the most important of those areas right now is the workplace we're seeing an assault with in wisconsin indiana you know across the absolutely absolutely i mean i say this at the end of the book that in the two thousand and ten election immediately following that when you had this wave of tea party victories what was the two areas where these repub. governors and legislatures state legislatures were most active the first was on the question of workplace rights as you just pointed out and that was a fundamental bottom line and it continues to be and the other was on the question of reproductive rights there was a real effort you know just of seen this past week. begin to go back to two thousand and ten to defund planned parenthood because these these two spheres reproductive freedom and labor freedom the right of workers are really i think the front lines of the battle between left and right today russell russell kirk in one nine hundred fifty one hundred fifty three when he wrote the conservative mind. you know started out with burke but around that time he had given an interview in which he ha

medicare as we know it fired public workers not to mention the war on unions in states like wisconsin indiana ohio michigan so what effect will these conservative policies have on the decreasing middle class that you just identified. the conservative policies will make things far worse concentrating income and wealth and political power to an even greater extent at the very top of society we know the trickle down economics has proven a cruel joke nothing for it goes down that means the rest of us will in all likelihood barely see any wage increase at all we would see probably unemployment again going very way a very very high we would probably see a spike as we have already seen in the poverty rate in this country and all of the social discord all of the anger and stress that people are feeling would be far worse the only way out instead of a regressive direction and that's the way the conservatives want to move us it's not conservative it really is regress of instead of a regressive direction the only way out is a progress of direction which includes a truly progressive income tax is good pu

alec has played a role in union-busting bills in ohio, wisconsin, and indiana. joining us now is tim dickenson. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> is the republican control over the legislature just going to bulldoze these bills through? >> the republicans have a really dominating majority in the legislature in arizona. it's hard to see how this gets stopped. but going after police and fighters and teachers, they are going to have a lot of foot solders on the ground that will raise a stink about this. it's hard to see just playing the numbers how this will get stopped in the legislature. >> if unions focus a lot of money fighting these bills in arizona, i suppose it is going to help president obama in the sense that democrats are just -- and it's hard to see how the majority of american would be against that. >> it is happening in arizona that obama is wanting to put a republicans on the defense there. he is hoping to make them spend money to keep that a red state. so this is i think going to be a bad development for firefighters in phoenix but pe

in the states, the swing states, like pennsylvania and ohio, michigan, missouri, wisconsin, indiana. those states, if they go for rick santorum, you can go to bed, it's over. you can't win the election. >> to my point of the establishment, charles, are they thinking, maybe rick santorum can win? >> no, maybe they think it, but no one else thinks it. rick santorum scares the bejesus out of people. >> clearly his poll numbers are up, charles. >> even the republican party may think that, but -- >> democrats wouldn't. >> excuse me, christine o'donnell won the republican primary, doesn't mean she can win the general. what the republican establishment wants is to win the general election. and rick santorum is making himself completely unelectable by continuing to not be the son of a coal miner, which is actually a good message to run on and to be a family man and to be a man of faith. >> but do you wonder where this would be right now if he had done that? where would we be if he stuck with that montra? >> obviously, the past few weeks have helped rick santorum. he's challenging in michigan

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wisconsin on steroids. how else do we view it, a story to follow. just like indiana, just like ohio, where workers won in ohio, we have to get it done in the other states to protect the middle class in this country. >>> we'll stay on that story. >>> u.s. combat operations in afghanistan are coming to an end, more quickly than expected. the chairman of votevets.org john soltz reacts to the news, next. stay with us. ♪ ♪ let's go ♪ ♪ cruise like a norwegian ♪ [ slap! ] [ slap! slap! slap! slap! ] ow, ow! [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum ta tum tum tums >>> up next, big news from defense secretary leon panetta, he says troops will be out of afghanistan ahead of schedule. jon soltz, votevets.org has reaction to that. >>> later the director of "gas land" is arrested at congressional hearing. he joins me exclusively on the ed show tweet us #ed show, we're right back. sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been hon

those key areas of our country and the swing states like pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, missouri, indiana rick santorum you can go to bed. -- if they go for rick santorum, you can go to bed. we need someone who can take it to the president on the issues where the president has fallen down. as i have said before, we can do that better than anybody. we have a clean and clear record on issues of government control of your life where there is health care, whether it is the takeover of wall street, where there is cap and trade and the imposition of carbon restrictions, co2 restrictions, which, believe it or not, you might find this easy to believe. as the grandson of a coal miner. i did not buy into this global or climate science which from the very beginning -- [applause] which from the beginning if you look at the data and the science, it did not look like climate science but political science. i stood up and said we're not going to go along with this. it is another attempt by the left to use some sort of junk science to take more control over people's lives. we're not going to do that. i wa

