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Well take your numbers a calls. President obama is on a weeks vacation at marthas vineyard. He played a game golf and then he and the first lady and friends went out to dinner. Before he left town he signed the student loan bill on friday, and then gave a big News Conference friday afternoon. I was there, and he talked about Immigration Reform, he talked about Larry Summers, and he talkedded about his relationship with vladimir putin, he talked about the olympics and Edward Snowden. Meanwhile, politicians are flo flocking to iowa on on the topic of madam president. Will we be able to call Hillary Clinton madam president in 2016. Find out right here. You know what those people are like. What could possibly go wrong in eight years of george bush . My producer just coughed up a hairball. Sorry. Just be grateful current tv doesnt come in smellovision oh come on the sweatshirt is nice and all, but i could use a golden lasso. vo only on current tv. If you believe in states rights but still support the drug war you must be high. Viewpoint digs deep into the issues of the day. Do you think there is any chance well ever hear the president even say the word carbon tax . With an opened mind. Has the time finally come for real Immigration Reform . And a distinctly satirical point of view. But you mentioned great leadership so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. laughter cutting throught the clutter of todays top stories. This is the savior of the Republican Party . I mean really . With a unique perspective. Teddy rosevelt was a weak asmatic kid who never played sports until he was a grown up. laughter . And lots of fancy buzz words. Family values, speding, liberty, economic freedom, hardworking moms, crushing debt, cute little puppies. If Wayne Lapierre can make up stuff that sounds logical while making no sense. Hey, so can i. Once again friends, this is live tv and sometimes these things happen. Watch the show. Only on current tv. [ music ] broadcasting across the nation on your radio, and on current tv this is the bill press show. For joe biden it is off to iowa hes going to be the big star at the steak fry on september 15th. What do you say . Can you believe it . This this is the full court press. I hope i had a chance to kickback, relax over the weekend and recharge your batteries and roaring to go if youre not like the president and on vacation. Congress is in town, the house and the senate while the first family is up on marthas vineyard. You can reach us and reach out well continue to look for your comments on twitter, and of course we check in with our friends all the time, and you can join us on www. Billpres www. Billpressshow. The man of many hats. Bill fixing coffee, i dont know what youre doing, but dan is here. And back from the national weekend. It was great. We usually have trouble with the fillies. The phillies are having more trouble than we are right now. Yes, they are there didnt seem to be slumping as many phillies fans as there normalry are in washington, d. C. All you see are red caps, red shirts all over town. Not so much this time. We are finally getting our moneys worth in stephen strasbourg. He pitched his First Complete game and it was a shutout. Stephen strasbourg will take the mound for the final inning today. Superman. Complete game what an amazing play to close it out. Bill direct line hit to third base and for zimmerman that could have been trouble, but he caught it, and it was all over. Great play, he only gave up four hits and no runs. It was a very impressive performance. 11 strikeouts, he was good. Im sure they were saying the right thing was done. Maybe, he is is not pitching well. Bill jason dufner is having a great weekend. Even though he bogeyed the last two holes he won the championship at oak hill in an impressive field. This is a guy who is as cool a s a cucumber and shows no emotion like some of the others we know, but looks can be deceiving. I come across as a cool customer, i guess, but there are nerves out there, especially when youre trying to win a major championship. Bill well, did he it. Had he ever won a major . Not a major. Of course he has won tournaments. Hes fairly a noname on the pga tour. He has a look about him. Calm, cool, collected, not very exciting. Bill american, right . Yes. Bill well, i dont know, you have brits and australians who win the tournaments. Well, thats the sports for the day. Coming up, josh craushar from the hotline will be join us. Reed wilson no longer there. Its josh now. He has been there for a year. I should have the name right. Leslie clark from mcclachey news. And from emilys list Jess Mcintosh will be here to tell us all about the madam president conference out in iowa. Well tell you all about it. But first. This is full court press. President obama and family beginning their Martha Vineyard vacation over the weekend. He played golf with white house chef and robert wolf former counsel on jobs and competitiveness. Marvin nicholson is still travel directer. They played at oak bluffs. The traveling press corp was given a rare opportunity to watch the president play. On one green he made the put. I saw that chip. It was a little too long. He didnt shank it or anything. No, it was right straight at the pin. You and i are familiar with it. It looks like my game of golf. Apple is ready to unveil its next generation iphone. Theyll introduced the iphone 5s but samsung is realizing its galaxy smart phone a week earlier, which could kill iphones buzz because there is a lot of buzz around galaxy. Bill i have the iphone. It isnt what it used to be. Bill it works for me. Yes, but it doesnt have that aura about it. Lebron james considering the position to lead the union since Patrick Ewing did so in the late 1990s. James tells espn the union is not in a good place, and its going backwards but hes not positive he would have the time to commit to it the way he would like to. Bill interesting. Not a lot of people realize that these players are unionized. Bill the nba player and the mda players unions are unions with real clout because their players make so much money. And theyre relatively small unions. They dont have a million members like the steelworkers, 1. 2 million members, but their members have a lot of punch, thanks. On friday president obama, you know, a major, major News Conference, and it was his last effort before he went away, actually saturday on his way to Martha Vineyard he took a detour down in orlando to give a speech in front of the disabled veterans group. Friday was a busy day at the white house, he signed the student loan bill, which was not as good as Elizabeth Warren would have liked. Its down to 3. 9 . We hoped it would be 3. 4 , but its better than the range of 6th 9 of student loans. He held a News Conference before he went on vacation, and it was interesting for several reasons. First of all, in the buzz, in the Briefing Room ahead of time, rather, while we were waiting the buzz was the president was going to make an Opening Statement. He was going to make an Opening Statement about the nsa and major changes in the program of collecting met d metadata becaf all the criticism he has got. People are anticipating and buzzing about that. We got into the east room, 20 minutes ahead of time. Everybody gets their seats, and then they give the twominute warning. The president comes in, and he covered a whole range of topics. This was really a media News Conference. Im sure you read and heard a lot about it. He talked about Immigration Reform. He talked about whether or not there would be a Government Shutdown. He talked about Larry Summers and janet yellen as new chairman of the fed. And he talked about putin. He said that putin sits in a slouch likes a high school likl student sitting in the back chair of the room like hes a high school student. He talked about the olympics, there was no way we were going to boycott the olympics but we were going to defend lgbt and coming home with a medal is the best way to combat bias in russia. Then he spent the rest of the time talking about nsa, the spy program, and thats when he started. He said, first of all look, people are right to be asking questions about what is going on. Obama given the history of abuse by government its right to ask questions about surveillance particularly as technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives. Bill he said what is important is that americans have to trust the intelligence services. Obama its not enough for me as president to have confidence in these programs. The American People need to have confidence as well. Bill he said he was going to make a few little changes. One is for now on were going to find out more about what is going on, and what the legal basis for it is. Obama so in under my direction the nsa is taking steps to put in place a fulltime Civil Liberties and privacy officer and release information and details of its oversight. Bill he said we need for transparency and a little more oversight. He said, and this is the key phrase, work with conference to make changes. Obama we can put in steps for greater oversight, transparency and greater restraints on use of this authority. I look forward to working with congress to meet these objectives. Bill all in all i would like to know what you thought about the president s conference, particularly on this nsa metadata collection, but i got to tell you i came away disappointed. Disappointed because notice if you really live listened to whae president was saying, and early editorials over the weekend pointed this out. The president was not talking abouthe was not defending the program. He wasnt talking about how to fix it. He was talking about how to sprain it better. We need to do things to people have confidence in the system. Three things that i felt were troubling. Number one, he said he had total confidence in what nsa was doing, the need for it, and hes absolutely convinced that there is no abuse of this system. That theyre collecting all thisall these records on every phone call, and nobody is listening in on any single one phone call. I just find that hard to believe, that if these agents are collecting all this data, and the name pops up like you name it, stephen strasbourg or paris hilton or Dianne Feinstein and someone thinks, i wonder what shes saying, i wonder what theyre talking about. He said there is total confidence and no abuse whatsoever. Thats the first thing i found hard to swallow. Then he said im going to work with congress to do this. Im going to work with congress for Greater Transparency. Im going to work with congress to figure out how to better explain it. Work with congress . That was almost laughoutloud funny. Hes working with congress on Immigration Reform. How is that going . Hes working with congress on gun safety. How is that going . Hes working with congress about obama care, how did that go. This congress is