a few weeks later another ship won't be so lucky. overloaded it sinks and 140 of its passengers drown in the river congo. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> well, hello, everybody. and a happy wednesday morning. it is wednesday, may 23rdrd. good to see you today. welcome to the full-court press, your morning round-up on current tv. we will have all of the big issues of the today. we are coming to you live from our nation's capitol to tell you what's going on around our country and around the globe and take your calls at 866-5577.

good to see you today. how about that facebook. boy, it started out at $38 a share. it has already fallen to $31 a share. >> that's drop of 18%. the big question is: wass facebook overpriced, or more importantly did morgan stanley know it was over priced and fail to tell me? i bought 200 shares. i want my money back. we will talk about the bishops, facebook and bain capital. first, we start out, today's current news update from jacki schechner in los angeles. hi, jacki, good morning. >> good morning, everyone. we can safely say we told you so when it comes president obama. he it didn't go uncontested but

in arkansas, wolfe bid on the primary ballot in lose, new hampshire and he will be on the ballot. he is he has run for congress four times unsuccessfully 42% of democrats said they were uncommitted rather than vote for president obama. this comes two weeks after voters in west virginia gave a convicted felon 41% of the primary vote. president obama is not expected to win any of those states come november. last time john mccain won 59% in arkansas, and democrats will say some of that has to do with white voters in the south not wanting to support at black president. others will tell you voters are unhappy with the president's stanchion on energy and coal. the online organizing tool dashboard is intend today act like a virtual campaign field office generally intrp act on time. campaign wants to replicate the

power and advantage it has from 2008. looks like facebook. you can sign on for the first time if you want. use your facebook account or go to mybarackobama if you can remember it. we are back with more right after the break. >>the state of the 2012 campain. brought to you by spiriva handihaler. if you have copd like i do you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. and it's steroid-free. spiriva does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva.

discuss all medicines you take, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek immediate medical help if your breathing suddenly worsens your throat or tongue swells you get hives, vision changes or eye pain, or problems passing urine. other side effects include dry mouth and constipation. nothing can reverse copd. spiriva helps me breathe better. does breathing with copd weigh you down? ask your doctor if spiriva can help. [ kristal ] we're just taking a sample of all our different items in our festival of shrimp. the crab-stuffed shrimp are awesome! tequila lime tacos. [ man ] delicious! [ male announcer ] it's festival of shrimp! for $12.99 try any two shrimp creations like new barbeque glazed shrimp. offer ends soon. we're servers at red lobster. and we sea food differently. break the ice with breath-freshening cooling crystals. ice breakers.

current tv, it's been all building up to this. >>bill shares his views, now it's your turn. >>i know you're going to want to weigh in on these issues. >>connect with "full court press with bill press" at facebook.com/billpressshow and on twitter at bpshow. >>i believe people are hungry for it. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> broadcasting across the nation, on your radio and on current tv this is the bill press show. >> what i want to know is: why are democrats such weenies. man. running away from president obama on bain capital. good morning. good morning. it is wednesday, may 23rdrd. so good to see you today on this wednesday here, certainly

starting out that way on our nation's capitol. >> that's where you will find us, the full court press on current tv and on your local progressive talk radio station, this hour on sirius xm coming to you live from our t.v. radio, book studio here in washington, d.c. just down the street from the from the united states capitol building and just not -- a close little metro ride down to the white house, six stops. great to see you today. we have got a lot to talk about, yes, indeed in the nation's capitol. fall democrats falling all over themselves criticizing president obama because he dares talk about bain capital. the catholic byrnes at it suing the obama administration, cardinal doe lens saying the cath /* obama administration.

