countries and it seems like there's a copycat among republican governors and i said nearly take out scott walker wants to pass these same city stripping legislation as michigan's rick snyder. last week the movie atlas shrugged opened in theaters across the country the first part of a trilogy based on iran's novel that was shrugged written back in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven they believe that. we can't afford to allow the expansion of the company which produces too much of the medical books. still bills that are not getting my mail and find a way to fix rather alyssa rosen bob a russian immigrant to change her name to iran when she came to america based several of her novels heroes on a serial killer she fought over as a superman her word because as she wrote of howard roark the hero of her book the fountain head quote he was born without the ability to consider others and quote that serial killer william edward hickman kidnapped murdered and dismembered a twelve year old girl in one nine hundred twenty seven around the time rand was developing your philosophy and writing her first book

of our favorite clips when the man who provided such anger and entertainment is felt and then scott walker is starting to feel a backlash from his attacks on the working people of wisconsin so it's all about the huge alex moral upset that house republicans across the country shaking the never let's. get some closure see the story at the scene so surely sleep is if you understand it and then he'd slip something else here's some of the part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged is a big issue. let's not forget that we have an apartheid regime right now. i think rock the leader on the well. we never got the it says we're going to keep you safe get ready because of the freedom. hey guys welcome to show intel on the i want to show we part of our guests have to say on the topic now i want to hear an audience just go on to you tube the video response part of twitter for part of the questions that we've posted on you tube every monday and on thursday when the show long response is going to leave your voice. well ladies and gentlemen we have some very ver

our favorite clips from a man who provided fresh anger and entertainment for this show and then scott walker is starting to feel the backlash from his attacks on the working people of wisconsin so it's all about the huge alex hurrell upset that house republicans across the country shaken the neighborhoods. get some closure see the story and it seems so for late sleep you think you understand it and then he lives something else you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything you saw you don't i'm sorry go to the big picture. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think the rocket be the one that well. we have the government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you love your freedom. hey guys welcome michel ancel on the alona show we've heard our guest stop to say on the topic now i want to hear our audience is going to you tube the video response or twitter for part of the question that we've posted on you tube every monday and on thursday with the show your responses please let your voice be heard . well ladies and gentlemen we have som

support scott walker and defend scott walker it is all about scott walker then you go to the democratic site and there is no mention of wisconsin on the homepage. and it is such a shocking contrast. is part of the problem that the labor movement invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a political party but at worst is something to be held in contempt? >> people will begin to think these questions orchestrated. [laughter] talk about solidarity among workers let's hear from brother mike. should we just stay on madison for a minute? you lowered just out there can you report? you were reporting for another alternate? >> this is a courageous book is a tough book to write but then you start to get negative as a left-wing union buster. >> i have heard that accusation. [laughter] >> the incredible thing there's a good friend that "the new york times" that said we will use the incredible momentum to organize one different priorities then the taebo help us organize wal-mart and wrote an incredible article. steve you take them all the different levels from scholars to labor journalist to rank an

is demanding a 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 basi

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 votes turn out to out of nowhere to change the winn

scott walker, he may ultimately in labor's role look at scott walker to deserve credit for reawakening unions and political power. fascinating law of unintended consequences in politics. >> and errol, a little bit more of what the president said in response of this and trying to talk about everything else on his plate. take a listen. >> i know there's a lot going on in the world right now, and so, the news is captured by the images of the middle east and what's happening, the tragedy to our friends in japan. and i'm focused on those issues but you should know that keeping the economy going and making sure jobs are available is the first thing i think about when i wake up in the morning and last thing i think about when i go to bed each night. >> errol, something that the white house folks have been trying to pound in our heads saying, hey, we know you guys are talking about japan and libya. and these are important stories. but we also know the swing voter is talking about gas prices and jobs. >> absolutely. he knows exactly what they're thinking about or wants to get on the right side

absolutely the whole sense the ground level when scott walker put forward an attack on collective bargaining and changed national quickly the national guard issue that we use the national guard and their national international interest and then i think it is changed everything in a lot of respects starting with walker finally went far enough to show people that this is an attack on the middle class and our friends and neighbors and relatives and so i think that it's amazing how much national international interest there is and what's going on with them and very briefly how do you maintain the momentum so that folks here on capitol hill take into account the will of the people i mean you know our politicians tend to be very isolated from the rest of the country and you can see that for yourself if you look at representative paul ryan's budget which i know you you've written about so how do you make folks like him pay pensions the rights and needs of the working class. well we just have to keep a movement going to work at least out walker here has been tremendous progress in organizing for if