impossible to work with. The idea of bases your hopes on more transparency with this Congress Aint going to happen. And then the president said, and i really found this a reachall this talk about National Security and privacy, all this conversation were happening right now, it would have happened without Edward Snowden. No way. No freakin way. Were talking about this because Edward Snowden released those documents about nsa. Im glad were having this conversation, but its more about how do we explain it better . Its got to go how do we rein in nsa and stop them unless there is a reason to suspect somebody, then you can go full board. Tell me what you think. Did he go far enough . Well be right back. This is the pill press show. Headlines. Real, gripping, current. Documentaries. On current tv. For true stories. With Award Winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. Real, gripping, current. Documentaries. On current tv. c] this show is about analyzing, criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. Are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night . Is this personal, or is it political . A lot of my work happens by doing the things that im given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. In reality its not like they actually care. This is purely about political grandstanding. Ive worn lots of hats, but ive always kept this going. Ive been doing politics now for a dozen years. vo hes been called the epic politics man. Hes Michael Shure and his arena is the war room. These republicans in congress that think the world ends at the Atlantic Ocean border and Pacific Ocean border. The bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. I do a lot of looking at those people as well. Not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. But we do care about them right . [ music ] [ music ] this is the the bill press show. Bill the president s News Conference on friday about the nsa is a were not going to make any changes. Were just going to try to explain it better so we all understand it better, and accept it the way the president does. Is that good enough for you . Ted, out in chicago, what do you say, good morning. Caller good morning, bill, i want to say im sorry you have lost your trust in the president. Bill i have not, but only in this program only. Caller you knew i after that press conference on friday,ings i knew bill press would come on and he wouldnt be able to please you. He didnt say anything about the nsa. After hes gone the next president is going to have it, its not going away. Bill thats the problem, ted. You see, if president obama doesnt fix it, i dont trust the next president to fix it. President obama has got an opportunity right here, right now. I think you have to count on him to do that because hes different. He is a progressive president. I expect him not to be like george bush and dick cheney and just defend the intelligence agencies. Caller hes trying to make an effort, and hes trying to knock em down. Bill he is not making an effort. Thats my point. He didnt do anything at all. He didnt offer anything at all on friday to change it. He said he had questions as a senator, but now he doesnt have any other questions. And if only we understood it the way he understands it then we would be perfectly happy with the nsa collecting data, ted, on every phone call that you make. Theyve got no business tapping everyone. This is the the bill press show. vo current tv gets the conversation started weekdays at 9 eastern. Im a slutty bob hope. The troops love me. Tv and radio talk show host Stephanie Miller rounds out currents morning news block. Youre welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. vo sharp tongue. Excuse me . vo quick wit. And yes, president obama does smell like cookies and freedom. vo and above all, opinion and attitude. Really . this is the kind of stuff they say about something they just pulled freshly from their [bleep]. You know what those people are like. What could possibly go wrong in eight years of george bush . My producer just coughed up a hairball. Sorry. Just be grateful current tv doesnt come in smellovision oh come on the sweatshirt is nice and all, but i could use a golden lasso. vo only on current tv. [ music ] connect with the the bill press show on twitter using the watching bp. This is the the bill press show. Bill 133 minutes after the hour. And its so good to see you. Josh, kra ushour from the hotline joins us here in the next segment. Were talking about president obamas News Conference on fly. I wason friday. I was looking for changes in the nsa spying program. We didnt get any. The president said were going to try to explain it better. Is that good enough . 186655press for your comments. Here is another story about Identity Theft that caught my attention. This one up in connecticut. I tell you its everywhere, folks. An ad pretending to be hiring for a national company, took all of their information, and of course he used that to open up credit cards and Bank Accounts in their name. Another case of Identity Theft you are susceptible to it unless youre protected against it as i am with life lock ultimate. The most comprehensive i. D. Theft protection available tod today. Protects your Bank Accounts and of course it cant protect you or your bank account if youre not a president obama. Call and mention bill press and youll get 10 off your life lock protection. For life lock ultimate, 1800 18003565967. And just one other piece of audio from the president. He did say that we have no interest at all in what you or i are talking about on our phone calls. Obama america is not interested on spying ordinary people. Were focused on finding the information necessary to protect our people and in many cases protect our allies. Bill but it still remains to be said and shown how collecting information on every single phone call made in the United States by every single american who places the call, how long the call is and who theyre calling, hard to see how that helps us find a terrorist in the middle east. Remember last week this whole new terror scare that we found out about, took action, closed those embassies, nothing to do with this Domestic Spying Program. That Domestic Spying Program did not help one damn bit. I join republicans and democrats in congress. Youve got people in Congress Like john conyers on the left, and James Sensenbrenner on the right. You have dick durbin on the left and rand paul on the right all saying there have to be limits to this data collection, and there should be probable cause or some sufficient reason for going after those phone data on a particular person before you randomly collect the data on every single phone call in the United States. President obama is not there. He defended the program and said basically if we just explain it better youll accept it. Hmm . How about you, not me. We tweet at bp show, and the president said he wants to work with congress to open up transparency. Bill thats a joke. And its been said work with what congress. And another said its our responsibility as citizens to create a congress that the president can work with. Bill thats true, and to start throw john boehner out i in 2013. And another said im sick of you for not supporting the president. Does he get anything right . Sick of your talk. Bill i am not a rubber stamp. I cannot do that. I cannot be that. Hes my president , and i support him. But when i think hes wrong i will say you. Sorry to disappoint you. I am not an obama rubber stamp or echo. Hector is calling from wood bridge, virginia, hector, thank you for your patience and your call, what do you think . Caller how can you be elected president and go against your oath of upholding the constitution . This is a violation of the fourth amendment. It doesnt matter how they explain it. We know what it is. The problem is hes not understanding that its a violation of our privacy. I think really we need to explain to our government what is wrong, not them explaining it to us. Bill thats a good way of putting it. I think it is an unconstitutional program. By the way, i think it was mark youdall, the one from colorado,i believe mark udall. He said the same thing last week. He said if its not its very close to violation of the fourth amendment. And the president of all people, a constitutional lawyer, should understand that. I think what happens, hector, in the white house of any president , they get in there and theyre surrounded by National Security guys, and they give in to them. I expected it from george bush and dick cheney. Im notnot from president obama. I thought he would be more likely who would say hey, wait a minute. Come on, i dont buy that crap. Steve in manassas, virginia, what are you saying . Caller good morning, bill. I agree with the president that some transparency is necessary. But i want to add a specific issue that was made public in 2008 in a book called the Shadow Factory by James Banford. Bill who knows as much about this as anybody else. Caller yes, he has been tracing it since the 1980s. The nsa does collect all this information, and then runs it through the Super Computers that look for key terminology. Its when they run across this key terminology that they then dump the information to a Human Resource that then reviews it and determines whether or not it warrants further investigation. Bill the point, theyre collecting so much information. The new center theyre building wherever it is in utah. First of all, it requires a massive army to sort through all this stuff, and they have so much stuff they may never be able to find the needle because they got too much hay if you follow the needle in the haystack analysis. Caller well, i agree if it that were the case. But because of the fact that there is such a large amount of information that needs to be screened, its the Super Computers that are programmed with these key bits of key terms that are looked for. Once they come across these key terms, then theyre dumped to human beings for review. Bill steve, i appreciate your call, and ill trust anything that James Banford says on this stuff. Ive interviewed him before. But the point is we would not accept local Police Officers going door to door and just entering houses without a search warrant, without sufficient cause to get a search warrant, and searching those homes. We would never accept that. Yet we are accepting the fact that nsa is collecting data on every phone call in the United States without any reason at all. To even remotes possibility of being connected to any terrorist organization or activity that they just collect everything possible. Dont tell me they get the permits from the fisa court because the fisa court is a rubber stamp. Like dick durbin said, there should be probable cause and then you can get anything you want. But you have to show probable cause first. The nsa doesnt have to. Chet . Caller first of all, president obama is once again stone walling about an issue that should have been brought to the American People way, way, way long before Edward Snowden brought it about. The real issue with that is something that rand paul brought up is the drones. The drone program, where does it stop . Where does it stop . That is the scary question. It really is. Bill well, it is, chet, and i talked a lot about the drones. The drones did come up in the News Conference on friday, and its been reported that weve stepped upim not saying this is a wrong thing to do with the terrorist threat last week and the embassies closing. Weve stepped up drone attacks and killed several alqaeda, maybe not top level but second level, and the president was asked about that friday at the News Conference. He said, im not going to talk about that. Again, the secret thing, why cant the president tell us exactly what were doing and why . Im telling you, i didnt get the answers i was looking for on friday. To be continued, josh next from the hotline. This is the the bill press show. You know who is coming on to me now . You know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials . Those types are coming on to me all the time now. