let's turn to mike tate, chairman of the wisconsin democratic party. ed, how nervous is scott walker for his job? >> i think that he is incredibly scared. and he sat in actually the same exact chair i'm sitting in right now in the studio in milwaukee last night talking to fox news and just spinning tall tale after tall tale. you know, when your only friend is sean hannity, you don't have many friends left. and he is in a lot of political trouble here in wisconsin. >> walker told hannity that his union-busting bill was merely a way to fix the budget. yet back in january walker told a guy pretending to be david koch that going after unions was just one piece of the puzzle. here it is. >> i talk to kasich every day. you know, john's got to stand firm in ohio. you start going down the list, a lot of us -- there's a lot of us new governors who got elected to do something big. >> you're the first domino. >> yep. this is our moment. >> mike, whatever happened to that moment? >> well, i think that what we've seen -- and you referenced just a little bit in your

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with breaking news on the recall tonight, we bring in mike tate, chairman of the wisconsin democraticarty. mike, good to have you with us tonight. what's the latest number. where are you right now? how many days, how many hours, how many signatures? where are you? >> well, we are -- tomorrow it will be two weeks so we're 13 days in and tonight in conjunction with our grassroots partner united wisconsin we're proud to announce we've collected over 300,000 signatures in the first 13 days. we average about 1,040 signatures per hour. every hour of the day since we started this recall. so we are off to a tremendous start, and we're just getting started. >> so you're well on your way to getting enough signatures right now if you can keep the momentum, but you had the thanksgiving holiday. how much did that help? >> the thanksgiving holiday was tremendous for us. we, you know, it's the tradition gun deer hunt season here in wisconsin. we were at deer cleaning stations all over this state. we had a black friday plan where volunteers spread out and went to all the shopping malls and the target

who are both key to the recall efforts, state senator john urpenbach, a democrat from madison, and mike tatechairman of the wisconsin democrat democratic party. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thanks, reverend. >> mike, you helped organize the recall effort. let's start with you. how confident are you? >> well, i am as confident as confident can be. we do have a big task in front of us. i don't want to overstate how much work it is to gather at least 550,000 signatures, more likely 600,000 to 650,000 signatures, but let me just say we've had over 10,000 individuals download the petitions off our website today. we had over 100 events in just the last 24 hours, since midnight, to gather signatures, and we've seen people signing from places like barebu and black river falls and really all corners around this state. >> now, let me ask you, mike. this is an awesome task. i've been organized all my life. still head national acushnetwork so when the rubber meets the road and you've got to deliver numbers, let me show people around the country that you have taken on yourselves in wisconsin

joining me now is mike tate, chairman of the democratic party, thank you very much for joining me. >>for having me on. >> you guys have been at this for 12 days and how many signatures do you need and where are you now? >> in order to force a recall, we have to collect 540,208 signatures. we started exactly two weeks ago and in conjukz with united wisconsin, we announced we collected over 300,000. >> is that more than you anticipated? this was supposed to be an uphill battle. this is not something we see every day. they have five or? >> i actually think there is two. i could be wrong though. it is -- we are off to a tremendous start and we have a lot of work left in front of us. we couldn't be more pleased with the success we had and people can track our success at recall walker hq.com. >> what is the key that you have been able to appeal to people. the governor came out with ads defeating the collective bargaining agreement of the law passed there to what the union officials said hurt the workers. what do you believe has been the best case that you folks have been able to get these f

mike tate, always a pleasure. good to have y on tonight. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. you can listen to me my radio show on sirius xm radio channel 127 monday through friday noon to 3:00 p.m. you can follow me on twitter, @edshow and @wegoted. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. i won't miss it. even though there's a football game on, i won't miss the next hour. rachel, good evening. >> football? is that a dog barking in the distance? what is this football? >> never heard of it. >> thank you, ed. appreciate it, man. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour as well. when president obama presented his american jobs act to the country in september, congress reacted with all the urgency of a sleepy puppy lying in a sunbeam on a soft pillow. some of the american people, however, took a slightly more active approach. in houston a group of demonstrators gathered at a federal building to say to the world that they wanted an economy that works for everyone. they were angry, they said, that their republican senators voted against the american jobs act.