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♪ >> good morning. top good to see you today. it is tuesday. tuesday, april 3rdrd. and this is the full court press, your new morning show on current tv. i am bill press, the liberal, left-leaking and proud of it. rush limbaugh says yesterday to the media attention around the trayvon martin case is doing more harm to the black community than anything else. can you believe it? first of all, who is rush limbaugh to say what's good and what's bad for the black
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community in this cut tree? secondly, you know what's doing more harm to the black community than anything else action the fact that they know their sons can't walk down the street in 21st century america without getting shot and killed? how about that, rush? one of the things we are going to get into today. first, let's get the latest. we jump out to los angeles for this current t.v. news update from jacki schechner. it's all yours. >> good morning, bill. good morning. here is what's currents. it is primary day in wisconsin, d.c sglfrmthsz and maryland. mitt romney is going to spend the afternoon at cousin subs in wausheka, wisconsin and santorum to an election night party and newt gingrich is going to be in delaware. there was an interesting article on why newt gingrich is focusing on delaware. trying to gobble up states.
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it's an inex spenceive media market and it tends to trend particularly republican during the primary. mitt romney, however, forgeing ahead, not worried about it. he is now getting a financial boost from the republican national committee. he is going to team up to do fundraising with the rnc starting now. and that means that individual donors can give up to $75,000 to get to the party and -- give to the party and the candidate. if the candidate, they are limited to 2500 to defeat obama in the general election. the big-money numbers are stacking up. the center for politics says more than $100 million has been spent so far on the presidential election. they say $84.6 million spent by super p.a.c.s, the citizens united can be thanked for that. half of that number, 40.2 million is spent by restore our future which is the one that backs mitt romney. stay with us and join us in
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chat current.com/billpress. we will be right back.
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as i understand it in radio they can't see you, so this is big for me. >>tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's new morning news block. >>it's completely inappropriate for television. >>sharp tongue, quick wit and about all, politically direct. >>politically direct to me means no bs, the real thing, cutting through the clutter.
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my show is the most important show in the world. ♪ >> bradoadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv, this is the bill press show. ♪ >> bill clinton says he wouldn't mind if hillary runs in 2016. don't you think, can we just agree -- let's get over 2012 before we start talking about 2016? my god. enough already. what do you say? hello, everybody. have a great big good morning to you from our nation's capitol, washington, d.c. it is the full court press, the bill press show coming to you live, all the way across this great land of ours on radio, on
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television. current tv and on satellite radio this morning as well here for the first hour at any rate. and it's great to see you today. always lots to talk about, particularly daytoday here at the north american summit at the whitehouse yesterday and i was there for the tres amigos they are called president obama and president calderone and vice president chance /* prime minister harper in the rose garden. we will tell but that, the latest on the trayvon martin case, bring you up to date on the big basketball game last night and whatever is happening here in the nation's capitol around the country, around the glow. we hewe will take your call at 866-55-press. we take your call peter ogburn. team press peter ogburn, dan
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him hemming and siprian boulding our videographer behind the camera. fun last night to be with governor grahamnholm, another member of the current tv team. >> yeah. >> joining ushere by satellite. we had a really good show, the war room. >> she has a great show. >> good guests on. really knows her stuff. very proud of her and last night, i want you to knows, please, i will take your congratulations. >> get out of here. >> whato won the basketology brack bracketology among this team? who had kentucky number 1? props here. >> congratulations bill for winning the bact chalracket challenge. >> teambill press, bactologyracketology
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winner. >> how did you arrive at the conclusion that kentucky was going to win at all this year? >> because sam youngman honest to god, true story, cross my hard heart, hope to die as we used to say. same sam youngman is my friend now with reuters, was with the hill and for a couple of years he and i sat alongside each other at the whitehouse briefings. we became buds. sam we want to keptntucky. >> that's how you chose kentucky? >> yeah. sam, congratlays. >> always bagrag being kentucky. >> you and might have wife have a similar way -- >> i had heard about it kent. i knew kansas was a state. >> i knew kansas was a state. >> i heard kentucky is also a state. >> all right. this coach, my coach from kentucky. >> my coach. >> yeah. al i gave him a few tips before the game. he said this was a georgiaame forever. >> i wanted this to be one for the ages to tell what kind of
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team you were, even though we were young. it doesn't matter how young we are. it's how you play together. >> there it is. >> that's a young basketball term. it's fresh-minted sophomores. having watched some of that game last night, you could put those young playsers, 18, 19 years old against, i would say 80% of the nba teams that are playing now. and it would be a real fight john daniels. >> anthony davis, the big dude. >> the big dude. he is a freshman. he could be leading this year. >> he probably will be. he is a monster. he is a monster. >> so shouldn't there be something about if you get a basket basketball scholarship, you should have to stay around. here is the thing. >> get your college degree dumbo, you need your degree after your legs give out or your whatever. >> allotted of these guys will leave college early and go back
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and get their college degree because i sort of have a different view. because he is young and let's say he did stick around and play another year at kentucky and he will have never had answer chance to make millions of dollars. >> if he is good, he will. >> if he hurts himself. >> that's what i am saying if he sticks around and plays another year. >> the hope is he won't hurt himself. >> that's the hope of everybody, but i mean there is no guarantee. take the money that's in front of you now. >> my advice is get your college degree. what do i know. faiz shakir and aaron black with the upcoming primaries and here in the district of columbia. did you vote yet? >> a little bit early. and dan pfeifer, the communications director for president obama but first. >> this is the full court press.
