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Another $105 billion. they are spending money faster than we can earn it. >> let's move on to the issue of the tea party. what do you make of the allegations that the tea party is racist? i have to throw something in here are. with the luncheo lunacy in wisn and people crawling in windows and they say the tea party is racist. what do you make of that? >> shows that the left is so deathly afraid of the tea party because it is made up of democrats, independents, republican, libertarians, a huge swath of people that want the country to work again. they want budgets to balance and they want the co...

They are spending money faster than we can earn it. >> let's move on to the issue of the tea party. what do you make of the allegations that the tea party is racist? i have to throw something in here are. with the luncheo lunacy in wisn and people crawling in windows and they say the tea party is racist. what do you make of that? >> shows that the left is so deathly afraid of the tea party because it is made up of democrats, independents, republican, libertarians, a huge swath of people that want the country to work again. they want budgets to balance and they want the congress to follow the c...

The state had violated the protester's rights by earlier eliminating access to the building. protests are in opposition to wisconsin's governor's plan to strip state employees of their bargaining rights. that plan has not been acted on because wisconsin's democratic state senators are still holed up in illinois. right now there's a new effort to bring them home. wisn's jason newt. has the very latest from madison. >> what is happening is there is a group in that caucus among those 14 state democrats who doesn't want to come home. >> reporter: words of frustration from governor scott walker. >>...

Systems in wisconsin canceled classes today because of budget protests. teachers and other workers are angry over a plan that would require them to pay more for benefits and pensions and strips them of many collective bargaining rights. our affiliate wisn is live from madison. hillary, set the scene for us. a lot of people very angry and frustrated. >> reporter: it's really been a marathon of protesting. if you just take a look at this crowd behind me here, they are loud and they are proud of what they believe in. they've been chanting as you can probably make out, kill the bill. today the sen...

If you know the power is out and you're okay, make sure your neighbors are okay. >> this is important because often we talk about storms which have power outages connected to them, but it's not always this cold. >> this is brutally cold. i just saw pictures out of scottsdale and there are icicles in fountains because it got that cold even in scottsdale last night. the cold air is not just here. it has invaded all the west, all the rocky mountains and down to the southwest. still snowing in chicago, still snowing in detroit, cleveland and buffalo. this is not breaking weather because the weathe...