heated contest. governor scott walker and rebecca kleefisch go on the record and hear from the challengers, milwaukee mayor baret and firefighter mitchell. what happens in wisconsin doesn't stay in wisconsin. will the recall results help predict the outcome of the presidential election? dick morris is here. but first, it is not only governor scott walker's job at stake, lieutenant governor is also fighting to keep her seat. the lieutenant governor faces a democratic challenge malin mitchell in the recall. he is head of the firefighter's union. we spoke to her about the recall battle. nice to talk to you. >> hi, greta. >> greta: is it fair to say, lieutenant governor, but for the collective barg ang spat -- i can't think of a better way to describe it -- that there would be no recall -- is that your understanding that this is the reason you are being recalled, and the governor? >> i think that ultimately that is why our oponents decided that it was a good idea to spend between $15 and $20 million in taxpayer money to put on this recall battle. i do think it was largely about tha

money and the big stakes in the walker recall. the nation's john nickels is here with a primary night preview. >>> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. mitt romney continues to prove himself incapable of leading the republican party and this country. today he held another famous town hall event. >> all this stuff in the last couple of weeks about the president claiming credit for killing bin laden. it strikes me a little weird. that's like giving ronald mcdonald credit for the big mac you had for lunch. everybody knows it's really the guy at the grill that deserves credit, right. not the pitch man on tv. >> comparing the bin laden raid to fast food was the beginning. next he attacked president obama for going on vacation and the family was not off limits. >> march 2010, the first lady and her daughters spent spring break in new york city. this doesn't include the date night. anybody fly to new york just to have date flight with your spouse? i didn't think so. mr. president that's not middle class and you stop lecturing us about our lives. >> this is the guy who was t

the future. >> our second question is from erin davison directed first at governor walker. >> change in public employee collective bargaining law last year is one of the reasons we're here tonight. governor walker if you had to do it all over again, would you seek the same changes in the same way, and do you plan more collective bargaining law changes? mayor barrett, if you disagree with the changes some of which you used to your advantage in the city of milwaukee budgeting process, would you seek to undo those changes and if so, how would you go about it? >> that's a great question. i get asked that a lot on the campaign trail. looking back, i'd change how we did things. people say this all over the state. they like the results. they just wish we'd done it different. if i had a chance to do it again. if i had gone out early january and february and made the case across wisconsin and explained what was happening back then. before the reforms school districts across the state were spending tens of millions more than they needed to because under collective bargaining they were forced t

excuse for attacking the president. >> i misspoke and apologize. >> scott walker is going national to survive his recall. mr. barrett joins me tonight. >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. president bush famously asked the question, are our children learning? mitt romney, are we making enough money off them? mitt romney visits a charter school about success of for profit education. >> i'm told about the success of these institutions you helped found and this institution in particular and would love to get your privilege on what makes it work. >> there are real questions about whether charter schools are working including the one romney visited today. the universal blu ford charter school in philadelphia was put on warning status last year. only 27% proficient in math and 22% proficient in reading. the objectives or 72% in reading and they are behind. romney told the audience classroom size, it has nothing to do with school performance. the teachers he spoke with today took issue with romney's logic. >> i can't think of any teacher in the whole time i've been teaching 10 y

scott walker started this political civil war. i will end this civil war. >> governor walker. >> bob, to answer your questions it's about reforms. that's the way it started out. we don't hear about it largely because our reforms are working. that's great news not only for homeowners, for small business owners but particularly for people on fixed incomes, senior citizens and working families. our state has $154 million surplus. for the first time we've put two consecutive years with money in the rainy day fund. best of all in 2011 wisconsin gained jobs. the mayor and his allies talk about a job number that was based on a sample of 3.5% of employers. our numbers are based on a survey of 160,000 employers. that's more than 96% of employers in the state of wisconsin who are required by law to submit that information. they showed that last year wisconsin gained jobs since i've taken afs we've had more than 30,000 new jobs in the state. i understand why things have shifted. if you look at my record and compare that with our opponent the mayor of milwaukee in the last eight years ta

scott walker after his union busting bill was passed how is jobs on the line with us stuart recall election just days away coming up next why the outcome of this election could potentially create political hysteria plus you know the motto what's yours is mine apparently that's the type of relationship the f.b.i. wants to have with every american citizen inventing new technology that helps them eavesdrop on your private cyber conversations will play to what it what it means for your online data. self-defense is important right so what does it cross the line between saving yourself from dangers and becoming the aggressor will try to answer that with the help from military blogger jim hansen. it's friday may twenty fifth five pm in washington d.c. i'm abby martin and you're watching our team wisconsin governor scott walker made national headlines last year by busting up state unions remember this. governor walker's attack on collective bargaining rights caused a seventeen day occupation at the state capital by hundreds of thousands of workers who stood and led to a recall election aga

