my life. ♪ ♪ >> it is monday april 16th. good morning, everybody. welcome, welcome to the full-court press your new morning show on current tv. so good to see you. hope you had a good weekend. ready to dive into the big stories of the day. what about this? dick cheney says that president obama has been an unmitigated disaster. i mean: what? does he think we forget a 10 year war in afghanistan, an illegal war in iraq? i mean the bush tax cuts for the

wealthy, the patriot act, torture, the worst economic crisis since the great depression? the real unmitigated disaster for this country was george w. bush and dick cheney. man, that's just one of the big stories we have to talk about this morning. lots to talk about. but first, let's get all of the latest this current tv news update on a monday morning from jack jacki schechner. good morning. >> good morning, everyone. president obama is calling for a thorough and regularigorous investigation into a secret service scandal that broke over the weekend. eleven secret service officials and five military service members are accused of misconduct, including soliciting prostitutes, excessive drinking for the president's summit of the americas. both are investigating and the president says he will not pass judgment until the investigation is complete. but all 11 secret service agents are currently on administrative

leave. four congressional hearings will start on the general services administration accusations there has been incredible wasteful spending there. the general services administration is the real estate agency for federal buildings. two house and two senate committees are going to look into accounts that the agency fostered a culture of lavish spending. the information broke on this when there was reports of a conference in vegas in 2010 where the administration spent or the general services administration spent $823,000 on a conference. also today on capitol hill the senate will take up the buffett rule which the obama administration has been promoting heavily over the past week. it would require that millionaires and billionaires pay at least a 30% tax rate. of course, much more than the middle class, which is what they are looking for. as the rule passes only 210

taxpayers would pay more than they do now. join us after the break. more on bill press. ♪

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around the globe,blying bringing you all of the stories of the day at 866-55-press. you will find us in the heart of the action in washington, d.c., our nation's capitol where we are on capitol hill just six blocks down the street from the united states capitol building where the house and the senate come back into town today ready to tackle the big issues and ready to get to work, we hope. good to see you today. you are looking good. hope you have had a good weekend, and we welcome you to the program and western carolina welcome you and join me in saying hello to our team here, peter ogburn and dan henning and cyprian boulding behind the camera. good morning. >> good morning. >> everything good? >> everything is great. >> dan, you missed it, we were out at the game yesterday. >> heard it was a good time. >> mets game. peter ogburn was there with his kid kids. cyprian was there running around with his camera getting shots of

all of the enthusiastic fans. >> i heard how good the national baseball team was this year so i figured i would go see for myself. >> same thing. >> yeah. >> and they lost. >> they still in first place? >> yeah. >> it was a pretty good game you know. >> it was all right. >> it's better when they win. >> it's tough to come back from a grand slam at the top of the first that the reds racked up early. >> but they did come back, tied it up and then they lost in extra innings. i have to tell you carol and i same thing. you know what? we have to go to the game today. i will go online and get some tickets. went online, bought $250 tickets, thought we are going to splurge. within half an hour, i had an e-mail saying do you want a couple of tickets to the game? i have these great tickets. they were like $75 tickets. what are we going to do? i called peter he is already gone. called cyprian, he's already gone to the game.

we called probably -- couldn't reach you but finally, did. >> yeah. >> called at least 12 friends of ours. they were all gone already. they were all gone. man, this is going to be a big crowd. what are we going to do? we will try to sell the tickets? right? so we left early so we get there. we have these two extra tickets. >> did you scalp the tickets? >> i have got to hear this. >> neil king's advice was wake up to the ticket window, the box office right? or give them away. so we went a half an hour early figuring this is going to take awhile awhile. right? i wake up and this guy is saying, who is selling tickets? oh, no. you sold to that guy? >> and i said, i am. he said what do you go? i said i have these two tickets here, $50 tickets. he said 30 bucks. i said get out of here. he said 40. i said no. he said at least 50.

all right. here is 50. gave me 50 bucks for the two. i was ready to sell them for half price. >> you could have sold them for more. >> really? >> yeah. >> so he handed me 50. and they then he took off. now, did i break the law? >> i don't think so. these guys are doing it out in the open. i don't think there is anything -- i mean -- i had $100 worth of tickets and sold them for 50 bucks. >> then he turned those tickets around and sold them for more. >> he ran across the street with those tickets and handed them to somebody and that guy then was hustling to people coming along. i figure he probably sold them for 75. right? >> yeah. >> you know, it's this economy t got to keep this economy moving here okay. i was pretty sure i didn't break the law here. >> if you did break the law, we will know about it here shortly. >> you will have to wait until i

finish this show. all right? >> okay. >> helping us out, we will talk about arts funding. you don't hear much about it. it's a little bit later in this hour. margaret tolleff covers the white house for bloomberg will be along as well as john nichols from madison wisconsin on the recall of governor scott walker. >> but first, this is the full court press. >> on this monday, other headlines making news as expected, actual rose did not show up to the rock and roll hol of fame, guns and roses was one of several groups going in. surprising accident was rod stewart who called in sick while his former band was being inducted and he missed it back in 1994 because of an earthquake in los angeles at the time. the beastie boys red hot chili peppers and laura nyro were inducted. >> i guess we have to have a

little red hot chili peppers here? >> by the way, thank you very much for bringing in all of your red hot chili peppers cds ♪ >> all right. >> do we have a contest going today? >> we do. >> okay. cool. >> do you want to hear it? >> hillary clinton took some time off to the u.s. visit to colombia to let her hair down. the afp snapped a picture of her drinking a beer and dancing with her staff, along with friends, husband bill clinton. >> a party animal hilary. let her hair down. >> at a restaurant -- >> she is leaving anyhow. she has a half a year left. >> short-timer. >> in a restaurant in houston, texas, going all out for marketing the titanic's. to the lickers to the crystal

used by the ship's wealthiest passengers. >> the giant iceberg. >> they take a bucket of water and throw a bucket of water on everybody to make it real. >> cullen's restaurant a thousanded a plate includes truffles from france oysters from louisiana a 10-course meal. served on original china. >> i bet you they didn't have oysters from the titanic. from louisiana? >> yeah. >> got them there on helicopter. speaking of hillary, so every once in a while on our website, billpressshow.com. caption contest where we have a photo that we think is great. this photograph taken over the weekend down in -- no. this is in -- >> it popped up again because it talked about hillary being on the record and a party animal

and remember when she opposed with clinton but it's a fun photo to look at. >> absolutely. no. it's hillary in front of a statue of it bill clinton and he is waving and she is waving. so take a look. it's up on our website and send us your suggested caption for the photo. just go wild. you always do and we will read you some of the best ones on the air. okay. there you go. thank you, dan. yes, indeed and for our t.v. audience, look at these two big fat envelopes. for our radio audience i have in my hand -- do you hear them? -- two big fat envelopes addressed to the department of the treasury internal revenue service, and this one to the office of tax and revenue, washington, d.c. those are our taxes. not carol and i but for the bill press show paying our taxes today with a smile because my

attitude on tax day -- tomorrow is actually tax day but a lot of people will be filing today. my attitude is -- and i think it's the right attitude, not just because it's my attitude that we ought to be grateful for all of the wonderful privileges that we have as americans and this is the day where we show it by paying our fair share and i am more than happy to pay my fair share. i just wish everybody else would. some people today -- so i pay my taxes with a smile. taxes are the price we pay for civilization. taxes are the price we pay for living in the greatest country on earth. taxes are the price we pay for the privilege of being americans. and i hope you have the same attitude. 866-55-press. again, as long as everybody is paying his or her fair share. unfortunately, not everybody is. so today is going to be the vote

on the buffett rule which what perfect timing to schedule that vote today. it may slip over until tomorrow but it's scheduled for today. we have some tax news over the weekend. mitt romney did not pay his taxes. he filed for an extension. yeah. the bs he filed for an extension because he doesn't have all of his paperwork done. you know what? that may be true but i think we know what the rea lot is. the reality is he doesn't want to be embarrassed again. we know that the last two years for 2009, 2010, he made $42 million and he paid 14% in taxes. he is the poster child for the buffett rule, for people not paying their fair share. president obama did pay in the and the first lady, they did pay their taxes. last year, they made about

