with more on this issue is one of those wisconsin democrats who are taking a stand state senator chris larsen senator welcome to the program. thank you so much for having me he associated press is reporting that e-mails released by scott walker's office indicate he may be willing to. partially compromise expanding slightly the number of areas where he'll allow collective bargaining do you first of all do you know about this and secondly whether you do or not it would you interpret this is an attempt by him just to flip the news cycle to his benefit i mean his office did release these things or might something come out of this yeah i think he's just trying to distract from the greater story here and that's that he's still attacking worker rights and the fact is we put the solutions for we've put other solutions forward and what he's pointing at right now are the beginning of discussions they're not necessarily negotiations we asked him to have negotiations which with that letter yesterday saying ok you know let's vote start making these more formal he said of doing that he used the letter as a

also undermines our democracy for more of this i'm joined by one of those democratic senators chris larsen chris welcome to the program. thank you for having me great to have you with us did the republicans in wisconsin just undo fifty years of labor rights as one of your colleagues. exactly and unfortunately did it in a very short time frame this is something where they have the opportunity to hear the people the people tried to be trying to speak out and unfortunately they decided they were just going to shut them out time and time again and what we saw yesterday was a move where in just a couple of hours just two hours they gave notice before the public for the public to actually reacted what happened was they just jam this bill through they took all the other stuff off the table and it was just the collective bargaining rights the workers' rights and they decided to attack. it and we've been leaving everything else aside it was a also what throw and selling off public it's well it is. i'm not sure that they did i think it was just the nonphysical items that were in it because if there

republicans passed the bill with no democrats present as one of the filibustering democratic senators chris larsen said about the move last night it obviously wasn't about any kind of financing it was an attack on working families and senate minority leader mark miller said in thirty minutes eighteen states senators and did fifty years of civil rights in wisconsin. and needless to say governor walker reignited the labor protests in madison last night and today we'll take a look at some of these scenes. to top it all off what republicans did last night was probably illegal and it may have violated the state's open meeting laws which require the legislature to give a twenty four hour notice before any new sessions or convene a democratic minority leader in the state assembly house. house and peter barka tried to make this point known last night was largely ignored by republican senate majority leader scott fitzgerald take a look. here mean this is a violation of law this is not just. those the chairman this is the incredible the state assembly did their part today and wrapped up as in this illegal b