>> senator larson, as soon as you heard about this plan, you actually started driving back to wisconsin right away? >> i did. i was trying to see if there was something we could do, anything, in order to try and stop this, but it was pretty obvious they didn't want to have anything to do with that. they didn't want the democrats there. we thought we were talking, we thought we were having good discussions, we thought we were on our way to having a compromise that would preserve workers' rights, remove some of the bad things from this trojan horse bill and get something through that the people of wisconsin could agree with and find a compromise with. that seemed to have been an affront. it seemed to have been a trick again on their part. if they wanted us back, they could have had us back. this was something where they intentionally deceived us. >> senator miller, the democratic leader of the senate said tonight that tonight 18