spinning the results from wisconsin this morning. a memo from the obama campaign's wisconsin director says "we are coming out of this effort with a stronger democratic organization and more engaged supporters and volunteers." mitt romney released a statement saying the results will echo beyond the borders of wisconsin. >> we're looking into the results last night. we'd also acknowledge that it's now competitive in wisconsin the key for governor romney to be competitive enough to win is i think he's got to lay out a clear platform, something similar to what our friend paul ryan has done just down the way. >> and mayor tom barrett literally got slapped by a woman who thought he conceded too early. but does this election deliver another kind of blow that's felt around the country? i want to bring in major garrett and eric, writer for salon.com.

what's your take away, major? >> if you're a democrat, the best thing can you say about the wisconsin result is, yes, you have an organization that was mobilized and you forced republicans to spend a ton of money that they can't spend again and that's the best thing can you say. you've enlivened your organization and forced republicans to spend a lot of money but you lost. you lost largely and it wasn't close and the governor and the issue you sought to check and remove from office and erase that issue from the national republican conversation meaning pension reform a pension reallocation is stronger than it was. so on those terms democrats have lost. >> alex, what's your takeaway? >> i think unequivocally a loss for democrats. very hard to look at it any other way. i think the biggest problem will be going forward in the big picture, a one-two punch to the democratic infrastructure. this will be used to argue the public doesn't support unions,

which has been a financial back bone of the democratic party and on the other hand this has been a test case that has proven post united super pacs can come into a race and trump on-the-ground organizations with huge ad buys. >> there were exit polls, let's look at what they might mean. richard breaks them down for us. good morning. >> good morning, chris. there is reason for democrats to be optimistic, even after a loss in wisconsin. digging into nbc news exit polls, it shows president obama with an apparent lead over governor romney 51% to 44%. no surprising, voters for democrat tom barrett overwhelmingly preferred obama in 2012. but supporters of scott walker chose romney 76 to 17%.

that tipped the poll for the president. as for how the union vote played in the outcome, first, what might have been expected, given the die dee bait over collective bargaining, households turned out 33% this year, 26% in 2010. now, what might not have been, as we move forward, expected, 2010. democrat barrett won 63% of union voters then, walker 37%. two years later, 2012 what we're looking at right now despite more union voters at the polls and despite unions losing bargaining rights with the state, the union vote pulled almost exactly the same. barrett losing only one percentage point and walker picking up one in these results. what helped make the difference for walker was the non-union vote. he walked away, chris, with almost ten percentage points more this time around. >> thank you so much. so, major garrett, when you look

at these numbers and so much was made of the fact that this was going to be a harbinger for the fall, is the news not as bad as the white house might have expected? >> look, what you know today that we suspected all last week is the white house saw this coming and the president wasn't going to get anywhere near what he thought would be a tom barrett loss of substantial margins. the white house calculations on that were absolutely correct. the president would have been foolish to go to wisconsin and therefore own a part of this lopsided loss for tom barrett. on that score the white house made the right political gesture, meaning no gesture at all or maybe just a tweet in support the tom barrett. the president won wisconsin by 14, he crushed senator hillary clinton in the primary, wisconsin was a very enthusiastic state for president obama or candidate obama in 2008. that enthusiasm has waned considerably at 51. that's better than underneath 50 but it's right at that mark that is uncomfortable for an

incumbent generally speaking and romney's conversation with wisconsin voters is only going to accelerate whereas the president's conversation with wisconsin has been going on for quite some time. yes, the president is up and some of scott walker's voters are likely to vote for president obama but the white house needs to puts more effort in wisconsin, which is something they were not planning to do. >> let me bring in the president of the national educational association, the nation's largest. >> good to be here. >> what do you think happened last night? why couldn't he pull it off? >> i think there are three things that are very important that happened in wisconsin last night. number one, there is now a balance of power. john layman winning the senate seat in district 21 is very important because now there will be a balance of power. number two, i think i pointed