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>> headlines, making news controversy burewing over the mega millions jackpont, miranda wilson a mcdonald's employee was part of a partlottery pool, she says she bought the winning ticket separately from the pool. >> oh. >> and that is the one that hit the jackpot. the story is getting weirder. yesterday, she said now she wasn't sure if she won. she is she has not officially claimed her prize at the maryland lottery lottery? >> that's what this other guy a month or so ago claimed. >> that's bs. everyone throws in money. you buy the ticket and then you say and then i bought an extra one and that's the one that won. >> if you do pools, make photocopies of your tickets, give afternoon a copy. they don't have a copy of their ticketed she supposedly bought for the pool, you know.
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>> she does not win out. she is lying through earher teeth. you know she is. >> a humble oprah winfrey went on cbs this morning and admitted she has made mistakes in her news o network. it is a struggle and she said if she was going to write a book about it it would be 101 mistakes. she admits to being unprepared and is developing a new strategy and promises the network will succeed. she said the biggest error was launching too soon. they were not ready back in 2011. >> i don't believe it either. for me to believe that oprah would make a mistake, that's like believing there is no virgin birth. >> happy birthday to allek baldwin, the actor turns 54. >> that's not the biggest news of this week. the 30 rock star proposed to his 28-year-old girlfriend confirming valaria thomas a jog yoga instructor.
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it will be his first since divorcing kim bassinger in 2002. >> they call them the tres tres amigos. there they were in the rose garden yesterday. president obama, philippe cal der own calderon and stephen harper from canada. so they gave this joint news conference and first made each of their opening statements where president obama talked about the relationship between these countryiescountries, close working relationship, particularly on trade, on tourism, on securityeing the borders. and then there were questions from the audience. it was interesting. the first question to president obama from you'llguiliana goldman from bloomberg was: what about health care, mr. president? are you premedpared to lose in the sprorm supreme court? the ped said uh-uh, not on your
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life. >> ultimately, i am confident that the supreme court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority. >> and then, the questions we want to calderon next but i want to jump ahead next to stephen harper from canada because -- so here is the deal. we know that canada is bilingual, at least there is a french-speaking part of canada. so of course the prime minister of canada to get elected would have to be bilingual as well and the reporter who asked theo pose a question to prime minister harper said, sir, since you are bilingual, i would ask you to speak both in english and in french. now, i am not bragging here, but i have studied french in school.
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i did -- i did nighmygrade graduate work in french-speaking switzerland. i happen to speak french. i have never heard anybody speak t make he will it as -- mangle it as badly. i don't think you have to speak french to realize how bad this isngle it as -- mangle it as badly. i don't think you have to speak french to realize how bad this is is. >> our relationships [speaking] [speaking french speak (speaking french) >> man any french speaking president will will be groaning out loud. shut up. don't even try.
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i am. >> he speaks better french than i do. >> mitt romney speaks better french than he does. okay. in the got me this got me. i was sitting there listening to go calderon. the questions became about what are you going to do about this drug violence and these killings and the drug wars down there? and shouldn't we as americans, be concerned about this? and calderon was droneing on. i wasn't paying that much attention and then he got into the area of guns. i almost fell off my chair. so calderon pointed out, first of all, he said, look. we have seen this over and over again in many, many different parts of the world, the more guns the more violence you have in society. he sated examples. and he said it's true in our case that we saw that the number of guns that we were receiving
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and that were being used in vie lend crimes in mexico went up exponentially until 2004, the year the assault band weapons, ban on assault riversfles in the united states expired. so the assault weapons ban expires, george bush does nothing to bring it back or to extend it and they see more guns suddenly in mexico. and then calderon puts numbers on it which again i find stun stunning. i think you will, too. he said in the last they have seized 140,000 weapons, most of them assault rifles and most of them manufactured in the united states. so the guns are being made here, at least sold here, taken across the border and used by these criminals in mexico, used by the gangs in mention co in the drug
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wars, and then the other number he gave was that -- i had no idea it was this bad -- that there are -- he said there are 8,000, 8,000 gun shops along the u.s./mexican border which, by their count, means that there are nine gun shops along the border for every one wal-mart in mexico and the united states combined. both countries every, all the entire country, all of the wal-mart wal-marts. add them up, there are nine gun shops along the uts/mexican border. in the leads me to the questionove your comments. why isn't anybody talking about it? the "new york times" has a story about this summit yesterday, big story, front section of the paper. not one word about what calderon said about the guns. how can we ibe blaming mexico from the violence when the guns are coming from the united states. yes realize that will, to what extent. what's going on?
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and then the other this inc. is: why is it -- why isn't anybody talking about guns anymore? what's going on? i mean some gabby giffords is shot nine people killed alongside of her and there was an opportunity there to do something about guns. president obama gave a speech. i haven't heard a peep out of the approximate president or any democrat in the complicatedngress about guns ever since. a shooting in coffieldalifornia yesterday. do you think anything is going to happen about the access accessibility and availability of guns? no. i think democrats are afraid to raise the issue. i am not afraid to raise the issue. i will say we can't blame mexico for the violence when we are suppliesing the guns. right? 866-55-press. we can't remain silent about the guns t look at george zimmerman. ought you ought to throw that in as well. they are as real, a real danger to our society and shame on the democrats from the top to the bottom in congress and in the
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white house for not -- not saying anything about guns not even raising the issue. there is not one piece of legislation to bring back the ban on assault rifles. why not? is 86 s 866-55-press. we start off, if you will court press. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ >>this is outrageous! we've have no choice, we've lost our democracy here.
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a spine. >>determined to find solutions... >>we need government to ensure that people have freedom. >>driven to find the truth... >>what's really going on? >>fearless, independent and above all, politically direct. ♪ ♪ this is the bill press show, live on current tv. >> the drug wars and killings violence in mexico can't
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entirely blame mexico. how about some of the blame on us, here, the united states is where the guns are coming from. lisa is in palhatton virginia. good morning. >> good morning to you. i was going to say we could all be out shooting each other in the streets. in virginia, that's always a chance, but they are not going to bring up gun control in an election year. >> why not? do you think the american people really all own lock, stock, and barrel, are owned by the nra. >> no but some of the pin-headed iranians republicans are. >> i am afraid too many democrats are, too. maybe they are not owned by the nra but afraid of them. >> absolutely. form unfortunate but true. >> yeah. it is. thanks lisa for the call. our roving am bats dor, arnold made it all the way to kansas city. held hello, armed. >> good morning. i got in last night, man.