guy who had a swiss bank account. >>> in wisconsin, scott walker is raising big money and bringing in big friends. >> the course he pursued here in wisconsin tells you a great deal about this man's character. >> tonight, democratic hopeful kathleen falk gives her plan to defeat scott walker. >>> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. president obama's surprise visit to afghanistan was capped off by an address to the nation moments ago. he used the anniversary of bin laden's death to remind americans why we are there. >> let us remember why we came here. it was here in afghanistan where osama bin laden established a safe haven for his terrorist organization. it was here in afghanistan where with al qaeda brought new troops and plotted acts of terror. it was here that al qaeda launched the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 innocent men, women and children. ten years ago we went to war to make sure that al qaeda could never again use this country to launch attacks against us. despite initial success for a number of reasons this war has taken longer than most anticipated. i

in wisconsin yelling shame a republican governor scott walker actors union busting bills passed now is jobs on the line with a storage recall election just days away coming up next see why the outcome of this election could potentially create political the steria. plus you know that motto what's yours is mine old purley that's the type of relationship the f.b.i. wants to harness with every american citizen inventing new technology that helps them eavesdrop on your private cyber conversations we'll tell you what that means for your online data. friday may twenty fifth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm abby martin and you're watching our team usually military service medals are keepsakes they're held on for life by soldiers are passed down their family lineage however at last weekend's nato summit over fifty veterans from the nine eleven wars threw away their military medals and protest it was a symbol mostly of reconciliation for the afghan war and also act of defiance against nato military had money parties on a stasi a church brings us the story. true patriots they followed the order

clinton to the front lines? scott walker is going to win going away. >>> markets at the end of the day, basically flat, investors on hooks over europe. let's do a experiment tonight, take away greece, spain, the whole eurozone threat. would you be a bull or a bear on u.s. stocks? all right. we begin tonight with mitt romney's sneak attack at solyndra. cnbc's chief washington correspondent john harwood with the details. good evening, john. >> reporter: good evening, larry. lots of action in the presidential race today. and it started early this morning with the release of new nbc marist polls showing several battleground states in a dead heat. let's start with iowa where you see the president and mitt romney tied. then you go to the state of colorado another target that president obama carried last time. he's up by just one point. then you go to nevada, another state which is highly contested, also with a large hispanic population, hard hit by foreclosures, president obama's only up 2 points there. mitt romney tried to move the needle by traveling to california to visit the bankrupt

debate. governor scott walker debates democrat candidate tom barret in milwaukee. it's hosted by the broadcasters association foundation. the candidates are questioned by local television anchors and the moderator and ceo john labs. the election is a ra match as scott walker defeated tom barret 52-46%. this is just under an hour. >> live from the campus of milwaukee and the studios of milwaukee television. the broad kaerss association foundation present as statewide broadcast debate between the leading candidates in a historical governor's recall election. now the president of the wisconsin broadcasters association, john lab. >> good evening. wisconsin's radio and television broadcasters are blessed to sponsor widely broadcast debates and major political campaigns. this evening will engage two leading candidates in the first government norse recall election in the 164 history of the state of wisconsin. scott walker and milwaukee mayor tom barret. this evening is made possible in part through generous grants from the wisconsin association of independent college and universities andwba

danders a say on whether or not their governor can take over a city and scott walker is giving millions of dollars in aid to the people of wisconsin but does he really care about the well being or was confidence or is this one hundred million dollars payout nothing more than a political stuff. you need to know this on the same day that president obama and the nation took a major step forward toward marriage equality republicans in the house of representatives try to drag the nation backwards hours after the president's endorsement of marriage equality house republicans passed a measure in support of the discriminatory defense of marriage act known as doma which is a federal ban against same sex marriage republican measure also forbids the department of justice from using taxpayer funds to oppose doe even though wednesday was a historic day for the nation president united states coming out in support of marriage equality for the first time in history it's clear that this will be a long battle before the l.g.b. t.q. many community finally gets its. full civil rights and will be i

