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School. just like we saw on this broadcast tonight how there were kids in wisconsin who were protesting as well. the subject matter was different but the passion and the concern and the love of country and the love of community, it's the same. but we've changed. we think public education is something we can make as a bargaining chip in a negotiation. we can use teachers as political pawns. we can villify what they do. we can demean their health care and their pension and we can make them out to be lazy. that infuriates me and it should infuriate you if you care about your community. i ask you ...

With the public. >> it won't be just union workers but workers all over the state of wisconsin. >> absolutely. >> given the governor's track record, do you think that he will fire public workers if they do strike? do you think he'll pull a ronald reagan? >> absolutely. i wouldn't put anything past this governor. he's a vicious person. i mean, we've seen it the way that he ram rodded this bill through the senate, the assembly. he doesn't really care about the working men and women in wisconsin. we got to protect ourselves. the economic transparency. we got to know where the money is being spent...

The energy to get those signatures. i'm going to bet you come monday morning many of these senators are actually at that point of being ripe for recall and this recall process moves quickly, ed. it's not going to take forever to put these votes to the people. when that happens, we look at the possibility of control of the state senate and the restoration of a system of checks and balances in wisconsin. >> john nichols, i want to ask you one more question. if we can go back to that fake phone call that the koch brother was involved in, with the governor, the governor talked about protesters and...

So if you think it's just wisconsin, if you think it's indiana, ohio, new jersey, texas, florida, it's here. it's in our back yard where i grew up in norfolk, virginia. it's everywhere. we are at a crossroads in this country when it comes to asking ourselves the question and making a determination as to which direction we take. what do we think of public education? do we really value it? is it an american value? i gave a commentary on this program last week about my mother who was a teacher at granby high school, an english teacher. i described what her life was like and i said at the time, i ...

Tucker also says wisconsin public workers can never be fired? it seems he forgot about the 12,000 state and local workers governor walker said that he would fire if the budget bill wasn't passed. tucker's dishonest union bashing fit right in on fox. check out the victory party on fox and friends this morning. >> well, the republicans came up with a plan. they said, let's take the money stuff out of it and then we can vote on it. and they did and they did and it passed. >> they are claiming now it's a violation of wisconsin's open meeting law because they only got two hours' notice. >> well, to...