scott walker of wisconsin, john kasich of ohio, mitch daniels of indiana, corvit of pennsylvania, as much as i sometimes hate him, rick scott of lorida, and the legislative leaderships in ohio and tennessee. they are paving the way for us to the future. so between what they are doing, you get control of education, and we are going to give them control of medicaid, you know what that equals? the 10th amendment. it gives the states back their ower. it's 3/4 of their budget in those two programs combined. and we're taking the power away from the unions over the schools, and the feds over the health care system and being governor of a state will now mean something. then wecome to act three. that's the biggy. that's going to be the budget for the year 2012. now the debate will start now. but it'll get real serious over the summer. everybody is going to say you are going to shut down the government in order to get rid of obama's programs. and i say again what do you have to shut the government down for? you don't want the individual mandate enforcement that requires everybody to buy health

why is that with more on this plus the latest on what's going on with the koch brother lapdogs scott walker in wisconsin i'm joined by reporter and blogger at think progress alex sites well alex welcome to the program thank so much from the back thank you great to have you there koch protests yesterday what kind of press was on hand and how come we didn't see anything about this while i was on hand but aside from that i saw a few foreign press members and a few other progressive reporters i think i think i counted total of three reporters i mean i didn't see every one that's not a complete representative sample but you know we there are two thousand people out there that's according to an essay us meant two thousand and eight hundred some tea partiers a week earlier yeah the network news the estimates range from a few dozen to a maximum about two hundred to fifty so you know about ten times smaller than this rally that we had yesterday two thousand people marching the treasury department to others washington d.c. offices trying to deliver an invitation to have david koch and charles koch co

eyes are fixed on madison, wisconsin, where thousands of demonstrators are protesting governor scott walker'ssial state budget bill. ♪ ♪ oh, yeah [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: who knew so many people in wisconsin were into the group thing? ♪ but as long as governor walker keeps flaunting his hard line, union members going to keep coming together over and over and doing it in front of the cameras. freaky. ♪ ♪ i want to get a little freaky ♪ ♪ nobody knows how long these protests will last ♪ ♪ but at least they're shorter than an oscars broadcast ♪ ♪ [ cheers ] ♪ >> at issue here, is the governor's proposal to raise the pension contributions of public employees while also stripping them of collective bargaining rights. ♪ >> jimmy: take it from my boy, brian will.i.ams. [ laughter ] [ applause ] the governor wants to do some stripping. [ light laughter ] he says it's the only way he knows to make ends meet. the other republican governors ain't mad at madison. they're getting a thrill from this budgetary peep show. looks like they want to take it all off, too. ♪ want to take it all off ♪ >>

. >>> after a firestorm of criticism, wisconsin governor scott walker has reversed the promotion of the son of an influential lobbyist to a high ranking state job paying more than $80,000 a year. democrats complained the appointment of the 27-year-old who has limited experience and no college degree amounted to cronyism. >>> and a potential crisis was averted in space after an old fragment of a chinese satellite threatened to fly close to the international space station. normally, nasa would move the iss out of the way. but it was discovered too late. it missed the space station by a little more than three miles. >> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,393 after shedding six points on tuesday. the s&p lost a fraction. the nasdaq inched up two. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei fell 31 points. but in hong kong, the hang seng added 134. it was another quiet day on wall street. minutes from the fed's latest meeting failed to move markets. basic materials companies got a boost from speculation that the

session passed a bill that dramatically cut the collective bargaining rights of public workers like scott walker in wisconsin republican governor john kasich has claimed all along that it's not about union busting. in fact, here's what he said earlier this month. >> this is not an attack on you. this is not a political operation. i could care about the politic. >> really. to prove that point, this morning kasich sent out a fund raising e-mail claiming victory. the legislation, quote, strips power from the union leaders. then kasich asked for donations to help, the quote, ongoing efforts. the measure cuts health care, pension, and sick time from all public workers. they don't like what's happening. it also prohibits workers from striking. that's a big one. the former fox news host previously said he understood the real life implications. >> the day we sign it's not going to be some, you know, i don't anticipate some big deal because this is hard for people. and anything that's hard i want to be respectful of other people's feelings. >> so after plugging the signing ceremony on twitter just hours

