♪ >> good morning. it is monday monday april 2nd. can you believe it? good to see you today. thank you for joining us for the full court press, your new morning show on current tv. as we tackle the latest issues of the day here from our nation's capitol, around the globe globe and in sanford florida where two voice experts listened to the tapes and they report that there is no way that that voice heard crying for help on the 9-1-1 tape is the voice of george zimmerman. it must be the voice of trayvon

martin. so the question is: how much later do we have to wait before justice is done in this case? how much more evidence does the police need before they arrest george zimmerman? just one of the big issues we will be talking today. but first, let's get the latest here, this current tv news update on a monday morning from jackie jacki schechner. >> good morning, everyone. here is what's current. we have some good news/bad news for president obama. according to the associate press, president obama may have some doneor trouble. he has a volunteer fundraiser in new york naggedked bacci funba she and her husband have given report reported $50,000 so far but spend pending off a civil suit in florida which says she stole $650,000 to build a multi-million dollar home. the suit says she participated in an e-mail scam and pretended to be a bank official in order to get that money. her husband is saying she is denying charges rather and

president obama's campaign has no comment. there is also some report she has left a trail of debt of unpaid rent. the get news, obama is up in 12 key swing states and that has a lot to do with women voters. tout in front of mitt romney in the latest gallup poll. the president is up 2 to 1 over mitt romney, especially with women under the age of 50. the g.o.p. war on access to contraception has a lot to do with why mitt romney has slid since mid february. romney has rallies today. santorum will go bowling for the 5th time and then rally again. ron paul still on the campaign trail but no events today. newt gingrich because of his limited travel budget is shay, i am sure, is staying holdme in maryland. maryland and dc have primaries tomorrow. join us in chat this morning. police current.com/billpress. we will see you there.

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>> anybody that has a wife and kids knows what i am talking about. he want those of you who don't probably think i am a jerk. >> this is very very exciting. we are having a heartyparty? hum? monday morning. we ended the last week with a party drinking our scotch. >> drinking our breakfast. >> in the balvenni. >> a good party? >> we are inviting everything. we are all invited to a virtual -- it's a book party but it's a virtual book party. i've never been to one before. this is exciting. so you don't have to show up. you don't have to get dressed. you don't have to bring a pres ent. you just go online and join the virtual book party and it's sort of like a contest for all of our listeners and viewers. it's all about my newest book, the obama hate machine, with the -- all about the koch brothers brothers, the lies, distortions and personal attacks on the president and who is behind them. you heard me talk about this.

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white house, he will join us. eric byrnes is the co-founder of full strategies and dave zyron who covers supports for "the nation" magazine will be along to talk about what we might expect tonight, kentucky and kansas. i have got kentucky. >> of course. >> this is the full court press. >> i notice all four of us showed up for work this morning which means none of us won the mega millions jackpot and none of thefree jack pontiac winners have come forward. three tickets match the winning numbers for the record $640 million jackpot. each winning ticket will get $213 million before taxes. americans as a whole spent nearly $15,000,000,000 trying to hit this jackpot. >> can you believe it? yeah no. i got -- first thing i did man when i got up sought morning was check those numbers. i was relieved because

otherwise, we would have spent the whole weekend trying to decide how to spend that money. >> that's a real burden. >> yeah. it would have been. google does an april fool's prank. >> i am glad i didn't win. spin. spin. spin. >> did you see if nobody would have won it would have gone up to 975 million. >> beyond that, i bet you. >> that's what it was, yeah. >> whoa >> google does an april's fool's day prank. yesterday was no exception. the company did several different pranks. this time around including gmail tap allowing the user to send morse code instead of having to use the entire keyboard and they said they werereleasing one with the anyonenin. is it endo katie couric some,

mistaken ease are on former news. they have brought in an sarah pal in. she will comment on the day's news throughout the first hour of the program and then actually host some segments in the second hour. palin has been a fox paid contributor since leaving. >> how can she do this when she has a contract with fox. >> the couple of sources did not confirm, but didn't get into the details about it. so there has got to be some -- >> she must have had permission from roger ales who saw this as a way to promote her on fox. but i mean i'm sorry. nbc. shame on you. that kind of a platform. what's she got to say? nothing. nothing. she is such an air head. but i just hope that katie cur curric and george stephanopolous

kill them on the ratings. we have been covering this, almost as you know, almost non-top stop here overheadevery day on full-court press that is the key. trayvon martin, we are still talking about for two reasons. number 1, because justice still has not been done in this case. george zimmerman is still a freeman, still out there drinking beer, going to the beach, you know, hanging out with his friends or whatever. and trayvon martin is dead and buried in the ground. when are the police going to act. this is one we are going to keep talking about. the other one is because more, more and more information comes out. there were two rallies held over the weekend. one in sanford, thatflorida, and one in miami. and saninsanford, florida, the reverend al sharpton pointed out we still have a long way to go in this case. >> american paradox we can put a black man in the white house but we can't walk a black child through a gated area in sanford

florida. >> para dodge indeed. at the florida recallally, the former football coach of trayvon martin's high school football coach talked about the kind of kid that was. >> trayvon was one of my best defensive players. i loved this kid. i watched him grow. i miss him. i talked to him. i talk to his father. i watched everything about the kid, i loved. >> and there, the reverend -- and at that miami rally, the reverend jesse jackson saying we have to -- getting the vowed involved as he often does. stop the violence. save the children. stop the violence. save the children. arrest zimmerman now. process him now. >> but yeah, so what's really important now i think in this case, this latest development and i love your comments at 866-55-press.

i know you have been concerned about it wherever you are in this country. you have got kids, you know you do or you don't. you are black or white liberal or conservative. you have to be concerned about this case because of the lack of justice in this case so far. what happened over the weekend -- did you hear that giant sucking sound? remember ross perot used to use that, jobs going to mexico. the giant sucking sound over the weekend was the whole attempt to rehabilitate storminggeorge zimmerman, the whole attempt to paint him as the victim in this case to paint him as this is this nice guy out there doing his job when he was attacked by this 17-year-old black kid. that whole effort totally fell apart. just fell to the ground after the information that came out. it started as we talk about last week with a videotape where zimmerman claims that trayvon martin, through friends, particularly this joe oliver guy whom i don't trust at all, claims through friends that

trayvon martin jumped him, tammy tacked him, threw him to the ground, beat his head against the ground, he was covered with blood, broken nose and then the videotape shows george zimmerman walking into the police station half an hour later no blood on his nose no broken knows, no nothing. he starts saying what about this guy? such a nice guy? well, it turns out we found out over the weekend that again further information came out, we heard rumors of this before. in the 2005, get this, george zimmerman was arrested for assaulting a police officer. uh-huh. yeah. nice guy. right? until in 2005, he was also served with a restraining order at the request of his girlfriend who claims on two different occasions that he beat her up and used violence against her. and then, also over the weekend, a friend comes down who used to work with zimmerman at a job where they were like bouncers at

a nightclub and zimmerman was fired because the friend described described him as doctor jeckyll and mr. hideyde that he would be like mellow and then suddenly he would crack fall apart go wild and he would attack some of the clients trying to get into the restaurant. one report i read ihe picked up a woman and threw her. he was fired for roughing up clients. this is the guy? supposedly this guy who would never, never attack anybody and, of course, we know he did get out of the car and he did confront and pursue trayvon martin when the police told him to. so you have got all of that record of violence and then comes the voice tapes where joe oliver, the voice crying for help, george zimmerman crying for help? it doesn't sound like an older guy crying for help. over the weekend, the orlando sentinel got two different voice experts to listen to the tape. they went over it. they we want over it. they we want over it. and they reported there is no

way, no way -- they had voice recordings of george zimmerman and they combedpared those to the 911 tapes and said there was no way that that is the voice of george zimmerman. thereby concluding that it must be the voice of trayvon martin. so again, i ask you: what more do we need to know? how much more evidence do the police need before they act? how much longer do we have to wait? before there is justice in this case. we have to keep the pressure on from all corners on the justice department, on the sanford police department, and on the florida state attorney. 866-55-press. your ticket to join the conversation here on morning bill, come people are calling it, the full court press, the real name of the show here on current tv. ♪ clear. >> heard around the conductuntry and seen on current tv this is the

