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>> today's current firefighter news update in los angeles, here is jackie schechner. high, jackie. >> good morning. sounds like there is a white man bias. president obama is back in d.c. he has closed door meetings all morning and he will welcome the alabama crimson tide to celebrate their 14th championship and their giving to the community on and off the field all of their con contributions. vice president biden is going to make a stop in arizona and then he will head to los angeles and to santa barber where he will spend the night. >> on the republican front mitt

romney will turn his attention to ohio. newt gingrich and ron paul is in ithaca is going to have lunch and 7:30 tonight. ron paul put out a press release saying they had more than 2,000 people at an event at road eyehode island last night and one supporter is making ron paul the video game. daniel williams is creating ron paul road to revolution collecting gold and delegates with the ultimate goal to be ending the federal reserve and becoming president. williams is raising money for development but says the online version of the game will be free and available in july. it looks like a lot like mario brothers and the latest in the secret service scandal this morning is that three acts are now gone. we do not know their identities. but one supervisor according to a statement from the secret service was allowed to retire. another was allowed to retire for cause and a third who is not

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the white house in a bucket. >> oh, man. right. and the mitt romney campaign they are fighting back, not just the war on women we have to talk about. it's the war on dogs. and over in afghanistan, more gruesome photos of americans, american soldiers taking photos with big grins on their face alongside body parts of afghanistan terrorists. this is just one more than black eye for the pentagon. so much to talk about today. let's get right into it. first, we say good morning to all of you and, also to peter okay burn, dan henning and our videographer, cyprian boulding. what do you say. >> happy thursday. >> good morning. >> it was nice to meet the winners of the illinois lottery, older couple: then buying lottery tickets and they hit it. it's merrillle, like merle haggard.

>> merle and patricia butler and he says patricia has been doing nothing but giggling and i said no, we won. then she started giggling and she giggled for about four hours, i think. >> she is still giggling. how much did they get? >> 218 mill. >> i would giggle. >> yeah. >> i would do a lot more giggle. >> all right. good for them. what a line-up we've got today. the head of the naacp the honorable ben jellis will be here with us as well as congressman keith ellison from minnesota a and we will talk to laura bassett from huffington post about the countntinuing war on women being waged by republicans. now we also have the war on dogs. but first, we've got dan.

>> full-court press. >> we do, bill. other headlines -- >> war on dan. >> one of the biggest names in american entertainment passed away yesterday dick clark known for starting "american band stand," "the golden globes," the "the american music awards" and count down for over 50 years. he was known as america's oldest teenager and said in the 1980s he was so busy and had his hands in so many pots when so many people said, dick clark, i love your show he would be embarrassed because he didn't know which one they were talking about. >> i don't know if they are talking about the radio show or t.v. show. you mean the radio show or the t.v. show? oh both. great guy, dick clark. my. >> i am looking forward to that. eddie van halen is blaming his dad for his days of drunken

stupidity in his new issue of esc war magazine he said he asked his father who was also a musician how to get rid of stage fright. he gave him a shot of vodka and a cigarette to a couple of his nerves. >> that's what started him on the bottle. >> booze. >> i don't feel so about my father-in-law advice now. at least i never gave them booze. >> with all of the talk of what full-time moms do following ann romney's comments, salary.com is out with its what's a mom worth survey. it's not an exact science but when you fact or in the mom's average 95 hour work week with their duties of child care medical care, cooking, counseling, transportation and other tasks, the survey of 8,000 different moms finds the average salary of a mom would be 112,962. >> whoa. >> per year. >> a little bit of a drop. >> i was going to say, when you combine everything?

the amount of time you spend? >> but we talked last week that the president's secretary makes 95,000. >> less than a mom. >> she ought to stay at home. >> there you go. >> of course, they should get paid. they don't get paid a dime. >> i understand. now, ann romney with five kids, the more kids you have the more you get paid. >> right. >> doesn't hurt if you marry a multi-millionaire. >> a little different in that case. >> yeah. >> we have been talking about the war on women. here is the latest. this is monumentally dumb monumentally crazy but they are talking about it. i mean to me it just shows the romney campaign how desperate they are and how dumb they are to throw something like this out there. let's go back here. we know how this war on dogs started. it started with the story that one of mitt romneys sons told

about how their dad is very inventive and very creative like for example we were going on the family -- they told this story like this was to show the good side of their dad. you know what i am talking about. i am talking about the shamus story. right? our dad is such a creative guy and such a caring loving guy that we were going off on a family trip and there are five of us boys and mom and dad. and we had the station wagon and we had all of our bags. we were going off on vacation to canada and there wasn't enough room in the car for the dog. so dad, being the love dad that he is, he didn't put him in the kennel for two weeks? no. he put the kennel on top of the car and he put shamus in the canal on top of the car and strapped it down and off they went on a 12-hour ride. you have to think about that. 12 hours from boston to canada.

this is before mitt had his g 5. >> strapped the dog on the airplane. >> like the shuttle. there are various stories about whether or not the canal -- at one time mitt said the kennel was air-tight so he didn't get, you know, blown to bits up there. and then so another time he said it was open. there were holes so the air could come through so the dog, you know, wouldn't suffocate. he would tell different stories abouts it did you diane sawyer asked him the other night about -- asked him and ann romney, the two of them about whether they would ever do this again. mitt has a different feeling about ann. ann said this is shamus's best moment. >> certainly with the attention its received. >> you said it was the most wounding thing of the campaign. >> the dog loved it. >> the dog got sick.

>> once. we traveled all the time and he ate the turkey on the counter. i mean he had the runs. >> yeah. somehow, is she talking about shamus? >> i think she was talking about shamus, yeah. i don't think it was mitt? >> it wasn't in themitt. she said thedol had the runs and they told the story. they stopped at a gas station. mitt gets a hose and he hoses down the dog hoses down the dog and they take off again. so that story came out. mitt again, to show the good side of their dad, that's not the way dog lovers saw it. they saw it as cruelty, total cruelty to animals and cruelty to the dog and uncaring for that dog at any rate and it spawned a whole kind of group of followers. in fact, there is a website

called "dogs against romney." scott kreider is the man who created that website. we are going to talk to him in a few minutes. he is going to join us. dog lovers around the country won't let mitt for get this. they raise a lot of hell about it. now, actually, as bad as that is and it may be they should apologize for it. instead, now the romney campaign is fighting back against barack obama saying he is worse than mitt when the it comes to treating dogs because of something that is written in barack obama's book. sean hannity last night has mitt romney on the air, and he raises -- you've got to know what happened on sean hannity on fox news. he tries to direct the attack against barack obama. >> a dog story. you had a dog named sham u.s. and then after this came out, it's sort of like a sandra fluke

controversy and the comments made about your dive. tell us about your dog and what did you think of the revelation that went viral today in the president's book he admitted eating dog when he was growing up in indonesia and grasshoppers. and i didn't make that up. >> sean, i am going to talk about jobs and the economy and getting america working again. i am going to talk about the debt. i am going to talk about the measures people care enough. >> fair enough. >> not all of these extraneous stories. >> you are not going to fall into the trap. you know fox is going to beat this thing to death. i bet you fox and friends up here this morning is going to talk all about obama eating dog and so then, the romney campaign gets on this last night and they up the photo that the -- you remember that famous photo. you have it on your computer of president obama with bo riding in the official presidential

limousine. pardon me, the campaign sent out -- sent that around by e-mail yesterday with a note turns out to be a chilling photo. you know. president obama was getting ready to slice up bo and eat him for dinner. i mean it's just so bad. now, here is the passage they are talking about in president obama's book, "dreams from my father." he was talking about when he was six years old. okay? and he is living in indonesia. his mother has remarried this guy named lo-lo. who is in indonesia and barack obama writes about his days as a kid. with lolo, i learned how to eat small green chile peppers raw with dinner and away from the dinner table i was introduced to dog meat, snake meat tougher and roasted grasshopper, crunchy.

