barrett by seven points. it s a stinging defeat for organized labor, which poured millions of dollars into the race in an effort to push walker from office. union leaders launched the recall drive in response to the governor s conservative agenda, which includes a contentious measure to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public workers. supporters of walker say his proposals are in an even stronger position now after the vote. and with us now, live from madison, wisconsin, chief washington correspondent of cnbc and political writer for the new york times john harwood. and from washington, political director and host of the daily rundown chuck todd. john harwood, we ll start with you on the ground there. any way to slice this other than a big blow to unions? absolutely not. you know, you raised the stakes by not just opposing the legislative agenda of a governor but trying to eject him from office prematurely, and you get
it. right. you ve written about what you say is the rank hypocrisy of governor walker when it comes to this recall election. what do you mean by that? governor walker in his previous job as the milwaukee county executive. one of the highest ranging local officials in the state, came to that position after a recall drive forced the previous county executive out. and in 2010, not a long time ago. just in 2010. governor walker cut a video in which he praised recall elections as expressions of democracy that gave people hope. now in this election, suddenly he has discovered that they re horrible things that shouldn t really be allowed. he is trying to suggest that we ought to get rid of a lot of our recall laws and dial it down. it is rather amazing how much he shifted in the last two years. maybe he s learn his revisionism on saturday. on saturday, walker deny reports
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strength. i talked to a man who od ed on bath salts. president kennedy died at 1:00 central standard time. 2:00 eastern central standard time. i guarantee you will learn something you did not know about the most trusted man in america. here are tonight s big stories and what we are working on for you tomorrow, anybody with money in the markets and that is most americans will want to keep an eye on the dow tomorrow. it s down nearly 9% since may first. george zimer mzimmerman no long free man, he surrendered in florida today. they revoked his bail saying he lied about how much money he had, we will look at what is next for him in minutes. the largest fire in new mexico s history and growing bigger, it s far from being controlled. just 17% contained and the rain they were hoping for is not coming yet. the wild fire is in the national forest, covering an area 1 and a half times bigger than it was. a earthquake hits panama, so far, there are no reports of injuries or da
martin, zimmerman barely made the deadline to report to jail today. when we last spoke, he had 45 minutes left. why did he have to turn himself in? explain to our viewers. well, this is all going back to, of course, last friday when the state introduced evidence that seemed to indicate that george zimmerman and his family had not been completely honest as to their finances, how much money they had, and that all weighed in to the judge s decision on where to set bond. it seems the family actually had access to a lot of money. and that set up everything that happened with the judge revoking the bond and george zimmerman having to show up here and turn himself in, and he did it, as you say, with 45 minutes to spare. he actually turned himself in to authorities at the side of a highway. listen to the sheriff describe that scene. george zimmerman met two members of the sheriff s office in the area of lake mary at i-4, was placed into custody, transported to the correctional fa