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business goes to a halt but they find a way to push the anti union bill through anyway. the recall el linection once ag pits walker against tom barrett. they ran against each other in november 2010. governor walker is not the only one with a job on the line. clay fish also facing a recall. >> i am the first lieutenant governor in national history to face a recall. i will be the first in national history to be elected twice in my furs term. >>> she is up against the president of the professional firefighters. >> governor walker's policies. we need someone there not just with a rubber stamp but who will fight for the middle class citizens of our state. >> for the next hour we will go behind the scenes of the wisconsin election recall. you will hear from all four candidates you will meet the tea partyers who traveled if aer and wide to get their voices heard. democratic minority leader peter barca who is here to energize. the wisconsin battle how it will impact the presidential election. and we will tell you why one person thinks it is the second most important election of

most incredible is that these workers aren't being forced to like attend these captive audience anti-union meetings on you know general dynamics property to be on the u.s. army base force lou taxpayers fund that we're taxpayers for that's so interesting and the union is asked if they could come in and have equal time on the army base in they've said no well i know general dynamics said they just want their employees to have all the facts here they want them to see all sides here but they're not having people come in. and actually what this is we take care of our employees as with the we take care of them so we make them go to these propaganda sessions just to make sure that. michael let's break this down what's at the heart of the matter here you know general dynamics is a pretty successful company they made a measly thirty three billion dollars in revenue last year what does this actually about it's about power at the end of the day is that these guys are going to make that much more money but the general dynamics of the corporate mindset is that they don't want somebody else telling them

unions nationwide. florida governor rick scott had this to stay about his own anti-labor laws. >> governor walker had a win last night. we're doing the right thing here here. >> mitt romney even claimed it proves union members will vote for him in the fall telling private donors today the union members will support us. we wouldn't have scott walker winning wisconsin if that weren't the case. in fact, exit polls showed walker did win nearly four in ten union households. walker vilified existing unions and that played on the tension between the public and private sector unions. union membership has seen a steady decline private unions have been hit particularly hard while public-sector unions have seen some growth. now my point. it can serve as a wake-up call for the american labor union and the democratic party. on the show we often lament on the decline of the middle class. that is directly related to the loss of union membership. fewer union members means less benefits, less salaries for american workers, period. the question we now face is how does the labor movement move forward especially after last

scott walker testified last year from a congress that there was little financial gain passing the anti-union build in wisconsin we all know we've all seen the math it's not public workers high pensions that they crashed the economy it's the crap that was going on wall street although we're not wrong. for these are two different questions it's not what you want to hear not what it would trigger you don't want to go for a good punch i don't think that we can afford defined benefit pensions for public sector workers who make on average more than their counterparts in the issues in the us that he's not only what i would say if you want to include when you include skill level if you actually look at the job classifications that makes and if we if you if you count if you count these sort of self gilding qualifications yes but if you. were talking about college education i mean get out the methodology let's not get into that this is a debate i mean in the sense of what it was it's happening really all across the country and wisconsin is just one example of that right now you have a lot of other sta

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this anti-union agenda spread from wisconsin.ust look the at the number of anti-union bills passed last year across the country. this is not a state election. this is a national plan attack on the middle class. it is backed by millions of corporate dollars and is coming to a state near you. the fight is only beginning. joining me now is senator bernie sanders ever vermont. thank you for joining me. >> my pleasure. >> senator, how big a deal will this be for corporate interest groups if scott walker wins tonight? >> well, it'll be huge, al. as you've indicated, this is really the tip of the iceberg. what is going on now, is class warfare to an unprecedented degree is being waged against the middle class and working families of this country. and what the disastrous supreme court citizen's united decision did is just open the door wide open, flood gate wide open, for corporations and billion airs to take over our democracy to spend as much money as they want without disclosure on campaigns throughout america in order to elect right