wisconsin. rayna, from indiana. wendy felton, 16 from marion, indiana. michelle duey, 20, from indianapolis, indiana. all of these cases went unsolved. officials believed only one man knew what happened. >> we knew he was responsible for several deaths. >> and to get answers it would take a risky, unusual plan. send a convicted drug dealer undercover into a dangerous prison to befriend and alleged serial killer. >> i'm not a serial killer hunter. i said, how am i going to do this? >> at stake, answers. >> wondering where she is. what happened. >> peace for grieving families. >> you want to find her and bring her home and you can't. >> and one man's freedom. >> you don't just turn around and give out candy and say, you're free to go. i went through hell and back. >> early each day, donna reitler greets her daughter, trisha. >> i say "good morning" every morning. i look at that and i can hear her say -- hi, mom! >> trisha was very kind-hearted and very smart. >> as a child, says father, garry, trisha lit up the room. >> she would just bound into the room,

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time so i think that that has sort of brought it home in the united states but we see in wisconsin and in indiana and in ohio a tax on labor rights we see the privatization of the commons here we see a shifting of responsibility for the financial crisis from the people who actually caused it to the people who suffer most from it in the united states and in greece because they can't pay back their debts it's just turned into a much more extreme thing there which is how come you see buildings torched in athens and i'm glad you brought that up because i think that they what i want to get into if you like for those of us who aren't economic experts and don't sort of focus on the ins and outs of this the word austerity sounds like some foreign term but you know whether or not you think it's that policy or bad policy especially taking away services and spending less on things that people are you still that results in ordinary he. well paying the price for an economic situation that wasn't necessarily their doing and that's something that we've seen echoed right here at home in the occupy wall street mo

wisconsin. reigna de vries on from indiana and wendy felton was 16 from marion, indiana. michelle dewey, 20 in indianapolis, indiana. all of these cases went unsolved. officials believed only one man knew what happened. >> we knew he was presently for several deaths. >> it would take a risky unusual plan to send a drug dealer under cover into a dangerous prison to defriend an alleged serial killer. >> i'm not a serial killer hunter. how am i going to do this? >> at stake, answers. >> wondering where she was and what happened. >> grieving family. >> you want to bring her home. >> one man's freedom. >> you don't just say you are free to go. i went through hell and back. . >>> donna greets her daughter, trisha. >> i say hello to this picture every morning. every morning. i look at that and can hear her say hi, mom. . >> trisha was kind hearted and shart. >> as a child trisha lit up the room. >> we would sometimes go into the room and she would come into the room and say tada, that type of thing. >> she was here to attend this straul christian college. one spring evening, tri

from wisconsin to ohio to indiana to arizona and now to minnesota workers are getting screwed republicans in the states and minnesota are pushing for a state constitutional amendment that would make their state officially a right to work for less state following in the footsteps of indiana which one went to right to work for less just last week becoming the twenty third station state in the nation to do so as i've talked about extensively on this show right for work right to work for less was lead to lower wages for workers an average of all five thousand dollars lower per average for boy fewer employees sponsored health care plans and fifty one percent more workplace injuries and deaths so if you're watching this show and you live in minnesota and you care about having decent wages benefits and a safe place to work and now is the time to start fighting back but this is an all too surprising over the last year we've seen a full on assault against working people led by republicans at the state level but we haven't seen yet is that same sort of assault coming out of washington d.c. from con

carnal door just returned from rome with fellow bishops from illinois indiana and wisconsin. the contraception policy came up informally on the number of different occasions. >> i am a little dismayed he's a wonderful man nobody wants to be in disagreement with the president. >> that this agreement will likely end up in the courts with an argument over the first amendment right to religious freedom. last week the cardinal sent letters to all parishioners' just as he did last week brought to chicago area. at the vatican today pope bendict conducted 22 new cardinals in to the church will one day help elect one of their own to succeed him as leader of the world's roman catholics. prayers in please work today at the vigil held for missing teenager. 17 year-old destiny gruba has been missing since lastlast wednesday. authorities think she may be linked to her former teacher who left the area last week with her three children. her family and friends gather today at east high school to pass out fliers at to pray for her safe return. >> this is really hard we love you if you hear thi