like many indian easias lolo followed al brand of islam that could make room for more ancient ani animus faith and he explains a man took on the powers. one day soon he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share. >> that's what it's all about. he is six years old, living in indonesia, his stepfather says hey, this is what we do here it reminds me when i was in switzerland, i told this story before, i ate horse. they ate horse in switzerland. so i hate horse in switzerland but i was 25. i mean i could have refused to eat horse, i guess. but that's what they did. in rome do what the romans do. this kid in indonesia six years old, this is what his stepfather says, here is what we do and of course he did it. don't you think there is a big difference between what he might have been subjected to as a 6-year-old and what mitt romney did when he was what?

in his 30s or forties and taking his five kids for 12-hour drives with a dog on top of the car? and they try to equate these two? it's insane. >> i ate boogers when i was 6. i ate things from outside all the time, you know. >> yeah. >> you are 6 years old. >> the war on boogers. >> it's just so the fact that they would even go there to me is soidiotic why don't they apologize for shamus and saying we didn't think that through very well? dog owners -- dog lovers today wouldn't do anything like that. they have to take this kernel from president obama's book and try to make him at a time dog eater. 866-55-press. i somehow feel that dog lovers

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>> by george clinton. >> i was thinking about all of the stuff i used to eat. what was it my grandmother said? you have to eat a peck of dirt as a kid. >> yeah. >> kids used to eat dirt. stuff they put in their mouth. >> you have never had dog? have you? >> to my knowledge. seriously, no. not to my knowledge. robert's calling. you have this whole thing about now romney i might have put my dog on top of my car but i didn't eat it. roberts calling from south carolina. robert, what do you say? >> good morning. >> good morning. >> on the subject of eating dog, here in the south, we have a saying for when you have to own up to something you have done wrong. they call it eating crow. i am thinking maybe the republicans will be eating crow on this. >> it may be time for mitt romney to eat a little crow. i have heard that phrase before. i thought you were going to go

there about a squirrel or a opossum there. >> raccoons. >> i have known folks to eat those pots um-- possums but not me. >> time to eat crow for mit t romney romney. there is no comparison between what he did to shamus and what barack obama might have done. i keep going back, as a 6-year-old in indonesia. jean gene, in chicago. >> good morning, bill. >> don't you love it? >> tell me about it. it's just a repeat of the '08 election. they have nothing. so they are grasping at straws, throwing stuff out there. something else, where is peter on this issue? >> that's a good point. you know what? i am amazed. where is peter on this issue? >> if i may -- >> peter, they should have been -- maybe they have been raising hell but i haven't heard

it. good point, gene. what else were you going to say? >> not to get off of the subject but going back to the postal service. if the congress passes this thing, doesn't it have to go through the president's office to sign into law. couldn't he veto it? >> if it's a bill it doesn't become law without the president saying -- i don't know whether it's the federal level. probably is. but you are right, the president has to sign it. and the president's got to stand up for the postal service, i think. >> that's way off of the topic. we talked about it yesterday, the problems of the postal service. the postal service does a great, great, great job and we have to keep it going. again, it would be -- it would be making a huge profit if it weren't for the restrictions that congress placed on the postal service. we will come back. i want to talk about dogs. i want to make sure. >> this is the bill press show.

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truth in advertising when it comes to cam pangs. i want to point out the spin. roughly one-third was a tax cut for 95% of the americans. he doesn't talk about that. middle class americans. secondly, the other part the private sector jobs, yeah, there were 3.2 million private sector jobs created according to the congressional budget. and third, the part that went to local governments, cities and counties and states was not to protect the governments. it was to keep public employees teachers firefighters cops on the job, the people we depend on. it was all about jobs. mitt, you can try to spin it some other way but when you are that wrong, it's not spin. it's just at big fatly. we have been talking about republicans now trying to say, oh, romney might have put his dog on top of a car, but little barack obama when he was in

indian indonesia ate dog. the man keeping this alive is scott kreider, the creator of the website, dogs against romney. good morning, scott. >> good morning, bill. >> hey so how many molarsfollowers do you have on this website now? >> our facebook page set a record at 50,000 yesterday. >> whoa. 50,000. that's dogs against romney.com. >> that's on our footballacebook page, facebook.com/dogsagainstromney facebook.com/dogsagainstromney. >> that's 50,000 in dog followers. >> i am going to use that. thank you very much. it already paid off. >> there you go. the website is getting somewhere between 4 and 6,000 unique readers a day. >> what are people saying? people, are they just -- they find this whole mitt romney story with shamus kind of funny,

or are they outraged about it? >> it's a mix. but i would say it's a majority of the people who are following this on our site are very serious about it. they are pet owners, themselves and they look at their pet and they can't imagine ever being able to make a decision to have it ride on the roof of the car rather than with the family. and it just makes them feel like mitt romney is not like them. >> what do you say to -- or what are your followers saying to ann romney's comment that shamus loved it and this just this one time he happened to get sick because he had eaten the turkey off of the counter. >> yeah, well our followers on the facebook page in particular are very heavily female and

they -- i would characterize their reaction to that as they were hoping that they would hear something more empathetic from ann. >> from ann? >> they were disappointed. >> scott we haven't talked about this but i was just thinking, when she says that this time he ate the turkey off the counter, it sort of implies that they did more than one trip with shamus on top of the car. doesn't it? >> yes. >> that's what we gathered from it, that this was not a one-time occurrence but they traveled all the time and this only happened this one time. >> yeah, the one time that he got the runs because -- and they had to stop and hose off the car. and how about this moral equivalence see now they are trying to make between what barack obama wrote about in his book when he was a 6-year-old

until indian easejon ease indonesia, what do you hear on the web about that? are they buying that? >> a tiny fraction were bothered by it. the most overwhelming majority of the people on our site saw it for what it was, which was something that happened to the president when he was a child and not in control of preparing his own meals and in a country where dog meat is served not that uncommonly. >> yeah. >> the romney people are trying to use it to compare to what he did as an adult in the united states. >> right. right. >> and he continues to say that he thinks it was okay and the dog loved it. >> yeah. he still has not apologized for it? right? >> no. >> no. >> what i put on the blog yesterday was that if president obama had eaten a dog as an adult in the united states and

said the dog enjoyed being eaten and he thought it was still okay to keep eating the dog, they might have a point. >> i think that's an excellent way of putting it. okay. now, we have so many listeners and viewers who want to talk about this on current tv. tell us how people can sign up and follow you on dogs against romney. >> the best way to do it is on the facebook page. >> that's where all of the conversation. >> give it to us again. >> it's facebook.com/dogsagainstromney. >> facebook.com/dogsagainst romney. we will put it on our website so all of the viewers can stay on top of the story. thank you for joining us this morning. scott kreider,

facebook.com/dogsagainstromney. as an adult, father of his children barack obama if he had killed a dog and eaten it and said the dog enjoyed it, that would be the same as what romney, then they would have a comparison. but they expect when he was 6 years old, in indonesia that little barack would have said no, i am not going to eat that dog because some day i am going to grow up and i am going to run for president of the united states, and i can't have anybody say that i once ate dog as a 6-year-old. joey in chicago. isn't this nonsense? >> this is nonsense. this is a republican party crying dog. did you ever here of the story of the dog crying wolfe? they never take responsibility. they always point the finger and this is just another example of that, bill. i think we are going to kick their butts this november. >> if this is all they've got, joey, it looks like we are going

