everybody. did you know it s president s day? oh, my what? the kids are home. yes, they are. with us onset, msnbc and time magazine senior political analysis mark halprin and john heilman. hi, willie. hi, is this holiday casual? shoutout to millard filmore. he wore that to the second state of the union. that s fantastic. your favorite president is? can you say it? kind of a big g.w. guy. what? george washington. oh. number one. what about you, john? growing up, who was your hero? i liked lincoln. i was a fan of teddy roosevelt the man. i don t know if he s the best president who ever lived, but the man. you liked the mustache a lot. among other things. minka? i might go with calvin coolidge. i was a big harry truman and ronald reagan fan. one started the cold war, one ended it. i thought harry truman was to fascinating because he was so unpopular when he left office. everything he did from 45 to 50 shaped our world. and a regular gu
[ theme ] bill: hey, good morning everybody. good to see you this morning and welcome to the full court press here on current tv. coming to you all the way across this great land of ours from our studio on capitol hill in washington, d.c. bringing up to date on all of the news of the day. president obama is back at the white house and he will be back at work in just a couple of hours together with all members of the white house press corps back from florida the white house, meanwhile has released its own outline for comprehensive immigration reform. and on the gun safety front the new york times reporting there is growing bipartisan support in congress both for legislation to tighten up the background checks so that they apply in all cases and also for a ban on high-capacity magazines. how about it? lots going on. we ll get into all of that. first, let s get the latest, today s current news update, lisa ferguson out in los angeles. hi lisa, good morning. hey bill
from the president, i think it is very hard to imagine that his bill is going to pass the house. the president has never really had great luck in congress. if the president proposes legislation, do you think it will fail? of course, of course it will. with no other explanation given? of course it will. congress has not been very productive in the last couple of terms. they do wait until the last couple of minutes. the so-called sequester. the blame game is under way. the president who designed the sequester. everybody is blaming everybody. here is my belief, let s take obama care and put it on the table. obama care is destroying health care in the country. he needs cameras and likes to be on tv. let s don t cut military. these cuts are a really bad idea. the president has never really had great luck in congress. there is no leadership on the other side of the aisle. he is really not serious, and therefore no agreement. if the president prop
cruise on the carnival triumph. tonight the u.s. coast guard says a faulty fuel oil line caused the fire on board that knocked out the ship s engine. fuel sprayed on the a hot surface and that caught fire. that disabled ship stuck in the gulf of mexico for days, it left passengers with no air conditioning and incredibly unsanitary conditions. several passengers have filed lawsuits and a final report on that fire is still months away. a 6-year-old saves the day after fire rips through a building this morning. officials were told about the blaze just before 9:00. it caused extensive damage. two townhouses and minor damage to three others. officials say it was a 6-year-old who was visiting from out of town who was the hero. just before the fire alarms activated and just before the navy lodge called the emergency communication center a 6-year-old child who was a visitor at one of the units noticed the smoke and woke everyone else up in that particular residential unit. fi
now, that s no way to get it done. with both parties agreeing now is the moment to make this reform happen, will congress be open to obama s backup if the efforts fall short? it is a threat from the white house by saying, hey, if you don t do it, the politics get really bad for you very quickly, so hurry up and get something done. say good morning to our president s day political power panel, contributor jonathan caphart and an opinion writer for the washington post and angela reid, principle of impact strategies and msnbc contributor susan dellpurseo. you come in on president a days. let s dive in and get to work talking about this leaked proposal that came out. angela, i want to start with you. we have the timeline here and if we look at it, the president was scheduled to go to las vegas on january 29th and give his first policy speech of the second administration but we see that on the 28th the bipartisan group of senators, they came out with their plan trying to