rough the clutter. >>bill press and stephanie miller, current's new morning news block. weekdays six to noon. ... ♪ >> hey, good morning, everybody. and welcome to this wednesday, april 4th. welcome to the full-court press, your new show on current tv. liberal and proud of it. so for mitt romney, it's the triple crown yesterday. he won the primary in maryland. he won the primary here in the district of columbia. he won the primary in the big state of wisconsin. mitt romney is now halfway there in the number of delegates he needs to wrap up the republican

nomination. but mitt romney insists he is going to win in his home state of pennsylvania. maybe someone should remind him he lost by 18 points. so it's politics and more here this morning on the full-court press. we start off by getting all of the latest news out in los angeles from jacki checkschechner. >> good morning for mitt romney as he celebrates three primary wins. but also as bill mentioned, he is very much shy of the 1144 delegates he needs to clench the nomination. that hasn't stopped him from aking like he is the nominee. here he is talking about obama creating a government a government-centered society and accusing him of being out of tune with the american people. >> it's enough to make you think years of lying around -- flying around in air force 1 surrounded

by a staff of true believers telling you, you are great, it's enough to make you think you might become a little out of touch. >> that's a very similar accusation romney faces himself. the wisconsin primary gives us some insight into what we may see come the general election. the economic concerns trump social issues for them and it's imports to know the top quality they want in a candidate is someone who can beat president obama. as far as romney and tea party supporters, he beat santorum in that constituency and it's one santorum takes. as for rick santorum theon the 24th. he is looking forward to may and farther than that. he may be setting himself up for a run in 2016 and he is warning voters not to make the same mistake in 76 pats can up ronald reagan for the more moderate

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lot going on at the whitehouse. to bring you up to date on the latest from washington, around the country and around the globe here on the bill press show, live on your progressive -- local progressive radio talk show on xm sirius radio and brand knew on current tv and great to be here. thank you for joining us. look forward to taking your calls and hearing from you as you join conversation at 866-55-press. 866-557377. it was a triple win for mitt romney yesterday picking up probably about 90 delegates here in the district of columbia. a polling place right down the street from our studio. the maryland primary and the wisconsin primary which puts him halfway there. >> that's one of the things we will talk about this morning with you and the whole team press here i am starting with peter ogburn. good morning. >> good morning, sir.

>> how about it. dan henning in studio? >> hi. >> and siprian behind closed doors, our videographer and here we are. man, all i have to say is i am glad i was not living in lexington, texas or arlington, texas or anywhere around that area. did you see the videos? >> that video is amazing? >> big trucks flying up through the air, you know, lineke a scrap of paper and they had to say, that little thing is not a twig. >> that's an 18-wheeler. but first i thought they were picking them up off the 450i6r7. they were from a yardyard. they were from a yard. these trucks were parked in the yard waiting to go out. man. >> if you ever doubted the power of a tornado, if you ever wondered just how powerful a storm like that could be, the video of it just slinging around

an 18-wheeler, like you say. >> all of those things the video was all taken by these news helicopters. i wouldn't think they would be able to fly. >> i would not want to fly near a tornado. >> it could come your way. next thing, you are going up, you know, like a funnel like that. i have to tell you. what do you see do? this was all on i-20 right in the dallas area. what do you do if you are driving down the road and you see that mother coming toward you. >> look for the nearest overpass and go underneath the overpass. >> if you are stuck. >> in texas, that could be miles, a long way. you just brace. >> really? go under? >> yeah, you look for something solid. >> you want to look for something that's kind of a roof over it or some sort of a valley or something like that. but if you are in a car and stuck in traffic and a tornado hits, i mean i guess the only thing you could do is buckle up

and brace, you know, brace yourself. >> i hope you would already have your seat belt on. >> that's true. well, it was incredible and thank god, there was no loss of life, but a lot of people a lot of people lost their homes. man, bad news. our hearts go out to all of you in the texas area. we have a big line-up, richard trumpka, head of the afl-cio is go going to be here with us in studio. they endorse president obama. daniel stone from newsweek daily beast is going to be along as a friend of bill today. we will go to the hill a newspaper to find out what these primary wins mean for mitt romney. has he, in fact, wrapped it up. and president obama takes the gloves off yesterday on the paul ryan budget.

>> but first... >> this is the full court press. >> the other headlines making news, big win for baylor in the ncaa women's basketball tournament. >> thank you for mentioning that. >> beat notre dame. >> shame on us for not filling out women's brackets. i would not have picked baylor because i never heard of them before. >> sure. >> go ahead. >> they had a great season. they beat notre dame in denver 80 to 61 to win the and they capped off a perfect season a 40 and o record. >> baylor has a woman that can dunk brittany griner which is not something that happens in women's basketball. >> that's incredible. >> a 26 point, 13 rebounds and five blocks, an ncaa record. >> i would like to see her play anthony davis from kentucky. >> david letterman is continuing his late show program for two more years. cbs announced yesterday its contract has been extended for

2014. he has surpassed johnny carson as the longest running host in late night history. he has been in late night t.v. since 1982 and they extended craig ferguson's show. >> letterman is a legend. >> are you shopping at the best grocery store? if you live in the northeast and go to wegman's. they topped consumer report's list of the best grocery stores with trader joe's in the number 2 with meat and service quality and friendliness. whole foods not in the top 5 because of their prices. >> their prices are not comparable. >> they are building a wegmann's in my neighborhood. this is the most exciting thing that's happened to me in years. >> i have never been in a wegmann's. >> fantastic. >> there is one in peter county.

>> dees event prices. not great prices. >> like shopping whole foods? >> it's not quite as nice as a whole foods in terms of what they have, but the shopping experience overall is unparalleled. >> the rest the top 5 is public fairway. >> free coffee. >> cocktails, the worst grocery store. >> i love costco. >> the worst grocery stores halfmat, wal-mart and sean's. >> i never heard of those except wal-mart. >> yeah. >> regional chains just like wegmann's is. anyone watching or listening from the west coast, they have no idea what wegmann's is. >> best grocery store in the country. only in six states. >> really? >> from new york. >> somebody said they are the best. i am not ready to buy into that. all right. thank you. i am telling you, no doubt about it, the primary is over!

yeah. i mean, if you want the evidence of that, we got the evidence yesterday. the primary is over, number 1, because mitt romney has three states and rick santorum is sucking air. the biggest reason is president obama yesterday called out mit romney by name. he did so in a very powerful speech. the editors of associate press, they have a big luncheon here in washington every year and he, man i tell you he blistered them yesterday. in fact, we mentioned this yesterday morning. before the speech -- and you might have heard communications director dan pfeiffer from the whitous on the program yesterday morning. before the speech, the white house put out the word that the president was going to use, quote caustic, memorable language to describe the paul ryan/cran house budget. well, he delivered. he certainly delivered yesterday. he started out to the newspaper

editors with a little joke about being caught on open mic over at the nuclear summit in kria. >> it is -- korea. >> it is a pleasure to speak to all of you and to have a microphone i can see. feel free to transmit this to vladimir if you see him. >> good way to warm them up. >> transmit this message to vladimir is such a good line in any context? >> if you see vlad tell him i said hello. but then the president went right after -- and, you know, there is no doubt that he sees the republicans have staked their claim on the paul ryan budget. this is a house republican budget. they have passed truck driver two years in a row. it is antrocious document. it's a con game. it's a total fraud and it's a cruel budget to 99% of americans and the president called it out. >> the republicans running for congress right now have doubled

down and proposed a budget so far to the right it makes the contract with america look like the new deal. >> yeah. remember, newt gingrich called this budget, the first time around, social engineering, said it was far too extreme. the president picked up on that theme without crediting newt gingrich yesterday. >> it is a trojan horse disguise disguised as deficit reduction plans thinly-vailed social darwinism, antethetical for everybody. >> thinly-vailed social darwinism. this thing is so extreme and the republicans today are so extreme where they say no way, no how would we ever raise taxes and they wrapped themselves in the

mantle of ronald reagan either because they are big fat liars or because they are ignorant. i don't know which it is. but ronald reagan was not against raising taxes. ronald reagan still, today the biggest tax increase in the history of the state of california where i lived and worked for 30 years. i know the history there, the biggest increase in the state of california, still governor ronald reagan and when he was president of the united states, he raised taxes, signed off on new taxes seven out of eight years that he was in the white house. as president obama said yesterday, they glorify ronald reagan, hell they wouldn't vote for him today. >> did it multiple times. he could not get through a republican primary today. >> couldn't get through a republican primary today. finally, as the president pointed out, this budget is not just paul ryan's budget. this budget has been approved

