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Industries. i'm confident we will win this competition. as long as we're fighting together. and i know that whatever our differences, you share that goal. so you've got a partner in the white house to make this happen. and i hope that this becomes the start of a productive and serious conversation going forward. one that i want to start by answering some of your questions. so thank you very much. thank you. >> the president is wrapping up his speech this morning to the national governors association. again, repeating in his message that all of us -- all of them have to being to give up somethi...

Monday. i'm megyn kelly. as we center the third week of wisconsin's budget battle, president obama challenging u.s. governors about an hour ago, asking them not to vilify public employees in their efforts to tackle state budget problems. >> i believe that everybody should be prepared to give up something in order to solve our budget challenges and i think most public servants agree with that. democrats and republicans agree with that. in fact, many public employees in your respective states have agreed to cuts, but let me say this, i don't think it does anybody any good when public employees a...

Very tough choices at this point on everything from schools to prisons to pensions. i also know that many of you are making decisions regarding your public work forces and i know how difficult that can be. i recently froze the salaries of federal employees for two years. it wasn't something that i wanted to do, but i did it because of the very tough fiscal situation that we're in. so i believe that everybody should be prepared to give up something in order to solve our budget challenges and i think most public servants agree with that. democrats and republicans agree with that. in fact, many p...

Budget challenges, and i think most public servants agree with that. democrats and republicans agree with that. in fact, many public employees in your respective states have agreed to cuts. but let me also say this, i don't think it's doing anybody good when public employees are denny graded orville fied or rights are infringed upon. >> absent from the meeting the wisconsin governor, scott walker. of course he is dealing with a stand-off in his own state to eliminate most public employee union bargaining rights. protesters have been at the state capitol for two weeks now. reports today are sug...

[ questions inaudible ] >> yeah. i'm an eternal optimist. i have been in the past when i faced difficult budget challenges in milwaukee county where i was county executive before and i'm an optimist here. i believe the fact that we've got this much passion, last week we had nearly 70,000 people in the capitol for and against the bill and yet the discourse up to this point has been very civil and i pray it will continue that way. i'm an optimist. i talked to at least one of those senators even last weekend and i think there was an interest in trying to find a way to bring folks home. but the ke...