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♪ >> this is the bill press show. >> 25 minutes after the hour. very excitinged to be joining governor jennifer granholm this evening on the war room. check it out your local listing. it's 9:00 p.m. eastern. so she is great. she is great. haven't been on that show since las vegas. i was on a couple of times when i was out there. right now talking about all of the latest information that came out about george zimmerman over

the weekend making it all the more likely that he willas the agressor in this case and trayvon martin was the victim. we have known that for a long time. i think this whole effort now to try to redeem zimmerman and to paint him as the victim in this case i think it's dead. it's done. fred calling from reno nevada. good morning. >> good morning, bill. >> what do you think? >> very good. this whole thing has had my blood bloloiling ever since you started reporting on it i think we are past the point of arresting zimmerman. i want to know about the police chief that temporarily stepped down, the da that shows up for a john doe case in the middle of the night. do they do this on a routine basis? trying tovillefy, you know trayvon. >> you raise an interesting question. it's been reported that the police officer who was in charge

of the case recommended that they hold martin and investigate him for man slaughter or perhaps homicide. right? >> zimmerman. >> zimmerman. i'm sorry. it's a police chief who said, oh no. no. we are not going to do that zimmerman's father was a magistrate in orange county. so like he was as buddy-buddy of the police chief. it looks like he everoverrode the recommendation of his department to let this go. >> isn't there a point where that becomes illegal? >> i would think so. >> i think he could be -- i don't know the criminal -- criminality of it but he certainly was not living up to his job. and the oath of office that he took. joey is in chicago. joey, what do you say? >> good morning, bill. how are you doing? i am going to make it easy for everybody.

his daddy was the judge. i am from the big city in chicago. this happens all the time. it ain't going to go no further. the police screwed this up so bad, they are not going to arrest zimmerman. i guarantee you that. the judge, that's weigh it works in america. daddy is the judge. >> his dad was a judge in orange county, florida. >> that's absolutely right and and obviously a buddy of the police chief. you can't tell me that didn't have a lot to do with the fact that the police chief decided to look the other way. so what? he culledkilled the kid. unarmed, doing nothing but walking home with a can of iced tea and a bag of skilthsz but, you know, i know his fatherttles but, you know, i know his father. yeah, so we are just going to let him go. oh, no you are not. we are going to get justice done in this case. >> this is the bill press show. ♪

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♪ >> listen and watch the bill press show on your favorite radio station, and now on current tv. this is the bill press show. >> welcome to the spin room. >> you have got us 33 minutes after the hour, happy monday, monday april 2nd here on full-court press. coming to you life coast to coast from our nation's capitol, washington def.c., the most powerful city on the plant. we will tall talkk sports in just a second with dave zyron. in witchsconsin,wisconsin, it's official now. it's official, official, official, there will be a recall

election. scott walker is up for raul. it will be june 5th. governor scott walker says no big deal. politically there has been a divide. this is not anything new in the last year or so. there has been an equal number of democrats and republicans in this state. the only difference is we have had passionate debates and moved on. >> that's the difference. the difference is people were always civil about their debates until scott walker took over as governor when he ran this anti-union, anti-public employee measures through the legislature and refused to have any discourse with the public employee unions, not even the police and the firemen in wisconsin. at the rammed this will through and this is what he gets for doing so. the people of wisconsin didn't like that style, that bullying, that kind of dictateor ship.

they are going to try to recall him and the chances of recall look pretty good in wisconsin. tonight, it is the big night. kentucky versus kansas. what to expect? here is dave zyron who covers sports, the sports edit orfor the nation magazine joining us. dave welcome back. >> hey, it's great to be here bill. >> good early morning to you, so first before we get into tonight's game what happens saturday night? i mean so here is kentucky scores a big win. they go into the finals. and then their fans show glee by all of this violence down there in in lexington? >> it's bizarre. it's become a right of departmentspackage in colleges around the current tree. if your team wins, it gets to the final 4, you light a mattress on fire tosses a car upside down and set it on fire.

>> yes. i will say given the fact that the preamble to this game between kentucky and louisville included stories about about people yelling at each other in the kentucky state legislature and even two people who are hooked up to dialysis millions getting in a fist fight. >> god. >> it says something that we probably should have expected, that the passes were pretty high going in, and given the fact that kentucky is one of the few states in this country that has no professional sports teams so it comes down to college but people live, breathe, eat, college basketball. >> it's really disturbing. it casts a shadow. >> certainly. >> the campus and everybody affiliated with it and the term. what idiots that would go out and do this. >> it reminds me when people in other countries look at the united states and say -- and i have had these discussions with people and they say wait a minute. your colleges and universities are the minor leagues for your

profession al basketball and football teams? >> very strange and i have to sort of say, well, wait a minute. and then i have to pause and say, yes, it is very strange. >> it is strange. so looking tonight, kentucky and kansas overlook the fact that i have kentucky in my bracket. what do you think? >>. >> well, i think people rooting for kentucky must have loved elon droggle in rocky ixv. i wouldn't be surprised if -- coached the coach says, i must break you: . before the game starts. kentucky has the edge in almost every conceivable position on the floor ebb september for one little thing and that's the kentucky's best players are all 18, 19 years old.

a lot of people are can looking at tonight as really a ref rend render on kentucky coach john calapare's style of coaching which is rooted in this idea that says, i will get the best high school players ever made that can come to my school for a year, will win a championship even though calafare has never do that and they will go straight to the nba. over the years, this hasn't worked because when the lights have been the brightest when it gets particularly tension, these 18, 19-year-old kids shrink under the pressure. a lot of supports writers are looking at this as almost like this moral morality taille. >> to see if they will choke? hum? >> exactly because frankly. >> when i was watching the starting line-up and it's ankle ordered by anthony davis, is there any doubt that he is going

to the nba? >> none. >> acyhe is a freshman. he is a monster. he is a monster. he is so good. but there is no chance he sticks around. >> he is so good, he is going to make the unibrow fashionable. i mean this is -- i mean i was thinking like this is the world's most famous unibrow since olda meier. i mean he has fans throughout the state of kentucky. and he is that good. he has nba scouts salivating. he is without question the number 1 draft pick coming out. and he is going to make all lot of money very soon before his 20th birthday. you know what? if history is any guide, what could possibly go wrong? >> yeah. >> look. if you gave me millions of dollars before i was 20, i probably would have taken every book i owned and had a bon fire in my college dorm room.

i mean we hope for the best for anthony davis, but we know that the system tends to be rickedgged in a way that veryonly exceptional people get to get out in one list. >> dave zirin is a sports editor ando join him on twitter@edgeof twitter@edgeofsports. baseball season underway believe it or not, dave. i want to ask you about are the dodge ers back on their feet now with new owner, magic johnson? >> it's going to take more than a change of ownership. you know this because you have your california roots. >> yeah. yeah, a big dodgers' fan when i was out there. right. >> for decades the dodgers haul the number 1 attendance in major league baseball. this last year, they had less than three million people come to the park for the first time until present plus years. it says something about the

degree to which the owner, the former owner now frank mccourt, and by the way, you have to feel awful for the late author of angela's ashes every time we talk about him i loved angela's ashes. yet the owner of the dodgers is known as frank mcbankrupt in his divorce. seriously, you said the divorce papers between him and jamie mccourt. it left such a sour taste. even though an ugly divorce from california, this isn't survival survivalbelt. >> people turned off by that whole ugly mess out in the papers every day. >> it's terrible. that made caligula look like thomas aqiuinas, using the team as his personal lifestyle so

lavish. this is california we are talking about it turned people's stomachs stomach in southern california how lavish he was choosing to live. what it did to the heart of that team and to the heart of that city, i mean given the history of the city, it's unbelievable. there was an impressive movement in los angeles to try to make the team owned by the green bay pack packers. >> when i was there, dodgers stadium was the place everybody went. every game you see, you see everybody from the mayor to all of the city council people and the stands were full and it was a great, great place to go. and this put a bad taste in everybody's minds. they can get something back. i have to ask you, too, there is a big story in "the new york times" over the weekend in the business section, i think it was yesterday, the dow, the market is back and tiger woods is back. so there you go. right? everything is good with america?