redirecting is help there because the republicans that picked up house seats in ohio and indiana and michigan and wisconsin and all those also picked up state legislative seats. so redirecting should give us a republican and a conservative majesty in the hou majority in the house not for the next couple of years, but for the next decade. [ applause ] okay. we're only a third of the way there, guys. that's the house. good news on the senate. we have 47 republican senators. not that many conservative senators but we are getting there. we need to pick up 60 serious senators in the u.s. senate. the good news is the next two election cycles make this very possible. in 2012, there are 23 democratic seats up and only ten republican seats. this is a target-rich environment. these are people who survived the prodemocrat, anti-bush landslide of 2006. and two years later, 20 ds up and 13 republicans. so in the next two election cycles, '12 and '14, there are 43 democrats senators up. more than half of which are in red states and ought to be flipable. the republican -- yes. 43 seats, more than 23 targets. and there ar

snow and sleet are being seen in indiana and wisconsin. that is expected to make travel on both the roads and air difficult today. winter weather advisory is in effect until noontime. the midwest storm is effecting flights to and from the bay area. officials told us four arrival flights to san francisco have been canceled this morning. all to the chicago area. we checked again in the last ten minutes officials now say two departures are delayed as well. as always check ahead with your airline. >>> 6:11. hollywood star reportedly in rehab. the bay area accident may extreme may butler is getting treatment. >>> a deadly police video. we believe keeping kids healthy can start with healthy hands. with the lysol no-touch hand soap system healthy hands can be automatic. for healthy tips and more, visit lysol.com/missionforhealth. >>> 6:14. amazing stories here. overnight news a car chase ended in a police shooting. i have to warn you first you may find this video disturbing. helicopter crew for los angeles tv station was over this scene when poli

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. >> we've seen this overreach all over the country from wisconsin to ohio, to indiana, to michigan. now it's clear governor mcdonnell sees the wave coming. joining me now from richmond, virginia, delegate vivian watts, a democrat from fairfax county and in washington, laura bassett, reporter for the huffington post. she is writing about how the birth control-centered gender swar boosting democratic campaigns. great to have both of you with us. delegate watts, let me start with you. how did this all go down? what happened here? what are you hearing in virginia tonight? >> well, the governor walked it down. it was only a very small step back from the brink. he mentioned in the clip that you used that women have a right to know, well, anyone in elective office has a duty to understand. and although we have a new bill before us in ten minutes, we were told to -- that we had to vote on that bill. we could not take it off the floor for real study and the bill that he drafted, his bill, is full of mistakes. is full of insensitivities and lack of knowledge. you mentioned the one. someone wh

>> now one of the reasons i'm very interested in virginia is when we hear a lot about wisconsin and ohio and indianaing that's going on there with the total right wing control, and it's a key swing state for president obama and the elections this year. why do you think republicans are pushing such extreme laws in your state given the importance nationally of this state? >> you know, virginia has always been a moderate pro-business state. and for the last several years, the democrats in the senate have been able to stop the right wing agenda. but unfortunately less than a month ago, they did a power grab and took over the state çsenat even though the voters had put 20 democrats and 20 republicans. but they used a questionable tactic and took control of all the committees and the whole agenda. so now everything that had been stopped in the past several years is going forward and it is a steamroller, reverend. >> now the thing that also enhances the possibility of this steamroll and how it also plays out in national politics is they just passed this voter i.d. law that's sitting on mcdonnell's desk. a

indiana, and ohio and wisconsin and those kinds of states? >> well, i think that ohio is a swing state and as close as a tick can be. you know, it is a state that the republicans have to win, and just like we have seen in the last couple of elections, you are going to see a huge amount of focus and energy by both campaigns. >> howard, a labor-wise thing that you see the uaw celebrating the comeback of an american industry to do well out there, and since the ruther brothers in the 1950s it has been the pioneer and good labor organization, opportunities like good health care and impacting their lives? >> well, chris, i am an old reporter for the news currier and newsweek and the sad thing is that while the industrial unions while we think of them emblematic of the labor union in general, are really not. the unions that matter are the teachers union, and they are the heart and soul of the party like newt gingrich and others will remind everyone of. what the romney campaign was focussed on tonight were the gallup poll numbers. the new gallup poll

mention it at all and so the were the attack on workers even if you look at the coverage indiana got compared to wisconsin and other things is slowly diminishing as everybody gets into this horse reeks of politics and it's really it's really quite scary when you look around in your coverage and the work that you've done what are the states that you see that are the most promising in terms of making headway on this. god it's pretty bad over. i mean i think you know there's a lot of interesting organizing going on in a lot of different places. and there's also a lot of organizing that's not being done properly and no organizing at all i mean there's going to be a lot of big fights i mean right to work going to be on the ballot in minnesota this this fall and you know this could be a lot of big battles biggest takeaway from the flint sit down strike i think the biggest to go away is that. you know occupy is great in a lot of ways it makes a political message but in order to really hurt companies you have to hurt their profits and that's what the flint sit down straight was able to do when i was talking to an