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you know why republicans don't like it? they like it because it reminds mitt romney strapping shamus to the top of his car which we will never forget and he can never defend. first, let's get all of the latest here with today's current tv news update in los angeles jacki schechner. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everybody. the $2.1 million richer this morning,pom and with former president bill clinton at the event of terri micallef the former dnc chair and the home of hillary clinton's primary campaign. the two camps are working together. president clinton endorsed president obama's plan for the economy and managed to balance the federal budget, democrats are hoping this endorsement will

help voters also support president obama's economic plans. the "new york times" reports this morning that the obama campaign is also preparing for new voter id laws across the country. republicans have pushed through these voter id laws in a dozen states in the last year. republicans use the saying there is voter fraud but they are used rather to support democratic turnout and votes. democratic groups are fighting against the laws in the states but at the same time, the obama campaign doesn't want to get caught off guard. they sent trainers to wisconsin to help regulate municipality it is, training volunteers in florida and working on outreach in florida. rock the vote which works hard to register young voters knows these jobs will make their job more challenging. they registered a record 2.5 million voteners 2008. their target is considerably lower.

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white house correspondent's dinner, and it was party friday party saturday, party sunday here, and we will tell you all about it. great to see you today, and i hope it's starting out to be a good week for you. we will take he will the issues of the day of the day. of course, take your calls at 866-55-press. 866-557-7377, and, you know, you are all there. we are all here peter ogburn good morning, sir. >> hey, there. >> you were out partying over the weekend. >> i was out partying yes indeed and reporting. >> reporting. i did some reporting. >> bill was reporting. >> he was reporting on the hendricks gin. >> that's a help of hell of a way to start the big long weekend, by the way, friday morning having gin for breakfast. >> good morning, dan. >> the recipe of punch is on the

billpressshow.com. >> tiger lily punch. >> with floating cucumber slices and cyprian boulding videographer here. >> put the hendrix down. good grief. >> enough hendrix. >> he's been going since friday. son. >> so it was all of the parties were swirling around the white house correspondent's dinner where there were two fabulous stand-up economics. barack obama. he has -- he has got another career, you know five years from now after he gets out of the white house but boy, he is good at this stand up stuff. great writers but he can deliver a line. >> he has great writers, but so did george bush, and he didn't do very good at these things. >> no. but obama kills. yeah. and he went after mitt romney. he said i am not going to talk about my republican oppose but

let's take mitt romney the things they have in common. they both went to harvard. >> we also both have degrees from harvard. i have one. he has two. what a snob. >> yeah. it was just mavleous. we will play more clips as we go along and jimmy kimmel. i thought he did a good job. he had a lot of material and he kept kept -- nobody was sacred certainly not the president of the united states. he made some jokes about the president's ears. >> that's the first time i have ever heard anybody joke about the president's ears. >> it was a good line and michelle obama particularly couldn't control her laughter. >> nobody was sacred. not the president of the united states and not even current tv. >> al gore launched current tv in 2005 and it took off like a north korean rocket. to be honest i didn't even know current tv was still on the air,

but then i don't get channel "a million". >> very, very funny line. i want you to know i was sitting with joel height one of the co founders, sitting with elliott spencer and cenk younger junker. >> you know we are doing something right when you are topic material. >> absolutely. >> of course you all laughed after you made sure joel was laughing first. right? >> yeah, no dummy. my ma didn't raise no dummy. what a line-up today. david jackson will join us today. and michael duffy, author of a new book about the president's club, from time magazine will be along and daniel stone, one of our good friends of bill will be in studio for us the last hour

together. he covers dinner -- covers the white houses for "newsweek" daily beast. he was at the dinner friday night. now, what about the fact that the white house and the obama campaign is talking about president obama going after osama bin laden? right thing to do? we will talk about that next, but first. sdlfrn. >> this is the full court press on this monday, other headlines making news, an actsor who plays a doctor on t.v. is being credited with saving a routine's life, patrick demp sea, from gray's an add me pulled a routinage boy out of a flipped-over car near his home. abc reports he used a crowbar to pry a door open to get the boy out. when the -- and the boy's first words when he saw dempsey was: are you famous and he said, yes but i am here to help you and he waited to he got off to the hospital and called on him a couple of days later to see how

he was doing. >> wow. i have to tell you. if somebody comes along to help you in malibu chances are one out of two, you know, 50/50, that it's an actor. >> what a hollywood story. are you famous? >> does he carry a crowbar around with him? >> no. he was in -- he had to pull it out of his garage. this was literally right by his house, saw this happen grabbed the crowbar and helped the kid out. an exciting match-up between thela clippers and memphis grizz grizzlies yesterday. down 27 points and chris paul begged his coach to put him back in the game in the fourth quarter. he helped the clippers rally back from that huge deficit to win. >> i love these clippers. >> they tied the play-off for the largest did he ever sitting here today overcome at the end three-quarters when they trailed by 21. >> i like those clippers. >> did the 27 all come in the fourth quarter? >> third and fourth quarter.

they are a good-looking team man. >> impressive. >> they period in washington also partying in down until new orleans. >> they are always partying in new orleans. >> the new orleans jazz and heritage festival getting underway with a big show from bruce springsteen. he played both his hits -- >> both his hits. >> both his hits and songs from his new album. >> got it. >> joined on stage by noermdz legend dr. john for a mr. as well. tom pet tarrant county, al green and the beach boys and many groups perform. it continues. >> that would have been a hell of a place to be this weekend, too. >> next weekend. >> are you going to be there? >> i think so. >> get out of here. >> yeah. >> man, right from the white house correspondent's dinner to new orleans. let the good times roll indeed. well one of the lines that the president got the most laughs about at the dinner getting into our big copy here this morning first first hour together, now, this was, if you recall last

year at this dinner is when the hunt for osama bin laden was underway. none of us knew it. at the time, i mean the president was there, leon panetta -- robert gates, i think, was still then the defense secretary. but nobody -- and leon panetta then head of the cia. there were all there at the dinner. nobody knew what was going on, that at that time the navy seals were taking off for pakistan where we thought in islamabad that -- the white house thought there was a 60% chance that osama bin laden might be in that home there. and the president, of course that evening gave a stand-up line, the whole thing and then it was the next morning that incredible scene where they were in the situation room watching on the live video coming from

islamabad, the killing of osama bin laden. so the president alluded to that when he started this weekend, started the dinner by saying, you know, remember where we were a year ago, and here, let's let him tell it. >> last year at this time, in fact, on this very weekend, we finally, delivered justice to one of the world's most notorious individuals. and there our current tv viewers can see on the screen, he showed a big picture of donald trump, which is true. remember, he was at the dinner last year, and he was destroyed by seth myers and barack obama and donald trump was toast once that dinner was over. that was the way of introducing the topic which has become the big buzz, which is republicans are really, really upset over a

video released by the obama campaign with the voice of former president bill clinton talking about the events of exactly one year ago this weekend. ♪it's one thing george bush said that was right, the president is the decider in chief. nobody can make that decision for you. look, he knew what would happen. supposed the navy seals had gone in there and it hadn't been bin lauden. suppose they had been captured or killed. the downside would have been horrible for him. but he reasoned. i cannot in good conscience do nothing. he took the harder and the more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> former president bill clinton talking about that mission, and then the video goes on, then it could includes with the second

part of it, wolfe blitzer is reading a direct quote from mitt romney to one of romney's advisors, and then we hear bill clinton pick up again. >> it's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person to hunt nor osama bin laden. it's generated a little controversy given osama bin laden's roll in killing 3,000 americans on 9-11. >> he had to decide. and that's what you hire a president to do. you higher the the -- hire the president to make the called when no one else can do did. >> the question is: is the obama campaign right to use that event, to use that historic mission as part of its campaign material as they just did? 866-55-press. you tell me.