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the Ten Commandments, thats what youre saying. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. Absolutely. And so would mitt romney. vo shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . For true stories. With Award Winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. Real, gripping, current. Documentaries. On current tv. [ music ] the bill press show is joining free speech tv starting september 3. Find out how to watch at the bill press show. Com. So good to see you this morning. President obama off on vacation now after a News Conference friday afternoon. Lots of stuff swirling around here. And josh the new editor in chief of the National Journal hotline. Bill one of the things weve been commenting on that dominated the News Conference, and i thought interesting to, too, given a chance to defend Larry Summers, he defended Larry Summers as a serious candidate as chairman of the fed. Does this mean that he has the inside track . Caller i think it tells you a lot about president obamas management style. Hes someone who values the advice and he has has trust of people who were loyal to him, as he said in the press conference, did a solid job in serving him in the administration. Larry summers was a big part of the Economic Team in the wake of the recession and the measures that the administration took. He valued his expertise and his service at the beginning part of his administration, and i think thats playing a big role that level of personal relationship is playing a big role in who hell pick. Bill i find it stunning. I had dinner with friends who are big wall street types, if you will. They were unanimous in that Larry Summers would be a disaster, and that the front page article in the sunday New York Times, how can you read that article and say, boy, he will not even be on the list. He seems toxic, Larry Summers. Summers has a lot of critics, and he doesnt necessarily have the best bedside manner of someone who is not a politician, and definitely alienated a whole bunch of folks in both the clinton and obama administration, and also when he was at harvard. Bill yes, yes, the faculty at harvard gave a noconfidence vote. Pretty damaging when youre not even supported by the professor of your own university. It ultimately only matters what president obama thinks. And youre right he seems to be inclined to take him but we wont find out until september. Bill so this is only august 2013, and believe it or not were already talking abou about 2016. Joe biden the reason, one of the reasons is joe biden announced his office that he was going to be the star at tom hopkins steak friday on september 13 a month from now. What does this mean for joe biden . It means at the very least he wants to be considered, he wants to be in the conversation of possible candidates running for president in 2016. If you talk to folks, one of the things that irritates people the most is when people automatically assume hes not a serious candidate, he doesnt have what it takes to be president. At the very least, i think his visits to iowa, and his trips to the steak fry is as much of an attempt that people view him on the alist of candidates along with Hillary Clinton. The fact that were talking about it, you dont want to be seen bill indeed. A good move for joe biden, Josh Kraushaar, and i know, josh, youre working on more news again including the New York Times story about the virginia governors race, and new questions about Terry Mcauliffe. Yes, a bad, bad weekend for the nominee. The story in the New York Times, Washington Post and Associated Press all cast a negative light of m mcauliffes work and it paints a picture of mcauliffe using political connection rather than using a Business Model and trying to do things in a traditional fashion. And through a whole lot of unfavorable news stories, Hillary Clinton brother was in the company but nobody knew what he did. Bill my question is Terry Mcauliffe has lots of political connections because he has done so much work, raised so much money for so many candidates, why shouldnt he use political connections. Well, the problem is the business is not doing well. Its going bankrupt, and its the mitt romney problem. He said he created jobs but its hard to find a business that he was ceo of that has been successful. Thats why green tech was so important to mcauliffes political career because he could run for governor and use this company as his job creation skill, but it hasnt really worked out that way. Bill thank you, well look for more on that story. Josh, thanks for being with us. Weve been talking with Josh Kraushaar who is the new editor in chief at the hotline. This is the bill press show. [ music ] [ music ] [ music ] taking your emails on any topic at any time. This is the bill press show live on your radio and current tv. Bill okay, mark wants to know what happened to the bill press show after current becomes aljazeera america. We have a new home there or somewhere else. Weve been telling you, mark, were notfirst of all radio continues just as is on all of our local progressive local talk radio stations. On television well have a new home as of september 3 on free speech tv. You can get that on your satellite dish, dish network. You can stream the show at free speech. Org. Go to free speech. Org. [ music ] [ music ] bill here we go, happy monday morning, folks, monday august 12. Can you believe it . Good to see you today, and i hope you enjoyed the weekend. Able to kickback, relax, and recharge your batteries and get ready to go. Lots to talk about this morning on the full court press. Were coming to you live from our nations capitol with the news of the day. Not much is happening here in washington since the house is out of town, the senate is out of town. President obama is out of town, and the Vice President is out of town, but well let you know what is going on around the country, around the globe. Most importantly give a chance to sound off and let you know what you think is goinwhat weg on. You can call us on 186655press. President obama is up at marth marthas vineyard. A round of golf and off to dinner not a bad start. Before he left he signed the student loan bill and held a big News Conference on friday afternoon. I was there when he talked about a whole mess of subjects, Immigration Reform, his relationship with vladimir putin, whether or not we might boycott the olympics, if there might be a Government Shutdown, and he talked mostly about Edward Snowden and the nsa. Well bring you more on that right here on your show on current tv. Are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night . Is this personal, or is it political . A lot of my work happens by doing the things that im given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. In reality its not like they actually care. This is purely about political grandstanding. Ive worn lots of hats, but ive always kept this going. Ive been doing politics now for a dozen years. vo hes been called the epic politics man. Hes Michael Shure and his arena is the war room. These republicans in congress that think the world ends at the Atlantic Ocean border and Pacific Ocean border. The bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. I do a lot of looking at those people as well. Not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. But we do care about them right . Cenk off air alright in 15 minutes were going to do the young turks i think the number 1 thing than viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know im going to be the first one to call them out. Cenk on air whats unacceptable is how washington continues to screw the middle class over. Cenk off air i dont want the middle class taking the brunt of the spending cuts and all the different programs that wind up hurting the middle class. Cenk on air you got to go to the local level, the state level and we have to fight hard to make sure they cant buy our politics anymore. Cenk off air and they can question if im right about that. But i think the audience gets that, i actually mean it. Cenk on air 3 trillion dollars in spending cuts narrator uniquely progressive and always topical, the Worlds Largest online news show is on current tv. Cenk off air and i think the audience gets, this guys to best of his abilities is trying to look out for us. Only on current tv [ music ] bill it is off to iowa for Vice President joe biden. Hell be the Star Attraction as the steak fry on september 15th. Here we go. 2016 already under way. Good morning, everybody. What do you say, great to see you this morning. It is monday, august 12th. This is the full court press. Were coming to you from a ghost town by the name of washington, d. C. Its hard to find anyone to talk to these days in washington. The house is out of town. The senate is out of town. The Vice President is out of town. The president is up at Martha Vineyard, but there are hearty souls like kar karl frisch. Im just on crutches. I couldnt get away. Bill thats right. Everything good . Having a good summer . Fantastic, fantastic, bill. Nothing like august, humidity on crutches. Its the best. Bill you know what is good about it is you can go from one end of the city to the other in five minutes instead of a half hour. You can get a table in restaurants. You can get on the metro. Thats true. I called for a reservation, and they said sure, just come on by. Bill everybody heads for the hills. Why are we here . Thats a good question. Bill were here with a team, not the entire team. Peter, one of those who has run out of town just for today and tomorrow, dan henning, team press here, keeping things together with the help o help. Were you at the state fair. I did not go to the Illinois State fair. Bill if you had been