hum? >> everything. i am not a fan of rupert murdoch at all but probably one of the great classic posts, tiger finally, wins, watch out ladies. a little bit tacky but that's what you expect. psychologically, his own very ugly divorce but since he really took out his own knee to win the u.s. open. to have him come back and play at this level, it's good for golf because i have been arguing this for several years. without tiger woods, there is no such thing as a cas annual golf fan in the united states. so he has made so many people in that sport so very wealthy and has been so good for golf. >> we have that debate here all

the time on this show, whether it is a sport or not. >> it's a simple argument to me. it's like anything you can gain weight or smoke cigarettes while doing is not a sport. so as far as -- >> so bass fishing is not a sport? >> i have to say, it's not. no. it's a hell of a skill. >> sorry south carolina. >> if i was alone in the woods, i would much rather want to know how to get a bass rather than a free throw. it's respectable but i can't call it a sport. a divideing line like softball, of course, is a sport but beer league softball where you have a keg on every base, that's not a the sport. >> that's not a sport. i am glad we straightened that out this morning anyhow dave zirin, good to talk to you and have you on the show. we will be watching tonight. sports editor for "the nation" magazine" magazine."" full-court press, monday,

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at home incomeathome. the trayvon martin martin case the latest geoff is calling from jamesville north carolina. what do you say, geoff? good morning. >> good morning, bill. >> yes, sir. >> first of all, i wantlet me say something about the final 4, the championship game. >> yes, sir. yeah. >> remember the sender allya was 1984, was 26 and 10 at the time. 26 and 11. going back to the zimmerman think. >> anything can happen is what you are saying? >> anything can hamppen. >> keep hope alive, geoff, on the zimmerman. >> on the zimmerman situation, i hope as this thing comes to try there is no mistrial because of the inflated -- the public arena. i am glad it's been brought to life light that something went wrong

there that the police department screwed up but i am afraid this could notos coverage which seems to have been a gift to talk radio and television as well is going to wind up screwing up and fouling up any chance of getting a fire trial. >> you know, geoff, i don't think you have to worry about it. look at the latest case of michael jackson's doctor all of the attention that they got and yet they had a trial, they were able to get 12 jurors and they nailed this guy. so i mean there is a lot of -- often a lot of attention to a case like this pre-trial but that's what -- that's the job that the lawyers and the judge have to do is to find a good jury that will just listen to the evidence. once that trial starts it doesn't matter anything that's said on talk radio. once that trial starts, it is the evidence that's presented and the prosecutor makes its case or it doesn't. i hear your concern. i encourage you to relax about

that on the political front, mitt romney picking up another big endorsement. this is actually good for democrats. he got the endorsement of paul ryan. >> my humble personal opinion, a guy from janeville, what we need is mitt romney to be the next president of the united states of america. the last thing that romney needs is somebody who wants to -- who is on record now two years in a row, putting forth a budget to end medicare as we know it. mitt romney has embraced that. paul ryan has embraced him. great, great, great news for democrats. rick santorum, by the way, who says, come on. let's not apoint in mitt romney too soon. this thing ain't even half over. >> we aren't even at ha, folks, not even very longhalf the delegates have been selected in this case. anybody want to call the kansas coach and say, you know what? for the betterment of the ncaa, give up.

>> that's because kansas was behind the ohio state and in that game saturday night. they came back and won it. there is a sport reference there but rick santorum driver's license over the weekend, that once mitt romney if and when mitt romney gets to 11-44, the magic number to need the nomination, he will drop out and not before. he made a big prediction about pennsylvania yesterday morning. >> they havewe have to win pennsylvania arrested and we are going to win. no doubt about that. >> all i have to say is it's really risky to get out there and say -- predict confidently, i am going to win pennsylvania. yeah, the last time he won statewide in pennsylvania, remember, running for re-election, he lost by 18 points. little ricky not going to make it this time either. >> heard around the country, and seen on current tv this is the

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♪ hey good morning. happy monday, monday april 2nd. this is the full court press, your new morning show on current tv. good to see you today. thank you for joining us. i am bill press. liberal and proud of it. and we are glad to have you with us as we tackle the latest stories here from our nation's capitol, around the globe, and insanford, florida, two big rallies in support of trayvon martin and the trayvon martin family demanding justice in this case. two big rallies over the weekend. but the gigbig news is that the orlando sentinel asked two voice experts to listen to the 911 tape. they did so and they have

concluded that voice calling for help on the 911 tape could no way be george zimmerman. it must be trayvon martin's. the so why has it taken the police so long to take action in this case? just one of the stories we will be tackling with you this morning. but first, let's get the latest here with today's current tv news update out in los angeles, jacki schechner. >> good morning, bi. here is what we have that's current for you this morning. the president hosting canadian steven harper and caldarone for the north american leader's submit talking about security climate change energy and they are then they are going to have lunch. after lunch, they will have a press conference in the rose garden and then after that, the president will continue his day with closed-door meetings with secretary of state clinton and senior advisors. mitt romney mitrick santorum are campaigning in wisconsin in anticipation of tomorrow's primary.

there are 42 delegates. it's a big one. romney is in front of santorum in all of the poems, about 5 to 10 points depending upon which one you read. santorum says he was going to stay in the race at least until the end of the month. april 24th is the pennsylvania primary. that is his home state. you have heard bill talking all morning about the trayvon martin case and the latest developments. cnn reporting theat trayvon martin's parents are asking the u.s. justice department to review the behavior the night of the shooting. they want to foe if if the investigateor wanted charges. this this. they want to know if the state attorney stepped in. he has stepped aside on the cases. talking about this and much more. join us in chat online very easy to do so, current.com/billpress. up next, van jones of rebuild the dream and later he will talk to coral davenport of national journal

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very early east coast time. i have a feeling she would be used to that. >> wouldn't be new to here? >> you know. >> as an april fool's yesterday and mitt romney mitt romney is the one who fell for it. his staff set up, i thought a great deal. they set up a big rally and mit is excited and he and ann romney, they walk into this haul and as he explains there was nobody there. >> so the two of us go out there and it's completely empty. there is nobody there. oh, boy, this is going to look really bad on the evening news. >> indeed. >> a fake event for them? >> they did. set up a whole fake event. >> that was well done. >> tough to do but they pulled it off. we got lotsa lot to talk about and good guests to join us van jones, you know, was in the obama white house. now he is with the senatecentre for american progress, a new book out. he will join us at the top of the hour, next hour eric byrnes who is the president co-founder

of bull fight strategies will be along as well as katie paris, the vice president of media matters for america. first, this is the full court press. >> check okay some other news on this monday lin sansanity is likely done for this season. jeremiah lin has to have knee surgery surgery. he will be out six weeks missing the regular season. if the knicks make a run, there is a slight chasence he could play before the year is underp. he has been averaging 14.1 points a game and six assists per game february 4th is that day where he grabbed the national spotlight and scored 25 points. that would make the knicks contenders again this season. >> out. he is out. >> lin-surgery. >> wow. >> octamom -- >> that was. >> octamom is now on welfare. the mother of 14 is getting two

granted a month for food from the state of california for her kids. two years ago, a year after giving birth, she vowed to never go on welfare saying she refused to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by accepting government assistance. >> now, she needs it. so she is taking it. >> poor kids. >> taylor swift was winner of the academy of country music awards, the 22-year-old received the entertainer of the year award for the second year in a row, one highlight of the night, a pair of country music fans got married live on stage during the show while march tinetina mcbride sang a duet of "marry me"." jason al beene and kelly clarkson were winners as well. >> getting married on stage at a country western -- >> during the award show. >> here is an idea. why don't we get married on the stage while they sing a song called "march road crew me.

