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Report today, chris, you said it's going to be an ugly day in wisconsin. >> did gives me no pleasure to be right on this one, jon, because things are very dicey in madison today, and in fact i think there's a chance, and there's a concern amongst people i've talked to, in wisconsin today that this could get even worse, because now we've had police go in and forcibly remove protestors from outside of the house chamber where they were trying to obinstruct business today. this standoff keeps escalating and the unions who they see this as an existential threat to their life are going hard at this ...

widest level in a month. we want the number to be closer together, what we import annex port. that did not happen. more concerns about debt in europe. last year the kwraoerp yan debt crisis really affected our markets and sent them lower. a lot of nerves in wall street today. we'll keep you updated with new developments as we get them. jon: and good morning to you, hope your thursday is off to a great start, markets aside. i'm jon scott. martha: i'm jenna lee. we are here in the fox newsroom. "happening now" high drama in the wisconsin budget battle over union rights as senate republ...

We want to show you how much tax is paid measured in cents per gallon. chris cotter, you can pull that graphic back up and talk us through, why such differences here? >> we get asked to how much, why it more than in california than it might be in the sait of south carolina and there are a lot of reasons for that. you talk about tax, threz a federal excise tax, 18.4 cents per gallon, that's what it's been for a long time, but there are state and local taxes that can be significantly higher in one state versus another location, california has higher taxes, a different formulation of gasoline, pa...

you're going to balance the budget by cutting just 12 percent of the budget town to balance, it is literally, figuratively impossible. jenna: the gop making it clear the u.s. cannot keep wracking up debt and some saying something, if anything, needs to be stkpwhraoupb unfortunately we know republicans control one of one levers of law making, the democrats have the senate, the democrats have the white house, nobody wants to shut down the government, but one thing is nonnegotiable, as our speaker said, we will not that -- will not pass bills that to not create savings for the american ...

Would be lost if the season were lost. about $11 million in local revenue, business revenue, per city, per game. and about $10 million in tax revenue, per city, per game, 32 cities, do the math, it's a lot of money. jon: everything from the peanut vendor to -- >> everybody. jon: chris cotter, thank you. jenna: maybe we should have football all year long, then we'll have an economic stimulus all year! maybe one idea. we'll see if they can get together and talk. in the meantime he's a rising star in the gop, new jersey governor chris christie and while he says he's not a contender for the whit...