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>> i know. you know. we are not going to blame it on you, andrnold. you did not bring them backd cluckluck? >> hey, man, on this gun thing, it's crazy how this country just got to have this love affair with their guns and stuff. and the carnage rate is going up and up and up. all of the iraqi war, add them up and ouradd our homicide rate in this country up. it that rate would pale in con comparison to the non-sense killing that goes on this country. if you have a gun, i think you should register a gun. if a bullet from that gun comes ut up and hilts me, i should be able to sue your behind. they should carry liability insurance on their gun so people won't just be left laying like they are nowadays. >> yeah and we ought to put the ban on the assault arrivalsrifles
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back, to defend your home or for hunting. no. not whatsoever. so i would have thought, you know calderon was good. he sort of stuck it to the united states yesterday. arnold, sal in chicago. haul hello, sal. >> what's going on? >> you tell me. >> actually, i am just thinking i really like you, but i am just really not feeling what you are saying about the whole gun issue. i think it's our right to the bear arms in the united states. >> what arms, sal? >> the question. so everybody should have an assault rifle? >> you know what? i believe whatever weapon you have, if you can obtain that we hope weapon, you should be able to bear it. >> guess what, sal. i have a machinegun in my front yard. you better not come near washington, i will mo you down. >> that's an i had on theic idiotic statement. >> that's the problem. people like you go along with the nra. >> this is the bill press show.
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>>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.
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make your voice heard. ♪ >> there islisten 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. >> all right 33 minutes after the hour politically direct here, the full court press, indeed, lots going on this morning. first, taking your calls about the fact that it takes a president of mexico to come to the united states and say maybe you dudes ought to do something about your gun laws because, you know all of your guns are being shipped down to mexico and being used in our drug wars down here. maybe you should reconsider
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bringing back the ban on assault rifles in this country. nobody here talks about it. it takes the president of mexico 866-55-press. we will talk about the primaries in just a minute herer aaron blake from the washington post. i want to remind you we are having a party, and we invite you to the party our virtual book party. it's not a physical party for the obama hate machine. you can put yourself on line to sell as many books as you can to your friends and family. depending upon how many you sell, you can win all kinds of prizes, tee shirts and golf shirts and bumper stickers and coffee mugs and baseball caps. >> it's a virtual party. not even have to dress up for you for it. >> but you will get stuff you can wear.
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>> exactly. >> all of this stuff and the big winners will get a trip for two to washington, d.c., hotel airfare, all included, come into the studio, watch the show in studio and then go out to breakfast with the team press at ted's bulletin a favorite hangout of president obama's right down the street t will be a lot of funnel. go to our website at billpress billpressshow.com/book billpressshow.com/bookparty. >> that's where you get the details. aaron blake with the washington post but first if we are going to talk about the primaries, today, rick santorum out in wisconsin. it looks like it's going to be a clean sweep for mantorum but santorum, he's got to spin it for his fans. >> on the final stretch day, and we are feeling good. feeling like we might pull off an upset here tomorrow. >> you are not going to pull any upset in wisconsin. i think it's going to be romney. romney all the way. let's find out what aaron blake
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feels. aaron blake is a plowinger for the political post part of the column. thank you for getting up for us. >> good morning. >> is it going to be the triple crown for mitt romney? what do you think? >> i think that's definitely the likelihood here if you want to find a sill borderlineing for rick santorum right now it is if he does somehow win wisconsin or even come pretty close, he's going to exceed expectations. i think, you know, a lot of times these things do come down to expectations. as long as he beats the late polling on the race, it looks like he had a pretty good night. but at the same time if santorum doesn't win in wisconsin, he risks not winning one state this month because there is a new poll that shows him leading by only six in his home state of pennsylvania. so it's going to be hard for a guy to continue if he can't win any states for a whole month. >> so if the -- and we will know later this evening, but if it
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goes the way we think it's going to go and you think it's going to go and mitt romney picks up d.c., maryland and wisconsin, is this the tipping point, then, in this primary? >> you know -- >> should it be? >> it could be. i think that there is already pretty much the perception out there that this is romney's race and barring some kind of fan fantastic change of event did, he is going to win the primary. and i think if he wins all three states, that just gets further. at the same time, santorum says there is no chance he is going to drop out, even if he loses. and but the thing here that you have to remember here is there is three weeks until the next primaries set of primaries here. >> a long, long, time. >> that's a long time to keep the battleship afloat an especially for santorum who is a guy who, you know, even despite whatever momentum he has gotten in this race, he really hasn't, you know, captapped into
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the conservative fundraising network and really raised a whole bunch of money at any point really. so and so, he is not really on the air right now. i think if he loses tonight, the fundraising is just going to be so difficult that he may be running more of a newt gingrich. campaign where it's all about, you know, showing up and not really being on t.v. >> are you telling me that foster freeze is going to freeze? >> i like that. >> foster freeze froze? we will all be writing that line tomorrow. now, we were talking about aaron blake -- talking to aaron blake and you can follow him at post postpolitics.com. aaron, you mentioned peninsula pennsylvania. santorum went out on a limmibb and ses said it is a must-win state. i am confident i am going to win and i must win pens. boy -- pennsylvania.