there you might have been able to give kyle barton a run for his money. But as it is kyle barton won the hog calling contest hands down. I believe its cloven hoof town oh oh. [ squealing ] here, pig, pig, pig, pig [ pig noise ] bill now how can age selfrespecting hog resist that . Kyle barton. I believe thats how john boehner corrals the republicans. Bill its caucus time. Yes. Yes, theyre like pigs at the trough. Bill boehner instead of the voice calling people to prayer at the minerett next istanbul, you can hear boehner calling the caucus. Here, pig, pig. Here, pig, pig, pig, pig time to vote. By the way, its got notes. Its got notes like wine. Bill he goes from state fair to state fair. He has won the iowa state fair. Hes like the Joey Chestnut of the hog calling world. Thats a good comparison. Do you think that showed up on their personality tests in high school . Bill karl frisch this hour. And leslie clark will be along from mcc latchey and karl, you and i will get into the politics of the day. But first, the big stories. The full court press. Collecting votes on bills and its not hog calling, its murder. The hill reports Republican House majority Kevin Mccarthy spoke at a luncheon in california with a he talked about Actor Kevin Spacey in the show house of cards the Netflix Program where he plays the house, and he kills a member of congress in the shows first season. Mccarthy said if he could do that, too, he would never have to worry about another vote. Bill there are some things you should not joke about. There would be one less republican in the house. Bill i think he would be killing democrats. I dont think he would be killing a republican. One of the 16 Public Sector employees that won the power ball in new jersey came forward and said what she will do with her share of the money, 9 million before taxes. Susan nickel saying shes not quitting her job because shes 18 months away from retirement and loves what she does for ocean county new jersey. Shes going to use her money to rebuild her house which had seven feet of water in it from super storm sandy. Youre going to need the pension when you go bankrupt for having won the lottery. Bill i love the fact that these Public Employees got together, 16 of them, bought a ticket, and there they go. They are the kind of people who should win the lottery. Ive said this before. We talked about this last week. By the way, i won. Did he. Bill i won 5. I spent 6, and i won 11. When i was 18 i bought a scratcher and i won a free ticket. I bought that ticket, i won 10 tickets, and then i won one more ticket and i havent played the lottery since. Bill why not. Theres pretty good chances. And tim clark had no chance of winning the pga championship this weekend, but hes going home with a story. The South African shot a hole in one on the 11th hole. The par 3 at Oak Hill Country club in rochester, new york, he used a hybrid, and it came after a double bogey on the hole before, so he was quite happy. I dont know what that means. Bill well, hole in one means he won in first try. But bogey and hybrid, when did golf start hybrid . Ten, 15 years ago . Bill no, this is not a combination of gas and electricity. Hole in one is pretty impressi impressive. Ive friend in california who was playing golf with president clinton and got a hole in one. If you get a hole in one while playing with the president of the United States, thats impressive. Isnt eagle a move . Two under par. How many holes in one does the president get that he doesnt actually get. Bill as many as he wants. The president always wins. Bill its a big time, buzzy time in the politics, and particularly up in new york city. He refuses to drop out of the race, and i like were saying drop out rather than pull out of the race. Bill i purposely said it that way. Anthony weiner is in there to stay, no doubt about t and yesterdaabout it. Christine quint money to spend. Number two, in terms of millions of dollars to spend, Anthony Weiner, this is what it looks like. I have raised a campaign focused like a laser beam fighting for the middle class. I put out two books on new ideas on everything from discipline in our schools and helping our city. Many dont want me to win. But this isnt about what they want. If you give me the chance ill fight for you and your family every single day. Bill there he is. At the door bell, door to door. Thats the last thing you want to open your door to. By the way bill thats when he opens the coat, flashes . I dont think sydney leathers is trying to stay out of his w way. Bill that is a whole other story. I would not be surprised if the ends up in the run off. Hes lucky he had all that money when he was considering running for mayor four years ago and chose not to. Apparently then it was not time to fight for the people of new york. Bill i would love for him to drop out. But i dont think hes going to. What does he cam gain by drog out other than a modicum of respect from his wife. The upside is if he makes the runoff he has a shot of being mayor. I dont think he makes the runoff. This is an instance where all the money in the world does not pull someone out of coming in last place. As we all know they dont have a whole lot of money to spend in new york. There are matching funds. Where bloomberg would spend 60 million of their own money, were talking about 5 million a piece here. I think Christine Quinn will thankfully come in first with 25 to 35 of the vote and then have a runoff two weeks later with one of the other two guys. Di blastio or thompso thompson{ l }. I dont think weiner has what it takes to pull this oh off. He has struggled being an oneman band. Hes always been an oneman band. He was a grade one jerk. He has no friends in washington. He said no one to stan up for him because he had no friends. Bill joe biden on his way to iowa. Literally. Bill literally on his way to iowa. Bill tom hearken has this steak fry, and that has been generally a coming out party for president ial nominees coming this time around. It was announced this morning that joe biden willing heading up the speakers. I spent a lot of timei think washington, d. C. Is an unique place in that there are more people in washington that have been to iowa than live in iowa, and ive lived in iowa. Ive been virtually to every county, im sure, all 99 of them. The fact that i know there are 99 counties in iowa tells you something. Bill really, you have . Oh, yes, sioux falls, ive been all over the state. Bill why . Working in politics. I worked with howard dean back in my old days as a republican i worked with alexander and john mccain many moons ago. I think biden plays well there, i think hillary plays well there. Many of these desands, whether its Martin Omalley or cuomo in new york, all of these people have to do these types of things to keep themselves potentially viable whether or not or not they end up running. If hillary runs, many of these people wont bother but theyll continue to do these types of events just in case she doesnt run. Bill just to keep yes, its good food and whatnot and showing support senator harkin but all the political activists from all over the state go to this every year. Cenk were going to be talking in the next hour to jess mmcintosh. They were talking about ma madam president. After the first africanamerican president , we should have the first female president of the United States. I agree. There is no doubt, this is all about hillary. I think it is. I think emilys list would love people to know that hillary is not the only qualified woman. She is certainly the most qualified woman in the country to be president , but shes not the only woman qualified to be president obama. I dont mean 35 years of age, american citizen, blahblahblah. There are many senators and governors in this country that are qualified. Bill who are the other women on the list . Kirsten gillibrand. Any number of senators. Weve got a great caucus of women amy klovichar is impressive. And there is a dirth of qualified women, and i think part of the goal is to let the media know that if Hillary Clinton doesnt run, there are many who could. Bill karl frisch on the full court press. Give us a call at 186655press. Your comments, your questions. Give us a holler. Well be right back. Follow us on twitter bp show. This is the bill press show. [ music ] [ music ] [ music ] bill here we go. 26 minutes after the hour, karl frisch here. Dan comments on we are on social media at facebook. Com bull pres billpress show. And its commented, its shaping up to be another clown card when referring to donald trump, and next time weiner has a sexting scandal he has to enter the same therapy as the san diego mayor. Bill oh, god. There is a difference between what weiner did and what philner is doing. Hes probably doing something wrong and inappropriate. Thats the different was that weiner was consensual. Bill i want to get back to the clown car because the driver of the clown car was in iowa over the weekend, and heres why he said its important that he be the next president of the United States. I think a Great Company in a relatively short period of time. For this country to really remain, and i cant use the word owe remain because as you know im talking about the word again make America Great again. The word again is very important. For this country to be great again we have to create tremendous wealth to take care of social security, medicare and medicaid and all the things we cant afford right now. I think i would be very, very good at doing that. Bill i would be very, very, very good at being president. Because of the company that ive bankrupted many times. I dont know if he knows this, but our country doesnt have shirt and tie rights to sell. We cant have america product be sold in stores. We cant sell our name to people. I think he thinks he can do for himselfyeah, i dont think its possible. Bill i envision the white house 1600 pennsylvania avenue with a big trump sign on top of it. Beautiful. Just like the trump sign on the trump towers. This is the the bill press show. Jewtalian. Okay, whatever you want. Who plays kafka . Who saw kafka . Who ever saw kafka . laughter . Asking the tough questions. Chris brown, i mean you wouldnt let one of your daughters go out with him. Absolutely not. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me . Absolutely singing i take lipitor, thats it. Are you improving your lips . laughter . When shes talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. It looks like Anthony Wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. His what in the ring . His hat. Always outspoken, joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Only on current tv. [ music ] the bill press show is joining free speech tv starting september 3rd. Stay uptodate by following us on twitter bp show. This is the bill press show. Bill 33 minutes after the hour. Yes, indeed, this is the finale this week, the finale on current tv here on the full court press. Dont forget on radio no change. Local progressive radio stations all continued programming will be there all the way through, but this thursday is the last day on current tv, and tv will be off tv for two weeks, but september 3rd we bounce back on free speech tv. You can find out about all the options if go to www www. Freespeech. Org. On your satellite dish youll be able to see us on tv, dish tv, direct tv or dish network, and not having a satellite dish will give you trouble with all of those options but youll be able to stream your sho the show on r computer at www. Freespeech. Org we have karl frisch and we have our good friend from huffington post. Arthur delaney covers Economic Issues and the hard times that a lot of Americans Still face in this country. Arthur, great to see. You great to be back. Bill the Delaney Downer. The daily Delaney Downer. Bill on the huff post. Huff post hill. Bill can people sign up for that . Yes, www. Huffingtonpost www. Huffingtonpost. Com politi www. Huffingtonpost. Com politi cs and then there is a place on top that you would click on that to get the daily Delaney Downer and the cat videos. I love the cat videos. Thats the only reason why i subscribe. I get all my news from cats. Bill its a really good round of very irreverent round up of the days event in washington, d. C. A lot of good information. And the downer is depressing. Bill and the downer is depressing. Like the downer on food stamps these days. Republicans have come up with an agricultural bill where well give the farmers some subsidy, and well give the poor people some food stamps. This year the republicans said, no, well take care of the farmers but screw the poor. For the first time in the postwar era separated the farm bill into two parts, and they passed the farmer part in the house of representatives, and were waiting on the food stamp part. Theyve got a plan that supposedly theyll vote on. You cant be sure that this will actually happen because there is so much turmoil but theyll cut food stamps by 50 , reduce the rolls by 2 Million People. Bill all right, my understanding is that the farm bill that came out of the senate that was in front of the house cut food stamps by 20 billion, right . The farm bill that the Senate Passed had a smaller cut by a percent. Which i think democrats are willing to do to get in front to get the legislation passed. Right, and to getyou can say that you made this modest cut that bolsters public support. I think thats their thinking there. The republican cut is 40 times bigger than that. Bill right. And would clearly result in several Million People losing benefits. Bill here is the problem with food stamps. Its not just losing benefits. When we talk about what theyes, in fact, they would lose benefits but what are they losing . Theyre losing food. Okay . They are one of the things that we require to survive. I just wanted to put that out there. Bill our leader nancy pelosi said this is literally taking food out of the mouths of children. I mean, you know this Program Better than anybody, who benefits from food stamps . Who is getting food stamps today . Well, take it from the Congressional Budget Office the majority, vast majority like 90 is either children, old people or disabled people. And so they are the people we really got to crackdown on. Well, this is what the debate is about. Instead of debating in a policydriven way, its about who is the face of food stamps . And there is a raging battle over this. Everybody at this point. Ive seen numbers up there that what i consider startling percentage of people at some point in their life will have to rely on these types of benefits. Absolutely. A genuine Cross Section of demographics, but you have to be poor to get them. But republicans want to put forward a different portrait of the food stamp benefits. Bill getting to my point, as a republican freshman from oklahoma i never heard of him before, mark wayne mullen. Thats his name. Mark wayne is all one word. Mark wayne mullen. He said in a town hall in oklahoma during this break, and he says this Food Stamp Program is a lot of phoneys, full of fraud. Here he is telling the story. Then im looking over, and this guy was built like a brick house. I mean, he had muscles all over. He was in a little tank top, shorts, and really nice nike shoes, and she was standing there, and she was all in shape, and they looked like they just came from a fitness program. And you know, they were both physically fit. They go up in front of me, and they paid with that card. Fraud. Fraud. Bill fraud. The first to admit that spandex is a bit much. That should an test. Bill so what hes saying is you cant be healthy and be on food stamps, right . Which is precisely is why they want to cut them. They want to cut them who needs it unhealthy because theyre not nourished. Then theyll get it back when they look gangly and sickly enough. This is the type of anecdote that forms this debate at all times. Stories at town halls, Louie Gohmert talking about people buying crab legs in june. If you search food stamps and crab legs, it goes back 20 years constantly. Cash register resentment. Ronald reagan welfare queen. Exactly. Its a debate in this country who is the deserving poor. But there is this caricature for one reason or another the person at the Cash Register in front of them is totally unworthy, and its usually just one detail about them, not the full portrait at all. But why someone who is physically fit is undeserving . This is new, sort of a twist. Hes not used to telling these stories as a congressman. Hes freshman. He had a lot more descriptions for the guy, all the muscles, sinewing and tank top, but he had a wife, too, but back to the muscles. Well usually the people in these stories are like overweight and with 20 kids in tow. So hes sort of flip the script. I asked his office what is fraud lent about that, him being muscular and using food stamps, and they didnt respond. But hes insinuating that this guy had a gym membership. Couldnt he get rid of the gym membership before he bought food. Bill how many people are on food stamps. 15 of this country. Bill are they all muscular . Thats the requirement. You have to be poor. You have to have proofe proved y enrolling in some other set of program. You literally do have toif you own a car, you cant get on food stamps. But if your name is markwayne and your parents dont put a space you dont automatically qualify . Bill so your income has to be below the poverty level, which is i think 15,000, whatever it is this year. If you get on food stamps, how longis there a period . Do you sign up for a year, two years . I think in most states you have to recertify every six months. Now the law says if youre an able bodied adult without dependents you can only get food stamps for three months out of a threeyear period. But because the economy is so bad there are waivers, and 45 states say dont worry about that because there are enough jobs right now can continue to receive food stamps pretty much indefinitely. That is one of the things republicans are targeting in their up coming legislation. Theyre going to get rid of these waivers. Theyre not the most federalist approach, but it resembles what they did with welfare in the 90s. Bill im just glad that we have our priorities straight. Were not worried about the subsidies to the Oil Companies and were not worried about all the big tax loopholes of the millionaires and billionaires, but were going to crackdown on those kids and those seniors on food stamps. Arthur delaney is on top of it. Well have more questions when we come back. Questions on food stamps, 186655press. Go mobile with bill press, download podcasts and listen any time, anywhere. This is the bill press show. If you believe in states rights but still support the drug war you must be high. Viewpoint digs deep into the issues of the day. Do you think that there is any chance well see this president even say the words carbon tax . With an open mind. Has the time finally come for real Immigration Reform . And a distinctly satirical point of view. 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First he turned it into copies of aran books, and then he withheld the fish and the wine until he finished the book report. And there was a means test on the fish. You had to be 100 of the poverty line. No fancy sandals. I think your smock is made of blend. Chase the money changers from the temple. Over here. All together. Bill it does give a different meaning to the word christian the way these republicans, their politics. The bible came up during committee debate, and my favorite quote was from, i think it was Stephen Fincher who said, well, the bible says lots of things ran, and then proceeded o read from paul that said those who do not work shall not eat, but this is not pault paulanit t christianity. Its easier fo for a camel to get through the needle to get to heavien than a rich man getting to heaven. That nips that one in the bud. Bill i want to say beverly is calling from st. David from illinois. What do you say . Caller first i would like to say i love your show, and i love karl frisch. Hi karl. Oh, beverly. Bill do you have love for author here. Caller yes, of course. Thank you. Caller first of all to the gentlemen, the tennessee guy was also getting 3. 5 million in subsidies for his farm. Yes. Caller lets remember that. Secondly of all im a 60yearold widow, when my husband died left me with nothing, and i fought back to get housing and everything else. Im on food stamps. I get 86 a month, and i budget my food very well. And i have to go to food banks occasionally, not all the time. And we have to be checked once a year in the state of illinois youre approved once a year. Well, you sound spoiled rotten, beverly. Caller thank you, karl. Bill 86 a month for beverly, and these guys are saying, you know, that calling you a fraud, beverly, or thinking that youre ripping off the government. Dubado you buy lobster or crb legs i do not ive never eaten a lobster or had a rob leg but another point that the bill press show needs to know, your two favorite guys the Koch Brothers, they bought out the most expensive resort in albuquerque, new mexico, and guess who they had as guest at their resort. Bill john roberts. Caller no, their two favorite republicans in the house of representatives, paul ryan and mr. Cantor. Bill oh really . Look at that. Beverly, look, you know, hey, beverly, i want to you hold on because we want to get your namei want to get your name and address here. I want to send you a copy of my latest book the obama hate machine, and thank you for calling and youll find out more about the Koch Brothers in that book. Just quickly before we wrap up on student loans. The president signed this bill. What does this do . Washington works. Thats what it signifies. It locks in a lower student loan rate. Instead of moving arbitrary rates. Set the financial market. In the short term, a good deal for student powers. In the longer term they could have higher Interest Rates when the economy gets better. Bill its locked in at 3. 