out the danger of the supreme court decision on citizens united. it shows that unlimited corporate funds can really make a difference in the corporate -- or in the electoral process, especially when 75% came from out of state. >> let me stop you there. i'll let you get your third point in but i want to play for you what the head of the republican governor's association said about these charges that essentially this election was bought by outside money. >> that's laughable. i never heard that argument back in 2008 when president obama had twice as much money as the republicans, that it was money. but, yes, money is part of being able to launch a successful campaign and people across wisconsin and across the country invested because they thought his ideas were right. >> how would you respond to that? >> two things. number one, those who think the labor unions somehow suffered a large defeat, i think they forgot what happened in ohio when the same policies were turned do 2-1 by a vote of the

people. this is about ground game. there were 50,000 volunteers, 1.5 million doors knocked on to talk to individual people, 1.5 million phone calls. yes, money does make a difference but we're going to have to figure out a way where the average citizen can combat that incredible amount of money from just a few wealthy individuals. >> let me allow you now to make your third point, which is why do you think it wasn't so bad for the democrats last night? >> my third point again is what happened in ohio. recall elections are very difficult. they happen very seldom. but when it comes to the policies of these governors where they want to shut down the voice of the middle class, they want to silence the voice and say you don't have a way of contributing to the debate in the state, i think that question is still very open. and i think as we move toward the november election of 2012, the average every day citizen is going to speak up. >> we should make the point that there are differences obviously between wisconsin, which was a recall, and ohio, which was a

ballot initiative. i also thought, dennis, there were some interesting numbers, that it did seem to me that when you look at these exit polls, more than half approved of the changes to collective bargaining. so i'm wondering if you think if unions are fighting an image at a time when so much is being cut that one of the biggest costs to states is pension and benefits. >> well, in wisconsin specifically the union said they're willing to pay their fair share. they agreed to increase in costs to health care, agreed to increased cost of their pension they would bear. but that wasn't the issue. governor walker wanted to silence the voice of middle-class workers. i think union and nonunion members&the voice of the average work are has to be heard. if we leave it to the 1%, that voice will be silenced forever. >> major garrett has a question

he'd like to post to you. >> one thing that strikes me is governor walker's approach in wisconsin was more partisan than what governor kasich did in ohio. governor kasich hit all the republican backing organizations within the labor movement and that's what coalesced to create the defeat for governor kasich's reforms, or what he called reforms in ohio and what governor walker did was much more one sided and that may intensify a partisan approach to these pension issues. i wonder if our guest worries about that, too. >> well, it was very obviously a divide and conquer strategy by governor walker. union and nonunion families have to come together to understand that benefits were never given and never given by benevolent

ceos. as we move toward the 2012 election in november, i believe more and more people will realize if we don't have that voice, that 1% will control our entire life. >> do you think that -- and maybe we should just look at wisconsin because obviously this is where so much heart and effort went into this, dennis, but do you think that this race has psychological implications in november? and also, you have to look at what happened in san jose and san diego where voters approved measures to cut retirement benefits. what about that psychological effect? winner, loser? >> obviously we win in a winner/loser society. people play that up all the time. it comes to two different visions of for america. fdr would say whether we want to add more to the abundance of those who have enough or add more to those who don't have enough.

that's the question for america. we have to lift up all americans. it can't just be the wealthiest few that benefit. it's a very clear choice in 2012 and we will do our best to make sure there is a clear distinction of those two visions and support the one that we believe is important, public educati education, the opportunity for all. >> dennis, it's great to have you on the program. thank you so much. alex, we can talk one thing about wisconsin and it maybe being back in play but there's another question about whether or not it's going to give some other republican governors the mojo to do the same thing, despite the fact it didn't work in ohio, maybe for the reasons major pointed out. could it have those implications? >> democrats are saying it won't. they're arguing no governor would want to go through what scott walker went through. i think a young, a governor looking to make a name for himself will look at walker who

