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>> what do you say? it is monday may 21st. welcome to the full-court press here on current tv. your new show on current tv. good to have you with us today as we tackle the big issues and take your calls at 866-55-press and get this. new york mayor corey booker says

it's nauseating for president obama to attack mitt romney for his time at bain capitol. get out of here. all mitt romney does is talk about how he created jobs as head of bain capitol. so why can't barack obama point out the truth? that he destroyed jobs at bain capital? >> fair. get out of here, corey e booker. first, we get the latest. today's current t.v. news update in los angeles with jacki schechner. hi, jacki. >> hi, bill. good morning, everyone. let's talk a little bit more about that corey booker thing. it's good to know he is human after all since he is often heralded for being the democratic rising star and rescued a woman from a burning house last month but he did speak a little bit outs of turn on television yesterday according to some. maybe not you, bill. but he said on "meet the press"that he was sick of all of the negative advertising and in particular spoke out about president obama's attacks on bain capitol through that

advertising. got to see a components of the obama strategy and now booker is pushing out a follow-up explanation via twitter? >> i am, indeed, upset. i am indeed frustrated but i believe the american public working together, we can begin to more and more enounce this type of campaigning and more and more focus on the issues that count and that matter. >> in the video, booker also talks about the citizens united decision and hundreds of millions of dollars are going into advertising. >> that's wholly negative. while on the topic of big money, new federal financial disclosures are out. it looks like newt gingrich debt is back up. if reports last month were accurate when he dropped out -- earlier this month were accurate when he dropped out, he had $3 million until bang-up and back up to 4.8 million. rick santorum has $2.3 million in debt, a million in the bank. he has to raise 1.3 million to settle that tab.

mitt romney raised $11.4 million last month bringing his total to 61.4 million. but the president and the dnc still have a big advantage with 147 do teed 2 million cash on hand. we will be right back. >>(narrator) don't miss this week's the gavin newsom show with special guest guy kawasaki and dylan ratigan. >>steve jobs was many things but he was not a politician.

>>we're just getting started. (vo) the state of the 2012 campaign. ♪♪ >> broadcasting across the nation, on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> china he's dissiden chin wan ching. how soon before mitt romney gives president obama credit for bringing him here? yeah. don't hold your breath. what do you say? hello, everybody. monday, monday morning may 21st. great to see you today. oh, man, hope you had a good weekend and you are ready to go

into a great big week here the this is the full court press, your new morning show on currents t.v. and your continuing morning show on all of the great progressive talk stations around the country. so glad to have you with us whether you are in the car driving to work with us, listening on the radio watching on t.v. or anywhere in between, and don't forget, you make the show with your calls. give us a call and join the conversation at 866-55-press. 866-557-7377. great weekend. i was out in sants a barbara with the american association of justice, great people there doing some great leadership working on big and very important issues. >> that's a national trial lawyer's association, my friend gary paul and santa barbara, what a wonderful part of the world. spectacularly beautiful. it was fun to be back in sants a barbara. made me homesick for california.

it's good to be back here, too in studio today with the entire team, so much to talk about today. we had to bring the full team in. peter ogburn and dan henning and cyprian boulding. >> why am i not convinced. >> actually, i hope people realize, you know, you guys are just the leaders of the term. right? that there are hundreds of people around working and doing research, taking calls. >> a bee-of activity. >> mailing out books and that kind of stuff. so this is just the tip of the iceberg here. >> right. >> for the bill -- >> and you think people believe that? the entire department? >> yeah. >> they are amazing workers. >> that's nice. i think we should give them credit, too. >> sure. >> maybe some day we will have a group photo. >> let's do that. >> like they do at the nato summit. >> exactly. sglefring. >> everything good, guys? have a good weekend? matt had a good weekend. >> they had -- mets had a good

sunday. thanks to the pitcher who not only pitched a winning game but there is -- >> left, center field, back goes avery. at the wall. he leaps. it's gone. straussberg did it. a slow trot for straussberg around the bases. >> how many times does a pitcher even get a single? right? or any hit at all. they are notoriously the worst batters? >> a homerun for a pitcher is a rare feat. but for stephen straussberg. >> might be his last. pitchers rarely hit home rungs. it is rare. as rare as they hit home runs you had this joyless, slow trot not a smile on his face around the basis. if i am a pitcher and i hit a hom run, i am going to do cart wheels around the basis. like you would not be able to wipe the grin off of my face.

>> absolutely. what a line-up we got for you today. awana summers from politico going to be coming in here in studio about a half an hour from now as well as stephanie shriok the head of emily's list and eric byrnes in studio as a friend of bill. and boy, marco rubio. i guess he is practicing to be mitt romney's attack dog. i will tell you about it but first. >> this is the full course press. >> on this monday, making news t mark zuckerberg had quite the weekend after his company went public last week. he got married in a surprise ceremony. the ap reports about 100 guests at his california home thought they were there for a party celebrating his long-time girlfriend's graduation from medical school but to everyone's surprise they ended up being wedding guests. he has been with priscilla chan for about 10 years. he did ditch his hoody and

sneakers for a dark blue sootuit and tie. >> i went out with some friends in at a great little restaurant and in the middle of the meal, suddenly everybody started applauding, flash bulbs started popping. i looked across the restaurant. some guy, a young couple having dinner there, some guy got up and he was down on his knees at the table proposing to his girlfriend and presented her with a ring and she said yes. it was so cute. everybody was just hey you know, it wasn't like a gang of people with them. people just noticed what was going on. >> that's really cool. >> but it wasn't mark zuckerberg. >> it wasn't mark zuckerberg. >> adele was the big winner at the bill board music awards, taking home 12 trophies including top artist and top billboard's al pushily. alfmo, developed paint, lil

wayne took 3. the program includedtributes to donna summer and whitney houston. >> i talked to my dad the other day. he was talking about how some of the concerts he saw when he was younger like black sabbath and led zip lin and now we have lmfao. the hottest band today? i am thinking, oh god. what has this generation gotten itself in to. i hate to be old man here, but ug. >> a busy weekend in nba, five gaze at the staples center bad news for la fans, the home team only one one of those games when the lakers beat the oklahoma city thunder 99-96. thunder got revenge saturday won by three points to put the lakesers one game from elimination and the clippers fared worse, crushed by the san antonio spurs saturday. lost in the final minutes. 102 to 99.

