my predecessor, governor corzine, stood on the front steps of the capital at a public sector union rally and said, "i'll fight to get you a good contract." i thought to myself last night, who is he fighting with? once he says that the fight is over. what i believe in is true adversarial collective bargaining. every state is different. i'm not going to micromanage wisconsin from trenton, new jersey. i know scott walker. i like him. i trust him. i think he's doing what's in the best interest of wisconsin the same way i'll do what's best for new jersey, which is to reform the pension system and roll back health benefits to put them more in line with the rest of the population in new jersey, to put us on a long-term path to fiscal stability. >> schieffer: what about this idea? do they have a right to collective bargaining? >> listen, all these rights are legislatively created. they didn't come down from tablets at the top of a mountain. so political things change and go back and forth. every state is going to make their own determination on that. wisconsin is in the middle of making that det

governor corzine very famously invited the press into his office, now my office, and there was a cothe office. i can tell you it is not normally there. and he said to them i'm going to be sleeping on the scott writer for here until this crisis is averted. so i knew these were the same fellows who had been in the legislature when he was there now threatening to do the same thing so i decided to calm him down early on and advice in the place was under new management. and what i said to them is listen, you guys want to pass in income tax increase he can. i'm going to veto it and if you want to close down the government because of that, that is fine but i want to tell you something. i'm not moving any cot into this office to sleep in here. if you closed close down the government i am getting those black suvs, open a and order pizza and watch the mets. [laughter] and when you decide to reopen the government give me a call and i will come back. [laughter] don't think i'm sleeping on some cot. take a look at me. do you think i'm sleeping on a cot? not happening. so, we stood up. we stood fo