if the phone is too old-fashioned for you, join us on twitter at bp show or on facebook at facebook.com/billpressshow here in washington, d.c., this is the last week before congos on its extended july 4th break. the senate busy trying to get the immigration bill passed. the house meanwhile with nothing else to do will probably hold another hearing on benghazi pass another abortion bill and who knows they might even repeal obamacare for the 38th time. in florida the trial of george zimmerman gets underway today with opening arguments. and meanwhile has anybody seen edward snowden? he has disappeared from hong kong. popped up at moscow. apparently spent the night there and is already on his way to havana cuba. and from cuba, he will be going on to ecuador where he has sought asylum. we'll tell you about it right here on current tv. at 9 eastern. >> i'm a slutty bob hope. the troops love me. tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. you're welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. 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>> yes! >> only on current tv. >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." >> bill: monday morning. june 24. welcome to the "full court press." what do you say in hello everybody. great to see you this monday morning. good to be back with all of you. hope you enjoyed the weekend. had a chance to kick back, recharge the batteries, have a little fun along the way. a beautiful weekend here in our nation's capital. and i hope you're ready to tackle the big issues of this new day this monday. i forget what they call it but i was just walking over here this morning, this is a time of summer, the one time when the moon is the closest to the earth. it's only 221,000 miles away at this time. it is closer than it ever is and it is like -- it looks 1/3 bigger to the naked eye than it does normally. that big full moon. >> super moon. they call it the super moon. >> bill: over the united states capitol this morning was just spectacular. great to see you this morning. take a look at the moon. give yourself a treat this monday morning. and also give yourself a treat by giving us a call. you get to talk about the issues any time you want. give us a call at 1-866-55-press. join us on twitter at bpshow and on facebook at facebook.com/billpressshow. well, you know, it is the summer. we never have the full team here at any one time it seems. i'm the only one who never gets a vacation. peter is back. hello, peter. missed you last week. >> i missed you, as well. it was a wonderful time. >> bill: we followed with you the spurs. >> i don't want to talk about it. i still have a bad taste in my mouth over that. >> bill: well, if you had stayed here and cheered them on it might have been different. >> good point. >> bill: dan has a couple of days off. alriche sha cruz has the week off. so we brought back stevie lee webb. >> hello, bill press. i'm very well. is this going to take long? i've got to get back to wimbledon. i'm a ball boy. >> bill: nice to bounce across the pond for us this week. cyprian is here. >> talk about a guy who never gets a day off. man! >> bill: he's got a big two weeks coming. >> that's right. >> bill: he's already warned us. good to have you all here this morning. there's another member of our team who was missing this morning. paula deen couldn't make it this morning. >> valuable member of our team. >> bill: looks like she's out of a job. she's usually here preparing breakfast for us. she got in a little trouble last week. she belatedly came out with a video begging forgiveness -- here she is. >> i've made plenty of mistakes along the way but i beg you my children, my team, my fans, my partners i beg for your forgiveness. >> bill: oh, god lay it on. right? mmm, boy. so, do you think she was unfairly fired? >> no. look, you know, her -- everyone's harping on this idea and this thing that the worst crime she committed was that she confessed to using the "n" word -- >> bill: by the way you grew up in the south. i grew up in the south. delaware was -- delaware city was a segregated, southern town. so yeah, i admit too. but that's the era we grew up in. in the part of the country we grew up in. >> even today, i still have family in south carolina and every time i go back to south carolina, i hear that word. it's in my family. so, i mean, there is a real conversation to be had about -- >> bill: if she had said that and moved on -- >> there is a real conversation to be had about race and that word but it goes so much deeper than that. >> bill: this whole wedding ceremony that she was -- yeah -- show she was trying to put together no, no, no, no. so, do you think her career is done? maybe her restaurant continues. >> i think she has some real problems. i think that, you know, people will stop going to her restaurant even because the thing is, knowing some people who live in savanna where her restaurant empire resides, it is not that popular with the locals. savanna has some great restaurants. it is a tourist destination. a lot of people will come there to eat at her restaurant. >> bill: i'll take ina garden over paula deen. reid wilson from the "national journal" who often joins us on the phone will be here in studio with us. cindy boren our favorite sports columnist will be here with us the next hour. and then julie mason from sirius x.m. p.o.t.u.s. channel will be here as a "friend of bill." and edward snowden is on the run. but first -- >> this is the "full court press." >> here are some other stories making news, last night bill, wire walker nick wallenda made history as he became the first man to tightrope across the grand canyon. in a special that aired live on the discovery channel wallenda took just under 23 minutes to walk 