disney hiring 1 ,000 veterans. lots we want to talk about and lots you will want to comment on. give us a call at 866-55-press. love to hear from you wherever you happen to be in this great land of ours. peter okay burn, sipcyprian boulding. >> nice to see you. >> stop complaining. >> who is complaining. i am happy to be here. >> by the way, if you ever get in trouble, you know, and you need some help somebody, you call 911. right? >> it. at 911, there is also the operator standing by, ready to find out who to dispatch: ambulance, fire truck, police car, whoever it is but there is one requirement for the 9-1-1

operator that in this case didn't seem to be there. >> could you send an ambulance or anything right now? the guy is asleep. >> no doubt about it man. [snoring.) >> wake up. >> 0, man. >> that's like your pilot, you are want to go land and you call the air traffic controllers and you get. [snoring.) >> or if the air traffic controller contacts the pilot and hear [snoring.) >> bad sign. >> i don't know whatever happened to the end of that story. i hope it has a good endings. >> a second dispatcher got on the line and was talking to this person who had called. but the second dispatcher has a hard time understanding what's going on because in the

background, she keeps hearing the snoring going on. >> this happened just outside of washington, in montgomery county maryland. >> hospitalgomery county maryland where you live. >> yeah. >> it wasn't me. it wasn't me, by the way. >> get your stuff to go here guys. what a line-up we have got today. a good number of friends in house to help us through the issues, brad wood house dynamite guy for the democratic national committee will be here. we will talk about drones as well as the cag lick bishops and the representatives from faith in public life. we have all of that covered. yet yes, democrats whimping out over bain capital. >> this is the full court press. >> on this wednesday, headlines making news, this is kind of fun, comic books are going gay on two counts, new york daily news reporting marvel's north star will propose to his

boyfriend in the comic book hitting newsstands today and, also dc economics announcing one of its cakes will soon come out as gay, likely in an issue next month, but experts say it's not likely to be superman or batman. >> i can answer this question for you. i can take the guessing game away. the gay character will be robin or talk with a aquaman. >> there have always been rumors about robin. >> of course. if it's not robin they are keeping him in the closet. >> can you imagine the religious reaction from the religious right when the cometic book comes out. >>ic book comes out. >> >>. >> next, they will say st. paul was gain. >> jerry seinfeld in an interview on watch what happens live. the comedian reviewed not all of

the episodes were great. his least favorite which still bothers him when it airs to this day in a rerunner where jerry and elaine who tried feeding her boyfriend who will had a stroke, these pretzels are making me thirsty. >> i saw that story. i mean, let's face it when you do a show like every day or he did once a week. right? not everyone is going to be the best. >> unlike our show. >> right. >> everyone. museum of broadcasting, you are on the phone as soon as the show is over, demanding the entire three hours. >> every day. >> among all of its recent troubles, facebook has another black mark. it's not doing anything to help marriages. "the wall street journal" reports on a survey that found 1 in 3 divorce filings last year contained the word facebook in them.

80% of attorneys say they have seen a rise in cases. >> one in three? >> that person was spending too much time to face book? >> no, because they were having an affair with someone over facebook. >> this is very creepy how old girlfriends or boyfriends can find you on facebook if anything you don't take the proper precautions. it will can lead to a slippery slope. >> 80% attorneys say they have seen a number of divorce cases because of social networking. >> it's good for hooking up and it's good for breaking up. >> that's right. there you go. >> dan, thank you. yes, indeed, i have got to tell you, this thing about bane cam tall and the democrats -- cap capital running for the high weeds has me sick this morning. we talked about at a time last couple of days but it gets worse and worst because every day there are more democrats that pile on. here is what i don't get.

okay? let's face it. we are in the fight for our lives in 2012. i mean everything everything is on the line. it doesn't matter whether you care about the environment, whether you -- what your issue is. if it's the environment if it's your good union worker and you care about collective bark anything and good wages, decent wage, decent worker benefits, safe workplace. if you care about rob, afghanistan, if you care about nuclear weapons, if you care about healthcare, if you care about immigration reform or campaign reform, if you care about appointments to the supreme court, it is all on the line here in 2012. we are in the fight of our lives. i mean the republicans know that. they are going all out. and the -- all out to deny president obama a second term, all out to take us back to the policies of george bush and dick

cheney, absolutely, all out as far as i am concerned of the policies that would destroys this country. and yet, what do you hear? what do you hear around washington, d.c. here? what you hear is a stamp ped. you hear a stampede of democrats who are rushing not to back up president obama, not to have his back, not to help him out not to support him, not to encourage him or applaud him. no. you have democrats who are rushing out to dump on him. i mean it started with cory booker and it's all over bain capital. these weasels, weanies. it started outed with cory booker, number 1 weissasel on meet the press which we played so many times you know by heart saying president obama's comments on bain capital were disappointing.