, great to have you both on the program. >> thanks. >>> the recall election of scott walker is coming up in less than two weeks, and here is what president obama is saying about it . . .f >>(narrator) current tv presents the campaign ads that changed history, brought to you by spiriva handihaler. today's campaign ads accuse candidates of flip-flops, but back in 1952, the adlai stevenson campaign called it double-talk. >>yes...uh, i mean no. >>no, uh i mean yes. >>you're confused. >>you're confused >>(campaign ad narrator) don't you be confused! >>in a lot of campaigns since then we've seen this theme. the candidate said one thing and then did something else. >>(current narrator)flip-flop ads can pack a real punch when the candidate already has a reputation for changing his mind too often, like this 1972 nixon ad targeting george mcgovern. >>and that was effective because mcgovern changed his mind on his vice presidential candidate, and that fed into this idea that he was prone to changing his mind. >>(narrator) the mcgovern campaign had lots of other problems, but the flip-flop ads ce

sluts. >> michael with what it means for america. >>> scott walker might be headed back to capital hill to explain his divide and conquer bombshell. >> you never had a conversation? >> no. >>> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. the obama campaign were ready to take on mitt romney's record as ceo of bain capital this week, but obama supporter, at least we think he's a supporter, corey booker changed the game when he said this about the campaign's bain strategy on meet the press. >> this kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. it's nauseating to the american public. enough is enough. stop attacking private equity. this stuff has got to stop. it undermine, to me, what this country should be focused on. it's a distraction from the real issues. it's either going to be a small campaign about this crap or a big campaign about the issues that american public cares about. >> president obama responded to the mayor's reaction in afternoon. >> this issue is not a distraction. this is part of the debate that we're going to be having in this election campaign about how do we

his tough union policies caused an uproar in wisconsin, governor scott walker down to his final week before a recall vote. so why is so little of the campaigning on both sides about the actual issue that started the recall in the first place? >>> good morning from washington. it's tuesday, may 29th, 2012. this is "the daily rundown." i'm huck tochuck todd. let's get right to my first reads of the morning. >>> guilt by association is the oldest form of political combat there is and it's often unfair. but when mitt romney heads to trump international hotel tonight in las vegas for a fund raiser with donald trump, designed to rake in $2 million, the question becomes is knowingly associating with a guy who at any moment can embarrass you just a bad judgment call? and is any sum raised from dining with donald worth the blowback? perfectly summed up this weekend by conservative columnist george will. >> the cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious to me. donald trump is proof if your net worth is very high, your iq can still be very low and you can intrude in politics. >

importance of possible governor walker win. republicans still see it as a major inflection point. correspondent mike tobin has the latest. >> as democratic mayor trails walker in every poll from the wisconsin recall, the liberal leading progressive change campaign committee is canceling $100,000 ad buy in the dairy state. this prompted the wisconsin republicans to claim the national democrats are throwing the towel and cutting their losses. >> supports begin pulling their advertisers off the air less than two weeks before an election day, it doesn't bode well for the campaign. clearly tom barrett is in trouble. >> democratic national committee chair debbie wasserman schultz is being dispatched to raise money for barrett. republicans say it's too little, too late. president obama's top campaign advisor tells fox news the money and manpower of the national party are with mayor barrett. >> 16 paid staffers. hundreds of lawyers to do ballot protection. thousands of volunteers now. the dnc is sending out fundraising e-mail to try to raise money for mayor barrett. >> with early voting

unseat scott walker? the man who nose so much about this race, ed schultz joins me tonight. and let me finish with president obama, once again, makes history. when begin with the evolution on gay marriage. jew gene robinson is a columnist for the "washington post." gene, i want you to start here, let's get the interview here, with robin roberts this afternoon. the president gave his support to same sex marriage, let's listen. >> i have to tell you that over the course of several years, as i talked to friends, family, and neighbors. when i think about friends of my own staff that are incredibly committed in monogamous same sex rips. when i think about the soldiers, airmen, or marines out there fighting on my behalf and feel constrainted, even knew don't ask don't tell is gone, because they're not able to commit themselves in a marriage -- at a certain point i just concluded that for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> a very dramatic response came after the remarks today, michael bloomberg point

have you with us. thanks for watching. a new video of scott walker materialing a billionaire donor about his plan to divide and labor might land him in hot water with the united states congress. the video of walker talking with billionaire diane hendricks surfaced in a documentary late last week. take a look. >> any chance we'll get to be a completely red state and work on these unions and become a right to work? what can we do to help you? >> we're going to start in a couple of weeks with our budget adjustment. the first step is deal with collective bargaining for all public employees. use divide and conquer. >> it's a look inside the governor's head and agenda less than one month before he staged an all out assault. at the time he lied about his reasons for gutting the public sector. his biggest lie happened during congressional testimony in april of 2011. >> have you ever had a conversation with respect to your actions in wisconsin in using them to punish members of the opposition party and their donor base? >> no. >> you've never had such a conversation? >> no. >> let's go back

