His mother afeni, takes the family reigns. In 1997, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation is created to provide training and support for creative students. That same year, the university of california, berkeley offers a course entitled the poetry and history of tupac shakur. Afeni shakur i speak to him all the time because it matters to me what he thinks about what were doing. It matters to me. So i believe that he hears me. To this day, Tupac Shakurs killer has never been found. [ music ] bill hey, good morning, everybody. It is a friday. We love fridays around the full court press. Thank you for joining us here on current tv as we come to you live from our nations capitol bringing you up to date on all of the big stories here in our nations capitol. 15 republican senators just refused to get up. Get over it. They wrote a letter to president obama asking him to withdraw the nomination of chuck hagel, which he is not going to do because there are enough republicans to join democrats do voigt for him. He will be confirmed next week we are one week from the sequester. President obama saying come on. We cant let that happen. Once again, boehner and mcconnell refuse to compromise. It looks like 800,000 civilian employees at the pentagon will go on furlough starting one week from today. That and a whole lot more to get into this morning on the fullcourt press, which we will do. Take your calls at 86655press. First, we get the latest todays current news update from Lisa Ferguson joining us from los angeles. Hi, lisa. Good morning. Hey, bill. Good morning, everyone. President obama inand Vice President biden are attending the Democratic Governors Association this morning andbam obama willing talking about a variety of National Issues about economic and trade issues between the two countries. Later, Vice President biden will join the two for lunch. Biden is also continuing his big push for Gun Legislation. Yesterday from connecticut, he told the nation things have change the 234d gun violence debate. It used to be politicians would not want to vote for it. Now, they wont want to vote against them. Thats a big change from the norm. Al large group of democrats are getting ready to make Gun Legislation a big part of their 2014 platform. Steve israel says the group will put gun violence front and center in its efforts to take back the house next term. Former president jimmy carter is saying obama is thankful for that leaked 47 video of mitt romney. It was carters grandson that helped get that out into the public. Last night carter and on piers morgan and said obama ran across room and thanked him for his help with the election. More bill press up next. Stay with us. Billy zane stars in barabbas. Coming in march to reelz. To find reelz in your area, go to reelz. 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For some of you, a short week for you rest of us we are taking a look at the big stories of the day and giving you a chance to sound off and tell us what you think about it. 86655press is our tollfree number. Congress comes back in session next week. They dont come back until tuesday. The sequester kicks in until friday. We will see if they can get anything done. I doubt it very very much in those three days that they are here. They like the sequester. They want it to happen. They want employees to lose their job at the pentagon. They want the economy to go in a tailspin. They want headstart and the pel grants and tsa and air Traffic Controllers and you name it across the board. They want them all to be severely cut medicare social security. It could be happen. We will talking about that and a lot more today. Take your calls at 86655press and look forward to your comments on twitter. Come on. Join us on twitter if you havent already done so. Tell your friends to, and you can tweet us bp show. On facebook welcome back toing. Com. No. Facebook. Com, yes bill press show. Yeah. Find us there. Welcome back toing. Com bill press. Peter ogburn will follow you on facebook owned twitter this morning. Dan henning . Good morning. At the board with fill backert on the phones and cyprian boulding on the phone. My song has made it to number 1 not just whats being played on the radio. The bill board hot 100 chart the top 100 songs in the country, its been record sales and radio play basically. And now they have added in youtube plays which is completely changing the dynamic of what songs appear on this list because there are some songs that will appear on this list you will never everyone hear on the radio ever. But youtube could it be just somebodys own . Absolutely endoliths i sit on my basement and strum my guitar and put it on youtube. Like a legit band . Not necessarily but if its just a youtube hit, it might not make it because they still factor in the sales, too, on the radio clip. So given the new calculation, some things are whats number 1 . The harlem shake. What. You sit down. Sipcyprian is doing it. Hes got it. Hes got it. You know, guess what. I will go with you. Its not let me say something. If anybody tries to tell me thats music, i would recommend we att do a video. The most popular one is the university of maryland did one at the duke basketball game. The university of georgia swim team has done one which is huge. The Norwegian Army has done one which is huge. Which means its over and done with. Its got another week in