original race in 2010 and his victory speech put a national spin on the local win. >> tonight, tonight we tell wisconsin, we tell our country, and we tell people all across the globe that voters really do want leaders who stand up and make the tough decisions. >> cnn's ted rowlands for us this morning is in madison. good morning to you, ted. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. you see the video of that woman slapping tom barrett, and a lot of talk about that, obviously, this morning. we don't know who that woman is and we've been trying to find out who she is, and whether or not she was questioned by police or anything, if this was something that did raise the eyebrows of people at the event. barrett did comment to a local reporter about it saying he was shocked about it, claims the woman asked him just before she slapped him, may i slap you in the face for conceding too early, and he said well i'd rather get a hug from you so he says he leaned in and she slapped him anyway, so he was shocked, obviously. we still have not i.d.'d this woman. tom barrett, obviously loses the recall but he did talk to walker and he says he told the folks he wants to work with walker. walker said in his concession speech says he's planning on having the democrats and everybody over for beer and brats, because this state as you know, soledad, has been absolutely divided over this. there's a lot of healing that needs to happen from this point on. one thing that scott walker doesn't have, he has his job still but doesn't have a complete majority. it appears as though there was a tight race last night and it hasn't been officially certified yet but it appears as though the balance of power in the senate here, the state senate shifted to the democrats, so scott walker doesn't have a complete majority but obviously one thing he wanted was his job intact which he does have this morning. >> he has that but he might have some other problems down the road. ted rowlands in madison, appreciate that. clbs cls has a look at the other stories making headlines today. good morning. >> good morning, soledad. jury selection in the jerry sandusky rape trial resumes. in a couple of hours, nine jurors have been seated so far and some potentially explosive evidence is revealed, an abc news report says sandusky wrote love letters to one of his alleged victims and showered him with gifts. that victim now 28 years old is expected to be the prosecution's first witness. sandusky's charged with sexually abusing ten boys. we'll have a live report next hour. romney's campaign confirming it's investigating whether their candidate had a private e-mail account hacked, an anonymous hacker reportedly signed into romney's old hotmail account after guessing the answer to a security question about one of his pets. several e-mails from romney answer days as governor of massachusetts appearing in yesterday's "wall street journal." a u.s. drone strike taking out another top terrorist in pakistan, the white house now confirming that abu yahya al libi, the number two man in al qaeda and most public face of the terror group is now dead. he was seen as a rock star in jihadist circles. he escaped in afghanistan at bagram airbase and then bragged about it on the web. a rare planetary spectacle. how rare? you won't see venus in transit across the face of the sun for another 105 years. the planet moved between the earth and the sun took some seven hours to complete, so millions of people on this planet were able to watch using protective eyewear and telescopes. first lady michelle obama plugging her new book "american grown" while delivering the top ten list on letterman last night. >> and the number one fun fact about gardening -- >> with enough care and effort, you can grow your own barackoli. >> meantime there is obama says she's not in favor of a federal ban on big sugary drinks but praises mayor bloomberg on his effort. let's get back to the recall race in wisconsin, many talk about the election having national stakes. we showed you the video of a woman slapping milwaukee mayor tom barrett after he conceded, makes it clear as we heard from ted that emotions are running very high in that state. it was an election that literally pitted neighbor against neighbor, family members against other family members. "time" magazine's joe klein has been covering news and politics for 42 years, he's doing his third annual election tour of the nation which is going to take him eventually through wisconsin. right now he's in philadelphia. nice to see you. thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. >> good to be here. >> have you ever seen that where a supporter slaps the candidate because she's angry that he conceded too early while people are still in line to vote? >> no. you know, i've seen some candidates get kicked in the shins from time to time, but not after they conceded. i mean, usually people know when it's over, and you know, that just speaks to how high-pitched the tempers are in this country right now. it's one thing i'm finding on the road, i've been through north carolina, virginia, states like wisconsin, which are going to be the states that decide this election and there are deep pockets of blue, deep pockets of red, and people aren't talking to each other. >> and they're very, very angry and i think sometimes scared, too. last night, mitt romney said that tonight's results will echo beyond the borders of wisconsin. do you think that that's true? >> no. you know, the exit polls yesterday said obama led romney 51-45 in wisconsin. i think what this election says is this. people don't like gimmicks. scott walker was elected two years ago. he tried to govern according to the way he saw fit. he did nothing illegal, and the public employees unions who were used to getting their way didn't like it, and they tried to unseat him, and it's kind of like when the republicans tried to impeach bill clinton in the late 1990s, the public saw it as just a tremendous waste of time and money, and bill clinton's popularity remained what it was from the beginning of that process to the end of the process, but the republican's popularity plummeted. people should pay attention when they vote in the real elections. you don't get do-overs in elections, and so i think that the unions and the democrats got their come-uppance for interfering in the natural process of electoral politics. >> when i talked to tom barrett yesterday he said to me that he thought if enough people turned out he could win. here's what he said. >> i think what we're going to see a huge voter turnout in wisconsin so a lot of the projections are based on 2010 projections where there was low voter turnout. we are very confident there will be hundreds of thousands of additional voters and that's what buoys our confidence so much. >> when you look at the voter turnout, throw that number up on the screen for you in 2010 it was at 50%. 