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Bad. the reason scott walker is facing a historic recall election this year is not just because some of his political opponents don't like the cut of his jib. it's because tons of wisconsin voters are out raged by what walker has done as governor. the recall forces need to collect more than half a million signatures in order to trigger the recall election. they turned in nearly twice that number. they turned in more than 930,000 signatures. after a lot of fussing about fact checking and due diligence, after the wisconsin republican party launched a special website where people could report rec...

Not about whether or not we had to make budget cuts and pension cuts in order to try to deal with the budget. what walker did was he cut people's voice. he cut their rights. and didn't create one new job. >> isn't that really what has happened, randi is when a lot of dissatisfaction, when a lot of disaffection was being expressed, the tea party republicans seized on that. took control of the congress and some state houses. and then used that control to go after unions, go after working middle class, to go after people and really, in many ways, i think, we're beginning to see it backfire becaus...

So this has been on the fast track. it was introduced on monday. and the conference on tuesday. and they're just moving quickly on this. where the unions and the workers aren't going to be able to fight back as quickly as they could. they're looking for some kind of a -- a wisconsin-like pushback. let's talk recall. i'm not real clear on what the recall guidelines are if arizonans wanted to recall jan brewer. >> arizonans can do exactly what wisconsinites are doing. arizona has an exactly parallel recall law. people have to gather 25% of the vote in the last gubernatorial election and arizonan...

>> are wisconsinites paying attention to what walker is doing, gallivanting all over the country, raising money and doing these, what you could say are seminars, clinics, on how to go after union. this will elevate him no doubt. to jim demint of south carolina, he said he wishes he was president. they're grooming no doubt. john nichols, good to have you with us. thanks so much. >> thank you. the susan g. komen foundation pulls funding for planned parenthood. was it political? terri o'neil of the national organization of women will join me for that discussion in detail.

You pointed out something really important, al. they are overreaching. in every state that you talked about, they are overreaching way too much and people are pushing back and people are fighting back. >> now, let's play so people can hear how the pro walker people are trying to come back. and they are trying to try out the pro business credentials. listen to this. >> governor walker's a friend of small business. he recognizes that 70% of the jobs created in this country and in the state are by small businesses. he wants all of the people in the state to be successful. we can see that if wisco...