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pretty risky. don't you think. >> this is not a southern state. he hasn't won a state outside the south in a primary. and he did lose it by 16 points the last time he ran in a race there when he was angincunmbent senator. >> and now he is not an incumbent. it's not a great state for him. i don't know how much good will there is for him in that state but it is his home state. you can't really justify losing your home state if you want to have any kind of -- >> he was six points behind in the latest poll. >> yeah. >> we have seen how this works. >> that's before the romney blitz moved in. >> exact. >> state after staffte. they are running against santorum here in the district of
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columbia. romney, they have the money and they are clobbering him state after state. they will do that in pennsylvania? right? >> yeah. and that will be the one real big battleground that day because romney is pretty much guaranteed to win. the other states are northeast earn states, more moderate. but the romney machine has been good at hoffmoving polls upwards of about 10 points in a lot of the big states that we have seen talking about ohio, he started out after his losses or after michigan in arizonaand arizona, he started out doanewn about 10 points. anyhow was illinois was close and the final result was 12 points. the advertising has been moving numbers. there is no reason to expect
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anything different happens in pennsylvania. i think that's, you know, looking ahead again. that's going to be an interesting race and it could be where we end this campaign. >> in the meantime, word has leaked out both have confirmed it that newt gingrich and mitt romney held a meeting last weekend in louisiana. what the hell was that about? do you know? >> both sides say that there was wasn't really much to it. they say that the candidates regularly meet, you know we can believe that or not. i think that there was a time there where gingrich was acting like he was going to run a clean campaign, going to kind of go out with a whimper and then yesterday, he again started attacking mid romney for having no principles. so i am not really sure how to read that. maybe the meeting didn't go well. maybe, you know, newt gingrich is being newt gingrich and just kind of -- he can't stop going and running for president. so i don't really know how to read that.
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but it doesn't look like he is going to get out of the race, you know at least for now. >> it just seems strange to me that newt gingrich has been really harsh in his language about mitt romney. i mean he didn't call him the worst cran in the country like santorum did but he's been harsh about even seeking or agreeing to a meeting. i don't trust newt. i think he is up to something, looking for something. asking for something. make maybe a prime time speech at the convention. who knows? whoever writes the book, right, on the campaign will let us know. but finally, aaron i have to ask you about the story yesterday saying that the romney that democrats fear the most is ann romney. now, she is an asset to him, no doubt about it. >> yeah. we always -- you know, i remember when george w. bush was extremely unpopular, his wife, barbara
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bush, was still very popular. >> same with barbara bush. >> same with barbara bush. same with michellee obama. she is more popular when she washe was down near 40%, she was still very popular. this is the role that you hope that a first lady can have and i think -- >> the wequestion is: how many people vote for the first lady or wife of the candidate even if they like here? ? >> i don't think it's very muchany. it's nice to know that this guy's wife is there and i think more than anything else, it's kind of a character witness, you know. if this guy married somebody who i really like, then that says being about had. >> he can't be all that bad? right. >> exactly. there may be something redeeming about this guy. >> aaron blake on twitter at post politics dom. aaron, we will be watching with you. thank you for a little preview
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this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> talk to you later. the full court press here it is tuesday, april 3rdrd. >> on your radio and on current tv. , this is the bill press show. ♪ as i understand it in radio they can't see you, so this is big for me. >>tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's new morning news block. >>it's completely inappropriate for television. >>sharp tongue, quick wit and about all, politically direct. >>politically direct to me means no bs, the real thing, cutting through the clutter. my show is the most important show in the world.
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no other television show does that. we're keeping it real. ♪ >> the latest from the world of politics, this is the bill press show. make it 13 minutes before the top of the hour. you are not going to believe what that rush limbaugh had to say yesterday or maybe you will. we will tell you all about that. first, a little reminder, if you are looking for -- feeling short
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home.com. >> that's incomeathome.com. yes, limbaugh talking yesterday about the trayvon martin case and all of the media attention to it. let's let him -- the fact that he would go there, i just cannot believe it, but here he goes. >> until obama or jackson or sharpton leads them to a story, the media is not going to go there. it's all about protecting or building up obama. >> stop there. so the first point he makes is -- how do you make that leap? i don't know. that the trayvon martin case is all about obama. and the only reason that the media is paying any attention to it has nothing to do with the fact that this innocent kid was shot in cold blood and murder and that his murder is still out there on the loose and we know who hes is has not opinion been
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charged, arrested, indicted nothing but it's all about obama then he goes on. >> going on, the whole remainder of the -- of the year. trivon tayvon martin was killed 60 feet from his house. where were his nabors?eighbors? they unrecognized? >> sdpizdispickable. everything about this story, there is nothing -- this story is doing more harm to the black community than anything else out there right now. >> now first of all, i mean he makes a point about where were the neighbors? yeah, why didn't somebody run out to try to help him. but was he saying he was unrecognized three days in the morgue? i didn't hear that before. >> he was originally kind of characterized as a john doe but it wasn't three days. >> any way, there was no
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support. outrageous things. limbaugh says this is doing more harm to the black community than anybody else. first of all, your comments are welcome at 866-55-press. who the hell is rucksh limbaugh to tell the communeblack community what is good for them or not. he said donovan was only getting attention was black and the only reason barracksack obama iswas because he is black? limbaugh says that. this is the guy that says if he were not black, barracksack obama would be nugothing but a tour guide in honolulu to seeday because he doesn't have any intelligence? he says if ithe were not black because the democratic party disown him. he said this in 2008, it would have disowned him? this guy, how can he tell the black community about what's
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good for them or bad for them. he told the point that it's doing harm to the black community is the edgeknowledge that spafrnlt in 21st century america, a young black kid unarmed can't walk in his own freaking neighborhood in the rain wearing a hoodie without getting shot and killed and the murderer getting away with it. don't you think rush, rush, maybe that's what's doing harm to the black community? and i would add, not only to the black community, but to all americans who care all americans who care about our kids and all americans who care about our system of justiceis and hate to see it trashed because of some outrageous gun law in the state of florida and a police department not doing his
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jaw. limbaugh, outrageous, the stuff he says and gets away with. man. well idiots could not to listen to him every day and unfortunately come companies that we should not be buying products from continue to at this on his show every day. the only way to get even with rush limbaugh is the same thing that happened to glenn beck for companies that care about this country not to at this on his program. and let that show collapse. >> this is the bill press show. ♪
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decision to feature the half-term governor after, i decided to give your show a look. love it t you have a new viewer. >> thank you, bill. welcome. but todd says, i watched your show with an inquisitive nature. i find it as unappealing as rush limbaugh. you are the hate machine of the dnc. i hope you fail! and jerry henderson says, you are a meaningless man with a meaningless show on a meaning meaningless network: you are so far to the left you are path et etic. no wonder, you have no viewers after watching 15 seconds of your show i have to go out and throw up: . is this -- is this rick santorum's pen name jay henderson here? is it one and the same? >> this is the bill press show.