the truth? >> yes. >> scott walker's divide and conquer bombshell is causing major problems. the washington post reports national democrats aren't helping the state party in wisconsin. mike tate is here to tell his side of the story. >>> bain capital walked away with a lot of money that they made off this plant. we view mitt romney as a job destroyer. >> the victims of vulture capitalism is speaking out. jp morgan $2 billion mistake proves republicans just don't get it. >> you think we need less financial regulation rather than more? >> i think we needless. >> bart shelton on the regulation we need to stop another disaster. >>> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. a new video of scott walker materialing a billionaire donor about his plan to divide and labor might land him in hot water with the united states congress. the video of walker talking with billionaire diane hendricks surfaced in a documentary late last week. take a look. >> any chance we'll get to be a completely red state and work on these unions and become a right to work? what can we do to help you? >> we'r

governor scott walker after his union busting bill was passed how is jobs on the line with the stork recall election just days away coming up we'll see why the outcome of this election could potentially create political hysteria. plus you know the motto what's yours is mine all curly that's the type of relationship the f.b.i. wants to harness with every american citizen invent a new technology that helps them eavesdrop on your son private cyber conversations will tell you what that means for your online data. and kids say the darndest things that we've always known from t.v. going to simply hugging students or being suspended from school for the most ridiculous and try to reasons just a few minutes was comedian dean obeidallah a teacher should stop being so politically correct. it's friday may twenty fifth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm at a martin and you're watching our team wisconsin governor scott walker made national headlines last year by busting up state unions remember this. governor walker's attack on collective bargaining rights caused a seventeen day occupation of the sta

our also scott walker is in a dead heat with his likely democratic challenger in the recall election or to a new poll the world walker's millions of dollars in t.v. ad barrage by him the victory in november and raising taxes on the rich raising the minimum wage and putting restrictions on c.e.o. pay have all been suggested as ways to reduce wealth inequality in america all these ideas can help should we be looking at more revolutionary ways to redistribute wealth in our country. needs you know this florida governor rick scott apparently thinks it's a great idea to arm up the republican national convention in tampa later this year with an eye on safety the city of tampa has banned potential weapons like crowbars water guns and string over six inches long already attempt by the mayor of tampa to also ban and to guns during the r. and c. was shot down by governor rick scott this week a two thousand and eleven law passed in florida prevents cities regulating firearms and governor scott refused to offer an exemption in this case arguing that it would violate the second amendment. so get r

richard murdock. now, the democrats have a shot >>> scott walker is trailing in the wisconsin impose trade if the gop has spent 7% pump some $80 million in wisconsin so far this year. scott walker is fighting for his life, and the money is not going to stop coming in as june 5th approaches. >>> scott walker is trailing in the wisconsin impose trade if the gop has spent 7% pump some $80 million in wisconsin so far this year. scott walker is fighting for his life, and the money is not going to stop coming in as june 5th approaches. i am joined by the winner of the primary, tom barrett, the democratic candidate in the recall election against scott walker. congratulations on your victory tonight. i was seeing how much you have been attacked by scott walker. that might have helped you in this democratic runoff. >> they obviously had single me out early on. they tried to keep me out of the race. he has raised $25 million to buy $1 million. the most recent poll shows me with a one-point lead over scott walker. he can get all of his out of state money. it seems to have no impact, but our cha

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money to the recall efforts against walker and let's see. >> boots are made for walker. >> stephanie: democratic mayor barrett is set to face walker in next month's recall. graham zielinski joins us now. hey, graham. >> thank you for having me. >> stephanie: thanks for coming on. so first what's your first take on this? was this the candidate you think is strongest that you were hoping for? tell us what's happening in wisconsin. >> we had four great candidates. kathleen faulk did so much to start the recall movement. mayor barrett is very strong. you'll see all four candidates that ran at a unity event. unlike the republican primary where they couldn't keep enough acid on each other our primary was very unified. everybody knows the stakes. everybody knows that to combat this mountain of corporate cash that is going to flood in here to buy our state again we're going to have to be unified. all of the candidates understand that all would have been great nominees. we have a very great nominee in my mayor tom barrett who i'm proud to have him here as mayor in milwaukee and he's done a gr

governor walker is looking forward to, and leading right now in the polls but the g.o.p. officials warn voters not to get complacent expecting the polls to tighten. and enter michael reagan. >> governor scott walker is turning wisconsin around. and for less than ronald reagan's son has taken note of his efforts. >> we feed leaders like scott walker. he is a reminder of someone named reagan from a long time ago. scott walker because of what he that is doing has turned a negative to a positive and bringing business back to wisconsin and getting people back to work in wisconsin. why in the world would the people of wisconsin want go back to those days of yesterday when the budget was out-of-control? jobs were not available. that is beyond me. >>neil: that is a big endorsement and we will talk to michael in a second but, we broadcasting like, from wisconsin, next monday and tuesday, as we interview governor walker before they start counting the votes. we will do all of this at a brand new time next week because my fox business network airs now at 8:00 p.m., eastern time, more on that in a s