not just by all of the house republicans who have voted for it again two years in a row. it has been embraced whole-heartedly by mitt romney. >> where are my potential opponents? governor romney said he hoped a similar version of this plan last year would be introduced as a bill on day one of his presidency. he said he is very supportive of this new budget and he even called it marvelous. >> that's a word you don't often here when it comes to describing a budget. >> i like that. >> that's a word you don't often hear generally. >> first of all, it's the first time he ever mentioned mitt romney's name in a speech and recognizing that he is going to be an opponent in november, and he also has -- i think it's a great way of just hanging romney for the pluto accurate he is --

poutocrat he is. >> how many people use the word "marvelous"? how many would use it for a budget? especially as the president points out and this is it. this is a budget that cuts food stamps, that cuts head start, that cuts every programstart, that cuts every program that would help the poor and middle class in this country thatr, that cuts medicaid in half, sends it to the states but that doesn't give the states the money they need to continue it, that guts medicare kills medicare, ends medicare as we know it, anybody coming into medicare now in the future will just be given a voucher that may or may not get you some kind of health care. and if it doesn't, tough. tough apples. you know, you are in the emergency room and the rest of us will pay for it so it kills medicare as we know it and provides a big new tax break to

big corporations and to the wealthiest people of america. >> that's it. and that's what the presidencies as -- that's -- john obtain says this is the vision of who we are as a party. the president is going to run against it. do you think it's going to work? 866-55-press. 8s 66-55-7377. he was in campaign mode. this is the barack obama that we know and love. this budget is what this campaign is all about it. as he put it. the choice is deciding whether america wants to give everybody a fair chance with government as a tool to help do that or whether we are content to let only the weltiest succeed? >> a clear choice. i think barack obama is on the right side of it 866-55-press. i think he is delivering the right message.

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trying to do. i think it can hopefully scare republicans to let the obama machine take care of business because he came over powerful. >> i thought he was in good form yesterday. but i loved it that he put it in context. right? as to this is the country that has always -- the reason we made it is because we made it possible for people in the middle class, you know, to improve their lives and earn more money and get more benefits from living in this great country and the way the republicans are going right now all of the benefits are going to the top, and the 99% are getting nothing. >> right. >> he said that's our choice. we have to decide which kind of america we want. and the ryan budget is the exact opposite. you got it, david. thanks for checking in. up to troop, pennsylvania, ruthie, good morning. >> good morning, bill. >> what's up? >> i enjoy your show immensely.

glad you are on the air. >> very kind. thank you. >> okay. you know what? the ryan plan is called a path to prosperity? i think it's called -- it should be called the path to poverty. >> absolutely. >> i wish the democrats would go out there, and i think that's a very good slogan. >> i like that. i like that. by the way, you know, ruthie we are going to see how well santorum when he comes home to pennsylvania, having lost there by 18 points to bob casey the last time he ran nationwide. it is -- you know, you think about -- and all about the ryan plan is supposedly? these are the deficit hawks? they are frauds. they are total frauds. the ryan plan will not even balance the budget until 222 and then only because he says we would have $800,000,000,000 a year if we close tax loopholes and he doesn't mention one of them.

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at their website, ironwork -- wwwironworkers.org. we go into the -- it's big primary night last night. of course, here in the district of columbia. next door in the state of maryland and out in the state of wisconsin and after it was over both mit romney and rick santorum took to the mic phones. rick santorum had the big spin of the night to enjoy the rick santorum with all of us let's welcome here political staff writer for the hill, a newspaper, cameron joseph. thank you for getting up early for us this morning. >> no problem. thank you for having me. >> we usually go in the spin room here at this time of the morning and our favorite spin from yesterday is rick santorum with his supporters out in wisconsin last evening. let's listen. >> we have now reached the point where it's halftime. half the delegates in this process have been selected.

and who is ready to charge out of the locker room in pennsylvania for a strong second half? >> well not exactly halftime for rick santorum? is it. >> man, it feels like this might be his third come back out of retirement. we are getting to the point where it's starting to look like michael jordan. is this a rough period for him? i think you heard it in the speech. he sounded beaten. he sounded exhausted. he was stumbling over his lines. he didn't sound like a candidate who really truly had fire in the belly any more. it seems like he was one of the guys trying to hold on. but i think he is a notoriously stub orrinborn guy. he is not going to have party stalwarts saying you should get out of this for whatever reason. i think what is happening is polling is very close in pennsylvania, his home state, in

three weeks. if he starts to realize, man, i am probably going to lose my home state again after finally after exercocising the ghost, he is going to realize the hard work he has managed to pull off. we know his name in the last few months. it could all go down the drain with another loss in pennsylvania and that might convince him to get out. i talked with one of his close friends, a state senator and he was saying the same thing. he is a realist. he doesn't have his head in the clouds. he is making it sound like he was very confident about the chances. he is still ahead in the last two polls but not by that. >> not that much. romney hasn't started the blitz yet. >> exactly. romney is going to be all over the state. the super p.a.c. that backs romney has been calling around the t.v. stations trying to figure out how much it's going

to cost to blankibility the air waves. >> if it's halftime for anybody, it's for mitt romney. mitt romney the numbers i saw, picked up 80 something yesterday out of 92 at stake in the three states or two states and the district. so he is now at 655 delegates. he is now more than halfway to the 1144 that he needs santorum is trailing with 498. the bottom line here is romney is going to be the nominee. santorum is not. right? >> i think that's exact right. it's not over until the fat lady sings, but she seems to be warming up her voice. i don't get the sense -- i mean it was a delegate count when romney wanted a delegate count.

now that the other candidates want it to be a delegate account, i don't think it is. it's a sense of its really very difficult for the candidates not only to come anywhere close to romney which he has been able to do for a while but for 44. when a strong win in wisconsin, plus the fact that he, i think, won every single delegate in maryland. >> i don't think so. >> fact that romney in dc won every single delegate, he got a lot of delegates and i think if things had gone different in wisconsin, if santorum had managed to get around half the delegates there and that was a state santorum should have done well. it's very civil democrats, the voting patterns of the state. there was a lot of popular blue-clar catholics. there is a lot of fairly religious folks in the north of the state. what we are seeing is really the

only people voting for santorum are rural voters evangelicals, and he no longer has a coalition. he just has the states. romney has culled to the tea party vote conservatives. tea partyers don't love romney but they realize they don't like santorum or gingrich either. >> the "new york times" has a little breakdown this morning from exit polls which are not orously not always accurate but they give us a pot ratliff of who is voting and why they are voting the way they do voters who said the most important quality for a candidate is he can defeat president obama. right? sixty-eight % of them -- this is wisconsin -- went -- and you are from wisconsin. right? >> i am from chicago but a lot of my family is from wisconsin. >> so you must have talked to a

lot of people out there, and you have a good sense of where the primary was going. the candidate when you say the quality that matters most is that person can defeat president obama, 68% of them won't for romney. 23 for santorum. this is one that surprised me: tea party supporters 55% of the voters said there were tea parties for republicans in and out and 48% went for romney and 37 percents went for santorum. these were the people that were supposedly didn't like mitt romney because epwasn't conservative enough. right? >> exactly. i think they still don't like mitt romney but they are ready to say, okay, we don't love romney but who we hate is president obama. and early on, there is a group a tea party group freedom works called campaign to defeat barack obama and they were threatening with an ad campaign.