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my show is the most important show in the world. ♪ broadcasting across the in case, on your radio and on current tv., this is the bill press show. >> hey, what do you say? it is tuesday, april 3rdrd. good to see you today and welcome. welcome to the full-court press coming to you live coast to coast from our little studio here on capitol hill in washington, d.c. washington, d.c. washington, d.c. live on your progressive radio station and live at the new morning show, current tv. good to have you with us. lots going on today. as i said, we are on capitol hill. we start off this hour by jumping down to the other end of
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pennsylvania avenue, six in the tro stops away from the white house, a man with the very important job, a man in charge of the message at the whitehouse, crafting and shaping and in naymany cases delivering the message, himself communications director dan pfeifer, like me, a native of the first state of delaware. dan, good morning. >> how are you? >> great. good to join you the north american summit. i was in the roads garden yesterday. the first question to president obama was about the pending supreme court case on. he said he was confident the court would uphold it. dan, after all of the tough questions we saw the judges asking about this, how can the president be so confident it will be upheld? >> firstly, i was personally shocked the white house, with the north person inamerican summit yesterday, i anticipated that
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would be the first question. and the president believes this because it is -- the law is cogstitution cogstitutional. and this is not the opinion of the president and his lawyers. this is a widely held-held opinion that goes across the spectrum an opinion held by president reagan's solicitor general two conservative appellate court judges who upheld the law on its path to the supreme court. so he thinks the law is clear here here, that the heavy burdenep is on the court and he believes they are going to do the right thing because it's what the constitution demands and theit's the right think for the country. >> he did talk about the human element and says he hopes that's not lost in their deliberations. so he is confident in the end the court will do the right thing. what if they don't? is there a plan b for what we do if health care suddenly just drops out? >> i think when theat the president
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spoke to yesterday is something that's importantly do talk about, not just in the context of the court but in the greater political debate we are having in this country. it is the affordable care act or obama obamacare, can go away in two ways. one, the court can strike it down or, two, if we have a republican president every potential republican nominee has said they would repeal it, you know on day one or however they would go about doing that. i think there is a reason. the country is divided over health care. i willing the first to admit that. it doesn't go fully into effect until 2014. it's a personal subject. it's not an easy thing to have. >> that's why people have tryied to do it for a century. what people are clear on is they don't want to repeal it. when you take it away the courts or through some legislative process, it means seniors without prescription
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drugs. white right now, there are people who can get health care -- they can't get it because of pre-existing conditions, children in particular. there are young people who are able to stay on their parents' insurance who will no longer be able to. it has real effects on real people and wonuld be very damaging to the middle class in this country if it went away. >> the president today is going to speak at the annual luncheon of the associated press. it is already -- i was interested in seeing mark allen in politico this morning saying the president will use caustic, memorable language to attack the house budget put forward by paul ryan. can you give us a preview of some of that caustic language? >> iam i am hopeful it is memorable. this is the great debate of our time. this election is to decide which way with go.
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if the republicans becomes president, they will sign into law the ryan budget. that means every millionaire will get 150,000 dollar tax cut. we will gut education in this country, funding for the less fortunate seniors fortunate. seniors will essentially end medicare as we know it. all in order -- >> okay. >> and medicaid, you know, the poor, the disabled people who are -- who have home health care all of those things are going to be slashed and cut and denied all to -- in service of the economic philosophy where if it's you do well a few doo well, it will trickle down. the president disagrees with that. my decision is that is a debate we are going to have between now and november. >> it seems, dan this is a debate the republicans want to have because as you point out, mit rochellet romney and the other
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candidates has embraced the ryan budget. he saidys this is the way we ought to go, a bold plan. john boehner has said this defines who we are as a party. so they are not shrinking from it. right? >> it may define who they are as a party. it is so far from the definition of who we are as americans that we should -- it's important we lay out the consequences of this policy. the thing is, it isn't a theoretical exercise. we have tried this before. this is what we did in the first decade of this century, what we did under president bush president bush. we cut spending on critical investments that will help us, you know, in the future we. we gave mask tatsx cuts to the wealthy and the middle class had its worst decade. i am not sure why these guys want to try it again. but that's what they want to do. >> that's what thethe day bate. >> dan pfeiffer is our guest communications director at the white house. follow him actually ol twitter@at
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twitter twitter twitter @at pfeiffer 44 pfeiffer, 44. we will put it up on our webside sight, too, to make it edesier for you. the president has also been talking a lot about the budget, the buffett rule. where are we with that? what xwthexactly does he mean. >> the budget rule is a simple principal that was originally advocated by warren buffett, one of america's great entrepreneurs, where warren buffett actually, even though he is theone of the richest men in the world,acy he ishas a lower tax rate than his secretary. and he has articulated that as an example of how unfair the tax cut is. the president agrees with warren buffett and he put forward a plan, part of his plan of deficits over the long-term, he
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wants when we reform our tax code we have a fundamental iron-clad rule that no millionaire will paper a lower tax rate than the middle class. >> that's a principal the president is fighting for, a principal the sfait is going to vote on in a couple of weeks right around tax day when they come back from their time bang in from their states. i think it's an important vote to go on the roadecord because if someone believes a millionaire should pay a lower tax rate to the than the middle class, that's something they should have to explain to the american people. >> is there a minimum rate. >> we should decide it within the context of an overall effort to reform our tax code where we get sorid of some of these loop holes but what we have talked about in the past is that we should -- we did very well under the tax rates withhen bill clinton was president and were paying around 39%.