i like it. i like it. let's run with thisat. >> 12 minutes after the hour thank you, dan. we remember him as a community activist from oakland, california. we were him as a special advisorsadvisor for president obama on green jobs in the white house. we remember the vicious attacks launched against him by particularly glenn beck and sean hannity on fox news but he has not given up. he is out stronger as a -- has a voice stronger than ever senior fellow at the scepter for american progress and has a book called rebuild the dream. van jones joining us this morning. hi, van. >> good to hear your voice, and it's good to have a new book out. and ialso working with a new organization, also called real build rebuild the dream. >> rebuild the dream. we will have you tell us all about it. we have been talking a lot, van, and you talked yesterday on "meet the pre "meet the press" about the trayvon martin case. >> sure. >> with all of the new

information coming out the latest that the experts have listened to the 9-1-1 tapes say there no, sir way that voice crying for help is george zimmerman, it clearly is trayvon martin, why are the police dragging their heels in this case? >> it's a mystery to everybody. i think that, you know, for myself as an african-american, it hits close to home. i feel like i am going to have to go broke crytrying to keep my two kids in tuxedos so they can go down the street to buy a candy bar. it's the craze iest thing in the world. the only thing you generally have going for you if your child is murdered is that the police are on your side and not on the killer's side. and the idea here i am dad, two black boys, both african-american, you know i have to dress them in a cummerbund so they don't get killed and the police are going to be on the other side of it. i think it's outraged the country, shocked the country. it feels like the old racial violation we used to fight against in the police department is now getting privatized and i don't know what we do about

that. >> you knoweah, we thought those days not that there are not sting some language ring racial problems necessaryin this country? but we thought those days where you could particularly the police police would look the other way, right, when an outright murder of an innocent unarmed child, svelte 17-year-old child, right, you can you know, that those days were long gone. here we are. >> here we are. i do think that it is a big wake-up call. even if you give zimmerman the benefit of the doubt he was out there trying to do good things and it may be not just some flameing racist but try to be his brother's keeper, well, you know, when you saw his brother sometimes heow /* somehow he saw the other and thought he could disobey the police and go and do this. you know, part of the thing i think your listeners should be aware of and i want to talk about in my book and usethe reason i wrote this book that i think that, you know, the majority of us who are progressive, independent democrats, we are

kind of post-hope at this stage. we understand we are up against much, much more than we thought to try to get the changes that we want. for instance, that whole -- all of that kind of kill-at-will law, they call it, stand your ground. i call it kill-at heil-will. those laws didn't come out of nowhere. >> that's a corporate funded nra funded campaign a group called alec, a-l hoochlt-e-c has written become guns and funded by wal-mart. >> and i might add, the koch brothers. >> of course. and the koch brothers, of course. so it just turns out that in the 2008, we over estimated -- underestimated our opponents. so i decided today write this book. as you know, i spent six months in the white house, best six months of my life followed by the worst two weekends going up against these guys and, you know, i took the time off.

i taught at princeton last year really reflected and i said, i am one of the few people, probably the only person in american life right now who was both a grassroots outsider then a white house insider and then a grassroots outsider again. so i have a 360 degree view of kind of what is going wrong, how we keep mal functioning. and i said, i have a responsibility to try to put this on paper, take no prison prisoners. from the left, the right occupy wall street, the whitehouse progressives, myself, put it on paper and get the it out there. sot book is called "rebuild the dream." i go through the seven big mistakes i feel like the white house made and the progressive movement made look at the tea party, what they are doing right and wrong. what the potential is for the 99% movement. it has to make big changes and i put it out there. and, you know, a lot of people in dc are not happy about it. but i have got to tell you it's a lot more important to me that we not om cial reelect the president. we have got to do that but we

have got to reenergize this movement like whenin the president we saw in 2008 is not enough. >> well, do you think that the -- you are absolutely right off. i believe with your message. do you think these -- the progressives are ready for that? you know, when i hear -- what i hear too often from progressives is, we elected obama. we were full of hope, you know. and then he's ledt us down in so many ways and we just don't have the energy in 2012 that we had in 2008. >> well, you know, i just -- i tell you what, you know you mentioned trayvon and this kind of thing. i think about, you know, my parents, your parents, our grandparents, the ones who haved to go on strike and sometimes be killed on the picture line to get rights for us, the civil rights martyrs, the women who marched to get rights for us in order for us to have our rights. and if they he were to say i voted once. now,ism i am defeated. i quit. they would be appalled. we have to -- we have a

responsibility to our kids a responsibility to the planet a responsibility to future general raz rations to fight like hell not to lose our democracy. see, the tea party has convinced a whole bunch of people that, you know, the government is trying to take over the economy. it's absolutely the reverse. the corporations are taking over our government. and once you have, you know the citizens united and that stuff, the only thing that can check that is the power of organized people. it has been through 100 years that can check the power of organized money is the power of organized people. our ancestors faced the same fight with worse odds and no internet and they won the new deal. they won the great society. they won civil rights. they won all of these fights. we have no excuse for saying we voted one time and now we are going to go from hoping to hope hoping and -- moping and lead the country to the dream killers. >> when the tea party came line and they are blaming government

the one piece of legislation that gets their ire is the health care legislation now all the way to the supreme court where for the first time maybe not the perfect bill but wol extend -- would extend health care to 32 million americans and they want to throw it out. >> if they wanted to throw it out on some principled grounds, i could at least respect it. this is beyond contemptible. let me tell you why. you know, if you are a progressive like me, you say i want sing-payer. i want to expand medicare and put these private insurance companies out of business. insurance for something thato happen that you don't know. i am going to get flood insurance. maybe it will flood. maybe it won't. >> that's why i need insurance. everybody needs health care. you don't need insurance. you need a government program to get that to people and get the profitier did out of it t they don't want that. we will go with the public option. keep keep the private insurance companies but you don't want that, to compromise with you, we are going to say, we are going to keep the private system that

we have got but everybody has to play, no moochers, free loaders, you can't dive waybomb your way in to the emergency room. that was their idea, a conservative idea, the individual responsibility idea until obama and progressives adopted it. now that is socialism too. we have got to be able to fight people like that toe-to-toe. the book, "rebuild the dream" is literally a game plan for how it is that we take on this kind of cheap patriotism where they grab one little american value they like, so-called liberty and abuse it to imperial our liabilityies and -- imperril our label lib we can tietze follow van jones at rebuildthedream.com follow him at twitter @rebuild dream. van, great that you are still out there fighting a good fight. i am telling you. i am proud of you. don't give up. i know you won't. >> thank you. >> come back and see us real

soon. okay? ? >> after what i went through, if i didn't quit, nobody else can quit. >> thank you, van jones, "rebuild the dream" is the name of the book. did a great job. this is asremember glenn beck and sean hannity attacked him as an agitator. ists sorry to see him quit under prec pressure that time but he hasn't quit writing for the right things. he just thought it was the best for president obama if he just got out of the white house and stopped, you know, being a center of so much attention. but he is still at it with a new organization and a new book and a great voice that we need out there. >> this is the full court press. the bill press show live on your radio and on current tv. ♪ emmy winning insider. >>i know this stuff and i love it and i try to bring that to the show. >>and humor and politics with a west coast edge.