>> yeah. >> i think they ran one ad in iowa and said we are not doing it anymore. those type of folks pulled bunch p while they don't like mitt romney, they haven't warmed up to anybody else. the tea parties are saying we want to beat obama. romney has run hard to the right. and i think romney might have slightly mended some fences with the hard right of the party. there is a lot of talk of immigration. it's far to the right now. and obama is hitting hard on this. hitting hard on this. it's going to be hard immigration. the dream act is hard with hispanic. i think that will matter and a

lot with suburban female voters and the soccer moms that tend to be the swing vote in a lot of states like colorado and virginia. they are hard on unions. you saw him talking about union bosses and podism. that can hurt him in wisconsin, they say we are not paying that much attention to the primary. more people find the vote the democratic gubernatorial primaries who voted last night in the presidential recall race. the hot issue has been ohio where they asked to recall the anti-organized labor, and in michigan one of romney's former home states, talking about bail-outs. >> let me jump in. i want to come back to wisconsin for just a second here what do you hear from your friends,

family in wisconsin about the recall? do they have a shot of dumping scott walker. >> a very good shot: i think it's going to be interesting how this plays out because a favorite of unions can jump back in. he lost to walker in 2010. so he is a little more 7tristcentrist. as this gets -- young people are worried. it gets to be contentious. it might hurt their chairs but he has been careful not to really attack. my sense is if they get through this primary without anybody coming out with any scratches,

that is -- they hate walker: walker got into office last year, i think -- >> as soon as they could do the recall, they had the petitions circulating. cameron, thank you for your time. cameron joseph, staff writer for "the hill." follow him at thehill.com. it's full-court press, wednesday, april 4th. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ >>make your voice heard. >>detremined to find solutions. >>that partnership in order to invest in our country is critical. >>driven to find the truth. >>how did romney get his groove back? >>fearless, independent and above all, politically direct.

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politics, this is the bill press show. >> 13 minutes before the top of the hour, the bill press show. president obama taking the gloves off yesterday, guns ablazing on the paul ryan budget in a speech to the associated press. he called it thinly-vailed social darwinism and tied it right around mitt romney's neck. do you think this is the right tack? call out romney. call out ryan. make sure people understand what is in that budget. make sure people understand this is where republicans have staked their claim for 2012. this is what they want to run on: gutting all social programs, gutting all programs for the poor, and for the middle class and giving huge new tax breaks to the wealthiest of americans and the big corporations. >> that's who they are. i thought the president took a

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>> only crazy people. >> i haven't. talking about marco rubio, mitch daniels, bob portman. >> yeah. >> hear that all the time. >> chris christie? >> talked about it. >> nikki haley? maybe she ought to go hiking on the appear appalachian trail. >> mark sanford. carol are and are going to virginia to a great park there near paris, virginia where we like to go hiking, and it leads up, one of the trails leads up to the appalachian trail. >> you travel up there. >> we are looking for mark. he might show up with a brazilian bomb shell. anneet a calling from the great state of texas. >> hi, bill. love your show. >> good. thank you. love you. >> thank you. i have a comment concerning the

ryan budget like the bush budget on steroids. >> that's right. it's worse than any bush budget. >> yeah. it's worse. the point is, is that why are we going back to this? this basically just destroyed our country in every way possible. i mean thank god for obama. i don't understand how people don't get this and i don't understand why the obama administration is not making a bigger deal about it. >> they have been holding back i think, anit a is the answer. they have been holding back until campaign gets underway but yesterday was the launching, if you will of the obama counter-attack and i thought he did it effectively. they may not use it again but you i thought the president's gee of 2008 was great and it holds true today. these are the guys that drove the car into the ditch. right?

we finally, got the car out of the ditch back on the road and they want us to give them the keys to the car again? forget about it. right? we are not going to do it. thanks, anita. carol is calling from down in -- help me out. mochopoka, obamaalabama? hi, carol. hello, carol. do we have carol? >> yes. >> yes hi, carol. there you are. hi. >> yes. >> is it really -- carol turn your radio down. okay? please? >> yes, sir. i got it down now. >> all right. now. how are you doing? >> glad to talk to you. >> how are things in lochapoka. >> you pronounce it well. >> what do you think about this budget? >> i think the budget is no good. i think ryan is a very right-winger, a right-winger and i am glad the president is staying strong. i want him to stay strong and positive and focus on what he needs to do for our country. i think he is doing a great job and i would like to see him do 4

more years. >> i think he got off to a great start yesterday. i agree with you that paul ryan is a right-winger and he is a right-wiener. we will call him that from now on. >> this is the bill press show.

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daily beast, a friend of bill in the next hour. comments from facebook and twitter. this on facebook about our selling guns to mexico. i talked about that yesterday, my parting shot ely walling says, here is the answer legalize -- legalize it, making marijuana legal with essentially -- would essentially knock the wind out of the cartel sails. it's their bread and butter. if weed were legal, i can only imagine what jobs would open up in mexico take their needing to have the weapons away from them. i think that's a pretty good idea. i am all for making marijuana legal, but i just can't get over lochapoka, alabama. have you ever been there. >> i never have. >> field trip. i am all for it.

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horse andtrojan horse. he mentioned mitt romney by way. campaign 2012 is underway. buckle your seat bolts. here we go. >> that's one of the political stories we will be talking about. first, let's get the latest current tv news update from jacki schechner. >> hi, bill. good morning, everyone. we have got the presidentest hosting a prayer breakfast, going to have christian leaders attending, and vice president biden will give a speech. later in the afternoon, he will sand the stop act, stop trading on congressional knowledge for congress to use the same insider trading rules as everyone else. now the bill has passed with bi-partisan support. what's not garnering bi-partisan support, however, are rising

student loan prices. interest rates are set to double this summer if we don't do anything about it. the white house and democrats want to pass a bill that keeps the rates where they are now. but republicans are saying that's going to cost a billion dollars and we can't afford it. consider this: treasury bonds at 2%, mortgage rates are at 3.8%. and if the stored loan rates are 6.8% in comparison. 30 students pepper sprayed at santa monica college as they protested budget hikes. the police believe the crowd was out of control. five people were taken to the hospital. no reports of serious injuries. the college said it was the first time that pepper spray has been used on campus. if you want to chat about this or anything else join us at current.com/billpress. more coming up. we will be right back.

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you for being part of the program. we have got a lot to cover today and we've got big help doing so here in studio with us as a friend of bills this hour. right from the white house, daniel stone covers the white house fromor newsweek daily beast. good morning, daniel. >> good to be with you. this is an exciting new day for your show. >> how about it? you are privileged to be here. >> absolutely. i even wore a tie. >> i know. show me out. and last time we were together was in the rose garden a couple of days ago. place-dropping here with president calderon and president obama and prime minister harper stephen harper from canada. >> you, too. >> lots to talk about. you join, of course, team press here, peter ogburn with dan henning and siprian boulding our videographer. and of course, our listeners and viewers are part of the conversation at any time.

give us a call. our toll-free number is 866-55-press. and we will tackle all kinds of issues in the next hour. it was not such a big night for rick santorum last night. >> uh-huh. >> but he still shows that he had a lot of fight in him and he is not giving up yet. here he is last night for supporters in wisconsin. >> the people of this country have stood up and followed because they have seen someone who has a clear, positive vision. >> that's me. >> someone whose convictions are also forged in steel, not on an etch-a-sketch. >> he had to get it in. for a minute like he could have been talking about romney until he said the etch-a-sketch. >> 4 years, he said if you want to vote for a conservative vote for romney. >> he is getting more use out of

his etch-a-sketch. >> we will here that i think not only in in this election every election, that will be a buzz term for a leader who has no principle, the leader who flip-flops. etch-a-sketch is en gained in our political cult tour and dialogue. how else can he state it so simply, so clearly, this is someone you can shake up and rearrange. >> it's the new "flip-flop." >> there it is. we have made political history. all right. so daniel stone in the studio with us, a friend of bill this hour. we will be we will be joined by joe ciceroni, our guru with the plow shares fund. at the top of the next hour richard trumpka, the head of the afl-cio, america's top labor leader will be in studio with us as well but first, dan. >> full-court press. >> levi johnston becoming a father for the second time. the man who impregnated bristol

palin in 2008 has been together with his girlfriend for a year and a half, sunny oglesby, a 3 preschool teacher about three. bristol's tripp is 4 years old. >> is this guy a one-man stud farm. >> this is not at all surprising. levi. >> how is a pre-schoolteacher who is in charge of other people's children being levi johnston's. >> a lot of questions. >> a new headliner for the correspondent's dinner in june politico confirming wayne brady will take the stage following louie ck. brady is known for cleaner comedy from whose is it anyway let's make a deal. >> that pend lum swing in the complete opposite direction. >> louie ck who is a dangerous

