limbaugh. they are leading the war on women. we will tell you why here that's one of the things we are going to talk about today. lots going on here, but first, let's go out to los angeles to get the latest with the current tv news update from jacki she schechner schechner. good morning. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everyone. here is what's current. newt gingrich may be relevant again thanks to rick santorum. santorum has been leading with prominent conservatives trying to figure out a way forward in this presidential race and one of the ways is getting newt gingrich to drop out. there is no indication that newt is ready to do that even though the two men are considered to be conservative in the race there is no guarantee that voters who support gingrich would actually switch their vote to santorum instead. the candidates all seem to be laying low today but the president has a busy day passing his into support amongst women and hosting a forum on women and the economy. the president will speak at 10:15. these are eastern times. log on and participate at wh -- not white house but wh.gov/live. there is a form for you to interact and ask questions. you can also use the hash tags women'secon forum on twitter and participate. in case you missed truck driver barbie is running for president, the 2012, presidential barbie. she has a power suit designed by chris bentz who has designed for michelle obama. they did it in between brian 2, 2004 and 2008. but what's most interesting about this one is she's got weighted platform shoes that let's her stand on her own two feet for the very first time. it only took 53 years for that to happen. want to talk about barbie or any of the other presidential candidates, join us, currents.com/billpress. we will see you after the break. 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>> i had a drink. i am good to go. >> dan henning assisted by the capable stephen duet. >> good morning, sir. >> that's all he has to say. and you get nervous when stevie gets too close. >> yeah. >> thank you and siprian boulding videographer extraordinary, the man behind the cameras. the big sports day yesterday? right? first day of the masters. crazy that they won't let women in but in ballparks around the country he it was opening day and, of course we heard it one more time ♪ take me out to the ball game. ♪ take me out to the crowd. ♪ buy me sop peanuts and popcorn. ♪ i don't care if i never get back. >> they could have gotten somebody to sing it. >> i am excited, though. baseball -- start of baseball is one of my favorite times of year. >> when is the first team at home. >> next thursday. >> next thursday. >> they owned, day 1 yesterday, playing the cubs in chicago and they beat them thanks to steven trotsburg. >> we you had paid enough for him. we ought to get a season out of him anyway. it is exciting. other than that tradition of singing "take me out to the ballgame". >> one of those things. >> 7th inning stretch and there you go. i love it t i don't know whether they still do it but we used to go to oakland a 's games in the bay area and there the whole stadium sings, "take this job and shove it." i always thought it was more appropriate anyway. a lot to talk about today. frank rich a great columnist, used to be in "the new york times" and now the new york magazine will join us, the reverend berry lynn head of great organization, americans united for the separation of church and state in studio with us and we will jump to the white house and say good morning to david jackson from u.s.a. todd to find outed what the police department is up to today. ay to find outed what the police department is up to today. >> the headlines making news as you mentioned, the master started yesterday, lee westward has the lead out of the first round, the blood pressure plan of care with a par 67 yesterday. he has a one-shot lead over luisease dousthaven and royr mcelroy and tiger woods played respectably as well. there are three days ahead looking for the highly coveted green jacket. >> a green jacket. pretty impressive. >> katie couric did it, took good morning america to the top wednesday morning according to abc abc. following games last week george instead of nap stephanopolus, with the narrowest margin. if the nielsen ratings trends continue, there is a chance gma could top them in over 16 years. >> george stephanopolous will get a good business. she did not beat sara palin but she did beat ryan secrest. >> yeah. >> absolutely. >> and porsche fancy are paying respects, ferdnant porsche passed away at the age of 76. he designed the 911 sports car with the, with his grandfather passed away. the he put the engine in the rear of the car. >> i saw two or 3 porsches that will had black bands around them. in mourning. >> they will drive with their headlights off or on or whatever. we start out this morning. in politics there are real issues and there are phony issues. here is one of the phoniest ones i have ever seen, all of this republican -- i am sure you have heard it all of this flap. fox news has gone ape you know what about this whole idea, this flack about what president obama said about the supreme court on the health care thing and they say, this is terrible. he is threatening the court. oh, my god. i have never heard a president say anything like this. this is such a bunch of crap and it is just a totally manufactured crisis. so let's start at the beginning. here is what it's all about. and i was there in the rose garden monday, part of the white house press core and --, -- /* with the three leaders, calderon and stephen harper and each gave their opening statement and they take one question from the canadian press one from the mexican press and one from the american press. the first question goes to the american press. bloomberg news guiliana goldman and she asked a question not about anything they were talking about but she asked a question about the supreme court. after all, three days of debate last week, three days of questioning. this was the first chance any of us had to ask the president, so what do you think's going to happen here, obama? and she asked he had and he answered: >> ultimately, i am confident that the supreme court will not take what will be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority. >> because the president, a a constitutional lawyer, one who taught constitutional law at the university of chicago, may we remind you and don't have to remind you. maybe remind these republicans, know what he is talking about. it would be unprecedented for them to overturn a bill that congress passed that has to do with the commerce clause. they haven't done that for, like, 75 years. and the president says he is confident the court will understand why the individual mandate is so key, is key to success of health care reform. >> i think the justices should understand that in the absence of an individual mandate, you cannot have a mechanism to ensure people with pre-existing conditions can get health care. >> that's it. unless everybody is in the pool, everybody buys in, you can't really cover without those who are in paying an extraordinary cost, maybe $1,100 or more dollars a year. finally, the president said, you know, they warn about judicial activism. let's hope we don't see any in this case. >> and i just remind conservative commentators that four years, what we have heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint, that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. >> well, there is a good example. >> right. i have got to tell you. sitting there, i heard the president say that and i am thinking thinking, 0 boy, that is a shot across the bow of these conservative republicans who are always complaining about activist judges. and sure enough republicans went bonkers. i me absolutely nuts fox news accusing of a chicago -- sean hannity, a thuggish intimidation tactics. mitch mccome says this is the case of exercising difficultstasteful flicks. jim dement uniforms in. how dare the president suggest that the supreme court should approve this law. >> if he had been told that the preliminary vote on friday was in his favor, why take the attitude that he took? there is an answer to that. i don't know if it's right. but there is an answer. he is a thug. >> yeah, let's go to name calling. >> that's what rush always does. >> that's what republicans always do, even karl rove he goes to dobbs, talks business news. all of the republicans have their talking points. thug, thug. karl rove. >> this is a bad way to start off, looking like you are some kind of political thug at the whitehouse, threatening the supreme court and basically telegraphing to them, you better uphold my law, or there is going to be political damage to be created, and i will help do some of the creating. i thought it was very unpresidential. >> there it is again, the talking points go out from the heritage foundation, go out from the cato institution, the right-wing think tanks. call him a thug. call him a thug. everybody calls him a thug. this is such nonsense. first of all, do you want to talk about politicians pile okay judges? look at these republican politicians. ever since i have been involved in politics a long time. right? i have heard republicans complain about activist judges judicial activism judges who legislate from the bench. right? sound familiar? remember, in the terri schivo case, tom delay said he will convene a panel of politicians to review the decision made by judges in that case because he disagreed with that. john cornon said these parachutedings is because judges are making such activist decisions. remember newt gingrich. who are these republicans complain being what obama said. newt gingrich said this year, not this year newt gingrich said if he were the president he would send the capitol police to arrest judges, arrest judges who made decisions he thought went too far. this is outrageous. all of the president -- the president said nothing yongwrong. yeah, i hope they uphold the law. i think they should and i think that they will. if they don't, you know, it might be -- theyit might be a case of judicial activism. i am telling you the republicans are the last ones to complain about this. what do you think about this? 866-55-press, again, i think obama said nothing wrong. he said what he should say. it's his law. he wants the judges to uphold it and you talk about an activist court? come on! this is the court that said that corporations are people and corporations can give as much money until political campaigns as they want to, to turn the political system over to exxonmobil and other big corporations like the koch brothers and this is the court that said, five of us are going to decide who is the next president of the united states? and interrupted a count and took the vote away from the american people and took it to the supreme court and five of them put george bush in the oval office? don't talk to me about an activist court. 