And we are live here in milwaukee, where the Wisconsin Democratic party is holding their 2016 founders day gala. The event will include remarks from president ial candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. We will also hear from several lawmakers including senator franken and Tammy Baldwin. And representatives more and marcy kaptur. Expects the program to begin shortly. Until that happens, we will show you a discussion from todays washington journal. Welcome to the program. Good morning, sir. Pleasure. It has been a week of storylines of politics and the media. It began monday with president obama speaking at syracuse university. Here is president obama speaking at that event come a talking about the future of journalism. We want your thoughts. President obama as i go into my last year, i spend a lot of time are selecting on on reflecting on how this crazy notion of selfgovernment works. How can we make it work. Important this is anything. Nt as in an era in which Attention Spans a
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the other piece of information we have in the 8th district, which includes suburban milwaukee, sandy pasch is leading the incumbent with only 18% of the vote. pasch at 57-43 over alberta darling. but i must say, it is still very early. and we also have in the 32nd district, which includes the city of lacrosse, wisconsin jennifer shilling s lead is now at 53% to 47% over senator dan kapanke. joining me now is senator bob chuck. what s your feeling about what you re seeing right now? first of all, democracy is alive and well in wisconsin. on august 9th on august 9th the citizens of wisconsin have declared democracy as their territory, and they re holding republicans accountable. i think you re finding that you re going to see some ships
where we stand. we are told now that randy hopper and jessica king are virtually tied in the 18th district. that is one that the democrats are hoping to win big-time. also, jennifer shilling leads dan kapanke in the 32nd district. so as it stands right now, the republicans have won two of the races that they were expected to win and the democrats are either tied or slightly leading in the two races that they are very hopeful to win in this. and of course we are also told sandy pasch is leading alberta darling, but still a lot of votes have not been counted in that district. joining us now is jim palmer, who is the executive director of the wisconsin professional police organization. good to have you with us. and i m introducing you tonight to three people that have been with us on this wisconsin ride and been through all of this. that s exactly right.