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lets take a break to the magic wall to show why were predicting why walker will keep his job as governor of wisconsin. number one, its obvious. red is republican. you see a lot of red. dane county here, this is the key county for democrat, 8% of the population. democrats say their turnout operation worked well there. but tom barrett the democrat getting 60% and scott walker getting 40% right there. barrett needs to be up around 70% in this key county right there. lets come back to the ...

number one, its obvious. red is republican. you see a lot of red. dane county here, this is the key county for democrat, 8% of the population. democrats say their turnout operation worked well there. but tom barrett the democrat getting 60% and scott walker getting 40% right there. barrett needs to be up around 70% in this key county right there. lets come back to the map here a little bit. this is waukesha county. the key county for republicans in this state. 75%, scott walker got jus...

Democrats with one seat empty and one republican who sides with the democrats on union issues. scott walker couldnt pass the union stripping thing in this chamber if he had to do it again. if democrats win only one of the four senate recalls on tuesday, theyre going to take back the wisconsin snoot. theyll be able to stop scott walker from doing anything else, even if he remains the governor on tuesday. heres the thing about tiny little local races like wisconsins senate recalls on tuesday. we h...

month in february we added 233,000 private sector jobs. more companies are bringing jobs back and investing in america. and manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. we just had another good month last month in terms of adding manufacturing jobs. and this facility is part of the evidence of whats going on all across the country. this company is about to hire more than 200 new workers, 140 of them right here in petersburg, virginia. so the economy is getting stron...

well get more details on that. >> also if youve been looking, there are pictures that are mind boggling. a cruise ship much, much bigger than the "titanic" on its side. there are reports of six dead now. two americans among the missing and harrowing tales from those who tur vived and the captain has got some explaining to do. he is being asked by authorities there why did you leave that ship? and the first chance for overseas markets to react to the mass downgrade of european nations...

>> im going to describe to you the brings of this. he is revving up a base. >> bill: yeah. >> that is generally supportive of union issues and feels. >> bill: who is he convincing. >> deeply under assault. >> bill: who is he convincing? >> what he is doing really. its not about convincing because people are pretty ardent. is he energizing and focusing people who say listen we are under attack here. people want to work to end collective bargaining. >> bill: you say he hurts the union cause. >> th...

The brings of this. he is revving up a base. >> bill: yeah. >> that is generally supportive of union issues and feels. >> bill: who is he convincing. >> deeply under assault. >> bill: who is he convincing? >> what he is doing really. its not about convincing because people are pretty ardent. is he energizing and focusing people who say listen we are under attack here. people want to work to end collective bargaining. >> bill: you say he hurts the union cause. >> there is good decent hard working...

Context of all of the states. obviously, new york is a very blue stated, governor cuomo has a lot of union issues, he also has a heavily weighted democratic legislature, the republicans narrowly took control of one house of the legislature. but, new york republicans are not like ohio republicans. or wisconsin republicans. new york republicans are sort of like democrats-light and so, what hes trying to do is walk carefully through the issues and focus for the first year, first go-around, remember...

Said to her when she was trying to recruit private businesses to her state. it shows this is not merely about collective bargaining. it is not merely about union issues and the budget. it is larger than that. they are using and exploiting this financial and economic crisis to organize thats what it is about. weve seen from it the white house. they tried to whitewash their fingerprints off of it. you can see organizing for americas hand prints and fingerprints are all over it. even at this moment...

Said to her when she was trying to recruit private businesses to her state. it shows this is not merely about collective bargaining. it is not merely about union issues and the budget. it is larger than that. they are using and exploiting this financial and economic crisis to organize thats what it is about. weve seen from it the white house. they tried to whitewash their fingerprints off of it. you can see organizing for americas hand prints and fingerprints are all over it. even at this moment...