866-55-7377. republicans made this up. they are phonies on this issue. we ought to take them on and not let them get away with it. ♪ >> this is the full court press, the bill press show, live on your radio and on current tv. is on the new news network. >>it is an independent progressive voice and i love that. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. a former two term governor. >>people like somebody who's got a spine. >>determined to find solutions... >>we need government to ensure that people have freedom. >>driven to find the truth... >>what's really going on? >>fearless, independent and above all, politically direct. >>just refreshing to hear. no other television show does that. we're keeping it real. ♪ ♪ this is the big press show. >>make make it 25 minutes after the hour, talking about president obama. republicans making a big deal because he says he is confid he want the court will uphold obamacare. i mean the guy they call the judge on fox news, andrew nepalitano says obama is daming dangerously close to totalitarianism. is he the new glenn beck? throwing words around they don't know what they mean. check out on billpress.com, my latest column posted this morning about what president calderon said about assault weapons in the assault weapons ban in this country, titled "mexicans pull the trigger. we supply the guns" on the supreme court republicans making a big deal of this president's comment. dennis joins us from buffalo, new york. hello, dennis. >> hey, bill. >> yeah. >> your show today, i think they are smearing president obama. this smear campaign they were paid mouth pieces farma, the manufacturers research of america, alec, the american legislation exchange counsel, you get crossroads by karl rove. these are senators they receive huge sums of money. >> no doubt about it. >> and you are just paid mouthpieces. >> the other thing, dennis, they get the talking points. >> that's one they they got, the message machine. those of us on the left don't have it, anywhere close. the reason they are saying "thug, thug thug," that's not a coincidence deposition. they get the memo that says call him a thug. >> they are paid mouthpieces for al alec, for karl rove to push that agenda and george bush actually told al judge, you better back off. i think it was a criminal case that the federal judge was investigating, and he told the judge to back off and the judge got on t.v. so scared, he said i think i better back off. >> i don't remember that one, dennis but, you know, it's judicial activism if a judge is upholding women's rights or worker's rights or gay rights but if they are deciding who the next president of the united states is or letting corporations spend all the money they want, that's not judicial activism. steve yes occasion holak hollow. >> since when do you let nine people decide who is going to be the president? and it was totally ridiculous. they called it no-contest in florida and have a new election. >> that's number 1. and they are the law of the land. they are not supposed to be who decides who the president is. >> absolutely. absolutely steve. you know, if they had let the vote continue in florida, the recount continue we would have had a legitimate president. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ the ted conference held here every year in southern california is an event designed to bring the brightest minds in the world together to share their most powerful, influential and creative ideas. the speakers share a common goal, making the world a better, smarter place through innovation, technology and the power of big ideas. nearly 300 years ago, the italian physicist alessandro volta accidentally discovered what we now call the battery. the device consisted of two different metals attached to a frog's leg. when he applied a spark, the frog's leg moved. nowadays, batteries are essential components of our everyday lives. but mit's dr. sadoway is working on the next big leap forward, with something he calls a liquid battery. the liquid battery can make power plants more efficient and allow us to use renewable energy even when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. sadoway's battery works like a traditional one. but inside it, everything is liquid. so it can be scaled up to 400 times the size of a traditional battery. just as revolutionary as the frog's leg, but much more powerful. scion: what moves you. ♪ >> listen and watch with the bill press show on your favorite radio station and now on current tv. this is the bill press show. welcome to the spin room. >> thirty-three minutes after the hour, friday april 6th. good to see you today. taking your calls about the republicans jumping all over president obama for his comments on the supreme court. taking your calls at 866-55-press. going to talk to david jackson from the white house about what's going on with the president's day today and the big bill signing the jobs act but first into the spin room yesterday on an interview, taped, that will play this weekend on bloomberg t.v. the republican national chairman was asked by al hunt, now why are republicans waging this war on women? and here is his spin. what war on women? this is the media invented this. >> for one thing, you know, the democrats made a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet said there is a war on caterpillars. it's a fiction. this started as a war against the vatican that this president pursued. he hasn't answered arch bishop's dolens' issues with obama world and obama care. >> if i can snings what about rick santorum when he denied women access to contraception and roy blunt's that was voted in the senate, fortunately voted down that would allow employers to deny any health care they didn't like, any health care procedure they didn't like to american women, and what about rush limbaugh that called sandra fluke a slut and a prostitute. a fiction? the media made all that up? yeah. i don't think so mr. supremist. enough of that president obama a big summit on women and jobs. our good friend, david jackson. good morning. >> good morning. >> you are up early and at 'em. >> absolutely. >> two bill signings in the last two days, the president, the stock act and then the jobs act. the stock act, i guess not a lot of controversey around that one. >> it was bi-partisan and there were several media reports about how basically lawmakers were using the knowledge they had gained from their legislative duties to profit in the stockmarket or at least there were allegations that was going. they passed a law to try to tighten that down. >> and the jobs act, though this was also beepa bi-partisan bill. >> right. >> the question is: is it going to create any jobs? >> you know a main proponent, eric commentor who has had quite a few class with president obama over the years. his idea was, let's reduce the regulations and make it easier for people to invest in startup companies and small businesses. >> that's basically the idea. and a lot of people liked that. some democrats raised some concern that, well you are opening the door for possible fraud and opening it up for some of the problems we saw right before the financial collapse and they were kind of -- there was some feeling on capitol hill that obama was caving too much toward cantor, trying too much to accommodate cantor and sign this bill. it got passed. it's kind of a small bill. so even if there are the kind of problems that have been raised by the democrats, i don't think it would have much impact. >> we talked to he willeliot spitzer on the program yesterday, he was attorney general of new york. that was his whole kind of career tightening wall street and he explains this bill really rolled back the reforms and the chinese law he was able to put in place and could lead to some of the same excesses and abuses that we saw before. >> that's true and that was raised by richard durbin the number 2 democrat in the senate. >> yeah. >> obama's former colleague in the illinois delegation so yeah, there was a lot of that. but it was muted toward the end. i talked to people who says this is kind of a small-potatoes bill and if there are those problems it wouldn't make much difference. >> were you at the signing ceremony yesterday? i wasn't able to make it. >> in the rose garden on a beautiful day. >> i was wondering, what was eric cantor -- i mean, how did he -- did he look comfortable there? >> oh, yeah. they were all smiles. stop briefly and he issued a statement afterwards praising the bi-partisan nature of the bill and said, hey we should do more tax cutstiously he is trying to riffle it through the house. >> cantor, you mean? >> yeah, cantor. excuse me. >> what's up today at the whitehouse? this big women's summit? >> two things. first of all, labor department is issuing monthly jobs report and the white house is hoping for a reduction in the unemployment rate and they are very confident that the new report will show another increase in the number of jobs. >> just to interrupt for a second, i saw last night, this is not the report that we usually get here at 8:30. i don't know what time you get it. but whenever it comes out from the garment of labor. but last night abc news was reporting that the number of filings for unemployment is down for the first time, down to what it was -- >> right. >> in 2008, which is kind of a good sign. >> right. there are a lot of preliminary reports that show this should be another good jobs report. so i am sure we will be hearing the white house talk about that. >> you think the president will make a statement on this? it may be part of this women's summit. >> exactly. i am told he will talk about this in the women's forum. it will talks about women and the economy and how much they contribute to it. it's part of something that obama has been doing throughout his presidency promoting women's issues but it seemed especially this day because of what's going on in the campaign. >> i was going to say, how long do you know how long has this summit been in the works? or was it quickly put together to respond to the -- what a lot of people are calling "the war on women". >> it wasn't in response. it's -- it's been in the works for a while. and it's been an ongoing concern. one of the things that's going to happen in the forum is they are going to release a report that details how much women contribute to the economy and what we can do to help that along. and it's by this council on women that i can't remember the exact name of it, but it's a council that studies the problems of women. set up by valerie jarod created in '09. it has been an ongoing concern of the obama administration and happened to be pinging off of them political right now, if you will. >> it's been a signature issue of his starting with the signing of the lilly ledbetter act in 2009. again talking about usa today's white house correspondent david jackson. you can follow him and his reports every day from the white house at usatoday.com. >> the white house council on women and girls bill has been basically up and running throughout the administration. they put together a report called keeping america's women moving forward in an economy built to last. the purpose of the summit is to discuss some of the facts that