565,000, big buds with bain capital. all right. that's admiration? no. the next morning, harold ford, jr., former congressman from tennessee, says he agrees with booker. booker was right. we should not criticize bain capital. yesterday, it was ed randall. i mean jesus. here is the former governor of pennsylvania, the former mayor of philadelphia, the former governor of pennsylvania national chair said it was disappointing. he gave that interview to buzz feed, chris matthews reads to ed randel the buzzfeed quote. >> a representative from the buzzfeed says, whose leadership written many members of both parties. i think they are very disappointing, randel said of

the ads. i think bain is fair game. i think how you examine it, the tone, what you say is important as well. governor randel big question: are you with the obama campaign as it's being run right now or are you against it? >> well, you know, either or. >> what the hell? "either/or"? are you for obama or against him? are you for campaign or against him? well... that's the best he can do? ed randel come o peter remind me after the show to call chris matthews and say he has a microphone so he doesn't have to shout. >> i don't know what you are talking about. i think he sounds fine. >> what's he doing? >> you can hear him until california over the microphone. he doesn't have to shout. continuing this morning, here on the hill newspaper, senator

dianne feinstein saying, okay. enough about bain capital. knock it off. knock it off. i mean it goes on and on and on. what is going on? why, i ask you help me out on this. why are democrats such softies? why are they such -- i can't use the word on the air. okay. why are they such wimps? why are they such weenies? 866-55-press. first of all, they are wrong. okay, they are wrong, wrong, wrong. mitt romney has made -- as we have to remember this. listen to mitt romney. he doesn't talk about when he was at the olympics. he doesn't talk about when he was governor of massachusetts. never. he talks about bain capital -- his whole campaign: the economy is broken. i am a businessman i know how to fix it. i was head of bain capital. i know all about jobs.

now, if he makes that the center piece of his campaign, you are f-i in good right that president obama has every right and every duty, nothing wrong at all with challenging that statement, with taking a look at his record at bain capital and tell the american people the truth, which is all that he has done. let's look at it the other way: pom's record mitt romney attacks president obama's record all the time says he was in over his head hasn't accomplished anything. well, then, it's certainly fair for president obama to defend his record. or if obama is running on his record, it's fair to challenge the record. they are not only wrong, they are disloyal. >> that's a difference between republicans and democrats. republicans don't do this. they don't go out there and attack their -- during the primary, they did. but right there, you are not going to get a republican to say

anything bad about mitt romney. no way, no how. uh-uh. they unite behind their candidate. i was in the car last night. don't ask me why. i thought i am going to hear what the enemy is saying, what the other side is saying. >> oh, no. no. >> i tuned into mark lavin, the worst talk show around. that voice drives me nuts. he is making the case. anyhow, it's going to be disaster world warr iii i. the economy is going to go in the toilet. we are in such bad shape i heard him say 53% of americans are on welfare, on the public dole last night. it's going to be 60 by the end of the first year of obama's second turn. i mean they don't even -- they don't even give them credit for american citizens. they don't accept him as a legitimate president. they go all out. and the democrats who are stabbing their guy in the back.

i don't get it, and i am sick of it. 866-55-press. 866-5577377. when are democrats going to get a pair, grow a pair? and why don't they first of all, see that bain capital is fair game and secondly stand by their man, ben cardin on our show yesterday stood by president obama, from maryland. it's up on current.com/billpress, on our current tv website. help me out with these democrats, please, when you come back? >> on your radio and on current tv. this is the bill press show. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] it may, uh, actually explode. >>(narrator) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller

rounds out current's morning news block. >>we're hogging all the sexy on our side. hello!

