shot, she was not dead and they tried to save her. i want the media to portray as somebody who did her research and why they were in that area, we don t know but she was not haphazardly out on the ocean just doing what, you know, loosely traveling around. martha: so sad. let s bring in mike barrett, former director of strategy for the white house, homeland security council and former intelligence officer for the office of the secretary of defense. mike, welcome. this is such tough news, and this is something we have not seen in this whole pirate story over the last several years. one of the pirates is quoted as saying it s never going to happen again that people get rescued and we get arrested. that is not the way we re doing things anymore. your thoughts. i think that s true. one of the trends that we re seeing here is that somalia is sort of an untkpwofp dollars area, there s a lot of lawlessness there. one of the challenges is that it basically used to be fishermen who didn t have
why we have to reform collective bargaining to balance the budget. the answer is simple. the system is broken. it costs taxpayers serious money, particularly at the local level. reporter: without collective bargaining governor walker says local leaders will have much better control over their budgets particularly as it relates to costs with employees and benefits, martha. martha: that is, of course, highly kr-pbt kwr-l and there s a tie-up in the senate. we just looked at the house side of things in wisconsin. any indication there s going to be any stalemate to get these folks back and have them deal with this legislation any time soon, mike? no indication that the stalemate is going to break. we talked with senate democrats, they believe they can stick this out as long as it takes. talked with the senate president yesterday, he says the votes are on the republican side right now, so all they have to do is simply wait this thing out until the senate democrats return. he also says i
martha: loud and clear but from who knows where. that was senate minority leader mark miller along with his 13 fellow senate democrats, in their undisclosed location, believed to be somewhere in illinois at this point. mike tobin is live to us in madison, wisconsin. mike, we hear the assembly has really been the active chamber in the wisconsin legislature. what s going on there? you know, effectively, what you have going on in the house, or the assembly as it s called in wisconsin is a filibuster. the democrats didn t leave the house so they can deal with financial issues right now because they have a quorum and they can deal with this controversial repair bill, but what the democrats have done to slow this bill down is they have dumped on it dozens and dozens of amendments and they ve drawn out the debate, so state representatives pulled on all nighter and they re still going at it right now, despite all of this governor walker took to the air waves last night, he s not giving up an
precedent and the next time they came to legislation they didn t like they would run for the border. senate democrats said they won t do that but still they say it sets a bad press sent. martha: tough way to do business. thanks mike tobin in wisconsin. bill: the battle is moving and it s starting in ohio, hundreds marching down the streets of columbus, protesting a bill that would essentially end collective bargaining for all state employees in that state. it s the so-called senate bill five, eliminating tenure as a consideration in deciding who gets laid off. it would require employees to pay 20 percent of their health insurance premiums into a merit-based pay for some government workers. the governor, republican john kasich, saying the measure is needed to deal with a looming $8 billion budget gap. critics cry foul. listen here. collective bargaining process is the most important tool that allows us to dictate benefits, our pensions, and it s all going to be taken away.