hyper cometic. >> pretty safe. >> bring back rhonda sykes. >> titanic is coming out. >> funny. >> titanic is coming out in 3d. there is one question. >> the same ol' 1. >> same ol' 1. >> not the same ol' 1. it's in 3d. >> cameron, there is one change besides the extra dimension of the 3d. >> stars. >> stars have been overhauled in this movie. >> how could you overhaul it? >> director james cameron changed the night sky appearance in a theme close today end where kate stairs at the stars. an astro physicist complains

they are not aligned right. >> a nerd. >> the stars in the sky will be in the correct for where they were at 4:20 on april 15th, 1912. >> dear mr. cameron, i was watching your movie, the titanic. i noticed the stars were not in the proper alignment. a dork. >> wait. wait. wait. you mean you didn't notice? oh, man, i have got to tell you. all right. good. thanks dan. daniel stone, at the north american summit yesterday, the tres am ig 0s, the first question came to president obama as dan pfeiffer joked on our show, he was surprised the first question: can you comment on all of the achievements of our north american summit, the first question was a good one. >> yes. >> mr. president, your health care plan is up in front of the

supreme court. are you ready for the thing to be overthrown basically is what juliana goldman and the president said he was confid event it was going to be upheld. >> he came out swinging. he was in korea when most of this was going on last week. at the supreme court, everyone was very very much on his side. and after the argument everyone was very very much against him and said this is going to go down. there is no way this is going to stand up. the white house could do all of the spin and they did. they got out there and they said to all of us no, we are confident. we have no back-up plan but when the president comes out and says, they will not take this step. they will not do this unpress dented thing and overturn this law which is duly constitutional, passed by a majority of both houses. they won't do it, itt seemed like he was starting his pr campaign early in case they do do it. >> it was the first time he, himself, has spoken out. you are right. we are in the briefing room, it's one thing to here jay

carney and josh earnest say that but for the president to say, no, i am confident. i thought it was interesting that he added kind of two wrinkles to the conversation. one was the human element. >> uh-huh. >> don't forget, you know, with all of this talk about constitution constitutionalty, there are real people. >> people's grandmothers, kids who can't get health insurance, 40 million, sites the number. yeah, trying to put a human face on it. >> he said don't let that get lost in the discussion and the debate. and secondly, he threw out this phrase judicial activism. it was very telling. >> he used it to demagogue his opponents. he said we have heard them decry judicial activism on the bench. this would be a clear case of this. if they overturn it, we could say they are makingpom, overturning plurality of the united states to make this law,

you know, clearly it would be very hypocritical. like i said, he is making that argument before he might have to. >> right. there is a theory among court watchers here, those who really follow the court that roberts recognizes that this court is at risk of really being known forever as just a partisan rubber stamp court. maureen dowd in "the new york times" this morning, her column "men in black." this court has junederred even the -- squanderred even the semi illusion it is the unbiased guardian of the constitution. it is run by hacks dressed up in black robes. so there is a theory roberts knows what is going on after citizens united and bush v. gore and this is a test to show they can do the right thing and

resist political pressure from the right. >> right. >> and, therefore, will uphold the law. >> do you think there is any any -- i mean not really because, you know, i don't think john roberts is saying i would normally think this way but because i am worried about my legacy. it sounds like they are going to overturn it and that provides challenges and opportunities for the white house. you know, you can never tell just from the oral arguments so listening to the questions, you can never say, it's clear it's going to be 5 to 4 in the direction of overturning the mandate, but i think many of them have their minds made up. i don't think the oral arguments made up their mind but two years of making these arguments, reading dozens and dozens of briefs, you can probably tell where they are going to come down. kennedy and roberts seem to be the deciding justices. >> do you think it's go to be a return? i am telling you 6-3 to uphold

it. >> noted. >> noted and we will see how that turns out in june. now, the president yesterday going from the rose garden goes yesterday to the associated press luncheon. >> uh-huh. >> and he really came out swinging. >> yeah. >> with guns ablazing. there is no doubt he sees this, don't you think, as the ryan budget, as the foundation basically of the 2012 campaign? >> right. he is not going to forget that. the timing was ripe for him to go outright after the house passed this budget. very, very extreme right-wing budget and this, you know, because this is the platform for the republican party for the whole year and it's going to go after it. but, you know, several senior administration officials did a briefing on monday when they previewed the president's week ahead and they said this speech make sure you watch this speech coming up on wednesday, yesterday. i'm sorry. on tuesday. >> tuesday. >> yeah, yesterday, because they said this is going to be one of the biggest ones.

there was the speech in kansas last year where he drawed out his vision and the state of the union where he sort of doubled down. this is where he is drawing in contrast. the real contrast to say this is them, not just goofy republicans being goofy. this is a real threat to us now real ideas that they have and they are, you know, a real danger that we could face. >> he did that. >> uh-huh. >> called it thinly-veiled social darwinism, a trojan horse. it's not just that the house republicans have passed this budget, but john boehner said this is who we are as republicans. right? >> uh-huh. >> this shows -- this is a vision of our party. >> right. >> mitt romney embraced it, called it -- well, peter do we have that clip of the president where he mocks mitt romney a little bit about -- and mentions mitt romney for the first time by name? >> one of my potential opponents, governor romney has said he hoped a similar version of this plan from last year would be introduced as a bill on

day one of his presidency. he said that he is very supportive of this new budget. and he even called it "marvelous." that's a word you don't often here when it comes to describing a budget. >> wait for the punch line. >> it's a word you don't often hear generally. >> that's a good line i thought. >> it is a great way of mocking mitt romney. don't you think. >> yeah. >> romney said i want this on my desk so insign it t it's marvelous. john boehner says it's a vision of the party. the republicans this is where they stake their claim? this is. >> this is their budget, their vision, their platform for the next year. romney is going to run on this. the house republicans are going to run on this and mitch mcconnell is going to direct his senators to try to recapture the senate by running on this document. it's very central. >> that's a fight i think -- i think the american people -- i know president obama is ready

for it. i am ready for it. i think it's i think it's a clear choice. if you look at that vision versus what he is saying is a land where everybody has an opportunity to move up maybe with the help of a little government help if you need it versus an american where all of the benefits go to the top and that's the ryan plan. daniel stone here, we are talking health care. we are talking the president and his blistering attack on the ryan budget yesterday. that and other issues we will get to, too, with your help and calls at 866-55-press. happy wednesday, april 4th. ♪ >> this is the bill press show. >>it is an independent progressive voice and i love that. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. a former two term governor. >>people like somebody who's got 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?

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>> on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> you got 25 minutes after the hour. happy wednesday, joe cicerioni. daniel stone is here from newsweek, daily beast. we invite you to join us by phone. 866-55-press. that you for watching. thank you for listening. jump into the chat room. it's a lot of fun. daniel, all kind of people get in the chat room. >> i bet. >> and they are talking, you know, about what we are talking about, talking among each other. and it's a whole big kind of community town hall every morning. check out the chat room at current.com or bill press show.com. can you take a call, sir? >> sure. >> all right. how about this? fidel is calling from jersey city, new jersey. good morning. >> good morning, gentlemen. >> yes, sir. >> you know as i was telling your screener, i want to remain

hopeful and optimistic of course because my livelihood depends upon it. however, i want you to tell me, please, where is the evidence that mr. obama will fight as he just said a minute ago that he is ready to fight against mitt romney? where is the evidence obama will fight when in the past we have seen him cave on health care we have seen him cave on rolling back the tax cuts for the millionaires. we have seen him when he has handled guantanamo and the wars. so, you know, i want to have a little bit of evidence as to what you are saying that makes you hopeful so i can share in that optimism. >> all right. i think that's an excellent question because there is fodoubt about it, that those of us who worked our butts. off for president obama or for candidate obama had have been disappointed. he has disappointed us several times, with the public plan option as fidel mentioned.

he did cave on the tax cuts, which i couldn't believe. >> fidel, you mean on health care he didn't get a single-payer. >> he gave up on the public option. first of all, i think we have seen a tougher obama in the last year. i give you my take. i think we have seen it on jobs. he did not cave on the payroll tax cut and he got what he wanted. i think he learned a lesson there. he did not cave on the debt ceiling, and he got what he wanted there. and when it comes to campaign time, he's a phenomenal campaigner campaigner. >> uh-huh. >> i think he really -- he is going to fight because he wants another four years. >> right. i mean fidel, you probably heard his speech yesterday. that was the most campaign-like we have seen him in many years. but look. he ran as two types of candidates. he said i am going to be the great concil80or and bring washington together and as a liberal. he said i will get us health care. i am going to end the wars. i am going to catch bin laden.

those are two different visions as he had to straddle those lines. he can't go too far to the left. in a second term, though, as he told dmitri medvedev he has more liberty. >> i think for the first three years he's been -- we have spent too much republican trying to be the great concil80o, thinking he could work something out middle of the road with john obtain and mitch mcconnell and they are total extremists. i think the president got burned, and he knows that. and so it's no on. i think it's going to be his own man and push hisina gentry a and particularly fight to get re-elected and particularly, once he is there for another four years that he doesn't have to run again, caty-bar the door. >> you can feel hopeful, fidel. >> all of us can. daniel stone in the studio.

