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>> reporter: well, eliot, it was an absolutely incredible scene here as word started to trickle out republicans were calling a committee meeting late this afternoon and in less than two hours all of this went through a committee hearing and on to the floor of the stat. thousands of protesters, union supporters rushed out here to the capitol, you can hear the honking in downtown madison. there are several thousand people trying to get inside to the capitol and think a lot is going on. inside the ...

Capitol there in madison? >> reporter: sure, let me see if we can zoom in and our vantage point but you can see the entrance into the capitol building, just before 6:00 central time there was nobody here but all of this quickly spread between labor union groups and all the protesters that had been out here obviously with more than three weeks of protests, there is a good network of people passing along information and the chanting inside the capitol grounds tonight has been absolutely intense. i...

Sense of what theyll do next and how theyll handle this. but i think, you know, the number of people and the crowds that continue to show up here will only intensify, talking to a couple of the union members. you heard the teacher earlier reference it. they have another huge rally planned for saturday. so, you know, the idea that this has passed tonight doesnt mean this is over and clearly you get the sense here that a lot of these people respect going to be going any time soon. >> tomorrow is t...

While ago a group had heard there was a door that opened and went off running. i dont know what came of that. its interesting how its unfolding. >> its been fascinating listening to you talk to the folks out there protesting. one of the guys you talked to earlier, another teacher, civics teacher said, you know, people need to come together. thats what america is all about, working together instead of tearing people apart but in wisconsin where the vast majority of workers are n nonunion, is that...

Its time to stop dividing people by income and by job and buy union and nonunion. >> reporter: what do you think to happens to all the anger out here tonight? >> itll show up saturday morning when you have people all over the state on tractors walking from milwaukee to protest not just the bargaining rights but the budget bill and show up on april 5th. we are having a state supreme court election and electing county executives and school boards but the sad part is we have to motivate people by d...

Lavendera right outside the capitol with what appears to be an enormous crowd of people, not many who are happy. in fact, they are downright angry. ed, whats going on? >> reporter: they absolutely are, eliot. we found another teacher here, sir, tell me your name. >> nathan oshaughnessy. >> reporter: where do you work? >> i teach at memorial high school. >> reporter: what brought you out? >> actually i was at school, 6:30. and i heard that the bill had passed and came right down. >> reporter: cam...

But in the meantime, what they did is they took out everything they said was nonfiscal, even though theyve been saying the collective bargaining language was fiscal all along, which is why they didnt do this early on, and they passed it in the course of a few seconds on the senate floor. so youre talking about five or six decades worth of workers rights stomped out in a matter of minutes in the state senate. obviously we are very upset about this. we actually suggested they break up the nonfisca...

May have occurred, is a win by scott walker on his union busting approach in wisconsin something that rockets him into real contention in the republican presidential campaign? >> he will be certainly a name to conjure with, but talking unification, if theres one thing that unifies republicans, me included, it is the belief that public sector unions have become too costly, too burdensome. this is the fundamental issue in state and local politics for organizing republicans. walker will be a hero, ...

Definition of what it means to have people make exactly the kind of assessments that newt gingrich said, but it is important to remember, you know, americans are not all evangelical, not all religious, straight, white, and if youre going to unify all of them, you have to see all of them. >> david, assuming that the action taken in wisconsin holds and survives legal challenge, that democrat legislators want to bring to it because of violations to the open meetings rules and other violations that ...

Way of thinking, it is then possible to revise your definition of what it means to have people make exactly the kind of assessments that newt gingrich said, but it is important to remember, you know, americans are not all evangelical, not all religious, straight, white, and if youre going to unify all of them, you have to see all of them. >> david, assuming that the action taken in wisconsin holds and survives legal challenge, that democrat legislators want to bring to it because of violations t...