$790,000. he gets a 400,000 dollar salary as president. so he got another 300 or so on -- 390 on bookings. >> or as mitt romney would say, not very. >> just small change. >> yeah. >> on still book income and other investments, i guess. and the president paid. the white house put it out there. a tax rate of 20.5%, which, by the way, that's not 30%. so -- and he paid less than his -- i'm sorry. he paid a lower tax rate than his secretary did. her name is anita breckenridge. she makes $95,000 a year. the white house released her salary. they didn't release what she paid in taxes. they just said her rate was slightly higher than the president's and the white house were the first ones to admit,

here it is, further proof that we need the buffett rule and the president in an interview with univision. this was in his radio address, i think, over the weekend where he said: here is the point, with taxes, it's got to be fair. >> as many americans rush to file their taxes this weekend, it's worth pointing out that we have got a tax system that doesn't always uphold the principle of everybody doing their part. this is not just about fairness. this is also about growth. >> and he made the point in his interview with univision that it's important that public officials release their tax return so everybody knows what's going on. >> i think it's important for any candidate to public office to be as transparent as possible, to let people know who we are, what we stand for. >> who we are? how much we make? what we stand for? how much we pay in taxes? now, speaking about the buffett

rule by the way, boy, i saw two other stories this weekend that really show how much we need the buffett rule and how and how much worse this income gap is getting between the people at the very very very top and most, average americans, not to mention those at the very bottom. how about this from the "new york times," i think it was yesterday, cbs's chief executive, les moondez, in 2011, $70 million. $70 million. nobody is worth that much money if you ask me. i would likely to know what he paid. i would like to know what his tax rate is. of course, he doesn't have to release it. and then this was really really one that hit me the lloyd way. lloyd blankfein, one of the big names onwater and one of the people we bailed out, goldman sachs.

three years ago, remember where we were, goldman sachs and other companies, he was one of the chief architects one of these guys driving this thing that did take this country over the cliff with the worst economic crisis we have seen since the great depression. last year, goldman sachs' stock fell 46%, but the head of goldman sachs, lloyd blankfein walked away last year with $12 million in payroll. now, that's 35% down from where he was the year before but still, $12 million. and again, i would like to know i would like to know what tax rate he paid. i bet you, you know dambnl well he didn't pay 30%. he probably didn't pay as much as obama. i bet you les moondez and lloyd blankfein both paid around what mitt romney did, around 14%. this is why we need this buffett rule today. do you think we are going to get it? your view about paying taxes 866-55-press and the big vote up

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>> this is the full court press, the bill press show, live on your radio and on current tv. >> how about it? 26 minutes after the hour. poor lloyd blankfein, ceo of goldman sachs. yeah, his -- he had to suffer a 35% pay cut in 2011, only made $12 million. boy times are tough. harriet call from jacksonville, florida. hi, hair accurate, good morning. >> good morning, bill. how are you doing today? >> you sound perky this morning. >> yeah. i have morning bill instead of morning joe. >> all right. >> listen, you know, romney is

always brag being what a great businessman he is and how wonderful he is going to be for the country but he can't get his taxes ready on time. >> yeah. >> i am not going to vote for him now. >> that does it. hum? right? >> that does it. >> that's the deal-breaker. >> hair accurate you know darn well, he just didn't want everybody to know how much money he made, number 1 action and how little he paid in taxes. right? >> right and he is always lying so this is just another lie. >> you know what hair accurate? i bet you he filed an extension until like november 7th. right? or or something? after the election. all right, hair accurate. good to hear from you. larry is up in new britain, connecticut. >> good morning, bill. >> what's up? >> you have to give mitt romney a little slack. i mean, you know, he pays that 14% so he can afford a car elevator and write missouri foxtrotters, is it?

>> missouri foxtrotter. >> not to be confused with the warm bloody that ann rides. >> ann can ride the austrian warmblood if she isn't using one of the cadillacs. >> you would think if he could afford a car elevator he could afford an accountant? >> i am sure he has at least one of those. >> he has an army of them. figuring out every tax loophole he can possibly imagine. right? >> yeah. i am sure of that. >> you got it. larry, good to hear from you. yeah. it's tax day. president obama paid his. joe biden paid his. you probably paid yours. mitt romney, he's got an extension. yeah, look. it's legal. a lot of people file for an extension but we know why mitt romney filed for an extension. what i want to know is: what about these guys les moondez, $70 million last year? do you think there should be a cap on how much money can make?

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♪ >> listen and watch the bill press show on your favorite radio station and now on current tv. this is the bill press show. welcome to the spin room. >> yes indeed 33 minutes after the hour, here we go into the spin room, also still taking your walls on the buffett rule and taxes and some of these people who are not paying their fair share. your calls are welcome at 866-55-press. today, maybe you didn't know it. today in our nation's capitol, here in our nation's capitol is

advocacy day and we are going to talk to the chair of arts advocacy day. it's got to be about taxes. it's got to be about somebody making the excuse why mitt romney couldn't pay his taxes on time. here is former republican national chair and now counsellor to the romney campaign, ed gillespie. >> like millions of americans, governor rom ney filed for an extension because he is waiting for other information to come in from other entities that he doesn't have the control to comply to make sure the forms match up. he is waiting for those to come in. he has paid his stomatitis taxes estimated taxes. we know why he didn't pay on time because he doesn't want us to know how little he paid in taxes but we know for the last two years that he filed, he paid only 14%. >> that's why we need the buffett rule. all right. so a lot of people defending on capitol hill today as the house and senate come back for their 2

week break to talk about funding for the arts. it's called arts advocacy day the ceo of ovation television charles segers talking to us. >> good morning, bill. thank you for the opportunity. >> i am glad you are here in town on this importantly mission. so how did this arts advocacy day, how long has it been around? how did it come about? and what's it all about? >> well, we are at the 25 annual art advocacy day. this is the only opportunity that we really get to get a cross-section of people from all over the nation to descend on one city to underscore the importance of developing our public policies around the arts. we have been practicing for 25 years. >> eventually get it right. right? >> that's the truth. >> and are you just talking, hollywood?

>> we are talking nothing about hollywood. you know, this is really about america's non-profits arts and culture industry. and there is a miss consentionconception out there that, you know, the budgets like the nea are entitlement programs when in reality, it's one of the few programs that has a real return on investment. so we are going from congressman's office to senators' office to discuss why arts is great business. >> is it through the nea, charles? >> no. it's a number of different budgets but i like to focus on the nea because it's a microcosm of the problem. you know, back in 1990, the nea was almost a $200 million budget. them we had the culture wars. it was cut in half and we have been working our way back ever since. and many of us that are in the business and that don't take any public money but in the business of the arts, you know, find it astonishing that the nea's budget isn't larger. it's a great return on investment. >> what is it today? around 100 or a little more?

>> it's 165 million action and we are hoping to get right back up there to 185 to 200. the president has asked for a 5% increase, and, you know, when you have a budget that literally gets matched by private funds all over this nation again the return on investment and the job creation is extraordinary. >> well, you mentioned job creation. ists going to ask you: so what do you say to people who argue, look, we like the arts but, you know times are tough and we have to focus on jobs and this is just fluff? >> well, the reality is that our nonprofit arts and culture generates $162,000,000,000 almost six million jobs are created by arts-related businesses. and so what happens is, when the nea's budget is cut, state and local leaders take the leadership of watching the nea's bucket get cut and they cut

their own budget to the arts. and what that really affects is what we like to call leveraged dollars, bills. the idea that your tax money is going to solely one single artist who doesn't create a sustainable business, doesn't create a sustainable model, doesn't end up hiring 5 or six other peoples around an address sort of platform, that's what the nea does today. twenty years ago, it was different. >> charles segars is our guest. he is the co-chair of arts advocacy day and this is arts advocacy day today and tomorrow, i guess, in our nation's capitol. charles, i have done in the past several programs with the department of ted indication on arts funding in the schools. i mine those programs are also extremely important in terms of developing skills and introducing kids to the arts. how is that going these days? are you involved with that at all? >> well, it's frustrating. you know, arts education

probably couldn't be any more important. we called it arts and sciences for a reason. and now they are being separated and quite frankly, thrown under the bus. but, you know, arts education promotes skilled children that need to be successful. the united states is moving from a manufacturing-based economy to a software-based economy. and a really strong arts curriculum really is the thread between all of the sciences. it really leads to complex problem-solving skills and invasion in kids and we are cutting that out so early in their formidable years that there is a real fear we have a generation that isn't going to find success out in a job marketplace. >> you know, they are the first programs that are cut at the local level, sadly so. >> yeah, i know. it really is frustrating. i mean the dropout rates are extraordinary when arts programs

are cut. as much as we all love math and science, we can't do it all day and part of the free thinking and critical thinking skills, left and right brain really need to be part of our program. when they get cut, it's a big problem. >> there is a phrase here called, i think, it's celeb-vocacy. i am not sure i pronounce it in washington, meaning that a lot of issues come to people's attention because there are famous people, celebrities, movie stars who come to washington to raise those issues. do you have any celebs coming with you today? >> we have a number of people including, you know, alec baldwin tonight is giving the nancy hanks lecture at the kennedy center about the importance of arts. >> great. >> alec has put a traveling band of people together to hit the hill. so we are all pretty excited about it. >> that's good. now, what can our listeners and viewers across the country do to support and give you help? what can we do? >> i think the best thing you can do is contact your local

representatives and say arts are important and they do mean good business there is an nea program in just about every district across this country. the most important thing to realize is that every time the nea makes a grant, what they are really doing is empowering a small business around the arts that creates jobs and, quite frankly frankly, it creates economic activity around it. if a great artist puts an exhibition together or a concert is together or a ballet school has 10 performances, think about the food vendors. >> sure all of the businesses around the programs create economic afterctivity. >> like the arena stage in washington. >> you bet. >> i just noticed you have america's -- americans for the arts americans for the arts.org is the website. people go to your website, too.