>> they're the anti-union employee and-- >> and that's such a-- >> another thing i want to say, look,general, the one thing unemployed have going for them is their relative low cost compared to union labor and as the work of employers too hire somebody and part-time worker, it doesn't get hired and harder to hire, in fact, if there's an organization, and the unemployed were in a union they might get hired even faster. >> i'm going to take this and block that answer. >> part of the union idea, gary b, they'll be connected on social sites and they can share word of mouth, you know, here say about job openings or different ideas? and sounds like some benefit to it. >> lori, in all due respect to you, doesn't it sound like some sort of "monty python" skit or something? should be on "saturday night live," we're unionizing the unemployment, as a threat we're going to not work. okay. and how are we going to pay the union dues? (laughter) >> toby had it right and even larry summers worked in the obama administration, unionization leads to higher unemployment rate. first of all, it's silly, bu

john, while you are right about the balloting the anti-union legislation you're talking about passedast year on a pure party line vote. democrats were so mad about it they actually left town to try to keep the state senate from having enough members to go into session and pass that law. so after an angry and passive and expensive campaign it does not surprise me at all that no matter who won and who lost few are ready to kiss and make up when it's all done. meantime over on the wusa9 facebook page we're already getting reaction into reports d.c. council chairman kwame brown is about to resign and plead guilty to felony bank fraud. samuel shanks says they need to get the rest of them crooks on the council. i'm still wondering how jim graham avoided being fully implicated in that taxicab scheme. well, samuel it, could be that graham was innocent, you know. that's something you might have to actually consider. however, there is eric mcglocklin who brings us an interesting question. what will happen to those suv leases? nothing as far as i know, but the whole situation is a plan embarras

they care about the momentum that could be built here in wisconsin one way or another, pro or anti-unions battle and the overall war. >> so this argument over the collective bargaining rights of union members is what's going to spill over they're suggesting to the november elections? >> reporter: well, one thing we should keep in mind, if walker loses his job, he's all right created the law here. he's changed the game. a new governor can't change it. they don't have the majority in the house or the senate here. so just changing the governor is more of a message that they want to send to other states and basically that message would be don't try to do what you did in wisconsin or you could lose your job if you're the governor. >> and they've had some big political powerhouses come through in support of both, right? >> reporter: absolutely. bill clinton was here over the weekend, bobby jindal, governor christie was here. we talked with governor walker after an event with jindal from louisiana. this comes back to the point this isn't all about wisconsin. it is for the folks in wisconsin and

. >> cenk: dean, they've been putting this anti-union message out for three decades now. if the election came down to the unions, it looks like you lose. >> i think it is. it's not boding well for unions. i don't think they're dead. i don't think they're going to get any more twitter followers in the near future. it's a tough time. but look what they did in the state of wisconsin. they got over 900,000 signatures for a recall election. they caused walk for spend $30 million maybe even $40 million depending on the final numbers. it is sending a message to the governors in other states who want to get rid of collective bargaining, this is what could happen. in ohio they repealed a law that banned collective bargaining for the unions. it's not bad but they're not growing, let's be honest. >> cenk: yes, right, i think if walker got any message at all it's full steam ahead. the union tried to stop him and they couldn't do it. i don't know if the unions are going to figure out hey we can't outspent the corporations. they always beat us. >> it's a long way till november. i think

and probably more meaningful in a practical sense was that reagan appointed the first blatantly anti union leader for the national labor relations board no republican before him it ever done nobody had been quite so so. strongly opposed to. labor labor rights you know to remember back in at the time of the treaty of detroit in the early fifty's i have a quote my. from a president of the chamber of commerce it sounds like if you saw it today you would say oh that's a union leader who's saying that he was talking about what an important and necessary part of the economy labor unions were you would never catch the chamber of commerce saying that today well there was a variation on that in two eisenhower's letter to his brother edgar in one hundred fifty four he was talking about if anybody should try to do away with these things i don't recall if you mention ization but he talked about social security and farm programs and things like that he said you know but there's these few oil men down in texas they're small and they're stupid. so the so the peak the collapse i guess just follow the taft

