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Unions giving up some of their sew sect live bargaining gate. what you are involved in right now is a watershed. a ronald reagan in the air controllers moment. is it a test case for the power of government versus the power of the public employee unions? well, i do think it has large ramifications. im proud of the fact that, wisconsin, led the way to welfare and education reform under my friend tommy thompson in the 1990s. this is not something new to me. i spent eight years before this as acco...

Unions give up collective bargaining rights is going on in ohio, and indiana and tennessee and a bunch of other states and some people say what is going on in your state and what you are involved in is a watershed. a ronald reagan and the air controllers moment. is it a test case for the power of government versus the power of the public employee unions? >> well, i think it has large ramifications, and im proud of the fact that wisconsin, who led the way when it came to welfare reform and educat...

Backs, from the public employee unions and in some states a matter ever trying to get the money. in others they actually want to change the collective bargaining rules. in ohio, in indiana, in tennessee in some other states. so, wisconsin is a test case, but its not the only case. >> chris, a lot of people criticizing a lot of republicans criticizing president obama for sticking his toe into the water of this debate and is it a lose-lose for the president and should he have stayed back and let t...

Youre saying negotiate and talk and its time for reflection, time for calm and for everyone to gather themselves when all this is going on. yet all of this continues to go on. they say the government is speaking with two voices. one a voice and the other guns. >> i want to go to ben wedeman to talk about cairo and libya, but professor, can the regime there hold on. will their crackdown work? >> theres a causeway between vab why and bahrain. bahrain is very important to the house of saudi. bahrai...

Support of saudi arabia and of the sunni dynasties in the gulf, because this regime is really very important to them. this is the test case, whether the autocracies can hold. or the people can win. one interesting little thing, when we -- the americans, we are implicated in bahrain. we have this base for the fifth fleet. when you read the wikileaks documents, i just pulled a couple of things. here is this repressive king and here is the way hes described in the wikileaks documents by american di...

How can we trust this? youre saying negotiate and talk and its time for reflection, time for calm and for everyone to gather themselves when all this is going on. yet all of this continues to go on. they say the government is speaking with two voices. one a voice and the other guns. >> i want to go to ben wedeman in just a second to talk about keyio and also libya. but professor, can the regime there hold on. will their crackdown work? >> theres a causeway between saudi arabia and bahrain. this ...

To gather themselves when all this is going on. yet all of this continues to go on. they say the government is speaking with two voices. one a voice and the other guns. >> i want to go to ben wedeman to talk about cairo and libya, but professor, can the regime there hold on. will their crackdown work? >> theres a causeway between vab why and bahrain. bahrain is very important to the house of saudi. bahrain is that flashpoint between iran on the one side with its influence in bahrain and saudi ar...

>> reporter: you have talked about this so much, kyra, and that is one of the programs that everybody is watching. the defense department spends billions every year on -- think of it as routine health care for the military troops. this is not for the wounded or injured in the war. these are active military personnel, their families, their dependents. this health care costs by any measure have been skyrocketing out of control. what they want to do is raise the co-pay that military members have to...

U.s. wheat. but the aid is not adequate to improve conditions on the ground for millions of egyptians. some critics say the u.s. should be sending more butter than guns. among them is senate foreign relations chair john kerry. he wants more economic aid, arguing, quote, for too long financing egypts military has dominated our alliance. wolf? >> thanks very much for that, allan chernoff, good explanation. appreciate it. if you post something mean about your boss on facebook, is it fairgrounds for...

Other guantanamo detainees coming to the u.s. to stand trial because congress wont let them come in. a test case for what? maybe one. >> another issue between the president and this congress. pete williams, thank you. >> my pleasure as always. for 96 new house members tonight is going to be their first state of the union address. lets bring in one of these freshmen, congressman mike kelly, a republican from pennsylvania. its great to see you again, congressman. thanks so much. you did not atte...