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Something that is encouraging to other republican governors or was it so messy, so chaotic, so politically risky that other republican governors will now be wary of taking steps in this direction? >> lawrence, i think that in ohio, john kasich is probably encouraged by what walker did or what walker is doing. i wouldn't be surprised if governors in new jersey, christie and indiana and other midwestern states where you have republican governors that feel they are in the asen den see take some courage from all of this and feel that actually governor walker is going to make head way, at least amo...

>> thank you. >> joining me now, howard fineman of the huffington post and msnbc, and robert reich, former labor secretary in the clinton administration, and author of aftershock, the next economy in america's future. robert reich, fix for us this event's position in the history of the american labor movement. >> lawrence, this is another example, and we've had actually relatively few examples over the last 50 years, but over the last 100 years a number of examples of governors, of executives, politicians, basically trampling on the rights of people, making a mockery of democracy and of the ru...

>> howard fineman of the huffington post and former labor secretary robert reich. thank you both for joining me. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you. coming up, newt gingrich explains why he is not a hypocrite for spearheading the impeachment of president clinton while gingrich was having his own marital affair. david from will explain how he thinks he is going to get the inauguration. we're america's natural gas. and here's what we did today in homes all across america: we created the electricity that powered the alarm clocks and brewed the coffee. we heated the bathwater and gave kelly a cle...

Win on the merits. so we're going to go forward and keep fighting. >> rick badger, executive director of afscme 43, thank you. thaung to represent barca and also representative mason. we have more on this ahead. howard fineman on the politics of this move and former labor secretary robert reish on the impact to workers. and later, newt gingrich goes on the christian broadcasting network to address his repeated marital problems in his three marriages. can newt's serial adultery be forgiven by republican presidential primary voters? m. major medical. ...but it helps pay the doctors. pays the...

Sell poorly in swing states in 2012. in virginia, in north carolina, in indiana, in colorado, in florida, all of them swing states, all of them with relatively low percentage of unionized public workers and unionized workers generally. that's what's going on. that's the big picture here. and now the democrats are the ones who have to be the grownups because the republicans have been the ones to issue the provocation. this is very serious stakes having everything to do with the 2012 election. scott walker is almost immaterial. he will be a hero in the halls of republican conservativism, a hero ...