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Shutting down the public hearings, closing out the capitol, taking over our offices, now this. it is pretty obvious there is no low, there is no low they will go to in order to try and pass this special interest stuff and kill workers' rights. so it is going to be tough to try and negotiate with people on the other side of table that are untrustworthy and can't keep their word, but we'll see what we can do. we'll get together tonight and figure out the best. >> senator larson, did you share the feeling many had that you were actually close as a result of the leaked e-mails that we all saw in t...

Recall these people. >> democrat chris larson, thank you for joining us on this historic night for wisconsin. >> 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 exe...

Gave new energy to the recall efforts under way now. >> senator larson, as soon as you heard about this plan, you actually started driving back to wisconsin right away? >> i did. i was trying to see if there was something we could do, anything, in order to try and stop this, but it was pretty obvious they didn't want to have anything to do with that. they didn't want the democrats there. we thought we were talking, we thought we were having good discussions, we thought we were on our way to having a compromise that would preserve workers' rights, remove some of the bad things from this trojan ...

Sloppy in their haste in trying to get this done. we are going to be looking at those options and we will be making an announcement after that is decided upon. you know, the story now isn't so much what we're going to do or where we stand, we stand with the workers as we always have. it is where the republicans are, and this watershed moment, the republicans, 18 of them, showed they would rather side with big corporate interest instead of the working people, people who are making and living off a low wage, and only have power by banding together into a union. today they decided to vote against...

Banding together into a union. today they decided to vote against that and against the middle class. >> senator larson, what now happens to what remains of the so-called budget repair bill which does require as i understand it the higher threshold for quorum in the senate, which means it requires democrats to actually be in the chamber in order to have a quorum big enough to vote on it. >> right. >> will you return to the chamber, therefore deliver that quorum that allows them to vote on the remainder of the bill? >> that's why i'm not going to be in wisconsin much longer, lawrence. this is so...