to. >> we are good. i bet my paycheck we will beat them this november. >> i don't know, joey. >> that's a big paycheck. >> have a good day, buddy. >> you better not put it all on the line. here is david. david, what do you say? >> i kind of say the same thing that joey just said. i would be willing to bet my check, also but the comparison of the dog on the roof and him eating dog in indianonesia at six years old, there is just no comparison. >> you know, it takes fox news and sean hannity to come up with this right? >> yeah. >> it's like where are they coming from? are they really serious? i really do. i want to keep my eye on fox and friends this morning because i know -- i know the three of them are going to be talking about this. this is going to be the new agenda on fox news. oh, mit the romney might have put his dog on top of the car but at least he didn't eat his

dog. greg is in chicago as well. hello, greg. >> good morning, bi. >> coming strong this morning. how are you? >> fine, thank you. i was call to go say mitt couldn't afford a passenger van, a full-size van for his wife five kids and dogs. he had to trim it down to a station wagon and a dog on the top. >> with all of the money that he made, right. >> exactly. a car executive, he had no idea they had them. >> his father, head of american motors. i want to come back to this question, greg. how many times did they do this? right? because ann said this is the only time he got sick. right? >> exactly. it sounds like more than one instance. >> so this was their pattern. this was the way they treated that dog. no wonder 50,000 people have signed up on dogsagainstromney. i am going to sign up on dogsagainstromney. i think we ought to start a site cats against romney goldfish against romney.

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>> is that what he thought put roller skates on the dog? >> tied him to the bumper. >> tied him to the bumper so he wouldn't run away and forgot about it so when they realized they had left the dog on the bumper, he was back and there was nothing but a leash. >> the cop pulled them over. >> oh. oh. yeah. well, yeah. i think that is his national lam poon moment. unfortunately that was a movie. right? this was real life for mitt romney. yeah, romney, just come out and say, mitt, come out and say, it was wrong. i shouldn't have done that. those are the days when maybe we did dumb stuff and we looked back and realized how dumb that was. they are still defending it. ann romney still defending it. on the political front, well, not really the political front. i mean on one very important issue, patty murray held a news conference yesterday to talk

about the fact that the violence against women act is up for reauthorization and we will talk about it this morning in the next hour. republicans are blocking it. this was written by joe biden when he was senator in 1994. it's been reauthorized twice since but this year republicans, led by senator chuck grassley are blocking reauthorization. patty murray says let's not play politics with this. >> women in america cannot afford political theater on this issue, not on this issue. >> the reason republicans are blocking it is, well there are three reasons. they say, no, now, it goes too far because reflecting these times and reflething a new realities or priorities, if you willcting a new realities or priorities, if you will will, this as three categories to women who should be protected from domestic violence gays and lesbian s, lbgt women, native

american women and women who may be here illegally but chuck grassley said, no, we shouldn't protect them. no, they are fair game for them. we beat them up. we don't care about them. >> that's why all eight republican senators, unbelievable on the senate judiciary schmidt voted against reauthridesation of the violence against women act. why are we debating this? >> whattertic wants to know. >> i can't understand why this is a debate in congress. >> you know why it's a debate? it all is part of this war on women. they don't like us to call it that, but that's what it is. when mitt romney can't even say whether or not he would have signed the lily ledbetter act, when roy blount and republican senators pushed through a measure, tried to push through a measure which would allow employers to decide which health care procedures women can have

and which ones they can't, that's part of their health care coverage. when republicans in the house try to overturn the obama rules providing access to contraception, when rick santorum says he wants to make birth control illegal. illegal in this country, states have the power to declare it illegal in this country. i mean you go on and on and on. republicans now are also blocking the equal pay legislation that women should get the same pay for the same job. that legislation, they killed it last -- or two years ago in 2010. it's back up again this year. they are also blocking that. it all is part of the same continuing, ongoing war on women. hey, we hear a lot from you on facebook, and e-mails and twitter and we will take a look at some of those when we come back here next on the full court press this beautiful thursday morning. ♪

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♪ happy thursday, thursday april 19th. good morning, everybody. welcome to the full-court press, your new morning show right here on current tv. great to see you this morning. thank you for joining us as we tackle the big stories of the day. here is one we have been talking about. yeah, you have heard of the war on women. now, we have the war on dogs. get this: the romney campaign is actually saying that it wasn't so bad that mitt romney put shamus on top of the car and drove for 12 hours from boston to massachusetts because barack obama did a lot worse. he actually ate dog when he was

living in indonesia. yeah, don't you think there is a big difference between what a grown man does and what a 6-year-old boy does in a different land and a different culture? just one of the things we are talking about this morning. but first, we have the latest news update here in los angeles, jacki schechner. hi, jacki. >> hi, bill. good morning everyone the department of veterans affairs is announcing it's going to higher 1600 more mental health professionals to cut down on wait times at medical facilities. the "new york times" posted the uptick is meant to accommodate not only the recovering veterans from iraq and afghanistan but aging veterans from the vietnam era. they are going to release a report saying wait times at the va is way too long. it says it evaluates secret trans not in crisis within two

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you across the land on our great progressive radio station and whether you are watching or listen, good to have you with us today. lots to talk about. the president is back on the road yesterday talking about the economy at the whitehouse today, the big event is welcoming the crimson tide to the white house. he loves when the sports teams come to the white house and i know there will be a joke about breaking the trophy. >> for sure. has to be. >> there has to be. >> or they might completely avoid it. but i think you have to. >> he has to. >> the second supports -- >> maybe he will walk out and drop it. >> second event this week. >> that's right. down there for nascar a couple of days ago. >> robert gibbs is a huge auburn fan. he will be there if nothing else just to, you know, get a few jokes in or something. >> yeah. >> i hope it hurts, robert. >> now, as we were talking last

hour, the latest on the mitt romney campaign is they are saying it wasn't so bad i put my dog on top of my car and drove for 12 hours. at least i didn't eat my dog a dig at president obama when he was a 6-year-old boy. >> a grim situation in afghan new photos yet another case of american soldiers getting out of line and pose with big grins on their face along with body parts of afghan terrorists that have been killed in suicide bombings. all of that to talk about and more so get ready and give us a call 866-55-press, you want to join the conversation. it was a passing of a giant america's oldest teenager, they called him dick clark, dying in santa monica.

best phone for american bandstand bandstand. here ishe is from 195 fine. >> this is dick clark welcoming you back to american bandstand. this should be about part number 3 as music and fun and frolik leading off, bobby helms. >> i didn't realize went on to american country music. >> yeah. music awards, american music awards, golden globes production company action dick clark productions. >> he did an amazing thing. once he got some money, once he made a little jack he just started all of these new things. >> yeah. >> all of these new investments that were very public and award shows and t.v. shows and everything. >> and then, of course he became mr. new year's eave. right? >> this was back in 1982. >> a happy new year to you in 8 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. happy new year >> yeah.

