. >>> and scott walker's troubles run deeper than he wants you to know. there are new developments in the john doe investigation. john nichols of "the nation" magazine has the latest. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. mitt romney's campaign has a ted nugent problem. the conservative gun in out and aging rock star is attracting the wrong kind of attention for republicans right now. nugent backpedaled today on the statements he made at a national rifle association gathering. >> i'm a non-violent guy. i don't threaten. i wouldn't waste my time threatening. i've never threatened anyone's life in my life. i would not win will not threaten anyone's life. i certainly wouldn't threat the life of the president. >> nugent also said his speech at the nra was 100% positive and he stands by it. you decide. >> and if you want more of those kinds of evil, anti-american people in the supreme court, then don't get involved and let obama take office again. because i'll tell you this right now. if barack obama becomes the president in novembe

scott walker opened up a new front in the republican war on women. the obama campaign isn't backing down from this fight. this is getting real good. this is the "the ed show." let's get to work. >> fewer than 20% of the seats in congress are occupied by women. >> the president is taking a stand against the war on women. >> is it possible that congress will get more done if there were more women in congress? >> republicans are still in denial. >> i think this will pass as an issue as people understand our real position. >>> the new job numbers fall short of expectations and republicans are dancing for joy. vermont senator is here with reaction and a plan. >>> two more companies cut ties with the conservative group. >> members don't agree with all the policies. >> the color of change campaign is keeping the pressure on. their executive director joins me tonight. >>> one of the biggest names in american entertainment says he was the victim of racial profiling. michael ericdyson on explosionive a allegations 37. >>> good to have you with us. the presiden

they will decide whether to remove governor scott walker. the recall election stems from walker's effort to push through legislature stripping of bargaining rights for unions. he spoke with jim axelrod. >> reporter: last year the wisconsin capitol was under siege, occupied by unionized government workers out to defeat the plans of governor scott walker. walker's proposals passed the legislature public employee unions lost the right to negotiate contracts and employees were required to kick in more of their own money for health and pension benefits. the unions think you're a union-busser. are you a union-buster? >> no. i know collective bargaining is not a right. it's an expensive entitlement. it's about time somebody stood up for the hard-working taxpayers of our state. >> reporter: when it's talked about as perhaps the most important nonpresidential election of this decade, they're talking about the philosophical underpinnings to this notion of how much public employees are going to are to contribute. >> the largest philosophical issue is w

. >>> scott walker is running scared. he's mailing lies across america. now he's calling in the heavy artillery. >> you know, something may go down tonight, but it ain't going to be jobs sweetheart. >>> tomorrow is the white house correspondence dinner. tonight, we're looking back at some of its greatest hits. >> paul ryan couldn't be here tonight. his budget has no room for laughter. >>> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. republicans are stuck between a rock and a hard place in the fight over student loans. the gop wanted interest rates on some student loans no double in june. well, today, they voted oen a bill in the house to keep the rates where they are. house democratic leader nancy pelosi pointed out the president forced the republicans to act. >> the point is that on the floor of this house at this time on this day, the republicans have folded because the president made the issue too hot to handle. that's why the bill is coming to the floor today. >> there's only one problem. the bill in the house is a complete sham and republic

scott walker is courting high-profile conservative donors, and many of them outside of his state. his secret schedule -- actually it is kept secret but he has been reportedly traveling to california and new york texas. last night he was at a fund raiser in michigan, this as hundreds of protesters turned out when he headlined a $10,000 a plate event in oklahoma put on by the billionaire coach -- koch brothers. >> walker go home! walker go home! >> they didn't stop walker from finding big money in oklahoma and elsewhere. bob perry the texas financier he cut two, $250,000 checks to walker at the event. two. this is not just about wisconsin, however. what happens there could have major implications for other state races. republican oklahoma state senator david holt when he was at that event summed up the sentiment saying: that we can do this. hum. now we turn to madison wisconsin and kathleen falk. she is the democratic candidate for governor, and hoping to become the state's first female governor. i'm so glad to be able to welcome here inside "the war room." thanks for joining us. >>

