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Wisconsin democratic state senator chris larson who joins us via skype. all right, let me start with you, mary. i'm very interested about this strike idea. what's going to happen on april 4, is that related to a strike? what's cooking over there? >> we think of our plan of action now as exposing the corporate agenda that is really behind what governor walker is doin doing. uniting our collective effort by calling for an organization called we are wisconsin, uniting students who want to object to the tuition increases at uw, nurses who are outraged that this governor wants to throw 300,000 peop...

Teacher eers had to take a pay because he had to get a $25 million bonus. >> oh, i was confused. of course. >> let me go to senator larson in wisconsin. you guys have been outside the state for a long time. now they've pulled this trick, when do you go back and what do you do when you go back? >> well, we'll be making that decision soon. when we left, we set out to make sure that the people of wisconsin were aware of what was in this trojan horse bill. and allow it. we achieved both of those to an extent we never thought possible. the middle class in our state and across the country woke up to...

That backed this governor and who don't pay a dime in tax that owe us $2.6 billion in t.a.r.p. money and that we want to say we are not going to deal with this inequality in our country anymore, and we're going to stand up for a middle class way of life own behalf of everybody in wisconsin and across the country. >> that brings up a good point. they keep talking about shared pain. where's the pain for the top corporations who pay no taxes? with where's the pain for the rich funding these campaigns? >> exactly. >> i think they mean you feel the pain and you don't. >> an m&i bank executive took ...

Bargaining. how important that is private sector and public sector. >> the american people are on your side. you're more optimistic about the president than i am. i want to go to reverend jackson. there was a really interesting moment where you led the republicans and democrats together in prayer. what was that about. tell me what happened there and tell me what the move there in wisconsin is now? >> well, we seek redemption and reconciliati reconciliation, but what's happened now is the governor has overreached. it's not about the budget deficit. it's about taking away the workers' rights of ...

Wisconsin. did this process provide 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 ...