love. vladimir putin is suggesting john mccain is nuts. mccain responds on twitter saying, dear vlad, was is something that i said? on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you. it is friday, december 16th. nine days left before christmas. can you believe it? have you finished your shopping? i have two gifts bought. and that means no. good morning, everybody. i am alina cho. welcome to american morning. the last critical debate before the iowa caucus, the front-runner, newt gingrich playing defense on his conservative values and electability. mitt romney stood by his business background playing it safe and texas governor rick perry realizing it may be the fourth down threw this hail mary pass. there are a lot of folk whose said tim tebow wasn t going to be a good nfl quarterback. that looked print good. am i ready for the next level? let me tell you i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. best line of the night.
thousands of fed up americans will be in the streets of madison, wisconsin, tomorrow. they re keeping the pressure on governor scott walker for his assault on workers rights. the campaign to recall walker kicked off earlier this week. more than 50,000 signatures were reported within the first 48 hours. 540,000-plus valid signatures are needed to force a recall election. tomorrow, the grassroots coalition, united wisconsin, along with labor groups and state democrats, will hold a rally for signatures outside the state capitol. organizers expect the crowd to rival the size of madison s protest from earlier in the year. since those days last winter, we ve seen the rise of the 99% movement and the fall of john kasich s union busting law in ohio.
scott walker is already playing defense with television ads, no to a recall. wisconsinites are motivated and not just in big cities. towns like spooner, wisconsin, in a republican leaning washburn county are seeing enthusiastic petition drives. make no mistake, wisconsin started this middle class movement in 2011. what you re seeing on the streets across the country is what s been going on all year in scott walker s backyard. i love it. joining me tonight, wisconsin state senator lena taylor. senator, good to have you with us tonight. it s we re almost back to the good old days here with the rallies. how many people are going to be showing up tomorrow? you know, it s going to be a lot of people that will be at the rally, but to be very candid with you, there will be more people out knocking on doors and out with petitions getting signatures. because the rally is a good thing, but collecting those signatures so we can recall or governor is more important. we heard about the first
people saying, we deserve to be able to have access to the american dream. and is the occupy wall street movement connected to this recall? are these the same folks? well, you know, i think that there is definitely similarities. because scott walker has shown, and his cronies and his rubber stamp elelegislators, they choo corporations over the people, whether it s education cuts, you know, health care cuts, and i believe that the people who are participating in the 99%ers, so to say, those individuals are also saying they re fed up and the people should be chosen over corporations. it s completely unfair the gap is as big as it is. i tweeted tonight that walker is wisconsin s wall street. yes, he is. senator taylor, good to have you with us to. we re going to make sure it s good to be with you, ed. we re going to make sure he gets to do what his name says he is. he says he s a walker.
be putting pressure on all of the politicians who benefit only the wealthiest 1% to the detriment of everybody else in america. so governor scott walker, governor rick snyder i m sorry, rick scott. right down the line. not just republicans either. some democrats needs to be put on the unemployment line as well. you can throw snyder s name in there as well for michigan. he s pretty radical as well. they re repealing the 20th century. i keep telling people i m not against capitalism. i m against crime. for these guys to talk about we re the party of personal sponl responsibility. they re very hypocritical and doing a disservice to their countrymen. jesse, thanks for joining us tonight, let s do it again. absolutely. answer the question at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts @edshow. coming up, the scott walker recall efforts are going strong in wisconsin with big events this weekend. state senator lina taylor gives us the latest. this week s gop front-runner