>>(narrator) gavin newsom, lieutenant governor of california, and former mayor of san francisco is on current tv. >>every night on cable news networks everyone's focusing on what's wrong. i want this show to move past that. i love creative people, and with all the vexing problems we have we need creative thinking. >>(narrator) with interviews with notables from silicon valley, hollywood, and beyond. >>at the end of the day this show's simple. it's about ideas. ideas are the best politics. ideas can bring us together. >>(narrator) the gavin newsom show. friday at 11 eastern/8 pacific. only on current tv. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ]

>> on your radio, on t.v., the bill press show, new on current tv. >> 25 minutes after the hour, i will tell you what, bain capital is fair game for newt gingrich and rick perry. here is the latest ad from the super p.a.c. supporting president obama, just came out yesterday. listen to these voices. >> mitt romney has been under attack, joined in by rick perry and rick santorum over his years at bain capital. >> i am for capitalism for people who save a company, not for people who take real risks. when somebody comes in, takes all of the money out of your company and then leaves you bankrupt while they go off with millions. >> they sit there and they wait until they see a distressed company and swoop in and, you know, pick the carcass clean and fly away. >> loot companies leaf behind

people on unemployment. >> governor romney en joe's firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. >> those voices, they say bain capital is fair game. rick perry called it vulture capitalism. but for president obama to do it? suddenly these weenie democrats have a problem with that? joey from chicago. what do you say? >> good morning, bill. i believe the democratic party is the for sale. >> that's what they are telling everybody. they will stand up for them kind of businesses because them businesses pay for their campaign. >> that's the only reason. we have lost our way when money is the most important thing in the world. we have really lost our way. but you know what? obama is not going to stop it. i have faith in barack obama and i don't care what the rest of the democrats do. he is going to stand his ground and i believe this is a winning issue, bill. >> okay. i hope you right, joey. i do think you are right. the president made that clear in

chicago on monday, joey. you are right. look. money, money, money, as we said yesterday, follow the money, cory booker 565,000 from bain capital when he first ran from in the. rich calling from cincinnati, ohio. hey, rich. >> this is the most disappointing thing i have heard in practically two years, i would say. it's like the next is already in. i mean this is as bad as the democrats that is listen to and appear on fox news and republican talk radio. i mean the joe miller crew they should get together and go on a crews with zell miller. this just is the ridiculous. >> absolutely. look, it just makes me sick, you know, again, these republicans know what they are in for. remember when mitch mcconnell said on day one, day one of the obama administration that our goal for the next four years is to deny president obama a second

term. don't these democrats realize what they are up against? these people are not playing bean bag. come on. >> this is the bill press show. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] it's go time. >>every weeknight cenk uygur calls out the mainstream media. >>the guys in the middle class the guys in the lower end got screwed again. >>i think you know which one we're talking about. the overwhelming majority of the country says"tax the rich, don't go to war." >>just wanted to clarify that.

>> on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> 33 minutes after the hour. here we are, the full court press coming to you live all the way across this great land of ours from our studio in capitol hill in washington, d.c. brought to you by the international brotherhood of teamsters. we live better thanks to the good work of the teamsters union under president james hoffa.

check out their website at teamster.org. we will get back to your calls on why democrats, what's up with democrats, cory booker harold ford, jr., now ed randel of all people, the former democratic chair saying president obama is wrong, wrong to criticize mitt romney about bain capital. oh, yeah it was okay for newt gingrich, okay for rick perry, okay for rick santorum. but a democrat, we can't talk about bain capital 866-55-press. what's up. we will take a little time out to talk about facebook lead article in "the new york times" this morning, facebook debut raises questions on ipo processes. joining us on our news line bianca oscar is technologiested -- i'm sorry executive technology editor from huffington post. bianca thanks for joining us.

>> my pleasure. good morning. >> i am one of the suckers maybe. i bought 200 shares at 38 on monday. was face book -- did i pay too much for it? >> well, you know i think it's too soon to tell really. if you look at am zon, for example, now, you are $200 a share more than they were when they opened. so, you know, i mean it's only been a couple of days. >> yeah. >> i also don't want to tell you that you made the best decision, of course. >> i will blame my broker. i guess the question is: was the stock over-priced two questions, was the stock overpriced and did morgan stanley -- this is what seems to be coming out now -- know it was overpriced but not tell all investors? >> it feels like everything that we want wrong could have to put it in perspective. this was one of the hottest ipos in a decade. >> that's true. >> huge, huge deal.