it. Team press will not be doing this. If team press does it it will be without me. I am with you. I aint doing it. Bill you can watch dan and cyprian. Have fun guys. A lot coming up. Brian woodhouse communecations director with the dnc local here as a friend of bill a little later in the program. Martha honey has written a book about the cruise ships. She is with the center for responsible travel. Kind of under the heading of eco tourism talking to you about the evils of cruise ships in the waters of this planet and what we can do about it. Then we are going to go to the movies with ann hortaday with the Washington Post oscars this weekend. Lots to talk about. Did you have fish for dinner last night . I bet you cant tell me what kind of fish it was. But first. This is the full court press. Some other headlines making news as we head into the weekend on this friday laura bush may be a supporter of samesex marriage but she didnt want anyone to know about it. A new ad supporting Marriage Equality produced by the respect for Marriage Coalition used a clip of the former first lady supporting equal marriage in an interview on cnn three years ago, but here . Yesterday said they did not give permission to use that piece of audio and asked that the ad be taken down. Bill you know, i dont understand that. Gee, what courage on her part. It features obama president obama, dick cheney and colin powell. So what the hell, laura . Get off of your high horse. You are for it or you are not. If you are, and we know she is then big deal. Right. A tim teboyw is trying to stay out of controversy. He has cancelled appear appearance at a baptist church, set to speak to the 11,000 member of congregation but said new information has come to light which the forced him to change plans. That might be the fact the church is led by Robert Jeffries who has preached against homo sexuality, against israel and mormonism bill i think he ought to focus on his football career. He disappeared. A tough time for American Idol could not show business 411 has analyzed ratings. This past wednesday night was the lowest rated wednesday broadcast since 2002. While still number 1 in the time slots every week, the reality competition has lost viewers every week this season since it debuted in january bill American Idol is over. Maybe if they did the harlem shake they could come back. Bill here we go. Yes, indeed, a big day at the whitehouse yesterday. Michelle obama, it is coming up the third anniversary of her lets move Campaign Getting particularly kids to get exercise, eat healthy and to get exercise, emphasis on eat healthy. Its a great message with Childhood Obesity being such a problem in this country. The first lady invited to the white house kitchen yesterday a huge fanning and a very tall fan, a great big yellow bird. Hi. We are here in the white house kitchen looking for a Healthy Snack to eat. Gee i bet you could get just everything you want in this kitchen. But you know what i like to reach for . Uhhuh. Healthy snack like juicy fruits and crunchy veg daniels. Those look good. Some come in their own carrying cases like this orange. You have the hard peel. So does this banana. Eating healthy is easy and its fun and delicious, too. There she is, the first lady with big bird yesterday and the message of eating healthy. Eating fruits, eating vegetables and how about fish . Hmm. Well, be careful what you buy because you may not be buying or eating what you think. Now, this sort of ties into a story, peter that we just mentioned briefly last week which is there is a current flap in the European Union about horse meat. It turns out that not a huge amount but some what people thought were buying as beef was either partly or entirely horse meat. Horse meat. People are upset about that even though there are people in countries that do eat horse meat, consume horse meat. Its healthy. I said before when i was living in schwitzer land i remember going and buying horse meat in a butcher shop that had a horse head over the door so you knew they sold horse meat. When i was in school we had that for dinner often. Its not poison. Right in the but you ought to know what you are eating. Thats the flap in europe that when you think its beef is it really horse meat . And how do we know . Now we found out, a big story in the New York Times that caught my attention because i try to neat healthy. I have lost some weight. I want to keep it down. I dont go for the big stake any more. I almost always go out and have fish, fish, fish. Well, here is the headline in the new yorkNew York Times. Survey finds fish are often not what the label says. Hmmm. By the way, there have been stories for this quite awhile. Last year, they did a survey up in new york city and they found out get this every one of 16 su. Hi bars that the reporter we want to, every single one of them mislabeled the fish that they were selling. Then they went to Grocery Stores and restaurants. 