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for hard working taxpayers and deserves the same urgency from leaders here in washington. i don't think he is doing his part. we can do more if president obama steps up and heeds the will of the american people. >> if only the president would act, he could drive gas prices down. right? >> well, you know john boehner knows that's not true. the price of gasoline is out of the control of anything that the president can do, anything that congress can do. but everyone involved in this game knows that historically, the president's approval rating is very closely tied, inversely tied to the price of gasoline. the higher gas friesprices go, the lower the president'spproval rating goes. the president is in full crisis control mode trying to deal with this. on the other side, republicans are trying to harness this, trying to, you know, help him use that to their ad vapidityvantage to keep control usof the house, hopefully gain control of the

white house. we are going to see this. we are going to see this rhetoric continuing but boehner nodes there is nothing either side can really do. >> well, to me, it's like losing the football. every spring gas prices go up. every spring, whoever is in the white house get blamed for it. aver and every spring, there is pressure to do the same ol' things like release oil from the reserves. and then gas prices go down and everybody for guessed about it until the next spring. then the same ol' nonsense. why do we keep falling for this. >> one reason as you said -- typically -- >> first it hurts people at the pump? >> it hurts people. it hurts the economy. it hurts households. gas prices taking a bigger bite out of the american household budget than they ever have but in terms of how this plays in politically, you are absolutely right. it's sort of sad, you know, the prices go up every spring and usually they tend to go down by

fall. so by the time voters go to the polls in november, this is nothas not been an issue right in front of them for at least a few months. you know, in the coming years, we are going to see this getting worse and worste. the projections are that the volatility of oil prices and of gas prices is going to keep getting worse in the coming years. but part of the problem is, the energy policy solutions for this are so long-term. you know, they are not something that you -- you can't pass a bill and make prices go down. so they are good for political sound besidesytes but the real hard work isof energy policy is on a time frame far beyond the political campaign season. >> which is an argument that president obama tries to make and has made on several occasions, is also a tough sell. so one of the things the president haspropose last week opposed it for some time came to a vote last week is okay one thing we can do in terms of long-term energy policy is to

get the money to make those investments. let's take away the subsidyies that the big oil companies have been enjoying for almost 100 years. and the republicans, to be fair some democrats from oil producing states mary landrieu, voted against it because if we takes away these sud subsid subsid-edes, they will raise gas prices. so they use gas prices for an excuse for continuing these sub did sid employees. why do they make sense today or do they? >> to be clear on one front, bill, thewhen the president proposed that and when senate democrats proposed that, that rolling back of the oil subsidies, everyone involved in that game knew that that vote was not going to pass. that was a straight-up, political kabuki. >> why shouldn't it pass? why should we could not welfare for exxon?

>> at stake here is the oil/gas industry enjoys about $4,000,000,000 a year in tax brakes. >> yeah. ? >> some of those tax breaks have been in place nearly 100 years. >> right. >> they were put in place when the oil industry was very new and they were put in place to give this new -- the government kind of wanted to help out this new industry go forth. >> right. >> get some tax breaks in order to make these risky investments. it's not really a risky investment to go out and explore for oil any more. the prices are high. the profit did are clear. on the other hand, some of those tax breaks are tax breaks enjoyed across industry so the oil industry says, well, it's not fair for the government to take away some of those tax breaks just from the oil industry when manufacturing and other industries get them as well. so it's definitely a complicated issue. >> i don't think it's complicated at all. no. i mean you can focus on just the oil companies because they are pageing the biggest profits they

have ever made $137,000,000,000, the big 5 last year. and most of that, they say they need this money to do development and exploration. i am not telling you anything you don't know. very little of that money -- first most of the exploration is not being done by the big 5. they are being done by these independent wildcaters out there. very little -- they spend more money lobbying in washington d.c. than drilling forg new sites or exploring new sites. >> the oil industry spends a prodigious amount of money lobby lobbying. and one of the bingg things they lobby for is to keep the tax breaks in place. >> exactly. right. >> although i wouldill say right now, the political environment for doing anything broadly on energy is bleak. you know, i think we are going to see a lot of posturing between now and november on energy. probably nothing consequential will happen. the thing to look for on these oil tax breaks is next year

2013, when congress talks about tax reform and we will see a look at putting all kinds of tax loop holes and tax breaks on thetable table. some of the oil companies, shell is one of them, have said, okay, we are willing to play on this if all of these other corporations are willing to put some of their tax breaks on the table, we might be able to negotiate on this. >> that's the time when we will actually see something happen, i think, toepotentially in tax breaks. between now and november, we will hear about it a lot in campaigns. i don't think we will see anything happen. >> isn't the bottom line simply that big oil owns the congress and they always have? >> the amount of money that the oil industry gives to youelected officials and spends on lobbying and now on super p.a.c. funding is, again, is prodigous. i should say it goes mostly to

republicans but the amount that they give to democrats actually i looked this up big oil hedges its bet so they give more money to democrats than environmental groups do. >> unfortunately, some are for rent for sale the same as most republicans are. the number i saw last week for every $1 that the oil company spends on lobbying in washington, they get $5 in subsidyies from us. us. us taxpayers. so the president is meeting with coral davenport is our guest in studio. she is energy and environ mayment correspondent for "the national journal." you can follow her @national her @nationaljournal.com. so the president today, with the president of mexico and the prime minister of canada. now, you know energy stuff is going to be on the agenda. i want to ask you what the president might be telling the prime minister of canada today

about the keystone pipeline. just when we come back. okay? hold that answer. and, also, if you want to join the conversation here, about guessgas prices, about keystone pipeline about the oil subsidies you have an expert in studio here, carol davenport. you know the number 866-55-press. full-court press, monday, april 2nd. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ just refreshing to hear. no other television show does that. we're keeping it real.

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>> things that matter the full court press talking about corewith coral davenport, correspondent for the "national journal." so you know that the prime minister is going to ask the president about the keystone pipeline and the president last week, in floridaoklahoma sort of put a rush on the the first leg of the pipeline from oklahoma. when he talks to the prime minister about the origin are we going to get the pipeline? >> if i had to bet i would say that we would be likely to see the pipeline in a second term. because president obama has not shut the door or rejected the pipeline. what he has done is essentially put it off, put off making the final decision until after the election. and when he spoke in oklahoma

he essentially said, we are open, you know, to going through all of the repermitting process, looking at all of the re environmental reviews for a new route for the northern section of the pipeline. a lot of environmentalismts unhappyly read that as a nod that probably, when he is not under as much political pressure, he will probably go ahead and approve it. if i were the president, i would be careful about getting a definite yes to the canadian prime minister. it may be one of those off-mic moments. he might indicate he would have more flexibility after his election, i would guess. >> so isn't the president trying to have it both ways? he does say on energy -- maybe on other stuff but on emergency, we have to get away from fossil fuel fuels, but on the other hand, we are going to have this pipeline. we have got to go into wind and solar, on the other hand we have to have nuclear power plants. he calls it the all-of-the above

strategy. >> a name he toonk from house republicans. they have been using that tag line for years, "all of the above". >> >>. >> can you get into the age of renewal renewable energy and divorce ourselves from fossil fuels if you continue to build new fossil fuel plants and pipelines? don't at some point you have to make a decision and say we are going in this direction, not that direction? >> i think that the -- if you talk to energy policy experts, they will say, it's going to be a long -- you know, if you want to make that real transition to renewable energy, right now, the united states gets less than 5% of its electricity from renewable sources such as wind and sol orar so it will probably be, even if you were to begin and be very, very aggressive renewable climate change clean energy policies, it would be decades before that could significantly replace 20, 30, 40% of the fossil fuels that we

consume. so it's a very, very long-term process. >> not to beat a detad horse. those subsidies, he took it from here and invested it and winin wind and solar w we will get thru sooner. let's say hello to frances calling from fredericksburg virginia. >> good morning. >> how are you? what's your point. >> when president obama came into ifoffice in this first term, that was up to $140 a barrel, and oil spiked to $4 a gallon here in the united states. now, it's at oil is at 102 a barrel? >> right. >> now, we are at $4 a barrel. what is the equation between that and the oil companies and the speculators you have the prices, you know. >> you know, francis, i will take your answer on the air. >> that's a good question.