. >>> up next, scott walker has been absent from the campaign trial as the gop candidates toured his state. john nickels explains why he might be the won avoiding them. don't forget to listen to me, my radio show on sirius xm and on progressive talk stations around the country. stay tuned. >>> in the big finish wisconsin hopes it will put an end to the robo calls. some residents report getting up to ten calls day. the romney campaigns calls have tried to connect rick santorum to union leaders. >> the union bosses are trying to influence the election today by having democrats vote for rick santorum so the republican primary will last longer. they tried this trick in michigan and it didn't work there. dent let them do it here. >> santorum supporters are getting into the robo call wars as well focusing on social issue s. >> when you vote tomorrow vote for social sanity in rick santorum. >> rick santorum is the only candidate that can be trusted to uphold traditional marriage and the rights to have a mother and a father. >> there's been one mayor player missing from the campaign events i

. >>> up next, scott walker has been absent from the campaign trial as the gop candidates toured his state. john nickels explains why he might be the won avoiding them. don't forget to listen to me, my radio show on siruis xm and on progressive talk stations around the country. stay tuned. >>> in the big finishwisconsin i hopes it will put an end to the robo calls. some residents report getting up to ten calls day. the romney campaigns calls have tried to connect rick santorum to union leaders. >> the union bosses are trying to influence the election today by having democrats vote for rick santorum so the republican primary will last longer. they tried this trick in michigan and it didn't work there. dent let them do it here. >> santorum supporters are getting into the robo call wars as well focusing on social issue s. >> when you vote tomorrow vote for social sanity in rick santorum. >> rick santorum is the only candidate that can be trusted to uphold traditional marriage and the rights to have a mother and a father. >> there's been one mayor player missing from the campaign events

governor scott walker and lieutenant governor rebecca kleefisch are facing recall elections. and congressman paul ryan goes "on the record." you will never believe what the gsa just did to you. now, we are not going to tell you part of it right now. you are going to get way too upset bu. we will tell you in a few minutes. that's coming up. but right now, governor mitt romney. and tomorrow is a big day for him in wisconsin. we spoke with governor romney a short time ago. nice to see you, especially in my home state. >> thank, greta. good to be here. >> greta: it's the first time i have done an interview among oil drums. >> this is a company that is a distribute oar of oil products. happy to be here, hopefully we can get the price down. >> greta: one of the questions were asked was about oil in your town hall and the president's super pac is running an ad saying that you pledged to protect the billions in profits of oil companies. so i am curious nlight of the fact that gas prices are so high, how do you explain -- hoar how does the government justify tax break when it is big o

calling scott walker a hero and man of courage. scott walker's recall election is on june 5th. we've been in a busy season for recalls these days russell pearce, head of the arizona state senate who rammed through the arizona immigration papers please law. this is mr. pearce testifying before congress this week in a don't tread on me tie. he wasn't there as elected official. evening the he used to be the most powerful man in arizona, he was recalled from office in november. in maine, the conservative majority there took away the right to vote on the same day you register, something mainers had enjoyed for decades without controversy. republicans said voting needs to be harder in maine. mainers said poppycock to that and recalled that republican make voting harder law through a citizen's referendum in november. in ohio, the hard core conservative majority in ohio voted to strip union rights in that state kind of like wisconsin but worse. the ohioan republicans law never went into effect because it was recalled by more than a 20 point margin in november. republicans passed it in

i was with scott walker. i went toe to toe with him time and time again, and i heard him talk about how he was going to create jobs, but in 2011, under the leadership of scott walker, the state of wisconsin lost more jobs than any other state in this country. >> john, as we look down the line at the general election fight, has the walker recall controversy taken the state off the electoral map for republican at this point? >> i think it has. the polling suggests that wisconsin is leaning very strongly toward barack obama, and there's also something else. what has happened as regards governor walker, this fight over labor rights has moved a substantial portion of union members who tended to vote against their union endorsement and back republicans more deeply do the democratic camp. i think that's helped president obama a good deal. >> john, great to see you this morning. thank you, sir. >> pleasure. >>> at least one government agency is likely wishing what happened in vegas had actually stayed in vegas. the g