that's our toll-free number. 866-55377. republicans are crying foul. they are squealing like a stuck pig saying he is politsidesing the killing of obama bin laden, the war on terror. this is not right. you know what i say to them? get out of here. baloney. first of all, remember george bush politicized 9-11 like you couldn't believe. he promised he wouldn't ever do so. where did they go in 2004 for their convention? right to new york city a mile from ground zero. what do they talk about? we have planned that montage. every speaker, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, all the time. they talk about the fact and bragged that there hasn't been another terrorist attack on september 11th because of george bush and dick cheney that we would for getting that did come under the presidency of george

bush and dick cheney who had done nothing about the war on terror for the first nine or 10 months of their -- nine months of their presidency, their time in the oval. so republicans are number 1, bush politicized 9-11 a lot more than barack obama has ever done pol politicized a mission to get obama bin laden but the other thing is: what's wrong about it? what's wrong about it? it's true george bush forgot about osama bin laden and pulled our forces off the hunted. it's true at one point of his presidency, he said, oh sam a who? like one man is just not that much important just like mitt romney said, not worth spending all of this money to go after one man and it was barack obama who said when he became president, right when he became president, telling leon panetta at the cia, make this your top priority. find out where he is and we will

mac a plan. they found him. they got a plan. they still weren't sure i was there. barack obama gave the orders okayed the orders and sent the navy seals on their motion on their mission and he ought to get the credit for it. no doubt about it i believe. it's fair game. and by the way, republicans don't hesitate. they don't hesitate to say, barack obama doesn't know what he is doing. he is in over his head. esis been a horrible president when it comes to the economy and to foreign policy. well, they can criticize him for foreign policy, then we and the obama campaign and the white house can say, 0 yeah? what about this? what about iraq? what about afghanistan? what about libya and what about osama begin laden? fair game? my opinion, you bet. you tell me, here we are go. we are off and running on this monday edition of full-court press. ♪ above all, politically direct.

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>>join the debate now. ♪ heard around country and seen on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> 25 minutes after the hour. republicans are complaining, whining about the fact that the alabama campaign in talking about the president's kay accomplishments would include getting osama bin laden. why why? because george bush didn't. barack obama did

mark in plainfield new york what do you say? >> i would like to say they are awful dog-gone lucky i didn't design that spot because if i designed t i would have opened it with george bush saying, hey, i don't worry about him. i don't worry about him. that would have been repeated about four or five times during the spot just to rup it in that we did get -- we the democrats the democratic president we i associate myself with the president on this, we did ghetto sam a bin laden and had it been bush, they would have sent that spot to rome to try to get him canonized. you know how they are. >> absolutely. there is no doubt they would have played that up. remember the equivalent might be bush on, remember at 9-11, standing alongside of the fire chief saying, i hear you. they played that over and over and over again. >> the other part people don't know is what he did against firemen at various times, the

things he did against their contracts. >> totally, totally. >> other positions in life. >> you make a great point, mark. i appreciate it. just play those clips from george bush later on saying, i don't worry about osama bin laden laden. in auroraaurora illinois. >> another push from bush says america will not sleep until obama is -- osama is killed order capital tourscaptured. and then senator john mccain who was out saying we are against waterboarding because that's torture under the geneva convention, not a republican -- now the republicans are trying even busch are saying what a good job waterboarding did to get kalik shake -- sheik

mohammed. >> they want everybody to believe waterboarding was effective. nancy is in nashville, tennessee. hi, nancy. >> good morning, bill. >> good morning, sir. ma'am. sorry. >> how are you doing? >> fine, thanks. your point? >> the republicans lie so much that they are only upset because the video tells the truth. and that's just how they are. >> it does tell the truth. >> that's what i said earlier. what is not true about what bill clinton says? bill clinton says it was president obama who gave the direction, gave the orders approved the next and end result? mission successful. thank the navy seals. thank the men and women of the cia, but you have got to include thank the men and women and president where george bush just talked and did not deliver.

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so i did to help him out. >> that's all john boehner says. he is just helping president obama out i think john boehner when he accuses the president of faking an issue, i think john boehner is just getting a little desperate there and that is his spin it was a big weekend for all of the white house washers and we have to carry on. the beat goes on and david jackson already at work covering the white house for u.s.a. today. good morning, david. >> good morning, bill. >> yes, sir. so it was a pretty big event, pretty successful event saturday night. hum? >> it went well, 2700 people. your white house correspondents government officials and various celebrities packed to here president tell jokes and jimmy kimmel tell jokes about president obama. >> you never know where they are going to go with their humor

president obama surprised everybody by going in this direction. you could almost hear gasps in the radio room. >> what's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? a pit bull is delicious. >> so david, i thought jimmy kimmel might go after the dog jokes. i was surprised obama went there first. were you? >> i was surprised. he set it up with talking about sara palin so you were expecting some kind of palin joke and he goes back to the dog. it took a few seconds, as you noted for people to pick up on it. that made the joke better. that was sara palin's line her answer was lipstick. i. >> exactly. >> i wasn't sure where he was going. the president even made a joke at the end about the secret service. he had to get them back for. >> that's what everyone was wondering because we felt like he had to be careful for obvious reasons. i think he handled it well.

>> that way, they would give him a ride home. >> exactly. >> didn't have to hail a cab. >> at the last couple of briefings we have had a lot about the secret service. do you think this has calmed down and, you know, what impact has had it. a reporter of a seattle station claimed to have partied with them in el salvador. you have things like that that will flare up. everyone is wondering about every time they have had a party overseas. i have my doubts it seems like

it's pretty secure. i am not sure where the story goes from here. even though the white house communications service one person involved in it, that's a military outfit, not really a white house person. >> no evidence of any white house person no one from the white house staff was involved in this. i think the impact is pretty negative. >> that's the humorous thing. i talked to a few people over the weekend about where the secret service was at. they are mad at their fellow agents. note anyone else but their internal people who put them in this bad position. >> the ones i have talked to, that's their reaction. they feel these guys gave them a black eye and they are not happy about it. talking with david jackson, u.s.a. today, covers the white house for u.s.a. today.

you can follow him on twitter twitter @djusa today. david, john boehner saidpom -- boehner said the president was manufacturing a difference between republicans and democrats on this issue. the president has been out there putting a lot of pressure. what's going on? >> last week was student loan week. it's a deal where in 2007, a low heist interest student loan program and it's due to expire on july 1st. so it's kind of like the newp cut. breast rates for student loans will go up. president obama decided to make this a big issue and visited three college campuses last week. whipped up excitement telling people, tell congress to renew this program or your loan raids

will go up republicans said they were more than happy to do that but they wanted offsetting budget cuts. it was a discussion about how to pay for the extension of the student loan program. sol boehner is basically saying we agree with him but we are just looking to do it a different way. >> as jay carney pointed out, they had voted for the ryan budget. >> right. >> which raises the interest rates back up to 6.8%. >> there was nothing on this that you could post and pass something. it was a point of discussion. it seems boehner was screening because they got on the same political side. it's hard to argue against raising student loans. >> yeah. it's just a typical squabbling that goes on washington.

one party will want a certain program and the other will say how do we pay for it? >> the politics of the debt that we have right now. >> one other issue we have been talking about then our calls yeah, david, we have to get nustudio here. >> all right. well. >> it's okay, david. >> we will have it specially made for you when you come over in studio. >> that's that is another issue the republicans are squealing the obama campaign released this with bill clinton giving him props for just over a year ago and they say obama is politicizing this issue. is it fair game? >> it depends. we have the one year of the osama bin laden, technically k

it's wednesday may 2nd after midnight. so tech anynicallytechnically, wednesday is the anniversary. it's what politicians do. it was a seminal event in the obama presidency. the election is five or six months away. i don't think he will be beating the drum in october. >> right. in may with so much attention on the anniversary and so many people asking questions about it, it seems like a relation logical thing for them to do. >> it's a national security issue. >> romney did say we see in that video it's not worth all of the money to go after one guy. right? >> right. they are raising questions whether romney might have done it or not. we will be here in the rose garden to see the prime minister of japan. >> looking forward to it. >> thank you for getting up

early. >> probably the earliest david jackson has done a radio or t.v. interview. we have to get him in studio here a quick break and come back to your calls about this bin laden video. bill clinton saying president obama did -- made a tough decision and the right decision to go after osama bin laden. i don't know how you can dispute that. republicans are squealing. i think they are squealing because when george bush and dick cheney said we are going to bring them back dead or a alive and they forgot about them obama delivered they never did. 866-55 presses. coming right back to your calls. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ a race car. polymers, hydo-carbons, thermal plastics, math and science? you bet it is. many kids don't understand how important these subjects can be

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>> the latest from the world of politics. this is the bill press show. >> fourteen minutes before the top of the hour, so is it fair for the white house, is it fair for the obama campaign to point out that exactly one year ago, under president obama's direction, we got osama bin laden? your calls at 866-55-press. first, a little word from our friends a lot incomeathome.com. the question is: how much money do you need to earn each month? >> the first question my friends at incomeathome will ask. they will help you keep and meet your financial goals with a little help from home from yourself a step by step system that for nearly 10 years has been helping people start their own cash-generating home based internet business.