they have been eliminated ast the western finals. >> this has been going on forever. >> i can looking forward to the spurs thinking on the thunder. >> yeah. >> i don't think the lakers will come back. i don't. >> all right. got it. >> dan, thank you. there were a couple of crazy things said politically over the weekend that just really -- one by one, one by a democrat and the other by a republican that really, really have me burned this morning. you, too, i am sure. the first is corey booker. okay? look. i like this guy. he is the mayor of newark new jersey, an up and coming star in the democratic party. what the hell? he dragged a woman from a burning building. he went in the burning building and put his life his bodyguard said, don't you dare go in there, mr. mayor. he said i am going in we want in that kitchen, found this woman, dragged her out. and he says he is a hero. he was on the "meet the

press"yesterday and he is asked by david gregory about the bain capital and the fact the president is talking about mitt romney's record at bain capitol. corey booker suddenly goes off, totally off of the reservation. >> this kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. >> what? >> it's nauseating to the american public. enough is enough. stop attacking private equity. stop tacking jerry jerry wright. it undermines to me what this country should be focused on. it's a distraction from the real issues. it's going to be a small campaign about this crap or a big campaign about the issues the american public cares about. >> he is dead wrong. okay. to his credit, earlesed i think he had made a horrific mistake and he came out and said i'm sorry. i just want everybody to know i think it's important president obama get re-elected and so i just want you to understand

that. but look, the point of it is why does president obama talk about -- is it fair to talk about bain capital? you bet it is. why does president obama talk about bain capital? because mitt romney talks about bain capital. mitt romney's whole pitch for president is the economy is suffering. you know it is. but the economy is suffering he says because president obama doesn't know what he is doing. and i do. i, mitt romney do because i am a businessman so i can fix it. i can fix the economy. i am a businessman look what i did at bain capital. i am going to do the same thing as president of the united states. he is the one that raises the issue. of course it's fair to talk about bain capital. it's important to talk about bain capital because it's important to point out, as the president does, that bain capital was not about creating job. it was about creating wealth profits for his investors and

he did a good job at that. while doing that, he was destroying jobs, shutting down plants. the record is clear. he was exporting jobs. he was killing jobs. he was killing pensions. he is a job-killer not a job creator. and corey booker says it's not fair to talk about that? he is dead wrong. you know, corey booker a rising star, but, man, he is not ready for prime time. you know, it's just -- it just drives me crazy, these democrats who feel they want everybody to like them and they have to appeal to both sides. oh, this is nauseating. no, it's not. it's politics, dude. it's hardball. >> that's for corey booker. now then, marco rubio. he wants to be vice president so bad. i mean he's already been to iowa. he gave a speech here on foreign policy. he's written a book. so he goes down and he gives the -- speaks at the annual

dinner of the south carolina republicans. oh, yeah, there is an enlightened group. right? these are the people who voted for newt gingrich. remember in the primary? they are their so-called silver elephant dinner and inviolet marco rubio as the speaker. rubio winds it up. first of all, he says, you know, president obama misled us. he said nothing but bad ideas. >> these ideas that sounded so good in the classrooms at harvard and yale haven't really worked out well in the real world. >> elitist, harvard. >> where did mitt romney go? >> what a snob. >> he is even teaching our children the wrong lesson. >> never have we been a nation that's taught our children that the reason for you to do better is for someone else to do worse. >> who is teaching our children that? who -- they just make these statements. who is teaching our children that? here is the worst part. this is what i really wanted to focus on. marco rubio on barack obama.

>> it is hard to understate how much he inspired people across this country four years ago with his promises to unite america and lift it up. a man who today occupies the white house and is running for president is a very different person. we have not seen such a divisive figure in modern american history as we have over the last three and a half years. [applause.] >> the most divisive figure in american history? really? i mean do you think barack obama -- do you think barack obama is more divisive than george w. bush who split this kuntzcountry down the middle who took us to an unnecessary illegal war against a country who did not attack us and had no possibility of attacking us and had no weapons of mass destruction? do you think barack obama is more divisive than

george w. bush and sara palin accusing barack obama of palling around with terrorists and being un-american? does he think barack obama is more divisive than rush limbaugh? and you willof the hate they spew every day on the radio, all of the racist stuff and anti-women stuff? all of the anti-poor stuff, the anti--liberal, the hate that they spew? the obama hate machine? really? you think obama is more divisive than that? he doesn't say what obama has done. i want to know. marco rubio what has barack obama done that's so divisive? name it. saving the auto industry? did that divide america? is it expanding healthcare insurance to 36 million americans who couldn't afford it

otherwise? >> really divisive? >> like bringing people together maybe? hum? is it allowing parents to keep their kids on their health insurances policy until they are 26 years old? is that divisive? getting rid of don't ask/don't tell? is creating 3 million jobs, is that what's dividing american? ending the war in afghanistan or endings the war in iraq and starting to end the war, starting to bring troops home from afghanistan? is that what's so divisive? or maybe getting osama bin laden what divided america or getting rid of gadaffi? it's the obama hate machine. i wrote a book about it t you know that may. it's the obama hate machine. >> that's all these guys have. hate, hate, hate obama. they have nothing, nothing to offer. they make these outrageous statements. you know what it is? marco rubio is just in train to go become mitt romney's attack dog.

>> that's exactly what will it is. 866-55 mess. i am going to have these guys drive me crazy. president obama, the most divisive figure. they hate this guy so much, they go overboard with their attacks, not one iota of truth in what marco rubio said. ♪ >> on your radio, on t.v. the bill press show, new on current tv. ♪ the overwhelming majority of the country says"tax the rich, don't go to war." >>just wanted to clarify that.