there are so many factors? right? >> spenced mentioned the speculators. >> the speculators, the price of gasoline is determined by the price of oil, set on the global market. it's a fungible market, a giant market. so the biggest thing that determines price of oil is basic supply and demand. how much oil is out there? and how much consumers are using, so that we have had a big increase in demand over the past few years, mostly from new developmenting developing economies in asia, indian india, china. the more demand is out there, that contributes to arise. political unrest in the middle east, obviously the metaliddle east is a major source of oil supply. any time there is unrest there, certainly in iran, it's going to continue to driving up prices and speculation plays a roll as well, financial speculation. their there are financial markets in london, asia, europe and on wall street. so some financial speculation,

trading in commodity futures contributes, also, to the driving up of prices. >> driving it up, sure. >> so these are, you know, a whole range of factors. fundamentally, it's supply and demand. all of these pieces contribute. so, you know, right now, i think the public's biggest driver is, you know increased demand and unrest in the middle east. >> leandra calling from london londonburg? >> lunonberg. >> i'm sorry. good morning. >> good morning. i have a question i don't even know if it has an answer. in i am one of those evil un-american people who live on entitlements because i am a disabled widow. and i just would like to know your thoughts, why that makes me evil but the oil companies get the same entitlements and more and it doesn't seem to matter. >> well, my answer is, cynical

answer would be, because they have an army of lobbyists in washington leandra. you know you don't have lobbyists to speak up for people who don't have a voice in washington. >> i am going to weigh in on the moral -- on the moral cup culpabilities of the oil company. i recently reported that the oil industry has over 700 lobbyists in washington. >> what? >> yes. so they have -- >> good lord. >> so, you know, they have almost two lobbyists per member of congress. >> right. >> which, you know, gives you a lot of -- a lot of politic strength to get what you want done and the message is so clear from the oil industry that, you know, protect tax breaks. >> there you go, enough lobbyists one can take you out to lunch and one out to dinner and you are fully fed and paid

for by big oil. coral davenport, we have barely scratched the surface. out of time. thank you for coming in and weighing in on these important issues. continue good work at "the national journal." we will talk to you soon. >> great. thanks so a muchmuch much. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ and get their new claim satisfaction guarantee. hey, he's right man. [ dennis ] only allstate puts their money where their mouth is. yup. [ dennis ] claim service so good, it's guaranteed. [ foreman ] so i can always count on them. unlike randy over there. that's one dumb dude. ♪ ♪ the new claim satisfaction guarantee. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate.

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canada, stephen harper. and with president philippe calderon with mexico. north american leader summit. then they have a working lunch at the white house followed at 1:15 by a joint press conference with three of them, three leaders in the rose garden. as a member of the white house press corps, i will be there. i will tell you all about it tomorrow. late this afternoon, 3:00, the president and vice president meet with secretary of state hillary clinton and then late this afternoon he will be meeting with his senior advisors. don't have any word yet on what time the briefing with press secretary jay carney is today but that will be announced a little bit later. i will be there for that as well. the next hour, katie paris from media matters and eric burns from bullfight strategies. >> announcer: this is the bill press show.

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♪ >> bill: good morning. it is monday april 2nd. good to see you today. welcome to the full-court press your new morning show on current tv. i'm bill press liberal and proud of it. good to have you with us today as we take a look at the big stories of the day here from our nation's capitol around the globe and in sanford florida where two big rallies over the weekend in support of trayvon martin and his family demanding justice be done in that case and the big development is the % "orlando sentinel" asked two voice experts to listen to the 911 tape. there certainly is a voice crying for help on the tape but the experts concluded that voice is no way the voice of george

zimmerman. it must be the voice of 17-year-old trayvon martin. so, once again why is it taking the police so long to act in this case with that kind of evidence? just one of the issues we'll be talking about in this next hour. first, let's get the latest and today's current tv news update out in los angeles from jackie schechner. good morning jackie. >> reporter: good morning, bill. the new "usa today" gallup poll has president obama up 49% to 45%. this is still within the margin of error but it is the largest lead that president obama has had in a gallup poll thus far. it is interesting to note that obama is up eight points among independents. as you've been listening, bill and coral been have been talking about the oil industry. a new advertisement out this morning by a pro-obama group called priorities u.s.a. action is hitting the presumptive republican nominee mitt romney

on big oil as well. >> who's behind the ads smearing president obama? big oil that's who. the money they make from high gas prices is going right into mitt romney's campaign. >> reporter: the ad is running on television and online in seven key swing states. in other news, you remember when arianna huffington sold "the huffington post" to aol for $315 million? well, some of the people who blogged for free for that site thought that they were deserving of at least a third of the money and they brought a lawsuit. jonathan and about 9,000 other bloggers wanted about a third of that sum. they said much of "the huffington post" value came from its unpaid contributors. now a u.s. judge has dismissed the case saying nobody forced the bloggers to write for free and they knew what they were getting into. coming up on bill press bill bullfight strategies eric burns and katie from media matters. stay with us.

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"the today show" has brought in sarah palin to cohost that program tomorrow morning. "the huffington post" reports she'll comment on the days' news through the first hour as a sidekick and host some segments in the second hour of the broadcast. palin has been of course a fox-paid contributor since leaving the 2008 presidential campaign. >> bill: now, the really fun pairing would have been to put katie couric and sarah palin on together. so katie could say now what are you reading these days? >> what country are we? >> i don't know, katie. >> yeah. go ahead. >> kim kardashian is the most overexposed celebrity according to a new poll by forbes magazine. 65% of respondents selected the reality star as being overexposed. following her, lipped slay lohan -- lindsay lohan snooki and kourtney and khloe are in

the top list. paris hilton. >> why is kim kardashian famous to begin with. >> she's famous for being famous. >> she had like rice thrown on her. >> flour. >> last week. yep. >> totally spontaneous i'm sure. >> i don't get it either. gnaw sports, march madness comes to a close on the men's side tonight. the ncaa final between kentucky and kansas tips off at 9:00 eastern. the final four match-ups were not without controversy. riots broke out after kentucky beat state rival louisville. and kansas topped ohio state in a nail-biter 64-62. >> bill: i picked kansas to win. if they do, i'll go out and burn a car or two. set it on fire. what idiots the students are down there. >> it is basketball. >> bill: kentucky has won five or seven national titles in basketball.

act like you've won it before. don't start burning stuff. >> that's how we roll. >> bill: be proud of your team, burn a car. thank you. so, i wanted to talk -- eric, i wanted to start out talking a little bit about -- it is great that that congress is out of town because we can breathe easier for two weeks but the supreme court is still here. the supreme court is up to -- trying to deal with this healthcare thing. a couple of points, i would love to get your comments on them. number one the main issue in front of this court should be the constitution -- should be the constitutionality of this law passed by the congress. and i think just on that basis it's a slam dunk. i mean, healthcare is so important to everybody. everybody -- at some point in their life everybody is going to need healthcare. it is not like flood insurance. maybe you have a flood, maybe you won't. healthcare everybody will need it. no doubt about it. the state can say if you drive in this state, you have to have car insurance, all the more

reason, i believe, the federal government can say if you're part of this pool and we're going to pay for your healthcare you gotta get healthcare. otherwise, you know, you're a freeloader. you can go to the emergency room and we're going to have to pay for it. i think on the constitutionality, there is no issue. here's what gets me. this court is acting again, this is the most activist supreme court that we have ever seen in our history. this is a court that decided who was going to be the next president of the united states. and took that issue in 2000 away from the american people, away from the people of florida and said no, five of us are going to decide george bush is the president. then you had citizens united where, once again, they said no we don't care if congress says and has said forever and many states most states, corporations can't be owning politicians and can't be pumping so much money into political

campaigns. this supreme court said corporations are people. anything goes. they can pump in all of the money they want. so, now on top of those two they're really trying to rewrite this health bill. i think this court has gone way way beyond its means. in the arguments last week, two things. justice scalia at one point said you know, we could change this or we could change that or we could tinker with this but if we did that, they might have a hard time getting 60 votes for that. that's not his job. >> no, it is not. >> bill: he's not a legislative director. anthony kennedy at one point said basically i'm paraphrasing, but maybe we would have been better off having single payer in the first place. [ laughter ] >> bill: i agree with that but that's not his job. his job is to look at the bill passed by congress and say -- >> constitutional? >> bill: i think there is a lot at play on here. and if they go against this healthcare law then i think we can see that this court will be

known forever as a rubber stamp republican roberts court. >> i think they already are that. i wouldn't even wait for them to make a determination on this bill. i think citizens united really in and of itself, it has turned, as we know here in washington it has turned the entire way that we do business and that folks in politics do business on its head. >> bill: totally. >> not in a good way. now we give corporations so much power, so much influence. >> bill: even republicans some are complaining about the super pacs on all of the influence they asked for. >> this is what they asked for. as mitt romney says, corporations are people my friend. it is funny because this is what conservatives have railed against verbally for 20 years or so. we don't want to act as judges. they blame that squaring on democrats but the reality is that's gone full court the other

direction. it has been for quite awhile. really, so many of the supreme court -- so many of the issues we see today are ultimately decided by the supreme court. and the fact that the arguments i was hearing coming out of the supreme court justices were like well, if we can force you to -- if we uphold the individual mandates and force everyone to get health insurance what's to stop us from forcing you to buy a cell phone. come on. does anybody buy that as a legitimate slippery slope argument? >> bill: by the way, that came from the chief justice. >> the chief justice himself. the constitutional orders i've talked to and i've talked to a couple of them, i was asking, i'm not a constitutional lawyer saying is there legitimacy to these arguments? no, not really. >> bill: it is the court trying to -- >> legislate. >> bill: exactly. and again -- it is wrong. as long as i can remember, that's what conservatives have always said were wrong with judges, right?