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dangerous parts of this budget. >> the ryan budget increases budget. this is part of the republican talking points during this election campaign the budget the president is proposing in defense in my view is still too large. we are going to be spending something like $650,000,000,000 on defense, the department of defense, the wars in iraq and afghanistan, new orleans weapons complex. it's a lot of money on defense and the ryan budget want to add more. >> you mean so already, the obama budget would be this 600 billion? >> yeah. already way above cold war levels. we had a 10-year ramp-up in 2001 and steadily increasing the defense budget. the president's budget proposes a small cut, about a $5 billion reduction from last year's budget but still way above

historic norms. >> ryan is putting more money into the penta gone than the generals are even asking for? >> more money, more programs fighting for. it's stuffing an already over-stuffed goose. >> is there any time daniel, when it's time to cut the pentagon budget. >> not in paul ryan's vision. there was an episode last week where he said he knew more about the pentagon's budget than a lot of the generals. they cannot be trusted because they have a stake in the game. they have their horse in the race. he wanted to be the one to create that budget. i wonder joe you have looked at this budget. you have looked at the budget. is it as clear as democrats and president obama argue that defense spending is going up at the expense of medicare medicaid, social programs? is that clear? >> let's be perfectly candid

here, the president has not cut the defense budget at all. even the trim is forced by action that congress took when they passed the budget control act. that mandate, the half trillion dollar cut in the next 10 years so the president's budget is in response to that. what's the imbalance you see in the budget and the fight that's taking place between obama and ryan and the g.o.p. is of the tax cuts. and this is what the ryan budget talked about. this is what they prioritized, cutting the tax cuts, cutting the revenue and the way they make it up is slashing the middle class and working-class programs. >> and they also say they make it up with $800,000,000,000 a year closing tax loopholes. but, of course, you ask which loopholes are you closeing? and paul ryan says stay-tuned. yeah. i mean it's show. >> both parties face a choice. this is where you see, you know,

president obama coming up a little short. he campaigned. he made a center piece of his administration from the beginning, from three years ago april, 2009, we went to prague and gave his first foreign policy speech about reducing nuclear weapons and moving towards a world without nuclear weapons but his budgets have not caught up with that. the budgets are being caught up by those set by the bush administration for replacing nuclear weapons with a completely new system of nuclear weapons, hundreds billions of dollars, at least a trillion over the next 30 or 40 years on weapons that are obsolete or irrelevant to the challenges that troops face in the field. >> even that is not enough for the republicans. joe, one thing you haven't told me when we talked about before but not in a week or so and that is the situation with iran. yesterday, the -- all of this

talk about maybe an israeli strike which the united states would say don't go there. that is not going to help. yesterday, the foreign minister of israel came out and said, a strike on iran would be a nightmare. >> a nightmare. >> barack? >> lieberman. >> okay. yeah. he said this would be -- if god-forbid, a war with iran breaks out, we will all be in it. >> is he speaking for netanyahu or is he off of the reservation. >> this is one of the untold stories. it's prevented. israel thinks this or israel wants this. well the polls show half think a war with iran would be a disaster as this minister said. within the security establishment, the intelligence chiefs, military chiefs do not want to go to war with iran. as the former head of massad

said a couple of months ago, a war with iran is the stupidest thing he ever heard, it would set back israel's interests by 10 years. >> who pushes it? >> netanyahu. so why? why is he pushing this? three possible reasons: one, it's not about iran at all. it's about palestine. it's about the way they go on the offensive and alleviate american pressure to come to the peace table with palestine or stop the settlement. if so, that's worked brill "ly." no pressure from the u.s. andon palestine. the second is it's about increasing diplomatic pressure on iran. toughest sarpingsz on any state and we are about to get tougher on iran. the third is he actually means itnctions on any state and we are about to get tougher on iran. the third is he actually means it it. >> which would be totally reckless? >> it is -- he thinks it is the right thing to do but this would be a war unlike any we have seen. the former commander in chief of

the central command said if you liked the iraq war, you are going to love the iran war. >> can you imagine? >> no. >> the president also said, you know, one of the factors in this is oil. >> yes. >> and the supply of oil from iran. the president yesterday on -- last week, i think it was, one of the energy speeches didn't get much attention. it indicated we now have enough other sources of oil that the world market would survive well and gas prices would not % necessarily spike were we to cut off the supply of oil from iran? >> he was required by law to make an assessment of this before he could impose a new round of sanctions and assessed that it was at last big enough that we could impose further sanctions on the iraq oil industry and safely make up the rest. that does appear to be true with increased production from other oil-producing states and hints we might use strategic oil reserve to release some of the

billions of barrels of oil we have in that reserve. >> where are we with the new sanctions? have they been announced? or are they about to be? a new round of sanctions coming? >> they are being phased in. they are multi-national, so it's not just the u.s. that's doing it, but in june and july, the european union will officially stop buying iran law. there are more bank sanctions as well. >> foreign policy is the issue right now, particularly iran. we will get into the pentagon the paul ryan budget which the president talked about yesterday. for the now shares now shares.org, joe cirincione. happy wednesday on the full court press >> radio meets television. the bill press show. now, on current tv. ♪

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>> we have a beneficiary edit. >> peter brown? >> american spelling multi-national. >> we welcome you to the program, thank you for coming in. i don't know where else to get this in the show this morning. i want to mention it now while you are both here i found this stunning: the "new york times" yesterday reported they have done a recalculation somehow of the casualties in the civil war in this country. and the total now dead in the civil war is up to 750,000. wow. isn't that stunning. >> wow. >> the position of the united states in 1865, i looked it up was 35 million. 35 million, we lost roughly a million people. close to a million people. >> one out of 35 people. >> no wonder we still talk about the civil war and still, you know, crowds go to the battlefield memorial. it was the worst war we have ever fought.

and it was among ourselves yeah. >> yeah. the worst of all was world war i which gets eclipsed but in terms of casualties. >> comparatively. >> but for this current tree -- >> not our casualties relatively light compared to the civil war. >> for the civil war, it's just -- i find that mind-boggling. >> it's funny -- not funny. you think of warfare now versus then, an entirely different con in respect. >> this is mono-a-mono. >> yeah. >> of course, i'm sorry i am being politically incorrect. i should call it the war of norman aggression. >> as a south carolynian, i appreciate the reference. thank you. >> joe, what's happening with syria? >> from a total amateur it looks like massad is going to get away from it, we are shifting our attention away from

syria and this brutal dictator will ride it out. >> it is a grim scenario. firing heavily on the mostly civilian protesters. there is an arms resistance to assad's assaults. can't match the armed forces of syria. he moved forces in. there is a glimmer of hope just a few hours ago, assad announced he would begin withdrawing his troops from those cities and recognizing a cease fire. the opposition if he did that. this is in accordance with a peace plan negotiated by kofi kofi anon, backed by the arab league, backed by a conference of nations just overed weekend. so there is some possibility this could work. the timeline is over the next 10 days. >> this has been a tough one for

obama, dan, because there has been pressure: we have to do something. we have to arm the opposition send in troops, send in drones or so far, he has been resisting that. >> right. he script and, you know, the u.s. intervention in libya. now folks are saying what about syria? do they get the same treatment. what does this mean? a cease fire? everything goes back to normal? it doesn't seem like many rebels are willing to put down guns and even if the leadership agrees to a cease fire saying we are done. >> it's hard to see assad turning the country into anything like what is it was before the rebellion began. actually i think it's unlikely that assad will stay in power. >> really? >> he wouldn't share power. he wouldn't agree to any part parliamentary -- >> there is a transition plan