>> happen new year. >> i have to tell you my own -- i had my days with dick clark. i had my experiences with dick clark. >> you have teased this. i genuinely don't know what you were going to say. >> i was never on american band stand. >> rats. >> the first thing was funny. when i was a teenager i am at the beach, fenwick island one of my cousins, the girl cousins went in the store one day and they used to read all of these movie magazines. they recognized dick clark's wife shopping. aren't you dick clark's wife and she said, oh my god. oh, my god. so she made a deal. she said if you don't tell anybody we are here, you can come up tomorrow. here is where we will be on the beach and say hello. >> stop it. >> whoa. >> kid you not. so the next day, mu cousin marie and bootsie and teddy,

bootsie's boyfriend and myself and eddie haul the 5 of us there was dick clark and his wife and their kids, two little kids just out on the beach enjoying the sun and right 50 yards away, this whole pack of teenagers from some school had no idea dick clark was there. he had a hat and sunglasses and no makeup. they had no idea dick clark was there. we had a little visit. >> that's cool. >> i didn't get, you know, an auto graph or anything. flash forward. i am in la doing t.v. and you get a call one day from this guy who said dick clark wanted to see me. i said what? dick clark is still alive? i couldn't believe it. he wanted me to audition. he was starting another new show, a of itt show.

he wanted to do a pilot, like a game show, and i was one of the panelists. >> you would have been a great game show host? >> it wasn't a host. i was on a panel sort of like what would you do if like you are leaving a parking lot and you scrape a car? i accidentally. what would you do? i remember so it was all of these made-up odd things. would you put a note on the car, or would you just quietly, you know, kind of get away and hope you don't get caught and that kind of thing? so we did this pilot, and at the end, i will never forget dick clark greeted us, explained what the whole thing was about and then he came out and at the end of the pilot, he took each of us and said okay. thank you for coming. one, two, three, four, handed me five $100 bills. >> come on. that is crazy. >> $5,100 bills. >> so that was my dick clark

experience five $100. >> did you tell him at the beach? >> yeah. >> that's what the call was about. >> everything. but i couldn't believe it. >> too funny. >> i couldn't believe dick clark was still at it. trying all kind of new stuff. that dick clark experience didn't go. that by lot didn't go anywhere. otherwise, hell, i could be doing the countdown. >> there you go. >> 10, 9, 8, 5. what is it? >> right. right. >> we have a lot coming up today. ben jellis head of the naacp as well as congressman ellison from minnesota and laura from huffington post. but first action this is the full-court press. >> my dick clark day. >> when news broke, my sister tweaked me or messaged -- >> texted.

>> said did you get an autograph from dick clark that day on the beach? she said you could put it up on e bay. >> the possibility of kim kardashian running for mayor is becoming more and more serious. tmz -- >> absolutely not. >> the former mayor and current city councilmen, aura najaoria is offering to make her his chief of staff to teach her about fell support of the the 200,000 people who live in glendale, an estimated 50,000 are armenian. >> this is not a serious story. don't say that this got more serious. there is nothing serious about it. >> george is armenian governor of california. >> i here you. >> are you saying she is going to be governor one day? >> no. >> okay. >> don't count the armenians out

in california. a union block. >> legend area ncaa women's basketball coach stepped down at the university of tennessee lady's team yesterday. she coached for 38 years and said time to move on. eight months ago, she revealed she was suffering from early onset dementia. she is staying with the team though, while her long time assistant is taking over as head coach. she would serve as coach emeritus. she has won more games than anybody. >> men, women, the best ever. she is amazing. >> and guests at the whitehouse correspondents dinner you can't have it without the man who plays president obama on saturday night saturday night live, at the new yorker table, also park and rec creations of these i'm sorry and politico reporting npr is bringing mary jay blithe and

john legend. >> that just me minded me. the new yorker table, hmmm. about the new yorker party. i haven't been invited to the new yorker party. >> got lost in the mail. >> there you go. >> okay. i want to talk about media bias here at the top of the hour and get your thoughts on it because there is a very fascinating new study that came out yesterday from the people at fairness and accuracy in reporting or fair a grade media watchdog, been around a long time. first, let's back up. you hear all the time about bias in the media. right? conservatives always complaining about the liberal bias the media is nothing but they tilt left and they are not fair to us and thank god we have fox because cbs and abc and nbc and msnbc and cnn are all right-wing. when i said cnn i get this particularly all the time. it's nuts. there is craze.

there is no liberal bias to the media. i could count at least maybe -- i meet need both hands right now but the absolutely proud liberals who are out there on the air, there are not many of us. right? you know who they are. me, stephanie, ed schultz, mike molloy randi rhodes, tom hartman, running out of names here rachel, of course lawrence o'donnell but not that many. not that many. general. >> jennifer granholm. thank you. cenk uyjur. 10 at the most and if you look at the op-ed pages of the newspapers. it's all right-wing. if you look -- listen to npr, all right wing the liberal media is nuts. but here is some ammunition on that. if you like i, watch the sunday morning talk shows or used to

and you have the feeling maybe they are tilted right, fairness and accuracy in reporting proves that, in fact they are. this came out yesterday. they took a look at every one of the shows the big 4 or 5 on sunday. so this week, "meet the press" "face the nation" and "fox news sunday," the big 4, they followed them from june 2011 to february, twelve. okay? for those eight months, and here is what they found: liberal bias in the media? hardly. for their one on one guests and most of the big guests on one on one. right? on those four shows. 70% of them. 70% were republican. 86% of them, men, and 92% white.

so get it? it tilts right. it tilts male, and it tilts white, the sunday shows. seventy percent republicans, hardly liberal bias. the roundtables. they are more balanced? right? uh-uh. not necessarily. fair found, again, that 62% of the round table guests, table guests republicans out numbered democrats 282 to 164, and on those roundtables, 71% were male and 85% of them were white. so, you know, we know bob schieffer. bob schieffer once said the host of "face the nation" our job is to find interesting people from american life who have something to say and give them a chance to say it.

>> that's nice in theory. the truth is if you look at this study done and they went over every show by fairness and accuracy in reporting tilted right, that not -- in other words, they don't reflect what the american people are all about. they don't reflect what this country is all about. they give a right-wing bias view of the news every sunday on every one of those shows. so next time, i want to get that out there. next time you people, you hear something complain about all of the media, they are all liberals, you know, it's just the liberal bias in the media. just tell them, b s. here are the facts. i am sure you have seen it that way too, 866-55-press. what the it does is it stresses the importance of progressive radio for getting truth out there as a counterbalance and under scores the importance of what al gore and others are trying to do here on current tv. that's why i am proud to be part

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>> yeah. i totally agree. i watched the sunday morning shows a lot, and they always have a lot more republican view points and the other thing is, is even when they do have say, one progressive thinker and one right-wing tea party person they never allow the progressive person to finish a thought. they are very aggressive on the right. they dominate the time. they interrupt. they talk over people. >> the moderator doesn't do a good job of making sure -- theysay let him finish. they don't do that. i always thought they tilted right. i had no idea until this fair study came out how right-wing they really, really are. >> this is the bill press show. ♪

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if you want a signed copy, we will send you one signed and inscribed anyway you want. laura bassett from huffington post joining us in a couple of minutes. she is on her way up to the studio but we are continuing our conversation while we are waiting for laura about this -- the reality of the sunday morning talk shows as proven by this recent study done by fairness and accuracy in reporting or fair showing that 70% of their one on one guests are republicans, so much for republican complaints that there is a liberal bias to the mainstream media. let's say hello to conic in north florida. hi, connie. what do you say? >> bill, i am so glad i have found current tv early in the morning. >> so are we glad you found it. >> i live in north florida which is a republican stronghold and also a bunch of my neighbors and family are also die-hard republicans and it's so nice to

be able to watch a show of yours and stephanie's and i don't have to call somebody to say, say something liberal to me. you are right, even the local shows. >> we tilt left, and we are proud of it, connie. there is no doubt about that. >> even the local new shows are way, way right. it's so nice to see somebody. >> we are home. we are home. >> yes you are. thank you so much for being there. >> all right. you know this whole thing, i appreciate it, connie, it's just i think people around the country are looking for a liberal a lot alternative. i am glad we are here. if they tune in to the sunday morning talk shows, they are not going to find it on "meet the press" or "face the nation" or "this week" or certainly not on fox news sunday. >> the big issues going on washington d.c. is now reauthorization of the violence

against women act, which should be automatic, one would think. it doesn't turn out that way. laura bassett is national reporter with the huffington post. joining us particularly covering women's issues and joining us in studio. hi, laura. nice to see you. >> great to be here. >> patty murray and dianne feinstein and one other senator held a news conference yesterday. you might have been there, where they talked about the importance of this act and why this is not something we ought to be playing politics with. here is patty murray. >> women in america cannot afford political theater on this issue. not on this issue. >> joe biden wrote it in 1994, reauthorized twice. what's the deal this year? >> republicans have a problem with it this year because democrats wrote the bill and expanded some of the protection to include same-sex couples as well as undocumented immigrants.

