collective bargaining rights now the race pits incumbent justice walker and walker supporter david prosser against democrat back to joan and kloppenburg and while kloppenburg to declare victory in that context today the match up is likely to face a recount a vote now the process remains on the bench conservatives will maintain of their forty three majority on that state's high court a court that will likely be the ultimate decider when it comes to contentious anti union legislation now in that light i think it's fair to say that at stake in this election is the legal fight in wisconsin and joining us now for his take on this is robert craig he's the executive director of citizen action of wisconsin robert welcome thank you great to be here now before we get to the implications i just want you to update us briefly on the latest in the election is the recount definitely going to happen what are you hearing on the ground. a recount is not an announced that justice prosser has to ask for that almost certainly we have a tortured for a vote margin between kloppenburg the challenger the incumbent

suddenly found on thursday is two days later to give her opponent incumbent conservative judge david prosser who has said he wants to continue scott walker's agenda a seventy five hundred vote advantage large enough that there won't be an automatic recount and give republicans in the state supreme court those missing votes were found in surprised the most conservative county in the state and they want to found those votes county clerk kathy nicholas suprising has a history of past elections and vote totals in fact she's been audited from usual handling of election results and surprise she's a former employee of judge david prosser you know the conservative guy who is running against. so many conservatives pull another facet on the american people and steal another election that will be vitally important to governor scott walker's future union busting efforts here to shed some more light on this issue is brad friedel best of me to journalists blogger and publisher of the brad blog at red blog dot com rad welcome day thank god i'm going to be here great to have you with us fourteen thousand vo

recount in the race for the state's supreme court she would claim victory over scott walker's david prosser. and oh wait they go jobs over two million were shipped overseas in the last decade or so who are the fact that c.e.o. is behind the move and i want to keep the jobs here at home. you need to know this with less than a month to go until our nation hits its debt ceiling which could trigger a global economic collapse and with the nation's top credit agency warning us that our credit rating could get downgraded of politicians to lock that house republicans are trying to sink the ship majority leader eric cantor or and democrats yesterday that his party will not support a debt limit increase next month and must they get a list of their demands met in other words republicans are willing to crash the system or at least place chicken is as if they were if they don't get what they want including a balanced budget amendment cuts on programs for working and poor people and a new rule in congress that would require a two thirds majority for any new tax increases on rich people basically all prov

madison and so we really did become a proxy for the whole debate over workers' rights and justice prosser who is a warmer republican but you were speaker of the state assembly clearly in a majority leader he clearly was associated with walker and clearly would have ruled in favor of walker and all the court challenges for word around the god the attack on like a pardon does it hold then it sure does long as we can we keep it going again and make sure the boat is there in terms of the recount there's actually creates a supreme court that could look objectively at the legal case being raised against the attack on protected pardoning and the rights of union members and tell me are you seeing a national shift the labor movement beyond wisconsin as the excitement and energy sort of spreading. absolutely the whole levon on scott walker or words attack on gardner ok national you're equally national guard issue help you to use the national guard and their national international interest in this i think it is changed everything in a lot of respects starting with walker finally went far enough to s

able to photograph it all right this is very mission i think you very much if i saw it carry more prosser question to me hoffa yes there. i think when i leave here guantanamo bay one most interesting experiences that i've had is actually having the opportunity to ask or the media around it's interesting talking to people from all around the world from korea from sweden from the middle east from north america mali around the world has had the opportunity to speak with different people and hear this hear how they feel about it cheney's here how they feel about politics it's a it's a huge it's an interesting experience and i feel like this is richard moss and his job is to show us that everything is ok here. we have come here because we want to know what is really going on at guantanamo filling isn't allowed inside the prison camp so we were thinking of shooting with a hidden camera. unfortunately that's just not going to happen we know there's a swedish guy held inside here his name is mark. will be released later on when he returns to sweden to give only one press conference if you say you

on the loss of a spilled onto the pitch of what was a bad tempered a fur reaction prosser the boy rights to be our marker reality type a send off for an alleged dangerous talk until the end of his knowledge or marino julie following him for protesting the decision if it was a messy show from then on in the argentinian second striker a contender for goal of the season so i have to return to the neutral with caution patrolling immediately afterwards. a team that is one champions league cups will never think that a future match is lost i'm convinced and i've played many times against a real madrid as a player i've seen it many times since i was a kid and now as a coach he must know what i do to control the at. it's here in barcelona newspaper people in barcelona know the respect that this institution has for that team and what they are capable of. if i tell him or you a for what i think or what i feel my career will end today and because i cannot say what i feel i will just leave you a question for which i hope to get an answer someday why why. i don't have a hundred to say elsewhere in the