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everything. >> that's if that went well, you know darn well republicans would have been having that while they are campaigning here for who is going to be the president's side. >> you know it. they would say look at this guy. he can't get anything right he screwed this up, the most important issue, blah, blah blah, blah, blah. right? >> you got that right. we should be very proud. that isn't the only accomplishment. >> yeah. >> he has done a lot of accomplishments of four years when we were under george bush. >> here is the way it goes, merriment they think it's fair for them to attack president obama on anything but it's not fair for the president to defend himself. greg calling. thanks, mary. greg in denver. hi, greg. good morning. >> good morning, bill. how are you? >> i am doing good. thanks for joining in. what do you think? >> i want to point out here that in 2002 at the republican witnesser convention karl rove

was standing up there saying that this is an issue -- referring to 9-11 that this is an issue that they could run on and win. >> i remember that statement. you are right. thank you for the reminder. yeah. so he said right away, we are going to exploit this politically. right? >> exactly. he also mentioned that they allowed bin laden to get away at tora boar. 10 years later where go we find him? in pakistan on the border in pakistan. how could they not have found him in 10 years for where he was? >> i tell you one thing because bush wasn't looking for him. toward the end of the administration, they admitted they had abandoned the hunt because georges bush didn't think it was worthwhile. obviously neither did mitt romney. here in neighboring virginia hello kathleen. >> good morning, mr. press.

>> bill, please. >> good morning, bill. i am just so disgusted with the republican party. they are totally obnoxious and always wrong on message and substance. thing obama in their sites intora bora. what did they do? they looked away. this is sour grapes for the republicans. nothing that democrats do is every right. they cite size everything. yet and still they have no foreign policy. they have no message except to cut, cut, cut, and no, no, no. and frankly, we are all sick and tired of them. because why? they are a tired party. if we are not going back to the bush administration again for another 10 years of our lives? it's just ridiculous. it's just totally ridiculous. i am sick of them. i have had enough. it's sour grapes. they have no agenda except bush's old ridiculous policies.

>>/and cut/and cut. >> yeah. one of the romney aids last week who said that our economic pol will be updated. >> right. all over again. we have been there and seen that movie. we don't want to see it again. >> you got it, kathleen. appreciate hearing from you. i thank you you nailed it. in trenton new jersey, hello, orley. good morning. >> good morning, mr. press. >> again, it's bill it's bill. >> thank you. >> i got some comments. one is they want to challenge his record this is part of his record. >> that's fine. >> sure. >> they say it's not enough money to spend on one guy. what about all of them spending all of this money on trying to get to obama? how much money have they spent to try to go after one guy? >> a billion dollars. >> not a bad guy. >> they will spend a billion dollars this year.

the truth of it is i think we are all see through this. we can all see through this. there is a lot of jealousy and a lot of hypocracy going on. laura bush told georgey boy at the time, you are sounding like some sick sheriff, stop this tough talk. we are going to bring him back dead or alive. you are with us or against us. that tough talk. they didn't do crap to find osama bin laden. it took a cool customer like barack obama to say, he is our enemy. he is the leader of the enemy. we are going to find him. we are going to go get him. he did and damn right he can take credit for it. ♪ >> on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. ♪

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>> welcome to the full-court press, the bill press show here on current tv. i am bill press, liberal and proud of it. for the in connection couple of hours, we will be tackling the big stories of the day, 866-55-press. how about this? the federal government announcesing today that it is going to seek national legislation banning the uses of

cell phones while driving nationwide. and we are not talking about hands-free, but getting rid of cell phones. it's a major distraction. what are we going to do about talk radio and talk television if people can't give a call from their cars? and what are you going to do about telling your wife when you are going to be home for dinner? oh, my god. one the topics we will talk about. first, here is the latest in los angeles with us, current tv news update jackie schechner. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, bill. good morning. you don't need a cell phone when you are always on time. let's start with mitt romney who is campaigning in new hampshire. he is going to test drive another vp pick at the port smith fish pi real estateer with kelly ayott, she has a law and order background, a former state attorney general. her husband is a former military pilot. in addition to those impressive credentials, she has the

obvious. she is a woman. we know mitt romney needs to court women voters. he has test driven others in the fast few weeks, florida senate marco rubio who joined him on the tail and paul ryan alongside him in wisconsin and then later this week, he is set to appear with virg governor bob mcdonnell at several appearances in virginia. pr reporting mitt romney will keep the name of his big money fundraisers quiet. peter overby reporting mitt romney who released the name of his bunglers in 2008 is not doing so this time around. the sec only requires campaigns release the name of the donors but they don't have to release the name of the people who get those donors to give money. so far they can legally stay anonymous. it looks like mitt romney will keep them that way. newt gingrich seemingly endless campaign bid is going to last one more day. he was set to call it quits tomorrow. cnn now reporting he has pushed

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>>do it, for america. ♪ >> broadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv. this is the bill press show. >> john boehner says nobody wants to vote for a loser. yeah. that's why i would never vote for mitt romney. good morning, everybody. it is monday monday april 30th. if you can believe it. last datey of april, 2012. great to see you today. thank you for joining us. monday morning here in washington d.c. we are all recovering from the big white house correspondent's dinner and all of the parties around it. you know don't be jealous.

it's hard work. that means we have all hard work over the weekend. no fun at all. no. that's not true. we had a lot of fun at the dinners and at the parties and we will tell you all about it here. here. good to have you with us as we talk he will the big stories of the day happening here in our nation's capitol and take your call. at 866-we always save a seat for you at the table. 866-557-7377. joining us at the table this morning for the first visit felicia covers the hill and covers the 2012 campaign for the washington post. good to see you. a neighbor from capitol hill. >> right down the street. >> thank you for stopping by. >> good morning. >> he sleeps on the floor. right under the desk. >> a lot of members of congress will be a fan of that.

>> those members of congress sleep in their office i think that's crazy. come on. get a hotel room. you know. spent some money and bunk with other guys but sleep in their office? >> you hear about them in the house bathroom like brushing their teeth in the morning. really? taking their french hour. >> peter ogburn. >> did you make the dinner? >> i made the pre-parties and after-party. these are probably the two of the highlights of the night. >> that's what a lot of people do. they go out and get some real food. >> yeah. after the dinner. the president was very vagood. he killed saturday night and i thought jimmy kimmel was good. there are no sacred cows at the

whitehouse correspondent's dinner. joe biden, jimmy kimmel. >> it's kind of hard to be funny with the president of the united states sitting there looking at you and somehow joe biden manages to do it. >> i think that was the only biden joke of the night. >> he got off easy. >> yeah. but the president, himself, got his share, at least in the beginning from jimmy kimmel and he laughed. he took it well. mr. police department, where when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow? that was hilarious. ♪ >> very, very funny and the one michelle obama seemed to enjoy most of all. >> mr. president i know you won't be able to laugh at any of my jokes about the secret service so cover your ears if

that's physically possible. i wonder what he said about a term i think we can come to terms. >> there are a lot of terms that could describe you mr. president. two terms is one of them. >> the president rolled with the punches as well today, too allegations later. daniel stone from news work is going to be here as a friend of bill. then michael duffy, editor of time magazine with a new book called the president's club and we will cover the hill and the 2012 but fell isha fonnez from the washington post. >> the stuff that matters on this monday in sports baseball hitting sensation bryce harper made his debut with the washington nationals, a late add to cover for an injured knelt as the mets visited the dodgers, the headline was not about the hit, itself but what happened in the stands behind him. a fan mooned bryce harper.