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>> all right. happy monday morning that is. 25 minutes after the hour. juana summers for politico in studio with us in the next segment. keith is calling. we are talking about comments made over the weekend by marco rubio calling president obama the most divisive figure in modern american history t keith is out in illinois. >> hey bill. marco rubio is doing just what sarah palin was doing. >> yeah. >> you come up with these caust youic statements and they don't have no basis in truth but they sound good. so you put them out. romney is doing the same thing. you know, we sit back as liberals, you know, and listen to this. we are trying to make sense of what they are saying. maybe it's a grain of truth there. but there is no truth there because it's just crazy talk. and some of the things he was say, talking about e elections, we need to hold our president election on july the 4th and

that way, people already are off. you are already on an off day. so the republicans can't go to crying about that. there is another holiday and you would get a billinger turnout. a lot of those other cult tears, they make them a national holiday to get a bigger turnout. we need to do the same thing. the republicans, sounds like defending voter registration ideas. we need to make them defend something. we need to try to get elections held on july the 4th and watch the republicans scream and holler. they don't want nobody to vote. >> keith, i am not sure i am with you on july 4th but i think on a saturday or sunday or a weekend for sure. but the point is, a day when people don't have an excuse that they have to be at work. i certainly agree with you on that. sue is calling from del ray beach, florida. good morning. >> how are you today? >> i am good. thank you for calling. what's up? >> i did not want to start on

mark yes rubio because i could take the whole hour. i am going to go back to the entry on meet the press. >> corey booker? >> you all are only pulling out one point he said. and he also mentioned the voter id laws are side issues. he brought that up, too. said what? >> they are side issues. >> he said what? >> he said that the voter id laws and the women's issues are side issues. >> side issues? >> side issues. you know, they are not what we should be talking about. we should be talking about the economy. >> boy listen surely we should be talking about the economy. i didn't know that, sue. >> that's frightening. he is wrong on that, too. i mean these voter id laws that have passed in what is it? fourteen or maybe 20 states? they are not side issues. that goes to the very heart of democracy. this is the effort on the part of these republicans financed by the koch brothers to suppress the vote in state after state after state.

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>> opinion your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show >> how about it? 33 minutes after the hour. what which do you say? good to see you today. welcome to the full-court press. coming to you live from our nation's capitol. we are so glad to have you with us this morning and on current tv joining us here on capitol hill in washington, d.c., back offer of the road national political reporter juana sum

members. >> good to see you. >> you were out on the road with mit romney for the last few days? he's still at it? what's he doing? >> last week it frailty like january. it was in iowa florida, and i felt like i was transported back to the beginning of this whole thing. >> when i saw him in new hampshire, i thought dude, you already won new hampshire or whatever he won or lost but already ran in new hampshire. >> right. the state only has four electoral votes but it's viewed as a swing state and romney backers think he can spend there. joe biden is supposed to be there this week. both sides are working hard for that little state. >> mitt romney is out with his 30-second ad with his political campaign of this general aelex. they are not waiting. oh, for the day when they used to wait until the convention

wait for labor day to start this stuff. >> right. >> no longer. here we are may, the latest first mitt romney 30-second ad. >> what would a romney presidency be like? day 1, president romney approves the keystone pipeline creating thousands of jobs that obama blocked. president romney introduces tax cuts and reforms that reward job creators, not punish them. president romney issues orders to begin replacing obama care with common sense healthcare reform. >> that's what a romney presidency would be look. >> i am mitt romney, and i approve this message. >> tax cuts for the rich otherwise known as job creators. repealing obama care and approving the keystone platform. this is his platform. >> right, i was out with governor romney. he told us what he is trying to

do is have a positive message as opposed to the president. he says the president's reelection campaign is focused on character assassination. >> that's the big thing. three topics if you listen to mitt romney's speeches that he talks about all the time. the keystone pipeline a rallying point for the conservatives. this isn't new. it's to kick off the general election, he says. >> you could say not to quibble with facts in the campaign ad because you don't expect maybe many facts but he says that president obama locked the keystone pipeline? one could argue that republicans in congress who blocked the keystone type line by forcing them to make a decision within 30 days. >> there is a lot of room for argument on that statement certainly. the issue of the keystone pipeline and the president's supposed blockage is one conservatives can rally behind. it's something there is no disagreement with if he is trying to rally the conservative

base behind him. >> while romney is out there running around, yesterday, ron paul -- or saturday there was a state convention in minnesota. ron paul got 12 out of 13 delegates. now there is no way ron paul can catch up to mitt romney but it is curious while he is not actively campaigning, his people still are and they are still getting delegates. >> absolutely. i think it's been said ron paul's supporters would walk over broken glass. even though he is not out there, they are rallying delegates. if your eye is on the convention in tampa, he is in a great position to rally people, to have a speaking role. >> what he wants, a prime-time speaking role? >> i wouldn't necessarily say that's what he wants. i think that he has banco al list building for so long that was evidenced in his 2008 run.

this is about a coalition, whether that takes the speaking road or the rand paul 26, i am not sure. >> juana sum members here with us the next half hour we are talking politics 2012. if you want to join the conversation, we have a seat at the table for you as we always say at 866-55-press. most of the buzz this morning is about some comments that corey booker made yesterday on meet the press, on with mark barkey, republican strategist. he is the democratic side. he has been a surrogate for the obama campaign. he was asked, i think a lay-up question about david gregory about the president talking about bain capitol and mitt romney's record at bain capitol. to everybody's surprise, here is what democratic mayor of newayr new jersey had to say. >> this kind of stuff is naus 80 to go me on both sides.