they have been putting together. >> is jennifer rommety going to be there? >> that was my question yesterday. no one seemed to know. i suspect she will be because it includes corporate ceos. it's hard to imagine she wouldn't be there. she inspired all of the questions yesterday about the women's membership at alla national, the home of the masters. >> i dare say she would be more welcome at the whitehouse than she would be in augusta these days. they probably don't want to see her. because that will raise all of the questions. again, so, david, you and i were in the rose garden on monday with the tres amigos as they are called. >> right. >> the president got the question on the supreme court and said, i am confident that them uphold the law, we talked about this at the top of the show, rush limbaugh and karl rove have both called him a thug because he said he thought this was what the court should do. he is hardly the first politician to talk about judicial activism. >> no. not at all. thug is strong. i am surprised how much he talked about it my colleague, woelffer says how the president had problems with the supreme court include jefferson, lincoln and roosevelt. my one comment would be those previous cases, the presidents have criticized the courts for a decision after they made them. in this case it's obama kind of critiquing the court before they make a decision. that's one that i find interesting. >> a shot across the bow. >> exactly. >> to go back to jefferson, that was the whole debate or argument with john marshall you know. >> yeah. >> marshall basically established the preimminent role of the court with his -- with his decision. >> and jefferson tried to impeach a supreme court justice. the effort failed but it was hammer and tongs back in those days. >> i think the promo is confusing. my career all i have heard are republicans is judicial activism activism. legislating from the bench and now the president says i think the court ought to uphold the law. oh, my god, he is a thug. >> judicial activism when your law goes down. you are right. it is a conservative criticism for a long time and policypom brought that up and said if the court strikes down the health care law, it will be judicial activism. it has people riled up. >> the president is a constitutional lawyer. >> right. he is. >> he knows the boundaries. david, thank you for starting your day off with us. >> see bill. >> u.s.a.today.com. david jackson at the whitehouse. current's new morning news block. >>it's completely inappropriate for television. >>sharp tongue, quick wit and about all, politically direct. >>politically direct to me means no bs, the real thing, cutting through the clutter. my show is the most important show in the world. while you're out catching a movie. 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"thug." is he? louis calling from fort lauderdale, florida. good morning. >> good morning, bill. thank you for taking my call. this is just -- it's just crazy, a collective word because it's obama, a black president. >> oh, yeah. >> i hate to see -- i hate to pull the race card but that's just how it is. you have to call it like it is because obama used the exact same words that bush used at the podium when he was doing some kind of press conference in november of '07. and he used the exact same words. but obama is a thug. i don't get it. >> yeah. the president said, again, if you look at it, and again, i repeat, he is a constitutional lawyer. he knew what he was saying. right? he knows the history of the court. he knows when it comes to the commerce clause they haven't overridden an act of congress in 75 years. so this would be unprecedented, and this would be judicial activism, were they to do so. so, do you know what it is? louis, i think he called their bluff. right? he called their game and they don't like it. >> exactly. >> you know what? i also think maybe they know they are going to lose this one. maybe, maybe obama has a better read on the court. >> appreciate hearing from you. >> out in san jose, california. bob, good morning. >> good morning. i am still trialing to understand the difference between the individual mandate and the selective service. >> what's that? >> well you have to -- >> go ahead. >> you have to buy insurance on one side and you have to register the draft. what's the difference? >> i guess some people could say national emergency. i don't know. but it's not the only example you could use. look at -- some people pointed out that it's a state law here in this case but the state can say if you drive a car, you have to buy driver -- you have to have the car insurance. right. >> we have that here. >> i think every state has that. >> that's not a federal law but still the state can do it. and we understand -- we understand why. again, with the individual mandate, and here we are talking more about whether the president cot criticize the court in an individual mandate. as we have explained many times, the individual mandate is a conservative idea, developed by the heritage foundation as the way and the only way to get universal health care and have everybody part of the pool. corky up in rockchester, new york, this morning. hello corky. what are you doing. >> i remember taking political science in high school. >> uh-huh. >> we were man dated to read the book, tamany hall. >> that's a great book. >> it's been about 75 years they have been getting away with insider trading for people who don't know what what it was about, a quick synopsis is a politician wrote a book saying it was perfectly okay for a politician to use his position to gain inside influence when they knew the government was going to buy, to make a huge profit on it. >> corky, i am sure you know i have two copies, plunkett of tamany hall. he said what he wanted on his gravestone was these words: i seen my opportunities and i took them. i love it. >> punket of tamany hall. ♪ people really love snapshot from progressive, but don't just listen to me. listen to these happy progressive customers. i plugged in snapshot, and 30 days later, i was saving big on car insurance. i was worried it would be hard to install. but it's really easy. the better i drive the more i save. i wish our company had something this cool. yeah. you're not... filming this, are you? 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they are only interested in the money. they don't care about the game of golf. they don't care about equal rights. it burns me up. >> that's one of the things we have got on our plate this morning. but first, let's get all of the latest news. the current tv news update. we go out to los angeles and say good morning to schechner. >> hi, bill. good morning, everyone. here is what's current, a military board is recommending dismissal and an other than honorable discharge for a marine who put anti-obama piths on facebook. he started the tea party page on the social networking and super imposed the president's page from the movie jack ass and changing him to the horrible. his lawyer says he is expressing his personal opinion and first amendment right. the pentagon has moves against that all the way back to the civil war. you can't criticize the commander in chief and say he ignored the warnings to stop. now, it's up to a general to accept or deny the recommendations. if he denies and disagrees with the board, it then canos possibly go to the secretary of the navy. the other news you can now have some guilt-free mac & cheese to go with your soda or as guilt-free as it can be, kraft is the latest company to say it's not going to renew its membership with alec, the american legislative counsel, the group that will pushes laws like stand your ground in many, many states. kraft says it is pulling out or not renewing its membership due to limited resources and sites other reasons. >> that's about as specific as they get. they say when their membership is up in the spring they won't renew. you can talk about this and other things online with us at current.com/billpress. we will be right back. it takes people with real knowledge to build and maintain a race car. polymers, hydo-carbons, thermal plastics, math and science? 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>> hello. hello. good bye goodbye. >> he is learning. >> siprian boulding our man behind the camera, handling the cameras and sending you the beautiful pictures from our studio out on current tv. so everything good? >> everything is great. it's friday. >> big plans for the weekend. >> big plans. i am a boater, a fan of chesapeake bay. the boat is going in the water this weekend. >> really. >> the hms henning. >> today is our wedding anniversary. >> happy anniversary. wow. going to take the lady out to a nice dinner? >> i am taking carol to paris for the weekend. >> paris? paris france. >> no, paris, virginia. >> that paris. >> paris, virginia population 50. >> i hear it's gorgeous? >> it is great. got to paris for the weekend. it's our anniversary. why not? how about it? >> well, don't say this isere is any war on women. whatever you do, don't tell the republican national committee, head of the republican national committee, a man by the unbelievable name of ryans ryans previs. the media has just made it up. >> for one thing, the democrats said we had a war on caterpillars, every major media outlet talked about republicans had a war on caterpillars we would have problem with caterpillars. it's a fiction. this started as a war against the vatican that this president pursued. he still hasn't answered arch bishop dolens' issues with obama world and care. >> nice try to change the subject. the catholic byrnes are part of the war on women. the media made it up. they say it's made up because it's like a war on caterpillars. get out of here how about rick santorum who says he wants to deny all women access to contraception, to make birth control illegal. >> that's what he said. how about roy blunt? voted on by the senate unfortunately voted down that says that employers can decide what health care they can get, what procedures they can get and what ones they can't? how about maybe rush limbaugh if you remember that, the head of the republican party, this previs called sandra fluke a slut and a prostitute. we didn't make this up. republicans made it up and they are waging it. oh, man. lots to talk about today and let's get into it with the help of good friends, reverend berry lynn, head of americans united for separation of church and state. he will be in studio. frank rich columnist for new york magazine talking about the war on women in the next hour. he will i will be joined by bob kusack the managing editor of the hill newspaper. is it time? i know this may be too much to tackle on a friday morning, but is it time to get rid of the penny? but first: >> this is the full court press. >> as we approach the weekend, other headlines making news, baseball getting underway this week, now more major league baseball players than ever earning over $20 million a year. >> a year? >> yeah. a new report from u.s.a. today said a record 14 players in the league are earning over that figure this