will emerge from this stronger than ever as a national republican and be canonized as walker, the union slayer and they might want to do that themselves, even if it hurts them legislatively in the short term. mitt romney is coming out saying the public is on their side on this issue of unions. >> major, to pick up on another point from dennis, which is that this is about super pacs and the money that they spend, i thought it was also fascinating if you looked at the polls that nine out of ten people said they had made their minds up in may. it's impossible to get into everybody's psyche but i'm wondering if we're overstating how much of a role money played or is it impossible given the fact that virtually all the commercials on local television, drive-time radio were about the election, can you discount that? >> i don't think you can

discount it. money does really matter. and the republican ground game was very good and they would argue, republicans would and i've talked to many in wisconsin, much better than the democratic ground game and their muscles are fully energized for the november campaign, they intend to make wisconsin competitive. money fueled part of that organization. chris, as you know, and we all know, money can't solve all those issues. money on television can't create an organization if people don't want to go out, make phone calls, knock on doors, do all of that nonglamorous grunt work of politics. and the republicans did it to substantial numbers and to good effect. that's an important takeaway from this. i think as far as the money, i think it was insurance money. the donors wanted to make sure the donors they persuaded they kept persuaded and engaged and if they allowed the media market to be dominated by the barrett message, they would not have the

support they wanted. >> thanks, gentlemen. it appears the controversial measure to raise the cigarette tax in california has been defeated. the associated press reports it was close, 51% to 49% to not raise taxes. prop 29 would have added $1 to the price of cigarettes with similar hikes on other tobacco products. the money would have been used for cancer research. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ power surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8.

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way to the intrepid air, seas and space museum. >> nearly $63 million was spent in wisconsin. half of that from out of state super pacs. liberals say that special interest money bought the election. take a look at some of the tweets. >> michael moore writes, wisconsin with dollar signs. >> good morning, chris. >> did outside money buy this election for walker? >> there are two factors that contributed to the outcome. first of all, i think the unions

badly overreached. 60% of the voters said they felt the recall election was inappropriate from the beginning and you have to give a huge amount of credit to scott walker, both as a governor and as a superb candidate who made the case that his reforms worked and they delivered the results he promised and that's why i think the voters decided to stick with him. >> there also i think was a little bit of a sense of fatigue. watching television last night and seeing the reaction of voters, whatever side they were on, they couldn't wait for it to be over because of the deluge of ads. looking ahead to november and i can tell you having family in ohio, they're already feeling it. are you concerned about a backlash from voters who have been bombarded more than ever before and earlier than ever before? >> i do think you have to be very careful about the tonality and how you can't with voters. i think the unions made this mistake, assuming every voters shares their intense passion on every issue they're advocating

on. >> would you say your ads don't have intense passion to them? isn't that sort of what define as good ad? >> i think a good ad communicates to people on their wave length, reaches the issues they care about and explains why the point of view you're advocating resonates with them. the unions assumed that everybody who had the same view this ought to be a big grudge match against governor walker and americans didn't buy that. >> crossroads has launched a $7 million ad by targeting president obama over national debt. this is running in key swing states. let me play a little clip from that. >> why isn't the economy stronger? in the seconds it takes to watch, this our national debt will increase 1.4 million. now he's adding 4 billion in debt every day, borrowing from china for his spending, every second growing our debt faster than our economy. tell obama stop the spending. >> that also leaves out the national debt climbed by 86% during the bush years.

is that a little bit misleading? isn't there plenty of blame to go around? >> i think the concern people have about president obama is he came into office saying he was going to reverse that trend and instepp instead he stepped on the pedal and shows no sign of stopping it. this is an ad that is an issue a lot of people care. -- care about. >> we talked about wisconsin before and i think a lot of people are looking at this rightly or wrongly to see where we're going into november. i'm very curious if you can give us a sense of how you're going to spend your money in terms of advertising versus ground game, where you think this election is going to be won and lost. >> i think you have to do some of both. one of the other key players in this election in wisconsin was the rnc, reince priebus was on

