as far as the big idea out of the white house it hasn t come out yet, and i think a lot of people, both republicans and democrats, and there is criticism from democrats and liberals as well of this president, they haven t seen it yet. bill: you can especially hear it from the left, starting a bit earlier today. now from the right the debate you host on thursday night, what is likely to be the ideas that come out of that, other than just criticism of this president and his policies. reporter: that s a good question. we are going to try to get into specifics here. obviously the economy is going to drive a lot of the kpheg, and i m not giving anything away, because anybody going into that debate would acknowledge that after this week, the past few weeks. i think there are ideas that are gaining traction out there. the repay tre repatriation of money overseas, to get them back in in tax-free status if they
economy, not by the number of billionaires we have for the profits of the fortune 500s, but whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business. the fundamentals we use to measure economic strength is whether we are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country great. alisyn: okay. tell us about that ad. because you see the two lines for democrat and republican. first democrat is going up sleepy then it levels off. reporter: the green line is the democratic line. when they see barack obama, bam they approve i of it. republicans negative. when republicans realize what it is that it s barack obama s records and his deeds and the actual facts behind it the reaction is so negative that republicans and democrats end up in the same place. i stopped the group and said do you understand that this is an
got a lot of outside help, too, from big businesses who don t care what happens in wisconsin. listen: we re up against some very, very difficult entrenched corporate powers that have taken over not just politically in wisconsin but nationwide. what we ve seen in wisconsin is just the beginning of our own citizens attempt to take back our government. reporter: so the democrats think they ve actually got what it takes to pick up the three seats they would need to pick up the majority in the state senate here, republicans don t think that s going to happen but even if the democrats are able to pull that off they might not be able to hold on the majority alone but next week, two democrats face a recall, so it could be musical chairs at the state house in madison in the next few weeks. alisyn: it really sounds like it. we all remember the raucous protests at the state house there. we ll see what happens in this chapter today. peter doocy, thank you. bill: we are learning more about wha
ask the gop state senate leader here. in the last century in america there have been 20 recall elections and 13 lawmakers have ever been recalled. today in wisconsin, six republicans are facing a recall. if the democrats can pick up just three seats, they will also pick up control of the state senate here in wisconsin. they re trying to turn back the controversial scott walker budget, the governor here who passed it through despite much protest a few months ago. they re getting a lot of help from the outside, a lot of money, $30 million has been spent between the republicans and the democrats on these state level campaigns in the last few months and if you ask the gop here they ll tell you it all comes down to unions versus republicans. we have had literally the air waves have been bought up by the unions in an effort to persuade wisconsin voters to take a look at what we did in the area of the budget, balancing the budget. reporter: but democrats are saying that republicans
capitol in a desperate attempt to stop the violence, london police stepping up their presence and even considering using plastic bullets to disburse massive crowds. kay burly is tracking the chaos. reporter: we spoke to the prime minister a short time ago, he was also meeting firefighters. that was important in south london. they certainly have had attacks over the last 24 hours again, maybe 24 hours. and a factory there was destroyed, the family couldn t get there quickly enough, they were anxious about their own safety, they needed backup, by the time they got inside, they had smashed the window and torched the place. completely went up. five generations of one family. the whole business has been destroyed. the prime minister, aware of that, flew in overnight,