people are really excited about it. obviously, i think one of the things that happened obviously is there were glitches with the trading system. a lot of trades didn't go through. people were flying blind. they didn't know really whether or not their trades had been executed, what the value was, et cetera. the second piece, you are right, that's coming out now is there is a report that came out saying that some of the -- one of the analysts at morgan stanley cut revenue forecasts for the company but didn't tell everybody. >> uh-huh. >> there was some sort of potentially selective disclosure come going on where they told some really big clients but not everyone was in on that information. so i think regulateors in massachusetts are now investigating that. and that will be interesting to see. we have a little bit of reports trick ling out about what really happenedling out about what really happened happened. >> why would they be look into that in massachusetts? >> i don't know. you have to start somewhere. >> but i mean these are -- well

first of all, if morgan stanley did, indeed -- and you are right, that's what's reported, that they notified some investors, hey you know what? it could be -- we could be in over our head odd this but not all investors isn't that illegal? or is it illegal? >> it could potentially be a violation of securities law. >> okay. we will see. >> well, if so, that's my question. i mean maybe it's not that important. but then this is something that the federal regulators ought to look into, not a state. correct? >> well, we will see. i mean, again, this is all so new. right? they had their ipo on dprid. bit by bit we are getting information. i think we are at the beginning of this, beginning to untangle what happened and we will get a better chance of what went on.

we will see who picks up the thread and follows it. >> bianca brosser. when you take a look at facebook and you and a lot of other people did over the last few years and particularly coming up to this ipo, how solid a company is it? do you think it's good for the long haul? >> well, i think the interesting thing is to he see how it expands its areas of business. right? right now, they make 85% of their revenues from selling advertising. but, you know, my opinion, i think there is room for them to expand into other offerings. how do they turn users into customers? they have experiment with some that will require the user or let the users pay to promote their own content to their friends or could facebook launch its own -- it has launched an app scepter. could it be a rival to itunes.

could we buy music and ebooks and apps? they could take a cut of that the way apple does on its own itunes app stores. the interesting thing will be to see whether facebook is able to take it's revenue-generating businesses beyond advertising and, also, are users going to stands for it? i mean we have known facebook is a place where we share, not a place where people sell. >> uh-huh. >> so i think that there is a bit of a cultural shift that happens there as well. >> in terms of dye versefying i am thinking of amazon. amazon is incredible. i use it to buy books. some people t not even -- probably the smallest part of the business. everything from baby carriages to tooth brushes. right? >> right. i use it to order laundry det

deturgent. ergent. same day. absolutely. one of the rules of the tech sector is that things always change. so, you know, football for sure. i think will have to evolve. but, you know, i think the interesting thing is zuckerberg has very quickly built a very big, very influential company, and i think we can't discount that. i think it would be a shame to sort of dismiss all of the great work that's been done over the last eight years for a sort of three-day hiccup. and we will see what happens. >> i am holding you personally responsible for my shares in facebook. >> no. you can't do that. i am turn out but i want to bottom out there and start climbing. by an can a bosker thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure.

>> the chief technology editorial from huffington post.com/tech. back to bain capital and the stampede of democrats piling on president obama just because when mitt romney says: i know how to create jobs. look what i did at bain capital, because president obama says, okay. let's look at bane camin capital. whoa, dude. you killed a lot of jobs. you made money for your investors, but you didn't do anything for workers in those cases. democrats say that's unfair. what? lisa calling from houston, texas. hi, lease a. >> hi bill. >> what's up? >> you have someone in texas. >> the whole state. i am bringing you back. >> one thing i would like to point out. i think if you look at the connection between a lot of these people who are retreating and the weakness a lot of them

especially ed randel. his did he have devotion has never been to barack obama. he has anything barack obama has done ed randel has played it down ever since he has been in. you are the first person to point out the weakness on the democratic party, and a lot of that has to do with some people still thinking that hillary is going to run in 2016. what they don't understand is, hillary cannot defeat a sitting president, a sitting republican president. so it would be to their ad vantage to get barack obama back in there so that hillary, he will then promote hillary so that she will have a chance and then she would definitely beat any republican towho tried to run against him in 2016. the accomplishments he would have had to do in his second year. >> that's an excellent point. i think there is some leftover hillary loyalty here on the part of some people. certainly ed randel was one of her big supporters. but boy, if so they have got it