i am not sure they will be directed to, to how they can help. >> absolutely. we really appreciate the time today and, listen, we are big fans of your show. congratulations on your current deal. >> very, very exciting. hey, theirs, charles. thanks for doing this for all of us. >> thanks. >> arts add rockvocacy day. >> help out by going to americans for the arts. i would rather have tax dollars go to the nea than some other agencies. back to taxes here, bob calling from brooklyn. hey, bob, what do you say? >> morning. >> bill, yeah, i agree with the president and the buffett rule but the president is failing to point out that it's the republicans who want to raise taxes on people. although paul ryan has modified his proposals, the republicans all of whom support the flat tax, that's going to hurt a lot of people. that will raise taxes, not just the tax brackets. right now, you have deductions like you can deduct medical expenses like that. so the president should make that case.

the republicans will raise taxes on the people who can least afford it. >> i am not sure anybody is really pushing the flat tax today. i mean ever since steve forbes, but, bob the paul ryan thing, the heart of his budget right would be not just to continue the bush tax cut but to cut them even further the maximum rate under the paul ryan plan would be 25, which is lower than the wealth -- if they were paying the full rate than the wealthiest americans paying under the bush tax cuts. paul ryan socks it to the middle cruelties. of course, that's the republican agenda. more calls on tacticities, 866-55-press. today and tomorrow better at least get them in the mail with a smile, don't forget. ♪ that's why time warner cable developed connect a million bill press show, now on current

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corrupting than the status quo. >> meanwhile on the other side of the aisle mitt romney went out to speak to the nra over the weekend at their big convention. we remember what a big hunter this guy is. this guy is such a phoney. he was mr. gun control when he was governor of massachusetts. of course, he wants to forget about that. and now he wants these hunters at the nra to believe that he is out there, the big game hunter, well, that's not what he said in 2007 where he told what he really likes to shoot. >> i am not a big game hunter. i have always been if you will a rod ent and rabbit hunter small var mints if you will. >> again office. >> varmits. >> when i was 15 or so and have hunted those kind of varmits more than two times. i also hunted quayle in georgia. so it's not really big-game

hunting, not deer and large animals but i have done it a number of times. >> varmits. >> that's how you shoot var 34i9s. >> shooting varmits is mavelous. >> i remember growing up on my land shooting varmits. >> this picture of mitt romney with a machinegun, right, going out shooting mice. >> rodents like elmer fudd in one of those big dumb hats. >> now mr. gun control. you know these guys what gets me, they can't point to one thing, sadly, sadly they can't point to one thing president obama has done. what they are saying is, oh

yeah, wait until his second term and then he will take your guns away based on absolutely nothing. president obama had something to say about you have heard the big sex scandal, the big secretive service sex scandal where 12 officers have been relieved of their duty, brought back to this country, put on administrative leave and five members of the military might actually have been mixed up in it. what dumbos allegedly, it looks like, hiring some prostitutes for the night and then one of the agents refused to pay this woman after she spent the night with him. she raises hell in the hotel and the whole, everybody discovers what was going on. the president not happy. >> if it turns out that some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then of course i will be angry. >> you know what? the thing is -- and by the way, over the years, i have gotten to know a lot of secret service

agents around various presidents, and i know a lot of them at the whitehouse today because i am there every day. and they are -- they are some of the best people on this planet and they do a great, great job. and shame on these guys who by the way -- and i think prostitution should be legal, too, in this country, so i am not trying to get on my ethical high-horse here prostitution is legal in colombia. so they were not breaking the law, but they take an oath of. secret service and our military to conduct themselves as gentlemen, conduct themselves. >> that's the best code of conduct, if you will and certainly when they are overseas representth the united states of america, they are representing all of us and if they, in fact, were hanging out with these prostitutes while they were there, preparing the way of the united states at the summit of americas they should be fired. it's too bad.

they bring disgrace on all of the rest of their colleagues and on this country. so i am glad and we understand why the president is supset about it. all of us as americans should be if it's true. and boy, it sure looks like it. >> this is the bill press show.

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hillary rosen matter. milton marqua are t. said bill, your path etic attempt to defend her insult attacking mrs. romney and stay-at-home moms showed very poor judgment on your part. obviously, milton, you weren't listening, because hillary was not attacking stay-at-home moms. the bill woodhall -- woodsmal says, hillary is correct to call out mitt romneys, ann romney for being out of touch with real women's issues. my reasoning, if mit indicates his wife is his advisor on women's issues she is fair game. >> an too high needles says you are the epitome of the knee-jerk liberal part of the problem never the solution. no analysis, no evidence of any critical thinking just whining, petty commentary. >> well, mr. neddles, you don't

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buffett, by the way is a lower tax rate than his secretary paid at the whitehouse which just proves why we need that buffett rule. going to be voted on the senate today. of course, mitt romney did not pay his taxes because he doesn't want us to know how much money he made last year nor how little he paid in taxes. well, we will talk thatke he will that issue and a lot more first let's get this update from our good friend jacki schechner in los angeles. >> good morning. it seems like mitt romney would like women to have those stay home. he is speaking in man chester new hampshire where he says women who get federal assistance who have children as young as even the age of 2 should be going back to work. in the video, he says that he would be in support of more money for federal assistance for child care so those women could experience quote the dignity of

work. this seems to be in direct contra dix to the entire romney camp taking umbrage that ann romney doesn't understand the concerns of most women because she has never had to work outside of the home. also n 1994, when he was in the senate for massachusetts he talks about the two-household reality now and that most women no longer have that. >> this is a different world than it was. used to be able to have mom at home and dad work and now they both have to work. >> now the numbers out on the front, the dnc in march continues an upward trend where we had 29 million raised in january and 43 million in february. we will see how much money is raised now that we know who the

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hope you had a great weekend. my god, it was a beautiful weekend here in our nation's capitol, 80 degrees and the bill press team for the most part almost all of us out at the ballpark to cheer the nationals on, and we should have stayed home because they were winning before we went. but they lost yesterday. >> that's what happens. >> in extra innings. they fought back. not like they got clobbered. >> they didn't lose. >> did they win or lose. >> they lost. you are making it sound like it was a blowout. it was no. they are playing great baseball. they are first in the division and one of the best teams in the league. >> all i said was they didn't win. >> they did not win. >> and they won when i wasn't there. >> that's all i am saying is, you know, i should have stayed home. >> it was a great excuse to enjoy the weather. >> it was. great to see you today. sorry for the interruption. we will bring you the big stories of the day here from our nation's capitol around the

country and around the globe and take your calls, get you in the conversation, remember there is always a seat for you at the table. 866-55-press is your ticket. and good morning, term. peter okay burn dan henning. >> hi, there. >> cyprian boulding. >> happy to be here. >> how about it? did you pay -- have you paid off your student loans yet? >> what i want to know. >> i have no more student loans: >> i was fortunate enough to not have student loans. >> a lot of people do. right? >> absolutely. >> that's the only way a lot of people can get through college. >> uh-huh. >> i forget now exactly what the average is but it's, like i think 25,000, those who have loans. >> let me tell you something. we sat down with our financial planner not that long ago, and we were looking because we have two young children and i was saying, okay. time to get serious about

