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And he's getting air cover from house speaker john boehner, who, like the president, knows wisconsin is really just a proxy for their own showdown coming march 4 when funding for the federal government runs out and a possible shutdown is looming. >> he was elected to lead not the sit on the sidelines. >> reporter: boehner aides privately tell cnn they believe democrats are trying to stop walker because they're worried he and other governors will be able to, quote, pull a chris christie as in the republican new new jersey who faced down unions. >> we have two choices, to either stand up and do ...

Indiana and other big 2012 political battle grounds. wisconsin is just a start. >> it's just a start, just a start. you'll start to see it all over the country, andation said this is payback for some of these, you know, folks. >> reporter: labor officials charge teachers in wisconsin are being unfairly targeted for deep cuts. they get smaller raises, pay more out of pocket for pensions and health care and lose collective bargaining rights for both. wisconsin's republican governor scott walker staring at a $3.6 billion state deficit, says he needs to cut somewhere, and he's getting air cover fr...

Return to constitutionallism. >> who is the leader? is there one leader of the republican party? >> i don't know that there needs to be one leader. there are very leading ideas. we're unifying around ideas. we're about to have a lot of good voices who can espouse those ideas. mitch mcconnell, michael steele is getting the job done at the national committee. we've got -- everybody's very excited to be here. >> you know, unfortunately, we're out of time. i think, robert, i'm going to talk to you and mary the next time, i want to talk about florida politics, specifically charlie crist. if he lose...