1400 feet across a wire that was suspended 1500 feet above the floor of the canyon. wallenda spent the entire time -- they had a microphone on him and cameras. he spent the whole time talking to jesus and begging and praying. >> bill: he did the right thing because he got to the other side. >> jesus got him across. after the stunt he announced his next big stunt is he wants to talk between two skyscrapers in new york city which is a stunt that's been done before. >> bill: that's been done before. between the twin towers at one point, it is a great -- wired. >> there is a great documentary. man on a wire. >> bill: that's the book and that's the documentary. >> apple one is ready to go on sale for $300,000. the apple one computer, one of the rarest of all computer platforms goes on -- will go on the auction with a starting bid of $300,000. the computer isn't even in its original form. the owner picked up the computer three years ago and has added a monitor, keyboard and a very up-to-date tape deck for additional storage. the main mother board of the machine is authentic, however and this is the original configuration built by steve wozniak and steve jobs -- >> bill: in their garage. >> indeed. bill, i know you were wondering why kim kardashian and kanye west named their child northwest. they say it was not inspired by a compass when they named the child north. the name is meant to be inspirational, more inspirational than directional. sources close to the couple told tmz they chose the name because they see it as a metaphor for up telling friends what is north of north? nothing. translation, in their mind, nothing better than this child. are you kidding? >> bill: look, they wanted to be cute. north west. far west. >> bill: the big story of the day, edward snowden on the run. that dominated the sunday talk shows yesterday even before word got out that edward snowden had escaped hong kong and ended up in moscow which made for some interesting commentary on the sunday shows. david gregory sort of stepped in a little bit on "meet the press." he is a journalist. did a good job covering the white house for nbc news. as host of "meet the press," he sort of fell, i think into a right wing trap here with glen greenwald who is a reporter -- investigative reporter from "the guardian" who broke this story and is the one who revealed that edward snowden went to greenwald, wrote the story and then also did the interview with edward snowden when snowden revealed himself as the source. so david gregory has this question for glen greenwald yesterday. >> to the extent you have aided and abetted snowden even in his current movements why shouldn't you, mr. greenwald, be charged with a crime? >> i think it is pretty extraordinary anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other journalists should be charged with felony. >> bill: good point. even the use of that phrase, aided and abetted. yeah, that's like the fbi call ing james rosen a criminal co-conspirator just because he asked a question of somebody in the state department, glen greenwald accused of aiding and abetting the enemy. just because he did an interview with edward snowden. come on, david gregory what's wrong with you? meanwhile, general keith alexander, head of the nsa continues to try to defend his program. he was on this week with george stephanopoulos yesterday talking about all of the damage that edward snowden has done. >> snowden has revealed has caused irreversible and significant damage to our country and to our allies. >> bill: i would like to know what the irreversible damage is. he didn't tell us about any of the phone calls. he didn't tell us about the content of the phone calls. there were no names revealed. he just said snowden told us that the nsa is tracking and keeping and storing information on every single phone call made in the united states of america. how did that do irreversible damage to our national security? i think keith alexander is crying wolf one far too many times. but to give you some idea of the mixed feelings on edward snowden, you've heard me say i think he did us a public service by revealing this information, i think we have a right to know what our government is up to. nancy pelosi appeared in front of net roots nation out in california over the weekend. she said look, snowden broke the law which he did by the way was not very well received. >> he did violate the law in terms of releasing those documents. we don't know. i just meant -- i just meant -- and the fact is -- and the fact is that, that -- >> boo! it wasn't quite that bad. >> bill: it was june 9 that snowden did his interview with "the guardian" and we learned he was in hong kong. people called him a traitor and said we're going to bring him back. i was told at the time by a friend of mine in law enforcement. his goose is cooked. we have an extradition treaty with hong kong and the state department will revoke his passport. in fact, that's the first thing they would have done. they have probably already done it. i was told on june 9. i figured that, in fact, his goose was cooked indeed for those two reasons. last week, we learned that the justice department had filed charges against snowden three charges, each of which -- for each of which he can get ten years in jail and so we expect him -- i did you probably did too, to be brought back here, put on trial and yet, this weekend, over the weekend he escaped. he fled the coop. he left hong kong, off to moscow. spent the night at moscow at the airport. now on his way to havana, we think. i haven't heard the confirmation of that. from havana, he's expected to bounce through ecuador where in fact the ecuadorian government said he has sought asylum, the same country that's given asylum to julian assange the head of wikileaks. the reason get this, i gotta tell you, it seems to me whatever you think about edward snowden, whether you consider him a pay patriot or a traitor you have to admire the guy's moxie. he was up against the entire united states government. he's up against the mighty justice department. and he escaped right under their noses. why? well, hong kong says that the extradition request that the united states filed was flawed. there were some mistakes in it. they didn't get it right. they lost some time. and two the state department did not revoke his passport until june 22nd. so he left with a valid passport. they could have revoked it on the 9th of june. they didn't until june 22nd. department of justice at it again. another good reason to fire eric holder. my question to you is do you think snowden is doing the right thing by running? 