and republicans can't support it with those extra protection in it. >> so it's okay to beat up women who are here illegally? is that it? fair game? >> if you are gay. >> and to beat of gays and lesbian s.? >> exactly. >> what? it's like it defies believe. >> i agree. republicans are saying that the democrats are using this bill sort of playing this whole war on women game and adding the protection for gay people and the protection for undo you knowed immigrants in order to b.ait them to not support the bill so they are accusing the democrats of playing politics with women's health as the democrats are accusing republicans. so it's a operate ugly deal on the hill. >> when one goes back and says why is it okay or why shouldn't a woman who just happens to be here illegally, why shouldn't she have protection against spousal abuse?

what is their answer. >> they would reauthorize the violence against women is. they can't support it and they are not going to say we don't believe, you know, undocumented immigrants who have experienced vieolence should have our protection but they are just digging their heels in. >> what is next? i know this came out of the senate judiciary committee, all eight republicans voted against it. >> uh-huh. will there be a vote on the floor this week? >> we are expecting a vote either this week or early next week and it's -- i think it will pass in the senate. not so sure about the house. >> it has to get cloture? first 60 votes just to consider it? >> right. >> would republicans filibuster it? >> there are a few republicans who are supporting it. i think it has become such a hot-button issue, a lot of the republicans, especially ones up for re-election are not really in a position to not support it considering how it has angered women across the country. i have a feeling some people

will swing over. >> but a lot of them will be on record again. grassley against it who will have to defend that. so then, the next step story in the new york"new york times" this morning for senate democrats, vote revolves around women that one of the next bills that they are planning to bring up is the pay -- paycheck fairness act. >> uh-huh. >> which again says that women should get the same pay for the same work as men. >> of course. >> it came up in 2010. not one republican voted for it. and what do we expect this year? >> i think the same thing is going to happen. we are already seeing with the lilly ledbetter fair pay act, which was the first big legislation obama signed as president, some republicans are coming out. just yesterday or the day before, the head of the new hampshire republican party came out and said i wouldn't have supported the legally ledbetter

fair pay act because it's a handout to trial lawyers and allows women to make unnecessary claims in court as if being paid the same as men is unnecessary at all. and, of course mitt romney said i am not going to repeal it but he wouldn't answer the question of whether he would have signed it. i think this is going to be a similarly devisive issue. >> when you add all of this up and you have first of all, the house republicans tried to overturn the new obama rule saying every woman in america will have access to contraception as part of her insurance policy without co-pay if she chooses to take advantage of that. >> uh-huh. >> not forced on her. you have that. then you have roy blount in the senate introducing legislation every republican voted for i believe, saying employers can decide which health procedures are covered by a woman's health policy and which are not. >> uh-huh. >> now, you have got opposition

to the violence against women's act and the opposition to the pay equity act. is it an exaggeration to say there is a war on women? >> it's not. there has been a sustained legislative attack on women's rights and women's health over the past two years. if you just look at the numbers, just wildly dispropportionat amount of laws on the state and federal levels that roll back women's rights. >> haven't talked about what's happening at the state. >> right. >> what scott walker just did in wisconsin. right? >> right. secretly, overnight, signed four anti-women bills, one of them repealed the fair pay act in wisconsin and other ones aimed at defunding planned parenthood. >> i guess what republicans are counting on is that women are stupid or forgiving? >> right. >> one or the other. right? >> uh-huh. i mean, you know, they are coming out and their counter point is, well, the real war on women that more women than any

other -- than any other president have lost jobs under president obama. >> that's bogus. >> bogus because everybody lost jobs. it was a recession and it was one that he inherited. >> a bush -- >> exactly. they are trying to move focus offer of the reproductive health issue. they are saying there are women introducing bills, black women, conservative women. >> that's true as well. you know, women are not monolithic the i think the majority of women in this is country do not appreciate this disproppositionat focus on their bodies that's been happening over the past couple of years. >> what's going to happen? i looked at a cnn poll the latest yesterday and the question was asked: which voters across the country, which of the two candidates do you think has a better understanding of problems women face today? okay? obama, 55%, romney, 27%.

>> right. >> that's colossal. >> 2 to 1 difference among the two candidates. don't republicans see this may be a problem? >> they have to see it at some point. you know mitt romney has definitely seen it because he has been making a push, the comment he made about sending his wife ann to talk to women and asking them about what they cared about because he can't address what they care about. his wife reports back and said women care about the economy. i think you are going to see more people like mitt romney than of course in congress trying to reach out to women voters. unfortunately, i think it's too late and their efforts are a little bit misguided at this point and clearly. >> it seems no matter what mitt romney says and ann is my ambassador to ordinary women as if she has any more idea about what occurred working women experience than men do in my humble opinion. even if he is trying to say

that, meanwhile, these republicans in congress keep flighting or blocking bills, introducing bills that take rights away from women or blocking bills that would help women. >> right. >> and they can't deny. it seems to me it's going on. laura bassett is in studio with us, national political reporter for huffington post. we have an extra chair here at the table. george, take it. 866-55-press. give us a call and join the conversation at any time, and we will be right back. yes, there is a war on women. it is real. and it's ongoing. it keeps getting worse and worse. >> this is the bill press show. live on your radio and current tv. we've have no choice, we've lost our democracy here. just refreshing to hear. no other television show

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>> on your radio and on current tv. this is the bill press show. >> 12 minutes before the top of the hour ben jelliss and we are joined by laura bassett from huffington post. tuesday was equal pay day, a time to point out women are getting $0.70 on the dollar for the same job compared to what men are making in the year 2012. right? >> right. >> it's crazy. so before we go to the calls here, i have to ask you: hilary rosen told the truth. didn't she? >> yes. i believe that she did. i.

>> certainly, i don't want to put you on the spot but certainly she was not attacking mothers or she was not attacking women who raised their kids whether they are working while raising their kids or staying at home and raising their kids. >> of course not. i think that both obama and michelle obama did the right thing and came out and said, you know, we obviously support women equally regardless of what position they are in. i don't think hilary rosen would disagree with that. you know, it is true that ann romney is completely out of touch with what's going on with most working mothers in the country. >> that's the point that hilary was making. >> yeah. >> if she is your sounding board to what waitresses in vegas has to deal with trying to raise kids and working. >> it's a completely different ball game. >> calling from binghamton new york, john welcome. >> hi, bill. i had a chance to meet you when you were at ithaca. i want to tell your listeners you are a wonderful person.