the ground as well. i think on the republican side there was coordination of outside groups. there are certain people we can talk to and certain people we can't and the people who can talk amongst each other on the outside did a very, very good job of dividing up the activities and the functions that need to be covered. i think you'll see a lot more of that again with groups on the right, groups like american crossroads reaching out to other groups and making sure we don't waste resources. >> you have to also say the labor unions did get out more voters than they did two years ago so their outreach worked as well. will it come down to which side is able to close the enthusiasm gap we've heard talked about so much over the last several months? >> i think it's both and. the unions are the ultimate voter turnout machine, they do it for the democratic party for free, though they expect a lot in return for it. and the rnc will be doing a

spectacular job of turning people out but you have to focus on people in the middle. i think that's what the group that the unions lost sight of in wisconsin, i think the president may be losing sight of them, too, these are people in the middle who are looking for practical solutions out of washington and out of the government, they don't want ideology, don't want drama, they just want results. that's what scott walker was able to communicate about what he was delivering and that's why i think he won. >> steven law, thank you so much. >> thank you, chris. >> and the money rate heating up. we've got that next. ♪ the one and only, cheerios [ male announcer ] imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life

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dallas businessman ray washburne promised if romney doesn't hit $15 million, he'll write a check for the balance. >> the web sight gawker claims someone has hacked into romney's e-mail, breaching the security question by guessing the name of his favorite pet. saying "the proper authorities are investigating this crime and we'll have no further comment on it." sarah palin weighing in on last night's wisconsin recall election. >> i think that the democrats there understand that the president's no-show represents the fact that obama's goose is cooked. >> never a dull moment at a town hall meeting for republican congressman alan west. a squabble broke out because protesters interrupted the meeting and took things into the hallway. that wasn't the worst of it. it came after the other woman said something we can't put on the air. if you read only one thing this morning, check out this piece in "the huffington post," one

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new controversy today involving, yes, bill clinton. in an interview with cnbc, clinton seemed to differ with the president on extending the bush tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year. >> i don't have any problem with extending all of it now, including the current spending level, but the real issue is not whether they should be extended for another few months. the real issue is whether the price the republican house will put on that extension is the permanent extension of the tax cuts, which i think is an error. >> well, president obama only wants to extend the tax cuts for the middle class and not the wealthy. so clinton's camp later tried to

clarify his comments by issuing his statement. part of it reads "as president clinton has said many times before he supported extending all of the tax cuts in 2010 as part of the budget agreements but does not believe the tax cults for the wealthiest americans should be extended again." republicans wasted no time jumping on clinton's comments, this just moments ago. >> even bill clinton came out for it, before he was against it. and then larry summers, the president's former economic adviser came out in favor of this. we believe it's time to extend all of the current tax rates because it really will provide certainty for american job creators. >> i'm joined by republican strategist and msnbc contributor susan del persio. this is the first time president clinton called the record of mitt romney sterling. now he's talking about a tax cut

plan that is not on the same page it would seem as barack obama. you're disagreeing? >> no, i think that president clinton is a rhodes scholar who knows exactly what it is that he's doing. >> and what is he doing? >> i don't know if i've heard this before but it's very rare you'll find three consecutive terms of a party in office. so barack obama wins again, is it likely that hillary would win the third term for a democrat? >> you're suggesting that former president clinton is sabotaging barack obama? >> i would say he's a rhodes scholar who knows exactly what he's doing and what he's saying. i don't think it's a oops moment, he knows exactly what he's saying. it's easier for hillary to come after a failed campaign.

>> i think if it's proof at looking at hillary clinton's campaign, that caused his own wife some trouble with what he came out with back in '08. president clinton needs to say i should get on the obama team or not. >> he's had four years to get on this team. he clearly knows what the policies are. why make these misstatements on television when you know what the president -- >> i don't disagree. when you run a tough race against somebody, you don't forget what was said about you and your spouse. >> and yet there does seem to be a little bit of a -- maybe it's a frenemy but it's an embrace by the obama team. is it because they need the money that clinton can raise? it's not as if they've said go away. >> well, bill clinton offers -- you know, he's still very well loved. i always contended had he had an opportunity to run again -- >> it's interesting in this campaign how much the republicans seem to love him who frengly couldn't stand him while

