And giving you a chance to sound off about it this early in the morning. You can do so by giving us a call at 186655press. We invite your comments as always on twitter at bpshow and on facebook at facebook. Com billpressshow. President obama bringing the focus back on the economy yesterday. Weve got to the stakes, he said for the middle class could not be higher than they are today. He told crowds yesterday in illinois and missouri. Today he takes the same message down to jacksonville, florida challenging republicans in congress to stop bhoking everything and get to work, helping create jobs in this country. Meanwhile, the pope continues to wow them down in brazil. Yes, Anthony Weiner vows he is going to stay in the race up in new york city but more and more people including the mighty New York Times are telling him hes got to get out and take care of his personal problems. 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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 broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. Bill well, it didnt take them that long. Theyve named him george. Yeah, king george. That worked out so well. The last time around. Hey, good morning everybody. Here we go. It is thursday, thursday, july 25. So good to see you today. In the middle of summer here, it is the full court press coming to you live from our Nations Capital and our studio on capitol hill. Right in the heart of the action. Well its supposed to be the heart of the action. Not a lot of action going on in this congress because republicans dont want to get anything done. Thats why the president went on the road yesterday to try to get the American People revved up, to get congress to move. Good to see you today. Well tell you about the president s big speech yesterday. About a big vote yesterday in the house on National Security and the nsa and our right of privacy, very important vote. Weve got lots to tell you about today. Well bring you up to date on all of the news and take your calls at 186655press. Look forward to your comments on twitter at bpshow. Love hearing from you on twitter and love having you as a friend on facebook, you know how you can like us on facebook at facebook. Com billpressshow and let us know what you think of the issues of the day. Thats the way you become a member of the team here. The team in studio, of course, being peter ogborn and dan henning. Hey hey hey. Good morning. Bill yes yes yes. Alichia cruz has the phones covered and cyprian bowlding back on the video cam. It looks like were going to have a whole week, first time in awhile, all five days with the full team here. We still have one day left in the week. Bill thats right. Anything could happen. Bill who knows what could happen tomorrow. Yes, indeed. Well, believe it or not hes still around. Im talking about larry king. Hes still around. Hes still dragging in guests for interviews. Last night, he had a very funny guy on. Ive never seen his show. I would love to see his show some time. I understand hes really funny. You and i will differ on this. Bill oh, yeah . You dont like larry the cable guy . No, i dont. I think hes hilarious. Bill i dont know. You and dan agree. Bill my brother joe and a whole group they rented a limo and went to see his show. Hes been talking about that show ever since. The blue collar comedy tour is one of the funniest things out there. I cannot believe i have to spend time with you two. You are welcome to leave. Bill have you gone . No, i would love to. Bill well have a field trip. He was on larry king last night and he said ya know, if you dont like it, people ought to people in this country ought to mind their own business. Thats one thing i cant figure out about the country lately is why cant people mind their own business . You know what i mean . Remember the guy that sued Kentucky Fried Chicken because there was too much trans fat in the chicken. Well then keep your fat ass out of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Why do you have to ruin it for everybody else . Bill you know, by the way hes a redneck so i probably should not like him. Hes a fake redneck. He used to be a like normal standup comic who told regular jokes from the midwest and then when he failed at that, he cut the sleeves off his shirt and put on a fake accent and he tours the country as larry the cable guy. Get er done. Bill making a lot of money. Sure. Bill we have become, he says, a nation of babies and whiners. I dont know when we turned into a nation of 3yearold babies but everything offends everybody, everything offends we live in the freest, greatest country in the world. Thats why theres so many people bitching about stuff. Theres other countries, you dont hear bitching because theyve got to go out and try to find something to eat. Thats why. We bitch about everything. You live in america. Lighten up were free to bitch. Were free to bitch. It gets ridiculous. Son of a bitch. Leave other people alone and just enjoy your life. What the hell. God. Bill lighten up. Lighten up. Ill tell you one thing we cant lighten up about is nsa and the fact that theyre still spying on us. They almost got their ass whooped yesterday. Thats where well start this morning, a little bit later. Congresswoman Donna Edwards will be