year. the average salary compared to that is $3.4 million a year. in 2010, two years ago just six players were earning more than $20 million a year. >> boy, if i had known that i might have practiced harder when i was in high school you know. >> there you go. another day, another star on the hollywood walk of fame, yesterday, the 2008, went to adam west, he accepted the star standing along the bat mobile. he is 83. he has voice of the mayor in family guy as the family geofox. >> every time this comes up i want to remind everyone as a former are the of hollywood. they are bought and paid for by the stars. it's totally phony. >> but who doesn't love adam west. >> obviously but he wouldn't have a star unless he put up the money for it. i will some day have a star on the hollywood boulevard if i ever have an extra $10,000 cash. i don't know what the price is. >> right. >> but there is a price on every one. >> totally cash cow batman. >> nbc signed matt lauer to a long term deal. tmz say it was worth at least dowell his current $17 million a year salary and tmz reporting a rumor ann curry his co-host is on the chopping block but no one at the network is talking about either of those issues. >> to be replaced by sarah palin? >> right. >> okay. now, this -- i know this is not the most important issue. day, but what the hell? it's friday and it is one. here is why it's important. you know why it's important? because we all want government to work eefficiently. we don't want to waste money. if you think of one government program that is a total waste and a total waste of time and money and is about the most inefficient thing you can think of, it's the penny. i hate to say this because i am a penny hoarder. who is not? right? i mean i save pennies. i always think they are going to help pay for our annual vacation. i, as friends, i will stop in front of a moving bus and bend over to pick up a penny. i still pick up pennies off the sidewalk. >> it's good luck. >> most people leave and walk by. they can't be botherred but here is what got my attention. what got my attention is at the end of last month, i saw that canada did away with the penny and the prime minister of canada, stephen harper said after all, they clutter your dresser, and they cost too much to make. they are a nuisance and have out-lived their purpose. so canada doesn't make pennies any more. they said they were not going to make pennies any more because the pennie cost in canada one and a half cents to make each pen penny. so i started looking into this. okay t canada is not the first. new zealand -- canada has joined the list of countries that have gotten rid of the penny and stopped making the penny t new zealand, australia, the netherlands, norway, finland and sweden. something about these scandinavian countries, they are a little smarter than we are. right? so then, i started looking into: what about the american penny? they are not going to take our penny away from us? are they? well, i think they might and i think they should. how about you? 866-55-press. did you realize, it costs -- okay. in this country because the penny 97 1/2% zinc, pennies today cost 2.41 cents to make every penny. so it costs twice as much more than twice as much to make a penny as its worth. so figure that out. if you made $250,000 worth of pennies, you get $100,000 worth of change. >> government at work. >> exactly. i mean this is nonsense. so what is this fascination with a penny. do we need them? no. in 2005, not that long ago, it costs $0.97 to make a penny. you were breaking even? uh-uh. not now. 2point -- so why? why? why are we doing this? do you think the american people are ready? are you ready to get rid of the penny? 866-55-press. i don't think it makes any sense any more. here is the best that congress could do: in 2010, a couple of years ago, congress passed a new -- this is a typical approach, coin modernization act, which was to authorize, commence to try to find a way to make a less expensive penny. no. that's not the answer. the answer is get rid of the damn penny. now, figure this out: last year, in 2011, the mint made and put into circulation $49,000,000,000 in pennies. now, by my calculation, right, that probably costs $10,000,000,000 to make. and we got 4.9 billion pennies. this is caa-caa. this is a crazy. you know what it is? you know if it's 4.99, you are going to pay 5 bucks. it's made up marketing. right? >>, hey for.99 is cheaper than 5bucks. don't you think it's time? 866-55-press. i know, i know that one -- there will be one casualty here and that is bing crosby ♪ every time it rains it rains, pennies from heaven. ♪ >> i love it. ♪ don't you know, it's fair today, pennies from heaven ♪ >> we don't have to pay two and a half cents for every damn penny. 866-55-press. what do you say? are you ready for it ♪ you are umbrella is up or down. ♪ trade them for a package... ♪ >> this is the full court press, the bill press show, live on your radio and on current tv. ♪ >>this is outrageous! we've have no choice, we've lost our democracy here. as i understand it in radio they can't see you, so this is big for me. >>tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's new morning news block. >>it's completely inappropriate for television. >>sharp tongue, quick wit and about all, politically direct. >>politically direct to me means no bs, the real thing, cutting through the clutter. my show is the most important show in the world. ♪ >> on your radio, on t.v. the bill press show, new on current tv. >> hey 23 minutes after the hour here, pennies, pennies, pennies from heaven. pennies, goodbye. >> that's what it looks like. doesn't make sense? 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hello, john. no john. all right. i don't mean in scoky illinois. >> hey, done. >> i wanted to tell you that i actually heard that when the half penny was discontinued, it had more buying power than the dime did today. >> the half penny? >> it had more buying power then. >> whenever that was. >> >>. >> the price of metals increase and the cost of making them increases and, pardon me we have to keep up with the times. right? >> yeah. just telling what happened before. >> got it. what happens if you fill up your car with gas and it comes up to $53 and $0.22? >> well, i guess you should round it down in that case and then just round it to the nearest 5. >> i think that's what you do. although my guess is they will round it up. >> yeah. what the hell? if you paid by credit card does it make any difference? it's just i don't think anybody can make a good reason for holding to the penny. lee is out in chicago. what do you say, lee? >> yes, if you look at any corporation or even the market, the stockmarket, the future market, they all work in minute fractions on the pen income. right. >> but on paper, they are not really trading coins. >> right. at some point, that trickles and they round up. as the end consumer, we are always going to lose. >> but lee, we are losing now. we are paying two and a half cents to make every one penny p right you and me will lose 1 crept, $0.02, $0.04 on every transaction. >> i don't think you would if you are paying by credit card for example. >> how often do you -- >> i tell you what lee. thank you. every time i think i might buy gas, i pay by credit card. barbara is paying by washington, d.c., our nation'scaptol. >> hi, bill. i am a long-time listener and a regular chat room chatter and a new current subscriber to watch you on t.v. >> oh, my god, what a loyal fan. thank you. great all the way around. >> my opinion is i think we should sacrifice the penny instead of sacrificing granny and kicking her off medicare. >> good for you. right. yeah. that doesn't make any sense? does it? barbara? turn your t.v. down in the background. okay? barbara? okay. barbara went away. barbara joining us by every means that she can. it's a little quick timeout. the screener tells you that. it's very important that if do you call in and we love to hear from you when you are watching t.v. or listening on the radio. turn the radio and the t.v. down because there is a little delay and otherwise you get the problem we had with barbara. she was confused because she sees one thing in her ear and sees the other coming from the t.v. set. we have made the case, i believe. we invite your e-mails and comments at billpressshow.com. we are six blocks away from the capitol. do you think they can hear us down there? get rid of the damn penny. you are costing us too much money. reverend berry lynn is next. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ the ted conference held here every year in southern california is an event designed to bring the brightest minds in the world together to share their most powerful, influential and creative ideas. the speakers share a common goal, making the world a better, smarter place through innovation, technology and the power of big ideas. nearly 300 years ago, the italian physicist alessandro volta accidentally discovered what we now call the battery. the device consisted of two different metals attached to a frog's leg. when he applied a spark, the frog's leg moved. nowadays, batteries are essential components of our everyday lives. but mit's dr. sadoway is working on the next big leap forward, with something he calls a liquid battery. the liquid battery can make power plants more efficient and allow us to use renewable energy even when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. sadoway's battery works like a traditional one. but inside it, everything is liquid. so it can be scaled up to 400 times the size of a traditional battery. just as revolutionary as the frog's leg, but much more powerful. scion: what moves you. ♪ >> radio meets television the bill press show, now on current tv. >> this is the bill press show the full court press here at 33 minutes after the hour. brought to you today coming to you live coast to cost andast of and by their president lee ann ardo pittsburgh representing active and retired members of the check out their good work at usw.org, and joining us here on the full court press in studio good friend of the program and head of a great organization. i have been a proudme for a long time, americans united. americans united for the separation of church and state, one of the pillars of our constitution. the reverend berry lynn. great to see you. >> terrific to be back in the new digs here. >> super. great. so, you know this war -- there is a war on women. there is also this -- they accuse us of a war on religion. there is really, i think, it's a war to try to force religion on -- you know, on the congress and on voters and in the democratic process of the the religious right is back with a vengeance. >> thanks toreto rick santorum? >> one point the republicans are running for people who all said god had told them to run for president. there is only one left, and remember, for rick santorum he would tell you if he were sitting here -- i don't know if he comes in. he wouldn't say, no, no, no, it's my wife. god told my wife i would be president. my wife told me. so literally, this is my stump