>> no. >> and the camera while he was at the plate while he hit the ball, according to buzz feed.com. they got the picture as he hit the double the fan turned around and dropped his pants on television. >> it's a great video. i watched t it's hilarious. >> did the batter have any idea? >> no. he didn't see it. he was concentrating on the ball, made it to second bates. he was fine. they lost 3 in a row. as if kim kardashian's life isn't comedy enough, new york post is reporting while she did extend her keeping up with the kardashians, she is completing a deal for a sitcom. she has made some cam yes, sir but otherwise, no real acting. >> how is she going to do all of this while she is running for office? >> for mayor. >> running for mayor? >> yeah, of glendale. >> i have to tell you, i made it

through the three parties, the dinner and the after parties, to my knowledge, i never saw her. >> to my knowledge. >> i never saw her. >> she could have walked right up to you and slapped you in the faces and you wouldn't have known who it was. >> right. i would have thought it was the wait res. >> your significant number is probably hiding money from you by business news daily 46 of us in committed relationships have lied to our partners about money. the most common lines are about shopping. but others about secret bank accounts or hidden. >> carol is always hiding money from me. yeah, in the weirdest places yeah. >> is that right? >> uh-huh. public shame works, bill. outing carol here. >> thank you dan. congress is out for this week. how does anyone know? because they don't get anything done when they are here. >> right. >> what's difference? a little bit harder these days especially with there is not a

debt ceiling fight to keep the clock ticking. it's a little bit harder but one thing they have on their plates that seems to dominate the agend had a for the next couple of weeks is the student loan fight and the house republicans on friday passed their plan that would pay the $6 billion cost of this student loan rate extension by cutting funds from the president's healthcare law. that is something democrats are opposed to. this is a fight that in many ways is similar to the payroll tax flight that played out on the hill a couple of months ago because they both agree on the main goal here of extending these rates and mitt romney has jumped on board with that. the real question is. how are they going to pay this? >> i want to challenge you on that because they both -- everybody is saying they agree on the goal. the republicans voted for the ryan budget plan. they already did that. they did it what? a month ago? right? the ryan budget plan raises them

to 6.8%. now they say we agree on the goal. they didn't a month ago. >> that's an excellent point. a lot of hill republicans i have talked to said this was not anticipated coming up this year. it is sort of the white house i think took them by surprise on that it was smart thinking on the obama's campaign to put them on defense with this it took leadership to figure out what's our plan of attack here? when they came down to that plan to take funding away from the health care claw, their reason behind was we have already done that. >> that's true this plan they've got now would totally wipe out that fund. >> that's not something the dems are on board with. it's reversal. >> maderead of it is the republicans got caught with their pants down on this thing by president obama because they had already voted and then the president goes out

there and suddenly, i it's hard for them to defend raising student loan rates at this time so they say we are stuck here we better go along with it but we will take the money out of obama care which they hate anyway and the money they take is preventative care money. >> right. >> the money that would go to pay for mammograms and colonoscopies and keeping people healthy is -- they keep digging the hole deeper. >> john boehner in a tough spot he accused democrats of waging a fake fight. it's the same kind of thing they waged over the debt ceiling. am i do say that was a fake fight? the point was it was a leverage moment where one side or the other could try to get something out of it. it's sort of the democrats coming back now and using them as a chase to make their case not only on student loans and young people but as they have been trying to make these claims of a war against women, those

have been treated on both sides. when it comes to that specific i think house republicans find themselves in a tough spot. the toughest spot, i think, mitt romney. he came out last week and said he supports the student loan rate extension but when he was talking to young people on friday, he didn't mention it. they passed the republican plan and he has not come out and said whether he backs that specific plan. he has been pretty much silent. >> obama and romney campaigning for the youth votinge. didn't romney also say to these young people, now, here is how you get ahead. borrow money from your parents to start a business. >> that was an fortunate moment from him. >> this is like who he is. his father was this corporate executive. right? and governor so isn't everybody's father wealthy? doesn't everyone have a trust fund he can lend you.

>> it was tricky because when mitt romney is unscripted, there is a danger for him that these moments will happen. he had a roundtable earlier that day with about seven students at that university. things gofft a little off message. he was trying to tell them the job market wasn't that. there are 80 jobs out there. don't worry. it will be fine. obama has had his own off-script moments but the danger for romney he can make those unforced errors when it comes to wealth and that can be a huge liability for him. >> the republicans eventually caved on the payroll tax cut because they had to politically. boehner told the caucus look, we've got to go along with it. we have to get rid of this issue

do you think them very long to go along with it by july 1st. >> i think they have said we all agree that rates can't be allowed to go up. the republicans on the hill would like to get this over as quickly as thing. they thought the house was the way to do that. it's becoming clear that's not the case. >> never passed the senate. certainly not in the democrats interest to let it go quickly, i think. >> let's take this into 2012 campaign because you have been out on the road he was in new hampshire last week. >> yeah. do you think this student loan issue will carry over into campaign? >> sure. but i don't think romney will be the one to do the talking about.

it maybe necessary time he has the presses available. last time with mark 0 rubio. today is sort of the latest eventco rubio. today is sort of the latest event event. >> who? >> kelly ayott, the freshman senator from new hampshire, a rising star on the hill, someone that campaigned with him pretty heavily back in the new hampshire primary and someone who would bring youth, vitality to the ticket. it's the latest chance for him to share the stage with somebody who is maybe in the running, but i think it's going to be an issue that's dogging him for quite awhile. >> he has been doing these editions with paul ryan, i think you could call that an audition with marco rubio and now with kelly ayott in new hampshire. do you know who else is scheduled? >> we don't have any other sense just yet. i think there is a fundraiser later this week with paul

mcdonald o the virginia governor on tuesday or wednesday night. so there is a pretty steadty pace of potential vps. it's always a question of whether it's a genuine effort that they are looking at this person or whether it's beneficial to have them in the next to generate excitement among the base. >> one of the things we were talking about earlier i would like to get your take on is the new video that the obama campaign released the former president bill clinton giving props to the president for giving the orders to go after osama bin laden actually about one year ago this week. is that a fair issue? we will get into that when we come right back felicia somnez, a political reporter for the washington post here in studio. we will take your calls. joining the the conversation by giving us a call at 866-press.

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♪ >> this is the full court press the bill press show, live on your radio and on current tv. >> the white house correspondent dinner, you may have heard, saturday night, the president told some jokes about eating dog. was that the right thing to do?

we will get into that a little bit later. right now we are visiting with fellicia felicia, so fell eachiciafelicia, the obama campaign, wednesday, the 2nd of may is the actual one year deadline of when we heard the news that the navy seals had found and killed osama bin laden. this past week the obama campaign released this video which has president bill clinton talking about that incident. >> it's one thing george bush said that was right, the president is the decider in chief. nobody can make that decision for you. look, he knew what would happen. suppose the navy seals had gone in there and it hadn't been bin laden? the downside would have been horrible. >> you know it would have been horrible for him.

the president points out, you know, he weighed the pros and cons and made the decision. republicans are saying the white house is politicizing the war on terror. >> you they are but the question is: will it work? i think it's a smart move on their part and to use bill clinton who is far and away the most popular former dramaemocratic president you have around now. and the two held their first joint fundraiser together and the first of three. i think with this campaign video, the striking thing about it was it was not even a campaign ad. this did not air on t.v. it was a web video but it was very effective use of their money. you don't have to pay to put this on the air but more importantly, the strategy for them to remind people of what happened a year ago, i think. >> one is it's true. it is true that george bush did

not ghetto sam a bin laden and forgot about him after a while andpom gave the orders let's find him and let's go after him and get him. >> it's true the republicans say they are going to move against president obama on his record saying he is no good on the economy and no good off foreign policy. sot why can't the white house respond and say, hey, remember this? right. it's a great pointer point to look at marco rubio. his big foreign policy rollout, the first vp contender to come out and do this. during the whole course of the speech, he mentioned iran pakistan china, russia a bunch of times but no mention really of any of -- and i mean of course to his credit, probably not something he would want to mention but the fact that this is not being talked about on the campaign trail, is a sign the republicans are -- >> they would like us to for get it. felicia somnez come back again