reporter: two months ago, this capitol drew tens of thousands of protesters to fight governor scott walker's call to limit state workers' power to collective bargaining. tea party member john prijic says what happened in wisconsin is a wake-up call for the rest of the nation. >> the government needs to go on a diet and it starts here with grass-roots efforts. >> reporter: tea party rallies around the country marking the movement's two-year anniversary attracted the faithful, but also offered a platform for potential 2012 g.o.p. presidential contenders. minnesota's governor, tim pawlenty was in iowa. real estate mogul turned reality star donald trump was in boca raton. our current president-- ( booing ) they all want me to say, "you're fired." >> reporter: although the state over a matter of just three years, a movement begun to protest high taxes has become the most polarizing and powerful political movement in decades, one that provides a stage for sarah palin. >> the 2012 election begins he here! >> reporter: even though sarah palin has not announced any intentions of a presidential run, s

this is all about scott walker hero in go to the dta web site in and there is no mention of wisconsin on the homepage. and it is a shocking contrast. my question is, is part of the problem that the labor movement puts hundreds of million dollars in a political hardy that sees them as at best as an annoyance and at worst as something to be held in actual contents? >> people are going to begin to think these questions are orchestrated. [laughter] this is a service that you heard of solidarity among workers. solidarity among others. it i it is good of days event. let's hear from brother mike else. i am sorry, alex. i want to hear another report from madison and just stay on medicine for a minute. if you want to respond to this question of what is the union leadership up to, you are just out there and perhaps he could report on it to the meetings as meeting as you have been reporting for a number of other outlets. >> first off i want to say steve this is an incredibly creative book. anybody who is a labor journalist all of a sudden they start getting bashes from left-wing eagan busters. >

. >> and in madison, wisconsin, sarah palin told a cheering crowd that wisconsin governor, scott walker, was right in stripping unions of their bargaining pow el. >> you saw these violence. trash your capital and vandalize business. madison, you held your ground. your governor did the right thing. >> hundreds of labor supporters picketed the rally, but 6500 people converged on the call tall. it was hard to tell how many were labor supporters. >> a r thousands of tea party supporters turned out to celebrate the second anniversary. among those, we are a group of teenage partyers who are working to getting more teens involved with politics. oughted air traffic controller falls asleep on the job. this time, this morning in my moimmy. manuel on what the faa is doing now to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> air traffic controller fell asleep at work early saturday morning. the controller was on a midnight shift, manning a radar facility. air traffic tapes show the controller did not miss any calls from planes trying to land or take off. 12 controllers and two managers were also on duty. t

republican governor scott walker had started to carry out the law earlier this week, but he agreed today to stop. however, the governor still sayp the bill was legally published. >> suzanne: most parents try to teach their children good habits. the same can be said when it comes to introducing kids to money. so we're starting a new series to help you raise financially- savvy children. it's called "kids and cash." tonight, neale godfrey, founder of the children's financial network, has ideas on turning everyday activities into financial lessons. >> why is it important to raise financially responsible kids? if your answer is so they can take care of us in our old age, forget that. the answer is, because we want them to grow up to be independent and financially responsible adults. we want them to have a healthy attitude toward money, and how to earn it, spend it, save it, share it. also, lets face it-- we want them to be able to move out of "hotel mom and dad". money can be a wonderful part of life, a part that helps you to achieve your dreams. or money can be the part of life that tears fa

. >> wisconsin governor scott walker does not get recalled because we're seeing wisconsin the less bark is much worse than its bite and it's backlash against the union reforms. >> donald trump won't lawn future president about will do a tv show with sarah palin. >> the new york times has a pay wall where you have to pay to read the new york times online. i predict that it will

i shan't answer for scott strode for scott walker. i can tell you for me it's about the budget, but it's also ultimately about making government work better and i think it's a change in middle-class matches the middle class. it's even middle-class individuals who work for state and local government because for as we ultimately believe in wasting the alternative that would protect the middle class jobs by avoiding what other states are doing with massive layoffs at both the state and local level and ultimately put in place a system that the government will work better. i've got two kids in a public school. i'd like to have a system like we do elsewhere in society who would pay for performance, i'd like to have people based on merit and performance. these reforms and powerless to keep our best teachers in schools and that's part of the package as well. >> my time is almost up. you can certainly a time as to whether you agree with your state senate leader when he said this is ultimately about trying to defeat president obama in wisconsin

