in line for hours to put their name on the list. you go through a big city people are up at 6:30 catching a bus if they re lucky to have a job. this country likes to work. and this president has to do the thing. i agree with bloth you guys, but we ve got to move. thank you robert reich and bill richardson. coming up, another sultry day for the labor movement. the wisconsin recall fight, they lost it, democrats fall a seat short, what else is new, in that state senate fight they hope to win. labor, where are you? where s the big rally in washington? i haven t seen one lately. i see it against abortion rights, see it for steve colbert, for demonstrations for everything except jobs. where is labor? you re watching hardball, only on msnbc. is a what if. what if we designed an electric motorcycle? what if we turned trash into surfboards? whatever your what if is, the new sprint biz 360
various connections to rise up in his field. taking advantage of scholarships is gaming the system. middle classers, do you agree with that? these days an instate school will run you more than $12,000 a year, private schools are more than 30 grand a year. if aspen had his way, and we did away with scholarships and government aide, many families would never be able to afford to send their kids to college. aspen had no problem with the way president obama s predecessor got into college. his lucky membership got him into yale. but it s president obama who got all the breaks. wisconsin supreme court justice david prosser accused of putting a female justice in a choke hold? the latest on that story, plus the wisconsin recall fight, john nichols with us next.
joining me tonight is sam stein, political reporter for the huffington post who reported on that story. good evening, sam. first off, we have to ask you for your thoughts about, what do you make of washington post report tonight that tomorrow s meeting with the house and senate leaders, the president is going to be pushing for entitlement cuts in exchange for republican support for tax cuts? what do you make of this tonight? it s a big deal. it s a new development obviously in these negotiations. we have to consider where these started with near unanimous agreement that the debt ceiling should be raised by both speaker boehner s office and the presidency. at first the white house was insists on a clean vote, now we ve gone to the point where we re mimicking the bowles simpson plan. whether you re talking about raising the retirement age or means testing, for instance. those are major concessions that are going to rang wrangle a lot of democrats. why would the president go
years, using scholarships and various connections to rise up in his field. taking advantage of scholarships is gaming the system. middle classers, do you agree with that? these days an instate school will run you more than $12,000 a year, private schools are more than 30 grand a year. if aspen had his way, and we did away with scholarships and government aide, many families would never be able to afford to send their kids to college. aspen had no problem with the way president obama s predecessor got into college. his lucky membership got him into yale. but it s president obama who got all the breaks. wisconsin supreme court justice david prosser accused of putting a female justice in a choke hold? the latest on that story, plus the wisconsin recall fight, john nichols with us next.
now finally after promising it for a long time, republicans and conservative groups have turned in signatures to try to recall democratic state senators, three of them, all democrats, all of whom will be on the ballot in districts that, as you can see here, are voting even bluer than they were before since november. so to be honest, there s not exactly panic on the democratic side of the great wisconsin senate recall fight of 2011. in fact, the democrats are crowing about how the fact that the recall effort against them doesn t really demonstrate any anti-democratic feeling in the state. they say that they paid out of state signature gatherers. but then there s the booze thing. audio was posted today documenting another one of the democrats claims that recall petitions against the democratic senators remember collected in part by people who offered free