college. college is so ex pencilive. oh, my god. it's so much more expensive than when i went, it's insane. >> if you are one of the people out there who is struggling. i know there are millions and millions struggling and president obama did a great thing by getting the middleman out. right? don't think you are going to get any sympathy from virg fox. she speaks for the republican party, from north carolina. listen to her. >> yeah. i have very little and tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there is no reason for that. >> no reason for that. no reason for that says virginia foxx. what the hell does she think these people are going to do? what's her answer? >> you should pay off your student loan with wishes. >> what's her answer? i mean, you know, if you will scholarships to everybody? just -- >> she sounds like she got a full scholarship somewhere. >> yeah. i am telling you. now, you would think john

boehner would say, hey she doesn't speak for the republican party but you know what? she speaks for the tea party, which is the republican party today. man, i have got to tell you. margaret tobble -- tolleff. what am i saying, covers the white house for bloomberg will be along a little bit later as well as from huffington post arthur delaney to talk about mitt romney and his comments on working women from national magazine on the latest of the recall of scott walker and dick cheney, he is back and as mean as ever. so much for that knew heart. but first: >> this is the full court press. >> i thought he had a change of heart. >> no. >> you guys were at the baseball game you know major league baseball horrendous jackie robinson yesterday. 65 years to the day that he broke the sports color barrier

while playing for the brooklyn dodgers, onfield personnel including umpires and coaches wore his number. >> this was confusing. i saw a guy at the bat with 42 and i saw a guy warming up as the next batter with 42. i said oh damn they put on the wrong jersey. >> i explained to my 4-year-old. watch this guy right there, number 42. and it didn't register with me and the next was 42. forget it. >> it was very meaningful yesterday. they had a lot of great clips of jackie robinson and it's interesting. one of the guys on the clip said, it struck me if there were no jackie robinson there would have been no martin luther king and no martin luther king no barack obama. >> tax returns are due to be post-parked by tomorrow and plenty of celebrities have their fair share of tax troubles with the irs as they do every year.

>> my taxes right here. >> there they are. going to the post office. >> olympic skiers lindsey vaughn happens to be 1, she owes $1.7 million in back taxes to the irs she said she will pay up and says the person he will challenges of her recent divorce are to blame for not getting her hers on time. >> $1.7 million. >> she had a good year. >> yeah. >> and a good two years. >> nicolas cage had a problem with back taxes. now, he owes $70 million. m.c. hammer owes a millionbucks and ozzie osborne owes $1.7 million. >> he is british. >> yeah but he makes income in the u.s. >> head to pies and thyighs

editorez sent out on a quest for the best friday chicken. >> the best fried chicken. >> pies and thighs pepper and pap rickpaprika and two sisters in jackson and the noodle bar in new york, harold's chicken shack in chicago, son of a gun in la and right here in washington birch and barley. >> my head is going to explode. i can't believe it. >> number 1 is in new york? >> new york city. >> by the way, i have had that at pies and thighs and it's very good fried chicken. >> are you saying pies and what? thighs. they serve pies and they also serve friday chicken like chicken thighs. >> i thought you meant -- >> not like a hooters. >> i thought you meant so much

pie it endings up on your thigh. >> that, too. >> could be. >> pies and thighs. got it. daniel, thank you, yes, indeed can you believe it? yeah. you thought dick cheney had a change of heart. forget about it. here he goes first post-op appearance over the weekend, goes up to wyoming to be intrude by his daughter, liz, in front of the wyoming republican party and what does he do? dump all over president obama. that i haddiot. he is a low-life. george bush, whatever we think about him and he i certainly disagree with his policies he has handled himself like a gentleman ever since he left the white house. he hasn't been out there blasting barack obama. he really respects his decision which he should shut the hell up unlike his vice president who has been out spoken from day

one. i mean criticizing president obama, getting involved in the petty politics of the day, criticizing the democrats in congress and, you know writing this book and just being, i don't know, i am surprised he doesn't have a job as a paid fox contributor. so he's been involved and over the weekend, again goes out to wyoming. he's asked a question about president obama, and here, you know, he doesn't say, william, you know, my position as former vice president to let this team have its day on the field. we will let the voters decide. uh-uh. he jumps in with both feet. >> i think he has been an unmitigated disaster for the country. i think to be in a position where he gets four more years in the white house to continue the policies he has, both with

respect to the economy and tax policy and defense and so many other areas would be a huge huge disappointment. >> cheney back. >> unmitigated disaster for the country. what does he think? we are stupid? i mean he think? i mean, dick cheney, it wasn't that long ago, we remember we are stit paying for a 10-year-old war in afghanistan which you started and ran away from in order to -- leaving osama bin laden off of the hook in order to start an illegal and unnecessary war in iraq, which we are also still fighting or certainly trying to disengage ourselves out of. we remember valerie plame and the fact that you and your

people, dick cheney, are the one that outed a cia agent and, again, broke the law. we remember the illegal wiretapping of american citizens. we remember the illegal use of torture, dick cheney. we remember the bush tax cuts for the wealthy, not just one of them, but two of them which have left us -- which left us the biggest deficits and the biggest national debt up until that time in the history of this country even though dick cheney, you and george bush took over the white house with a big surplus, thanks to guilty clinton -- thanks to bill clinton. we remember the patriot act, dick cheney. we remember september 11th happened on your watch, dick cheney and we remember the economic crash of 2008, the biggest, the worst economic drafter for this country since the great depression which came about because of your policies your policies and

george w. bush's policies, dick cheney, and then he has the gall to say that barak obama's presidency has been an unmitigated disaster for this country. you know what? i don't know about you. if there is anything, if there is anything that inspires us to get off of our butt and go out there and work as hard as we can to get barack obama re-elected, it's dick cheney. first of all, it's one of the -- sort after tradition, you look at george h.w. bush bill clinton, george w. bush, dan quayle, they basically they realized their time was up. they got moved to the sidelines and they just shut the hell up for the next four years. uh-uh. not dick cheney. not dick cheney. first of all, he ought to shut up and number 2 he is just dead dead wrong. i mean, so i will tell you we are not just out there, not just out there as far as i am

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in. he didn't want to do it. it just shows who he is man, as a person. he is a little person. and he won't step in the background because he is a small person but the sadder thing is the people who sat there and actually probably agreed with everything he said and there was probably some intelligent people who didn't agree with him but sat there and agreed because this is who the republican party has become. >> yeah. absolutely. i think it was 2010 who told john king, president obama's policies put this country at risk for a terrorist attack. does he think we forget who was in charge on september 11th? i don't blame them for september 11th. don't get me wrong. but what the hell? to say president obama put us at

risk? >> that's where this republican party has gone. they have gone from, you know being a party that, you know was able to reach across the aisles with one another, you know, from being able to to be bi-partisan to becoming so partisan they are almost accident happening as a second party. >> dick cheney leading them over the cliff. good to here from you. tom is in schiller park illinois. what do you say, tom? >> how are you doing? i have to agree with you a thousand % on this vice president cheney. man what a terrible person he happens to be. president obama is one of our greatest leaders. i really believe that. a guy like cheney should just really cool it just like the rest of the people. >> you know what? and leave the politics leave the did i have vicive politics to those people who are out there running or leave it to peek like eric cantor and john

boehner. it's not dignified for the former vice president of the united states. hey, tom appreciate hearing from you. something else to be youset, let's get this out of the way. there is a trial going on philadelphia for a priest who has been accused of molestation of an a lotltar boy and testimony has come out. get this. he testified that at one time, they drew up a list a list of 35 priests in the archdiocese of philadelphia who were accused of child abuse and rape and sexual abuse. a list of 35 priests and the former cardinal anthony beveloqua had thatgave orders to have that list shredded. not one bishop or cardinal of the catholic country has been arrested or gone to jail for all

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website at billpressshow.com. this photo just surfaced today. check it out. it's on our website, again, hillary clinton back in october 2010 standing in kosovo in front of a fat statue of her husband, bill. he is giving a big waiveve. hillary is giving a big wave. we will give arthur delanie one of our good friends and a reporter for huffington post in studio this monday morning. arthur nice to see you again. >> happy monday, bill. >> you look all dressed you today. you didn't have to wear a tie. >> you always talk about when i wear a tie. >> none of us ever done. >> none of us ever do. right. i don't remember your wearing a tie before. >> because your day is finished at what? 8:00 o'clock? 9:00 o'clock? >> get out of here.

