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But we are looking for the governor to show a little leadership here, come forward, make a deal that can bring people home. >> senator grothman, what happened to the deadline today? we seemed to have passed through a couple of deadlines. last friday was a deadline, today was a deadline. is there any real deadline in front of us? >> oh, yes, i would anticipate layoffs in the very near future. >> representative mason, what's your reaction to the governor's deadlines? >> i mean, after the day has come and passed, clearly this was to pressure people to come back. clearly the governor threatened pe...

>> talk to corey mason right now and tell him what kind of negotiations you had with his democratic senate partners. >> lawrence, i prefer not to talk to representative mason. this is one of the guys who lost his mind in the assembly over a bill that they don't have the votes to kill. i will give him credit for debating it. the problem is you don't know who to negotiate with. you don't know if senator miller is the leader or the two others who show up once a week or the bomb-throwers on tv every day. that's one. problems. as long as they continues, either labor is pulling the strings or someon...

Prank phone call where he thought he was talking to david coke. a new poll out from the right-leaning wisconsin institute shows 65% of people in wisconsin want the governor to compromise with union workers compared to 30% who said no. as for the missing senators, 51% disapprove of him leaving the state and 47% approve. a statistical tie since the margin of error is 4%. corey mason whose colleagues in the senate have been in closed door meetings all day and on the phone, wisconsin senate majority leader scott fitzgerald. representative mason, i want to get your reaction to the news conference w...

Leadership here, come forward, make a deal that can bring people home. >> senator grothman, what happened to the deadline today? we seemed to have passed through a couple of deadlines. last friday was a deadline, today was a deadline. is there any real deadline in front of us? >> oh, yes, i would anticipate layoffs in the very near future. >> representative mason, what's your reaction to the governor's deadlines? >> i mean, after the day has come and passed, clearly this was to pressure people to come back. clearly the governor threatened people's jobs as a political ploy to further a bill he ...

You are. you go ahead. >> okay. as we all know, there's pressure building in these people's districts to return to work, unless you're lucky enough to be a democrat representing madison or dane county where almost everybody works for the government, the public is overwhelmingly against it. they are saying we pay you $50,000 to go to work, where are you. and we know there are recall campaigns launched against two of the senators. i would anticipate they would be returning shortly. >> representative mason, what have you heard about the secret meeting with the democratic senators? which side soug...