convention in tampa, florida. and in wisconsin on friday, republican governor scott walker and milwaukee democratic mayor tom barrett faced off in a debate ahead of that state's june 5th recall election, only the third in u.s. history. governor walker became the targets of recall efforts just over a year ago when he signed a bill into law effectively ending collective bargaining right for public union workers. in 2010, scott walker defeated tom barrett 52 to 46% to win the governor's seat. the hour-long debate was hosted by the >> live from the studios of membership membership public television, the wisconsin broadcasters association foundation presents a statewide broadcast debate between the leading candidates in an historic governor's recall election. and now the president of the wisconsin broadcasters association foundation. >> good evening. we're pleased this evening to continue our public affairs broadcast tradition. this evening's debate will engage the two leading candidates in the first governor's recall election in the 164-year history of the state of wisconsin. governor scott

governor scott walker and tom barrett in a battle testing labor unions' muscle, maybe even its viability. the winner of last night's primary mayor tom barrett joins me. good morning, mr. mayor. >> good morning. >> have you heard from labor leaders, will you see strong support there? >> i'm very confident not only will the other candidates who ran for this office will support me but i will get the labor unions' support. we're looking forward to having a very unified front for the next 28 days and beyond that. >> i want to ask you, look at these numbers. the walker campaign has raised $25 million. you've raised $831,000. how do you compete sf? >> well, david beat goliath, as you may recall. scott walker is going to raise a lot of money from out of state. he's raised $13 million already this year. 60% to 70% of that came from out-and-state donors. we know in terms of spending that he's going to fastly outspend us in this race. but just last week, there was an independent poll that had me with a one-point lead over skol walker. this is a lot about turnout. and we have a lot of grassroots org

profile is republican governor scott walker of wisconsin with a stroke of a pen wiped out 50 years of union rights in the state of wisconsin. wisconsin was the first state of the country to recognize union rights for employees where they were born but scott walker got rid of them. he did not campaign on getting rid of those rights but once elected said he had to kill union rights in wisconsin to save the state's budgets. when the unions said yes to all the financial concessions he asked for and he still wanted to kill them off, it became clear it wasn't about money, not about the budget. he wanted to get rid of union rights in order to get rid of unions all together. if you get rid of unions all together there is no one funding the other side. there is no one funding democrats when business funds republicans. you get rid of union rights and game the whole state so democrats cannot compete in the big money part of elections ever again. pull that off and wisconsin didn't just go all red in 2010, wisconsin will be all republican all red from here on out permanently. democrats will nev

down republican governor scott walker and his cost-cutting plan and victoria says, if walker goes down, state budgets everywhere will blow up. how so, victoria? >> well, look, it sends a signal across the nation, that if you take on unions, if you -- if reform becomes part of your platform, the unions are going to go after you and, gosh, a recall? i mean, that is -- will send a clear signal all the way to california, where, in fact, the pension reform we had in mind, is new being reduced because the legislature here is, you know, they are scared and are focusing on our budget this year, instead of tackling the tough issues and it is happening already, i think. >> david: if walker goes down state budgets will be more out of control than now. >> no, i think they are coming under reform in a number of states, moving to 401(k)s, government workers and pension plans that are lucrative but wisconsin is a success story and the unemployment rate is below 7%, well below california and chief executive magazine says is one of the top 20 places for companies to start businesses and create jobs and

elections. let's listen to governor scott walker, the republican governor who is the subject of a recall effort. he made a trip to fox news last night. let's listen to some of what he said. >> it's not just for wisconsin. it's for the country. it's about courage. if they of fermi on the vote, it sends a powerful message not only around wisconsin but around the country that voters are serious when they said they want leaders waitinwilling to take on the powerful special interests and put the power back in the hands of taxpayers. that's the whole reason we have had millions of dollars coming in in the spring and then in supreme court race and in the recall process against me. the special interests in washington don't want the taxpayers involved. who is in charge? is it the taxpayers or special- interest groups? host: his opponent in the recall election is the democratic mayor of milwaukee, tom barrett. >> scott walker is plane trip tricks with job numbers because he did not like the real ones. >> and just like the tricks he is blank showing e-mails showing taxpayer dollars used for