vote for a new state supreme court justice will the labor workers be able to snatch control from scott walker and his supporters tight grip. let's not forget that we sat in the far right. i think. even one well. whatever the government says there's a safe get ready because their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so poorly sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else hears you some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't. charge is a big issue. welcome back to the big picture i'm lucy carlson of is in for tom hartman and coming up in this half hour contaminated seafood has caused one country to already banned imports of seafood from that from japan so should we ever as well plus the fate of human rights.

and they ran enough billions and trillions or whatever down into the in ads and what not more scott walker is elected we become smaller then we then we enter another political card cage yeah and i think that's what's at stake here i mean you laid out the directions of society that are the alternative just really very clearly you know we're going to have a society where the rich and powerful will. succeed and the rest of us. i mean i think that's the real question and the president did a brilliant job of laying it out of you know just going i mean what right now i'm down the road right down through the list thanks so much for joining us tonight we're very very interesting much as i mentioned earlier the two thousand and eleven budget deal passed out of the house earlier today but not with total republican support a sign that speaker john boehner doesn't have as much control over his caucus as he'd like alternately since fifty nine republicans said no way they needed a few democrats on board to get measure passed so now that deep cracks are starting to emerge within the republican party it's

with you thank you for joining us in a in a recent report that you authored you praised governor scott walker for saying and i quote we can no longer live in a society where the public employees are the haves and the taxpayers foot the bill are the have nots. did you really agree with that i mean that the teacher that makes fifty thousand bucks plus health benefits as i have but the gangsters who wrecked our economy and still collect multi-million dollar bonuses are the have nots. well i think what governor walker was picking up on is a divide in the broad middle class between workers in the public and in the private sector and in so far as public sector workers only constitute about twenty percent of the labor force the other large part of the labor labor force which is in the private sector feels left out and you can imagine that say for instance public sector pensions are quite high compared to what most people can expect to receive in the private sector and he was i think picking up on some of those frustrations of private sector workers so what use it sounds like what you're saying is be

very few people here knew who scott walker was until the last two months or so. however, those of us who have no scott walker and his commitment to principle are really not surprised the proposals he made two close not $137 billion budget deficit, or $3.6 billion budget deficit to the end of the next budget. so again, i am sure you will find governor walker is interesting as we wisconsin have. he's a very polarizing figure than those of us who love them and wisconsin really thank him for the job he's done. >> i thank the gentleman and with all the people governor shumlin could have introduced him, he chose peter welch. the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. , mr. ranking member, members of the committee are probably serve on, it's my pleasure to introduce peter shumlin of vermont. first of all, a couple things about peter. as a private-sector person. he and his brother established and expanded a very successful private business in vermont. he's been on the front line of creating jobs for having to pay good wages and good and fits into what the p

of the four republican senators facing a recall election because he voted in favor of governor scott walker's anti-union bill but his right calls to kick people out of the house for having an affair now just as he's trying to reconnect with his constituents and fight for his job he made another critical error thanks to a typo on a mailer that was sent to voters constituents trying to reach his office at the number given in the letter and countered well take a listen. welcome to many a new way to go if one on one with going to a girl's reading right now to county you lied x.t.c. and get ready to meet real local students housewives and working girls from lupus you can change them yep that's what you get when you call it was office and over at least according to the brochure not exactly the best way to keep you recall election campaign i guess hopper got confused as to which number was his office and which number was the direct line to his mistress. there's there is an environmental battle brewing in alaska in the pristine confines of bristol bay i want to the world's largest wild sockeye salmon

election gains national attention it's becoming clear that state republicans are losing ground after scott walker's attack on unions so should we be paying more attention to politics on a local level rather than keeping all eyes on obama will discuss all those issues and much more tonight's show but first our top story. get ready for the government shutdown if this ordeal isn't resolved by friday at midnight that means that the government is officially shutting down for the first time in fifteen years and judging by the way things are going so looking more likely yesterday the president urged congress members to act like adults to figure this out and. as of tuesday the debate was over a seven billion dollar difference but at this point no deal has been reached and the president in fact left town to go about some other business so before we get into what a shutdown would mean let's first look at some of the ridiculous a politics that's gotten us here to discuss this with me is so helicopter reporter for ross story so hill thanks so much for being here tonight and. first of all a just you know i just

