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Announcer broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. Bill surprise, surprise. A jury finds Whitey Bulger guilty. Even he expected that. Hey, good morning, everybody. What do you say . What do you say . Great to see you today. Here we go. Another edition of the full court press. So good to see you today. On a tuesday. Tuesday, august 13. Were coming to you live from our nations capital. And our little home away from home here, our studio on capitol hill in washington, d. C. Just down the street from the United States capitol building. But everything is quiet on the homefront. Today, again, the house and the senate offer their long easter break five weeks, if you can believe it. President obama and the first lady, daughters up on Marthas Vineyard for a little extended honeymoon. The daughters come back later in the week. Were here to bring you up to date on whats going on here such as it is in our nations capital, around the country and around the globe, there is news. Weve got it for you. Were on top of it. Well tell you about it and give you a chance to talk about it at 186655press. Join us on twitter at bpshow and on facebook at facebook. Com billpressshow. Peter ogborn still off today. He will be back tomorrow. Dan henning good morning. Bill who never gets a day off. Oh, yeah, right. Whoa whats that supposed to mean . Bill youre here. I will not be here on friday. Bill see, i know. Hard keeping the whole gang together. Thats all right. I wont be here next week. Alichia cruz is here on phones. Cyprian bowlding is here. So, you know, some people Abraham Lincoln once famously said there are some fleas that a dog cant catch, okay . So theres some people that youre just never going to convince there is such a thing as Global Warming. Unfortunately, too many of those kind of people are in the United States congress. There is, for example, senator james inhofe from oklahoma who may be the biggest skeptic about Global Warming despite unbelievable incontrovertible evidence everywhere you look about Global Warming. James inhofe says it is a big fraud. He is matched in the house of representatives by congressman Dana Rohrabacher, republican from Orange County, california. He gives all of california a bad name. He gives Orange County a bad name. There are a lot of great people that live in Orange County. I know well. Orange county is not the right wing you know, stronghold that a lot of people think that it is. But Dana Rohrabacher he was at a town hall meeting yesterday, asked about Global Warming, there aint nothing to it, he says. Just so you know, Global Warming is a total fraud and it is being designed because what youve got is youve got liberals who get elected at the local level, want the State Government to do the work and let them make the decisions. Then at the state level, they want the federal government to do it. And at the federal level, they want to create global government to control all of our lives. Thats what their game plan is. It is step by step by step, more and bigger control over our lives by higher levels of government. Bill that is such horse you know what. It is just like yeah, people who want to safety planet, all they want is global government. Honest to god. You can hear the people you can see hes maying to the crowd there of looney tunes in Orange County. Coming up, got a whole big lineup of guests today from politico, from national journal. From buzzfeed, from think progress, from the boston globe. Lots of good stuff going on here today. And some big news on the Law Enforcement front. But first announcer this is the full court press. Other headlines making news on this tuesday, the president was not going to let a little rain stop him from playing golf on vacation. President obama heading out to the Vineyard Golf Club on Marthas Vineyard with a new foursome. He played with ron kirk, the u. S. Trade representative, the chicago friend Allison Davis and former clinton adviser jordan. Obama is still working. Got the full briefing on the days news from the National Security adviser susan rice before he played golf yesterday. Belle i ran into into the white house yesterday, the Deputy Press Secretary on his way to the vineyard this morning to take over duty from jay carney. Okay. Bill and josh ernest. Josh admitted to me that the goal of this week is not to make any news. On the part of the president or the press secretary. We might see Anthony Weiner on the big screen soon. The new york city mayoral candidate has been followed around by a documentary filmmaker for mtv and pbs on the campaign trail recently. Hes been seen wearing a microphone. The hill newspaper reported the campaign is being tightlipped about what the prom is. Only saying theyre filming for possible tv commercials for the campaign but some say they think it is something more. Bill Anthony Weiner appearing at a buzzfeed brews event in new york city. Im sorry i wasnt able to be there myself but john stanton, the Buzzfeed Washington Bureau chief for buzzfeed is going to be here later in the program in studio to tell us all about it. If youre looking to move to a great town, consider sharon, massachusetts. The town is number one on money magazines new best small towns in america list for weathering the recession well and having a big lake and being close to both boston and providence. So close that you can commute to work in either city. It is also diverse. Nine churches, seven synagogues and one of the largest mosques in new england. Louisville, colorado, and vienna, virginia, round out the top three. Bill never heard of that city in massachusetts. Nine churches in a town of 17,000 . Congregations are rather small, i would say because some people do not go to church at any rate. What we have very significant yesterday. There are two unrelated decisions regarding related to Law Enforcement that really were related. They werent planned that way but they really do fit together and Say Something very important, i think, about Law Enforcement in this country. A lot of us have said for a long time that we went way overboard, you know. 10, 20 years ago. The last the previous generation about gotta be tough on crime. Tough on Law Enforcement. Crack down on crime. Throw everybody in prison. It was this lock them up. Throw the book at them. Throw the key away which you heard