9 instead of 6. 8 . I like what Elizabeth Warren suggested, and eventually the system will need some kind of big changes, and not just for students who have these loans, but for people who are going to these giant forprofit colleges. Bill what this doesnt address is a whole discussion of College Tuition and colleges charging more and more, they think that kids can always get loans to pay for this. Were living longer, 100yearolds will be finishing their college loan. Bill great, guys, arthur deldelaney, great to see you, ad karl frisch, ill come back and tell you what the president is up to today. Hes on vacation. This is the bill press show. [ music ] this is the bill press show. Bill hey, here we go on this monday, august 12th. President obama did not put out an official schedule today. All we know the first day of his vacation yesterday at Martha Vineyard, the president oh got in a round of golf with the white house chef, and then last night the president and the first lady and friends went out to dinner at the sweet life cafe on marthas vineyard. Im sure today there will be more golf, more beach time, a bike ride, who knows. I know in our next hour leslie clark, white house correspondent, will be here at the top of the hour. [ music ] bill good morning, everybody, and it is monday, august 12th. Great to see you today. Hope you had a good weekend, and youre ready to jump into the big stories of the day here from our nations capitol. Not much going on here in the nations capitol because the president is out of town, the senate is out of town, the house is out of town, the Vice President is out of town, but were here to bring you uptodate to brin news in washn and around the globe, and well give a chance to join the conversation. You can do so by phone at 186655press. Join us on twitter bp show and on facebook at facebook. Co facebook. Com bill press show. The president obama got in a round of golf and went out to dinner. Before he left he had a press conference where he talked about vladimir putin, boycotting olympics and a Government Shutdown and Edward Snowden and nsa. Meanwhile, joe biden on his way to iowa getting talks started about if hes going to run i in 2016. Find out more on current tv. The young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know im going to be the first one to call them out. Cenk on air whats unacceptable is how washington continues to screw the middle class over. Cenk off air i dont want the middle class taking the brunt of the spending cuts and all the different programs that wind up hurting the middle class. Cenk on air you got to go to the local level, the state level and we have to fight hard to make sure they cant buy our politics anymore. Cenk off air and they can question if im right about that. But i think the audience gets that, i actually cenk on air 3 trillion dollars in spending cuts narrator uniquely progressive and always topical, the Worlds Largest online news show is on current tv. Cenk off air and i think the audience gets, this guys to best of his abilities is trying to look out for us. Only on current tv we have a big, big hour and the iq will go way up. vo current tv gets the conversation started weekdays at 9 eastern. Im a slutty bob hope. The troops love me. Tv and radio talk show host Stephanie Miller rounds out currents morning news block. Youre welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. vo sharp tongue. Excuse me . vo quick wit. And yes, president obama does smell like cookies and freedom. vo and above all, opinion and attitude. Really . this is the kind of stuff they say about something they just pulled freshly from their [bleep]. You know what those people are like. What could possibly go wrong in eight years of george bush . My producer just coughed up a hairball. Sorry. Doesnt come in smellovision oh come on the sweatshirt is nice and all, but i could use a golden lasso. vo only on current tv. [ music ] good to see you today. Welcome to the full court press this monday morning. I hope you had a good weekend, and were glad youre joining us on monday morning. Well talk about the big stories of the day and what is means to you. You can give us a call at 186655press. You can join us on twitter bps, after the show ill go down to the gym, work out, a quick change of clothes and then the white house briefings where i join journalist leslie clark in our studio this morning. Hi leslie, good to see you. Great to be here. We have a little break. Yeah, we have a little break. Bill and youre heading to the vineyard to play golf with the president. Ill be here instead with reports on what hes doing. Bill he had a good start, a good round of golf, out to dinner. Very relaxing. Bill they like it up there. They return repeatedly except last year which was an election year. Bill you understand they have their priorities. Right, right, leslie will be talking with us this half hour and then well be joined by Jess Mackintosh with emilys less, and dan henning is here all morning. We have the phones covered and were looking good on current tv. On the video cam. Leslie, you know, i dont know if you heard at the end of last week, sanjay gupta with cnn has been an outspoken opponent of medical marijuana. He said, all these years ive been wrong. I didnt do my research the way i should have. I took the word of the federal drug agency that medical marijuana was a fraud, and he apologized and admitted that he was wrong. Jay leno friday night had a little fun with the announceme announcement. Cnn medical marijuana expert says he has reversed his blanket opposition to marijuana use. He has changed. He came is to his conclusion on medical marijuana after smoking a ton of marijuana. Hes also come out in full support of cool ranch doritos. Bill because we all know you get the munchies. But i thought it was noble of sanjay gupta to admit he was wrong. And wasnt he also obamas big for surgeon general. I wonder if he would have come to the same conclusion. Bill good point, but wouldnt it have been refreshing to have a surgeon general. It would be an interesting topic to cover. Bill lots to cover, we were both at president obamas News Conference on friday afternoon where he made a lot of news on a whole range of different topics, well get to that, but first. This is the full court press. A quick check of weather headlines well start in sports where the Tampa Bay Rays pull off the rare ball trick saturday against the l. A. Dodgers after a fly ball was hit out to the outfield, and instead of giving it back to the pitcher like he normally would, james loney tossed it to shortstop escobar who was standing over third base, and no one was paying attention at that point. They figured the play was over, and escobar held onto the ball in his glove, and then dodgers thinking the next play would start with the new pitch, and he was tagged out. He was faked. Bill thats very sneak. I thats very hard to do. The last hidden ball trick was six or seven years ago. Keep your eye on the ball. Absolutely. One of the 16 Public Sector employees that won the power ball in new jersey came forward and said what shes going to do with her share of the money. Shes getting 9 million before taxes after splitting it among her coworkers. Susan nicoles says shes not going to quit her job because shes 18 months away from retirement, loves what she does and shell use the money to rebuild her house which had seven feet of water in it from hurricane sandy. Bill i love when employees pool together and win the lottery. Yes. Bill thats the kind of people who should win the lottery. These are Public Employees. They dont make that much any how. And theyll fix their flooded basement. It will be a nice new house after 9 million. And finally it looks like twitter is getting ready to go public. Caught wind of a Financial Reporting manager which was pulled off line over twitters website shortly after their story about it ran. There was another opening for a Stock Administration analyst all signs pointing to that the social media is ready to hit wall street, albeit very carefully after facebooks. Bill twitter would be a goodbye, absolutela goodbuy. I tell you. Pretty lively News Conference friday afternoon. Late in the day. Yes, that was a big hit with the reporters, late in the day on a friday. Bill hello, could you have had it earlier in the day so we could have had our story written and take off for the weekend. He took a lot of questions, for him, usually he gives pretty long answers, so he doesnt have time for that many questions. Bill there were so many questions that came up, first nsa and Larry Summers, it was asked why he has come forward to defend Larry Summers, and im paraphrasing, and does that give the impression that he has the inside track as being president of the fed. And the president defended him again. Yes, absolutely. A couple of weeks ago democrats were grousing about the summers being the leading candidate and the president defend him on the hill and then again on friday. But he has not give the decision on who will be the next fed chair, but he said if someone did good work for him, hell defend that person. Bill right, and he also mentioned janet yellen as a possibility. But just seems to me that even though he denies it he has gone out of his way to praise Larry Summers many times. He has to be seriously thinking about him. Yes, both on the hill and then Public Defense of him on friday. Did he play a major role in the administration in the first term during the recovery. It does seem like hes definitely one of the candidates. Bill he was also asked about his rocky relationship with vladimir putin, but the president said not so rocky. He said in their conversations its been candid, theyve actually got things done, and the press tends to harp too much on the body language between world leaders. He went on that putin kind of slouched and had the attitude of a kid who didnt want to be in class, which said a lot about body language, i thought. Bill it did, that was pretty funny. Yes. Bill instead of going to russia, i mean, there is no doubt that they did snub putin by canceling the summit, right . Yes, putin definitely wanted him to come to moscow and sit down for a bilateral meeting into so the president is going to sweden instead. Yes, hell nobody russia, but he will not g go to moscow for e bilateral. Hell be in st. Petersburg for the summit. Bill the president will make an Opening Statement and announce major changes to the nsa program in response to criticisms that had come from the hill from republicans and democrats. And democrats. Bill about this program. I listened pretty carefully. He said a lot. I didnt hear any changes. But he started with this point. Going to the president very quickly about how he understands what is going on, most americans may not yet. Obama its not