. >> wisconsin governor scott walker is backing down.now says he will comply with the order not to implement the law taking most collective bargaining rights for public workers. the law also requires workers to attribute to health care and pension. walker said he would go through with the law despite the judge's order and start taking money from workers' checks. today the judge said he was ready to administer it. >> fought for equal rights for all today geraldine was laid to rest after battling cancer. an american flag covered her coffin. friends and supporters eluded her. she was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket. it was 1984 with walter mondale. she served three terms in congress. she represented new york city. she was 75 years old. >> a symbol of american resilience is about to play role in america's favorite pastime the national 9115 will be carried on to wrigley field during the opening day tomorrow. firefighters is local service years will present the 30 ft. american flag during the singing of the na

we got to make some change. >> you mentioned scott walker. what is the situation in wisconsin mean to you? wisconsin, virginia, very different states, but what does the experience we've been watching in wisconsin mean to you? >> it means that there really are big battles in the country between the left and the right. and for there to be significant results gained and restoring fiscal responsibility at both the state and federal level don't have to be some very tough battles. and there were two issues really in wisconsin. one was the walker budget to address the $3.7 billion deficit similar to what had in virginia, and i think largely the citizens were with him. they got it he was very clear. i'm reducing the budget without raising taxes. we'll find a way to get this done. the bigger battle obviously was the public sector collective bargaining. and all of you are well versed in what happened there. we did that 18 years ago in virginia before i got there. actually governor wilder, democrat governor, signed that bill in virginia. so we have long

i am scott walker here at the nyse. >> at one point, call volume was six times the average daily volume. welcome back to "options action." >> let's be on time here, please. >> you have to set your watch ahead an hour this weekend. >> very funny. >> friday, 5:00 from here on out. >> i have been looking forward to this day for a very long time in our new time slot. the traffic was a little bit of a difficulty today. but it is good to be here. >> how often does that happen? >> that was the first time ever. i made it here on time today. >> that stuff happens all the time in television. how do they back up? >> the hope that someone else is around to take up the slack. my co-worker was able to fill in at the last minute. it was traffic. in two years of doing that commute, that had never happened to me. >> what part of the city do you live in? >> i live on the east side of manhattan. >> how long does it take you to get there? >> it takes about 35 minutes in the morning. >> when you go there? >> i get into the office between 9:30 and 10:00 a.m., but i start my day earlier. i started from home a

i shan't answer for scott strode for scott walker. i can tell you for me it's about the budget, but it's also ultimately about making government work better and i think it's a change in middle-class matches the middle class. it's even middle-class individuals who work for state and local government because for as we ultimately believe in wasting the alternative that would protect the middle class jobs by avoiding what other states are doing with massive layoffs at both the state and local level and ultimately put in place a system that the government will work better. i've got two kids in a public school. i'd like to have a system like we do elsewhere in society who would pay for performance, i'd like to have people based on merit and performance. these reforms and powerless to keep our best teachers in schools and that's part of the package as well. >> my time is almost up. you can certainly a time as to whether you agree with your state senate leader when he said this is ultimately about trying to defeat president obama in wisconsin

i felt like he did try to learn pr lessons from scott walker.really toned it down, did not take a front and center role. but boy, you get this on the ballot in november, this is ohio, this is our media environment. this will become -- this will define the republican primary for a little while, won't it? >> it will be all-consuming. but i don't think anyone should assume that just because labor is loud that the public -- >> the question is can they win? >> are going to be on their side. sb-5, this bill, governor kasich had the audacity to tell governor employee union workers that they have to cap their annual vacation at six weeks. no more than six. that they can't have more than two weeks on top of that of sick days. >> that has nothing to do where w. -- >> but i was going to say, this is the message war. if that's the message, republicans can win that argument. but democrats and labor want to turn it into a -- >> they're going to tell you that this is -- >> about taking away someone's rights. >> it's an assault on the middle class, which is abs