and in studio with us is margaret tolev covers the white house for bloomberg news. nt tv, your first appearance? >> it's great to be here. >> we welcome a good friend who covers washington, white house and congress white house correspondent -- i mean washington correspondent for the "the nation," my favorite progressive magazine john nichols joining us from madison, wisconsin. how are you? >> i willam really good, bill press. i am jealous i don't get to be in the studio with you two fine commentators. >> come on to washington. you know you are welcome any time. >> i will be there next week doing stuff next week. >> are you ready? really? >> if you have any time, seriously, let us know. >> i will let you know. >> jo john's latest book called "uprising" how wisconsin renewed the politics of protest from madison to wall street." the people of wisconsin did that. now we have to take it all the way to the recall of scott walker. how is it going? >> well, it's just a damn fascinating process. i've got to tell you. we had filing deadline last week for the primaries because