wrong because the best thing -- you are right. the best think they could do for hillary right now is to get behind barack obama. you know what? here is the deal. right? the mitt romney campaign doesn't need any help. they don't need any help attacking president obama. i mean they don't need any favors from harold ford or ed randel or yory booker. they will be fine on their own, ugly and nasty and raise all kind of questions on their own. stop helping them out. charlie is in chicago. hi, charlie. >> hey action bill. i just -- hey, bill. isn't harold ford, jr., an investor with morgan stanley? >> yeah. >> also on the business and one of the money managers i use that's a big deal, they have retained ed randel to represent them in various capacities. >> really. >> i don't want to say anything -- it's pretty, you

know, non-transparent what's going on. >> right. by the way, you know i know harold ford, jr. i was a big fan of his when he was in congress. i have done, you know, television with him since and he is a good guy. he is a good man. he is making a good living with morgan stanley. i have to say nothing wrong with the living he is making at morgan stanley but i think it colors his judgment when it comes to comments of president obama. once again, it's not an attack on private equity. it's just saying that's not the job of a president. the president made it very, very clear. thanks, charlie. good to hear from you. 866-55-press, our toll-free number. democrats running away from president obama. not just running away. they are attacking him for raising questions about bain capital. i don't get it. all of the pieces? >>tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> heard around the current tree and seen on current tv this is

the bill press show. above all, politically direct. >>you just think there is no low they won't go to. oh, no. if al gore's watching today...

vice president al gore joins jennifer granholm. >>we're just getting started. >>the state of the 2012 campain. brought to you by spiriva handihaler.

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> listen and watch the bill press show on your favorite radio station and now on current tv. this is the bill press show. welcome to the spin room. >> into the spin room we go. and then back to your calls about cory booker, harold ford, jr., now ed randel and now dianne feinstein and other leading democrats saying president obama ought to back off his comments about bain

capital and mitt romney. first, just a little reminder here, an opportunity for you or maybe just what you have been looking for, particularly if you have a hard time making ends meet at the end of the month and a lot of us do. check out income at home.com. they are america's leading work from home business doing business today in over 80 countries so they know what they are doing. and this is something that you can do no matter your age, education, or experience, you can literally earn money from your own kitchen table using your laptop 24/7. all you need is a little spare time and some kochcoaching at income incomeathome will give you. if you are sick of worrying about job security and want to make cash from home part-time or full-time, check it out, incomeathome.com. they are give away a thousand dollars today to somebody just for checking them out. so do today. income at home

incomeathome.com. before your calls, the spin room, the spin room today, just to show you again how the republicans aren't holding back. uh-uh. they will go smearsas far as they can as some evil socialist. mitch mcconnell jumping on the bain capital saying this proves about president obama. >> i think the administration probably must be up to no good. he must be mistreating employers or cheating customers are both. >> see what extremes they go to. >> that's is so blatantly untrue. but he is spinning -- he is spinning ledge i think legitimate criticism of romney did at bain on small business, on anybody

making a profit. again, outrageous spin but to me, it proves that the republicans, when they are under attack, they attack back. when democrats are undertac they run for the high weeds carl is calling from chick. >> good morning. >> thank you for listening, and thanks for calling. >> i have a hunch -- by the way you are doing a good job, and please keep up the good work. >> thank you. i will. >> i have a hunch, i think i know what's happening here bain capital is just the tip of the iceberg. i mean just the tip of the iceberg iceberg. i have a feeling that a lot of people are doing the same thing and it's like the california gold rush. there is nothing illegal about what they are doing. but it's not patriotic. i mean the only problem is patriotism is dying if it's not

dead right now except in the military if you are in the military, you are patriotic, willing to give up your life. there are so many people who are doing this, i think people are saying, okay, if you want to go after bain capital we know who you are. we know who is doing the same thing. and everybody that -- they are going to pull down the curtain and they are going to show how many other people, maybe not on such a big sky, on such a grant scale but they came up with this magic formula. it's like the california gold rush. they smell gold. there is a simple formula for doing this thing. there is no law. they are not breaking any laws. they have said it over and over again. they are not breaking any laws, but it's not patriotic and -- >> so you are saying the people at bain capital are not patriotic or the politicians are