what do you think we do the rest of the day? >> yeah. >> i don't want to see bill tying a tie at the time of day he wakes up. >> that's bigger issue. >> that's it. we want everybody to know our day is finished at 9:00 o'clock. stephanie miller takes over and we go to bed. >> that's what i would do. >> you are going to the racetrack later today? right? >> argumentu, good to see you. we have talking a lot about mitt romney and his comments, you know, in response, ann's comments in response to what hillary rosen said last week. i have to put it in context, mitt romney said at a fundraiser over the weekend and reporters hear him behind closed doors. he is not off mic saying that, boy, those hillae rosen comments were the greatest early birthday president i could ever ever have. so it doesn't sound like he is too upset about it. hum? >> it was a really brinky twitter pea-shooter non-scandal

and they did -- they went in on it like he said, he thought it was the greatest thing that happened that hillary rosen said that ann romney never worked that day in her life. >> here is an opportunities to change the subject. >> right. of course. >> right? >> you are saying you are skeptical that he was really so offended? >> yeah. that's what i am saying. in fact, you have done some reporting on this that his attitude about women work wasn't always what it is or women is -- or appears to be today. it's an introduction to your telling us about your reporting this. here is mitt romney comments he made in january. >> women receiving revel assistance have the responsibility of working. in my state, we made good progress in that regard following the days of the welfare reform act.

when i was governor, 85% of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. and i wanted to increase the work requirement. i said, for instance, even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work. and people said, well, that's heartless. i said, no. no. i am willing to spends more, giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. it will cost the state more providing that day care but i want the individuals to have the dignity of work. he seems to be saying something different there, arthur. tell us. >> his umbrage taking over this hillary rosen remark where she said ann romney campaign had not worked and said raising five kids. this does not gel with their policy at all with regard to working mothers. and it's not just that he thinks women on welfare ought to work even if they have got a two-year-old child. it's the dignity of work.

it's that there is no dignity in staying home and raising your kids. you have to go to work even if you have two-year-olds. >> well, put it this way. there is no dignity to raising kids if you are on welfare but if you are the wife of a millionaire and you are staying home and taking care of your kids, then it's real work. right? >> yeah. >> i think it just shows you how hollow the umbrage taking was last week. and even at the time even people on the right were saying, well, this is kind of a lame non-scandal. people on the right were saying it. move okay from this. those on the left, too, will cut it out with the war on women stuff. >> why is this true? have we seen mitt romney yet again taking a different position today than he took when he was governor of massachusetts? right?

i mean on gun control, on health care, of course and on gay rights and on -- i mean, so many, so many issues. if that's the case, then why were the president of the united states, the first lady, the vice president, the democratic national committee chair, the head of the obama campaign why were they all so eager to throw hillae rosen under the bus? >> i don't know. i thought it was a little odd they were so apologetic about it and so desperate to distance themselves from it. it wasn't fair when they were saying hillae rosen is an obama campaign advisor. she is not attached to the white house or to the obama campaign. she is a cnn analyst. so it seemed like a little more than was necessary. >> yeah, i mean they could have just said, hey, she doesn't work for us. >> yeah. >> she wasn't speaking for us. >> the romney campaign said she was an obama advisor and that's

all it took. even though it wasn't true. >> it seems to me they could have said she wasn't attacking raising kids. she has two kids. she knows it's tough to raise kids. what she was saying was there are millions of american women out there who have to work, don't have any choice to help because they are single moms. >> yeah. >> or they are trying to -- they have got to help their husband together, maybe the two of them they have to work so maybe they can pay the bills at the end of the month and when ann romney says she identifies with working moms, she really can't in that sense. >> i think the other important thing to remember when we are talking about romney's dignity of work comments a couple of months ago, that's not a really controversial position. >> that's not a republican-only position. democrats were totally on board with the welfare reform in 1996 that requires -- >> for the most part. there were a few disside. nt

proposal. >> it's a bill clinton thing. >> yeah. >> the obama administration is not different on this. they all support the notion that if you are going to be on welfare, you better be doing a certain amount of work activity in order to receive benefits. so the government, democrats they agree raising kids is not actually work. >> yeah. no. it's come out there. 866-55-press is our number. remember, there is always a seat at the table for you to join our conversation at any time t arthur delaney's a huffington post reporter. romney wasn't always at least not for all women saying that if you have kids you don't have to do anything other than stay home and take care of the kids and we are going to take care of you. arthur, you are also been -- you have sort of become the go

go-to-guy for mitt romney's dog. >> is that growling? >> that's the dog actually. >> shamus from beyond the grave. >> unnerving. >> shamus. >> shamus wouldn't be rolling over in his grave? i'm sorry, guys. >> good dog. >> what's the latest on the -- i saw you on the story, dogs there is a group called dogs against romney? >> oh, yeah online grassroots movement with 46,000 facebook fans, i believe. >> canines or humans? >> human beings with computers. a guy in alabama named scott crider started group in 2007 after this boston globe story came out in which the romney family told a reporter about this thing papa romney did in 1983 when they didn't have room

in the car for their irissue seller shamus so romney being a resourceful businessman put the dog on the roof of the car and that's where the dog spent a 12-hour drive and he had diarrhea and it was a real mess. >> twelve hours? >> twelve hours. >> the dog did not have a pleasant ride. >> romney said the dog loved that which it seems obviously ridiculous. >> what's the latest twist on the dog, romney's dog. >> the latest twist, this republican big shot fred malik is hosting a fundraiser for ann romney's birthday. >> here outside of washington? mclain, virginia guy. >> you know, a washington insider type of person. >> right. >> who has been in politics for and government for all of his career. dogs against romney wants to remind people about this fred malik story from all the way back in 1959. so the actual dog, romney

incident was in 1953. now we are going back to 1959. fred malik was 22 when he and a group of his friends killed and barbecued a dog and were arrested. >> what? >> they were arrested for animal cruelty. the charges were dropped against malik and everyone except for one person who said that he alone was responsible for doing this and it was apparently some sort of effort to teach his friends about living off of the land. they were drunk. they were hammered and malik said we were drunk. i had nothing to do with this. i couldn't stop it t it's real weird. >> killed and barbecued and ate the dog? >> i am not sure that was the idea that they ate the dog. i am not sure. i wasn't there. >> now they are having a fundraiser for romney? >> dogs against romney just wants to know that the guy who is raising money for romney right now, he, too, had the strange dog-abuse thing in his

past. it's a bit of a reach but it got tons of attention. a lot of newspapers wrote about it. >> has michael vick endorsed by the way? he could totally endorsed romney. >> michael vick has reformed. romney never atoned. >> what are they serving at this malik fundraiser. >> hot dogs. >> wow. no. >> with that we will take a break. 866-55-press. god, that was bad. for television. >>sharp tongue, quick wit and about all, politically direct. >>politically direct to me means my show is the most important show in the world.

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>> heard around the country and seen on current tv. >> margaret tolleff at the whitehouse, with us the next hour as well as john nichols if the from the /* fr "the nation" magazine. arthur delaney from huffington post. we don't have a lot of sound effects in our music box but we have a lot of dog events. [ growling.) >> thank you, peter, talking about mitt romney who made a big deal last week over the fact that any mom who is raising kids, that is really real work and don't you dare suggest otherwise back when he was governor of massachusetts. he says it doesn't matter if you have kids, if you are getting

public benefits, you have to get a real job. arthur delaney from huffington post, one of the reporters who broke that story last week. arthur, let's say hello to steve in florida. hi, steve. >> good morning. >> what do you say? >> i am calling about this hillary rosen comment. >> uh-huh. >> it's the way this thing is being deflected away from a war against women. this has nothing to do about the war against women. the war against women is all legislative matters and the various states controlled by the republicans, there are some 90 separate issues that either restrict or remove or eliminate women's currently held rights. and there is also issues about their taking away from funding from poor women. this is the war against women. >> that's what the republicans don't want to talk about or defend. right? vote after vote of blocking funding, blocking contraception,

blocking equal pay all of that. right? >> we understand that's what the real war against women is all about. >> amen. >> now i think what someone should do is put a microphone in front of mr. romney and ask him to pledge that should he become the president, he will not allow the federal government to pass any legislation that continues to remove these rights from women. >> good luck with that, steve. i appreciate the call but, well in fact. >> if he were to do that, that would be a tremendous etcha-sketching on his part. >> the ultimate etch high a-sketch. >> planned parenthood? got rid of that. >> last week the embarrassing moment when his advisors were on a conference call with reporters and sam stein, one of your colleagues asked the very direct question: does mitt romney support the lily ledbetter act? >> silence. >> silence. yeah. >> the question was answered by silence.

we will get back to you about that, sam. >> they finally, said we will have to get back to you. that should have been an easy yes. >> that's a tremendous thing. this is the first piece of legislation the president signed which gives women more time in order to file sex discrimination lights and the romney campaign's conference call was about women's issues and they didn't have a position on the lily ledbetter act? people have heard of the lily ledbetter act. >> george bush ve toted truck driver two or three times and president obama finally, signed it. joey calling from chicago. what do you say? good morning. >> good morning, bill. boy, you guys are good at what you do. it is a pleasure to watch a good show like this. >> aur good friend. the check is in the mail. >> yeah. mitt romney, here is the problem with the republican party: and our administration, they through that lady under the bus.

this administration, they play not to lose and that's a very, very bad way to run an administration because the republicans could really expose it. this administration has to stick up for democrats and women a little better than they are doing. i just hate to see that. every time they throw them under the bus and like i said playing not to lose is not a smart way to play. >> that's all i have got to say. >> you have it joey. it is, arthur, interesting. republicans, they will defend their own until the day is done. right? >> and democrats run for the high grass. >> they were running out of buses to throw hillary rosen under. >> look at van jones. right? >> oh, yeah. >> doing a great job for the white house, very important issue, and glenn beck takes him on. fox news takes him on and the white house dumps him? >> under what is the bus called? ground force one? >> oh i don't know. i guess so. >> obama's big armored bus.