he was in office and wanted to impeach him. >> you always like something after the fact. he has that cache. it seems like he's being super honest and there's something endearing about that. americans have short memories, we're very fickled. >> he needs to have his credibility mean something. if he doesn't waver from it, it loses -- >> you don't think he's looking forward to 2014? >> i don't think he's actively trying to sabotage president obama at this point. i just don't. >> during an interview with brian williams, clinton about "clinton is out of control on 2012," simon's political column. >> mr. simon may think i should be an employee of the campaign

but i'm not. i've by aghast by all this flutter about it. i don't think i should have to criticize romney personally to disagree with his politics. >> karen? >> sounds great. >> you don't believe it? >> i just find it kind of incredible that a man that has so much thought -- he's a political junkie in many ways and he understands history, that he would make these gaffs, seeming gaffes that are hurting the president. you say you want to get him elected but you're saying these things the republican is using as fodder. >> i think he has such an ego on him, he believes all the hype -- >> it helped pascrell yesterday in new jersey. >> there's another one. he came out and actively campaigned for someone who said that president obama campaigned for him. >> he thinks he knows better than chicago. he think he's know what is a

better strategy is to reelect the president than they do in chicago. >> i can't believe these words are coming out of my mouth. is he the donald trump on the democratic side? >> no, no! >> the uncontrollable? >> no, no, not -- >> i knew i could get you to finally at least -- >> agree? >> yeah. >> it is an interesting conversation. i'm a little surprised i have to say, karen hunter, susan d del percio. thank you very much. there is another high profile surrogate for president obama and that is his wife. the first lady has been out promoting her first ever book "american grown." it a story about the white house kitchen garden. she also appeared on letterman's top ten last night. >> number one fun tact about gardening. >> with enough care and effort, you can grow your own barakoli. >> look at this. >> i'm joined by kelly wallace,

chief correspondent with ivillage. you were there sitting at a picnic table with the first lady yesterday, which had to be cool. is this part of her let's get healthy outreach or is it also about let's get the women's vote? >> it's both. and even months ago actually when the first lady was doing her let's move tour, her second anniversary of the tour, one of the reporters even asked her is let's move almost a two-fer in a way, can you go out and talk about an issue important to the american people, combatting childhood obesity -- >> and we're not suggesting she doesn't feel passionately. >> and at the same time help your husband and she admitted, yes, she is helping her husband. six reporters from online women's sites, mainly talking about the book, is about talking about the book, is about talking about let's move. we all know everything is in this political lens right now. so the more she is out there, talking about her family, her girls, it humanizes the president, it humanizes the

first family and helps with independent women. >> i'm guessing she didn't serve you beef stroganoff for lunch or anything like that. >> no, we had some apples and honey, from the bee hive. >> one of the more surprising things i found from your interview, she thinks -- everything is looked at in-from-a political lens -- she thinks this has brought her family closer together. i can remember with laura bush, her telling me she had gone to hillary clinton and said how do you navigate this? for these moms, this is a very real concern. apparent lip she seems to think it working out for her. >> she had that quote, she said the president and i work, quote, above the store. they do. they live above the store so they can be with the kid at 6:30 every night, which she said is really important. she said they never did this when they were campaigning and traveling. she said it's a really important

time for the girls to say "sane." she said we're constantly making sure they're the same girls that they were at the white house. they're constantly asking friends are the girls the same? they say they are. they seem to be having normal lives for a 14-year-old and 10-year-old. >> kelly wallace is going to cook something for us. >> cauliflower -- >> mac and cheese. i'm trying it with my kid. >> i'll eat that. >> we've been showing you the enterprise, the shuttle that's been going down the hudson river. of course now they've changed the shot. i'm told it was just in the shadow of the statue of liberty, on top a barge headed for its new very public role. there's the statue of lady liberty. it's going to the intrepid air museum later today. it's going to get ready for visitors, including the little nick in the left wing as it got