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line. here is how it went. >> what's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? a pit bull is delicious. you could hear that in waves. i was sitting line side of cenk yuger. he said i can't believe he went there. that was the feeling around the crowd. they laughed. because they realized the president was bringing back the old, you know, it was reminding everybody that the republicans had made a big deal of the fact that as he says in his book dreams of my father when he was living in indonesia between 6- and 9-year-olds, his stepfather, then his stepfather persuaded him and got him as a kid to eat snake, to eat monkey to eat

dog, and the republicans are trying to make a big deal of this thing. obama was a lot tougher on those dogs that be military romney was on shamus when he strapped shamus to the top of his car. the question is: love to get your take on this, was it fair for obama to joke about eating dog? my god so many republicans are saying, this is terrible. i can't believe he did this. if you have time today, go to the drudge report, which, of course is nothing but a right-wing slam on president obama 24/7. headline on the drudge report today, barack bizarre president jokes about eating dogs? oh, my god. what a horrible thing to do. or the right thing to do. at least an okay thing to do. 866-favor 5 press. you tell me. the president went on. peter, you saw this, the video.

right? the video about sort of making fun. it was a fake video making fun of barack obama being tough on dogs. >> right. can the dogs really take a four more years? in dog years. >> that's a great line. it showed that classic photo of president obama. >> in the beast, the presidential lem sees with bo looking out the window as if he is driving bo to the slaughter house or something. then the video ends by saying well, who is really going to be tougher on dogs? can you really trust mitt romney. it shows mitt romney standing on the steps of air force 1 and pulls back and you can see air force one and on top of air force one, on the bubble of the 747, strapped in his cage is

shamus. so it was, i don't know, it was a very funny moment. and you know what i liked about it? what i liked about it is that it sort of was making fun of the republicans of making an issue of what obama did as a kid in indonesia where, by the way, they do eat dog but it also shows that that shamus story, which we only know about because mitt romney's son told this as a story about his dad being so resourceful. they were bragging being it. it keeps alive because ann romney was saying shamus loved t he loved being on top of the car. they day he had a problem with the runs because he had eaten a turkey. every other time, he certainly loved it. so the president go over the line with the dog jock saturday night? it's gt calling from winnetka california? >> yes. thank you very much? >> hi. i have to ask you, where is

winnetka, california? >> that's in between northridge and tinoga park. >> the north end of the san fernando valley. >> definitely. >> what do you think? >> a very hispanic community. we love it. >> good. i didn't know it. i thought i knew every place in california. go ahead. >> thank you very much for the opportunity. i do want to comment that the president is making a very big mistake in glorifying even a joke about eating animals instead of actually focusing on the indonesian culture, china ease culture, all of the cultures that really principal going back to the mexican culture and eating the small, little s. i think -- which i chiuas. >> what? >> and that's -- >> not a very big meal.

>> excuse me. >> put them on a hot dog bun. >> i didn't know that. really? >> it was a culture. >> do you think. >> they he had breed the dogs hairless because there was a culture. >> do you think the president was glorifying the eating of dogs in the joke? >> it wasn't at all. i don't think he was glorifying but i think it is the fact that he was just not only once but twice or three times and on this particular press conference. i think he made a very very big mistake. i also think he is trying too hard. i think this is enough. it is enough. i think right now, he is making his point. i think he has to get back i have to say, i think you need to

lighten up a little bit. okay? i don't know. i can't get over this. i think the president was having fun and mocking the republicans and i thought it was very funny. but i can't get over this, mexicans eating chiuauas. >> i know they eat iguana there. >> iguanas are like big, meaty things. chiuauas are like a little snack. >> pass them around the platters with orhors douevers. >> joey? >> sounds delicious. the customs and cultures and when you are six years old, you don't get to tell your dad what you are going to try or not try. i bet the punishment in indonesia is nothing nice you

know what? it was a joke night. right? there were two stand-up economics. barack obama and jimmy kimmel. hello. >> good morning. we need to lighten up because after see that picture of him with the dog, i think it's a great punch against the republicans. >> where it ended up, and it ended up with the fact you couldn't trust mitt romney because he put shamus on top of the 747 and he did put him on top of the car. >> i know. love it. >> keep it you up, obama, you keep it up, president. >> all right darlene, you go for it. dog jockeys starting at the whitehouse correspondence dinner. it had to be in my opinion, you couldn't avoid it. there had to be some jokes about the secret services.

you knew they were coming, and there had to be some jokes about bugs and i thought the president picking up on that sarah palin line was absolutely right on. you tell me: were you offended, or do you think it's fair game? and do you think the president pulled it off? 866-55-press. full-court press here on this april 30th, going to the dogs. >> on your radio, on t.v. the bill press show. now, on current tv. [ woman ] oh, my gosh -- it's so good! [ kristal ] we're just taking a sample of all our different items in our festival of shrimp we will not settle for easy answers. (vo) the former governor of ny eliot spitzer, joins the new news network. >>every night we will drill down on the days top stories in search of facts that inform. >> we don't stop until we get answers that are truthful, serious, and not based on simplistic answers. >>we're here because we're independent.

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did as a 6-year-old but what mit robbery did as a grown man happening shamus to the top of the car. melvin is in monroe louisiana. hey, melvin. >> how are you doing? >> what do you think about this? >> hey, man, i know arv got customs. when you are in rome, do as the romans. >> do you think what obama did as a kid in john ease i can't he didn't have any choice? is that what you are saying? >> that's what i say you know. >> was it okay to joke about it? >> pardon? >> was it okay to make jokes about it at the dinner. >> you might as well have fun while you live. >> okay, melvin. just for the record dogs weren't on the menu. it was shrimp and steak. he von down in florida. hi, yvonne. >> hi, bill. how are you? >> i am doing good. what do you think?

>> about the dog thing? >> about republicans saying the president should never have made jokes about eating dog and some dog lovers are saying that too. >> no. you know what? listen, i have been in the animal business my entire life probably like 35 years now. >> you have a pet store or something? >> no. i am a biologist, but i used to have a ranch. >> uh-huh? >> you know, a long time ago, so i have been you know in the animal health industry, but people need to understand that if if you are from a sustain culture, they do not think this is bad. i know in america, they think everything is bad. people don't realize they sell all of these crazy things on menus around our country. mize issue is: mitt romney was

a 30-year-old man. >> certainly until his 30s. maybe 40s. i don't know. yeah. >> barack obama was between 6 and 9 in a country that does eat dogs. okay? ? >> right. you got it. he von, absolutely. he was a 6-year-old natural different country and a different culture. >> some people are thinking the president should not have made jokes about this at the whitehouse correspondents dinner. i disagree. i thought it was a way to call attention to mitt romney. >> how is west morin? everything good? >> yeah. it was gorgeous today. >> you mean yesterday? >> yesterday. >> what do you think? did the president go over the line? >> i think it was a bad joke. >> really? >> that was the problem that he

should have used that joke to put them in their place about making it an issue when he was a 6-year-old boy. it's not the same as a man putting a dog on a roof and wash him off and put him back on after he has thrown up and everything else he did. >> that's my main problem with it was it could have been a teaching moment. instead, it's a situation where now the drudge report is redrudging up the same material. they don't have anything new. >> a stand-up comedy routine is not the point for a teaching moment. >> i think he did it when he said isn't he a snob? that was a teaching moment, too. don't you think? >> yeah. yeah. i hear your point. but maybe -- maybe just because

i was there and watched the krout reaction, i thought it was funny. good to hear from point ray station. you make me homesick. it's time to get to bed, tira. have you been up all night? maybe take a little nap here and start off this monday april 30th, fresh. we will tell you what the president is up to a little bit later in the next hour. daniel stone from newsweek and michael duffy from time magazine. president's schedule coming up next. >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the bill press show. i have the most common type of atrial fibrillation, or afib. it's not caused by a heart valve problem.

