they weren t home. that tactic seems drastic for a governor who s trying to coax lawmakers back to the bargaining table, a day after a liberal prank caller punked governor scott walker into seemingly admitting he is going after unions. this is about public sector unions. you essentially are having taxpayers money being used to pay to l]bby for spending more on taxpayers money. it s absolutely ridiculous. david walker thought he was talking to this man, david koch, oil billionaire and conservative activist, but he was really talking to liberal blogger, ian murphy, who was impersonating koch. murphy posted the conversation on his website, the buffalo beast. this is our moment, this is our time to change the course of history. i m not going to allow one prank phone call to be a distraction from the realities that we have a job to do. representative pierce, representative porter republicans in indiana can killed their own union-busting bill, but still their democrats refuse
this was all about destroying unions and going after wage earners. governor walker addressed the prank phone call during a press conference this afternoon. the bottom line is the things i said are things i ve said publicly all along. the fact of the matter is, people have brought up all sorts of different options. as you saw, if you listened to the tape, we put that down. we said we ve had a civil discourse. my greatest fear over the weekend is when we had the abundance on both sides of the issue, that that might somehow lead to a disturbance. for us, that doesn t benefit the debate. walker, he s dancing big-time. the prank call makes him look like a fraud, a liar, and a guy with major presidential aspirations. it also validates the thousands of protesters and the 14 senate democrats who were standing up to his radical agenda. get your cell phones out, folks, i want to know what you think on this one tonight. tonight s text question is, do
that. that s what the impersonator said. then the governor did reveal that he is looking into whether he can charge you and your other democratic senators with an ethics code violation potentially for what you guys are doing. let me just play a bit of that sound bite, this is a prank phone call made to the governor by this liberal blogger pretending to be a gop contributor and i ll get your reaction: you heard that i was going to talk tom, that would be the only reason why, is we would only do it if they came back to the capitol with all 14 of them. hell, i ll talk, if they want to yell at me for an hour, you know, i ll used to that. i can deal with that. but i m not negotiating. bring a baseball bat. i have one in my office. i d be happy with that. i got a slugger with my name on it. beautiful. megyn: that was the wrong one, my apologies. let me get your reaction to that one. well, there s just basically two impressions that i have about the phone call overall.
things i said publicly all along. people have brought up all sorts of different options. in terms of other ways to come on in, it s not a trick. we have said it point blank. talk about it. i m willing to talk about it. i m willing to talk about it but i believe it ultimately needs to lead to a vote. that s something i ve said time and time again in front of all of you and stated very frankly. i won t allow one prank phone call to be a distraction from the reality. hey, alex. is that really the president on the phone for me? the prank call was posted by the buffalo beast, a left-leaning website. the man pretending to be koch was ian murphy saying he did it to show how candidly walker would speak to koch. the governor seemed very comfortable and eager to talk to you. were you surprised that it went as smoothly as it did and i mean, when you re on the phone,
reporter: bret, that controversial budget repair bill is stuck with a practical fill buster in the assembly. state representatives from the democratic party loaded the bill up with dozen toes of amendments drawing the debate out through the evening what has everyone talking out here is a phone call made bilet wing blogger to the governor. he pretended he was a billionaire. we were thinking about the crowds was planting trouble-makers. the only problem, because we thought about that. whereas i said hey, we can handle this. people can protest. governor walker responded said he dismissed the idea of using trouble-makers and won t be distracted by one prank phone call. now heather childers in new jersey. i m in hoboken, new jersey. like the copt partner in wisconsin, chris christie challenging them to make drastic cuts in the budget. but democrats are refusing to