>> it is ground force 1. >> van jones is doing well now. best selling book. >> so is hillary rosen. >> she will be fine. >> exactly. arthur delaney, great to see you. come in again. keep up the good work. fine. glad to see you, a well dressed man in studio here. >> thanks. >> moving right back. >> this is the bill press show ♪

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>> good morning. it is april, 16, welcome to the full-court press, the bill press show, your new morning show here on current tv. so good to have all of you with us as we tackle the big stories of the day here from our nation's capitol, around the country and around the globe. of course, take your calls and, talking about big stories, can you believe it, dick cheney popped up again over the weekend calling president obama an unmitigated disaster for this

country. oh, yeah? really? dick cheney? do you think we forget? about the 10 year war in afghanistan and illegal war in iraq, tax cuts for the wealthy, massive illegal wiretapping, torture? the patriot act, the worst economic disaster this country has had since the great depression? the unmitigated disaster for this country was george w. bush and dick cheney. we will talk about that and a lot more. let's look ahead and get the latest from jacki schechner. hello, jacki. >> hello, bill. good morning everyone. glad you are joining us. here is what is current today. it looks like mitt romney is willing to say more about his policy ajuveniled a to donors behind closed doors than the general public. >> reporters heard him talk about specifics he hasn't mentioned before, talked about eliminating the department of housing and urban development, talked about restructuring the department of education, the

need to introduce some sort of republican dream act for hispanic voters. he talked about cutting specific tax loopholes to fund an overall tax cut, discussing, also his social orb media strategy and the interesting of putting friendly suggest gas on news outlets. he and his wife discussed the conversation about ann romney's stay at home mom status and how the introduction of that into campaign was a quote gift. romney meeting with a different audience in philadelphia is going to meet with the tri-state tea party caucus. interestingly enough, a new poll out from washington post notes interest in the tea party is declining across the board. 41% support the tea party with 45% opposing it and the strong opposition is greater than the strong support by a margin of 2 to 1. also, 6 in 10 americans say they are not the least bit interested in hearing any more about the tea party or learning more about it. women are more negative about it

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covers bloomberg news p margaret nice to see you. thanks for coming across town early this morning. a lot to talk about. the president coming back from colombia. it's one of the days we always get the president's schedule usually here going out to here, giving a speech, da-da-today, no public events scheduled. >> sleep until 2:00. i bet he wishes he was sleeping until 2:00. >> coming off of the heavy weekend schedule, getting back about midnight last night. >> air force yeah. >> you understand why, a kickback today. >> they will probably be watching the senate. right? >> yeah. i would think so. >> no surprises there, though. and he has some traveling to do later this week. >> right. it's kind of a down day. >> he can watch the senate from his bed. he can kick back. >> not even a briefing scheduled so far today. >> not so far. >> we say good morning to team press, peter okay burn.

>> hello. >> and cyprian boulding, our videographer. margaret were you at the nationals game? >> i was going to ask you about that. >> well, if you have been to the national stadium, you know there is not a lot of shade. not a lot of protection against the sun or ay learned against the rain either. >> yeah, well, you know, there is -- you get punished for loving the nationals. don't you? in so many ways? >> a lot of ways. >> margaret, the studio is a friend of bill, will be joined for this hour. fob. and jock nichols from nation magazine. first, dan has the latest headlines on the stories of the day. >> on this monday, other headlines, the most important stuff, hillary clinton is rooting for the home state new york rangers in the first round. the senators, the hill reporting

she met with canadian foreign minister john baird last week to make a bet on the series. if the rakengers win, he will have to wear a rangers jersey in public if the on theta wans win she will have to wear their jersey. >> the secretary of state has to root for the american term. >> an office lunch break has become a thing of the past. u.s.a. today reports only a third of american workers take a lunch break of 30 minutes or more. 65% eat at their desks or don't take a break. there is no federal mandate on meal breaks though 22 states have laws requiring them. >> wait a minute. only a third of american workers go out to lunch? >> going out to lunch, leaving the office for at least 30 minutes, yeah. only a third in their shift. >> this is not progress. >> not losing weight i am going to go out on a limb and say.

>> their jobs are so important that they have to sit at the desk and wolfe down a sadly or sandwich. >> i took my 30 minute lunch brake and you have to let the rib roast cool for 30 minutes. >> i saw your contract. you only get 15 minutes. >> that's right. >> the world sell breaks or marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the titanic. >> my advice is go out to lunch. all right? i want to get that out. what was this? >> celebrating the titanic. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. as we mark the 100th anniversary of the singing of the titanic, new information about the ship wreck is coming to light. researchers may have found human remains still intact based on a 2004 photograph, some believe the bones may have been completely preserved under ma

mud, that no one has touched them, not even james cannon who has been there 33 times. >> i don't know but i am so over the titanic. aren't you? >> yes. >> i am. >> i am. >> yeah, i mean 100 years. okay. >> let's move on. >> that's right. >> look at it this way, future generations won't have to worry about icebergs hitting inany boats because global warming will have taken care of it all. >> the lusitania. >> eleven minutes after the hour. margaret, the president, the boor guys sometimes can't win for losing. he goes down all of these issues serious trade issues and security issues in latin america and what's everybody talking about? sex? >> yeah, you know. >> the president was asked about this just to get this out of the way on his -- at the news conference, he had open news conference at the end of the summit of the americas and he

clearly wasn't happy with all of the attention on this issue. >> if it turns out that some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then of course i will be angry. >> it's not illegal in colombia so what's wrong with what they did? >> well we are still waiting to find out what they did. pending investigation. >> with what they allegedly did. >> there is rules governing the secret service which follows them in every country they are in, in from the u.s. to colombia regarding personal conduct. a lot of it has to do with the face you show the rest of the world but a lot has to do with your ability to secure and protect the president. and so to the extent any of that was breached, that's theoretically a concern, obviously, to the extent that you would embarrass the country and the president, that's a concern. so whatever the investigation will proceed on both tracks. >> and there may be some we are

told some members of the military involved in both the secret service and the military do swear, right? to uphold and defend the united states of america and to represent the united states of america at a certain code of conduct that you would expect. >> that's right. >> and there is also the issue -- may be exaggerated or maybe not that through prostitution, you know, somebody could use prostitutes to get to them to try to get some secrets about where the president might be and what they can pick up. >> there is no upside to the story. it's a question of how bad the downside is. >> dumb dumb thing. i was pleased to see peter king head of the house intelligence committee said don't blame obama for this. >> the reports indicate that whatever happened, happened before the president got there. >> even got there. >> it's embarrassing for the united states. the president was also asked, because one of the issues of course, any time we are dealing with latin america is the drug

traffic coming back and forth. so the question was raised whether or not we would be just better off if we just legalized it. the president, if he thought he was going to give an inch to this one, uh-uh. >> i personally and my administration's position is that legalization is not the answer. >> surprise, surprise. >> no. well, i mean forget about for a second, forget about the fact that it's an election year and you see in the u.s. since his election, the sort of mounting frustration from the marijuana legalization committee or medicinal marijuana community what they think is slow progress or backtracking on and this is obviously, you know, sort of a further continuation of that plus it's an election year. it's not like president obama has been, you know for it, you know, as president anyway. but certainly, i mean every position counts. it's so much of the -- i mean it's funny.