being floated, a compromise way for him to withdraw. you are right, he hasn't been militarily defeated but the people protesting, they are not about to give up. they have seen casualties unprecedented in syria's history. nothing like this has ever happened in syria. this is not going to go away quickly. >> on the foreign policy, we always talk about the far east or the far whatever far east or the middle east the president was asked about the drug violence and killings down in mexico. he said, yeah, that's right. and he said we have seized 140,000 guns in the last four years those guns, most came from the united states, sold in the united states, brought south across the border and he said we counted 80,000 gun shops along the u.s. mexican border. so he said basically if you have

criticized us with the gun kill and violence in mexico, you better clean up your own house first. >> mexico has been pleading with the united states to control the automatic weapons that are flooded into mexico. thousands of these weapon systems, as you said there will ab battle and dozens of these weapons used between the cartels and police forces. the u.s. simply does not do it. we have tracking operations. we see what's going on. but because of the pressure from the pro-gun lobby in the united states we are unable to impose the restrictions that would stop this deadly export to mexico. >> you know what got me is how he stated it. the way he stated it, that there were -- >> he said 140,000 guns, he said there are enough gun shops, nine gun shops along the border for

every wal-mart. >> this is not an ad lib here this is something he feels deeply billion and the nextmexican people feel deeply about. >> the next day, the "new york times" did not even mention what calderon said about guns. nobody talks about gun control any more. we are wus. es. we are getting started. joe cirincione come back again soon from the ploughshares fund. >> danielstone, welcome from the newsweek daily beast. i will come back and tell you what the president is up to today. >> this is the bill press show. ♪

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>> yes, indeed richard trumpka, head of the afl-cio america's top labor leader will be here with us at the top of the next hour. president obama. this is holy week, and the president is marking that by holding an easter prayer breakfast with the vice president. after that, he and the vice president will get their daily briefing. he meets with his senior advisers and just about noon today, he is going over to the old executive office building next door and will be signing the stop trading on congressional knowledge act or the stock act that they have some jurisdiction over as a member of congress. a good measure and it is long overdue. jay carney has a briefing at 1:30 this afternoon. representing all of you, i will be there. welcome back jobs with richard trumka. >> this is the bill press show.

♪ >> good wednesday morning. welcome to the full-court press, your new morning show on current tv. i am bill press. liberal and proud of it. welcome to the program this morning as we tackle the big issues here in our nation's capitol, around the country and around the globe and of course the big political news is for mitt romney, it was the triple crown, won all three last night. he won the maryland primary. he won the dc primary. and he won the wisconsin primary. he now has well over 60 o'dell

gas, more than halfway to the 1144 he needs to win the nomination, but rick santorum says he is going to go on and win pennsylvania on april 24th. maybe someone should remind him he lost pennsylvania by 18 points the last time he ran. there is politics and more but let's get the latest news with the current tv news update out in los angeles from jacki schechner. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, bill. good morning everyone. let's talk a little bit more about the primary results. of course, mitt romney is basking in the three wins this morning. he won 70% in dc where rick santorum wasn't on the ballot. he won 49% in maryland. he was ahead of santorum by 20 points and beat santorum in wisconsin by five points. romney comes away from wisconsin getting support from some unlikely suspects. he won tea party supporters and

against strong conservatives and from lower income voters. those were constituencies he didn't have before. he didn't win the demo of conservative christians but he did gain ground. rick santorum isn't ceding any ground. he is calling this halftime saying half of the delegates and he is ready for the second half but he is moving the goalpost with the sports gee. he is looking ahead to may. before, he was just talking about april 24th and home state primary in pennsylvania. no guarantee he is going to win that. if he loses, there is really no other way of looking at it other than his last stand but if he does win and goes on to may he has friendly states like north carolina, nebraska and texas. we will have to see how that plays out. wisconsin and maryland dc and the economy, more important than social issues and republicans looking for someone they think can beat president obama. join us in chat

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still coming to you live on your progressive radio stations around the country. good to see you today. so happy to welcome in studio the president of the afl-cio, america's top labor leader who told "the washington post" in an interview published last sunday, he says, i am a worker. i think like a worker. i identify with workers. the battle keeps getting tougher, but it's still the same type of battle. welcome, richard trumka. >> bill, thaufrnlingz for having me on. >> nice to see you. nks for having me on. >> nice to see you. i am proud to be one of your members. >> glad to have you. >> you were down in florida with the afl-cio not so long ago and endorsed president obama for re-election. all right is it now, i know that the president hasn't delivered everything labor wanted. for example, the employee free choice act that was a number 1 priority when he took over the presidency and nothing happened on it. so why this enthusiastic backing? >> well, it's pretty simple.

the president has been a friend of working people. when you look at him -- by the way, the endorsement was unanimous, all 57 of our unions endorsed the president because he has been a friend with us. he inherited the bush economy turned that economy around. here is what i want people to think about. george bush came into office with a surplus in the economy humming along. eight years later, he left office and there were fewer jobs in this country than the day he came in. president obama -- >> 8 million jobs lost? >> yeah. 700,000 a month under his watch. so the best of times, he loses jobs. president obama comes in, in the worst of times the worse recession we have seen since the great depression and he has an opposition, the republican party just totally opposed to won't do anything to help him. he has created three million jobs during the worst recession. he has been a friend to us. he has helped working people

resurrected the nlrb osha msha so they protect the health and safety of workers. he has been there to reregulate wall street and when it comes down to being a friend of the 99 or a friend of the 1%, he has been appear friend friend of the 99%. >> in another area, it was reported a couple of days ago that auto sales for the last month were, i think the highest march maybe in 10 years or something like that. and that's another area where uaw is back and members of the uaw getting a bonus check, right, for their contribution to helping bring the auto industry back? >> here is the beauty of it t the auto industry is hiring again. they are bringing in workers because we are producing cars made in america that are quality cares and kicking the crap out of the competition because they are the best-made cars in the world right now. those workers are doing a great job, and they are working

together, and more people are now at work because of his efforts to save the auto industry. >> where mitt romney said? >> let them go. he doesn't care about those jobs. >> yeah. >> this is a guy from michigan right? >> yeah. from a lot of places, i think. >> so is the -- what do you hear as you travel around the country? i mean people feel that jobs are coming back, we are moving in the right direction? >> i think there is a sense of optimism jobs are coming back slowly. we are starting to see some call-backs in construction and in manufacturing and all of the other places. i think the recovery is still fragile, though. i am going to be -- we are going to have been careful and if we follow the austerity programs and policies that have been advanced by the republican party, i think it could snub out the recovery and go right back into a recession. >> that's why we are fighting so hard to make sure that that doesn't happen that something like the ryan republican budget

didn't get enacted. >> the president took after that. we will get to that in just a second. i would like to ask you about one thing we talked a lot about last week, we had secretary ray lahood last week about the highway bill. and so here in the past this has always been, republicans and democrats could agree on this. you have got to keep the goods moving, the roads and the bridges because that infrastructure is the foundation of any economic recovery. >> absolutely. >> and this time the best they could get out of the house was -- the senate passed a two-year bill. it used to be 5 or 6 years. the best the house could do was a 90-day extension. i mean and all of those construction jobs, workers construction companies, even the chamber of commerce was supporting it. how can you -- how many really make any business decisions when all you know is you have got enough money for 90 days. >> you can't. it is foolish. as you pointed out, this is a

bi-partisan thing, the transportation bill, the f.a.a. bill, all of those things because they were to build the infrastructure of the country. the democrats and republicans came together until recently until the last couple of bills when president obama was president. so you think about this. you have a $2.2 trillion deficit, infrastructure deficit with old infrastructure. you have a $2 trillion deficit with new stuff to bring us into the 21st sentcentury. we are becoming less competitive as a nation. infrastructure creates jobs. it will help the economy and yet they are fussing over it and won't agree because they are afraid to give what they would say is a victory for the president. it's not a victory for the president. it's a victory for america, putting us back to work and making us more comepetitive is a victory for the country and they are denying that. >> you look at what europe has done on high-speed rail and china and japan, and the president in his speech yesterday pointed out, don't

think this is a liberal democratic idea. abraham lincoln said we have to build the trans continental railroad. eisenhower said we have to build the interstate highway system. >> every president democratic and republican alike, ronald reagan has done infrastructure because it's important. we have gone from number 4 infrastructure in the world to number 17 in the last six years. >> yeah. >> wersteinth and dropping right now -- 17th and dropping right now. >> how can you -- you know i understand the jobs but it seems this is an issue in which the business community ought to be screaming loud and clear. >> the chamber of can commerce agrees with that. >> how long does that happen? >> once every other century. we really are. we agree. tom lanningham and i stood on the stage and said this infrastructure is essential for the country.