1-866-55-press or should he stay and face the music? 1-866-55-press. now, i don't know about you but if my ass was grass and i know the full weight of the united states government is coming after me, and i'm going to spend the rest of my life in a federal prison and i got a chance to get to ecuador maybe fish and lie in the sun for the rest of my life, i don't know about you but i'm heading to ecuador baby. what do you think? 1-866-55-press. edward snowden on the run. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." anything. 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(vo) she's joy behar. >>current will let me say anything. cenk off air alright in 15 minutes we're going to do the young turks! i think the number 1 thing than viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. they know that i'm not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know i'm going to be the first one to call them out. cenk on air>> what's unacceptable is how washington continues to screw the middle class over. cenk off air i don't want the middle class taking the brunt of the spending cuts and all the different programs that wind up hurting the middle class. cenk on air you got to go to the local level, the state level and we have to fight hard to make sure they can't buy our politics anymore. cenk off air and they can question if i'm right about that. but i think the audience gets that, i actually mean it. cenk on air 3 trillion dollars in spending cuts! narrator uniquely progressive and always topical the worlds largest online news show is on current tv. cenk off air and i think the audience gets, "this guys to best of his abilities is trying to look out for us." only on current tv! >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 25 minutes after the hour. waking up to the fact that where snowden has escaped u.s. authorities in hong kong outwitted them, in fact, and seems to be on his way to asylum in ecuador, the foreign minister of ecuador has acknowledged that through the assistance of wikileaks and remember, julian assange had a wikileaks for a couple of years now, has been hiding out in the ecuadorian embassy hiding out in full sight in the ecuadorian embassy in london and apparently they arranged a special permit for him to get out of hong kong and to ecuador via moscow and havana. here's don out in albany, oregon. what do you say? >> caller: good morning, bill. how are you doing? >> bill: i'm great. how are you? >> caller: it is probably edward snowden's safest bet right now. i don't know why intelligence communities can never seem to face the fact that everything sees the light of day. even if it is ancient history. just imagine how much was written down that was never supposed to see the light of day but still ended up doing so just the same. >> bill: yep, no exactly. had to come out plus, again i made this point before. it seems to me if this program is really so vital to our national security, then they should have just told us about it. if i know that they are keeping a record of every phone call i make, i'm still going to make -- i'm not going to stop making phone calls. the fact that this thing was kept so secret that bothers me. that's why i thank edward snowden for releasing it which is a point that valerie plame made. doris is calling from flint michigan. what do you say? >> caller: hi, bill. good morning. i wanted to say that when i've been here watching keith alexander and the others say you know, if he really believes that he's right let him come back and make his case and whatever. well, because we're a nation of -- much of the time or some of the time we are but if we look at what happened by our military, if you look at what happened in guan -- guantanamo in the past and with the prisoners and you look at what happened with bradley manning why would anybody trust they're going to be fair because they'll want to make an example of him like they always do for the little countries we beat up like we're going to show them, like cuba. cuba stood up and that's why we don't like them. >> bill: doris you make an excellent point. look at what they've done to bradley manning. 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(vo)only on current tv. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: here we go. 33 minutes after the hour. how about it on a monday morning, june 24. great to see you today. hope you enjoyed the weekend. ready to tackle the big stories of the day today. which we do now with the help of a good friend who we normally talk to on the phone this early in the morning. but we found out that he lived close enough to the studio that we can roust him out and get his butt in here, reid wilson is the editor-in-chief of the "national journal" hot line. good to see you. >> good morning, bill. how you doin'? >> bill: thanks for coming in. >> no worries. >> bill: since we're neighbors, let's be fri