speech right now bill all over the country when i travel is, it's the economy, not. it's all about religion. this is impinging on everything every decision made from budgets to tax policy, foreign policy. it's all driven by somebody's narrow understanding of the bible. >> and this week, we had -- i just want to ask you: i was struck that thursday morning, thursday morning now yesterday or the day before is it. >> yesterday. >> president obama hosted a prayer breakfast. yes. at the whitehouse. he has done this every holy week. and there were just christian ministers ivitednvited and the president gave a talk that sounded lie a sermon talking about how xwrorpt prayer decisions and always kind of thought what would jesus do and it got him through. important prayer decisions and always kind of thought what would jesus do and it got him through. why are we having a prayer breakfast at the whitehouse? and should we. >> i cut him a little slack because the man, i do believe is a good christian. i used to say and if he was having a prayer breakfast across the street, the secret service would be there. it would cost millions of dollars to protect him maybe having it inside isn't the greatest constitutional sin in the world. but here is the problem. just last night, i got a note from johnshua deblau that runs the faith-based office in the title house. the title is "the walls are still shaking" about not only the prayer breakfast. it seems like the president feels -- and i think it's unnecessary -- that when one party goes so far into the jesus world, he has to prove it. he has to still try to demonstrate to that implacable 28% of americans who believe he is a muslim that he is a christian. i wish he didn't have to do this. i wish they didn't do it but i think sadly this is pushback for the phony war on religion that all of the candidates are claiming barack obama is waging. >> we raised a lot of hell you and i about roy moore, the 10 commandments judge planting the monument in the courthouse down in alabama. all right? to me, this is barack obama's planting the flag of christianity at the whitehouse. >> again, i wish he hadn't gone to the so-called national prayer breakfast. >> absolutely. >> this is run by right-wing yanks. he goes, gives a speech which wasn't very good. he suggests that maybe jesus would like his budget better than something like paul ryan's budget and the right-wingers criticize him for mixing religion and politics when they invited this volatile mix of religion and politics in every election cycle from dog catcher to president. >> you mentioned rick santorum is the only one that god told to run for president that god has helped, so far. he is still a candidate. % >> exactly. >> he got into this whole area maybe not the first time in his career but in his presidential campaign when he went after john f. kennedy and said that kennedy was wrong to give the speech in the '60s in houston and kennedy's message was there is no place for people of faith in politics. >> yeah, apparently rick hasn't listened too carefully to the speech. it was clear. it was to demonstrate to protestant ministers in houston that he is the first potentially roman catholic president of the united states would not take his instructions from rome. he would take them from the principles of the u.s. constitution. >> absolutely. >> it was an important thing. some say that was what pushed people over to guaranty a victory for president kennedy. >> and it seemed to me that kennedy was making the very point that rick santorum was accusing him of not making which was kennedy was saying i am a man of faith, and there is place for me in politics as a catholic. and as a true american. so there is room for people of faith like me in america's political system? >> absolutely. he said if a catholic is a president, he won't take orders from any prelate and suggested something else sobering in this election year. he said i hope all protestant ministers will not tell their parishioners for whom to vote. it caused rick santorum feel like he wanted to projectile vomit. it is dead-on the principle core of america. >> as you point out because i am a member and i get your newsletter, there are many protestant ministers today who in fact -- >> absolutely. >> -- tell people how to vote. >> we try to report them to the internal revenue services with mixed successes. it's been a difficult thing to get, frankly, this administration even to start rigorously enforcing the law. in exchange for this very valuable thing called "a tax exemption," tax-exempt organizations cannot endorse candidates, can't use the collection plate money to give to their favorite cabdate. they can't promote it from the pulpit. they can't pass out signs about who to vote for in the parking lot of their church on a saturday or a sunday. unfortunately, there is an organized effort by a group out in arizona to have people in the pulpit deliberately indicating preferences, deliberately endorse and, of course, some of them are kind enough to send me their sermons, saying turn us in. guess what. we do. >> are you equally concerned about politicians showing up on the sundays before the election in the black churches? >> absolutely. >> which they do with regularity? democratic politicians? >> they do and it disturns me a great deal. people need to understand something about the history. reverend martin luther king never endorsed a candidate from a pulpit in his entire life. he spoke in a church a synagogue, a temple almost every day of his professional life never endorsed a candidate. that was not the place to do partisan politics and i wish that people would remember that. we did report the entire north carolina southern baptist convention when michelle obama went down there just a few weeks before the last presidential election and gave a rallying speech for her husband. >> that's inappropriate, too. you cannot use tax-exempt status and tax-exempt sites, including the local pullpit to endorse pullits. it doesn't help and we now know from a survey conducted by the southern baptists, not the untarians, southern baptists 30% of americans say when candidates share their faith in public a lot they are less inclined to vote for that candidate and 16% are more likely to endorse a candidate, in other words talking about too much god talk has blowback. >> americans united consistent consistent across the board in fighting for and upholding the separation of church and state. check out their website at au.org reverend berry lynn is in the studio with us. and talk about inserting religion into politics, the catholic bishops have been lading the way on that. selectively, i would say. >> very selectively. >> when we come back james salt, head of conference united. berry, you and i have talked to him, up in new york delivering a petition to cardinal dolenz saying why haven't you said anything about the paul ryan budget which really hurts the poor? 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>> were you there when they crucified the four. he is comfortable giving interviews to fox news complaining about increased contraceptives but the largest redistribution from the poor to the rich to my lifetime. we are saying we are people of faith. we want him to be a voice for the poor, not the cultural war against women. >> what haves the bishop said about the paul ryan budget? >> nothing. in march 6th, three weeks before the best of my knowledge was released, they said the budget reflects moral priorities. two cited the line budget drops and not a word. we have seen cardinal dollan take the five sins, give these interviews on a pr campaign. we are ginning up the manufactured controversy over this perceived war on religious liberties and saying that's not where most american catholics are. >> this is berry. i just had a question. it seems to me -- i am not a catholic but i recall in 1931, there was a papal letter from the pope opposing artificial birth control but seems there were several centuries before then when the catholic church was talking a lot about helping the poor. is there what? a very short attention span on the part of mr. dolan these days? >> yeah, i mean the church has a profound teaching when it comes to social justice and the common good and that's what inspired me to devote my life to working against the war on poverty, and unfortunately, the cultural reaction in politics is bishops are driving record numbers of catholics away from the faith but it was the cardinal bernay dean's of the world that saying the church can inspire people with something with truth behind it, i want to spend my life working for it. now it's just conservative politics. >> i have to tell you both, james salt and berry lynn i wrote my column about the bishops and the fact that they are so out spoken about contraception and have a lot of my material from catholics united but haven't said anything about the ryan budget. i can't tell you how many e-mails that i received from priests around the country who read the column and said, thank you for speaking out about our bishops because as priests, we are embarrassed and disappointed by our leadership because they had moved away from what should be the true focus of religious leaders and are onto this other stuff, which sadly, i think reflects the agenda of benedict. xvi. >> give them hell. another great organization. you just participated a couple of days ago. >> in, in it. >> about this war on women which is related to the issues certainly we have been talking about. >> absolutely. and i made a couple of points at that address and it was pretty well received, i have to say, going to www.au.org. the speech is up there so people can watch it. my point is if you want to talk about the core principles of christians in general and the catholic church, it's about something called jesus, not about iuds norplant not even about abortion. so this idea that this is a central focus of the entire faith being repudiated by president obama is total. i wouldn't want to use this word. >> you are on the air. >> i heard it from rick santorum. it's a word i never used. it's kind of in that category. >> initials? >> the pope in holy thursday in rome rebuked priests who advocate or daning women and the pope said, it's time to stop talking about their own preferences and ideas, again anti-women and he said they should instead turn toward -- how do you like this trays -- a radicalism of obedience. >> a radicalism of obedience. >> that's what they want. women to do to be obedient on the contraception matter 94%, that's the lowest, 94% of those american catholic women use contraception. i guess they didn't get the message. >> one more minute, tell us what you have got going nationwide concerts. >> the last weekend in september. if you go to voices united concerts.com, you will find out the beginnings of this roll-out all over the country, singer song writers giving us their time in order to make a point that we are trying to elect in november not a they are lodgean in chief, a pastor in chief, the next commander in chief. we need to keep church and state separate. >> the last weekend in