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♪ >> this is the full court press. the bill press show, live on your radio and on current tv. >> three minutes before the top of the hour. president obama off of his performance at the whitehouse correspondents' dinner played a round of golf yesterday. a business day today. the president has his briefing actually at 9:40 this morning and at 10:45 an hour later, it's going back to the hilton hotel this time to speak to the building and construction trades department of the afl-cio having their big legislative conference in washington this week. then at 11:40, the president back at the whitehouse will be holding a bilateral meeting with prime minister noda of japan

that by lateral meeting will be followed by a working luncheon with prime minister noda of japan. i don't know whether they are having sushi or not. at 2:00 o'clock. >> they don't eat dog in japan? do they. >> no? >> that's korea. >> they probably eat whale? >> right. >> at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon, in the roads garden, i will be down there the prime minister of japan and the president will be holding a joint news conference for us reporters in the recognize garden and about 3:00 o'clock this afternoon the president will be meeting as does every week with treasury secretary tim geithner, great new book i am enjoying called "the president's club" about how former president's all hang out together and help each other whenever thing. michael duffy is going to be in studio with us in the next hour as well as a friend of bill daniel stone from newsweek daily beast, and all of you invited to hang around. >> this is the bill press show.

>> hello there and welcome. welcome to the full-court press, the bill the bill press show here on current tv, this monday morning, april 30th, the last day of april. can you believe it? the next hour, we will be tackling the big stories of the day from our nation's capitol here in the shadow of the capitol dome, around the country, around the globe, bringing you the big stories of the day. we will take your calls. as we have been discussing, the big buzz coming off of the core

spont respondents' dinner. the republicans are upset about that. the president should have gone there. it was funny. the reason republicans are upset is it reminds everybody of mitt romney strapping shamus to the top of his car which he can't defend and never will. that's one the topics we will take he will. first, let's go out to los angeles and say good morning to jacki schechner with today's latest current tv news update. hi, jacki. >> hi, bill. good morning, everybody. president obama's got his first official campaign rallies this coming saturday in ohio and virginia. but the video that he is going to show at those rallies is online this morning. it's called forward but it's more of a retrospective. it reminds us the president inherited an economic disaster talking about the auto industry and saving and gaining johns and talks about the president's

other accomplishmentments. >> college loans? more affordable and easier to repay. equal pay for women protected by a historic new law. don't ask. don't tell. history. >> just a sampler. the 7-minute video brings up ending the war in iraq, killing osama bin laden and recognizing the republicans as the party of no. new york magazine is out with a new article that is based on a biography of ben bradley. it talks about bradley possibly questioning some of the details involved with woodward's reporting. woodward is fighting back saying bradley expressed confidences in woodward as recently as an interview 18 months ago. bradley issued a statement to his wife through the washington post saying that he loves and trusts woodward and the biographer and wants everyone to just move on. we've got all sorts of goodies

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taking your calls and givering you a chance to get involved in a conversation at 86655-press. take a seat at the table alongside daniel stone who covers the white house for newsweek daily beast back in studio as a friend of bill for this whole hour. daniel good to see you. >> fun to see you saturday night at the whitehouse correspondents' dinner. >> you were so originally dressed, seeing this tuxedo. it was the only one. the white guy in the tuxedo. >> several people including yourself with the long black tie. >> i gave up on the bow tie. it's stupid. >> i get a long black tie. i go the long tie. bow ties. >> in our currentt group of the men, only one had a bow tie. the rest of us. eliot spitzer had a bow tie.

cenk, joel height david boreman and i hope. >> i think the next trend will be the bolo tie. >> please don't say that. >> i wear a board bow tie with mine. i did, too, when i was in high school. >> my prom i think i wore a colored moon tie. say they will 0. >> good morning. >> our team this morning cyprian boulding standing by getting us on video cam. it was a lot of fun as we said there were no sacred cows at all which is the way it should be. >> that's right. >> in fact, president obama said he wasn't going to talk about his republican opponents but then he did take a little jab at mitt romney when he was talking about harvard. do we have that peter? >> yeah. we both have degrees from

harvard. i have one. he has two. what a snob. jummy kimmel, no accurately cows either. he talked about the president four years ago. >> mr. president, do you remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow? that was hilarious. that was the best one yet. >> that was so perfectly delivered. he has a good sense of humor about that. what's funny i love about obama when he delivers a line then everybody laughs and then he cracks up. it's sort of like he enjoys the line. >> you can tell the reaction of the crowd. >> yeah. he even took a shot at current tv.

>> al gore launched current tv in 2005 and it took offline a north korean rocket. yes even know current tv was on the air but i don't get channel "a million". >> dan, i was sitting with joe height, one of the co-founders with al gore now the chair of current tv and with eliot spitzer and cenk? >> everybody laughed. hell when you are mentioned. the white house correspondents' pretty big deal we have lots to talk about. we will be joined later by michael duffy co-author of "the president's club and take your calls at 866-55-press but first. >> this is the full court press. >> headlines making news on this monday, mel gibson appeared on the tonight show with jay leno and admitted he has a bit of a

temper problem. >> atemp problem? he has a drinking problem. he has a driving problem. >> he said he was mad the day that he went on that rant after finding out he didn't get a movie green lighted and that outburst of course was caught on tape and he says he likes to come on the do not show because he knows up front he is being taped. >> be careful. yeah. a real anger problem for sure. >> an actor who plays a doctor on t.v. is being credited with saving a routine's life in real life patrick dempsey known as dr. shepherd pulled a routine age boy out of a car near his home. it was flipped over in malibu california. he pride the door and window open with a crowbar, dragged him out, waited for the paramedics to get there and then he called him a couple of days later after he got home from the hospital to see how he was doing. >> somebody comes to help you in malibu, chances are one out of

two it's an act offer. >> that's area publicist's dream to save a cat. >> do you think he had that idea to call that kid on his own? some publicist, "track that kid down". >> a huge blow over the weekend. chicago bulls point guard derrick rose tore his acl in game 1 against the philadelphias 76ers. it is season-ending surgeon and he will not play in donedon. >> that was crushing. i know our listeners in chicago were freaking out. this was their year. >> was he insured? >> that would help. you you are right. he is not going play. right? >> not at all. bad for chicago. event worth for the nba. he was one of the better players out there.

it's going to suck not having him around. >> david stone talking this morning, i have to get your take on this before we move on to other issues. probably the most surprising line from the president's deliver was about pit bulls being delicious. >> right. do you think she would have gone there that was the first of several doc eating jokes. >> you could hear gasps in the audience when he said a pit bull is delicious. >> that's what made it edgy fun. this is criticism that goes back and forth. last year, it was all about donald trump. it was about health care, you know, repeal, you know, the supreme court. >> that's what et cetera for. the president can go out and really make light of a lot of these ridiculous critiques and a lot of people say, would youw. every president gets the same treatment. every president gets the same

venue. you know, to be able to go out and say: are you really bugging me about this? i am going to make light of it. >> right. >> in front of everybody. i am going to make light of it. >> he has great writers but he can deliver a line. >> i remember think okay saturday night if mitt romney were up there, would it be as funny? >>ists going to ask you that: can you in your life imagine now, by the way, i think george bush did a pretty good job. >> yes. >> not as comfortable as obama but he rose to the occasion. not on your life could i imagine mitt romney cracking jokes like that. >> it would have to take a lot of staging, practice bringing in consultants to make him relax a little bit. maybe. who knows next year. he. >> he tries to be fun. >> yeah. >> on the campaign trail. he tries to be funny.