>> my god, thank you. made my day. what about this issue here we are talking with laura about? >> it's another classic example of how the republicans try to divide and conquer the voters. this is not a female or a gender issue. this is fair pay for work. it hurts families when one of the employees, people working in the family doesn't make a fair wage. and it hurts us as men just as much as it does women because our household takes a cut in pay. >> that's a good point, you know. it's not just one isolated person here right? >> right. absolutely. and i actually spoke with lily ledbetter, herself, yesterday, who obviously the bill was named after. and she sued, you know she lost hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of her career and she said i would have used that money for my family. i would have been able to pay for my kids' education. i would have been able to support the local businesses in my community. it's certainly not just a women's issue. it's an economic issue for

everyone. i think that's a point that can be extended to a lot of these things, you know, birth control is not just a women's issue either. it takes two to have sex, two to get pregnant. i think it's a public interest issue. >> absolutely. ex excellent point. chris calling from columbus, ohio. hi, chris. >> hey, good morning, bill. >> good morning. >> just found you guys recently. i am republican, but i like to listen to everybody's side of the story. i am more toward the middle. >> we welcome you. we thank you. >> the violence against women act, you know, if the bill was good before why add to it? >> well, because, i think, if i can jump in, chris, because people discovered that there were some women who were not covered. for example, let's take the easiest example, undoubtedly women, right, would not have been covered by a law of the united states and people say, hey, wait a minute. they are here. we may not like the fact that

they are here illegally, but they certainly should not be targets or victims of domestic abuse so we want to be sure that they are protected, too. >> but bill also, you know, if a woman of non-documented status gets beat up by her husband or spouse or whoever she is living with, why would she need more rights than a documented person who gets beat up? >> we are not saying she has more rights. laura? >> she doesn't have more rights. she will have basically it allows her more averages -- avenues to get a temporary visa while she deals with her destruction or recovery. not more than than an american citizen. >> the bill says she gets those protection if she cooperates with law enforcement authorities authorities. she is providing a service.

this is again a no-brainer to me. there are victims of domestic abuse. whether they are mormon black or white, it shouldn't make difference. i am a bleeding-heart liberal. this issue is not going to go away. laura, you are right on top of it. we will see how this vote goes on the violence against women act and on the paycheck fairness act. keep up the good work. come back and see us again soon. >> any time. >> of course i should tell you how to follow laura bassett, huffington post.com or on their twitter at lebassett, bassett b-a-s-s-e-t-t b-a-s-s-e-t-t. thanks, laura. see you again soon. >> on your radio, on t.v. the bill press show. now, on current tv.

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♪ >> good morning. it is thursday april 19th. good to see you today. thank you for joining us. welcome to the full-court press. this is your new morning show on current tv. it's so good to be with you this morning. we have a lot to talk about. you know, conservatives are always complaining about the liberal bias in the media. baloney. a new study of the sunday morning talk shows proves the opposite. this study shows 70% of the guests on the sunday morning talk shows are republicans. 86% of them are men, and 92% of

them are white. yeah. so much for the liberal bias. there is no liberal bias. there is a right-wing bias to the mainstream media. we will talk about that and a whole lot more on the full-court press this morning. first, let's get the latest on this current tv news update joining us from los angeles, here is jacki schechner. jacki. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everybody. the democratic senatorial campaign committee is reporting record numbers $17.7 million which gives them $70 million so far this election cycle. on the house side, the democratic congressional campaign committee, the dcccc is putting aside money for a big ad buy, politico reports they are putting up $32 million to buy t.v. ads. they will target dozens of districts in 14 states. the earliest reported ad buy in the committee's history but with a presidential campaign going on and super p.a.c.s and other

outside groups, they want to get in and lock in the time and the rate before they sky rocket as we get closer to november. democrats need 25 seats to take control of the house. g.o.p. leaders are getting together in arizona today. they are going to map out their strategy for the months ahead. mitt romney will speak tomorrow. cnn saying they will cover campaign infrastructure, plans to raise enough money to keep up with president obama's re-election cam paper. we have another poll out this morning. a shocker, the quinnipiac poll has the president up 4 points against, fowkes 6 to 42 but puts mitt romney ahead on issues like jobs and economy. president obama is ahead on women's issues 5 to 32. we are always -- 52 to 32. current.com/bill press. we will be right back with more right after the break.

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are very proud to welcome the president of the naacp, mr. been men jellis. mr. president, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> you have joined us before on the radio show now we have radio and tv. >> this is pretty cool. >> it's great. it really is. and you have a business day, busy for the president. he was on the road talking about the economy and taxes are very much on everybody's minds this week. >> yeah. >> the president was saying, here it is. what's still crazy is that republicans want to give people like him another tax rate. >> they want to give me more of a tax break. i paid taxes. it's not like i love pay taxes. >> it's sort of funny, isn't it they think their solution that people who make a million or close to a million dollars should get another tax break. >> they have been pushing that

for so long. it's their panacea. the reality is that for instance they will talk about the corporate tax rates. we have the highest in the world but what do they actually pay? and it's a small fraction. this is a country where we should be able to work pay our fair share of taxes and vote. we have been drifting further from that where we have a big group of us who are paying taxes and a big group finding it harder to vote and a big group of us who are finding it hard to work and you have the very rich of this country who have no problem finding a job, who seem to have a real problem paying taxes it's time for us to get back to a country, at least as far as fairness that's like the country our grandparents grew up

in. >> those issues are linked. it's good to have you in studio. president jealous and to say hello to our regular term. we have to recognize them or they get so pissy. >> we are t.v. tall event now. >> they walk off. we are dealing with a lot of sensitive egos here let's say good morning to our team peter okay burn. >> thank you, bill. >> dan henning? >> hello. hello. >> and cyprian boulding our videographer, the man behind the cameras but may be the most important at all. >> treat him that way. >> he makes us look good. >> well, sort of. >> he makes some of us look good. >> i have to tell you president jealous or ben, if i may call you that. >> ben. please. >> i had the distinction honor of interviewing congressman john louis. >> great man. >> he is a legend. he is a big hero of mine.

we were talking about where he came from and where he is today and where barack obama is today. in the area of race relations, this country has made a lot of progress but still has a long way to go. right? >> you know i had a conversation with my grandmother years ago. you know i am the generation brought after the great civil rights laws were passed well after brown. we were told we would be first to be judged by color of our skin, and by the time i was 20, it was clear that my generation would become the most incarcerated on the planet most murdered in the country. so i said to my grandma, you know, who is still with us 95 years old, third generation member of the naacp and said

grandma, what happened? she said it's sad but simple. we got what we fought for but lost what we had. >> that's very much the struggle we have. we got the right to be a cop but we lost safe community and for kids to go to whatever school they want to but lost the right to assume they would be treated fairly at whichever school they went to. and so on down the line. the reality, much has changed. the big fear that jim crow the fear of black men particularly towards white women. defending white femininty. all they had to do was whistle and they strung them up and threw them in the river. something shifted around 1968 and it became with nixon's law and order campaign more about defending the right, the presumed criminality of black

men and that's what you see in the trayvon case. >> i was going to go right there to the trayvon case because any feelings we had of -- prideful feelings about how far we have come in bridging the gap if you will, and here is this 17-year-old kid walking down the street. >> beautiful kid. >> in the year 2012, a young kids, black or white can't walk down the street? >> that's exactly right. you have to understand the psychology of fear we are dealing with. on the one hand, that the notion of defending white femininity and black men as rapists has declined significantly. so no longer people freaked out by blacks and whites, which was eisenhower's big fear about the

brown division as relates to chief justice warren but now racial profiling is about race out of place. people see a blackmail walking through their enabled and they freak. i was talking to a reporter male walking % through their enabled and they freak. i was talking to a reporter. for their new york affiliate had to get a note he can carry with him to hand to the local police so when he is reporting in a white neighborhood he is handing a note proving he is reporter. this is the sort of silent humiliation we as black men deal with. a friend who is a retired federal judge he tells stories whenever he wants to drop the top on his convertible and tie his bandana on and listen to his music, he expects to be pulled over and he gets pulled over and

pulls out his retired federal judge id card and the cop about has a heart attack. he is stopping this man because he is black and driving in a wealthy white neighborhood which he happens to live in. jamal simons democratic strategist says that every -- he, jamal, himself, and everybody, every black brother, if you will, that he knows, has had an experience not as tragic but in the sense of being stopped. >> yes. >> by the cops when they are doing absolutely nothing wrong other than walking down the street, driving their car or whatever. >> that's right. >> every single person he knows has had that experience. >> especially if they have been to new york city. mayor bloomberg and commissioner kelly have turned this into a pandemic. in 2003, new york city had

