Has failed to mention that it wasnt just unions that failed the company to go out of business. Well talk about Reince Prebus gets to keep his job, and that and much more. But first lets to Lisa Ferguson. Hey, john. Good morning, everyone. President obama is on his way to cambodia. His first stop over the weekend was thailand and late last night, president obama became the first bt to ever visit mee you mar. He met with the National League of democracy there along with secretary of state hilary clinton. He spoke with the president and said his trip is not an endorsement of the new government, which is in the middle of a transition to democracy, but he did praise the country for shaking off its military rule and press the government for more reform. Obviously were having a little bit of technical problems, but the president said the steps the president has taken for release of the prisoners and his commitment to work with the u. S. On human rights dialogue will unlease the incredible potential of that beautiful country. This is obamas first trip overseas since his reelection shows he is serious about shifting americas focus leastward. The two are continuing to fire rockets and israel has blamed hamas for does sends of arrests since the violence started. More bill press show after the break. Well be right back. Here in our own country. Its an issue that ultimately effects each and every one of us. Thats why current is stepping up. By feeding the needy. Feeding the needy. Feeding the needy. Feeding the needy. Feeding the needy. For an entire week well explore hunger, malnutrition. And offer solutions. So join us here at current tv where together, well feed the needy. Brought to you by the all new doge dart. Doge new rules. Now imagine the worst case scenario. Worse than that. [ woman screaming ] worse. That bad. [ lasers ] so now we need airbags. More airbags. Perfect. Give it smart brakes that excel in the wet. 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[ theme ] announcer broadcasting across the nation on your radio, and on current tv this is the bill press show. John good morning, this is the bill press show. Im John Fugelsang filling in for bill, and remaining you if you rearrange all of the letters in monday it spells banyo. Mr. Fugelsang thank you for coming back. John it is all a pleasure to decimate bills space. Here is what happened susan rice went on tv and said a bunch of cautious stuff based on talking points about how it looked like wellarmed extremist took advantage of a protest. John mccain is calling rice stupid and accusing her of lying over and over again. Would john mccain care about this if the comments hadnt happened during his show. If only she had been named condoleezza, she could have lied about anything and john mccain would have believed what she said. I count benghazi because to me it represents john mccains last dying gasp for credibility in his own party. You have john mccain and Lindsay Graham who are exploiting benghazi benghazi, and they are doing it to take republicans like them again. Thats a good point. We knew this was going to happen during the election. But now that it is over, and obama won, in a land slide john and its par for the more to democrats to buckle. Good point. But why are they still pushing this . Because they are still running for president of benghazi gate. And the loss of the four americans was horrible but if george bush would have been president when this happened and if any democrat ever dared criticize the president , december 8th, 1941, so it has been a while since we have actually been at war. And we want to know what you all think out there. Call in to 86655press if you are some rightwinger who has been fed a steady diet of benghazi please call us and explain what were missing. As well well be talking about twinkies and whether their bankruptcy is a good thing or an honest thing, and the mideast violence of course. We have great guests on the show, including Public CitizenEnergy Director and edward isaac dovere. But i guess the real important story is that mc hammer came out and sang [ inaudible ] at the American Music festival. Is that what happened . John yes. I cant wait to tell my grandchildren that this onehit wonder cy went on with mc hammer. John yes, cy came deep it going dan. John cy came out and lip sinked. He is playing the studio version, and then mc hammer comes out and [ inaudible ] his third biggest hit this sounds like a train wreck. John if you listen very very closely to this you can hear the Founding Fathers weep. And well be talking about David Petraeus. Because there is now a backlash of people saying why should he have to resign . The obvious answer is because he is the biggest spy in america and spies get fired for less. But what do you think . If America Needs him running the cia, if he can do for america what he did for afghanistan, why would you want him leaving . Yeah. John please feel free to give us a call at 86655press. Dan it is in full court press time . You mentioned the American Music awards they were handed out for the 40th Consecutive Year last night. Just inn bieber was the nights big winner, nicki minaj, and carly jettison was named the new hit artist john well its like the four horseman of the apocalypse. This is the prop here read those names again. Justin bieber nicki