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the this year, the bush tax cuts expire and we are going to have a big debate about that. republicans will want to continue those and create problems for our deficit and capacity to invest in education. the president disagrees. >> i know that the president, and he did so again yesterday, is quick to say well, let the republicans argue among themselves. i am not getting involved in this until they decide who their nominee is going to be. but nonetheless, they are taking shots, particularly romney now at the president at the whitehouse. here is a quick list from romney yesterday on the issue -- and i don't want you so ammuch to talk about about romney the issue he plans to run on, romney wisconsin yesterday. >> one of the reasons we are going to take over the white house is he doesn't know how to make this economy work and we do. they keep saying that. right? the economy. the economy is in the toilet. it's barack obama's fault and mit romney is a businessman and he can fix it. your response? >> well, i thinksay a couple of
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things. first. >> where the economy was when the president started losing 750,000 jobs a month long before the president's policies ever we want into effect. the economy was in freefall and were headed toward the next great depression. the president put in place a series of initiatives, the recovery act, his effort to save the auto industry and it's had a real impact. we have now created jobs every month for two years. we have created nearly 4 million jobs in the last couple years. now, is that enough? not absolutely not. do we need to do more? of course. what we don't need to do is go back to the same policies that got us into this mess to begin with. i think when the president and the american people look at the record, what this president has done, the direction the country is headed, where he wants to take the country in the future and compares that to his republican opponent, whether that's governor romney who when
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he was governor of massachusetts, 4750 in job creation or looks at his records in business where a lot of people got very wealthy and a lot of people lost their jobs, that will be a very clear contrast. i think, you know, what is clear is that while people want the economy to do better they don't want to go back to a place where we get to a policy of giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy, letting wall street write their own rules. >> the problem with romney running on the economy, the economy is getting better. that takes the wind out of his sails. dan pfeiffer, thank you for carving out time for us. you can follow him on twitter twitter @pfeiffer 44. you can hear the president. i love the fact that they are looking forward to that out
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there today in front of the associated press, a big luncheon, actually going to take questions from people at the leverageon and he isand the white house are putting out the worldd already this morning you can expect him to go guns ablazing against the paul ryan propelledbudget which does cut every program that affects the poor, food stamps, cuts medicaid in half and that kills medicare as we know it and yet gives a big new tax brateeak to corporations and the wealthiests of americans. taking on today. any and he should because it's a lousey budget. >> this is the bill press show. is on the new news network. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. this former two term governor is
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>> this is the bill court press show, live on your ryeadio and on t.v. >> happy tuesday. you never know. i was reading a couple of e-mails here during the break i hear from pamela. pamela says, hey peter is a lot better lukeooking than i thought he would be. woo. choose what's going on here? she says, bill you look pretty good, too. no seems like that. it will go to his head. >> my beautiful, beautiful head. >> i think we will put a big screen there. >> are you going to make me wear a burqa now? how how. >> how about it?
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at 1800-356-5967. that number, 1-800-356-5967. i was talking with dan pfeiffer there about the trilateral sum summit yesterday with the president obama, the president of mexico felipe cal deron and the prime minister of canada stephen harper. in this morning's "new york times" article about the summit, there is not one word about this. and i don't understand it because to me, it was the most shocking thing that came out of their news conference yesterday, in response to a question to fill felipe calderon, we read about the drug wars and violence down in mexico what are you doing about it? calderon pointed the finger at the united states.
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he said, look, we all know the more guns there are anywhere in society, the more killings you have and more violence you have. enough one. no. 2, he says in our case the violence escalated in 2004 which is the very year that the assault weapons ban expired in the united states. and nothing has happened since: george bush wouldn't do anything about it but bar a.m.ack obama hasn't talked about it. there is no legislation in congress as far as i know, certainly not pending, to restore the ban on assault weapons so president calderon said, this is when it all started. the the numbers he gave were stun stunning.
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they have seized 140,000 weapons from these gun runners in the last 4 years. most of them assaulted riversfles, most of them purchased in the united states and taken across the border into mexico. to fuel the drug wars. so they did a coun and counted up -- get this -- 8,000. 8,000 gun shops along the border. compare that to how many wal-mart starts there are in the united states and mexico combined. he says there are nine gun shops loose along the border with mexico for every one wal-mart you can find either in the united states or mexico. so i mean talking about the problem, talking about where the guns are coming from who is supplying the weapons that's responsible for all of the kill killings in mexico, it's us. again, we are doing nothing
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about it. nothing is talking about guns, addressing problems introducing legislation. nobody -- i don't know anybody out there standing up right now saying we ought to bring back a ban on assault rifles because we don't need them orand i don't know anybody who is willing to say if you have this problem with the drug wars in mexico, you can't just plame mexico. you have to blame -- you have to blame ourselves because we are the ones who are providing the guns. now man, i am tell you i have no idea that was the case until i heard thatpresident calderon say that yesterday and president obama didn't comment on it. stephen hamper didn't comment on it. and i getbet that the reports this morning, at least the "new york times," the only paper i have seen yet this morning, not one mention of what calderon had to say. we are you know what it is? we are afraid of the nra. >> this is the bill press show.