it's essential to make us competitive in the world. it creates jobs. there is no reason not to do it. we must do it. and still, the republican party, particularly the republican house -- >> the tea party people are running it. if he put the senate bill up there, democrats would have voted for it. it would have been a bi-partisan measure but he has to satisfy tea party republicans. the word i kept remembering throughout this whole debate was certainty. remember how they used to say we need business community certainty. you don't get much certain tea when you have 90 days to count on. right? the certainty is they are going to do the wrong thing every time. they have not going to do the right thing. they are going to do the far right thing. >> richard trumka president of the afl-cio in the studio. we will be glad to take your calls at 866-55-press. lots to talk to president trumka about. you have been talking a lot

about voting rights and the measures that we have seen popping up in various states, many states. >> yeah. >> to either deny access or make it a lot more difficult for people. what's going on? >> well, go back to 2010. after the election a group by the name of alec, the american legislative economic council. >> a coke-brothers-if you wanted operation? >> indeed it is did he have funded . >> they said that their goal was to reduce the progressive vote in 2012 by 10%. so they passed out all of these model bills these voter id bills. the two that have been struck down one in texas as and in wisconsin because they violate the constitution. by the way disappointment to

me, while they were being struck down, they just passed one in pennsylvania, a voter id law in pennsylvania. here is the irony of it. the cbs news called the state office that controls voting rights and they said in the last five years, how many people have been convicted of voter fraud or voter miss identification? >> in pennsylvania. >> in pennsylvania. the answer was zero. >> really? yeah. >> so it's all about trying to disinfranchise. if you visit wisconsin, i happen to know the figures, what the wisconsin law does or would have done. now that it's been enjoined. it would have eliminated and disen frenchised 78% of the african-american males between the ages of 18 and 24. 50% by. >> by requiring an id? >> yeah. they don't have a driver's license. they don't have an id. you know what else they did? they closed down the place where you get the id on saturday so in order to go there, you had to go monday through friday and take a

day off of work. it also disenfranchised 57% of latino women, 51% of the seniors in that state and 50-something % of the african americans overall in the state, not just the males. >> that's what it was designed to do. it was designed to lowe the vote. >> suppress vote? >> the founder of alec said in 1980, a quote and i will read it to you, says, "i don't want everybody to vote. as a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." "who. this is a group that wants to go against democracy because voting is the keystone of democracy. so that's what he said in 1980. >> rick santorum? >> right. >> alec? >> alec in 1980 and 2010, they were going to reduce the populace vote by 10%. >> to suppress a vote in the

communities. it sounds like in wifkz this was directly aimed particularly in that state of helping scott walker. >> absolutely. >> ahead of timein that state of helping scott walker. >> absolutely. >> ahead of time. getting these people so they couldn't vote. >> he will have his hands full. there will be two recalls. one for the state senate several senators. >> one said he is not going to run again. i don't know how that worked out. >> so four. we are even because we took two out the last time there was a recall and scott walker will be there. now, we are not foolish enough to believe it's going to be easy because the koch brothers are going to dump in millions and millions and millions of dollars and so will other. but i think the election is about the job that scott walker was elected to do and that was to create jobs and right the economy. i think he has about big problem. >> an accused victory for work families for the first time collective bargaining was put up.

>> absolutely. >> before the people. up or down? >> 70 something % said we support collective bargaining for workers. >> great, great victory. sent a big message around the country. president richard trumka of the afl-cio in studio. we have a chance to ask questions. here is your opportunity at 866-55-press. we have more to talk about on the jobs front here on the full-court press this wednesday morning, april 4th. so stay with us. ♪ >> this is the bill press show. is on the new news network. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. this former two term governor is politically direct.

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>> this is the full court press, the bill press show, live on your radio and current t.v. >> 24 minutes after the hour. the president of the afl-cio, richard trumka and your calls waiting here. we will get right back to our discussion about jobs and a very important issue to america's working families. first, a little reminder. i told you before about for those of you who are finding it hard to make ends meet at the end of the month the folks at incomeathome are the leading work-from-home business. doing business in 80 countries. they may be what you are looking for. no matter your age education or experience, you can do this. own money from your own laptop from your kitchen table 24/7. no pressure. all you need is a little spare time and the one-on hundred one

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>> you have bridges, potholes that cause people to wreck, water safety where water leaks out, and it is health and safety is a very important role and i appreciate, ron, you pointing that out because we take that sometimes for granted when we are talking about infrastructure. i think it's an excellent point. it helps out in the safety and makes us more efficient as a name. >> the other thing i keep coming back to and that's this idea of you know, the lead time. 90 days, these projects, these are big projects. right? talking about putting that high speed rail down the middle of california which i am so excited about. you don't do that overnight in right? it takes a lot of planning a lot of getting you're right of way and everything and then getting the equipment in place and then it takes sometimes some of the bridges how long and it

takes a couple of years to build this thing. >> it's a separate project we could talk about all day. >> china steel. >> but that was one of the problems with the stimulus program. the stimulus program said that the project had to be completed within 18 months and as a result of that, all of the big projects that really would have been big job creators were eliminated. if we ever had to do the stimulus program again, we would be able to he can up and down it out for the projects that are going to take two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight years. high speed could be included in that. >> more money in the stimulus the next time, too. >> absolutely. >> to the west coast here is chuck from portland or gone on kpoj. hi, chuck. >> hi, bill. from the northwest, i live in the greater northwest. if you take a ride from the northwest to southern california what you find is a conversation nobody is talking about and i need to get it out there is that 70% of the

business today in america are minimum wage jobs. papa's pizza malls, hotels warehousing, day care industry. >> in the interest of time i have your point. i want to get president trumka's response. what the about that? >> we are talking about jobs talking about creating good jobs because the minimum wage is way down. the republicans keep fighting it. we can't even index it to inflation so people making minimum wage can actually stay out of poverty. we need to do that and create good jobs where people are making more than the minimum jobs where you have collective bargaining, able to increase wages and benefits and get a bigger share of what you produce. i would like to thank both of your last callers, quite frankly for being up so all with the call and talking about two very, very important subjects. >> i want to thank you for coming in, the great work you are doing and leadership you are

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well, you hear a lot about all of the super p.a.c.s tonight and think it's all on the republican side. mitt romney whatever the hell of his pac is adelson had him for a while and rick santorum has foster freis and gillespie and the super p.a.c.s on the republican site but fear not. worry not, we are going at them on the democratic side and priorities prioritiesusa action. good to see you. >> i love what you have done with the place. >> you like our new camera? new background? how is it going? are people starting to recognize this is going to be a hell of a fight, it's not going to be a walk for president obama and getting serious about making sure he's got the resources?

