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my name is team fleeing you're watching the two eighteen network
on the phone with us is a reporter who's been on the ground in wisconsin i think
he was there for an entire week other protests against scott walker's budget
fix bill and on the phone with us right now we have malcolm wheeler from the
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thanks for out thanks for your time so what it what's been going on i what have
you seen on the ground we build hearing reports mainly from the governor he's
saying that everybody's from out-of-state and there's not anybody
from wisconsin down there shaking their fists of his that budget cooks so could
but a number grew crackers freedom
you reboot gotten better cramped but allotted
there's a whole other bit of a lot of people that there have been tens of
thousands of people protesting both inside and out
since middle of last week we arrive late thursday night
and uh...
boisterous
happy
passionate crowds tens of thousands everyday
probably up to maybe a couple thousand
young demonstrators student sleeping in the capital they capital every night we
cut their couple nights ago
uh... no they're not there there there certainly some out-of-state earth uh...
as well as out of state journalists
but in wisconsin think that the postcards and people
you know standing up for for workers' rights
you know student
teachers
hardhat
a whole lot of people
and uh... it's been something of
you know in attic struggling what we we got to fee
scott walker up close and he held a press conference
monday
evening in his quarters
and the state capitol and during a press conference when he stood up
uh...
he was a man of steel he didn't blink he didn't smile he didn't budge an inch
time
on his uh...
union-busting legislation do you want and you could hear and feel the power
and they have of
thousand protesters
ut through two doors down the hall the thousands author of the capitol
with an incredible to incredible moment
visually and an audio on
that's just a bit of a breaking breaking news this morning
and william p disclosure of i've written for them
also need as subs and money but after anyway
buffalo beast is pertaining to be david cclc
and calls
governor walker and they have a very charming conversation and basically here
talk about how they're in this together
at what do you think that this is going to have an impact on
you know going forward
now that he's disclose kind of some of the tricks that he's been
trying to
make happen
yeah well that whatever may be development and project alive yet looked
into two-bit because they have been driving back from minnesota just arrived
but man hope for first thing i mean i think for those who've and following
that clearly and and for those
you know on the left
or supporting labor who have deep reservations about governor walker i
don't know if they'd be surprised by what he
but by what he said namely that he would basically hold five thousand or more
they workers hostage uh...
in the fence that if you can threaten to the democratic senators in illinois
but if they don't return role lay off five thousand workers
you know he itself again and that phone call he you know he said that he has
promised a democratic senators in illinois
hiding out in illinois the fourteen of them the wisconsin fourteen
that he's offer to negotiate if they come back and then he said on the phone
call that in fact it is a gift no intention of negotiating
you know i don't think that any democratic politicians um... either in
the family which is their workouts representatives
or the democratic senators in wisconsin of antitrust left the garbage them
what we heard from representatives we spoke to in medicine they have no truck
from so i don't have a lot of surprise but
what an embarrassment for him
one embarrassment and you've gotta think that
you know bom
swing voters in wisconsin perhaps
more moderate public and to vote for
walker are going to look into the key see this and they think well he insist
incredibly disingenuous anti he has his political career more
or more of his political career and his future endeavors in the national state
and he does
workers voters of wisconsin that this is going to be terribly embarrassing right
he compared himself to reagan
things like this is just like reagan n_b_c_ as you say you're just like
reagan you are
just like missing the mark
one more question for you i'd my favorite story come out that you guys
have done this week is about use pizza
well and just for people who are not familiar with it
inskeep so it's which has a very rather only in wisconsin pete's at their
signature pizza is macaroni and cheese on top of peeps and how perfect is that
for cheese heads
has been getting calls from all over the world
are most significantly of course
each ips
of people donating
macaroni and cheese pizzas to the protesters how did you guys find out
about this story
wonderful well you know great many stories we
see something and twitter mentioning it and uh...
it clears the way to follow the story exclude stories were news breaking every
second
in pizza is only a block and a half from they capital down state street where
go folks in the amassed one of the state tree runs from the from the university
wisconsin
um... up the hill to the state capitol
antolia block enough away why i ran down there got some video footage man
of the simpson piro league i think it's making a mac for interest rates of the
with the lady taking calls
around the clock
armed from folks
in almost opti state or include in cairo
four you note to donate keeps her to the demonstrators occupying the capital
it's a pretty cool story up
and they have a chalkboard in in indian in the pizza place
where they've listed all the country would have given man all the states that
given and yet cairo course
um i think it was sunday when i was going to do in the store in at that
point they had uh...
is up or five hundred theaters at them
and called them and i'm sure it's much more than that a not double
right by monday with the report i was glad to see non-starter was that nobody
could get through that you know it was a busy signal is literally right into the
report later
that people it does traditionally deliver on that but they were no longer
you could still walking biking people in fact i got what three thirty in the
morning to mexico
but they're open late but they're no longer delivering food and medicine to
anywhere but state capital and you know uh...
this someone runs up the hill the capital they walk and
and you know
euphoric and happy
young activists come on over a bit of ending up here for the anybody in the
capital all hours a day or night right young activists are all high on cards
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