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from noon to three. >> very sane hours, bill. no threat to you, sir. >> 9:00 a.m. east coast. >> i have not seen 6:00 a.m. in ages. >> julie, it's good to see you. >> great to see you. >> you have been kind enough to welcome me into your studio. nice to return the favor today. before we get into all of the things we have to talk about and take your calls at 866-55-press. we are having a party here? >> do tell. >> but it's a new kind of book party, about my new book, "the obama hate machine" which we talked about on your show. we have launched a victrtannual book party so peekople requestcan go how many go online and sign up and the whole thing is a book contest actually for people to sell copies of obama hate machine to their friends, their family. they sign up. you go to billpressshow.com/book billpressshow.com/bookparty. sign up and the more books you sell, the more goodies you get
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like caps, tee shirts. mugs and the winners get a trip for two to washington, d.c. >> fantastic. >> otherwise, airfare, hotel included, come to the studio, sit in on the show and then go out to breakfast arrested ward with kingteam press here. >> how do i get in on this? >> ted's bulltin? >> i love that place yeah. >>. >> a book party, where is the bar, bill? >> i was excited i didn't have to dress up. although this wouldn't be the first party i have gone to without pants on. >> did we say hello to peter ogburn this morning? all right. anyhow, check out the virtual book party. it will be a lot of fun. it's the bill press show.com/book show.com/bookparty. julie so many things i want to ask you about. here from the "l.a. times," a second, today is primary day. >> woo!
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all eight republican voters in washington, d.c. go to the polls. they are adoreable. it's society cute. >> meet in a phone booth. >> yeah. >> d.c. maryland and wisconsin, the big news is of wisconsin, rick santorum is predicting an upset. >> he predducts that from time to time. also scoreadorable. i think he is going to keep mit romney down to single digits. don't you? >> he could. if mit wins all three, i mean it's one more. >> we keep saying that but rick santorum is vowing to fight on: . he is getting cranky around the edges. >> he says that he is going to win and must win his home state of pennsylvania, three weeks away. >> yeah. >> what are we going to do for the next three weeks? >> what are we going to talk about? >> what? you know, this is interesting. why haven't there been any debates lately? do you think that that the car just ran out of gas?
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>> i think several news organizations have tried to put debates together, but it's no longer in mitt romney's interest to do it so he keeps saying, i am not going to show up. you can book it and it will be ron paul and newt gingrich but he doesn't need to debate and without him, you don't have a show. >> because i was thinking that the news -- that the cable news finally, just said, enough already after 22. >> i think the news reporters are definitely saying that. >> those arewere winners for the most part. surprised surprised me. i couldn't watch another one. >> i went to several of them. here is the torystory i wanted to ask you b female voters gather behind obama. this is in the "l.a. times" yesterday showing among men, obama and romney basically head to head, tied. president obama with an 18 vote advantage among women over mitt romney. what's going on? >> it's a couple of things. one, it was that whole birth
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control thing got women's atax and the republican reaction. so it was a bit of a one-two punch. i think mitt romney through careful use of ann romney and some better economic messageing is going to be able to bringpot president obama's numbers now but right now with rush limbaugh and everything else they have women on high alert. they don't likely messing around with women's rights and bodies and that's what you see in that poll. >> but the republican party is not just a candidate. i mean rick santorum is number 1. >> uh-huh. >> ron nemmney hasn't done much i don't think. tell me if i am wrong, to distance himself from santorum. he doesn't talk about it as. >> no. >> he hasn't said that's santorum. >> that's -- >> he shaz to show off the right flank so he can't repudiate it. i don't think it's in his nature to repudiate that kind of talk. he just doesn't hug it as hard as santorum does.
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>> on top of that, you have the republicans in grenscongress with a blunt amendment which was as frank rich points out in a great piece in new york magazine, there wasit was a lot more dangerous than anything santorum said because that would give any employer the right to deny any form of health care that they didn't happen to think was important. >> right. exactly. it becomes a critical mats. right now, women are thinking about republicans and obama as the democrat. so they are just reacting to that. like i say, when we get down to the general course i think the white house isn obama 2012 will push this issue and women will see the results. polling is an indicator and i think as we go forward on and these issues dissipate, republicans want it go away. certainly as you here the republican establishment saying enough of this. let's talk about karl rove. the architect of the gay marriage wedge issue doesn't want to talk about this stuff. >> doesn't know what damage this
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could do in the fall. >> exactly. >> you mentioned ann romney. a piece? >> politico. >> that ann is the secret weapon. we don't like mit but we like ann. she is likeable. she is attractive arrest tick lat. >> relateable. >> relitaterelatable. >> unlike him. >> right. >> and that piece also mentions obama 2012 is concerned about ann romney which got my attention. >> i don't know what that was based on but should they be concerned? and how many people? i mean, look i would likelike all of the first ladies. so many cases in campaigns i can remember saying, the wrong one is the candidate. but how many people end up voting for here? >> they don't. >> but they will maybe take another look at him because of her. she really helps him. and that family helps him, and she really, you know, she is
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feisty. she was talking the other day about wanting theo strangle the press. it was funny. and she's had health problems breast cancer and a lot of women relate to that. and, you know, she was a governor's wife. she is new to politics really, but at this level. but, you know, she's got some skills and she really does a lot to humanize him, which he really needs. >> fellow talk show host julie mason, her show is press pool weekdays monday through friday 12 to 3 on sirius xm and follow her on twitter @juliemason. we will be glad to take your calls at 866-55-press, we are talk show hosts. bill clinton yesterday talking with jay jake cap %per asked if hillary might run in 206. do we have the first clip of the clinton talking about whether or not she runs? >> she comes home and we do this
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foundation stuff for the rest of our lives, i will be happy. if she changes her mind and decides to run i will be happy. but i don't think it's light years away. >> the headline wastion bill will be happy if hillary runs. i guess two questions. one, couldn't we all agree we are not going to talk employ 2016 until we get 2012 behind? us? >> i am still like trying to focus on beef steaks which is premature. 2016, the scramble is on. >> i was at a dinner party with politico's -- no name but people involved in politics here the question is who is going to run in 20 is 16? wait a minute. wait a min wait a minute. >> chris christie telling oprah he might be ready in 2016. these guys are queueing up.