kissing their butts? >> the people doing this at bain capital and democrats that are doing the same thing, it's not the patriotic thing to do. but there is -- they haven't passed any laws. so it's not illegal to do what they are doing it. that formula is not illegal. >> right about that. the president never has said that it is. he has said mainly that this is not the kind of experience if you will or expertise as you need as president of the united states. i thought he made it very clear in chicago the other day. he said, look, the job of a guy like mit romney is to make money for the wealthy investors in other words to serve the 1%. the job of the president of the united states is to make sure that everybody gets a fair shot in this country. the job of the president of the united states is not to protect and make even more wealthy the 1%. but that's mitt romneyts

backgroundromneyts's background. it doesn't qualify him for president of the united states and doesn't clarify what policies he would pursue. we know what politics he would pur pursue. he said he wants to take us back to bush/cheney's economic policies on steroids. take that. >> radio meets item vision, the bill press show now on current tv. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] the chill of peppermint. the rich dark chocolate. the chill of peppermint. the rich dark chocolate. york peppermint pattie

get the sensation. if you have copd like i do you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. and it's steroid-free. spiriva does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you take, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek immediate medical help if your breathing suddenly worsens your throat or tongue swells you get hives, vision changes or eye pain, or problems passing urine. other side effects include dry mouth and constipation. nothing can reverse copd. spiriva helps me breathe better. does breathing with copd weigh you down?

ask your doctor if spiriva can help. >>(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. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> taking your e-mails on any topic at any time, this is the bill press show. live on your radio and carhpito

t.v. >> boy e-mails flooding in about cory booker kirk bonan says i am deeply disappointed in cory booker. he sounds like he was pitching from romney to say the voters suppression laws tells me he is not anything more than the mayor of a failed city. steve ostro, shame on mayor booker for his self-serving comments about attacking bain capital. ed lewis says i live in new jersey. i hate blue-dog democrats. they are moderate republicans, not democrats. he has no political discipline. don says, hey, bill, how do you spell cory booker? whore. >> that's harsh.

cory booker, you should have known better. so should ed randel. so should harold ford, jr. >> this is the bill press show. lucky for me your friends showed up with this awesome bone. hey! you guys are great. and if you got your home insurance where you got your cut rate car insurance, it might not replace all this. [ electricity crackling ] [ gasping ] so get allstate. and be better protected from mayhem like me. [ dennis ] dollar for dollar, nobody protects you from mayhem like allstate. [ kristal ] we're just taking a sample of all our different items in our festival of shrimp. the crab-stuffed shrimp are awesome! tequila lime tacos. [ man ] delicious! [ male announcer ] it's festival of shrimp! for $12.99 try any two shrimp creations like new barbeque glazed shrimp. offer ends soon. we're servers at red lobster. and we sea food differently.

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> hello everybody. good morning, and happy wednesday. it is wednesday, may 23rdrd. so good to see you today. thank you for being part of the full-court press here on current tv, the only progressive morning show anywhere on cable television, and, of course the only one that will take your calls at 866-55-press as we tackle the big stories of the day coming to you live from our

nation's capitol. boy, you know all about it when mitt romney says that his experience at bain capital proves that he knows how to create jobs. but when president obama says no. he actually killed jobs at bain capital, then democrats say, obama has gone too far. first cory booker, then harold ford, jr., and dianne feinstein. come on. whatever happened to team loyalty. they don't seem to know about loyalty to president obama we will talk about that and a whole lot more including what the catholic bishops are up to here on this morning's full-court press. but first, we get the latest. let's go out to los angeles against for today's current tv news update. let's say hello to jacki schechner. >> president obama's announcement in support of gay marriage may have changed minds, according on a new poll opposition to same-sex marriage has hit an all-time low with 39%

saying it should be illegal and support is at 53% which is a big jump from six years ago when that number was just 36%. more people are strongly for gay marriage than strongly against it for the very first time as well. also, according to the poll 59% of african americans support gay, marriage, and that, too, is a new high. a majority of the voters said president obama's support of gay marriage wouldn't affect their vote one way or the other. a gallup poll asked a similar question and found the same result. in another news, the governmenta accountability office will say wounded service members are waiting way too long for official disability evaluations. we are talking more than a year on average, which is actually up for the third year in a row. the evaluations are what determine compensation for wounded service members. five years ago, the va and the department of defense combined programs, and that was supposed to streamline the process. intheyed, the wait times have gotten worse.