it's nauseating to the american public. enough is enough. stop attacking private he can dewitty, jeremiah wright. what it does is undermines to me what this country should be focused on. if it's going to be a small campaign about this crap or a big campaign about the issues the american public cares about. we have to give the mayor some break. after the show, he came out with a text or statement or something to say wait, wait, wait a minute. i want barack obama to be reelected. i am all for that and da da did a. what's he doing here? if mitt romney talks about bain capital as a job creator why can't president obama talk about bain capitol as a job sdroir. >> politics is nasty. i think what he did there was left the door for a whole lot of questions of running for a pie higher? >> clearly. >> i think a lot of americans would find that kind of statement quite refrishing given

how nasty politics can get. it's off message from how the obama campaign has been using the bain capitol story. and corey booker is a high-level surrogate. he is not surprised. >> i admire corey booker. i think i have met him once: but he was buddy buddy with chris christie and supported chris christie. so he has sort of a mixed message here or record i guess. but mitt romney has the center piece. you have been out on the road with him. you have been there a lot more than i. the economy is broken. i can fix it t look at my record. okay? his record is head of bain capitol. >> that's his business experience. he says i know how to create jobs. look at my record at bain

capitol. tal. right? >> you know. >> ted kennedy did? >> it's a 70ser peace of his campaign. that invites scrutiny from opposition and reporters. that said, there is probably some truthiness to the way both sides. you are never going to get the full story from one or the other. >> like i guess he is referring to the obama ad that came out about the steel plant in kansas city. >> my hometown. >> they shut it down. >> right. >>. nobody disputed the facts. it was shut down. jobs were lost. pensions were destroyed and that was a bain capital project. there may be some cases where bain capital created jobs?

steve ratney on another network on another show pointed out that the job of bain capitol wasn't to create jobs but to create wealth for their investors? >> right. i heard that point as well >> you think corey booker is positioning himself? >> that may not necessarily be his intent but you can't hear a statement of that of someone who observes politics and say people would enjoy that at the voting booth. >> again, juana summers with us in studio. we will get your calls in a second. i want to ask you about something that happened over the weekend, the naacp endorsed if you will president obama's statement saying that he supports same-sex marriage. that's pretty significant for the naacp? isn't it >> that is a huge move, particularly if you are looking at the gay marriage along racial lines. take the north carolina amendment 1 vote for example.

a lot of folks who were against that, you are looking at conservative african-americans and a lot in the african-american community, black churches, that is that is a huge step for that community and that brings a whole another level to this debate. >> they raise it to the 11 of civil rights, sort of give it that dignity. they said, we are begin enshrining discrimination in the law against any people. i thought it was again pretty significance significance. >> that's a counter. i believe it was last week on meet the press, this isn't like jim crow. this is not a civil rights issue. >> that's countering that very argument. i think at the core of what lgbt advocates have been making. this is about our lives. >> do you think this will go help toward dwelling any dissent

or dissatisfaction against bar barack obama on that issue? >> i am not sure. i think it's hard to say whether or not the naacp is representative of the africans american community. some might say it is out of touch or with the civil rights movement, the statement and what the naacp has done is insured that the gay marriage debate will play a huge role when you are looking at president obama's re-election. it's not going away any time soon. >> we are corey booker mitt romney and the naacp among other things, your calls at 866-55-press. here with juana summers with politico. >> radio meets television, the bill press show now on current t.v. ♪ i.q. will go way up. how are you ever going to solve the problem if you don't look at

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♪ >> this is the bill press show live on your radio and current tv. >> we are covering the political landscape with juana summers. i can't believe you are out there following these candidates around. everybody takes a summer off. >> you know, military romney did take the weekend down but i think we would all love a summer vacation. >> man exactly. your calls about corey booker and the naacp and mitt romney and bain capital but i do have to ask you: some marco rubio was out over the weekend, too, down in south carolina calling president obama the most

divisive figure. he is trying hard to be vice president. >> it was quite a speech. yes get to go in person but from reading over his remarks. i think it's one of the most full-throated speech, a preview to what he might say at the convention no matter what kind of spot he holds. >> to me he was saying, see, i can be an attack dog. yeah, you know, i can be like sara palin i could call president obama a terrorist. right? >> it was quite different if you remember the speech he did the last time i was on here a couple of months ago, the foreign policy speech he did. it was so wildly different. it was more of a rallying cry, very pitch-perfect to rally the republican base. >> red meat thrown to the south carolina republicans who are not known as the most enlightened people on the planet. regina from alabama. >> how are you. >> great. thank you. >> thank you for taking my call.

i completely disagree with your guest who is on, the rarityeporter on from politico. >> she is right here. you can talk to her? >> ma'am i completely disagree with you about what corey booker did was absolutely disgusting absolutely disgusting. i am supposing you are going to also defend the fact that he states that the voter suppression laws are a side issue. i mean to me, just spit in the face for all of those who fought for the civil rights movement, for fought for you even being able to do what you are doing. >> i appreciate the call regina. i point out that juana is a reporter, not a commentator like me. but 0 couldn't find -- this is the second call this morning mentioning the voter rights as if he said voter suppression laws are a side issue. did you see that in his remarks or hear that on -- >> yeah. i hadn't heard that either.

>> i have been looking since that first call. i can't find it. i have to say, just to get you off of the hook, if he said that, i mean he is just dead-ass wrong. >> that's all there is to it. i mean, look, whether you vote republican or democratic, if people are trying to suppress the vote and make it more difficult for people to vote back to the days of the poll tax and that kind of stuff, those laws were written by -- here we go. these people, the koch brothers and aleck. >> that's who wrote the voter suppression laws and they are dead wrong and if the mayor said that t he just doesn't know what he is talking about. but let's go to joe in audob on on, pennsylvania. >> how are you guys? >> great. we are doing great? >> you are doing great. >> that's great. i was just thinking about bain capital and how every time romney wants to go out there and say, hey, i am running on this and you hear the word staples and sports authority.

aren't these organizations and distribution -- end distrib bruce crap for cheap crap made all over the planet? the cheap crap can be made here but it's really supporting taking jobs away from us in the longrun and i don't understand why we are not sticking that right up romney's nose when the word staples and sports authority come out. >> if you haven't heard that yet, i am sure you will. i think you raise the point, joe -- i appreciate the call juana, which we come back to bain capital, whether it is a legitimate issue or not? >> i think joe makes a great point. % this bain capital story is incredibly multi-laird. i expect you are going to hear more and more about it both in the romney campaign and the obama campaign. i think it is a legitimate issue to bring up obviously if a candidate raises that if a central point to his success story and mitt romney's campaign theme has been he is the guy going to get america working. you are going to hear more about him framing it as a success and

the obama campaign saying it's a microcosm of why mitt romney is not the best person to run this country. >> mitt romney says i know what i am talking about because look at my record as a businessman which is at bain capital. you can look at his record. we look at his record and see jobs destroyed. joe raises a point i have not heard anybody discuss before mitt romney says sports authority and staples are two examples of companies that did very well thanks to bane captam. where are the things they are selling made? all made overseas. >> that's another way of exporting jobs. >> absolutely. >> it means we are going to be hearing a lot about bain capital? >> if the new newt gingrich 30 minute long movie wasn't enough, bane is here to stay. >> right, as if barack obama is the only candidate to talk about bane this year. right?

