Deliver, it would be great to get your thoughts on the priorities of the administration around education, around what i like to call not the future of work but the work of the future because the future works sounds ominous but work of the future sounds visionary. So if you could give us those priorities and how before you sit, youre giving me numbers from new york. Youre a proud new yorker. Youre giving me numbers. Why is it doing so badly . Tell me. Why are numbers so horrific in terms of education and what happens when somebody goes through school and they cant read after they graduate from high school and they can barely read . So whats the answer . So first i would say that as we look at new york, new york made enormous progress in a decade. That 70 was 50 so a 40 increase so were making enormous progress in making an impact see how quickly shes changing. Making enormous progress. Were not done. A lot of work to do. I think we talked earlier about Public Private partnerships, appre
Thanks for watching. Im Christine Romans following fiscal cliff all day and night. Ashleigh banfield returning tomorrow. Newsroom with Suzanne Malveaux starts right now. Welcome back to cnn newsroom. Heres whats going on right now. 2013 hitting right now in bangkok, thailand. Were looking at live pictures there as the celebrations and the fireworks exploding there. Lots of picturetaking and a lot of excitement there. Right now Pope Benedict holding a new years eve mass at st. Peters basilica. They will celebrate the new year in six hours. A couple of hours ago folks toasted 2013 in new zealand. Check it out. Pretty cool. Party started with fireworks with the auckland sky it tower. Organizers were worried bad weather would be a problem, but everything turned out just fine. Congratulations. The second major city to ring in the new year, sydney, australia. Check it out. Wow, that is over city harbor bridge. The show is huge. We are talking about seven tons of fireworks. Happy new years al
[ theme ] bill hey, good morning everybody. Fellow americans, good to see you this morning. Thank you so much for joining us here on the full court press. Were coming to you live coasttocoast from our studio here in capitol hill in washington, d. C. With all of the news of the day from our Nations Capital around the country and around the globe. Seven americans taken hostage by terrorist yesterday in algeria. Things getting scary in that part of the world. Here at home, poor president obama cant win for losing. Yesterday he was slammed by critics for inviting four kids from around the country to join him on stage as he talked about his proposals for gun control. In other words its okay to mow down 20 first graders in newtown, connecticut but its not okay to invite four kids to the white house to talk about how to keep them safe from guns. These people are nuts all right. More about that and a whole lot more. But first here we go. The latest, todays current news update Lisa Ferguson sta
[ music ] bill hey, good morning, everybody. What do you say . It is wednesday, january 16th. Great to see you today. Welcome to you from fullcourt press all across this great land of ours on thendzwednesday morning. It is now the law of the land in new york state under the leadership of governor and drew cuomo, new york state has become first state to act with tough new gun control laws covering a ban on assault weapons, a ban on those highcapacity magazine clips and a requirement that every purchase of every gun include a criminal background check. New york state has shown the lead. President obama will announce his plan with Vice President biden today. Is Congress Ready to follow the lead of new york state . Boy, that and a whole lot more here this morning on the fullcourt press. But first, we get the latest. Todays current news update, was a fergusons got it out in los angeles. Lisa, good morning. Hey, bill. Good morning, everyone. Thats right. We will here from president obama tod
Er taking your emails on any topic at any time, this is the bill press show. Live on your radio and current tv. Bill hey good to hear from so many of you like thomas who says thanks for giving me an alternative to morning joe. Hey, just call us morning bill. Donald francis adds Mitch Mcconnells crying about being a minority and not having his voice heard. Hey, how about the majority of us whose voice is not being heard because hes so bought off. Good point. D says i was absolutely appalled at the number of members of congress who signed the Grover Norquist pledge. You were spoton by calling them traitors and harmony wants us to know her opinion as to why black friday exists peter. Im from wisconsin she says and grew up with many hunters in the family. The day after thanksgiving was always a big hunting day. Black friday started with hunters wives going shopping because all of the men were out hunting. I know a lot of hunting seasons kick off now. Bill you know what . That makes a lot o