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A lot to take in in wisconsin. it could be only the first battle ground for what will be a national debate. good morning, everybody, i'm bill hemmer, welcome to "america's newsroom". how you doing? martha: good to have you here, i'm martha maccallum. they got a lot of noise, you just saw that, but they can't hold a vote on that because the lawmakers have skipped out of town, the governor being called a dictator by some of these people, he says something has got to give to save the state. >> we're broke in wisconsin. we don't have more money to give, we don't have anything to negotiate with. it...

>> congressman frank, the argument is if the u.s. pulls out the troops in afghanistan, the taliban will almost certainly take over and recreate the situation that existed before 9/11, allowing al qaeda to come back in and train and finish their plans against the united states. >> well, i have two responses. first of all, you're focusing much too much on afghanistan. we are talking about making reductions on a worldwide basis in wealthy nations -- marines in japan, troops in germany. other than afghanistan is a separate and legitimate debate, but my view is that the ability we had to win in afg...

Finish plans against the united states. >> well, i have two responses. first, wolf, you are focusing way too much on afghanistan and we are talking about making reductions on a worldwide basis in wealthy nations, marines in japan, and troops in germany and other than afghanistan is a separate and legitimate debate, but my view is that the ability we had to win in afghanistan and i voted on originally was dissipated when we made a major effort in iraq and ron paul makes a very important point, if we are to be told that we have to do this to keep it from being a base for terrorism, and sudan, an...

Weapons on both the u.s. and russian sides. what u.s. officials believe is that this could be an important step forward to show some good faith that they are making reductions as they move towards the vision the president laid out one year ago here in prague. >> we just heard the music start. we see president barack obama as well as russia's president, dimitry medvedev. they are walking up to the podium right now, the two chairs behind them for the signing ceremony. a couple moments ago, we saw czech president voklov kl auchlt s be seated. >> our president obama. >> translator: president barac...