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rubio says president obama -- get this -- is one-of the most divisive figures in modern american history. more divisive than george w. bush who took this country to war in iraq against a country that did not attack us first in more divisive than rush limbaugh on the hateful stuff he says about blacks, women. marco rubio is trying to practice being mitt romney's attack dog. we will talk about that and a lot more but we start out by getting all of the latest todd's current tv news update here in los angeles, jacki schechner. hi, jacki, good morning. >> hi, bill. good morning. good morning, everyone. a new poll out today shows americans trust president obama to handle healthcare better than mitt romney but they trust mitt romney more when it comes to the national deficit or federal debt. the two are tied when it comes to unemployment. a gallup survey asking the importance that voters place on

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>>(narrator) don't miss this week's the gavin newsom show with special guest guy kawasaki and dylan ratigan. but he was not a politician. >> across the nation and on your radio, and on current t.v. this is the bill press show. >> so the chinese dissident, chin wanchang is in the united states. how long before mitt romney gives president obama credit for doing the right thing. don't hold your breath. good morning, everybody. it is monday may 21st. can you believe it? hope you had a good weekend and are ready to tackle the big stories of the day today here from our nation's capitol.

>> that's why we are coming to you live coast to coast from our radio studio and t.v. studio right here on capitol hill just in the shadow of the capitol dome, six blocks from the capitol and six metro stops from the white house, we have it covered. we do so with the help this morning of our good friend founder, one of the founders as we say and partner of bull fite strategies here in studio with us, eric byrnes, the one and only eric byrnes? >> thanks for having me. >> good to see you. everybody good? >> everything is going great. >> carl fritsche over there? >> he has never really behaved but, you know, i like to hear about sports and try to keep him in line. >> good luck with that. we try, too, but it doesn't work. everywhere. >> yeah. hard not keeping up with carl fritsche. i have to keep up with this team, peter okay burn. >> i don't know how you do it. >> and dan henning and cyprian boulding. as john boehner said yesterday about trying to rule the house

it's hard keeping 218 frogs in a wheelbarrow. it's hard keeping these three frogs in a wheelbarrow. >> i don't have a lot of experience keeping frogs in wheelbarrows. >> mark twain, the best way is just a bunch of sinnedercinder blocks. >> that's the best way. >> or a hammer. >> exactly. >> not going to do a lot of jumping after that. >> no. >> i guess that's a home-grown what? ohio expression? >> i guess. >> i have never heard of that. >> i have never heard of that. >> i have never heard of that. >> i am surprised. i think he made that up. >> delaware. so none of this. >> boehner does he run anything? >> no. >> really the one managing the frogs and the wheelbarrow. >> totally.

the president had the summit and the g 8 in chicago and before even camp david, he met one on one in the off al office with the new president of france. >> speaking of frogs. >> oh. that was over the line, really? >> what gets me from the crowd? >> francois and the president pointed out things are going to chance for you and fan swa. >> i warned him now he is president, he can no longer ride a scooter in paris. [speaking spanish. " " "i know because i tried with the secret service and they wouldn't let me do it. >> that's cool to think about him tooling around paris. >> the school -- as a scooter owner myself >> it is a fantastic mode of

trans transportation. >> guess what. >> can't do it anymore. >> not if you are president of france. >> i don't think dan is going to have that problem. >> it will be more than the paris. >> obama talking about how he is trying to do it and the secret service doesn't like it. i feel like that would be the dukakis in the tank moment where they would let obama on a scooter with the helmet here it never looks good. >> suggested there is something else he couldn't wait to the share with francois. >> we would be interested in his opinions of cheese burgers in chicago. >> great place t. >> the president, you are not supposed to eat the cheese burger with a knife and fork. probably just put those down and grab it with your hands. >> a lot to talk about eric byrnes here with us for the full hour as a friend of bill and stephanie shriok will bring us up to date on the most important

races in this country. women running for house and for senate. but first: this is the full court press. >> the important stories. >> other headlines making news on this monday nato summit in chicago kept president from going to the chicago cubs baseball series but not his secretary of state. hillary clinton went to saturday night's game at wrigley field with several netato but her cubs lost to the white sox. >> i wonder whether joe ricketss was there. >> i am shocked the cubs lost. >> the cubs lost? >> dennis hoff is on a new mission, owner of moonlight bunny ranches wants london to legalize brothels. he said you would make a lot of money off of a pop-off bun income ranch, he wants to cut down on illegal human trafficking, popular during the olympics.

he said he got the idea after he saw what happened in vancouver. >> dennis hover has been a guest on the bill press show. not on the t.v. show but the radio show. >> he has been a guest here but you scripted been a guest at his place. >> not reciprocal. >> the avengers continues to be king at the box office the super hero office another $55 million this weekend. number one, $457 million puts it at the number 6th spot on the all-time list in just 17 days in a release. battleship was a distant second place taking in less than half of $25 million. >> battleship kind of bombed? >> battleship? tanked. >> have you seen the avengers? >> i haven't. >> is it good, peter? >> it's fantastic. >> the comic strip movies are a huge cash cow over the last several years. >> some are done better than others, the bar was set so high

for this movie that i really think they at least reached the bar . it's a very good movie. >> eric, you are into -- you are way out there on this high-tech stuff? >> way out there? >> you know a hell of a lot more about it than i do and you deal in this stuff. i want to talk to you about facebook. >> sure. >> and love to take your calls about facebook, too. we saw what happened friday. so a little story. so friday you watched the show. you might have seen it friday morning. we were talking about facebook, and i -- the ipo. ? >> uh-huh. >> of course. so i stated one of our -- the expert that we had on talking about it mentioned to my surprise that it is possible to get shares for individuals to buy shares that he kept the institutional sales down to make it easier for individuals who wanted to buy it. so i said something about, well if my broker is watching, you know, maybe i could pick up a couple of shares. well, right after the show, i