owned vote counting computers say she lost an election two weeks ago to scott walker stooge david prosser for a seat on wisconsin's supreme court cotton berg was initially declared the winner but one day later fourteen thousand votes miraculously appeared on a computer in waukesha county to put processor her opponent over the top the recount is expected to begin next week and this may be one of the first serious tests in over fifteen years the accuracy and reliability of electronic voting abulafia in computers own to run by private corporations so will we find out what we all suspect that republicans stole another election here in america and offer some insight as a man's insights and answers to this brad friedman founder and publisher of brad blog dot com brad great to see you again welcome. hey tom good so to what extent is this recount in wisconsin going to be. what actually let me let me just set this up in wisconsin the way that they vote is and correct me if i'm if i have this wrong is you mark a ballot by you know by by pencil or pen or whatever and then that ballot is read by a ma

wisconsin is a red state, and now it looks like prosser is even outsi

system, for example, in the unite, you should -- in the united states, you should take it up with dean prosser of berkeley. if you think our system of sexual harassment law is less than ideal, your problem is with professor katherine mcken non. so it is with class action law, civil procedure, employment law and many, many others. and this can be traced big and small. i tell a story in the excuse factory, my book about workplace law, of the then-novel idea that the law ought to combat looksism. and for those of you who are not current on looksism, it is the type of improper bias by which employers are constantly hiring really great looking people and paying them more and promoting them further in preference to the rest of us who are more homely. [laughter] and, yes, it's unfair, and, yes, it's unfair, but not until around the time the harvard law review ran an interminable -- i shouldn't say that -- 80 or 90-page student note on the need for the law to combat looksism. not until around then had it been thought that it was much of an issue for the law. but there in, i believe, the year 1999 ther

that gave conservative justice david prosser a 7,500-vote lead over a liberal challenger, as counting continued. the winner will likely rule on challenges to a new law stripping public employees of most bargaining rights. on wall street today, stocks sold off amid concerns about a government shutdown. the price of oil also weighed on the market. it closed just short of $113 a barrel in new york trading. in response, the dow jones industrial average lost 29 points to close at 12,380. the nasdaq fell more than 15 points to close at 2,780. for the week, the dow gained a fraction of 1%; the nasdaq lost a fraction. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jim. >> lehrer: next tonight, more bloody confrontations in syria. human rights activists reported 32 protesters killed and hundreds wounded. state tv claimed 19 police were killed by gunmen. judy woodruff has that story. >> woodruff: for the third week in a row, the friday day of prayer in syria saw new protests, violence, and killings. in the southern city of daraa, a center of the unrest, thousands swarmed into the stree

yesterday morning that a recount was likely since the margin was so thin but it appears justice david prosserily beat his challenger after a county clerk admitted she made a mistake in the vote totals. the race was seen as a referendum to attempt to take away union bargaining rights. >>> texas drivers could get where they're going sooner. they voted to raise the speed limit to 85 on some of the highways. if the state senate follows suit texans could brag about having the fastest roads in the nation. we have our reporter from ktrk in houston with more. >> reporter: it's possible your lead foot could get much heavier than the posted signs around houston. house bill 1201 repeals the old concept and adds, amendment that future highways could be designed for 85 miles per hour. >> people are speeding anyway. make it legal, go for it. >> so if you have an accident at 85, it's a lot of speed to slow down from. >> reporter: the bill introduced by state representative lois kolkhorst -- >> obviously, you can move quicker and get to your destination more quickly. >> reporter: and she adds it only applies

wisconsin is a red state, and now it looks like prosser is even outside the margin of our weekend. we verified that governor walker is for real, that these are new times in wisconsin. i think there are new times in this country. and again, it's a battle of whether we want a country of more makers or more takers, and i think that we are proving that in wisconsin spent wisconsin is a red state. will you guarantee that your nominee next year will carry wisconsin? >> guest: will i guarantee? i think we will win wisconsin. i think we will do very well there. it will be a battleground state, and i think -- it's a red state. i will give you your guarantee. >> isn't a purple state more accurate? >> guest: i think a purple state can go read. as long as people are focused in on economic issues in wisconsin which they are, people are fiscal conservatives in wisconsin like i think they are in most places around the country and i think we went on those issues and those of issues governor walker is talking about. >> talk about the senate bill does. will your party take back the senate and if so