from republicans, of course. You also heard from a lot of democrats. I can remember when i worked for jerry brown, a couple of us liberals in the office used to battle with him over some of the tough Law Enforcement bills he would relish signing. We went way overboard. In many cases, the laws were wrong. They have had theyve backfired. Theyve had the reverse effect. Theyve made things worse rather than better. And there was a sign important signs again yesterday that maybe were starting to see the light. Maybe i mean some people have been saying this again for a long time. But the voices have been in the minority. Maybe now theyre starting to kind of leak through and get to Decision Makers who can really make a difference. That certainly was obvious yesterday in San Francisco, first of all. In a speech to the American Bar Association, by attorney general eric holder. Now, you know me and eric holder, im not a big holder fan. I dont think he did a good job, not a very aggressive job, missed a lot of chances in the first four years. I was disappointed that president obama reappointed him or asked him to stay. And i wish eric holder had just stepped down, particularly after all of the stuff came out about his pursuing reporters in these leak investigations. But give the man credit where its due. Yesterday, i thought he made a very important and a very bold step in talking about the socalled mandatory minimum sentencing laws in california, called the three strikes and youre out. These ridiculous laws where the legislatures again, proving theyre tough on crime, they passed these laws saying that for any little offense or for no matter how small the third offense was, you had a mandatory prison time which even a judge, no matter who you were, the judge could in no way reduce it. They took the power away from the judge. So you have these ridiculous cases where so many people are in prison for so long a time for offenses that really dont amount to a hill of beans and nonviolent offenses. As eric holder put it yesterday and he summed that up, almost word for word, speaking to the aba. Too Many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for no truly good Law Enforcement reason. Bill too many people in prison for far too long for no good reason. And its true. I saw the numbers last night. California is one of the worst states in this regard. Federal judges have told california, california has to do something about its prison population. They have space for 80,000 people. By the way, 80,000 people. Theyve got 120,000 people jammed into the space for 80,000. Imagine the problems that that creates as eric holder said yesterday. The mandatory minimum sentencing dont resolve the problem at all. In fact, their impact on communities, they make matters worse. Vicious cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration traps too Many Americans and weakens too many communities. In many aspects of our criminal Justice System, it exacerbates the problems rather than alleviate them. Bill making matters worse. So the attorney general says from now on, it is going to take time to work this through. But at the federal level from now on, what he wants to do is change the practice so that they will only they will not not enforce and not prosecute these lowlevel crimes and safe the most serious penalties for the most serious crimes. By reserving the most severe penalties for serious, highlevel or violent drug traffickers, we can better promote public safety, deterrent and rehabilitation while making our expenditures smarter and more productive. Bill it will save money, make our communities safer and the rate of recidivism is like 65 , i think in california prisons today. So this throw them in prison for long, long periods of time is not rehabilitating people, not at all. Now, thats the attorney general. Unrelated it just so happened yesterday, a judge in new york city, judge shira scheindlin, after fourmonth trial, she shocked the city officials in new york city by finding that new york the practice of the new York City Police department, mayor Michael Bloombergs pride and joy, the socalled stop, question and frisk policy is dead wrong and she said the new York City Police have to change that. She if say they have to end it but they have to change the policy because right now, she said it is pure racial profiling. She pointed out her decision was based on a review of 4. 3 million stops. Went through all of the paperwork the Police Department had for 4. 3 million stops between 2004 and 2012. And what she found, of course, is that the practice is without a search warrant, police stop people, frisk them for guns and then search them for any other contraband, drugs or whatever, without any search warrant, without any legal warrant or justification for doing so, no legal grounds for doing so and not only that, the people theyre stopping are based on the color of their skin. 83 during those 4. 3 million stops, 83 of them were young, black men or young latinos even though the population of new york is only 50 . She said theres no reason that they should be anymore suspect of blacks and latinos except for racism. Than young white males. Michael bloomberg, the mayor michael bloomberg, very unhappy. Vows hes going to appeal it because he said it is a raw deal. Throughout the case, we didnt believe that we were getting a fair trial and this decision confirms that suspicion. And we will be presenting evidence of that unfairness to the appeals court. Bill yeah, well, rots of ruck. On two big decisions, eric holder saying were going to just ignore these and no longer enforcement the mandatory minimum sentences for lowlevel nonviolent drug crimes, doing the right thing . I think so. 186655press. And in new york city, stop, question and frisk shot down by a judge in new york city. Did she do the right thing . I think absolutely right. 186655press. Lets talk about it right here on the full court press. Announcer this is the bill press show. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. 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. We have a big, big hour and the iq will go way up. vo current tv gets the conversation started weekdays at 9 eastern. Im a slutty bob hope. The troops love me. Tv and radio talk show host Stephanie Miller rounds out currents morning news block. 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