minaj, lincoln park john lincoln park is an actual band. That is the only actual rock and roll artist. Justin bieber, i believe plays some guitar. Thats a stretch. John well, im not saying he is neil young, im say heing plays guitar five times more than new kids on the block. If we were in prison together, i would want him as my cell mate. [ laughter ] president obama became the first sitting american president to visit myanmar. Mtv says the john carly ray jebson. Call me maybe, where she sounds like a 14 year old and she is 47, right . She is 26. Is she really . Discovered by justin bieber. John wow that is great. Any time we can have [ inaudible ] in the media that doesnt involve bonno telling a few concert goers to wear a mask yeah. It was nice. John and well be talking more about the myanmar. Because its actually very controversial that a president went there. Sure. And three astronauts returned safely to earth last night. Three astronauts are still up there on what is now the 34th mission up there. Say what you will about that kazakhstan space program, those muledrawn rockets are really, really great. [ laughter ] they sit for a three hour trip to earth in a box smaller than what i am sitting in now. John it only takes three hours . They sit like locked in for like four hours twiddling their thumbs. The way the report was they closed the door at like 2 30 eastern, and at 5 30 or 6 00 they disconnected from the space station then they float this space for about an hour and then they fire the rockets and then glide back to earth, and they open the parachutes a couple of seconds late their lands spot is a couple of kilometers off. John a very rare nighttime landing. Yeah, in snow. It is winter there now. I think its winter 11. 5 months out of the year. John yeah. Im going to read more about alex parians piece. Here is what he wrote about Lindsay Graham. Senator graham is weighing in [ inaudible ] he is joining in the filibuster threat to making sure that everyone knows he blames barack obama for the attack in benghazi, and he said he is Holding Barack Obama responsible for the attack. Not for the response to the attack, for the actual attack. No one pays at attention to Lindsay Graham. He is basically hated by all republicans and democrats for different but equally valid reasons. At the moment. He is pretending he has any role at all in budgetdeal negotiations, that is a rich claim not just because no republicans respect for listen to lindsay gram but also because if there is an immigration bill he will almost certainly withdrawal his support from it at some point. The other important thing about Lindsay Graham is that he lied for years about being a war veteran. The faux scandal will not get the ridicule it so richly deserves. Because the media is biased in favor of one thing. Not left or right, but eyeballs. And whatever gets the most eyeballs watching, and if fox news decided that benghazi was terrible for ratings, it would not be mentioned again. So im thrilled to be back. I got to take the train down with Madeline Albright last week. Wow. John and an iconic d. C. Lawyer, and im sitting on a train car because i got bumped up to first class. Uhhuh. First class train, they have those folks. And there is Madeline Albrighted. And all hands, i was go excited to meet her. And it was really awkward for me. She kept calling me her pet so it was very, very painful, but it is a thrill to be back, and i was down south this weekend in North Carolina where my mom just moved to i flew back yesterday with a live baby had to change planes in charlotte, so i had two flights with a live baby so i went from North Carolina to charlotte, to new york went home changed clothes and then came down to dc. The thing about traveling with a live baby i have learned is you have to make sure you put air holes in the cardboard box. John if you have air holes in there they stick their fingers out and then liberals notice, and start making a stinking about it. I dont understand why people have children. It was a novelty, but having a child so you can be the first one to board the train, kind of clever. Well be right back after this. Announcer this is the full court press. The bill press show, live on your radio, and on current tv. 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What the hell were they thinking . Announcer this is the bill press show. John this is the bill press show. Im John Fugelsang filling in for bill all morning long. Really happy to be here with you. Ill be here tomorrow and wednesday as well, wishing you a safe, healthy, and sane healthy shopping week. Black friday is when the 1 tells the 99 to go shopping and fix the economy they wrecked. We want to know your thoughts on everything in the news today. Whenever i come here i always try to think about what the question for the day ought to be, and today it was too complicated. I would like to say what is your solution to mideast violence or should petraeus resign or what is your position on twinkies. Thing god the bill press show has the greatest selection of smart callers, crazy callers and smartcrazy callers, which is win i call in every morning long. And i really am up at this time every morning because i have a baby. Lets go to chris who is calling us from barry, vermont. Good morning, chris. Caller good morning, guys, how are