This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," March 10, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO, GUEST HOST: Wisconsin's general assembly was finally able to approve stripping most collective bargaining rights from the state public workers after being disrupted most of the day by protestors. The Senate approved a similar bill yesterday. Governor Scott Walker says he'll sign the legislation as quickly as possible.
Angry pro-union demonstrators have not only been disrupting the Democratic process, they have been issuing death threats like this one to Wisconsin's Republican leader, quote, "We have all planned to assault you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head." Wow! Take a look what else has been transpiring within the last 24 hours.
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TEXT: Wisconsin Senators Voted.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a violation of law (INAUDIBLE), Mr. Chairman.
TEXT: Here's how pro-Union forces reacted.
(SHOUTING)
TEXT: They climbed through Statehouse windows. They breached the Assembly chamber. They struggled with police. They're plotting what to do next.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got to hit them right where it hurts. Right in their pocketbook.
TEXT: Radical left-wing activist Michael Moore agrees.
MICHAEL MOORE, FILMMAKER: The money's just not in the people's hands, it's in the hands of the rich. Just take a look at this, OK? Because this is what's coming for you because the people aren't going to take it anymore. They're going to demand that your ass is in jail. You've taken our money. We want the money back.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How many more people do you think they can throw out of their homes before they do revolts?
TEXT: Moore encourages students to revolt.
MOORE: There's going to be a massive student walkout Friday afternoon. The nationwide student walkout of high schoolers. The last hour of school you walk out of that school.
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NAPOLITANO: Wow. Reaction now from John Stossel, my colleague, and host of "Stossel" on the Fox Business Network. And Pat Caddell, former pollster for Jimmy Carter before he saw the light and became a Fox News contributor.
Gentlemen, welcome here. What is Michael Moore trying to do there? What kind of disruption is he trying to bring about?
JOHN STOSSEL, FOX BUSINESS NETWORK ANCHOR: Obstruct (ph) us, I'm ready. I'm going to lock you up.
NAPOLITANO: Oh, my goodness, --
STOSSEL: You rich people.
NAPOLITANO: -- I should have known you'd have the props here. But the suggestion that because somebody is rich, they belong in jail. Does he look in a mirror when he says that?
STOSSEL: It's -- you know, he's not as rich as the Forbes 400 and it's why we need economic education because people -- politicians think this way. Their world is a zero-sum game. One person wins, somebody else loses.
They don't -- it's not intuitive to understand that these rich people don't take from others, that they create wealth.
NAPOLITANO: Do politicians even understand that the government consumes wealth, but private enterprise creates wealth? Take a dollar out of private enterprise and add it to -- give it to the tax man. That's a dollar less that could be made into more of a dollar.
PAT CADDELL, FMR. POLLSTER FOR PRESIDENT CARTER: No, not really. I mean, I remember Barney Frank gave a speech last year to business people telling them how government would help them. This is the government's job to make the economy work and what their role in it was.
This is a problem -- they -- look, our politicians don't understand very much of anything, I think, sometimes as they've proved in the last few days.
STOSSEL: But most people don't understand. It's not intuitive.
CADDELL: No, they don't. It's not intuitive, but we don't educate anybody about anything. And that's the --
STOSSEL: Oliver Stone movies.
NAPOLITANO: Right. That's the extent of education. Do you think these protests are going to get worse? I mean, this guy is calling for children to leave their schools on a Friday afternoon. You talk about endangering the welfare of a minor. What is his bag?
STOSSEL: I'm not in the prediction business. That's his bag. All right? I won't go there. I don't know what will happen.
NAPOLITANO: All right. But, obviously, people need to understand that this is not going to help America when this kind of thing happens.
CADDELL: No. I mean, you're seeing things blow up today in a way -- you know, you would have thought it was the Tea Party that's happened at the state Capitol of Madison based on last year's coverage of the mainstream media of protests.
But, no, this is going to get -- this is going to get worse because there's a belief that you could move this now in the streets. It's an insane belief. This is a misunderstanding of the public opinion in this country. The Republicans -- let me just say this -- had done the worst job ever to make their case.
Go back to the point John just made about education. To explain the difference as Chris Christie did two weeks ago --
NAPOLITANO: You know, I --
(CROSSTALK)
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