is getting involved here. first to mike tobin who is live in the wisconsin state capital tonight. mike, it sounds mighty rowdy. it is mighty rowdy, shepard. there are tens of thousands of state employees, people fr
lawmakers to get back in the state and get back on the job. listen. the people of this state pay us as elected officials to do our job, to represent them. and the most fundamental job having served in the legislature for nearly nine years, more than anything else, we are responsible for voting on behalf of our constituents. you can t do that if you are hiding out in some other state. governor walker says he is willing to talk. the governor says he is not willing to negotiate about this. shep? shepard: trace gallagher beginning our coverage tonight. trace, thanks. president obama says the wisconsin bill looks like an attack on unions. he tells a milwaukee television station he understands the state s financial crisis all too well, is he dealing with his own budget problems in d.c. but the president says the government workers are not the enemy here. team fox coverage continues. shannon bream on the hill tonight. what else does the president have to say. here s the full quote of
governments around the globe scrambling to decide what it will mean and what the future of the middle east will soon look like but the military is now in charge. we will have more. at any moment now president obama will speak, live, on this situation from the white house. following that we will hear from his press secretary on his last day and team fox coverage on every angle and more from the white house. but, first, leland, live from tahrir square. reporter: hello. it was electrifying, historic moment and the party is still going on in tahrir square. these people fought, some died, they spilled blood, 18 days of revolution and now they have president mubarak out and everyone is screaming, chanting, the flags are flying and we have a lot of songs going on down
egyptians praised new likely successor that according to the wikileaks release of diplomatic cables. of course egypt s new vice president is the former intelligence minister omar suleiman a man secretary of state hillary clinton backed. after two weeks of demonstrations calling for president mubarak to resign. team fox coverage continues now. jonathan hunt with the news in our new york stock exchange newsroom. what exactly do these cables say. shep, the cables were obtained by the london daily telegraph from wikileaks. this is a copy of the key cable sent from the u.s. embassy in tel aviv, israel in august of 2008. in it, they talk about a visit from an israeli delegates to egypt in 2008. they say that the delegates from the israeli ministry of defense was very impressed with omar suleiman. they say that the delegates were also shocked by the appearance of president hosni mubarak but full of praise for suleiman. they conclude in this cable there is no question that israel
to egypt s leader. white house condemning that pro-government thugs attacking people. president obama was international prayer breakfast this morning. we pray that the violence in egypt will end and the rights and aspirations of the egyptian people will be realized, that a better day will dawn over egypt and throughout the world. shep: white house says the transition to democracy has to start immediately but it s not calling for president hosni mubarak step down right now. team fox coverage, john roberts on the unrest spreading to other countries. first to wendall goler, have they made it clearer how the transition can begun if mubarak doesn t leave right away? they have. the obama administration is pushing egypt s government to reach out to the country s