agenda at the state level notably where it tends to her workers it's back to governor case which is anti-union bill in ohio the one that was rejected in a referendum it's also fought paid sick leave in connecticut and minimum wage increases in new york and then last but not least there is a little known group the already closely mimics alec out that makes alec out there it's called the state policy network a free market think tank the took in just under five million in two thousand and ten now despite its relatively small budget the s.p.n. is spread across all fifty states and claims to be building a permanent freedom majority that's kind of surprising as pianos work closely with a fact made glaringly obvious when reading organization state fiscal policy exchanges see if latest addition contained a tax on education spending in nevada taxes on the wealthy in maryland and public transportation in washington state so i'm i already have the model down pat it also has a few accomplishments under the belt like the emergency managers a law in michigan that allows the governor to take over in a simple

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the other thing about the blue man group, anti-union. they fired somebody who was trying to organize in vegas. >> now i like them. you convinced me that it is the greatest -- it is possible that they are into yes. we don't know. >> that's a great example of how public schools are. people will spend $32,000 to send their kids to a blue man group school because when they remember their school years they remember watching and going, you know it is quarter past now. next is 20 and then 25. i don't want my kids going to that. send them to the blue man group. >> wait until they grow up and get a job. >> yeah. i was going to go to a deep, dark place. do you have a comment? e-mail us at red eye at fox news.com. to leave a voice moil 212-460-5050. >> tonight's half time report is sponsored -- by soapbox derbies. thanks soapbox derby. >>> let's find out if we got anything wrong so far. hi, andy. >> hi, greg, how are you? >> i'm okay. >> had to crank up the old volume knob there. >> what happened? >> i needed more volume. >> glad i asked. >> figure

. >>> they are drawing national attention as the bell weathers of anti union sentiment. san diego and san jose has heavy democratic registration overwhelmingly changing measures. they approved the plan to change the state's term limits laws cutting the tenure of big legislatures from 14 to 12 years. >>> a wildfire is the largest in the nation. it's one of several fires burning across the region right now. brand new video shows one fire in new mexico santa fe national forest moving dangerously close to the arizona border. u.s. forest officials acknowledge the need to upgrade the nation's firefighting fleet. this after one plane made a crash landing in nevada. the other going down in utah left two pilots dead. >>> nancy reagan sitting at a memorial in california after placing flowers at his grave. she does this every year. president reagan died aftin 200 after a 10 year battle with alzheimer's disease. those are your 5 at 5 cloak. >> wisconsin governor scott walker mauking histo-- making h night. he was the first to survive a recall election. more on this historic outcome.

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so maybe the vote is not this mandate on collective bargaining or anti-union and more straight down thedle about did the guy do something illegal? >> to that point, we've had recall fever in this country. in 2011 there were 155 instances of recalls on local races. so i do think that there's generally a rejection of this. i think it's pretty healthy. they're not only expensive, but they're destabilizing our democracy and relitigating the election results you don't like. that clearly was a part of this. but the fact that walker won with more votes than he did in 2010 also speaks to a certain strength. then, of course, the money differential, you can't discount that. >> roland, what do the democrats take away from that. san jose cut its workforce by 25%. they had done all sorts of things. at a human level hurt a lot of people's lives because they didn't want to mess with pension promises but they voted to go ahead and cut those promises. this seems to be something that is bipartisan, isn't it? >> first of all, when you have a difficult economic time, the public is going to look to anybody

i really believe, after watching what walker did, and i'm not talking about that issue, i'm not anti-unionhat showed you that if you got the guts to do something, people will back you up. and i think between november 6 and december 3 1st you will find the guys that can do it, but hopefully before guys will say i'm not here to lie to you anymore and tell you we can get this done without touching precious medicare, medicaid, and national defense. >> if we see all of this stuff expiring will we have a market reaction? what are the implications? >> all i know is the money guys will take care of themselves. if the rating agencies will change our rating, that won't make any difference. it will be when the people that loan us the money say we want more money for the money because you have a dysfunctional government. >> thank you allen simpson. >> always a pleasure. >> you have his love his candor in and out of congress. they can say whatever they feel and want, which is as it should be. the dow is up 102 points as we ahead to the close with 24 minutes left here. >> we have top strategist that wil