well now we've got the most activist court we've ever seen and they think it is great. because they're making decisions that they approve of, right? there's nothing more activist than deciding who's the president of the united states. >> that's about as activist as you get. can i tell you, i think the democrats have a responsibility here into why this has happened. that's because we've had -- for so many years, republicans and conservatives have owned the dialect of constitutionality they had a year -- during a year-long debate over healthcare and whether or not to pass this bill, they had plenty of time to convince americans that the individual mandate was somehow unconstitutional. 80 some percent of americans think it is unconstitutional even though they don't know why. that i think does sway the court. until progressives and democrats learn how to say hey we're progressives and the constitution is a progressive document and calls for progressive policy solutions i

think those sorts of things do sway the court. >> bill: the other thing people -- we progressives have to keep reminding people is here's how we got here. democrats, liberals, progressives, wanted single payer. the conservatives said no, no, you can't have single payer. but we have to help the insurance companies. they can't be expected to cover everybody unless everybody is in. this is a conservative idea. you have to have personal responsibilities so the heritage foundation says here's the answer. we'll have an individual mandate. they put it out there. newt gingrich supports it. mitt romney supports it. all of the conservatives support it until president obama says okay -- if that's what you want, i'll put it in the bill. then once he puts it in the bill, they scream communism fascism. here we are. >> it is incredible to see the court consider going along with

that. >> bill: it is outrageous. you can join the conversation. eric, i want to take a break. we'll come back. i'm not going to let -- we have a vast new audience now. >> absolutely. >> bill: now, we have this vast current tv audience. >> it is exciting. >> bill: i want everyone to know you once worked for rick perry. >> thank you bill. i appreciate it. >> bill: i want to embarrass you. then when i come back, i'll ask you what do you think is going to happen in this republican primary. we'll take your calls on healthcare or whatever the hell else you want to talk about. it is the full-court press. bill press and eric burns. >> announcer: this is the full-court press. the bill press show live on your radio and on current tv. [[vo]]cenk uygur calls out the mainstream media. >>the rest of the media seems like, "ho-hum, no big deal."

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>> announcer: on your radio on tv. the "bill press show," new on current tv. >> bill: talking about current tv, i'm going to be with jennifer granholm tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on "the war room." i'm very excited to join the good governor talking politics this evening. right now, we're talking politics, about to in studio with eric burns from bullfight strategies. eric, we forgive you that you once worked for -- you lived in texas. you needed a job right? >> you have only forgiven me like 15 times thus far. >> bill: 15 more to go. it is important -- >> i was a young pup.

>> bill: it is important the governor get his car washed regularly. it was nice you did it for him. >> pretty much what i did. >> bill: i think -- it looks like this republican primary is, you know,s kind of winding down. so, more and more republicans say oh now, mitt romney looks like will be our nominee. they're rushing to climb on board. so, here's the latest on friday. it is out in wisconsin. paul ryan, if we -- >> my humble, personal opinion as a guy from jamesville, what we need is mitt romney to be the next president of the united states of america. [ applause ] >> bill: my question to you is this what mitt romney needs to be identified with a guy who wants to destroy medicare? >> certainly not because if he has any hope of winning the general election but he's kind of in this box where he's got this -- you know, rick santorum, newt gingrich, you know, i don't

want to say insane but these extreme, extreme right-wingers that are really preventing him from getting across the finish line and have been dogging him left and right at every turn. and so, you know, this has been the mitt romney we've seen. he's got to kind of make a deal with the devil. you know the euphemism. he's gotta make a deal with the folks he doesn't believe in which is his ultimate problem as a candidate. it is a who is mitt romney. are you going to take an endorsement from a guy like paul ryan who is not who romney is and pivot off that in the general election which we can only assume he will. but you know he needs to do something because you know, he hasn't been able to close a deal so far. >> bill: no. and he has staked his entire campaign on the economy is a disaster. everything is going down. well, now everything is coming up. >> yep. >> bill: all he can say is well, it didn't come up fast

enough. >> which is shocking when you consider how serious the collapse was. it has come up incredibly fast. when you look at say post great depression when it took us 14 years to come out of that. this has been a remarkably fast recovery despite conventional wisdom, despite what we hear in the news. >> bill: it might have come up faster if the president had a little cooperation from the republicans in congress. >> if they weren't trying to blow up the budget. >> bill: if they didn't vote against everything he proposed to kick start the economy. >> exactly. >> bill: eric, fun to have you in studio. stay around. we'll be joined, katie paris vice president from media matters for america. eric burns, president of that organization at one time. and their latest crusade. find out how they're doing in their war against rush limbaugh. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show."

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "full court press," the "bill press show," live on your radio and on current tv. >> bill: how about it, monday, april 2nd. great to have you with us here on the "full court press" this monday morning as we talk about the big issues of the day. and very pleased to welcome to our conversation in studio, now the senior vice president of a great organization, media matters for america. katie paris. hi katie. >> hello. it is wonderful to be here. we always appreciate your support, bill. >> bill: i want to say again and eric, you had a lot to do with this at one time -- >> that's right. >> bill: media matters. there are a couple of organizations we -- when i say

we, i'm talking about all of us in progressive media. stephanie miller, all of us, we depend on the work of media matters for america. great, great job every day. also center for american progress. organizations we particularly value. >> we're proud to do it. i think we all pretty lucky to have the jobs we do and are so grateful for you all. using our stuff every day. >> bill: as long as i've got this microphone, i'm going to use it. eric, to have you with us. katie, let's talk about -- last time we talked was -- rush limbaugh and his comments about sandra and all of that. and media matters and color of change, another organization leading the charge for sponsors to say get off of this show. how's it going? >> it has been a real group effort. honestly, more than anything americans across the country i've never met and i don't think you've ever met maybe you have -- >> i know all of them. >> eric is very popular. but you know, it is -- honestly,

this is a case in which whose twitter account is that? and wherever america who have been leading the way on this but of course, also, media matters is working closely all the time with now and ultraviolet a new organization focusing on issues doing amazing work, holding this guy accountable. this wasn't the fist time that rush limbaugh has said some things that would not be allowed in my household growing up. this time he really crossed the line. americans are speaking out. american companies are, too. so, the story of rush limbaugh, that it was when we spoke a couple of weeks ago continues to be the story of rush limbaugh. papa john's pizza certainly a variety i enjoy. dropped actually just in the last few days. so, major companies -- >> bill: is he going to survive? >> well, you know, we'll see. what we see our mission as here is educating these companies that are putting their advertising dollars behind his show and raising the question saying is this good for business? is this kind of speech that's so

disrespectful toward women. your grandma would never allow you to talk like that over the airwaves and just this kind of -- it is a disservice. so, just raising the question, is this where -- >> bill: the american people find it disgusting. >> it is bad for business. american businesses are responding very strongly. >> if i can just add in, especially in the air raf citizens united when corporations have been given a blank check literally to advocate for whatever it is that is in their best interest, to have folks like katie and media matters just literally notifying the companies. a lot of them don't realize that their advertising dollars are being spent on this kind of speech. they really don't know. hey, are you aware that this is what your advertising dollars are going to subsidize? >> often, they're not. >> bill: what can people do? what can our viewers or listeners do to make sure their voices are heard? >> the most important thing is to make sure when you're contacting these companies is --