you doing this morning . Great. I noticed the New York Times has put an article out this morning that explains the reason susan rice did not get the intelligence that it was an intelligence attack right away, is was the intel did not want to tip their hand to the fact that they had an eye on them. And the republicans knew this and this whole graham and mccain business is such nonsense. John woe woe, woe there is a terrorist attack and ed a the administration tried to find them and handle the situation instead of running around with their hair on fire . Caller that is absolutely right. John im demand hearings. Caller during the Bush Administration there were some 53 lives lost in embassy attacks. Embassy work is dangerous and especially in that part of the world. John it really is. Can you imagine the republican outrage if Ronald Reagan sent troops to the middle east and hundreds were killed and reagan just cut and ran . Caller oh, absolutely. John chris thank you for the call. Benghazi is not going to go away, and thats why im so thankful for Media Outlets for well like what you have right here peter. We do what we can. John were taking your calls at 86655press, well be right back, talking about the the horror that is the American Music awards and much more. Announcer this is the bill press show. Tax cuts dont create jobs. The golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. Those are facts. If you ever raise taxes on the rich, youre going to destroy our economy. Not true announcer chatting with you live at current. Com billpress. This is the bill press show. John this is the bill press show. I am not bill press, im John Fugelsang. Happy to be filling in with peter and dan and the whole crew. What are the comments. Were tweeting bpshow, and chat with us live. Cas says on republicans they have been privatizing everything schools are now a viable market to china. Marty says thats why theyll go the way of the wig party. Daryle wrote Mccain Graham are like the two guys at the party who have had too much to drink and dont realize everyone else has left. John the Republican Party has wall street, evangelical christians, and guys who really like tom clansy books, but go on. Thats all we have right now. John i have on the twitter machine, Congress Defunds security, and then criticizes the attacks. People are forgetting clinton was impeached and almost thrown out of office. A protest over video sparked attack, but the video that looks like an act of terrorist sounds like a cover up to me. I want to know what you guys out there say to your rightwing coworkers always say why was our embassy in cairo attacked earlier that day. It was specifically where our embassy was stormed and the u. S. Flag was torn down and an islamist flag was put in its place, and thats because an us islamic radio show host talked about the movie and caused these riots all over the middle east. Its the hypocrisy stupid. On september 11th, 2001 we were attacked by terrorists, and we told united we stand, rally behind our commander in chief during wartime. In 2012, an attack happens overseas, four americans are killed and we are told the president is to blame, and it is being exploited again. In 2012 a ter rick attack is exploited for cheap political points. If any democrat had tried to smear bush over 9 11, which we were warned about, but they would have lost their job forever, and yet nowadays its open season. We want to know your thoughts at 86655press. Pat is joining us from kansas missouri. Good morning, caller good morning, john how are you today . John im better now. Caller my statement is in reward to the gop, which i hope is listening to your station today, as African American it is horrible that john mccain and Lindsay Graham to me are trying to take down the first black president and susan rice. My word for them is they should have term limited to get them out of office. They do no good in their position. John you make some very good points, pat. Let me ask you a couple of questions. Ronald reagan said he was against term limits when he left office, because he felt in america people should be allowed to pick the leaders they want. Caller i believe they should have the term limits because really and im speaking to you in my point i cannot speak for hispanics, but the majority of black people are looking at this, and never since the gop is going through would we help them. John its true. And this is what a lot of moderate republicans keep screaming about, that they are marginalizing themselves by doing this. And making their party smaller ever year. Thank you for your call. Caller thank you. John lets play a clip. I find someone even as highranking, frankly as former president bill clinton to go and be the negotiator. We need a person of enormous prestige and influence so have these parties sit down together. Were crumbling all over the middle east. John that was john mccain talking about how much work is needed to regain credibility. Boy. That will hurt your head if you think about that too long. John somebody should tell him we have already had bill clinton trying to negotiate middle east peace. It has been attempted before and in fact the prime mainster of israel paid for it with his life. You know, i really think that there is no military solution to israel and palestine, and im on the side of any