. >> but walker is doubling down on his anti-union agenda. ampaigned with nicky halely who last week called herself a union buster. yes, they are peas in a pod. walker is refusing to say if he would support so called right to work bills that would cut unions even more. at a debate last night, barrett went on the offense against walker. >> people have asked you point brank would you v blank veto a -- >> you have to be against unions. you have to be in favor of right to work where unions don't exist. he would fall from the race with the far right if he said he would veto that so he can't say it. then he would no longer be the poster boy of the tea party. if that bill hits his desk, he is signing it. i'll say it right here in front of the state of wisconsin. >> joining me now for an exclusive interview is the man of the hour, milwaukee mayor and democratic candidate for governor in wisconsin, tom barrett. >> what's the key for you to win on tuesday? >> well, this is it, this is all about getting people out to vote. i can tell you in our overnight

walker acknowledged that he kept his anti-union agenda a secret from voters. at that same hearing, walker was also forced to admit that busting unions had nothing to do with fixing the budget. >> can you please explain to me and members of this committee how much money this provision saved for your state budget. >> we gave workers the right too choose, a fundamental american right, the right to choose if they want to be in a union. >> how much money does it save? >> it doesn't save any. >> that's the point. >> this was never about budgets. it was never about saving money. it was about attacking unions. it was about crippling the democratic base. and voters in wisconsin didn't stand for it. at the beginning of this year, they filed more than a million signatures to force a recall election to get walker out of office. last month, tom barrett won a tough primary to become his democratic opponent. now barrett is in striking distance. he is just three points behind overall, and barrett is head among independents. now it's about passion and getting folks out to the p

it's become anti union. in other words, the wages have gone down, the costs up like the rest of the country the marketing costs have gone up. television has driven the movie business because it cost oh so much to put an ad on television. everything goes in the marketing direction, but the actual coast of the real labor of makingle movie that pretty much stayed the same as in the labor market. it's not a pretty situation for a young person coming into it. >> i imagine. >> over the years, media has evolved or from your perspective devolved. what's your perspective of the noose. >> i get better news onal jazeera or russian television. not everyone has self interest, but french news and british news to some degree is far more sophisticated, but even so, i don't know that you can get really what's happening in a 30 to 60 minute span. i think there needs to be real analysis. it's not a headline. it's just not a headline. >> without getting too political, what's the state of american politics i don't mean your pers

- -- well, not anti-union guy but the guy who can stand up against the unions is definitely governor walker. >> our wednesday political power panel, thanks to all three of you this morning. joeing me j joining me is bo biden. what is your take on the recall results there? >> my take on the recall results is when you have $31 million spent to $4 million that it's not surprising that the outcome is a repeat of the election in 2010 with where as your panelist just said it didn't move the needle one iota. that's how i read it, when you're outspent with that large of a number, it's tough to compete with that. >> so your dad, the vice president back on the campaign trail today, he's appearing this hour in north carolina to talk about jobs and talk about the middle class. your dad accepts the name of middle class joe. does the campaign need more of him than ever after last night's results to be able to connect with middle america, remind them what's at stake and what's important in the upcoming november election? >> well, look, i think the vice president or president in the campaig

today walker said his anti union reforms still protect public safety and education and that those jobs not what he considers big government. >>> ohio senator rob port man is down playing speculation that he is on the short list to become romney's vice president candidate. yesterday he helped open romney's high lie campaign headquarters, he wouldn't comment and said the choice is up to the campaign. as in 2008 ohio is a critical state in the election. no republican has ever won without it. >>> this week in arizona a special election will be held to fill the seat of gabreille giffords, she resigned in january to focus on recovering after being shot last year during a citizen's meeting. this tuesdaye election is expected to be closed. jessie kelley who barely lost to her in 2010 is running against ron barber a former aide. democrats need to gain 25 seats in novato regain control of the house. >> still to come, health concerns for a former world leader. >>> and a party nearly ends in gun fire. what we are learning about the victims. >> and then helicopter crash kills a high ranking politic