a lot of times there is a group that takes away from the president's ability to focus on what he wants to focus on. it's not clear he really wanted to focus on very much of what was on the agenda for discussion at the summit in colombia because he is in a position from a lot of the u.s.'s neighbors to the south on everybody from cuba to what to do about tweaking drug policy. >> uh-huh. >> dealing with the realities on the ground. so i suppose he can make the argument that the secret service scandal at least delayed until the last day a lot of the discussion of the, you know, issue issues. >> the president has never, never been, as you pointed out, a proceedponents of legalizing drugs. george schultz and other prom comments figures have. i have always supported it but obama has never been there. so this was not a surprise. i mean he's a believer in i guess, a modified war on drugs. but you did mention cuba, which is the other issue. embarrassment was sort of maybe avoided by the fact that from

raul castro wasn't interested in attending so there was not this big issue of are we going to invite him or not. but when is the united states going to grow up and change policy about doing trade with cuba? >> certainly, it's broadly expected that this discussion is, you know, for all intents and purposes off limits until after the election. i don't know what happens after the election. i think this is one of those things where obama followers or supporters like to read the tea leaves in their divided camps saying he wants to relax the policy further. he needs to get re-elected first. others say, he has relaxed it as much as he is going to for a while and would proceed slowly and cautiously. >> it is easier for americans to travel to go back to see their family as well. there is more opportunities for people, americans to do business

in cuba, but we still do have the policy and it's still kind of the american policy that we are not going to change our as long as castro now brother castro is in charge and they keep out living american presidents. >> it's not really an open conversation about it because everyone's statements are very guarded because it's a high-ly charged political issue which could be key to the election. >> miami cuba americans are running this country's foreign policy. >> i know you said that. not me. >> not me i said it when it comes to cuba. we are moving quickly over the landscape because there are so many issues to talk about. and we always remind you there is a seat for you at the table at 866-55-press. join the conversation any time. tomorrow is officially tax day. the president filed his taxes over the weekend. he made 790,000 bucks last year

not bad, paid 20 points down from what he has in the past paid 20.5% in income taxes, which turned out again to be a lower rate than his secretary, anita breckenridge paid which proves he is a hypocrite on the buffett rule or -- >> he and his team say that -- which prove the off sit, they say, which is it demonstrates a need for it when a guy supports pay more is paying less under the rule. i have heard a couple of interest can counter arguments if she had given a quarter of her salae,ry, she would be better off. she is an assistant to the president of the united states. >> greed. >> absolutely. >> a pretty important job. >> it's interest can, though he would not, under his adjusted gross income, would not qualify for the buffett rule.

so this phase-in starting at a million to two million is approved probably going to go down in the test boat today but he would not qualify for a trigger under the buffett rule. >> he would not be required to pay the -- >> he would not be subject to the buffett rule. >> i thought the white house was up front. the president didn't pay like warren buffett, he paid a lower rate than the secretary which proves why we need this buffett rule. i think you can make a strong indicates. mitt romney, we don't know because -- >> an extension. >> he filed for an extension. >> why do you think he filed for an extechni? >> i will tell you what i think. >> what do you think? >> i know the romney campaign says he did because he dent have his paperwork ready. if he can afford a car elevator he can afford an accountant. he did not file because he doesn't want us to know how much money he made last year nor how little he paid in taxes. what's wrong with that?

>> the six-month extension would put his filing before the election, though. wouldn't it? yeah. >> i would have to do some quick math. maybe. >> so he is -- what he's been doing, what's been happening lately is he has been opening himself up to criticism by the democrats on issues of trans passenger about his taxes about all sorts of details about his taxes. and, you know, these are his choices. they have made the calculation it makes more sense to do this this than now but it gives david axelrod or whoever with the obama campaign to say what is he hiding? what doesn't he want you to know? and so that's going to be the constants analysis going forward these next few weeks and months to say, are they doing more damage to themselves by not disclosing than they are by trying to control room the release of information? >> we already know the last two years he made 42 million, paid 14%. if i were advising the romney

camp, i would say do it. >> and get it over with. >> get it over with. margaret tolev in studio with us. talking secret service, talking drugs, tax talking taxes. we haven't even gotten to the war on women yet. 866-55-press is the toll-free number. join the conversation here on the full-court press this beautiful monday morning. news >> this is the bill press show. >>only on current tv. vaccinations save lives. >>we are very committed to the safety of our products. >>but are mandatory shots doing more harm than good? >>i see children injured every day. >>the controversy has gone viral. >>how many are being sacrificed? >>see "the greater good" on current tv sunday at 4/3c. >>and while you watch, join the live chat at current.com/greatergood. >>our system is not working. >>there are always some risks. >>i don't think it's that back and white. the science is not there. >>only on current tv.

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. >> all right. already at 25 minutes after the hour, margaret tolev covers the white house for bloomberg news. she is in studio with us. we are talking all things obama, all things political. margaret is with us for the full hour. margaret, this, a lot of time was spent last week talking about the comments hillary rosen made in response to comments that -- i'm sorry -- i will never say president romney but that mitt romney made on the campaign trail when he says, yeah, i am in touch with every day working class americans. my wife keeps me in touch with them. hillary says, ann is not the one. is this scandal going to go away, or does it still have life? scandal not scandal. contro-searcy. >> the women's vote is considered the crucial block in the upcoming election. if president obama holds onto the women's vote it makes it harder for rom network eke out a

win. if he is bite into obamaoos's women's share of the vote it was seen as hurting them in the medium run. can they put obama on the defensive by attaching him to hillary rosen's comments which were at least awkwardly phrased and at the worst bad strategy. the answer is the women's theme is going to be a theme between now and november. absolutely. both sides are going to be jockeying for kind of control over it and to the extent that the republicans can try to make this message work that, you know, democrats are against stay-at-home moms, that's going to be a theme. they will test it out they are testing it right now. >> mitt romney is not the only republican to jump in. here is mike calling from rivana, ohio. good morning. >> bill, did you happen to catch

the mete- meet /* meet the press interview with michelle bachmann? >> yes. >> i wasn't too happy with her saying men don't know nothing about groceries or buying gas because i buy groceries on a weekly basis. that infuriated me. when are these democrats going to step up? they let this woman walk all over her. she interrupted her. bachmann of all people. this woman won has taken more money from the government than a lot of people i know that are on welfare. i mean you know. >> the only thing i can say, mike, is, i wouldn't count on marcus for being in touch with the average americans, markus bachmann, that is. we are right up against the clock. i am sure margaret has something she wants to say about michelle bachmann. we will give you an opportunity when we come back. we will be joined by john nichols from madison wisconsin

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progressive magazine john nichols joining us from madison, wisconsin. how are you? >> i willam really good, bill press. i am jealous i don't get to be in the studio with you two fine commentators. >> come on to washington. you know you are welcome any time. >> i will be there next week doing stuff next week. >> are you ready? really? >> if you have any time, seriously, let us know. >> i will let you know. >> jo john's latest book called "uprising" how wisconsin renewed the politics of protest from madison to wall street." the people of wisconsin did that. now we have to take it all the way to the recall of scott walker. how is it going? >> well, it's just a damn fascinating process. i've got to tell you. we had filing deadline last week for the primaries because unlike in some states when you have a recall, it simply sparks a reverender on the person sitting in.

you vote yes or no on whether they should continue. >> like california. >> yeah. wisconsin does not do that. wisconsin simply if the recall is filed, you initiate an entire new election and so we are in that process. and on tuesday the democratic and republican primaries four democrats filed but the favorite fact is a kid filed against governor walker in the republican primary and it's not really a kid. he is 23 years old. but he is one of the capitol protesters a super smart young man who has spent a lot of time studying politics, and he's running as a lincoln republican. and his whole concept is that he is running as what the republican party used to be against scott walker in the republican primary. >> what about the democratic primary? as i understand it, there are two leading candidates? >> there is no doubt of that.

there are four what you would call major candidates. two of them are clearlyclearly in the dominant position. one is cath leak falk. she is the former dane county executive. she served in the role for 10 years and is a very well-regarded -- i don't see in in a negative way, a bureau accurate technoaccurate good at budgeting, not a classic pol lift politician but interestingly has gotten a lot of support from labor unions many worked with her when she was in that county position. >> okay. the other is tom barrett, the current mayor of milwaukee, the 2010 nominee for governor and his support is coming from democratic elected officials, city mayors, legislators, some other, you know, county offices around the state. you have an interesting divide there between the candidates

strongly backed for labor and a candidate more strongly backed by the traditional leadership. >> john, how do you see all of the sort of enteral machinations playing out on the impact it would have in wisconsin in the presidential election? setting up a day beat that will have any sway on how wisconsin votes or the intensity with which wisconsinites vote? >> absolutely. there is no question. there is a powerful november overlay on all of this. now, that does not mean that this election is going to be all about barracks obama or anything like that. it's funny in wisconsin, you rarely hear mention of names like barack or romney. people are so wrapped up in the recall process that the presidential race is very much secondary. however, what has happened in wisconsin and both of you will understand this well is everyone has gone to ground.

