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Transcripts For CURRENT Full Court Press 20130312

Where one states entrepreneur is the federal governments felon. And the ground is always shifting. So whats going to happen . We are going to see this issue fought out in the court of public opinion. It is in periods like this that we really see change happen. vo if recent history is any indication, it seems impossible to predict exactly what kind of change we can expect. [ theme ] bill hey, good morning everybody. Great to see you this morning. It is the its tuesday match 12th first of all. This is the full court press. Were coming to you live coast to coast from our studio in capitol hill in washington d. C. And booming out to you all across this great land of ours on current tv. On whats going to turn out to be a very busy day here in our Nations Capital and around the globe. In rome, of course, five hours from now the cardinals will cast their first votes to elect the new pope. Here in washington, d. C. , president obama begins the first of four days of salesmanship to try to get a balanced approach to fixing our budget problems. He will come up to capitol hill today, just down the street from our studio, to meet with Senate Democrats. Tomorrow, he will be back up on capitol hill to meet with Senate Republicans. Hes got a big sales job to do there. Meanwhile, paul ryan is releasing the 2014 budget today for House Republicans. It is a nonstarter. Paul ryan bases his entire budget on repealing obamacare. Doesnt he remember he and mitt romney tried that last november and the American People soundly rejected it. This budget is going nowhere. Up in new york city, a judge has said that Michael Bloombergs attempt to ban 16 ounce sodas is wrong. Will not work. He has overturned that ban. That and a whole lot more this morning on current tv. Billy zane stars in barabbas. Coming in march to reelz. To find reelz in your area, go to reelz. Com 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 . Announcer broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. Bill and the dow racks up its fifth consecutive new record in a row. Five days in a row. Five new highs for the dow. What do you say folks . Obama economy is booming good morning great to see you this morning on this tuesday march 12. Welcome to the full court press. Coming to you live on your local progressive talk Radio Station on sirius x. M. This hour only and on current tv, of course, of course, of course, great to have you with us this morning. Whether you are watching or listening in your car at home, at the office already or at the gym, wherever. Good to be able to bring you up to date on the news of the day and take your calls and get your comments. Your calls welcome at 186655press. That is our toll free number. You may want to talk about what president obama is going to be telling Senate Democrats today. He will be up on capitol hill selling a reasonable balanced approach to solving our fiscal problems. You can also reach us, remember, on twitter at bpshow. And give us the name of your candidate for pope. Yep, the conclave, they have a big mass this morning and then the cardinals match into the Sistine Chapel. They close the doors and by 11 00 a. M. East coast time, they will be casting their first ballot. It is unlikely to be a first ballot pope papal pick. Seem to be too many candidates. It may take several ballots. Well know when we see the black smoke or the white smoke. Doubt it will be today. I think they take no more than four votes a day, i read. Is that right . Bill yeah, then they go home. I saw yesterday the last pope took two days. The pope before that took three days. So it is not going to be a oneday procedure. Bill besides they go to rome. They want to have a little time in rome. They dont want to turn around and come back. Might be slowing things down a little bit. Bill few more good meals before they leave rome and go back to their homes. Also on facebook facebook. Com billpressshow. Give us your comments on the news of the day. Well cover it all. Our entire team here, peter ogborn and dan henning hello hello, hello. Good morning. Bill phil backert has the phones and cyprian bowlding keeps us looking good on the video cam. Our videographer. We reported yesterday like everybody else did that it looked like the view losing joy behar of her own volition. Might also be losing Elisabeth Hasselbeck because she was being fired. Turns out it is not true. As Barbara Walters told the world yesterday. We just love elisabeth. The truth is we love elisabeth. Shes just a wonderful person. But beyond that, we value and appreciate her point of view. It is important to us because elisabeth helps give the show perspective and balance. Believe me, shes tougher than she looks. To take the kind of guff we give her. We have no plans for elisabeth to leave the show. Bill so were stuck with her. I still say it is good to have a conservative voice on the show. With they could do a lot better than Elisabeth Hasselbeck. She didnt slam the door on the rumors. Shed kind of leave it open and say as of now we have no plans to replace elisabeth. So, you know it wouldnt be the first time someone out and out lied about the future of somebody on the show. Bill no. Believe it or not, it happens in media. Bill really . Big day today and we will cover it all. Igor volsky will be here as he is every tuesday from think progress. Great organization, part of the center for american progress. Well also have reporters from buzzfeed and Huffington Post. And big news out of new york city bad news for