39 of the seafood from 8 39 seafood from 81 Grocery Stores and restaurants was not what people claimed it was. That was last year. Now, the latest, there is a group, Environmental Group called oceana does good work. They looked into this. This is what the New York Times article is all about. Oops. Hold on one second. I want to get those numbers from you. They looked at 1,215 fish samples. They bought 1215 pieces of fish. Onethird of them were not what they said. Wow. One third were miss labeled. They checked out red snapper, popular fish. I usually order if its on a menu, red snapper or sea bass. Red snapper if its there, i will get it. I love it. You thought you did . I thought i did. I dont know what i am eating eel or something. Not eel but out of 120 samples of red snapper, two 8 different species 28 different species of fish 28 different kinds of fish, and the problem was probably severe in setting urn california where i lived for so long and where fish and sushi bars, people eat healthy there. 52 of the samples bought and sold until Southern California 52 were not what people thought that they were getting. I think this is scandalous. I mean its outrageous. I want to know what i am eating. Right . Professor do you go powell is a food safety inspector. We can get this information. We need more information. All we neat is some data to go along with this trust thats en dickic in the food system and we have that data increasingly available through new technologies. You see reports like this new oceana report saying a lot of fish thats being sold is not what it says it is. Those tests are easier and cheaper bill we ought to be doing more of them. This is a real problem. Right . It shouldnt be that difficult. Years ago it used to be so hard to not sort of pass off ta talapia and fish and thats sort of the industry goto. Get it. Alapia if you are getting sauce, put sauce it on it and charge 4 more dollars for it. You are probably getting talapia most of the time you order fish. Right . Especially if you are getting something thats covered up in some sort of a i mean, if you are just getting a filet of fish, its kind of hard to hide it sometimes if you know what you are eating and you know the different types of fish that you eat. Bill how about bronzino. Is the answer to order the whole fish . I always say if there is a whole fish or a whole cut of something on a menu i will always go for that bays you cannot disguise a talapia as a bronzino. If you are ordering whole fish, you are getting whole fish. There are other fish you kind of know like swordfish or salmon. Right . Right. This white fish. You can color a white fish and call it salmon. These days, you probably could bill i would love to know what you think about this. 86655press. It makes me suspicious and uneasy because again, i want to eat hechty encourage people tom order fish but if you do, you ought to the at least know what the hell you are getting. Is that asking too much . I will think twice from now on bill particular at sushi bars. You would think those chefs, sushi chefs would care about their fish. Its phony phony fish. Thats where we are starting this morning 86655press. What do you think about it . This is the bill press show. 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. Alright, in 15 minutes were going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ music ] this is the bill press show. Here we go. Its 26 minutes now after the hour. We are one week from austerity, one week from sequester, one week from disaster here in our nationscap capitol. Do you really know what you are getting when you order fish in a restaurant or buy fish at the market or have sushi at your favorite sushi bar . The new yorkNew York Times reports a oceani oceana report says no, in Southern California 52 of the time, you might get fish. Doug powell food safety professor, the answer is give people nor information. Its about the democratize democratization of information. A lot of people know where theyre food is grown and be able to follow it up. Its hard to disagree with that lets do it. Be able to trust it. Comments peter . We are on twitter bpshow. Sheri clark says i have a friend who worked in fishing. Misidentifying fish has been common a long time. 75 of the fish come from foreign countries. Not only misidentifying the speaks hes but a lot of times they will sake this is locationen but its brought in from other places. They will say usually, like local or locally grown or locally caught or Something Like that or fresh caught or Something Like that. Greenwol says you must never order fish. Always turkey or chicken. I dont know if i agree with that. I think what we said earlier is probably the best way to combat this is order the larger cuts, the bigger like whole fish if you can. That way, you know. There is no faking that. Im sorry. We dont have time. Appreciate your call. Yeah, it used to be not so long ago, the big controversy over fish was fresh or frozen. Right. When it sizfresh is it really fresh or was it really frozen and they are thawing it out. Now, its fresh, frozen or fake . My god. Yeah, the austerity about to kick in a week from today. What are some of the con sequences . We will tell you next. This is the bill press show. [ music ] those types are coming on to me all the time now. She gets the comedians laughing. Thats hilarious . And the thinkers thinking. Okay, so theres wiggleroom in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me. Absolutely and so would mitt romeny. Shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say what the hell were they thinking . Only on current tv. [ music ] heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the bill press show. Thirtythree minutes after the hour, the full court press on a friday morning, february 22nd. 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