we are the most, according to polling, the most clearly divided state in the united states. we have about 47, 48% of people who absolutely identify not just as democrats but really pretty progressive democrats and they may then we have 47, 48% of people who identify as republicans and not just republicans, very conservative republicans. >> there are no independent? >> the independent thing is so tiny, so miniscule. >> yeah. >> i will tell you that polling suggests obama is doing much better with the tiny sector of independent. it looks like this process has actually helped obama a lot by solidifying the democratic base, energizing it. and so if i had to make a prediction now it is likely that obama would be the winner in wisconsin. but he will still have to fight for it. >> i am going to back up now. when is the primary? >> the primary, the

gubernatorial primary is 88th. >> then june 5th? right? >> for the general election. you are coming out. you are going to be broadcasting live? >> got it. from madson, wisconsin. so in the middle of this, john well, so in this primary democratic primary i understand a /* tea the 23-year-old has filed against scott walker. it's going to be the nominee. here we are democrats again -- and i am a proud democrat are going to spend this money and time fighting each other in the primary. will this help us or hurt us again walker in june? >> not going to mean a thing, comrade. this is the reality. >> okay. >> i am going to tell you this right now: the intensity level in wisconsin is such that there is going to be a rock-'em some

em to it. labor is going to try hard to nominate it's ideal candidate, cath leak foulk. by the same token, most people i talk to in wisconsin >> grassroots activists, even a lot of union activists do not care who the nominee is. you ask them, who do you like? faulk, barrett? >> kathleenbinehouse? which do you love? they are like, i am for any of them. >> it's all directed really against walker? >> it really is. now, i have to emphasize it's true on the other side as well. the fact of the matter is that for the republicans, there is not some democrat that i like that one a little better. it is a deep and intense ideologically-rooted divide. so i just don't think there is going to be a lot of trouble bringing folks together.

the only thing people talk about is the great bane of everybody's existence, money in politics. >> of course. >> there are some folks who would prefer the couple of million dollar that go into the democratic primary fight would go into the june fight. at some fundamental level -- and i hate to say this because it's not pretty but on both sides, the money is going to be there for the june fight. everybody knows it's such a big deal. arguably arguably, it's the most important other than the presidential race this year. the money is going to be there. i just hope -- i don't think the primary is going to be a particularly damaging fact for democrats. >> john nichols, our guest washington correspondent for the nation. you can follow his work at "thenation.com "thenation.com" and the new book is called uprising. so, john, in the meantime, scott walker who is up for reelection signs a bill which i understand

it not necessarily so friendly to women in wisconsin. >> a bill? come on. mr. press, you've got to keep counting. about a week and a half ago, he on a thursday afternoon before easter he signed and allowed to go into effect in sort of a pocket signing policy, a set of bills that is in the view of many women the most aggressive package of anti--women on to use the term war on women legislation that you have seen in just about any state in the country. there is a gutting-out of the oversight and organization for pay equity. there is a gutting out of a great deal of our sex education programs which are actually state-of-the-art, some of the best in the country. they assure that, you know it's age-related and age-based but

all the way through, kids got an appropriate amount of sex education. they have restructured all sorts of rules and regulations as regards reproductive rights, reproductive freedoms. for instance, you know an incredible regulations on thurs doctors, kids where a woman might take an abortion. >> margaret, why at this time? i ask both of you why at this time, margaret, start with you would walker be signing this kind of legislation? i mean...? >> i am always interested in what is sometimes a disconnect not a disconnect but sort of a parallel structure of what will happen in the state that's wrapped up in its own tumult and what will be happening nationally at the same time and i think wisconsin is a state. i mean it is its own set of kind of political considerations. it's different than what would happen in washington or what's happening in a national race you know. i am associate of interested to

see as wisconsin becomes a laboratory of the themes we are talking about nationally this summer and it will do its own thing in its own isolation. >> what do you think, john? >> i think it's one of the insights that are important. wisconsin is a distinction region of the country. intrigueing intriguingly enough it is more sam path etic to reproductive and women's rights than some southern and interior western states. you can make those distinctions. but here is the interesting dime ammic at least as i can tell. the reason governor walker did that because he had the power, you know. he could have held these bills back. it wouldn't be whether to sign or not. he could could have toes hez al allies not to do it. i think this is base-building work. when you are in a moment of such absolute intensity and i don't know if that intensity will go national. it has in wisconsin.

when you are in the moment of such absolute intensity, you know you are not going to swing a pro-choice woman or a moderately pro-pay equity woman over to vote for scott walker. >> shoring up a model. >> when he signed those bills, right to life wisconsin, pro-life wisconsin, all of these groups. >> john great to have you with us today. thanks for keeping on top of the situation there, reporting to us. john nichols, washington correspondent for "the nation magazine." we hope to see you next week. >> we will see what we can do. all right, brother, take care. >> a gras job. margaret tolev, a friend of bill. we will take your calls when we come back at 8 situation 6-55-press, the full court press. >> on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show.

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ricksantorum and roy blount and others who were leading the efforts to dial back or to take back some of the rights women have gained some republicans saying dial this back. this is not good for the patty. >> the primary election and the general election and the balance for both parties is to figure out how to win enough of the base to proceed to the next race, next stage of the game without alienating what counts in the next stage of the game, swing voters, half are women. >> president obama is showing a 19.lead among women voters republicans have to realize we don't want to be parking talking being taking away birth control. >> is there a debate whether women should work? obviously not. most of the women in play here

are people who are doing a little more of the parenting at home and working. right? probably earning a little less statistically. >> working because they have to. they don't have i think hillary rosen was saying they don't have the opportunity or the advantage advantages that an ann romney has. >> probably trying to make an economic argument and it became a cultural war. >> good morning. thank you bill thank you for your comment about bic cheney. these dick cheney comments are the classic examples of the political playbook and strategies of karl rove which, as we know character assassinate by accuses others. thank you for reminding us of the failed policies of the

george w. bush and dick cheney administration. >> i appreciate that. what we will do for our viewers and listeners who may not have tuned in the last hour is this is what dick cheney had to say speaking to the republican party of wyoming. >> this has been an unmitigated disaster for the country, to be in a position where he gets four more years in the white house, to continue the policies he has with respect to the economy and tax policy and defense and so many other areas would be a huge, huge disappointment. it's interesting first of all, margaret that george w. bush we never hear from. he said, i had my time in the spotlight. now, i am going to do the right thing and not comment on how this administration -- dick cheney has been non-stop.

>> held a different office, different kind of guy. vice president cheney has been out spoken never afraid to speak his mind and he is someone that romney would use to rally the base. a polarizing fixed. not who you would put on the i-4 corridor. mitt romney is in the position where he is trying to solidify what he has and secure his party nomination officially and cheney is very popular for many republicans. >> do you think in the general election he will want dick cheney slamming barack obama. >> this is engaging the base in the republican party. >> right now it works. >> dick cheney is a fighter you may not like what he has to say, but it's not going to stop him from saying it and articulating it. there are many people who want to hear what he has to say and are inspired by him.

can you imagine? everybody he has been through physically and he is giving speeches? he is completely committed to the cause. >> gee. >> that's too bad. i thought he had a change of heart. i guess not. margaret tolev, thank you for coming in today. >> my pleasure. >> come back as a friend of bill any time. on the last word with my parting shot. ♪this is the bill press show.

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show. >> all right. on this monday, april 16th, my parting shot for today, well, the media loves nothing more than a sex scandal, and now we have what looks like a very juicy one involving the secret service. yeah, full investigations underway but it looks like 12 secret service agents and it may be even five members of the military who were in colombia ahead of time to advance president obama's attendance at the summit of americans took advantage of colombia's lax prostitution laws to sample the local merchandise. they didn't do anything illegal, at least not in colombia but they violated every code of behavior binding members of the military and the secret service. they take an oath to behave and they are representing us overseas and we have every right to expect them to observe that code of conduct or else face the consequences. >> that's my fartparting shot.

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