mayor Michael Bloomberg. But first this is the full court press. Other headlines making news on this tuesday senator clair mcclass kill is not happy with a tsa screening she got at the airport yesterday. The missouri democrat took to twitter to complain about a private, aggressive patdown she got which she called very uncomfortable. She has complained about the tsa in the past. The hill knows she ripped into the agency in a hearing in the senate in 2011 calling what they do love pats. She let them know again yesterday. Bill you know, get over it these politicians have complained about being treated like everybody else at the airport. Exactly. Bill ya know. Hello welcome to the crowd. Just shut up. It is outrageous. Everybody gets treated like that every now and then and it is because of rules put into place by politicians. Bill dont you know who i am . Yeah, get in line add this to ridiculous things celebrities say and look for. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt let everyone know she think her most valuable asset is, her chest. The Hollywood Star in an interview promoting requesting the client list on lifetime was asked by usa today if she would insure her breasts and she said absolutely. They guessed they would be worth 2. 5 million each. Each . 5 million total. Bill that says a lot about her. She says the most valuable part about her is her breasts. Of. What about your brain and your acting job . Bill she doesnt have one obviously. In sports, march madness is getting underway. All eyes are on the big east conference tournament starting today for the last time in its current form as the catholic seven are splitting off at the end of the season to form their own conference. This comes after many years of big rivalries between syracuse, georgetown uconn, louisville and seton hall among others. Seton hall faces usf and rutgers takes on depaul. Bill do i have to do my bracket . A couple of weeks. Coming soon. Bill coming up . Now it is the conference tournament. Bill didnt i win last year . I dont think you did. Bill get outta here cyprian, didnt i win last year . You might have. Bill at least i did pretty well. You know what . You did. You did the best of us. Bill there you go. None of us had one person left. Bill i won among this crowd. Yeah. Bill out of this bunch of losers, i was the winner. Well pull the tape. Bill okay. No doubt who the big winner and loser was yesterday in new york city. What happened there has Ripple Effects around the country because one of the things we talk about a lot even as liberals and as progressives is government can go too far. And it often does. And we always have to be, you know on our guard against that. And step in. And we think, we talked about it when it was first proposed, that mayor Michael Bloomberg of new york is the classic politician who tends to go too far in terms of the nanny state. We know that it was you know, six months ago or whatever that he announced his latest. Hes the guy who got rid of msg in the restaurants he stopped smoking in bars, stopped smoking in restaurants started there. Stop smoking even in front of restaurants and bars. You have to be so many feet away from them. And hes the guy who forced the fast food places to put the calorie count on the menus on and on and on. Hes the classic mr. Nanny state. But the latest step is when he said no more 16 ounce sodas. Cant sell a 16 ounce soda. In certain in restaurants and in delis or on food carts but you could still buy them and sell them at convenience stores. At any rate, that ban was supposed it has been very controversial. That ban was supposed to take effect today. Today was going to be the beginning of no more 16 ounce drinks in new york city. Guess what. It aint gonna happen because a judge yesterday ruled against the ban in language that was very, very colorful and ridiculing mayor Michael Bloomberg. The headline in the New York Post this morning headline writers are having a field day with this morning. Im sure. Bill the headline on the New York Post is judge cans nannys ban on big sweet sodas. Judge cans nannys ban on big sweet sodas. The judge ruling that this new eatic by mayor bloomberg. He called it arbitrary and capricious unworkable and unenforceable. By the way it is a 200 fine if somebody was caught selling one of these 16 over 16 ounce. You could have 16 ounces but no more. So no more big gulps. But thats the problem. Part of the problem with the ban was you couldnt serve them in restaurants or on food carts which are proliferating in new york city. But you could still sell them in convenience stores. Hello which is insane thats just an insane that you wouldnt include that if youre talking about drinks where people buy fountain drinks. Most of the time, those come from convenience stores. Bill also in terms of being unenforceable think about the army of special soda police you would have to have in a city the size of new york, right . To enforce this and to watch and check out what they were selling and what they werent right . Totally, totally unworkable. Mayor bloomberg however he insists this is still he will not admit he was wrong. He insists this is still the right thing to do. He threw together a News Conference apparently, according to what i read this morning, the administration was blindside by this. Bloomberg didnt think any judge would dare after all hes in his third term as mayor no judge would dare disagree with him. He threw together a News Conference right away and said damn it, you know, were going to keep were going to appeal this and eventually, the courts are going to agree with