joining us as well as a representative of the Democratic Governors Association, take a look at that race in virginia. And well have reporters from talking points memo and politico and the hill. But first. This is the full court press. Other headlines making news on this thursday george h. W. Bush has gone bald. The 89yearold 41st president appeared at his house in maine with a completely shaved head yesterday. He wanted to be in solidarity with a 2yearold son of one of his secret Service Agents who has leukemia. Not only did 41 shave his head, all 25 of the agents assigned to his protection detail shaved their heads as well. Put out the photos yesterday. Bill i think thats great. It is a super sweet picture. Bill it really is. Little baby on his lap. Good for him. Good for the secret Service Agents. Jimmy fallon spent plenty of time on his late night show joking about the royal baby. He made no mention of his own baby. No one knew his wife of six years was even pregnant but People Magazine confirms nancy gave birth to a healthy baby girl this week named winnie rose. Thats the way to do it. You have a baby, nobody cares. It is not that hard to make a baby. Bill woman gives bit to baby. Exactly. In sports, a gruesome injury in the Atlanta Braves new york mets game. The pitcher went down hard after making a play at first base when eric young of the mets stepped on the outside of hudsons foot, visibly breaking it on camera. Oh god i hate those. Young admitted he was upset after the game saying he knew he didnt touch the base at all. He had to be carted off by paramedics. Hell have surgery. No word on how long hell be out. Likely the end of the season. Bill broke his foot . Snapped in half quite easily. Thank you. Bill by the way the nats lost their sixth game in a row. Not the worst losing streak but close. Ever the optimist. Bill lets look for the silver lining. It could be worse. Other teams have lost more than six in a row. Since like july 8th i think it was theyve gone 211. Thats bad. Bill yeah. Doesnt look like were headed to the playoffs. They still have a shot. Have a great shot at the playoffs. They really do. They have a great shot at the playoffs. Bill if they start winning some games. If they keep losing, they wont make the playoffs. The Toronto Blue Jays have lost seven in a row. Bill well, nsa almost lost a big one yesterday. Weve gotta start here today. This is something we talked about ever since Edward Snowden released the information and told us what nsa was up to. Seizing this big huge dragnet. Seizing the information on every single telephone call made by every single american every second of every day and claiming that this is important to catch terrorists. You tell me why getting every phone call i make has anything to do with catching alqaeda terrorists and ill buy you dinner at the palm. It is just b. S. Total b. S. Ive been saying that from the beginning. Also saying from the beginning that if you really this should not be a partisan issue i guess is what im getting at. If youre really concerned about the right of privacy and all americans ought to be, if youre really concerned about the reach of Big Government and i also think all americans ought to be but tea partiers and conservatives, particularly say they are. Well then you ought to be concerned about nsa and not just roll over and say we have to do this because you know, we dont mind. We have to sacrifice our privacy because, you know, were in the war on terror and president obama, we can trust him. No we cant trust any president. I dont care who it is on these issues and should not surrender our Constitutional Rights. Ive been saying that from the beginning. And i was really disappointed that the Obama White House has been so supportive of what i think is a massive overreach on the part of the nsa. I expect it from george bush or dick cheney. Not from president obama. I was also very disappointed in the senate, that our leading senate democrat, senator feinstein and harry reid went along with this program. Havent raised a stink about it at all in the senate. But in the house its different. In the house i love seeing this. The most liberal democrats seeing this. Keith ellison two really good friends of ours, have joined with tea partiers in the house to challenge the nsa. James sensenbrenner who wrote the patriot act has said dont tell me that my patriot act enables you to do all of this massive collection of data because, he said, thats not what we intended at all. So these left wingers and rightwingers yesterday came together in support of an amendment that would have cut the funding for nsa to collect this phone data and it was a close vote. Mike rogers who is head of the House Intelligence Committee and part of the establishment he says no. This amendment is bad news. This nsa program we need it. 54 times, this and the other program stopped and thwarted terrorist attacks both here and in europe. Bill of course, they keep throwing that out there. Theyve never shown how collecting, again, the phone data on just one unnamed american innocent patriotic american sit ghen has led to arresting any one. They monitor his or her phone calls and make a connection. It is not finding the needle in the haystack at all. But on the other hand, john conyers