170,000 stop and frisks. if that weren't bad enough and 87% of those that year the person didn't get a summons, were found to be completely, you know without no reason to be stopped. 87 per. excuse me. 89% of those that year or so were people of color. fast forward to last year. last year, there were 170 stop and frisks 687, 87% were found to have no reason. 88% were. it was almost 90% people of color. now it's over 90% people of color. >> the racial profiling still goes on? >> on a massive scale. on a massive scale. the problem in this country is we haven't had an honest conversation about it. if you go back 10 years, george bush was campaigning for president and campaigning against campaigning up and down

we thought it was a high-water mark of consensus. what happened was september 11th. the reality, in that moment when we were willing to do anything to try to feel safe our country decided to hold on to racial profiling. what we know from history is that racial and gender-based profiling, profiling based upon what people are makes us less safe. >> ben jealous is the president of the naacp. in studio with us, it's ncaapdorg and your calls welcome on a lot of the issues we will be talking about at 866-55-press. not that we have exhausted that. but i do want to ask you: i have followed for years the work of the naacp legal defense fund in fighting the death penalty. it looks like we may have one more state that will sign on. >> yes. yes. yes. so connecticut, we at the naacp have made a big effort in the state of connecticut with several human rights groups and

we got the senate and the house by a wide margin. in the house 86 to 62. we were fighting that. all of the sudden they saw which way the wind was blowing and piled on. the governor there saying it is a bill abolishing the death penalty, he would sign it. it's a campaign promise. we have no doubt he will do the right thing there? >> that interviews us to 17. >> wow seventeen states that have said no death penalty. >> exactly. we have abolished it in n, in new mexico, in the great state of illinois and now in connecticut. connecticut is the first post-troy davis. we tried this three times and it is true it pushed us over the top, increased consciousness, activism on this the promise i made to troy davis no matter

what happened we would fight until the deed was done. the reality what we are doing as activists is seeking to empower our colleagues at the naacp legal defense fund. in order to get the supreme court to outlaw it once and for all as we have done before when we got them to outlaw it for the death penalty for juveniles, for example, is we have to get a majority of states. >> yeah. >> to ban it. the u.s. constitution says a punishment must be cruel and also, unusual to be found to be unconstitutional. >> that's an excellent point. >> torture is totally constitutional. >> now, i oppose the death penalty across the board for any reason whatsoever for anybody. >> right. >> but it is also true that in addition to being a cruel and unusual punishment it is particularly cruel and unusual toward people of color. if you look at the number? >> look. >> that's absolutely right.

poor people of all colors. it's all saying in addition to being racist exclusively reserved for the poor, it is geographically random. for instance, in connecticut, 40% of death row comes from a ton of who the prosecutor is and how willing they are to sacrifice other people's lives to increase their career. >> yeah. >> that's why this has to be and on top of that, it wastes money. >> yeah. >> the state of calfifornia estimates it spends $184 million a year more than it would cost without the potsility of patrol. >> that's money that you can't spend as republican of california and also homicide detectives, that you can't spent getting the cop killers off of the street. in california, almost 50% of

homicides go unsolved. you know, somebody who has had their own cousin fall victim to murder and watched their family go through that grief, you can't get much closer than i was. most victims families the ones we hear from, the angry kind of vengeance most victim's families are more interested in getting cop killers off the streets. >> so it won't happen again. >> than killing the person who killed their loved one who is already in a cage. given our state budgets, it is a cost. spend money executing the person or spend money hiring more homicide detectives. >> one of the big issues the naacp is involved in. join the conversation. we save a seat at the table for you.

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state after state to suppress the vote make it hearter for people to exercise their democratic right to vote. >> these bills whether it's voter id or disen frinchisement bans, one of the oldest pillars of jim crow voting laws we should have expected this. >> that's what i am trying to say. we have we have seen each time there is a massive breakthrough as far as access to the polls and civic en engagement with black people, there is this backlash. we saw it after the civil war, before john lewis pushed through the voting rights act and when you see it now after the election of the first black president and the breaking of the color bear ye at the whitehouse by the largest most

diverse presidential. >> that's why they trying to its bush v gore 2 on a match scale. this time we are not going to break the law, we are going to change the law. that turns out to be more effective. it breaks my heart when i am in places like south carolina. we have members down there like a woman named dr. brenda williams she is a medical doctor where most of her patients were born to mid wives and don't have birth certificates. she spent thousands of dollars. her husband is a lawyer getting lawyers to help them get their birth certificates. >> that's what this looks like on the ground. a system attic disenfranchising of what,millions of poor people students, working mothers, grandparents across this country and the republicans had to do it to secure the vote.

but they themselves can't find more than 25 cases a year. for that, they are going to push out 5 million people. they are pushing out 5 million people to stop 2 -- to, to stop 25 people. >> who might be inclined to vote democratic. the website is naacp. -- we scratched the surface of some of the great causes you are taking the lead on president jealous, thank you for your good work. if people want to sign up for any of these projects naccp.org. >> or vote 62227, 62227. >> still a lot of work to do, the nacacp stronger than ever. thank you. >> thank you bill. >> this is the bill press

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♪ ♪ >> heard around the country and seen on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> how about it 30 minutes after the hour the full court press show on your local progressive talk station. good to have you with us whether you are listening or watching us, we tackle the big stories of the day. who better to do it with than our good friend from minnesota congressman keith ellison. good morning. former talk radio host, himself. hum? >> i want to say, man, you are looking good. you must be getting some sun or something. what are you like -- >> that's called make-up. >> is that what it is?

>> your correct. >> it's tawny make-up. >> is that the brand, like the hint of -- >> that's the color. >> that's the shade. the shade. >> spray-on? how do you get that? >> no secrets. >> okay. >> good to have you. >> in acapulco. >> in carnejana. >> 866-55-press. congressman, you don't know why you are here today but the reason is because when i heard that allen west said there were probably 81 communists in the united states congress, i knew he was talking about -- i said peter let's get that communist, keith ellison in here. >> the problem. >> he talks about the progressive caucus. the co-chair of the progressive caucus? >> i am. >> therefore, you are communist. >> i think he had us in mind,

but like mccarthy seeing fan tums and, you know all kind of crazy stuff, who is the guy who said, sir, have you know decency? >> joseph welch. >> that's what i feel like saying to my colleague from florida, from the 22nd congressional district of florida, sir, have you know decency? the bottom line is: the progressive caucus budget has things in it that americans really, really want. we front load jobs. we have the buffett rule. we allow the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans to expire. we put money in to' youth corpsecorpse corpse -- so we can get young people back on a job. we do the things americans want to be done. we begin to get ourselves out of cold war we hopeonry like this nuclear arsenal. part of the bill contains the same act ed martin's version of getting united states out of the nuclear business since there is

no more soviet union. the fact that he would attack this budget and attack us and call us communists is just a cheap way to try to dismiss but he can't dismiss because what we are standing forg is what the american people really want. just like the buffett rule that got defeated in the senate the other day, 78% of americans want it. >> yeah. >> the only thing we got to do is help americans see that politics have consequences and if not everybody in washington standing in the way of their good fortunate. it is a particular group i had logical group and mr. west is part of that group >> he says you guys are communists. what if some democrat had said, oh, those nazis. >> right. >> or those farbists can you imagine -- fas.chis.ts. i didn't see anybody hear peep about allen west. yes hear mitt romney condemn what he said they would have me

broadcast on fox demanding apologies. it would be horrible. the left is not the mere image of the right. we let it go. they fixate on minutia. they are insulting and go for the emotional jugular. >> we were talking with ben i will jealous. >> he is great. >> about some of the bills on voter suppressing. >> yeah. >> suppressing the vote. >> yeah. >> just a way of saying, hey, wait a minute. maybe they have gone too far. right? >> yeah. there is a dimension of poor