enough for me as president to have confidence in these programs. Its important for the American People to have confidence in them as well. Bill that seemed to me to be the tone that he was talking about. How did you read it . It definitely seemed to be a defense of the program, not necessarilyhe didnt seem inclined to be making huge changes in them, but more to maybe bring people in, to inform the public more about them. He offered a defense of them, and in no way did he seem to say that anything that they were doing was uncalled for or that would be scaled back. Just that they would bring more transparency to it. Bill right, he said he had total confidence in the program, right . Mmhmm. Bill he was convinced that the program was not being abused in any way. And if you understandreally the message was if you only understood them better like i do, then you would understand why i have to do this. Yes, you would have more confidence. One of the changes he did suggest was having an adversar adversarial role in the fisa courts. Bill someone in the courtroom who would argue on behalf doctoring argue against the intelligence agencies for why you have to do this. Why do you have to get this warrant, which seems to be something that is lacking now. Its justyou have the government case, and thats all. That would be a change. That would require congressional approval, and also as people have noted you dontwe wouldnt necessarily because there is not much transparency, you wouldnt know how adequate that person, the job they had done and whether or not the judge had lived to them. Bill because the fisa court is a secret court. Right. Bill and one of the other things that the president said he wanted to work on in terms of achieving Greater Transparency depended very much on congress. I look forward to work with congress to meet those objectives. Bill how real is it given Immigration Reform, gun safety, you name the issue, the president has not gotten through this congress. Im not blaming him for that, but the rattle is this is not the most cooperative congress. How realistic is it that well get major whatever is needed through ns a through this congress. This may be different because you have critics on both sides who have come out and said i have a problem with this. Its interesting when politics hits that spectrum when you have republicans on one side and democrats on the other when something actually hits and gets them upset. So perhaps there is a chance that they could find some sort of common ground. But then you also have on the other end of the spectrum you have agreement from some members of congress of what were doing and changes arent necessary. Bill to me its almost laugh out loud. Im going to work with congress to achieve this. Because of the track record so far. Bill it has not been great. I thought most surprising the president said, you know, were having this Big Conversation now about National Security and privacy, but we would have had this any way. Even if Edward Snowden had not released stuff from the nsa. Right, right. Bill i dont believe that. Yeah, he said that he had called for National Conversation before snowden ever came. Bill yes, he said, it was my idea, not Edward Snowdens idea. I get the credit for this. Yes, he dismissed the idea that snowden had any credit for engaging in the debate, but it is sort of hard to believe that it would have hit this level had the revelations no the come out. Bill without getting into the argument whether hes hero, traitor, whatever, i think you have to agree were having this conversation, the president had this News Conference because of Edward Snowden. So again, you probably saw the president s News Conference. Your comments, did he go far enough on nsa, 186655press, our tollfree number. Well be right back. Like us at facebook. Com slash bill press show. This is the bill press show. For true stories. With Award Winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. Real, gripping, current. Documentaries. On current tv. Did anyone tell the pilgrims they should selfdeport . No, they said make us a turkey and make it fast. laughter . She gets the comedians laughing. Thats the best thats hilarious. And the thinkers thinking. Okay, so there is wiggle room in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. Ya, i consider you jewtalian. Okay, whatever you want. Who plays kafka . Who saw kafka . Who ever saw kafka . laughter . Asking the tough questions. Chris brown, i mean you wouldnt let one of your daughters go out with him. Absolutely not. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me . Absolutely singing i take lipitor, thats it. Are you improving your lips . laughter . When shes talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. It looks like Anthony Wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. His what in the ring . Always outspoken, joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Only on current tv. [ music ] live on free speech tv beginning september 3rd. Visit www. Spreespeech. Org to learn more. This is the bill press show. Bill over the weekend, madam president , well talk about that in the next segment. Right now leslie clark, white house correspondent. Its mcclatchedc. Com. We have 30 newspapers from sacramento, california, to miami, florida, the heard land. Bill the Sacramento Bee is the one i know best having lived in sacramento for nine years. Great paper. Looking back and recapping the president s News Conference, covered many topics. One issue you havent talked about the president was asked about the possibility of a looming Government Shutdown. Yes, he was quite heated on responding to that. Bill i thought so. He really got into it. The republicans have threatened to shut down the government unless he signs a the bills that fund th defunds the healthcare law. Bill so what was it, like 30 Million People or yes, i dont know why he would want to shut down government over the idea to close down idea would be to put 30 Million People without health insurance. Bill this is their priority. Right. He called it their holy grail. Bill their holy grail is to deny 30 Million People the opportunity to buy health insurance. But he didnt and wouldnt answer the question, so it was a hypothetical if it came down to cutting that program or shutting down the government, which he would do . How do you read it . I read it he would rather shut down the government, not rather, but that he would be willing to in order to save obamacare. Did you read it that way . Im not really sure on that. Im not sure if theyre still pushing stuff out and they dont want to get boxed in on makin makingsetting down the terms on the debate at this point. Bill thats a bigthats going to be the biggest showdown when they come back from their break. When they come back in the fall thats going to be the whole thing. It will be over the budget. Then we have the debt ceiling looming as well in the fall. Bill the debt ceiling, the budget, Immigration Reform, which is still out there. Right. Get your vacation while you can. Bill climate change, theyre not going to do anything on that. And nsa. Bill and nsa. It will be a busy fall in washington. Thank you for coming in. Thank you so much. This is the bill press show. [ music ] [ music ] this is the bill press show. All right, 33 minutes after the hour. Here we go on a monday morning, august 12th. How long before we get to say madam president . Hopefully not much longer. And emily is working hard to make that happen. And jess is the exdifficult exe director. Thanks for the promotion. Bill good to see you. Good to see you, bill. Bill you stirred things up with this panel madam president. We were just trying to launch the Hillary Clinton for president chain. We wanted to get right to it in 2013. Bill couldnt it be a couple of years long . Never, never. Its bigger than one woman, one cycle. We obviously love Hillary Clinton. She energizes democrats like no one else in the field, male or female. Were hopeful that she decides to take this run. Shes the right choice for the country, the right choice for her. Shes take herring time, being thoughtful, and thats great. But we want to make sure at emilys list its not just about live and its not just 2016. There is a chance that her successor is a woman. We want women to be part of the white house conversation forever and ever. So in 2016 were talking about amy klovashar, and others who are ready for another title. We want to make sure that were talking about wendy davis and some of these up and comers all over the country in the same way that we talk about the castro brothers, barack obama in 2004. Its time that women were part of the conversation, the polling, the punditry, all of it. Bill was that the focus, was that the purpose of the panel on friday . Yes, we wanted toemilys list does a lot of polling of women voters. This one polled all voters. We polled iowa voters to find out how ready they were for a woman president and not hillary specific, and it was exciting. We held a town hall in iowa to continue that conversation. We invited Claire Mccaskill to come out, who is a huge Hillary Clinton supporter. And we talke talked about what d it take to get a woman to win. And we had stacey apple on, who is our emilys list endorsed candidate in iowa, who is running to become the first woman that iowa has ever sent to congress. Iowa is only bill no, really . Yes, iowa is one of two states who has never sent a woman to federal office. The other is mississippi, which doesnt surprise you so much, but iowa . Bill that stuns me. There are so many great progressives there. And fabulous women leaders. I think 2016 is the year. Bill you mentioned senator claire mccal mccaskill. Here she is from your forum. Really hard choice as democrats last tight between two amazing candidates, and it was difficult. Im optimistic that shell be the candidate and we will be able to say madam presiden president 2016. Bill no doubt where she is. Oh, no, not at all. Bill and she said she was with barack obama last time. And i think she felt guilty about it ever since. As she said, it was a tough choice last time. Its not a tough choice this time. One of the things that im excited to see inside the town hall, keep in mind this is august 2013. Were talking about a run three years from now. It was a packed room. There was overflow, spillover. And one of the things that was awesome to see was the iowa obama 08 people and the iowa 08 people all talking together and excited to be there and part of the same movement. I think were going in a good direction for democrats next time. Bill donald trump. [ laughing ] sorry. Bill did he rain on your parade . I was expecting more out of him. He had a thin little crowd, and i didnt heartwitter went quiet on him. Which is unusual. I cant even tell what you he said. Bill i found it hard to believe thatthat anybody other than donald trump takes him seriously. I dont know whether anybody does, but the