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Collective bargaining is being modeled after the walker bill. hes the hero. alaskas first overhauled its state retirement system a few years back. democratic lawmakers say the state has had difficulty retaining qualified teachers and police officers ever since that move. that hasnt stopped governor christy in new jersey from steam rolling public workers in his state. in fact, his cuts to education are so deep new jersey schools have been unable to provide a, quote, thorough and efficient educati...

Workers is just one part of a larger republican agenda. break the middle class and call it deficit reduction. wisconsins republican attorney general wants to appeal a judges order blocking walkers antiworker bill so the state justice department filed a petition and listed secretary of state doug la follette as the petitioner. but as john nichols reports, la follette was never consulted on the petition, probably because he opposes the walker bill and has obeyed the judges order. meanwhile big ral...

Larger republican agenda. break the middle class and call it deficit reduction. wisconsins republican attorney general wants to appeal a judges order blocking walkers antiworker bill so the state justice department filed a petition and listed secretary of state doug la follette as the ç petitioner. but as john nichols reports, la follette was never consulted on the petition, probably because he opposes the walker bill and has obeyed the judges order. meanwhile big rallies are planned for wiscon...

Point tomorrow. >> yes. weve been talking about for a while, but a crisis point. scott walkers office, governor of wisconsin, putting out eight statement if we do not refinance the debt by tomorrow, we will lose 165 million. that is the budget deficit will get $165 million bigger. they cant refinance it until they pass what hes calling his budget repair bill, which of course is the bill that has state senators not wisconsin. its hard to know how hard these deadlines are, andrea. talking about re...

Been holding down the fort for the the last two weeks. many republicans are prepared to reach across the aisle there? >> reporter: the likelihood according to one republican source i spoke to is, better than 50/50 but only for 2 of the 4 or 5 moderate republicans who are considering backing a compromise or voting against the walker bill. heres how this shakes out. there are a number of moderate republicans, one, dale schultz long on regard saying he wants a compromise or will vote no on the walk...

He thinks the possibleties are better than 50/50. there are a number of moderate republicans. for a long time, those conversations are continuing. we were told by one source last night there are four waivering senate republicans who are either in support of the compromise proposed by dale schultz or might vote against the bill as submitted now by the assembly, the walker bill. if only two come over to his -- because the math is overwhelming for republicans. as weeks have gone on, some of these m...

His union allies because they really are under pressure with the walker bill in wisconsin. >>guest: well, that is true but i think it is a bad political mistake on the part of the president. you still have a lot of independent voters. you still have a lot of people in their 88 percent or 90 percent that im talking about that do not like the fact that the president is being so outwardly favoring the unions in this particular case. especially since the state is broke. what part of "broke," dont th...

Almost 70,000 as you said, jamie but today will be the labor protesters and people who do not want collective bashing at least, part of the collective bargaining rights taken away and would maintain the rights over the salaries, if and when the bill becomes law but the key question is what happens next? when might that happen? because the 14 awol democratic senators are not coming back, according to republicans theyll go on with the business of the state of wisconsin, and vote on bills which are...

If the contender doesnt answer the question, we can expect follow-ups but if he still doesnt answer there is nothing the fox news moderators can do. its not like they can call the evaders pinheads like some people i know. so its better for me to be like you to watch what happens in the debate and then analyze after the fact. megyn kelly, bret baier chris wallace very seasoned and will do a great job. the debate all of them with the exception of donald trump, need to gain recognition among the vo...

Mcinturf and peter harp, who have a new survey out showing there is bipartisan support even from tea party types for increased spening on infrastructure. the question of course is how you pay for it. thats one of the things everybodys fighting about in washington and the states. >> to put you on the spot for a second, i dont know what bill and peter have been doing in their polling today, but do they have any data on how people view this stand off in wisconsin? the whole issue of a peoples publi...