it just doesn't come off. but on the campaign train, there is a lot of talk about the criticism of president obama out rallying students on college campuses last week on this student loan thing if you are going to talk to students about student loans, don't you think maybe you would go to college campuses? >> sure. they are on defense now because the president went out, to a couple of universities, jimmy fallon which was very popular and he won the debate. he was driving the conversation. everyone wasral rallying. college students were cheering for him. the gop felt self-conscious they were losing a simple debate and to be fair, you know the white house sent the president out there to do this, but, you know, to have this fight very publically, who knows how big of a fight it actually would have been? i mean this is something the party generally agree upon they have differences over how to fund the student loan rate

extension to keep the right low, but the president saw a major campaign opportunity to get a few auditoriums full of screaming supporters. >> that's fair game, it seems to me. it's worth pointing out because almostae almost is reporting now. we talked about this a little earlier in the program, everybody is saying both sides agree with this. the only difference is how to fund it t it's really not true. in the ryan budget which every single house republican voted for, including john boehner and eric cantor, the ryan budget increase puts student loans at 6.8%, doubles the rate. they are on record saying in our budget, we are going to stick it to students. >> that's what the opportunity the president saw so when he said they were on one side of this issue. boehner said that's a fake fight. >> true. >> it's not a fake fight. >> i have had this debate with

one of your close listeners, adrian in california. >> is that your mom? >> it's a good friend of mine. >> she said no, the g.o.p. has been, like you said, paul ryan's budgets essentially eliminated this favorable raidte. >> adrian is right. >> but, you know, the g.o.p. passed the paul ryan budget not expecting it to become law. >> they voted for it. >> of course they voted for it. but they also said look, this is our policy document this is something they wanted to come out. they kept it at 6.8%, the law in july, the current law set for it to expire. they didn't stick their neck out to keep it low. they also, you know, had to adhere to sort of what the law currently says. i am not defending paul ryan. i don't need to do that. >> adrian is right. they can't say now we didn't. so they don't want us to take

anything in the ryan budget seriously. get rid of medicare. >> that's only in the ryan budget. we didn't expect that to go anywhere. we just voted for it. they voted for it two years in a row. >> it will be tougher in this election year to defend that and i also think that that's why we hear so much screenquealing over the student loans. they know they are on the right side of this issue. wouldn't you agree? >> they do. >> that's why they relented. >> that's why john boehner said okay. we will do this. this is not a fight we are having. we will do this. don't worry. >> they say, we will do it but we will only pay for it if we take money away from women in the obama care and take money from preventative health. >> that's a debate worth having i think on the hill. >> that's going to be tough for them. >> sure. >> to defend. there were a couple of jokes about. this the white house has had to deal with recently this whole

secret service issue. is that going away? >> no. the major salacious headlines have gone away but the fact that the president joked about it at the correspond events' dinner shows this is. jay leno will make hay of this for many weeks and months to come. this is a major tarnish on their record. these are up standing memberses of the president's dame. i don't think this will blow over and we will never talk about this good. i want to ask dan, so who is the -- -- who were you most excited to meet and see and talk to. >> my good friend bill press standing next to eliot spitzer. >> standing next to eliot spitzer. >> and he and i were hanging out. >> i was standing in one of the

hallways and diane keaton walked straight up to me and it caught me off guard. she was exciting to see, i suppose. goldie hahn was there. and, you know, memberst government. petraeus was there. governor jerry brown. probably the best moment of the night, i thought, was when the president at the very beginning of his routine and he had that open mic, you know, jokes and he said, kim kardashian is here. why is she famous anyway? it hit him. >> i was very excited to talk with janet non-gaap napolitano. a nice talk with george clooney, whom i know. >> what did you talk about? >> is your foot okay after

dropping that name? >> we talked about honelei, and he is a descendant -- he did the descend ant there but the person i was most excited to see, i took one picture at the dinner of the one star. >> who was? >> let's show the picture. >> the picture is up. >> uggy. >> uggy? >> the dog from the artist. yes, the dog posed for me. >> that was it. the highlight of the night for me. we will be right back. >> barack obama ate him for dinner. >> that was the worst part of the evening. how are you ever going to solve the problem if you don't look at >> this is the bill press show. ♪ >>you're welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. >>sharp tongue, quick whit and above all, politically direct.

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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, daniel stone from newsweek daily beast here in stowed yes with us -- in studio. i saw your boss tina brown and her husband, harold evans at the dinner. >> she was quite excited. she had quite atable of folks and stars and governor brown was there, reese witherspoon was there, viola davis was there. she had a quite a bit of schmoozing to do. >> gory jerry brown and his wife, ann. davis on the other issue that

the republicans are squealing about and the president made the joke about, you know, donald trump-related. but this is the one-year anniversary of the camtour and killing of sew am a bin laden and alabama campaign put out a web video, notina paid commercial ad last week that has republicans kind of upset. here is the beginning featuring former president bill clinton. >> it's one thing george bush said that was right, the president is the decider in chief. nobody can make that decision for you. look, he knew what would happen. suppose the navy seals had gone in there and it hadn't been bin laden. supposed they had been captured or killed? the downside would have been horrible for him. but he reasoned. i cannot in good conscious do nothing. he took the harder and the more hor rabble path. >> so president clinton saying it waspom who had a tough

decision to make and he showed some leadership made the right decision and we got the right results. republicans saying they are politicizing it. >> they are. maybe for good reason. politics is washington. the president made a decision that had political peril. why shouldn't he get credit for making a decision that worked out in the end. >> mitt romney is on the record as saying it's not worth spending all of this money trying to get journey one man. >> exactly. >> they are both publically on record on the opposite sides of this issue. >> yeah. >> republicans are going to attack barack obama, already on. i think the obama campaign has every right to say here are our successes, iraq, libya and obama bin laden. daniel stone, you are going to stay with us and michael duffy is going to be with us to talk about the president's club.

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♪ >> this is the bill press show live on your radio and on current of it. >> here we go it is monday april 30, '33 minutes after the hour. the full courtprice press coming to you live from our nationt capitol and on current tv. good to have you with us this morning. daniel stone from this week daily beast is a friend of bill. we are joined by executive editor of time magazine and a co-author of a great new book called "the president's club"

inside the worldses most exclusive fraternity. >> michael duffy, good to be here. >> i am a political junkie and i like presidential history. i like reading about presidents. i have probably 500 books, lives of lincoln, you know, all of them. right? this is a great book. i am only about 100 pages in. you talk about this exclusive fraternity of former presidents who get along. >> they get along when they are not fighting. we think about presidents really wurm one at a time. we read about president johnson. >> or john mcaddans. >> we thought if we held the president up against each other and looked at the relationships because we all know in our lives relationships matter sometimes more than individuals. we might see some of the things

about the presidency we didn't get. the club is something that really had a beginning a formal creation in '52 with truman and hoover. it had ups and downs. it's lean years and moments like last night when bill clinton goes on a fundraiser in virginia terri micallef's house for barack obama when they sometimes could not get along. >> talk about being up-to-date, you know, the photo this morning in "the new york times" ofpom side-by-side with bill clinton at this fundraiser last night. >> when they fought like ferrets in 2008 and obama called clinton sort of a small-bore presidency and clinton called obama a fairy tail. these are men who have had already a very long, twisted story. >> there it is. >> yeah.

>> they genuinely -- they played golf together once. maybe they are not going to go on vacations together but they seem to, you know, like each other. >> you will get this better than most people. these men are arrives for history. which one is better able to add vons progress i have policies in a conservative era. >> that's what the country is in. >> he is the one who knows how best to save liberalism. they started out in 2008, 2009, having different ideas about how to do that at the end of 2012, i think they will look really similar on paper. both had, you know, strong starts, both got spanked early on. and both have had to make compromises. >> i want to ask you about one thing. this was maybe a little factoid in the book. but i never knew. we were talking, some of us reporters yesterday, aboutround the white house that there is this building on lafayette square which is sort of their little club house. right.