told peter this, i get a text from my broker saying are you serious? do you want some of these facebook shares? and i said, yeah. what do you suggest? and he said i've got 200 shares. >> that's what i got left. i said, boom. you are on it. i will take them. so i am thinking this thing is going to take off, you know, not like a north korean rocket like a u.s. rocket and actually shoot up from 38 bucks to, i don't know, maybe 60, 70 bucks. and it went up $38 and -- it went up $0.23. >> yeah. >> what happened? >> i think that it suffered from crushing expectations. i think that's really what happens a lot of times with these ipos. it's such a gamble. when you have too much expectation, it's like with elections, or before the presidential debate, where you have all of the consultants get out and say, my guy can't debate. he is an idiot because they want to lower expectations to determine what's a win.

i think the other things obviously, you know, with this economy in particular, you know, as hot as face book is and as exciting as it is, if you go back and look at tech i pos and see the internet bubble in 1999, you know, 2000, what now? 12 years ago? oh, my gosh, it's never really quite, you know, 100% safe bet in terms of what you are going to get. >> yeah. >> somebody from get facebook from their perch in the market. i don't think it's going to happen. >> you also used to work on wall street. you know this stuff from that side, too? >> it's been a while. i did do a couple of years as an investment banker. >> the other factor which even the leadership now of nasdaq has admitted is that they had all of these technical difficulties handling the trades? >> yeah. >> that slowed them down. they actually had to interrupt

the sale people didn't know whether the orders had gone through. the system broke down. >> yeah. >> nasdaq is supposed to handle high-tech stocks. >> naz did ay is separate. >> if anybody would, it would be nasdaq. unlike the stock exchange nasdaq, different exchange. it's dodge very, very quickly which is what gave rise. >> when mark zuckerberg saw my trade go through, he actually came out with a public statement. >> really? >> on this special day, i feelwant

to say to all of the people out there who use facebook and our product, thank you. >> yeah. especially bill press. >> the clip cut off? >> my fault. people get concerned about that. hold on for the long-term. >> this was a big week for mark zuckerberg, it goes public ipo. he ends up with what? $500,000,000,000 or something like that. and then saturday, he gets married. now, did he think about the implications of getting married? here is one attorney who says, he sure as hell better have. >> if mark zuckerberg did not sign a pre-newspaper, he needs to see a psychiatrist and not a lawyer. >> especially in california man. if you don't have a pre-newspaper and somebody

happens, it's 50/50. how. >> how do you approach your fiance. not that it's necessarily my case, but, you know. >> maria did not sign a prenewspaper? >> i did not. yes have the heart. >> he is still working on the post-nup. >> post-nup. >> yeah. seriously, pre-nups make sense especially if you have any wealth at all. i mean it is -- >> hey, darling, here is your engagement ring. >> awkward >> i love you will you maryry me forever and in case not, here is a document i want you to sign. >> it is awkward. peter, did you have a pre-nup? >> of course not no. if nor no other reason i don't think i would have the balls to say, like eric says this is a life-long commitment. i will be with you forever and just in case, you never know what could happen. >> you can put it this way: i know i will be with you forever but i don't trust you. >> that's a lot better. that sounds a lot better.

>> i heard a lot of really horrible things about you. so. >> i am on my best behavior but you, i am not sure. >> mark zuckerberg gets married the day after his ipo? >> kind of ridiculous. how fair is that to his bride? >> there is something going on. why would he wait until then to do it? i think it had something to do with the fact that facebook just went public? right? >> well, i mean why don't you wait a month or two months so that you can have time to prepare -- i guess he has staff that does all of that quite a bit, but, it's odd to get married the very next day. >> i think that she wanted to cash in. >> could be it. >> yeah. >> fast. >> yikes. >> i don't know. i don't know. facebook 866-55-press. i want to talk to you about the politics of the day. eric, as you know, corey booker

came out yesterday. >> yeah. >> good man. i've always admired him. what the hell? he pulled the woman out of a burning building, which is pretty cool. >> more than i have done. >> exactly but he said president obama is making a big mistake talking about bain capital and you can hear that one more time. all right? if we can from meet the press yesterday. here is mayor booker. >> this kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. it's nauseating to the american public. enough is enough. stop attacking private equity, stop attacking jeremiah wright. what this does is undermines to mean me what this country should be focused on. it's a distraction. a small campaign about this crap or a big campaign, in my opinion, about the issues the american public cares about. >> is it unfair? is it nauseating? wrong for president obama to talk about bain capital? >> i don't think it's nauseating or unfair for obama to talk about bain capital because -- not only because but primary

because mitt romney has been talking about it for two years. >> yeah. >> and four years before that. when he talks about himself as as job creator. i think the reality is that when you look at private equity, you know, we are not talking about hedge funds. there are some differences there and when you look at bane's entire record, yes there have been some deals they have lost a lot of jobs, some where they have created jobs. >> not many. not many. >> but it's certainly fair game at this point. it's going to be a huge part of this campaign going forward when romney is's sole claim to why he should be president is that he is going to make the economy better but he is not going to come out with any sort of platform or plan on how he is going to do that. yes. >> yeah. >> of course, bain capital. >> what he says is, the economy is broken. you need a fixer. i am mr. fix-it because i am a businessman. >> that's right. >> look at my record. i created jobs. and his record is bain capital. >> that's right. >> of course the president is going to talk about it.

booker came out later and said of course i want president obama to be re-elected and everything but why did he say the i haddiotic thing in the first place? not ready for prime time? >> perhaps. >> eric byrnes is ready for prime time. he is here in studio with us 866-55-press. you want to join the conversation, we invite your calls. take your seat at the table, 866-557-7377 we will be right back. >> radio meets television, the bill press show, now on current tv. we have a big, big hour and the i.q. will go way up. >>tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block.