in 2010 scott walker promised he would create 250,000 jobs. instead, during his first 13 months in office, well, he racked up the worst jobs record in the country. there were 7500 fewer jobs in wisconsin than there were the month before walker took office. let's bring in ruth. this is rather unusual. he must be really nervous. he's got everybody in his sight who may be a potential opponent. what do you make of it? >> we knew it was coming, ed, this is going to be the negative tv campaign financed by the largest amount of financing that we've seen in history and right out of the gate he's attacking his potential opponents from his biggest weakness. he wants to talk about job creation. as governor he racked up the worst job creation record for the first time in america, the first time wisconsin has been anywhere near that and now he wants to blame a mayor and a county exec. the governor, the president, fed chair, they have something to do with job creation. so for him to blame them is kind of like a cook making a horrible meal and then trying to

what about scott walker? scott walker went up against big labor. doesn't want to pay the freight that -- in the retirement and health benefits for the government workers, municipal workers. now they are going to recall him. he survive or no? >> it depends whether or not herb coal or russ feingold get in on the democrats. if you have somebody like that running against scott walker. >> bill: big name in wisconsin. >> that could be the difference. right now they have got a bunch of people. i don't know their names except for the mayor of milwaukee tom barrett. >> bill: put up a big name against him he might be out. >> oh yeah. >> who wins in wisconsin tomorrow night? >> i think romney wins. i would say maybe by less than the consensus polling shows only because santorum has out performed his polls in a couple of over states at this point. good grounds for romney because there are fewer evangelicals and as you see in some of the polling he is pulling some of those tea party and evangelicals toward him because of this coalescing of leaders around him an

they will decide whether to remove governor scott walker. he's a hero to some and a villain to others, taking on the public employee unions. jim axelrod spoke with walker about the recall effort. >> reporter: last year the wisconsin capital was under siege, occupied by unionized government workers and their supporters out to defeat the plans of governor scott walker. >> union busting! >> reporter: walker's proposals passed the legislature. public employee unions lost the right to negotiate contracts and employees were required to kick in more of their own money for health and pension benefits. the unions think you're a union buster. are you a union buster. >> no. i know that collective bargaining is not a right. it's an exexpensive entitlement and it's about time somebody stood up for the hardworking taxpayers of our state. >> reporter: when it's talked about as perhaps the most important non-presidential election of this decade, they're talking about the philosophical underpinnings to this notion of how much public employees are going to ha

they wil de whether to remove governor scott walker. he's a hero to some and a villain to others, taking on the public employee unions. jim axelrod spoke with walker about the recall effort. >> reporter: last year the wisconsin capital was under siege, occupied by unionized government workers and their supporters out to defeat the plans of governor scott walker. >> union busting! >> reporter: walker's proposals passed the legislature. public employee unions lost the right to negotiate contracts and employees were required to kick in more of their own money for health and pension benefits. the unions think you're a union buster. are you a union buster. >> no. i know that collective bargaining is not a right. it's an exexpensive entitlement and it's about time somebody stood up for the hardworking taxpayers of our state. >> reporter: when it's talked about as perhaps the most important non-presidential election of this decade, they're talking about the philosophical underpinnings to this notion of how much public employees are going to ha

they will decide whether to they will decide whether to remove governor scott walker. he's a hero to some and a villain to others, taking on the public employee unions. jim axelrod spoke with walker about the recall effort. >> reporter: last year the wisconsin capital was under siege, occupied by unionized government workers and their supporters out to defeat the plans of governor scott walker. >> union busting! >> reporter: walker's proposals passed the legislature. public employee unions lost the right to negotiate contracts and employees were required to kick in more of their own money for health and pension benefits. the unions think you're a union buster. are you a union buster? >> no. i know that collective bargaining is not a right. it's an expensive entitlement and it's about time somebody stood up for the hardworking taxpayers of our state. >> reporter: when it's talked about as perhaps the most important non-presidential election of this decade, they're talking about the philosophical underpinnings to this notion of how much public employees are going to have

the bad guys in governor scott walker despite being declared unconstitutional on two separate occasions walker's voter id bill still managed to disenfranchise voters in yesterday's wisconsin primary and eighty seven year old woman was prevented from voting in a rock show i was confident she showed up at the polls without bringing her id however she had already registered to vote months before at the water city hall and you wish you well it's her name was even listed on the official poll list but she was turned away anyway so despite being declared unconstitutional and having been suspended walker's id law is still rearing its ugly and the very very ugly tennessee governor bill haslam haslam announced yesterday that he will likely sign into law a bill that attacks teaching of global warming evolution biological evolution and the chemical origins of life among other scientific topics bill serves to intimidate school administrators from disciplining teachers who teach the most outlandish faulty science in their classrooms basically haslam wants to allow state teachers to say whatever. they