september, friday, saturday and sunday. >> every state will have at least one, most more than one. >> for a very, very important cause. berry, reverend berry lynn, americans united for separation of church and state, au.org is the website. >> nice to be here. >> keep up the good fight. >> i shall. >> so glad you are there. i will be back. i will tell you what the president is up today. important stuff going on at the whitehouse. ♪ >> this is the bill press show. it's completely inappropriate for television. ♪ >> this is the bill press show. >> happy friday friday, april 6th. coming up in the next hour bob kusack from "the hill" newspaper is going to be along in studio with us, and then frank rich from new york magazine has written a great piece in this month's new york magazine about the war on women waged by republicans and the catholic republican politicians and the catholic byrnes. down at the whitehouse today at 10:00 o'clock this morning, the president convening a white house summit, white house forum on women and the economy. the white house reporting that they will issue a report on women and the economy which will examine the ways in which the administration has worked to ensure women's economic security and create jobs for women through all stages of life. again, a very important theme of this president from the time early in his presidency when he signed the lilly ledbetter act guaranteeing women would get the same pay for doing the same job as men. meetings during the rest of the day at the whitehouse and then at 6:30 this evening, the president and the first lady are going to mark the beginning of passover with a sadar at the whitehouse in the old family dining room which is in the mansion right alongside of the state dining room, just off to the side. so, that's the day for the president and we have another hour coming up here on full-court press again with bob kusack from the hill frank rich from new york magazine and, of course, your calls at 866-55-press. how about it? happy friday. >> this is the bill press show. sm ♪ >> looking good. this is friday april 6th, your new morning show on current tv. i am bill press, liberal and proud of it. live from our nation's capitol. lots going on today, lots to cover, but this is the one thing that i think is just outrageous. the chairman of the republican national committee says there is no war on women. the media are just making this up. oh yeah? maybe ryans previs ought to talk to rick santorum or roy blount? or rush limbaugh the guys leading the war on women. it's real. we didn't make it up. the catholic byrnes are part of it, too. one of the things we will get into in the last hour together this morning. first, to get the latest from this current tv news update, here in los angeles, our good friend, jacki she can ner. >> hi, bill. good morning, everyone. i am sure we will have time to speculate on whom romney might pick for his vp candidate but there is a name that's interesting to talk about, rob portman, the ohio senator, major garrett so sure that he wrote a column, excuse me, in the "at lantic" and politico has it. here is why he likes rob portman, he says why he wants the job that romney genuinely likes him and portman is indebted twice. he knows the white house. there is not going to be a risk here one reason he is possibly not, he doesn't bring over the hispanic vote like rubio and he doesn't bring the conservative vote in the way paul ryan might. according to the "new york times" in other news the rnc is on the verge of bankruptcy has $110 in the bank they have collected or $10 million to work with they have collected over the last 15 months and they paid down about half their debt. one of the reasons they don't have to spend as much money as before is because they are not doing as much t.v. advertising, and that is due to the having been picked up by outside groups like super p.a.c.s. we want you to join us in chat and talk about this and everything you are interested in, go online at current.com/billpress. he has frank rich coming up in the next hour. stick with us. ♪ clear is on the new news network. >>welcome to the war room. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. a former two-term governor. >>make your voice heard. >>detremined to find solutions. >>that partnership in order to invest in our country is critical. >>driven to find the truth. >>how did romney get his groove back? 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>> nice. >> this little letter, deal bill, congratulations on the debut of the bill press show of current tv as one of your long-time fans, i am thrilled to see the show expand into the world of television. best regards, nancy pelosi democratic leader of the house of representatives. thank you. >> good to see people still write letters. you know, e-mail and twitter it's nice to get a letter. >> it's not an e-mail. this is a real letter. nicotine stains, as we used to say. bob, great to see you and to say good morning to you and to our press team of dan henning running the -- flying the 747, and. >> down south. >> didn't show up today. >> assisted by stevie lee web. >> good morning, bill. >> the flight attendant. >> yeah. >> politically correct and siprian boulding you our videographer the man behind the camera. bob, the president got himself in the eyes of some in a little hot water with some comments that he made monday in the rose garden. i happened to be there when the three leaders were there. >> uh-huh. >> the first question came to the president about the supreme court and what he thought might happen and the president said he thought the supreme court was confident the separate property would uphold obamacare. and he thought they should because that's what courts usually have done. boy, so the republicans, the right wings have bounced all over here here is rush limbaugh day before yesterday. >> if he had been told that the preliminary vote on friday was in his favor, why take the attitude that he took? there is an answer to that. i don't know if it's right, but there is an answer. he is a thug. >> he is"he is a thug." where did that come from? here is karl rove on the "lou dobbs show" on fox business channel. >> a bad way to start off looking like you are some kind of political thug at the whitehouse threatening the supreme court and basically telegraphing to them, you better not do any political damage. i will help do some of the creating. i thought it was very unpresidential. >> i would never accuse them of having talking points. >> no, never never. >> but seriously for a president of the united states to say it's my law and i hope the court up holds it. what's the big deal. >> that's right. it's a delicate line for the president because he wants to appear presidential and not try to lobby the court, but, you know, i think some democrats felt like he we want a little bit too far but over all, a lot of democrats were like listen this is your law. you have got to defend it. and if you are tough talking, you are tough talking. >> that's good going into an election. you shouldn't be soft in an election year and this is obviously one of his signature achievements. >> and the president did say that we have heard a lot about judicial activism. let's hope in this case went don't see any judicial activism. unless i am mistaken, most of the complaints i have heard about judicial activism have come from conservatives. >> the amazing thing here is that one side, whatever the decision is, is going to say very good decision, well done and the other side will cry judicial activism. one of the tough spots i think for the president is should he lose the case second-guessing because the administration could have put the brakes on this as far as going to the supreme court and possibly push it into next year they said listen we need certainty but remember, this is the roberts court. this is a court that you have kennedy as a swing vote but certainly now a lot of happy cappers saying, you know it's going to be -- handicappers but you look at the politics not so much. so the edge i think goes to possibly something being thrown out, possibly the mandate. >> that's the second guessing i think that would go on. >> right. right. you know, we don't know. we don't really know what the court will do. back to judicial activism we mate this point earlier in the program. whatever president obama said was nothing wrong with what he said. i mean he is not the one who said i will send the capitol police out to arrest judges i think that disagree with my decision. >> that's newt gingrich talk about the politicians threatening the court. >> that was one of his many stumbled when the spotlight was on him. >> that's why few are talking about him now. really the story is rick santorum and whether he will stay in this race. >> many stories i want to talk to you about that we have seen on the hill. by the way, i invite our listeners and viewers to join the conversation here, a question about anything happening on the political front, congress, white house the hill thehill.com, got it all covered. you reported this week that ron paul is not going to run again. >> that's right. >> okay. so i guess he doesn't give a damn. >> that's sort of the reflect -- been reflected in his voting pattern. >> indeed. in 2012, he has missed nearly 92% of the votes. it's not uncommon for members to miss votes when they are running for president. >> that's what time to barack obama, hillary clinton but this is somewhat rare because he has not been campaigning nearly as hard as he was before. last time when he ran for re-election, he faced add primary battle because his opponent said you are not focusing that much on your district. so, you know, he makes $174,000 and it's a valid story. he missed a vote on the ryan budget. >> and he wasn't campaigning last week? >> he has been going on some late shows. he has been campaigning now and then but he is clearly not campaigning as much as he used to. >> is there any penalty for members of depression who don't show up to vote? >> absolutely not. this is what happened to michelle bachmann. i asked are you going to forfit your salary since you are going to miss a lot of time and she said i don't want to comment on that. so, you know, they don't. i have never heard of a member saying i am going to give back some of my money because i am not going to be here. >> >> rick santorum took four days off from the campaign. taking four days off, a practicing christian. it's not that unusual. but i think he wanted to relax with his family. we found out yesterday he had a big meeting with conservative leaders at tyson's corner outside of washington to talk about the strategy going forward. >> that's what they said. >> the question to you is: was this to talk about how to get out gracefully? what do you hear. >> we talked to some staffers who spoke on background on the santorum campaign and they said as far as their instructions for april 24th, they don't no. it's on radio silent. i think that's the key point. they don't know what to do. they have not gotten directions and they say they didn't talk about what they