actually an advertiser on the air. >> bill: how do you find out? is there a central web site? media matters? >> media matters. you can be in touch with us directly. there is so much traffic online about this. people are coordinating. >> bill: mediamatters.org. >> mediamatters.org, of course. we're trying to help people out in terms of how they advocate on this to really raise awareness thank advertisers who say we don't think we're on the show. we're going to make sure we're not on the show. people say thank you, thank you for raising this. in that case you know, then we say thank you back. >> bill: one of the other issues that has been so much in the news lately is the case of trayvon martin in florida. within the last week, there was a huge effort on-line and in the media and really pumped up by fox news to try to smear trayvon martin and to build up george zimmerman as this good guy nice

guy kind of just doing his job. and now we find out over the weekend, stuff about this guy where you know he diffused a police officer. he beat up his girlfriend, at least she claimed they had a restraining order. he was fired from one job because he was roughing up customers. and this, again, was a case where you know, fox just kind of jumped in without the facts. shocking, right? >> it is not shocking. and you almost wish we were shocked in a case like this. the 17-year-old kid walking home from a store at night with skittles and ice tea right? just going home at night. and somehow they've made him into the villain? you know and then we have these laws with silly names like stand your ground and so they're being elevated as oh this george zimmerman, he was just standing his ground and this young hoodlum, he had it coming?

i mean where have we gotten in america if those are our values! this isn't a stand your ground law. this is a shoot first law. this is a kill at will law. this is resulting in actually -- >> bill: that's what we should start calling it. kill at will. that's exactly -- >> that's exactly what it is. >> i think we do a disservice by not accurately naming these and having these whitewashed fox news approved brand names for what, in fact, it is pretty dangerous. >> bill: evil stuff. they give them really -- >> the patriotic act the clean water act. >> clear skies. >> clear skies. you can go on and on and on. >> bill: on your point about the corporations, what a lot of people don't realize as we mentioned earlier in the program today, so this stand your ground law has been handed out to state legislators by this group called

alec -- >> alec. >> which is a code brothers founded operation. another one of the brothers things out there and they come up with this legislation. i think what's really behind the fox news and so much of this attempt to smear trayvon martin is people are -- the gunner -- the gun lobbyist is afraid as they should be it could be used as an opportunity to examine the stand your ground laws so alec and the nra are out there, part of the effort to smear trayvon martin and to build up george zimmerman to save the gun laws. >> this is coming to your state if it is not already there. there are 24, maybe 27 states, a very intrepid researcher matt kurtz who is proud of at media matters, they were the ones to uncover this interaction of nra working with with this

corporate-backed group you have just described alec, behind the scenes. they're rewriting our laws across the country. >> they're doing it with healthcare and all of some -- >> voting rights. >> voting suppression acts they're passing requiring i.d. at polls. preventing registration in schools. we're seeing this kind of stuff spread across the country. this is a critically-important issue. >> this is a group people haven't even heard of really until this week. thank you for telling people about it. >> bill: again, it is so important that media matters is out there putting this information out. for people like us and then we can put it out there and the american people know that this is bs. and kind of what's behind it. >> this is sort of -- bouncing around a lot of things because you're here, i want to talk about. >> that's good. >> bill: gladly take your calls at 866-55-press. more to the frivolous --

tomorrow, we're going to see sara palin in a new role. because abc scored by getting katie couric to fill in on gma as opposed to "the today show" where she was for years. "the today show" has gone out to get sarah palin to come in as a cohost of the show tomorrow morning. what have we sunk to? >> first of all, let me just say as a woman working in politics, i want women to do well in the democratic party. i want women to do well in the republican party but we're talking about a mainstream news show here. and we're talking about her being put forth as a supposed opposite imbalance up against katie couric. when i heard about this, i thought it was an april fools joke. yesterday was april 1st okay? but it's not. it is a problem when sarah palin who has a massive pension for misinformation, this person does not have a close relationship with the truth when it comes to much of anything. i mean this is the number one

perpetrator of that myth in the healthcare bill. that is not her most recent misinformation. it is on and on again about all kinds of policies. >> bill: she's not a guest. she's actually -- >> she's a host. here's the good news for america, okay. as we learn from her infamous interview with katie couric, she doesn't just read certain papers. she reads all of them. >> bill: that's true. >> she reads all of them. so, i think she might surprise us. >> bill: we know she's well-informed. yeah, right. katie paris and eric burns, bill press. it is the "full court press." media matters dlorg is the web site. we don't start the day without checking them out. join in the fight. we'll be right back. take your calls at 866-55-press. >> thanks, bill. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show."

>>the rest of the media seems like, "ho-hum, no big deal." we've have no choice, we've lost our democracy here. just refreshing to hear. no other television show does that. we're keeping it real.

it's completely inappropriate for television.

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to richard from chicago. >> hi, richard good morning. >> caller: good morning. i wanted katie to know i heard her spots. i'm a conservative. i called wls about rush limbaugh. i heard he has apologized -- i wanted to know if he used the p word. did he call her the "b" word. >> no, he called her a shut and a prostitute. >> and a lot of other words over a lot of other hours. >> because katie nbc is running a program called good christian bs. that's just -- to hear a network denigrating -- >> bill: good christian what? >> good christian b. >> bill: abc? >> caller: abc is running a program called gbc. >> oh, i didn't know what it stood for.

>> caller: that's horrifying. >> bill: richard i appreciate the call. i didn't know anything about this. >> it is off my radar. i'm looking at it. it does look like it is out there on abc. gcb, formally titled good christian rhymes with stitches and then to save face, they retitled it good christian bells. that didn't work. >> bill: what is it called now? >> gcb. >> good christian bells? >> it is just gcb so you could use bells. >> bill: if abc is running that program, shame on them. that's outrageous, too. >> although i think it does raise an important point. rush limbaugh is not an entertainer. he's a force of the conservative movement, someone who is taken very seriously in conservative politics and republican politics. he's been put up in pedestal for

years by leaders of the republican party, seen as a leader of the conservative movement. >> bill: he's the head of the republican party. >> right. we're talking about not just name-calling but hours and hours of attacking this young woman just because he disagreed with her because she spoke before members of congress explaining why some of her classmates would benefit -- health benefit wise from prescription bit control. he disagreed with her and not only called her names and went after her for hours but even said she should post sex tapes online so we all could watch. >> bill: disgusting. >> i can't speak to the gcb and it sounds like it is in very poor taste from what we with heard from the caller. i don't know. i haven't seen it. in terms of rush limbaugh who i have quite a bit of experience of dealing with as is katie this is a long history that rush limbaugh has. he finally has gotten himself into a situation where he's gotten some comeuppance for what frankly he's deserved for a very long time and that's some

accountability to truly be faced with, you know the repercussions of what he says as the head of the republican party. there is not a republican in this country that can cross rush limbaugh except john mccain and get away with it without coming back on bended knee and apologize. >> look what happened to michael steele. >> he apology rise. >> go down the list. >> bill: frank rich, great writer, great columnist in this month's "new york" magazine has an article about the war on women and he points out that republicans like to say -- when rush came out with his comments, right, people said well, this is just rush. this is just rush. and this is -- this war on women is not just rush. the more dangerous stuff is being done by people six blocks down the street in the united states congress with all of these bills like the blunt amendment that would have denied -- aloud any employer to

deny any part of healthcare they didn't agree with. with all of the people in state legislatures around the country, that's the real war on women. so, to is a certain extent -- >> it is a war on all of us. this is government saying -- parents, you shouldn't be in charge of when you're going to start a family or how many kids you want to have. that should be up to your boss or a big corporation instead of you. these are conservatives? making this case? yeah. >> bill: they long ago abandoned the conservative principles. guys, so much fun seeing you. katie paris, first time in the studio. come back often. we would like to get you -- we need to know what media matters is up to once a week. >> is that a deal? >> i would love to. >> bill: eric burns, you're welcome. i get the last word always. a quick parting shot. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show."

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