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♪♪ the bill press show new on current tv. >> 26 minutes after the hour. eric byrnes from bull fite strategies and stephanie shriok president of emily's list. we have talking about facebook, among other things and corey booker stirring things up a surrogate for the obama campaign. you know, eric, i have a feeling he may not be out there as a certain gat. >> much longer? >> much longer. >> one headline sur began from hell is what they are calling him. >> yeah. >> very nice. >> put him out, attack the general trust of the examcampaign. jury om, good morning. >> good morning, bill. >> yeah, what do you say? >> how many union workers in illinois -- i am from illinois. >> which union? >> 1866 asme. >> good for you. >> i am a correctional officer

here in illinois. and i would like to say along on this corey booker situation, he seems to be very much a blue-dog democrat basically bragged about 25%. work force, therefore, he should be considered a job sdroir like romney almost doing a commercial for romney. might want to go back and look at that, you know, entire segment. for him supporting christie, you know, against unionized government workers. >> yeah. thish going to take a break here in the interest of time, jerome a union brother. thank you. christie -- i'm sorry coey booker is buddy-buddy with chris christie on this teacher layoff. he has a mixed record. >> got to perhaps follow the money, perhaps follow where his interests are. i think new jersey, new york, there there. >> there could be a lot of that bain capital money. >> flows around quite a few places actually.

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>> al tough, tough race in massachusetts but doing well. i want to real quick if i could, you know, the senate races, it's really an extraordinary number. emily's list as endorsed a historic number of women running for the united states senate. astounding. we are behind 11 women. we have never had 11 democratic women running for the united states senate in one election. and of those, six are incumbents. five are in open seats or challenges like elizabeth warren. all five. this is something to keep in mind in this country. all five will be the first women elected to the united states senate in their states. >> no kidding. >> talking about some breaking through the glass ceiling in 2012 tammy ballwin? >> elizabeth warren they haven't elected a woman governor in magazines either. wisconsin, korano in hawaii shelly berkeley in nevada. susan bisowicz will be the first

women to serve in the united states. >> 11 and 0? >> i am going to knock on wood on that. i will tell you what. they can all win. these are just really, really tough tight races this cycle but with the energy building amongst women voters because of really, i would say the republican war on women? >> of course. >> there is so much energy. >> uh-huh. >> amongst women voters for democrats. and, of course, all of our democratic women candidates can benefit from this. >> this is the wait to fight back. isn't it? >> you bet it is. absolutely. i feel like there is nothing better than looking at a january of 2013 and seeing the tea party republicans replaced with pro-choice democratic women. >> to hear you say this is stunning. coming from california we are used to, you know, two great women, dianne feinstein and barbara boxer have been there. we sort of take it for granted.

right? to hear that these other states, particularly like massachusetts, never electing a woman. >> or connecticut. why? these are not exactly conservative statements. the state of texas has done better than the state of massachusetts has done better in electing women to statewide? >> elizabeth warren this whole native american silly flap, i don't really follow it, but what's going on there? i mean is it -- >> i will say the voters of massachusetts aren't following it either. because it is just -- it's silly. and we've got to focus on the economy here and i think they are just trying to make up some sort of situation so they can't focus on what they need to be talking about as the economy. >> a diversion? >> that's exactly right. there have been polls since this whole thing, you know, blew up. and scott brown and elizabeth warren, still dead even in the polls. voters in massachusetts want to talk about the economy. and they know that that's what

is at stake in this election, who is in charge and as elizabeth warren goes around the state, introduces her herself to the people ofma, you see her numbers continue to go up. it's a good reminder of the fact that we are for the voters. we are the early part of the season here. >> yeah. >> they just haven't focused yet on who these candidates are and, for someone like elizabeth warren, she's got a lot of campaigning ahead of her. but everything we have seen every time she is sitting in a room, i don't know if you have had the opportunity to see her. you can see voters just completely just embrace what she is saying, standing up for the middle class stopping, you know, this outrageous behavior by wall street, you know. >> eric, last week, when the news came out j.p. morgan came out, the national immediatemedia.

he liz beth warren is one of the most knowledgeable on these issues. >> that's right. >> how about wisconsin? let's talk about tamy baldwin another great candidate. >> such a great candidate. someone who has just had a good populist record for the state of wisconsin. you know, the buffett rule fights in the house of representatives, just doing a great, great job. you here is the this inc. about that senate race in wisconsin. when she is in a strong position, but she, like a couple of our other candidates there is a big republican primary going on the other side. so it's hard to define kind of who you are versus who somebody else is. >> right. >> these races become about two people just like the presidential race. all of the sudden you start understanding what's at stake and the values and character. for tammy, the 3-way republican primary and it's not until august. >> wow? >> she is -- she is kind of in the phase where she gets to define herself, but what else is happening in these races and

what one of my concerns is for all of our races, is that karl rove, and american crossroads and the chamber of commerce that's already gone up against tammy baldwin in wisconsin, they are the ones that our candidates are fighting against until these republican primaries are over. it is really going to be a rough summer for all of our candidates. i am going to encourage everybody while i have got everybody on to check them all out at emily'slift.org. they need our support to stand up against the chamber of commerce and karl rove. >> they have got so much money on the right, you know. i mean, you know, rove and crossroads $28 million, you know, just to basically come in and/and slash and burn our candidates while stiff instead of knee points out while a lot of people are stuck in primaries. >> karl rove is not waiting for the primaries? >> you bet he is not. and he can say and do anything. so our candidates who are

building campaigns -- >> yes. >> to run against a republican challenger or republican opponent now have to also run against karl rove. >> uh-huh. >> that's ridiculous. >> yeah. >> that is the situation we are in. >> i was looking at your website this morning, got it up on my computer now. emily's list emily'slist.org, an outstanding list of every woman up for the house and senate this year. some of them are incumbents that don't have a lot of difficulty but they are up and on your list. it's an outstanding list. here is shelly berkeley again, great member of congress running for senate in nevada would be the first woman senator from nevada. >> that she would. the thing about her race, hers and elizabeth warren's, for the democrats are both pick-up opportunities. we want to hold -- the democrats want to hold the majority in the united states senate, winning in nevada and massachusetts are really, really critical to give us a little wiggle room in how