hit yesterday making its way from j.f.k. very cool pictures there. and despite recent signs of trouble, we're happy to have hopeful word. mandy drury is here with "your money." >> warren buffett says the u.s. economy is not likely to slip back into a recession but he points the fipgers at both political parties for the failure to reduce deficit. he said he would raise taxes and cut spending. he also warned the outcome for the u.s. economy could change for the worse if the effects of europe's financial crisis were to spill over in a big way. and the jury is still out on that one. >> i learned this morning how many people on my team were at least at one time addicted to "happy days." we're talking about it because there's a lawsuit by cast

members, flight. >> right. a judge ruled several former members of "happy days" can argue they were owed royalties for dvd sales. now cbs studios and paramount pictures sought to have their claim dismissed arguing the group was properly paid. we did reach out to cbs and paramount for reaction. so far no comment. and henry winkler and ron howard, they are not parties to the lawsuit. and by the way, chris, i want to tell you the producer asked me before this segment do we have "happy days" in this trailer growing up? i said we absolutely did but it was forbidden in my house because my mother said all american tv is evil and here i am on american tv. >> it's worked out. >> the ultimate irony. >> in these days of record spending on political campaigns, we thought you'd find this interesting. in wisconsin where almost $63

million was spent on the governor's recall, that amounts to about $25.16 per vote, although republicans spent about seven times what democrats did in this recall. now, in texas the congressional candidate outspent every opponent in his race. he spent $2.6 million, can you believe it, $2,276.78 per vote and a fourth place finish.

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habits as just another place where they can say to advertisers, hey, look, we've got this revenue stream, we've got a place where we can pretty much guarantee to you where you can sell your products and we have to make sure it's not just an exploitation of children, especially those 12 and under. >> facebook has said, look, already there are a lot of kids and they think it's probably 7.5 million who are under 13 who are already using facebook. you go in and you say you're older than you are. so facebook put out this statement: "many recent properties have highlighted just how difficult it is to enforce age restrictions on the internet, especially when parents want their children to access online content and services. they say this helps link those

facebook accounts of those kids to their parents so it's actually better. what do you think needs to be done if the reality is that kids under 13 are going to facebook? >> look, i'm the author of the child online privacy act of 1998. that covers children 12 and under. what they're saying is they're going to start to cooperate better with the parents in terms of providing information. but the truth is that my law in 1998 was in the bf era, the before facebook era. we have to make sure that youtube doesn't turn into youtrack. we have to make sure there's a law on the books that says you cannot market to children, that you cannot exploit their vulnerability as a market. and so far facebook is saying that they oppose any new laws that would give rights to parents, especially who could say i want my entire child's account erased. i want it deleted. i want my kid to have the right

to grow up. i want my kid to have the right to mature. i want it erased. so far facebook is saying they will not do that. so, again, it's in a climate where facebook's valuation is dropping, they're trying to ensure people they have a market going forward in the future, the tobacco industry has to target 14, 13, 12-year-olds, the obesity industry, those that want to market fructose, they have to target young kids to get them in the habit by the time they're older. so we just have to police this because so far there's been a great insensitivity which facebook has shown to adults' privacy and we should cast an arched eyebrow towards what they're saying about children. >> what's your next step? >> my next step along with joe barton, a conservative republican from texas and i'm a liberal from boston, we need to

give parents legal rights they can use to enforce against facebook and other sites across the web as well. it's not big brother, it's big mother and big father that have legal rights to exercise to protect their children from being exploited by ads, by revenue generated sources that facebook needs to provide as assurance to their shareholders that they do not have a role in the mobile world. as they're moving to the mobile devices, there's a real concern that facebook has that its ad revenues are going to start to shrink and i'm afraid the children just might be a marketplace they try to exploit and their opposition to any legislation that gives legal rights to parents and children is pretty much an insight into the environment within which we're working right now with that company and others like them. >> congressman ed markey, always great to see you. >> thank you for having me on. [ male announcer ] if paula ebert had her way,

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