me we strongly believe that in the end the courts will recognize the board of healths authority to regulate the sale of beverages that have virtually no new traditional value and which, consumed in large quantities are leading to disease and death for thousands of people every year. Bill the mayor says you know what . We have a moral obligation to do this. If were serious about fighting obesity we have to be honest about what causes it and we have to have the courage to tackle it headon. Bill then the mayor turned around and went on David Letterman last night. They booked him in a new york second or new york minute, whatever the phrase is. And again he said on David Letterman this is the most serious problem that weve gotta tackle. In the meantime this year, 70,000 americans will die from obesity, 5,000 here in new york. Gotta do something about it. 70,000 americans. 70,000 people will die from obesity. What would be the statistics of people dying of starvation versus people dying from obesity . For the first time in the history of the world more people will die from overeating than undereating this year. Isnt that remarkable . Bill im not sure of that, to tell the truth. Certainly like to see his numbers on it. Bill when you look at the population of impoverished countries, particularly in africa and people dying of hunger, i just im not sure i trust those numbers. Let me put it this way. David letterman contrarian says maybe youre picking on the wrong people here. I believe that its the corporate food industry, not the individual, that is at fault here. [ applause ] bill ahha i think that it is incumbent on government to tell people what theyre doing to themselves and let people make their own decisions. So our job is to educate. Bill lets stop right there. I think bloomberg undercuts his entire argument right there. Yeah. Bill i would agree with that. The government, tell people whats good for you whats bad for you and then let people make their own decisions. That is exactly what bloomberg did not do in new york. He said no, i will decide how much you can drink. I will decide how big your drink is. I am not going to let you decide whether you will go for that second or for that big gulp. Tell people what are in the sodas that youre drinking. Tell people how bad they are for you. Tell people what will happen to your health if you drink 64 ounces of cola every day. It will make you fat and sick and it will make your healthcare costs go way up. Thats a very reasonable argument that someone can make. Bill right, but thats not the argue bloomberg makes. One other inconsistency with the proposed Bloomberg Law was it would ban the big gulps for soft drinks but not for milk shakes. So you know, there was all of this thats why the judge said arbitrary and capricious. This is an important issue. Lets talk about it. Was bloomberg right or wrong . One question. The other is so what is the proper role of government . I support, by the way, the Motorcycle Helmet rule, right . I support the seatbelt rule. So there are some things i think where it is okay for government to regulate. And to put some rules up. I just think the soda ban is silly and just goes too far. So does the judge. How about you . 186655press. You know our toll free number. Lets get into it. Announcer radio meets television. The bill press show now on current tv. Current will let me say anything. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. vo shes joy behar. Current will let me say anything. Dude, i need your help fast. Well, clearasils fast. Yeah, but is it this fast . Faster how about this fast . 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So he thought this was going to be part of his legacy. It looks like his legacy will be fighting this for the rest of the year. 60 of residents of new york city on record as opposed to his ban on drinks larger than soda drinks larger than 16 ounces. Peter, whats the social media world saying about this . Were tweeting at bpshow. One person says im with mayor bloomberg. Someone has to be the Reasonable Voice opposing millions of advertising dollars aimed at children. Mzotti says why stop at sodas . How about limiting the size of portions served . What about those huge deli sandwiches in new york . Bill if you go to the carnegie deli, baby, right . Gary killpack says cigarettes have a warning label. Maybe you could just add one to sodas and gmos, you should put a warning label on fox news says gary kilpack. Were on twitter at bpshow. Bill fox news is probably more dangerous to your health. Thats not a bad idea. Put a warning label on sodas. If you drink this much of sodas you will be putting in this many calories, it will kill you. Bill the other problem with the sodas is, stuart, well get to you in a second, if people are drinking look, i havent done the survey. My observation is that if people are drinking a big gulp, theyre eating crappy food with it. You know what i mean . Theyre eating junk food and theyve got the sodas. Stuart is out in st. Petersburg, florida. What do you say . Caller bill, i think it is it is an overstep of the government telling you how much you should drink. If anything, the high fructose, the corn syrup we have in everything is far worse than a 32 to 64 or 72 ounce soda, you know. I just think it is an overstep of the government and if someone said, one of your people at your blog said the government should be watching everything, if they cant control what they drink then yes they need to be the ones who need to have a little wristband on them so

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