yesterday, on the floor of the house was first of all, ted poe, a republican, just to show you again tea party and liberal democrats,ed at ted pea of poe from texas. No more dragnet operations. Get a specific warrant based on probable cause or stay out of our lives. Bill get a warrant. Dont tell us well, the fisa Court Approved this. They approve everything. John conyers one of the most, if not the most liberal member of the house, of course, from michigan. All this amendment is intended to do is to curtail the ongoing dragnet collection and storage of the personal records of innocent americans. Bill so get this, right. This amendment comes up. Now, this amendment is opposed by the white house by john boehner, by eric cantor, by the nsa. All of those forces against it and they barely won. The vote end of the vote was 217205. Came that close to stopping this nsa program. I think that is great news and it shows that were finally seeing some backbone in the house, at least and some concern about our Constitutional Rights. But the American People are starting to get on to that, too. The Washington Post is out with a new poll this morning that shows 74 of americans when theyre asked the question, do you believe that the nsa surveillance of telephone calls does intrude on our privacy 74 of americans now say yes. Get this. Do you think this nsa spying has made us safer . Or not . 42 said it has made us safer. 47 of americans say it hasnt made much difference. 47 . It hasnt really made that much difference. I think the American People are starting to see through this and again, were starting to see some leadership and some backbone in congress on this issue. This is great. We need this big debate. About how much of our privacy are we willing to surrender in the name of the war on terror. Are we really willing to say whatever you need to do, you can do. We understand that. And well just roll over and burn the constitution. I hope not. And i would love seeing this vote yesterday in the house. 217205. 186655press. Lets talk about it here on the full court press this morning. And you tell me whether you think the nsa program has made us safer as a nation and whether you think it intrudes on our privacy. Thursday morning. Full court press. Announcer like politics . Then like the bill press show on facebook. This is the bill press show. 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. This show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. Are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night . Is this personal, or is it political . A lot of my work happens by doing the things that im given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. In reality its not like they actually care. This is purely about political grandstanding. Ive worn lots of hats, but ive always kept this going. Ive been doing politics now for a dozen years. vo hes been called the epic politics man. Hes Michael Shure and his arena is the war room. These republicans in congress that think the world ends at the Atlantic Ocean border and Pacific Ocean border. The bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. I do a lot of looking at those people as well. Not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. But we do care about them right . Bill ta minutes after the hour. The full court press here on a thursday morning. And were talking about the fact that critics of the nsa spying program almost made it yesterday. Came very close to shutting that program down, at least in the house. The white house had to pull out all stops yesterday lobbying against this amendment. Sponsored by john conyers liberal democrat. And justin amash i think his name is. Also from michigan whos a republican. The two radicals from michigan. Peter, comments . You can find us on twitter at bpshow where julie says i dont know whether to cry or be happy that the president actually won a battle in the house. As rare as that happens. M zotti says since when does washington care about what the majority of americans think about any issue . You can find us at bpshow on twitter. Bill it is very important i believe that Public Opinion on this is shown by this Washington Post abc poll has really shifted and theyre not just americans are not just believing what they hear out of washington. We need this, we need this to keep you safe. We need this to keep you safe. More and more are saying what . Rick is in scottsdale, arizona. Hey, rick. Caller hey, first off, how many people voted to go to george bushs war. Bill too many did. Yeah right. Caller youre thinking analog in a digital world. You cannot write a program that can look into something and say this is a terrorist. You can only pick out words. They have you can talk into a headphone and do anything on your computer. You cannot write a program that can differentiate this is something they need to look at. Bill thats a good point. So you think another problem with the whole nsa thing it is technologically outdated. You cannot write the program with the amount of data. One teenager can have 930 texts on a reality show. Bill i got it, rick. I sort of think that the technicians at the nsa understand that and have tried to adapt a program accordingly. Lisa is in houston. Hi lisa. Caller hi, bill. I have one sol