Schmooze. Here we go. Good morning, everybody. It is friday. Today. January 25th. Thank you for joining us. Live from our nations capitol. We will tell you whats going on this morning. We will take your calls. How about it . This is the year they were going to fix the filibuster but it didnt happen. Ininstead of getting rid of the filibuster, instead of making senators actually come to the floor and filibuster harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell agreed to a minor tinkering of the filibuster that, in effect makes no changes at all. I mean, look the senate is broken. Why did harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell chicken out . Doesnt make any sense. We will talk about that and a whole lot more on todays fullcourt press, but first, we take time out to get the latest. Todays current news update. And look at this. We stole her from Stephanie Miller, the one, the only the talented jacki checkschneckner. Good morning, everybody. Vice President Biden is traveling to Richmond Virginia today along with Homeland Security secretary janet napitano to hold al roundtable conversation about the administrations plans to curb gun violence. Bobby stein and experts who have been working gun safety issues since village tech in april, 2007 will be in attend as at virginia commonwealth university. It comes on the heels of bidens gom talk yesterday pushing for assault weapons in the wake of a Natural Disaster and possible ensuing chaos. He minced no words, his assertion that a shotgun would be easier to handle and when asked about the effectiveness of limiting highcapacity mag stages, biden pointed out that the gunmen in tucson and aurora had to change magazines because they had to reload. Republicans will decided to whether or not to give r andncrance pre prebus. Last night, louisiana governor Bobby Jendell said the party needs to change everybody but values. We are back with more bill press after the break. Currents Award Winning original series is back with an allnew episode straight from the headlines. In the minefield of the nations gun control debate, this could be the most polarizing issue. Anybody could claim stand your ground and they can get away with murder. Only on current tv. Shek interesting across the nation, on your radio and on current tv this is the bill press show. Good morning, everybody. Fired up, ready to go this friday alleluia. Alleluia bill friday, january 25th. Alleluia bill our favorite day, friday, friday, friday. Alleluia bill good way to end the week and bounces into the weekend and a lot to talk about before we get there. Great to see you today happy friday. I know we cant complain. Its not as cold here there was one place in minnesota was 47 degrees below zero. We are about 25 here in washington, d. C. , we cant complain, but at the same time, we can complain. I want to start a new political party. Who was the guy who had the rent is too damn high. Jimmy williams. The rent is too damn high. Bill the weather is too damn cold. Go to florida. Asheville. I love asheville but it snows. Maybe cuba. I like when it sort of is around the 30 degrees. When you get down to close to singledigit weather, then i get annoyed. Thats when i get pissed. I love it. Think about it. Think about how cold it is. Think about how you really got to bundle up. Think about how they had the super bowl in new orleans because they wanted to be sure that everybody was loose and limber and not suffering from a cold. And think about where the super bowl is going to be next year. Michael bloomberg, mayor announced it yesterday. February 2nd, 2014, mark it down. Super bowl 48 at met life stadium and in the week before, hundreds of thousands of fans from across the country and around the globe will converge on new york city. The stadium is in new jersey but they will be in new york city. They will. There are not hotels in northern new jersey. So they will bugs them over. An interesting pick. It is but it could be icy cold. There is a reason. Bill seriously. Do you think that could impact the game . Absolutely. But its football. Yeah. I get it. It is football, but there is a reason i think they have held it in norse and miami because you go and get decent weather. Detroit, indianapolis. They dont like it to be a mess bill what happens to the big apple . As everyone knows, new york is the big apple and 12 months from now, it will be the big pigskin as well. Bill i think he is trying a little too hard. A little too hard. Yeah. Not for everybody. Bill bill thats right. He has banned the sale of sixteenounce drinks in new york. What is he going to ban for the super bowl . He will ban something. You watch. He will ban hot dogs or Something Like that. They are unhealthy. They are hi in sodium. Nanny bloomberg. We have lots to talk about today and lots of help to do it. Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, a new member of congress of course, from illinois we are excited to have her on the program. She has been here before but not as member of congress. Carl fritsche will be here as a head friend of bill, about what we might expect on a big issue Global Warming, but first. This is the full court press. Well this friday, other headlines making news, now that the inauguration is over mitt romney is coming to washington. National journal reporting the failed president ial candidate and his wife will be here in the city today to be honored at the Marriott Hotel as he just rejoined that board of directors. No word on exactly what the bill marriott, jr. , is honoring him for but marriott was a big campaign fundraiser. Bill this se derek jeter may be the latest celebrity to addvocate tore Climate Change in switzerland and said that Hurricane Sandy turned his attention to Global Warming. He wanted to find out more about it. He said, its clear, something is causing more and more Natural Disasters and something has to be done about it. He recognize not Everyone Wants to hear political views from celebrities, saying, quote, i know my place. I think something is wrong with recognizing Global Warming. I dont know whats political about it. In sports, big money for coach of louisiana States College fuel term. The university has reviewed less miles contract for 4. 3 million a year for seven years. He is just one of five College Football coaches earning more than 4 million a year. He has a pretty solid record. 85 wins, 21 losses over eight seasons working at lsu. Its pretty clear. Its been that way for a long time. If you really want to make money in academia you dont become like a philosophy teacher, you know, or an english teacher. Right . I love these schools are paying that much money for their coaches. Ridiculous. They work on, you know a decent Healthcare System for the residents of their Southern States or anything like that. All about tall. Not only in the south. Yes, big sgoiment today. How long have we been talking aboutdisappointment today. How long have we been talking about the importance of the filibuster. The senate is broken. They cant get any damn thing done because the republicans have taken what used to be a rare occasion, a rare practice when somebody felt so strongly about some big bill that they would actually say, no, i singlehandedly am going to stop this clock. I am going to stop the processes from working. I am going to stand up and i am going to talk until i am blue in the face or have to pee, whichever comes first, to try to block this from coming to a vote. Its rare and the point is, you actually had to do it. If you threatened you were going to filibuster you had to show your stuff. I mean the record is held by Strom Thurman whom hated the civil rights bill so much, mr. Dixiecrt that he stood tup on the floor of the senate for 24 hours and 18 minutes before he had to pee and filibuster ended and they voted. But that was the filibuster. Now, its come into something that happens all the time, that is routine that one senate can do to block a measure from coming up a vote. First, they have a vote of whether or not they are going to proceed to a vote. You can filibuster that. You can filibuster the main event, and you dont have to do a filibuster. All you have to say is i am filibustering this and sit in your office and watch t. V. And nothing happens. It is outrageous. It is undemocratic. Its the tierney of the minority. We talked about this for so long with senators who were determined that not just this term, but last term term before, but this term for sure with democrats having 55 votes, there is no reason why they couldnt fix it. And if i canning it meant either getting rid of the filibuster or making people actually filibuster or roll in cots so the other senators would just take a nap while somebody was up there giving this longwinded speech or fixing it might mean reducing it from having to have 60 votes down to maybe 55. There are a lot of ways of fixing it. There was a lot of support. Senator Geoff Merkley with senator tom eudall, with the new senator Tammy Baldwin, tom harkin from iowa who has been there a long time. What did harry reid do . Harry reid got together with Mitch Mcconnell and they announced their big agreement yesterday. And what does it do . Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Under this agreement by the way, harry reid said there are enough democratic votes to do this on their own. They got 55 votes in the democratic caucus. Right in the all they need is 51 to change the rules at the beginning of a term. 51. They could have done it by themselves. Harry reid said we are not going to do anything that well have to would be just democrats. We are going to have a bipartisan agreement. Some what they came up with, to tell the truth i dont really understand what change it makes at all. You can still block procedurally votes. You can still block a vote on the floor under their agreement. You still do not have to actually filibuster. You can still fake it the way they do. As i understand it, all the agreement said if harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell agree that something is noncontroversial, then they will push it through to a vote. No big deal then. I am sure they can agree on whats controversial and whats not controversial. Let me ask you this what, in the last four years have they ever greed was noncontroversial . They have filibustered everything, every single bill every single nomination. So i dont think they are going to be able to agree on something that is actually noncontroversial. The other thing, as i understand it, according to the amendment, from what i have read, if its a nonbigdeal bill, each can offer two amendments to the bill, even if they are totally unrelated, then republicans will agree that they