we will talk to union president mary kay henry and the right wing wants the 99% movement dead. >> the occupy wall street movement is dead, finished as a legitimate political force in the country and that's a good thing. >> i ask robert greenwald of brave new films if o'reilly is right. in psycho talk, nancy pelosi delivers a knockout punch to one of the republican candidates and new polling has scott walker scrambling to fox news for help. >> it took a great act of courage to stand for what is right. >> we will have the latest on the effort to recall walker. good to have you with us tonight. thank you for watching. the 99% movement, while it is no longer in the tent mode, protests reach a new level of intensity and awareness during a coordinated national day of action with events in all 50 states. at this hour, thousands of protesters are marching in lower manhattan making their way down road all the way to the brooklyn blij. it follows a day of civil disobedience on wall street with protesters blocking the new york stock exchange this morning. nearly 200 people were arrested. one of

we'll talk to service employees international union president mary kay henry. and the right wing wants the 99% movement dead. >> the occupy wall street movement is dead. finished as a legitimate political force in this country. and that's a good thing. >> i'll ask robert greenwall of brave new films is o'reilly is right. in "psycho talk" nancy pelosi delivers a knockout punch to one of the republican candidates. and new polling in wisconsin has scott walker scrambling to fox news for help. >> i don't think they're going to be successful, governor, and i think it took a great act of political courage to stand for what's right. >> we'll bring you the latest on the effort to recall walker. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. the 99% movement, well, it's no longer in the tent mode. protests reach a new level of intensity and awareness today during a coordinated national day of action with events in all 50 states. at this hour thousands of protesters are marching in lower manhattan, making their way down broadway, all the way to the bro

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. >> tonight, sei, president mary kay henry gives us her first interview since she was arrested protesting in new york. and daily kos blogger jesse legreca is here. the marches continue tomorrow in madison. 30,000 or more are expected as a walker recall rally. we're going live to the badger state. >>> and newt gingrich has refused to appear on my show, but he's still teeing off on msnbc. >> i understand there are places like msnbc that are essentially the obama re-election team. >> tonight, i'm swinging back. >>> good to have you with us torrent, folks. thanks for joining us. in huge of support and strength by the 99% movement, republican answered the cry of americans fed up with income inequality. the gop solution, more tax cuts for the rich. that's right. house budget committee chairman paul ryan revealed a 17-page report called a deeper look at inequality. ryan was responding to an independent study by the congressional budget office will supports the central message of the 99%ers. the cbo report showed income of the top 1% grew by 275% between the years 1979 and 2007. now, you'll see o

i'm joined tonight by mary kay henry, international president of the service employees international union. great to have you with us. >> good to be here. >> you bet. this is big news. we're going into a new phase. tell us about going to washington. what's the plan? >> well, you know that last night was an expansion, ed, and today we are pushing signs out in every corner of the country that says we are the 99%, good jobs now, make wall street pay. so people are putting it in their houses, their churches, their workplaces, and then tomorrow we're doing community canvassing in neighborhoods and we're building to bringing people to washington all across this country people are saying we have the capacity as a nation to get 15 million people back to work in good jobs in january. people in congress just need to make the tough decisions. the republicans need to decide to stop protecting the 1%. and get us back to work. >> mary kay, how big is this effort going to be in washington? i mean, 30,000, 40,000, 50,000, and it's from the 5th until the 9th. is this going to be for a week? >> yes. i

joining us now, mary kay henry. thanks for being here. you are getting into this endorsement early compared to the last cycle. are you concerned about the excitement of voters? >> no, we are very concerned about the choice this country faces for the future and the republican field has made us incredibly concerned that we need to stand out now, trying to protect the rich and tax free corporations in this country. >> what are you telling them as you reach out will happen if a gop presidency does come to pass in 2012? >> well, our members in wisconsin wi wisconsin have a beginning understanding of what will happen that the standard of living gets rower. we lose jobs. public services are cut. so, we don't have to look for far to understand what we face. >> you really believe it's going to be that extreme. >> oh, yeah, and we want to get behind this president because we believe he fights for working families. he wants to get america back to work and we think that's the top priority. >> we're looking at some of the figures. last cycle, seiu put