>> things are picking up for us which is great. january we raised $50,000 february, we did better than that. things are moving on the right track. >> going in the right direction. >> we are on the right direction. but i will say i don't think democrats recognize the threat romney plays. this think look at that clown. there is no way he can beat. he is wooden, non-emotional, he can't connect with people but he could win. if he won, it would be a catastrophe. he is going to have the resources to do it. the question is whether or not democrats get engage to the point where we can match them. >> a lot of people are counting on the fact that the clowns we saul in the republican primary has taken mitt romney so long to seal the deal. even now after all of this time he is just a little over halfway there. right? >> right. >> people are counting on the fact when it comes to november, the tea partyers the conservatives of the parties,

the santorum people gingrich people are not going to get behind romney. >> that's wrong. they will get behind mitt romney. there is nothing more motivating than president obama. he won't be able to coalesce the groups on his side. president obama will. they all hate him so much. they will be energized. they will work hard to defeat him. for mitt romney, he is going to have probably as much as 1.6 to $17,000,000,000 at his disposal to help his campaign. >> wait. bill yon? with a b? >> billion with a b. look at what the rnc will have. he has his super p.a.c. restore our future karl rove's group crossroads going to raise $300 million, the koch brothers spending $200 million and these other groups. if it was that, that would be one thing. this week the petroleum industry put up to $4 million against the president in battleground states

across the country. the american future fund spent $2 million last week against the president. >> so when people say it's going to be the first bill yon dollar campaign, they are low bawling it. >> by billion, probably two to three or more. >> whoa. >> bill buffaloing them. >> even in washington, i guess that's real money outside of the defense department. but what -- so what are you doing at priorities u.s.a.? >> this week fighting back the koch brothers, the petroleum institute, what they have put on the air against the president. we have put a spot in the same states where the koch brothers are in advertising often as well in social media and getting at folks online during the day. what we do is we show how mitt romney is benefitting both financially and politically from the fact there are high gas prices. those oil barons folks in the

industry are pouring money into romney's campaign. >> that's how mitt romney benefits from the price gas prices are so high. we are trying to make sure people know the truth about mitt romney and the kind of agenda he would promote. >> we have a copy. ad. you can talk more about it on the other side. this is tying mitt romney to the industry, which we sort of know but it's good to reenforce it and make sure everyone knows where he is coming from. here we are, priorities u.s.a. >> smearing president obama, big oil. >> that's who. the money they make from high gas prices is going right into mitt romney's campaign. big oil executives have posted 200 million to help him. romney's pledge to protect fair record profits and their special tax breaks, too. these guys all profit. you pay the price.

>> yeah. when you are talking about a lot of people don't -- the koch brothers, they are oil bar options. >> koch industries. they have refineries, pipelines, their business. >> yeah. >> their business, their agenda is to get rid of all government regulations over the oil and gas industry at all. >> for them, it's an investment. $200 million is nothing to guys like the coach brothers. they put the points in the campaign and make it back five fold as he deregulates the industry and eviscrates the epa. on the democratic side, it's different. the people who support us in hollywood or silicone valley aren't putting it into the president's president's campaign to sell more movie tickets but putting it in because we care about the values that are importantly to us as progressives things, gay rates, the even environment education, all of those things protecting the middle class.

it's different on the republican side. >> that's what you see in this ad we are trying to demonstrate, if mitt romney is elected, the oil bar options win and they will get all of their money back five-fold. >> first term. you mentioned the koch brothers. you have to forgive but you know we talk about this in my new book, "the obama hate machine" is all about the koch brothers' operation and the smears against this president and the organization behind it and the points behind it. and one of the things i point here is if you look at how the koch brothers have spent their money, they have spent more money than anybody else together in american politics but it's all to their self interest. >> right. >> because they are buying politicians who are going to vote to get government off of the backs of the oil and gas industry so they can pollute more and make more money. >> that's exactly right. >> their money is making the spin for me, me me. right? >> they are could benservatives who strongly believe in some of the corps values and you and me

disagree with them but that's not what the koch brothers are. they are not doing this because they care about choice or gay rights or any of those things. they are doing this because it's an investment so they can make money. >> that's all about return on investment to those guys. >> bill burton in studio with us, the co-founder of priorities u.s.a. and you can follow him or follow their work and check out more about what they are doing and become part of the operation here you are not just accepting million dollar checks, i imagine. >> just yesterday we had about a bunch of 25, 50, $100 checks on our website where people saw our ad that's running across the country and the need to get involved and be a part of this. >> you always ask, you know, what you can i do? here is what you can do, check out prioritiesusaaction.org. or, like me, follow bill burton on twitter @billburton. >> area code in buffalo. >> at billburton 716.

from buffalo. >> wavelet blitzer, tim russert.olfe blitzer, tim russert. there is a bunch of us from buffalo. >> but lowians. buffalo caucus. it's a great town. we have a great affiliate out there with wwkb in buffalo. >> yeah. >> one of the strongest ones. we are talking about mitt romney. he is the nominee. let's face it. right? >> yeah. >> like bruce willis in the second half here. >> yesterday, yesterday, bill, the president of the united states for the first time mentioned governor romney by name in a blistering speech at the associated press where he took the ryan budget and said here it is. this is the republican vision, and that's contradictary, antethetical of anything we stand for the as democrats. there is your choice.

he set the tone. >> he did. it was a signal to voters. it was a signal to reporters. it was a signal to us on the left that this is where -- this is what we are up against. for mitt romney, you see him over the core of the primary took all of these positions outrageously far to the right and this partisan is going to be like the etch-a-sketch but the ryan budget is not going away because this is their blueprint for government. it's not just some small position. it is the architecture of what they want to do to this country. it's raises taxes on the poor and the middle class and cutting the middle class, like student loans, veterans benefits and it's all to cut taxes on the rich. and it's a joke to say that this is all for the deficit. it's not for the deficit. the deficit doesn't go down for 36 years. 36 years. so -- >> a shell game. >> it is a shell game. you know people say democrats

are fighting class warfare. if there is a class war going on washington, it's on the republican side and the rich are winning. >> as the president pointed out yesterday, this is not just something out there by paul ryan but we always thought they wanted to get rid of medicare. well now, they got the blueprint. they voted for it last year. they didn't learn anything. they voted for it this year. john obtain says this is the vision for the republican party. this is who we are. and mitt romney says i would like to see all of that contained in a bill that comes to my desk the first day i am president. they own it. >> they own it. they absolutely own it. >> from priorities u.s.a. action.org. glad to take your falls. the fight is on. campaign is on. bill burton is leading it, one of those leading it. 866-55-presses. the toll-free number if you want to join the conversation here on the full court press. >> this is the bill press show.

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to, too. can we say a quick hello, first to michael? michael is out on the -- up early on the west coast in portland, oregon. thank you for joining us? >> thank you, bill and bill. >> good morning, bill. >> good morning. >> i had a quick question for you. i am an f.d.r. democrat. >> awesome. >> i have a big question. it seems that there is a republican -- as if republicans are going to always stand by their man, and i think the democrats will also rally behind obama. but i wanted to know what you think the democracy was for the actual swing voters and how i might, as i go knocking on doors, meet them. what are they really interested in? why haven't they made up their minds? it seems i am preaching to the choir right now. >> michael good question. i take your answer on the air. bill? some people say it's 40%, 40%

and the 20% in the middle. >> i wish. i think it's closer to 48/48 and you have four % in the middle that you are really looking at. >> what are they looking for? what are they interested in? >> it's different for different groups people. we polling focus groups we did one with some folks who voted in the 2008 election, women who were not college educated and we went and we talked to them. and for those folks, the presidential election is barely even happening. they couldn't identify mitt romney if he walked into a room because they are focused on other things. >> that's where the economy is tight for folks. they are worried about getting their kids to school on time paying bills on time and that kind of thing. starting the conversation to make sure people know the truth about mitt romney with those groups of folks is important but for everybody, it's a little bit different. for hispanic voters which will be an important block of voters the president will likely win hispanic voters. there is no question about that.

the question is how big a margin. if et ceteragets over 60%, he will probably win this election. from that group of voters, the economy is important like it is for everybody else. obviously there are issues of immigration and things like that but i think the economy for people is very important and making sure people understand that, going back to the way george w. bush did things is a cat catastrophe for everyone involved. even the richer don't get richer in that scenario. you look at wall street. people are mad at the president in wall street but he has -- they have done pretty good compared to the bush administration. when there is a democrat in office, everybody does better. making sure people know there are consequences to republicans being elected ant the successes president obama has had. >> one of the things we have lacked in the past which is why i am so glad you are there and the work you are doing is getting the message out, you know, that republicans have a great message machine. they always have, you know we are now really getting there. you are one of the leaders in

that movement. one of the issues -- and we have about 30 seconds that i have to ask you about is you have been talking about is the republicans with this war on women. that doesn't help them with this 4%? >> critically important but what mitt romney did during this primary to come out against certain forms of contraception, to be so avidly anti-choice, the things republicans have done on women voters is going to come back to that you want him in a big way. when voters walk in the voting booth and think do i want a president who is going to appoint something like kagan or scalia, i think it will help make clear of the choices in this e welcomes. >> the last i saw, the president got an 18% advantage among women voters. priorities, check it out operatorsusaaction.org. don't just check it out. join the program. semmed your help to this effort to keeppom president obama in the

white house another four years and keep this country moving in the right direction. bill bur tonal, keep up the good fight. >> i will. >> i will be back with a quick parting shot. ♪ >> this is the bill press show.

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