wont filibuster. In other words, i think harry reid caved in copped out, sold out to the republicans on this. This was the time to do it, and nothing, nothing, nothing, is going to happen. Its just its a huge disappointment. Its a wasted opportunity, and its one more time when democrats just dont show any freakin backbone. Good for Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders voted against this deal yesterday because he said it was a joke. I am not sure who else voted against it. We will check that during the break. Here it is. We thought we were going to fix the filibuster. You know what . Tom harkin said this. Tom harkin said if we dont fix the filibuster president might as well take a vacation for the next four years because he is not the going to be able to get anything done. I have to tell you i am so disappointed in this and leader harry reid if if democrats dont get anything done on Immigration Reform cant get judges passed through the senate, cant get anything done on gun control because of filibuster, filibuster filibuster, its their own damn fault for not changing it when they had the opportunity they had the moment they had the votes. Filibuster reform. We were ready for it. It aint going to happen. 86655press. 8665577377. Alt are democrats such wimps . I dont get it. I dont get it. Heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the bill press show. Schmooze okay, so theres wiggleroom in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. And current will let me only on current tv. Its a Vanguard World premiere event. It doesnt anymore real than this. Currents Award Winning original series is back with an allnew episode straight from the headlines. In the minefield of the nations gun control debate, this could be the most polarizing issue. Anybody could claim stand your ground and they can get away with murder. Only on current tv. [ music ] it. This is the bill press show bill here we go 24 minutes after the hour. We thought this was the time to fort worth, texas the as harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell made a deal. I dont understand why harry reid was. Whats power all about if you are afraid to use it. So 55 votes. It would have only taken 51 votes, which you could have easily gotten out of the democrats for a good strong measure, as tom daschle told us on our showed yesterday, former Senate Majority leader democrat, to at least make people come down and filibuster but if you do it with democratic votes, its called the nuclear action. No. Its not. If you have 100 votes, you need 51 people. Not a nuclear outption. Harry reid made a deal with the g. O. P. Devil. Harry reid gums the works for passage. Is he a democrat or is this all about the money . Cyber society says preach brother bill. And karen says harry reid can go filibuster himself. bpshow. Echoes of dick cheney. Pawtucket pawtucket, rhode island. How are you guys . I have heard for the last two years from harry reid, at least two years is how hes going to change the filibuster now all sides of, he gets in bed with mcconnell again. If we happen to hold the senate in 2014, i think we need somebody that stands for the people and put in Bernie Sanders as majority leader, somebody that will fight for people. Bill i have to tell you i would love to see Bernie Sanders as majority leader. Unfortunately, there is nobody better on the issues. And, of course i would say that with some bias because remember i was his intern. Peter thats right. Bill unfortunately, he is a socialist and independent, not a democrat. So the democrats would not elect him. But we need but there are democrats who will stand up. Dick durbin wouldnt have gone along with this, i am sure. This is a time not just for the democratic party. This is a time for the good of the nation even i have to say this. Even if democrats were in the minority they should not be able to to obstruct everything the way republicans have done. By the way, another big mistake they made was back in 1975 or so that before that, you used to need twothirds of the senate and they reduced it t lamont calling from maryville indiana. Caller like the caller said before me, okay, well back in the day, two years ago, thats all harry reid talked about. After obama won, thats all he talked about. When you look at it now, what is actually changed . I think its the gun debate and its going to get primaried or whatever by the nra. It has to be something because that should have passed. Bill i guess your cell phone cut out. Im sorry. No. You made a good point. No. I dont understand why the change either why given there were enough democratic votes. I said that of before. Why, given this opportunity, and particularly given the fact everybody in this country knows that the congress is broken. Look Everybody Knows it needs fixing. And here they just refused to do it. Bad news for us. Bad news. This is the bill press show. vo current tv gets the converstion started weekdays at 9am eastern. [ music ] chatting with you live a lot current. Com billpress. This is the bill press show live on your radio and current tv. Bill hey, how about it, 33 minutes after the hour on this friday january 25th. We are talking about the filibuster, the great big filibuster reform. This was going to be the year we did it. Aint going to happen. 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