fact that he takes himself seriously. Someone has got to, i guess. Bill maybe. Rick santorum was at the fair. He made a bit of an impression. Hes trying again. I just think we have a good contrast to them. No matter who their nominee is, no matter who our nominee is, democrats are walking into the race with the much stronger side. Bill it will be the same clown card, with a bunch of different clowns, not all different, i same clowns but maybe different clowns as well. I try to focus on the decisions we have to make now rather than three years ahead. Lets list the women who are in the news today. Christine quinn in new york. All we hear about is Anthony Weiner, as you and i were watching on the monitors, Anthony Weiner at the parade making a fool of himself yet again. But Christine Quinn may not be getting as much media attention, but shes head of the pack. Yes, yes, she is. I think as the fever of summer breaks, voters are going to tune in to substance. We saw a poll out this morning that voters in new york are absolutely sick of the weinerspitzer circus happening in their race. They want to talk about issues. New york city, those are smart, engaged, informed voters, and they want to talk about the real candidates. So i think that as we get closer to the runoff date september 10th, and we get past labor day Christine Quinn is in an excellent position. Shes leading the pack. Shes leading in the polls, and i think she offers such a clear choice to these guys who are clearly in it for personal ambition, self aggrandizement and see themselves in the paper. Christine has been working on behalf of new york city often in total anonymity when she was working on Womens Health centers, Affordable Housing, and even going through as the first woman speaker of the city council. She has been in it for new york city all along, which is why a lot of new yorkers did not know her name. Shes not flashy, shes not showy. Shes a hard worker with her hard in the right place. In the end thats what new yorkers will want. Bill lets forget the problem with weiner there are other serious candidates in the race. The rap that i hear about christine from support he is of bill diblasio or Bill Thompson is that she would be in effect just another fourth term for Michael Bloomberg because she and bloomberg were so close. She made it possible for bloomberg to get the third term so she doesnt offer anything new like diblasio and thompson would. I think Christine Quinn has spent her life in progressive politics which cannot be said of mayor bloomberg. She differentiates herself from him in a number of different ways. Where her focus is, is on the middle class and working families of new york. Im not sure that you could say the same thing about who is herr predecessor. She has always put workers, women and families first. Early on to focus on Affordable Housing and to continue that push in new york right now, that shows just a different mindset entirely. I think we also cant under estimate how important it is to elect the first woman mayor to americas largest economy. This has never happened before. If it were easy it would have already. Shes ready to break the glass ceiling, and im excited to see her do it. Bill thithis is the first sp to madam president from madam mayor. We have fabulous women all over the country. I want to see mayors in 2013, governs in 2014, and the president in 2016. Bill weve talked about the republican war on women. When you look at Anthony Weiner and bob philner mayor of san diego, particularly those two, is there a democratic war on women . I know the republicans are trying to reappropriate this and turn it around because what else are they going to do, but the republican war on women is not about david vitter and mark sanford or any of the other numerous bad actors in the Republican Party who are still in office. Its about a legislative agenda that is a party platform, policies designed to roll back the clock on womens rights and freedoms all over the country. Im not sure what the strategy is behind them saying democratic war on women, no, its about laws. Theyre out of strategy. I think this is just anotheranother point in the thesis that the republicans dont understand why women dont like them. Bill there are bad actors on both sides, in both camps, and we readily admit that. Yes. Bill but the ongoing antiwomens rights agenda platform is the republican par party. Its the legislative agenda. They want to pass laws that will affect every woman in the country. Bill and have already done so in state after state after state is doing it right now. Lets not let them detract us from that or change the subject or whatever. Were talking womens rights and madam president with Jess Mcintosh here were emilys list, lots of good things to talk about. Give us call at 186655press. Follow us on twitter bp show. This is the the bill press show. Current tv is the place for true stories. With Award Winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. Real, gripping, current. Documentaries. On current tv. You know who is coming on to me now . You know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials . Those types are coming on to me all the time now. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the Ten Commandments, thats what youre saying. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. Absolutely. And so would mitt romney. vo shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . [ music ] [ music ] live on free speech t. V. Beginning september 3rd. Learn all the debates at the www. Billpressshow. Com. This is the bill press show. Bill were talking with emilys list communication director Jess Mcintosh. Were talking about a woman president of the United States. Just a reminder about something important to consider, and that is emergency link i. D. I mean, god for bid you were ever in an accident and knocked unconscious, but think about it. Paramedics arrive. They cant communicate with you, they cant find out all the information they need to give you the help that you need. Emergency link i. D. 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You mentioned a few of them, that you can easily leave off the list, Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth warren has been there for such a short amount of time. Bill Dianne Feinstein. I think we should give Elizabeth Warren the chance to do what she has ru ran on for senate. She does have national appeal. Bill and by 2016 she will have been in the senate longer than barack obama. Thats true. Bill i want to ask you about another woman who is getting a lot of attention lately, that is wendy davis in texas. Yes. Bill what is she going to run for . She has said shes either going to run for reelection in her state senate seat, and keep in behind texas is so jerr gerrymandering post redistricting. Wendy davis holds one of the only swing seats. There are two swing seats in all of texas, and she holds one of them. Shes reelected to a swing seat in a red state, that would be fabulous. Shes going to run for reelection there or run for governor. The way she has energized the country is phenomenal. I got to see her speech in d. C. Last week, and her personal story is just so compelling. Young single mother, put herself through school. Made it to harvard law. Made it to elected office. This is a woman whose mother has a sixth grade education. Shes very much in line for governor seat in texas. So i think she can speak to texans in a way that the Republican Party simply cant right now. There is so much enthusiasm around her. I want her to make the best decision for her. Shes young. She has a bright future. She can done whatever she wants whenever she wants, but shes weighing this consideration very carefully. Bill and new jersey. This is another labor day thing. I want to get past the crazy of summer and have voters actually tune in to the substance of a race. I think christie is certainly vulnerable because of what a faux moderate he is. Hes been trying t so hard to convince democrats that he is comfortable. Hes not our friend. He is what is standing between new jersey and samesex marriage. He has try to defund planned parenthood. Clinics have closed because of chris christie. Hes just as bad for women and families as a marco rubio, as ted cruz, rand paul, he is just better at hiding it. I think as soon as new jersey voters tune in to this, and we have a contrast in barbara bono, i think well see things move. Bill emilys list is on it no matter where. Its really great. There are a lot of women. Bill ive been a big, big fan of emilys list, and youve gotten better and better. And you have outstanding candidates to support. Check out www www. Emilieslist. Org. Bill give our best to stephanie. I will. Bill ill come back with our parting shot of the day. Go mobile at bill press, down download bill press to listen to any time, anywhere. This is the bill press show. [ music ] c] we have a big big hour and the iq will go way up. vo current tv gets the converstion started weekdays at 9am eastern. Im a slutty bob hope. You are. The troops love me. vo tv and radio talk show host Stephanie Miller rounds out currents morning news block. Youre welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. Not come in smellivision. The sweatshirt is nice and all, but i could use a golden lasso. vo only on current tv. Current tv is the place for true stories. With Award Winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. Real, gripping, current. Documentaries. On current tv. [ music ] [ music ] the parting shot with bill press. This is the bill press show. Bill well, before president obamas News Conference friday afternoon, the Briefing Room was buzzing with rumors that he would propose big changes in nsas Domestic Spying Program, but they were wrong. The president did approve of the program in nsa, he said he had total confidence and was convinced that the program was not being abused in any way. His goal was not to place any limits on nsa, not to change it, but to better explain what was going on. And finally the president said that he had called for a National Conversation on privacy and National Security long before Edward Snowden, and we would be having the same conversation today even if Edward Snowden hadnt told us what nsa was up to. To me thats not good enough. We dont need to better understand why nsa is spying on every american. We need to stop them from doing so. All right, folks, thats it. We go into another week. Have a great monday. Well see you back here tomorrow morning. Well look for you then. This is the bill press show. [ theme ] all right. This is the Stephanie Miller show and as you can see, Stephanie Miller is not here. Go ahead, punch it up. Yeah. Nope, nope. There. Yes. Okay. Hello, jacki schechner. Did she forget weve got another week on current . She forgot we have another week on current. Shows how much she loves me, right . Exactly. 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