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Know, you never know in wisconsin. >> ruth, what does walker gain by pushing for the voter i.d. law? he's got a john doe investigation looking into the way he ran the recall campaign. there's been an e-mail dump out there. these polls are not good. this teems very heavy handled. >> i think it's exactly what the senator said. i think walker and other republicans around the country frankly are looking to curtail voting by likely democrats. if you look at the issue they're trying to fix, when walker in that clip says this is the most important, most pressing election issue, it is a measure, voter...

Refusing to do the elections because it's just too much. they don't want to be in the paper because they made some small error. now if you don't put something in this corner or you don't seal the bag in this way, they've just done so many different pieces of legislation including on top of that voter i.d. the legislation to take away weekends and evening voting. this is going to hurt rural, suburban, and urban wisconsin because people early vote. we should be encouraging people to vote and expanding the right to vote. >> ruth, this is anything but the old progressive wisconsin that you grew up...

This is what you were looking for. this is the smoking gun. it's -- clearly there is a connection between scott walker and the activities of his staff, some who have already been convicted. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. on the's question -- do you think scott walker is guilty? text a for yes, b for no to 67622. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring results later. for more, the reporter on this story, ruth conniff of the progressive magazine." when this document came out yesterday, we at "the ed show" asked ruth and her staff to go through these...

Writing talking points for his own staff, it's clear he was very deeply involved in this campaign operation, which we know took place on this illegal private secret e-mail network in his office. if you look at the map, which is exhibit a in the criminal complaint against his former staffer whose e-mails came out today, it is amazing how close together everybody sat. when walker says in an e-mail no more laptops, you know, we have to put this stuff away, it's pretty clear that he saw it, walked past it every day, and also that he was managing this stuff. so i don't think he can come out and rea...

State senator john urbanbach, one of 14 senators who left the state when walker unveiled his radical attack on workers and of course they brought the function of the government to a halt by leaving the state which of course the story exploded across the country. john, good to have you with us. what is your reaction to these e-mails from walker in this document dump? >> i'm shocked. you hit it on the nose. he owes wisconsinites an explanation. it's a matter of trust, a matter of making sure what the governor says is actually true. i agree with you 100%. the governor should be answering question...