close this majority is. and she willly burkerkeley running a fantastic campaign. the polls have it real close. i think this is like so many of them, it's going to be a nail-biter. it's going to go down to the end here but i just to remind everybody about this little piece, the guy she is running against, senator dean hiller, an appointed senator. he hasn't run himself, yet. he is the only one who has the honor, i guess he would consider it, and he said this. he was proud to vote for the ryan budget twice last year. >> yeah. >> he voted for it in the house. and then was appointed to the senate and voted for it again in the senate. and he stands proudly by that. now, interestingly, he hasn't said if he is going to support it this year. >> you know he will. >> yeah. he's already supported it twice. how are you not going to support it now? >> yeah. yeah. even if he does not support it this year. he still supported it twice. >> that's exactly right. >> if you value medicare or

medicaid you don't want to vote for it? >> you want to vote for shelly berkeley. >> that's right? >> that's exactly right. >> that would be a huge pick-up in nevada. >> absolutely. and after the race that harry reid -- >> sharon engel. >> we actually had some serious, you know candidates candidates we are putting up on the democrat. >> christine o'donnell is not? nazy horono? >> hawaii. you know, she is in a race well, got a little bit of a primary. but i have to tell you, she is pulling ahead. she is running against a blue-dog democrat out there in hawaii. and i am like, of all places, we do not need to be electing a blew dog democrat in hawaii. we need a good progressive out there. she is in a good position to win the primary but up against cylinders a lingel. this is one of those where all

-- >> the governor? right? sgfrnlths. >> former governor, exactly right. you know. she really was a good strong recruit from the republicans. they recruited the best candidate. here is the deal. so did the democrats. she is the best candidate to win this seat in hawaii. her personal story, i don't know if you have heard this story, but her mother when the kids were very little, i think mazy was maybe 8 years old took them and ran from an abusive husband in japan. >> wow. >> loaded them up on a boat as immigrants, came over and i am greated to hawaii to start with nothing. i mean just nothing. mmigrated to hawaii to start with nothing. i mean just nothing. she has worked her way up getting an education, her mother taking care of that family and a true american story. it has all of this. and here she is, running for the united states senate. >> wow. >> in hawaii. it's an amazing story that i am confident that everybody in hey

has that story. >> as a sense to come from that sort of tortured background and really, you know, arrive here with nothing, you know, i mean it's a quintssential american story. >> great story and great work. emilylist.org. you want a candidate you want to ask about or tell us about 866-55-press. stephanie schriock from emily's list. eric buns with us, too of course. >> all right. ♪ >> this is the bill press show. connectamillionminds.com it takes people with real knowledge to build and maintain 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 that's why time warner cable 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?

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>> this is the bill press show, live on your radio and current tv. >> so 12 minutes before the top of the hour, 11 women candidates for the united states senate this year, six of them incumbents, democratic women candidates for u.s. senate. six of them are incumbents democrats running for reelection. five of them challengers who would be the first women elected to the united states senate from their states. stephanie shroc, president of sem emilyis lone star and eric byrnes from bull fite strategies. how many for the u.s. house? do you know? >> it's so funny. we add every single day. >> really? >> it's amazing. it's amazing. the democrats need 25 to pick the house back up. i give my staff such trouble because i am like, okay. i want half of those to be women. we have got to get there.

i think the number is probably 40 before we are all ready good candidates. you know eight of them in particular are running against tea party republicans. >> uh-huh. uh-huh. >> so really and really strong strong races around the country. >> most important ones to pick up. john is calling from fonda, iowa, with a question about one particular candidate. john, welcome. >> hi, bill. stephanie, i wanted to talk to you a little bit about christine vilsak. >> absolutely. >> you know, does have the great caveat running against steve king. >> that's right. she has been a strong candidate. i have met her. i have talked to her. steve king we have to get rid

of him. i will take my answer. >> steve king is one of the biggest yahoos. >> terrible. >> crazy. >> it's hard to say because he is not alone though. to start talking about who. you start listing them. >> that's why i am very sorry he is your congressman. we are going to try to fix that. the answer is yes, and yes. emily's list has fully endorsed visit christy vilsak, i did it last summer. been with her since she started run the house list all of our candidates at emilyiesemilyslist.org. she is really an accomplished, a very strong candidate who, you know, this is a tough district. steve king, granted, has said and done some very outrageous things. but the truth of the matter is, it's a departments conservative district in iowa and what we need to do is get the right candidate, which we are in christy and we have got to talk to all of the voters and so your

job out there is to make sure you talk to your neighbors about this race. we are going to have to win this one, one vote at a time. it's going to be a tough one. >> i did a little bit media training for a group of candidates, thanks to our friends at askme. christie had about 12 house candidates and she was one of the ones. i was very impressed with her. she is valley sharp. >> incredible. a great member of congress. >> emily's list is a list of men and women, like all of the members who join and look at our candidates and give a little contribution. it's the power of 50 and $100 contributions that add up when we pull together. >> that's all we are about.

trying to change the number of women in government. werstein %. emily's list, we find these candidates, train them, help staff, help with the street and go to our membership and say help the valdennings or christy vilsak's with a contribution so they can do what they need to do. >> find it a lot emilyslist it stands for early money is like yeast. don't wait until october. >> that's right. >> do it now and again? >> that's right. >> you are doing god's work, the lord's work and she is proud of you? >> thank you. thank you. >> thank you so much for coming in. eric byrnes, good to have you around. >> okay. >> go facebook. >> go facebook. >> come back again soon. don't for get the pre-nup. i will be back with a parting

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south carolina republican party dinner, you know, the same yahoos who voted for newt gingrich in the primary where he attacked president obama calling him the most divisive figure in modern american history, more divisive than george w. bush who took us to war against a companyuntry that didn't attack us first, than rush limbaugh spewing hate red on the air waives every day? come onwaves every day? come on. what did president obama do that's so divisive provide healthcare to 36 million americans, safe the auto industry, end the war invack iraq? rubio doesn't give specifics. all he does is attack mark yes rubio the latest leader of the obama hate machine. >> that's my parting shot for

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