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why shouldn't we. >> do you think hillary is a possibility? >> the i don't. she works so hard at being secretary of state. >> a great job. >> that heshe has gotten great reviews. and that is a burn-out job and she just looks exhausted. >> she looks burned out? >> she looks burned out and done. she looks like, you know, i thought that world's bank would have been a great job for her, something still in the public sphere but a little on the public eye take some of the pressure off. i don't think she is done with public lightfe. it's hard to imagine her running for president. >> she might not be done with public life. but i think she is done with political life, in the sense of running. >> elected. it's so hard. >> eight years as first lady. what was it? six, eight years as the u.s. % senator? >> u.s. senator. >> four years as secretary of state. >> i am tired just thinking about it, yeah. >> particularly secretary of state. she is always on a plane and god knows where she pops up.
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>> it's allotted of work to not make mistakes in those jobs. >> yeah. the pressure. julie mason in studio with us. julie, i want to talk to you about the police departmentresident yesterday said he is absolutely confident that the supreme court is going to do me to. the police department said he is absolutely confid he want the supreme court will do the right thing. well julie mason. stick around and give us a call. julie and i will be right back. >> this is the bill press show. can't see you, so this is big for me. >>tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's new morning news block. >>it's completely inappropriate for television. >>sharp tongue, quick wit and about all, politically direct. >>politically direct to me means no bs, the real thing, cutting through the clutter. my show is the most important show in the world.
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bill press show, now on current tv. >> speaking of current tv, david shuster from current tv is going to be in studio with us for the next hour here a friend of bill. >> i love that guy. >> fob. >> love that guy. >> david shuster. >> good stuff. faiz shakir for his weekly visit to bring us up to date on what's happen with happening with think processes. covering the political landscape with julie mason with sirius xm and the press pool. the president, first question out of the box was what are your thoughts or what are your plans about the supreme court reverseif the supreme court reverses the affordable care act and the ped says -- >> not going to happen. >> takemp down that talk. >> you know the talk in want, i want to get your view on it is how does this play in november? >> uh-huh.
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>> depending upon whether they uphold or reverse. >> if they reverse it, it's just terrible for barack obama. he spent so much time on this. this was his priority and they have to explain it and, ps, we forget, here was a constitutional law professor. if he points to something the court deems unconstitutional, how do they explain that away? it's tough for him to sell it as with win. >> you don't buy the james carville theory that the best thing would be to lose in the supreme court would be the best thing? is that what edgenergizes that. >> that is decrying mental general gymnastics. it galvanizes debate but it would be great for the democrats to not have to defend this up upon larunpopular federal mandate but i don't know how they spin that as a win. >> if the court upholds obama obamacare? >> that said, it's not a great one for them either because people don't like the federal mandate. they love elements of the bill. the coverage for pre-existing
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conditions, keeping our kids on your insurance until they are 26. people like that. but they don't like the government coming in and impose imposing the law. >> right. some don't at any rate? >> i think a majority don't. >> my own feeling is because they don't understand it. the reason you have got to have it that way is as conservatives were the first to say and the heritage foundation was the first to propose, if you want everybody covered, everybody has to be in the pool. >> absolutely. i am not arguing the merits. i would say the white house and barracks barack obama did not do a good job selling this. >> absolutely. i absolutely agree with that. but can't the -- don't you see it, the president, then, can can -- i mean, use that effectively? in 2012? say, hey, you know, i put it out there, and even this supreme court agrees. ? >> this supreme court, yes. >> before we move on, james is calling from up in buffalo.
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welcome james to the program. >> pertaining to the president yesterday, what did anybody expect him to say? it's hid it's his landmark legislation that is up for -- up on trial now if you didn't put a positive face on it t i mean, you know, people -- >> i think that's a good point. >> yeah. >> what's the president not going to say? hey we are going to lose this baby. >> got my attention, though. last week when the white house put on a statement in support of their solicitor general, highly unusual, mr. verilli. who even knows who the solicitor general is and they put out like a two-paragraph statement which put me on notice that they were very concerned and felt like they needed to control the message on that. >> the president goes before the associated press to a luncheon.
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the white house somehow, somebody told michaelen at politico that the white house is going to use caustic memorable language to attack the paul ryan budget. >> my goodness. president obama. make me clutch my pearls. big campaign coming up. we see the president getting into full-throated comeampaign mode. i thought it stimulateing to see him engaging with republicans. i think that's what the base wants to see as well. >> don't you think? he sees an opportunity here in the ryan budget. >> yeah. >> cuts medicate in half. this ends medicare as we know it, cuts the programs for the poor. gives the wealthiest a big tax cut. it seems like he is saying bring it on. >> yes. they love that. it plays right into their useful narrativetive about the republican party, what the republican partiesy withes to do to the america. it plays to the base doesn't lay to the middle. >> shocking. shog shogging. you are telling me this is going to be a campaign speech?
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>> i know. i hate to be cynical this early in the morning. i know it bruises you. >> on your show later today. >> i don't know. >> my god. we do my show on the fly. it's very newsy, news of the moment. probably going to be playing president obama's speech if it happens between 12:00 and 3:00. >> got it. all right, julie mason you can hear her on sirius xm 12 to 3 every day, the press pool and that is podis, 124. >> 124. >> follow julie on twitter twitter @juliemason. >> thank you very much for having me on. >> come back again soon. >> yeah. >> you are willing to get up early? >> i will get up early for you. >> good enough. i will be back. the president isand tell you what the president is up to today. >> this is the bill press show.
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