what about scott walker? scott walker went up against big labor. doesn't want to pay the freight that -- in the retirement and health benefits for the government workers, municipal workers. now they are going to recall him. he survive or no? >> it depends whether or not herb coal or russ feingold get in on the democrats. if you have somebody like that running against scott walker. >> bill: big name in wisconsin. >> that could be the difference. right now they have got a bunch of people. i don't know their names except for the mayor of milwaukee tom barrett. >> bill: put up a big name against him he might be out. >> oh yeah. >> who wins in wisconsin tomorrow night? >> i think romney wins. i would say maybe by less than the consensus polling shows only because santorum has out performed his polls in a couple of over states at this point. good grounds for romney because there are fewer evangelicals and as you see in some of the polling he is pulling some of those tea party and evangelicals toward him because of this coalescing of leaders around him an

governor scott walker and lieutenant governor rebecca kleefisch facing recall. she will join us. and paul ryan goes on the record. and you will never believe what the gsa just did to you. we won't tell you part of the it now, you will get upset. we'll tell you the whole story in a few minutes. that's coming up. but now, mitt romney. nice to see you, especially in my home state. >> thank you, good to be here. >> greta: first time i've done an interview among oil drums. >> yeah. this is a moor oil company distributor of oil products. happy to be here. hopefully we can get the price of this down. >> good place to start. one question you were asked is about oil in the town hall. the president's super-pac is running an ad against you saying that you pledge to protect the billions in profits of oil companies. so i'm curious. in light that gas prices are so high, how does the government justify tax breaks. millions of billions in profits. that is taken from us. >> well, i think it's amazing and actually troubling for the president of the united states to be looking for someone to blame.

. >> reporter: make many republicans in 2010, wisconsin governor scott walker was swept into office on a wave of tea party support. but after just 16 months on the job, he faces a recall election this june. the effort was born of protests last year, as walker pushed through a new law limiting collective bargaining rights for most public employees. ultimately opponents of the law collected a million signatures to put the governor's recall on the ballot. the two leading democratic challengers are milwaukee mayor tom barrett, who lost to walker in 2010, and kathleen falk, a former countyive. falk has received more than $4 million from labor uns unions, which plays a key role in collecting the really pets. falk played up union support in a tv ad last week. >> one was there from the start, one has been endorsed by wisconsin workers. >> reporter: barrett meanwhile has targeted walker's leadership and handling of the economy. >> scott walker has divided our state, and while he's pursued his ideological agenda, last year wisconsin lost more jobs than any state in the country. >> reporter: the

walker sign the repeal of wisconsin equal pay for equal work lot or so. so many heinous bills that you probably lost track of them now during a segment i brought up two of the measures that was causing governor scott walker signed last thursday bills barring abortion coverage through health insurance exchanges and requiring doctors to consult privately with women who are seeking abortions along with those other bills he did quietly signed into law something else as our viewer pointed out last week walker appealed to wisconsin law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to get to court in two thousand and nine equal pay and force an act prevent employers from discriminating against certain groups by giving workers more avenues to press charges and allowed individuals to plead their cases in the less costly the more accessible state circuit court system rather than just in federal court so not only did scott walker attack women's health by putting restrictions on abortion services he then also repealed wisconsin's equal pay law that's not a w

scott walker. thank you. >> yes, republicans are exte extending the hand of friendship to wisconsin governor scott walker and he's welcoming their support. what started as a protest chant has now become reality. on friday, wisconsin election administrators verified that the recall election of walker will indeed go forward, for almost a year, walker has been grabbing headlines after he pushed through state legislation, blocking public service union's collective bargaining rights. how did this come about in wisconsin of all places? historically one of the most progress you have states? in 2010, wisconsin took a dramatic political turn, outsting russ feingold in favor of ron johnson. who just endorsed mitt romney for president and sent fiscal conservatives to the scott walker governor mansion. so wisconsin's labor fight has garnered so much national attention, even trumping the presidential primary there, in part because wisconsin's issues are a microcosm for a nationwide trend and scott walker knows