>> every club needs a club house. the president's club is no exception. to prove this is the world's smallest fraternity only four people can check in. you have to call the white house to do it. i got in about 10 days ago. i think i am the only person. we took before plan of cbs and cameras. we all went in together but it's an astonishingly nice place. it used to be a dump. now it's nice. richard nixon created it in '69 bill because he was so sick of linson johnson calling saying, i need this. i need that. he asked his young military aide. fix this. get johnson off my back. >> what happens in this clubhouse generally? >> it's a place nixon created nod to give them essentially, you know, a working area as well as a place to spend the night. but if you when you go in, it's like a really, really nice 4

seasons wall street, really nice. >> it's on lafayette square? >> the official address -- 716 jackson place, which is the name of that now closed street on the west side of laugh "square." >> i will check it out? >> it's unmarked. it has all of the movie, you know, it's perfect. >> yeah. >> so only those four living could stay there and have to call the white house to make a date. so they don't have to go to the hilton juv go there. >> you mentioned and i wasn't aware of this that this pratt earnty or the club started with harry truman and herbert hoover. >> right. >> who had exchanged some pretty harsh words? >> yeah. >> how did they come together? >> it's an amazing story. two men could not be more different. >> one patrician. >> right. >> one working class from the start but when truman takes

over, he has this huge republican progress and starvation problem and looking around at what's left and he says who knows how to feed people? he realizes the only person really who has done this is hoover. hoover had not been invited back in the white house for 13 years after fth took over. as the new dealers still working for truman pull out their hair and say no they cannot do this he calls hoover answers and says come over, sends him on the road 55,000 miles, you know, fine capitols, seven kings and takes over the u.s. effort to refeed europe. who are had been the devil incarnate for 13 or 14 years because of the depression, it's like emotional redemption of a huge kind and truman delivers it, which is another thing the

club does right up until now. it helps men who basically come out of the white house as not necessarily failures but not exactly successful and helps redeem them of their many season in their own minds. so it's great. it's just an amazing story of not just a partnership but of consolation among men in the end don't have that much in common politically but they all have sat in that chair and developed scars you get when you do that job. >> i thought of truman over the weekend when you quote him as saying there are more prima donas in washington d.c. than all of the operas. >> wouldn't it be great to have him around still? 1953 when ike is being sworn in and hoover having been saved by truman comes up to truman on the dias on the east front of the capital and says let's start a president's club and truman says great. you be the president.

i'll be the treasurer. >> they were the only two. >> they weren't sure about letting ike in. neither loved him yet. >> we go to eisen hour. right? so truman tries to have the same relationship with eisen hour that he had developed with herbert hoover? >> truman liked ike when he thought he was a democrat truman realized he was a cran and in the '52 campaign when ike is unable to come to the defense of george marshal because of his desire to win over the conservative wing and joe mccarthy and particularly in wisconsin, truman just changes his mind completely about ike. he actually campaigned actively campaigned against ike in the '52 campaign, kind of makes a fool of himself, truman does. it takes another decade for the two men to reconcile. that only happens when they share a limousine back from arlington in november of 1963 to

blair house where truman is staying and truman turns to ike and mortality is in their heads and said do you want to come up for a drink and they go upstairs and the two men bury the hatchet after not speaking for a decade. >> ike was pretty mean to truman, too. right? >> wouldn't go neat wings truman invited him to the white house and he wouldn't go took down truman's pictures took down truman's idols. moved it down to southern virginia. ike had no use for truman either. so for that period in the 1950s the club was essentially shut down. >> so we have got so many more to talk about here, how ike got along with jfk and lyndon johnson, george bush. the whole thing, it's here in the president's club.

here on this monday edition, monday, april 30th of the full-court press. snoets tea story in my mind ike is to be sworn in and the president allegation goes, the new president to the white house, they go in for coffee. then they get in the car and drive up. and eisen hour says i am not going to drive up pennsylvania avenue with that bastard. >> this is the bill press show. we're talking about. the overwhelming majority of the country says"tax the rich, don't go to war." >>just wanted to clarify that.

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and in the chat room, go to current.com or bill press show.com and join the ongoing chat room as we chat with michael duffy about the president's club. daniel stone fob here in studio with us from newsweek, daily beast. so little time. dim cheney didn't get the memo about you are supposed to be nice to each other? >> he didn't get the memo. it's been days ago, bill. george w. bush i think really broke sigh legislation for the first time on four years. i monitored closely. he said constructive about obama's energy policies. here is how you could do it different on the pipeline very suggestive as a way to help obama but he said i don't think our country should criticize our president. i don't think that's helpful. >> that's george w. bush. about 24 hours later, dick cheney who was not president and never will be a member of the

president's club called the obama administration an unmitigated disaster. so just again action once again, having sat in that chair and knowing how oftentimes how much that job sometimes sucks, you know, you develop a respect and a deference, even when you might violently disagree with them if you haven't sat in the chair. >> that's what you see. >> the president's club cyst out, already a "new york times" bet cestseller inside the world's most exclusive fraternity. >> that shows the division between bush and cheney if you could see there. i wonder, we were talking in the last segment about, you know, the relationships between truman and hoover and when ike came into the picture and all of them realized that some of their colleagues could help solve problems they couldn't in the white house. i wonder, though on a friendship level: are any of these guys or have there been

actual friends? have they, you know, enjoyed each other's company outside of politics. >> two come to mind behind hoof hoover and truman. 40 and carter. a -- ford and carter after both being out of office, they bonded literally at 35,000 feet. they over the next quarter of a sent sent tree do 46 different projects together on arms krog budgets, overseas e elections. they literally become a kind of partnership and pledge to each other that one will give the eulogy of the other, depending upon who dies first. so we had this remarkable scene of rosealynn said. i like carter so much. >> that's because no one else understands you when you have

done this and when you have been tossed out of. both were briefly. those 2 clenton is saying i love you. i really love you. at a benefit for him and inside the bush family, they call him brother of another mother. so that's the bush family nickname for clinton. you know any morenicknames in the bush family matter. the clinton 43 thing is worth watching as we go forward here they are already business partners. speeches together. they have a respect for each other. they are the two closest president's in age in american history. they were born six weeks apart, baby boomers 1946, both turned 46 this year. no two presidents -- they are polar opposites but if i could watch two, those would be the

two i would watch. >> the you have mentioned the divide between obama and clinton out of the 2008 campaign. how did they bridge that? how did they break the ice? >> it helped obama appointed clinton's wife as secretary of state. that was a good outreach move. obama insisted and demanded forced clinton stosign an 8 or 9-point memorandum of agreement which kept him from going to certain countries. >> that's unprecedented in the club. we will have a partnership but it's going to be on paper. it was almost a perp walk. that document was almost a perp walk. it was we won. you didn't. clinton sucks it up and does it anyway and goes along because he's been trained about how to be an ex-president. alabama gets in trouble and turns to clinton for campaign

people want to see clinton. they didn't want to see obama and last fall the nacent obama campaign made a pilgrimage to sit at the foot of the master to ask: how do we go this? what should the narrative i have been be? how should we frame this race? clinton wrote a book trying to show, here, here, here is how you on it america back to work but it was essentially a primer. >> it was a primer for the -- >> did obama go to harlem. >> no but axelrod and fluff did. within a few months, you know, colin toms becomes a little bit more familiar until now he is doing fundraisers with obama. he is the star of the campaign video if you watch the 17-minute video. you would think clinton was running, not obama. he closes every argument.

last night, they did this fundraiser together. >> and dan and i talked about this. the capture and killing of osama bin laden bill clinton giving props. >> the club seal of approval is conferred on the sitting president by the former. >> take it from me if you are fascinated by the president and respect the office no better read than "the presidents' club." thank you for comeing in studio here. >> thank you. >> this is the bill press show.

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>> the parting shot with bill press. this is the bill press show. >> and here we go on this monday, april 30th, my parting shot for today. once again president obama killed with has stand-up comedy routine. he has great writers. that's for sure. he also has a great sense of time timing and know how to deliver. you can hear gasps from the audience when the president made his first dog joke. you know, he was going back to sarah palin's famous line of the 2008 convention about what the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull and the president said, the pit bull is dlishsz. cenc sitting alongside of me said, i can't believe he went there. was the president right to tell jokes about eating dog? you know what i think? absolutely. i mean it's the best way for one thing to show how silly the republicans were to make an

issue of the fact that the president was a 6-year-old in indonesia eating a dog because his stepfather made him but it's a way to prove that story about mitt romney putting shamus on top -- strapping him in the cage on top of the car, that story has legs. it's never going to go away. mitt romney can't defend it. he can't explain it. people are never going to forget it. it was a fun night and the president did absolutely the right thing. that's my parting shot for today. good to have you with us today. major garrett from the national journal is going to be with united states as well as ben lebolt from the obama campaign. have a great one. i will be down at the whitehouse with the prime minister of japan at 2:00 o'clock this morning. we will tell you all about it tomorrow. >> this is the bill press show.

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