were going to do as far as getting out. talking about newt gingrich, how do we get him out? it doesn't seem plausible. a lot of conservatives are calling for rick santorum to get out because even if gingrich were out now, maybe they could mark their argument out. not so much now. i think santorum is thinking about his future. he has had a good run. he is thinking about his future. he could run again. he could serve in a romney cabinet, romney win and he doesn't want to lose pennsylvania. if he can't -- if he is going to get out of this race, he can't get out like a few days before pennsylvania. he has to get out, i think essentially next week. >> if he waits until after pennsylvania? >> he takes a bit of hit. his future is bright in the republican party but not as bright as if he gets out now. if he gets out now or next week everyone would praise him. he is taking one for the term. he is going to have to answer those questions about mitt romney and criticisms because he has rifted him repeatedly and said he regretted endorsing him in 2008. going to endorse him again. >> paul ryan endorsed mitt romney. mitt romney endorsed his budget. mitt romney in front of the newspaper editors this week, again, further embraced the budget, said this is the vision of the republican party. he said in the past if he is ever elected, the first day he is in the off office -- offal office, he wants to sign the paul ryan budget. paul ran around with paul ryan and mitt romney, a team effort, election night paul ryan introduced mitt romney. so is this the -- some people are saying this is the republican ticket. >> yeah. >> romney-ryan. >> a lot of people saying that. i don't buy it. i don't think that paul ryan is going to help him. hispanic vote which republicans have to do better than they are doing right now. i don't see. i think romney has to look elsewhere other than paul ryan. paul ryan helps with the base and the interesting thing is that some on the left want romney to pick paul ryan because of that budget. >> yes. >> but, you know, ryan will be talked about. i just don't see romney pulling the trigger. i think he has to pick someone who looks a little different than himself and also has to bring in the hispanic vote. >> plus romney has to kind of waffle a little bit on medicare and on medicaid? paul ryan is already out there saying, we are going to get rid of medicare as it is now replace it with a voucher system. so the phrase "end medicare as we know it," i think is accurate no matter what polititack says. he would basically cut medicaid in half. if he is on the ticket, that's romney's platform? >> it is. and, now, ryan had made the change in medicare because it got slaughtered last year political to partner with rod wideman. he says he doesn't support the new medicare provisions per se. nancy pelosi has called this ryan budget lipstick on a pig. she doesn't think highly of any of the changes to medicare. the other interesting thing on the fiscal side of the budget, not on medicare is that romney proposes going a little bit further than ryan because he favors the cut cap, and balance, balanced budget amendment in the conservative republican study committee budget, not in paul ryan's budget. so he does definitely support the ryan budget but he supports going a little bit further and saying he would raise -- he wouldn't raise the debt limit unless there is a balanced budget amendment. i think that will come up a lot on the campaign trail. >> a lot are wondering what ron wideman is up to and why he would partner with paul ryan and that's another issue. i have a call. we will take a quick break. you are welcome to join the conversation, we are talking with bob cusack. the hill, by far the best coverage of what's happening here in washington, d.c. across the board, check it out, "the hill.com." not just because i writed an occasional column. >> thank you. >> the best coverage of the white house and capitol hill. when we come back, i want to hear about the president this week. i got a call from the wall street general last night wanting to know if i thought the president was just using language that was too tough and too mean and too political too early in the season. this is the full-court press, bob kusack k from "the hill." happy friday. hosts. news and analysis with a washington perspective from an emmy winning insider. >>i know this stuff and i love it and i try to bring that to the show. >>and humor and politics with a west coast edge. >>politically direct means no bs, cutting through the clutter. >>bill press and stephanie miller, current's new morning news block. weekdays six to noon. >>this is outrageous! we've have no choice, we've lost our democracy here. ♪ >> this is the full court press, the bill press show live on your radio, and on current tv. >> twenty-four minutes the hour, april 6th, heading into the weekend. if you haven't done it, it's a good time right now to go to our website at billpressshow.com. join the party, we are talking about our virtannual book party for my new book "the obama hate manny," inviting you to tell your family and friends about it and try to interest them in buying a copy. you get the credit. the more copies you sell, the more goodies you can get, moving up from bumper stickers to caps to mugs to golf shirts and all of that kind of stuff. the top two winners in the virtannual book party for the obama hate machine, get an all-expenses trip to washington, d.c., hotel and airfare are paid for. come in the studio watch the show some morning and then the team press here will take you out to breakfast at ted's bulletin down the street from capitol hill. >> that's where obama took part of his staff to lunch. >> in studio with bob cusack managing editorial for "the hill." let's talk about the war on women, the chair of the national republican committee was asked about this yesterday in an interview that he taped that will be shown this weekend with al hunt on bloomberg t.v. and his answer basically is: what war on women? >> well, for one thing, if the democrats made a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about republicans had a war on caterpillars we would have problems with caterpillars. it's a fiction. this started as a war against the vatican that this president pursued. he hasn't answered arch bishop dollan's issues with obama world and obamacare. >> a war on caterpillars. it's a pure fiction, he says but when you look at rick santorum on the contraception, roy blount legislation in the senate voted on in the senate to allow employers to decide what women can get in their health care plan and what they can't and when you look at rush limbaugh and his comments about sandra fluke, it's not just a fiction. >> it's amazing how this issue has turned around. at first, republicans were playing offense on this. the administration altered its position and then there was just, you know -- >> on the rules. >> on the rules of the health care reform law. and now, republicans are just flummoxed on this. women and hispanic have to make major, major improvements in the coming months and so they have lost the message war on this, at least to this point, and that's why they talk caterpillars. >> i know. you know, the bottom line always is they end up blaming the media. right? >> yeah. >> no matter? no matter what the issue is like even the trayvon martin killing in florida now some conservatives are saying -- why conservatives feel a need to defend george zimmerman, it's the media making too much of this. >> yeah. it doesn't -- because republicans have been elected despite the media. obviously, i am biased, a member of the media but it looks like you whine about the media and you have improve your message and there is a time when democrats have been on the defensive on this issue, but then they tinkered how they handled it and now it's republicans who have taken a nose dive in the poll. >> it's unfair but my final question is: why did the president sign this jobs act yesterday by eric -- sponsored by eric cantor? >> it's a bi-partisan bill passed the house overwhelmingly and senate democrats weren't found of it, the relationship between eric cantor and president obama not great but. >> cantor was there yesterday when they signed the bill. as one of our callers said earlier this morgue, i guess if they pass a bill democrats and republicans, they pass a bill that's called "the jobs act" you have to sign it? 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>> good to talk to you. congratulations on the new media platform here. >> back on t.v. hey, frank, i want to, if i can, ask you as a friend carol and i are planning a weekend coming up in new york. i want you to put your old hat on, the last play we saw on broadway was "other desert cities" which i loved. >> wonderful robby blakes play. >> what's hot? >> i have to tell you there is actually a bunch of good stuff which is rare. there is a play by a youngish american writer called bruce norris called clibourn park. it's a new production. i think it was done in washington by local amoth. but it's a play about first, set in a chicago neighborhood in the first half of the play, set in 1959, as black people tried to move into an all-white neighborhood. the second half set in 2009 as white people come bagck to try to gentrify. it's caustically funny and "death of a salesman" as phil seymour hoffman directed by mike nichols and the histysterical opening on broadway called "one man. two governors" set in 1963, in brighton and sexual mistaken identity and food jokes. monty pythonesque humor. >> i saw the new end of the rainbow to the review for that. >> yes. >> i haven't seen that the one about garland. >> it looked very good. now, let's go. first, so you write about the sub head here on the piece is the "the g.o.p.'s woman problem is that it has a furious problem with women." frank as you probably know -- and i will start out here, rights previs of the rnc does not agree with you. the chairman gave an interview with al hunt to be broadcast on bloomberg t.v. and here is what he said about this idea that there is a war on women. dan, do you have the cut here? >> yeah. for one thing, the democrats said we had a war on caterpillars every mainstream media outfit talked about republicans have a war on caterpillars we would have problems with caterpillars. the fact is it's a fiction and it started as a war against the vatican that this president pursued. he hasn't answered arch bishop dolen's questions about obama world and intarmz care. >> i don't understand why the president of the united states has to answer to any arch bishop or any religious leader. the preparation of his defense is ludicrous, and obama, in any case, backed away it and found a compromise acceptable to mainstream catholics about the rule of health care by contraception. but what this war on women is about is not about what happened in the past couple of months. it's been a continuing problem for the g.o.p. which is why with one exception of the tea party election of 2010 there has been a huge genialitieser gap since the early 1980sder gap since the early 1980s between republicans