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Interesting. pawlenty is a more interesting person, was a more interesting governor than he is a candidate. he had interesting ideas about the environment. he had interesting ideas about making state government work. and when that person reemerges i think america may like it. can that person survive a republican primary? >> how -- theres a certain kind of dumbing out you can see with some of these republican candidates at times. you had steve forbes running for president saying hes not so sure a...

Governors in indiana, wisconsin, and ohio have all attacked collective bargaining rights, rights that indiana governor mitch damages already eliminated by executive order on his first day in office in 2005. joining me now, former governor of vermont and current msnbc contributor howard dean, thanks for joining me tonight, governor. >> thanks, lawren. >> chris christies point, heres a republican governor whos considered tough on spending, tough on unions, says hes eager, eager to jump into collec...

Coming after us with every live shot here, these people hate. >> the hate you that get from these demonstrators, you can see it in their faces. >> these teachers are getting violent. no surprise, given their unfettered access to craft scissors. >> not all republican governors think governor walkers way is the only way. >> in fact, i love collective bargaining. let me at them. lets have it be real collective bargaining. >> former governor howard dean will explain the governors. >> please, everybo...

And that has really hurt him. if you see the polls that came out today, the "wall street journal" poll, the pew poll, there was another one -- oh, the rasmussen poll, which is a republican poll. the republicans are going to get hammered in wisconsin. democracy for americas got a recall effort going on for five republican senators. 57% think the republican senator ought to be recalled of the five theyre looking at. so this is killing them. and what christie essentially is saying is look, we can r...

Walker wanted to use it as a call for a press conference to say look, i tried talking to them but nothings working out. he knows exactly what were looking for and he could bring us home and end this divide today. >> who was in those discussions with you on the other side? what republicans are you talking to? >> were talking to walkers staff. were also talking to him. and were also talking to senate republicans, some of their more moderate members. fitzgerald has proven himself to throw out a lot...

Walker wanted to use it as a call for a press conference to say look, i tried talking to them but nhings working out. he knows exactly what were looking for and he could bring us home and end this divide today. >> who was in those discussions with you on the other side? what republicans are you talking to? >> were talking to walkers staff. were also talking to him. and were also talking to senate republicans, some of their more moderate members. fitzgerald has proven himself to throw out a lot o...

Wisconsin democratic senator chris larsen and from madison, wisconsin once again republican senator glenn groveman. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >> glad to be on your show. >> senator larsen, you heard the governor, governor walker tonight saying there had been discussions with what he calls some reasonable senate democrats who sound like they want to bring an end to this and come home. are you one of those senate democrats whos been in discussions with republicans or wit...

>> the ante has been upped. senate republicans voted to order police to bring their democratic colleagues back to work by force. >> absent senate democrats arent planning to return anytime soon. >> america takes sides in the showdown over unions and the idea of collective bargaining. >> the polls are turning against the governor even after republicans unleash tv attacks on the workers. >> stop obama and his union bosses today. >> rude protesters -- >> unbelievable. the tensions beginning to moun...

Wisconsin once again republican senator glenn groveman. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >> glad to be on your show. >> senator larsen, you heard the governor, governor walker tonight saying there had been discussions with what he calls some reasonable senate democrats who sound like they want to bring an end to this and come home. are you one of those senate democrats whos been in discussions with republicans or with the governor? >> yes. well, all 14 of us have been in disc...

Debate except for that walker cant get his way. we had some pretty good negotiations today, but whats unfortunate is we thought they were headed in the right direction only to find out that walker wanted to use it as a call for a press conference to say look, i tried talking to them but nothings working out. he knows exactly what were looking for and he could bring us home and end this divide today. >> who was in those discussions with you on the other side? what republicans are you talking to? ...