2012, 58%. they got a higher voter turnout and didn't help him. what was wrong with his math? >> i think he was misinterpreting the will of the electorate. as i said, people just don't like to be messed with, and i thought that this was a major, severe miscalculation on the part of the unions, who emerge from this in a weaker position. >> so you have been to north carolina in your road trip. you've been to virginia. i know you're in philadelphia, pennsylvania, today and i know you're talking to people on all sides sort of politically and independents as well and much of the election always focuses on how the independents are feeling. what are they telling you specifically? >> well, actually, you know, soledad, i spent six months covering republicans during the presidential primaries, and during the first days of this trip, i spent some time with republicans, but more time with democrats, because i hadn't spoken to democrats in a while, and in places like virginia and north carolina, they're really, really frustrated that they can't talk to the other side. one woman in virginia said to me, my mouth is bloody because i keep on having to bite my tongue. there's just a sense of tremendous frustration, and obama care keeps on coming up. i was in the middle of a fierce confrontation at a recovery program, of all places, between a recovering drug addict and a recovering alcoholic, the drug addict wanted to get obama care, the alcoholic didn't. turned out he was a military guy. he gets free medical care and so do his colleagues, but he doesn't mind that because he trusts them. they served, and one thing that people keep on bringing up on this trip is that there needs to be common experiences that we have both left and right, and the idea of mandatory national service, much to my surprise, has come up at almost every one of the town meetings i've had and there have been ten of those so far. >> interesting. that kind of takes a whole different direction. i'd love to talk to you about that more as you. to travel, the conversation you're hearing on the road. nice to see you as always. we're looking forward could checking with you on your road trip. still ahead a top republican man tossed around as contender for vice president, virginia governor bob mcdonnell will talk to us, campaigned for walker in wisconsin, we'll talk about implications of this race. also, sheryl crow, she survived breast cancer and now opening up about her new health scare she thinks is causing her to sometimes forget her lyrics. and a mom says her daughter's baby doll has a potty mouth. this story is crazy. we'll leave you with led zep lin, "good times, bad times" off of joe klein's playlist. you're watching "starting point" and we are back in just a moment. 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>> i think it's a big excuse. nobody said that when president obama won in 2008, having twice as much money as john mccain and all the outside interests that came in to help. i think that's a bogus argument. the point is, largely the same issues that mitt romney and barack obama are talking about, the $16 trillion national debt, almost $6 trillion of which created about i this president and unemployment rate at 8.1% for 40 straight months, unacceptable, and mitt romney has got different ideas and it's going to be romney's ideas against obama's record, similar to what happened in the election in wisconsin. i think the issue matrix is the same. >> sarah palin said this about democrats and president owe ba in. listen. >> i think that the democrats there understand that the president's no show represents the fact that obama's moose is cooked, as more and more americans realize that what wisconsin has just manifested via this vote embracing austerity and fiscal responsibility is the complete opposite of what president obama and the white house represents today. >> she's talking of course about the fact that at obama did not show up to help mayor barrett. he sent a tweet out encouraging people to vote for hill. do you think that's true, in fact president obama's goose is cooked? the polling doesn't seem to indicate that in the state of wisconsin. >> five months is a long time before any goose is cooked but she's right on a couple things. one is president obama absolutely ignored wisconsin. he flew last week from minnesota to illinois, almost over the state and declined to get in there, and actually make an appearance, although the dnc was heavily engaged with all of their resources and couldn't muster the same results as the ground game. she's also correct when she says that president obama's had a different leadership style than scott walker. walker took charge, honest with the people about spending and debt and taxes and made a difference and now getting results with job numbers and a balanced budget. president obama has not exercised the bold leadership it takes to get america out of debt and back to work. he keeps making excuses. >> exit polls show the same people who elected or let governor walker keep his job in exit polling said, and i'm going to support president obama. i could throw the poll number. >> we'll see. >> i understand exit polls aren't final polls, 51% for obama -- oh, that's romney, 44% for romney choice for president in the general election so the exit polls would indicate there's a little bit of a contradiction in there. >> well, i think that may be right. i'll let the pundits analyze that in the next couple of weeks. this is generally looked at as a blue state. scott walker won bigger last night than two years ago when he got elected governor for the first time. it helps to putis with withis in play given the fact it's about somebody getting results and fixing problems on debt and budget and jobs. that's what walker did and what romney is talking about. i do think in some of the swing states, wisconsin, virginia, florida, ohio, others, when the debate is about getting america out of debt and back to work, this is good news that this is the message that romney is going to be driving that voters in wisconsin responded to and nationally will, too, as well. >> as we started our conversation you said number one the part of the message was overreach, the unions shouldn't have pushed for a recall anyway. >> true. >> also there was a contested democratic primary which weakened barrett to a large degree as he was heading into the election eventually. so all of those reasons might argue against your own point one, might argue against your bigger point and might come back to jobs. >> well, voters in wiscon