and democrats. it's not just about abortion. it's not about contraception. it is about a complete disregard for women's health issues and the protection of women and not only in health issues but also in the workplace and equal pay and everything else that's been going on for a long time. what is going on now whether it's this joker or whether it's ann romney saying that the solution is for us to see her husband unzipped whatever that means and we don't really want to go there. >> no. >> they are trying to miss represent the issues. they are trying to say, we don't want to forbid contraception. this is a democratic fiction. the truth is. every democrat in the senate with the exception of olympia snowe. >> every republican? >> every republican. excuse me. called for the blount amendment. which would allow any employer to end any health coverage he wanted, not just birth control, but, you know, cancer screening, mammograms, pap smears, all of that, even though diabetes treatment if he thought women were immoral. they could do it on moral grounds because of being overweight. >> that's a complete war on women. and indeed, every candidate for president, including romney and republican side endorsed this amendment. they endorsed eliminating title x, which was the program that allows poor women medical coverage for very basic things. again, like, you know, screening for cancer and for various diseases, including hiv. so it's a real policy issue. it isn't just about rush limbaugh mouthing off. it isn't just bad rhetoric. there is a war going on. >> yeah. you make that point in the article, that this is -- they want to talk about rush and kind of blame rush and say, oh, that's just rush popping off. right? >> rush limbaugh was momentarily the best thing that could happen to them because they could all say, oh, he made a bad choice of words. >> yeah. >> we are embarrassed. we don't like him, and rush was over the top and, you know, down boy. the fact is, this isn't about words. it's about actual legislation, actions, people like rick perry setting a republican standard for the country by essentially eliminating much of health care for women in the huge state of texas and it's about defunding planned parenthood, which is a life line for many women in america on health issues. they want to make it about rush limbaugh and it's not. it's actual actions that can affect actual people's lives. >> you also quote ben weber former congressman from minnesota, an advisor to every presidential can data. you you quote and i'm paraphrasing but nobody thinks this will matter in a couple of months. >> like again, you know, like this is, you know is this about caterpillars? it doesn't matter. >> yeah. >> these things are trivial. once ash -- and this, by the way, is also the ann romney defense: once we start talking about the economy and jobs, women will forget about all of these issues because they are just like men and all they care about is jobs and money. women, of course, care about that as much as men, but they care about other things, too, and that's where the republican party is attacking them where they live. >> do you see women aware of this and fighting back? >> i think yes. i think first of all, we have seen protests including in fairly red states at state legislature level because all of them are doing some version of that, you know, incredibly draconian virg law involving ultra sound. so, yes, we are seeing some grassroots activity. and i think it's hard to imagine that democrats and the obama campaign are going to let the american voter forget about these issues during the summer and fall. >> yeah. we should have mentioned, i should have mentioned that the blount amendment is not just in the congress. i mean in many many state legislate temperatures, there are -- and virginia may be the best known example. there are efforts to cut back on women's health issues, too. >> exactly. >> yeah. so you mentioned a you don't think the obama administration or the obama campaign is going to let them forget this. it happens today, frank, at the whitehouse, the president is hosting a white house forum on women and the economy. >> i am not. i think there will will be many more such forums. the republican party has a primary. the republican party has a problem, it is demographically extremely limited patter. it is principal white men and they now have a problem with two major minorities in this country, african-americans and hispanics which they have exacerbated throughout campaign and a problem with the majority women. and i think the obama administration has a lot of leeway here to capitalize on that politically and frankly, they should. and, you know, for instance, just to take -- to go back to a couple of these other points: race, romney was asked a very simple question after last week about the fact that the mormon church was incredibly slow -- i might argue criminally slow -- to give blacks equal status to whites. it didn't happen until after the civil civil rights had gained and he clams up and can't answer and doesn't want to discuss it. he was a major figure within his local church at the time. so that's a problem, too. then you throw in self-deportation and this war on women's health care, and there is a lot here that has to be brought before the american people and talked about. >> frank rich great to have you with us today. >> thank you, bill. >> as we leave, the numbers just came out unemployment rate has dropped to 8.2% from february. it was 8.3 and 120,000 new jobs added in march. >> fascinating. >> marching in the right direction at any rate exactly. it's not clear what mr. 5 fix-it will do. >> 120,000 jobs added in march. unemployment nowata three-year low. obamacare is working. the newest voice in cable news is on the new news network. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. this former two term governor is politically direct. ♪ >> this is the bill press show. >> politically direct on current t.v. 12 minutes before we go into the weekend here at the top of the hour. and before we get to our favorite clip of the week, a little bit reminder about the irs warning us if you file electronically -- and i do. millions of us do -- you better be careful because identity thieves recognize on those electronic filing forms if they can get hold of them is all of the information they need to take over your life, your social security number your address, your kids' social security numbers. the whole enchilada. a good thing for the irs to warn us. i have got protection from life love lock. i encourage you to do the same. life lock capital help you if you are a member. call and mention press 60 for 60 risk-free days of life lock protection. if you are not happy call them within another 60 days and they will give you a full refund. give them a call at 1-800-356-5967. to protect your identity and information by calling 1-800-356-5967. it's friday. ♪ >> on a friday we like to have a little fun, take a look back at some of the favorite sound bytes that we have featured in the show from the last five days. we start at the bottom top, john mccain says, i have the perfect idea who should be mitt romney's running mate: >> number 5. >> sarah palin said she thinks the nominee if it is in fact mitt romney should quote go rogue." what's your advice? >> i think it should be sarah palin. >> do you really? are you endorsing sarah palin? >> have you talked to her about that? >> no, i haven't >> that worked so well the last time. and believe it or not, some people are already talking about 2016. my god. let's get the through 2012 first. but former bill clinton was asked, well, what if hillary wants to run in 20s 16? and would you like that? number 4 >> she comes home and we do this foundation stuff for the rest of our lives i will be happy. if she changes her mind and decides to run, i will be happy. but that's light years away. >> light years away he would still be happy. i was in the rose garden monday with the president of mexico, the president of the united states and the prime minister of canada, it is a bilingual country so the prime minister is, of course fluent in both languages. hardly. >> number 3. >> equally trans national. >> that's why we work together. >> not so good. >> the test shown (speaking french.) >> oh. stop. stop. stop. no. no. i am telling you. mitt romney's french is better than that. we heard at the olympics. you heard about the saints and the trouble they have gotten into for the beepedy hunting down there. the guy who was suspended for life, greg williams, former defensive coordinator so here he is. this was taped by a documentary photographer, filmmaker who is in the locker room and where greg williams is telling him, go after frank gore of the 49ers and basically kill his head. >> number 2. >> most important thing in the world to make sure we kelill his head. we want him running sideways. we want his head sideways. >> we want his head sideways which sounds to me like, you know, breaking his neck. that kind of talk. and then finally number 1, marion berry. he was re-elected to the city council at large this week and in his victory remarks, he says his number 1 goal is to get asians out of his neighborhood. >> number 1. >> asians coming in opening up dirty shops. >> kill it. >> you know, running for president is racial prejudice -- racial prejudice, shame on marian berry mayor for life. i will be back here with today's parting shot. bill press show. now, on current tv. it's completely inappropriate for television. ♪ >> the parting shot with bill press, this is the bill press show. >> how about it on this friday april 6th, my parting shot for today, in politics there are real issues and there are phony issues. one of the phoniest ever is republican criticism of president obama for his comment the other day about the supreme court and health care. hey, i was there monday in the rose garden when the president made those comments and all he said in response to a question from bloomberg news was, one, that he was confident the court would uphold obama care and, two, that he hoped the court would follow precedent and refrain from judicial activism in this case. now, republicans are accusing him of threatening the court. they are calling him a thug. >> that's total nonsense especially coming from this crowd. i mean first, we have never seen such an activist court as the roberts supreme court. remember bush v. gore? remember citizens united? and, second, how dare republicans accuse others of threatening judges? for years, republicans have railed against activist judges who legislate part from the bench. newt gingrich, remember, even said he would use the capitol police to arrest judges he thought were going too far. i mean come on. you know what it sounds like to me? like republicans that are afraid that in the case of health care the roberts court might actually do the right thing. that's my parting shot for today. brad woodall is the fiery leader of the democratic committee. have a great weekend. don't worry about politics but come back here on full-court press monday morning. >> this is the bill press show.