people of color but there is a whole another dimension. >> that's we don't want to debate whether we should get rid of care. we want to get rid of the people who would vote for medicare. how are we going to do that? we are going to demand they have a very identification card like if you live in a nursing home and you move from one room to another, that has to be reflected on your id. i mean the change, or you may not be able to vote. so if you are in r5078 54 d and you go to room 35 c and you don't get that change on your id, you can't vote until this is -- this is the thing that we are dealing with. this is crazy. this is going to hurt veterans seniors, low-income people and

guess what. >> that's exactly the way they want it. it's not that -- i mean, we get up here and scream that this is going to hurt veterans seniors, communities of color, folks like that. and we say, well since that a shame? the people pushing it, that's not the shame. they are going for. the people in the diffracted group better wake up. here is another group you might want to be concerned about. people who lost their id or whose birthday expired. >> birthday expired? >> i mean their license expired. >> got it. >> birthday came and went. thank you for catching me. >> you don't want your birthday to expire. >> safemeans your birthday expires, you are dead. >> yeah. good catch. let's just say bill press, you know, he didn't -- he didn't get his license renewed. >> yeah. >> and the election comes up. >> it's happened to me. >> right. so they ask you for your id. and they say, oh, this license

expired. you will not be able to vote. in the state of minnesota, there are 30,000 people who have a pending application for a renewal of a license because it's lost, stolen or because of their license expired be it based on a birthday coming. so i mean those folks can be out. this is really bad but their whole game and their whole goal is to shrink the electorate because they figure -- they don't care about winning most people. they want to win 50% plus 1 which means they want to give their people out, get our people home and that's the way they want to do it. simple. esq. >> congressman keith ellison from minnesota. we invite you to join the conversation any time at 86655 press. you don't have to be from minnesota. >> no. >> to call. >> we can be from alabama, mississippi, maine, mepeoria illinois. anywhere. >> anywhere. alaska. >> constituents from minnesota.

>> yeah. i love to hear from those guys. >> 866-5577377. what's -- you talked about the progressive caucus budget. so for two years in a row now the republicans have come up with their plan. >> yeah. >> the paul ryan plan. >> americans don't like it. >> yeah. didn't they discover that last year when they tried to get rid of medicaid, medicare as we know it? >> yeah. >> really was. >> the koch brothers don't care. they don't care whether the ryan budget, they don't care whether you like it or not. 78% of the american people want the buffett rule and the senate killed it the other day. what does that tell you? they don't care what the average person wants. their attitude is so what. in the democratic society, i think we should all find that somewhat shocking. but the reality is this game is about power and money. it's not about democracy for

them. and for us, we better be on the business of democracy or we are not going to see our will reflected in policy. >> simple as that. >> the other thing about the ryan bill that we have got so much to talk about that gets me is that it doesn't add up. this guy is supposedly smart. they pay him, you know, say he is a new jack kemp. >> yeah. >> good with numbers. the numbers don't add up. >> they should add up i think. don't you think? >> i think so. well, but you know what? it's kind of like -- >> isn't that the least you expect out of a budget? >> yeah, get a little calculator and add the numbers up? here is the other thing about it. they like to mythically claim that he is courageous. >> yeah. >> for cutting programs that benefit poor people. seniors, now i don't know what definition occurs they are talking about. bold. it's bold.

this budget is bold. it doesn't hurt anybody you want to please, the koch brothers and those guys. it hurts people you don't care about. >> that's bold. i guess i don't believe it. >> 86655 press, congressman keith ellison co-chair of the progressive caucus. he is a democrat by the way. in case -- >> yeah. that's right. that's right a very american patriotic organization, by the way. >> he is not a communist. we will be right back. >> i am not now nor have i ever been. >> on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. developed connect a million minds. to introduce kids in our communities to the opportunities that inspire them to develop these important skills. how can my car go faster? maybe your child will figure it out. find out more at connectamillionminds.com

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paycheck to paycheck worried about job security or retirement and ready to make extra money from home part-time or full-time, check them out, incomeathome.com. they are giving away a thousand bucks to somebody for checking them out. that could be you. the website, incomeathome.com. congressman, we have carl calling from chicago. >> hey, carl. >> we will start with carl. good morning. >> good morning. thank you for doing a good job. we are proud of you. >> okay. we are proud of keith ellison, too. >> yeah. and keith, also. you know we hear of all of these problems and we are identifying the problems with the felonies list and the ids and everything. but what i am really hoping we are starting to hear is what are we doing to solve the problem and what can an individual like myself do to help to solve these problems the same thing will happen like happened in florida. once it happens, it's done.

>> good. >> good point is that this is happening. it's happening at so many states. >> they have done it. >> how can somebody like carl? >>? >> carl, first of all, we want to let people know about it. >> that's almost our threshold problem. so many people are laboring under the false idea that, well hey everybody has an id. right? because people are under that mistaken impression, there is just not the level of urgency. you are right. you are plugged in and aware so you know this is a problem and you have moved on to, you know understanding it as a problem to what are we going to do plus here is what we are doinggoing to do. one, with these voter ids, i have been past. we have no alternative but to get people the ids they need. that means getting in front of the problem.

this is a serious organizing challenge because of these folks are in nursing homes. a lot of folks are -- the reasons they don't have id is because they are marginalized already. this is going to take all of the energy of the people who believe in democracy and are willing to work for it. in states where it can be like in minnesota, there is going to be a ballot measure in november in which people are going to vote. should we have a voter id law or should we not? we are trying to convince people that they need to vote no, which is simply-- or skip that question. a non-vote is a no vote on the election on this issue. there again, that's another solution to a different problem. we have got a vote to have. in a number of states, that is the number of problems. we have upcoming election so we have to debunk the lives around voter i want d. the more rude i wantrudimentary

problem, alec. >> koch brothers. >> totally. >> the koch brothers know the wrong they are doing and they are doing it deliberately but a lot of corporations that funneled alec, they don't know all of the crazy stuff alec is doing. >> now they do. now a lot of them are dropping out. >> now, they are dropping out. if you, you know, carl if you can look up the alec's done offer list and if there is an illinois or chicago-based company, you know, you should let them know, you know, what they are sending their money to so they can make an informed choice. >> what's interesting is that alec has said that uh-oh with all of these corporations dropping out two days ago, they said, we're going to get out of this non-related stuff. i mean they remember formed by the koch brothers. >> yeah. >> to fight energy and environmental stuff that would impact their oil and gas business. >> sure glenn. >> they then they get into the stand your ground law,

immigration laws voter suppression laws and that's where now, there is a backlash so it proves what you are saying is that people get out and people raise hell, you can make a difference. carl, thanks for the call. >> dorothy has a quick comment from richmond village. >> hi, bill. thanks for your show. >> good to have you. >> why don't they blood pressure everybody in congress that's a millionaire voting their own interests, also, with the buffett rule. i think we ought to know who is a millionaire in congress. >> i think that you already know. we have to do a disclosure form where we state our income. i mean. >> the public doesn't know that. i mean the general public does not know that. >> that's right, but, see, here is the thing dorthy. people like you and me need to get online grab that information and pump it out there so people will know that there is a different class of buyers within the congress. i am not a millionaire. i am a member of congress but i can tell you that i am concerned

that folks who are working to put food on the table, got kits to put through are feeling like they are being edged out of congress. congress is more like a country club, you know, every day and so it is important, you know. >> for the public to blame the president when they had no reason really because the republicans have voted every time against him. >> yeah. >> they have voted against the american people. >> yeah. yeah. we need you, dorothy, we need you to keep telling the story. thank you for doing that. >> you know what? i think that the public has no idea maybe what a high percentage, particularly in the senate. >> oh, my god. >> are millionaires. >> their income is 2.3 million, no income but wealth. >> in the senate. >> it's a millionaires club. it's no doubt. >> congressman keith ellison great to have you. >> any time. >> my fellow traveler come back.

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