folks, in 2008, active duty troops and national guard and reserve members all waited less than 300 days for evaluations. last year, they waited 394 and 42 days respect actively. there will be a senate hearing on this today. we are back with more after the break. stick with us. we're not good enough for you. must be supermodels? what do you model gloves? brad, eat a snickers. why? 'cause you get a little angry when you're hungry. better? [ male announcer ] you're not you when you're hungry™. better. [ male announcer ] snickers satisfies.

we have a big, big hour and the i.q. will go way up. how are you ever going to solve the problem if you don't look at all of the pieces? >>tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >>you're welcome current tv

audience for the visual candy. >>sharp tongue, quick whit and above all, politically direct. >>you just think there is no low they won't go to. oh, no. if al gore's watching today... [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> broadcasting across the nation, on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> it's okay for mitt romney to talk about bain capital but not for president obama to talk about bain capital? >> what some democrats are saying. i think they are dead wrong. hello, everybody. good wednesday morning may 23rdrd. good to see you today. thanks for being part of the full-court press. here are your new morning show on current tv. your continuing progressive

morning show on your great praguive talk radio stations around the country. good to be with us whether you are watching or listening or both and we have got a lot to talk about today. so you are going to wants to jump right into it and hit the phones at 866-55-press. we will take your calls on all of the big issues of the day. been talking about the democrats slamming president obama for daring criticizing mitt romney's record at bain capital even though romney always brags about his record at bain capital. shift here at the top of the hour to talk about the latest on the catholic bishops and 43 catholic organizations suing the obama administration over birth control and making birth control available to all american women as part of their basic health insurance policy and joining us in studio from faith in public life, the catholic program director and senior writer john

gering. >> great to be here. >> thanks for coming in. i am sure you have met some of our regular team peter okay burn, dan henning. >> hi, there, cyprian boulding our videographer. >> always. >> have to behave here now. we are talking religion. i will be on my best behavior. >> i didn't bring a ruler. >> thank you. >> i will watch my mouth. >> yeah. exactly. it is a business time. i don't know whether john you had a chance to read maureen dowd's cardinal. >> yes. >> cardinal dolens' latest comments, the obama administration strange ling the catholic church? >> well, look. this is clearly a fight that the bishops want to double down now. i don't fully understand it. someone like myself who has great respect for the catholic social justice tradition who does the kind of work i do and believes the bishops should be leaders on a moral agenda.

we see this fight and it's puzzling why they would want to have this battle with comic inequality, broken healthcare system. there are so many moral issues that are not being addressed, and i think that's frustrating for catholics in the pews who want to see our bishops being pe -- in the pews. we will talk about john gehring. later talking with brad woodhouse from the communications director from the democratic national committee will actually be in studio with us and jefferson molley from salon.com later in this hour to talk about drones coming to a police department near you. you hear that buzzing overhead? >> not a mosquitos. >> that's a drone. but first. dan what do you have. >> on this wednesday, other headlines making news, a

surprise winner on dancing with the stars last night, while singer kathleen jenkins william livy came in third. donald driver the green bay packers' players knocked the first nfl star to win. hines award won last spring and emmet smith won back in 2006. golden football and dance floor sglfrnltsz politicians haven't so well. >> teabow. next up next stop. >> in nba playoffs the los angeles kings are headed for the stanley cup finals for the second time in their history after beating the phoenix coyotes tonight. they will play new york rangers or devils. that is tied at 2 games apiece. in basketsball the miami heat

demolished the pacers 115 to 83. they lead that series 3 games to 2. >> it's going to be a heat and a thunder? >> the heat and the thunder of the spurs. i am pulling for the spurs. >> still pulling for the spurs. >> more trouble for cnn. in the latest ratings network had the lowest viewership in 20 years last week. the huffington post says they might look at a turnaround as regis fill beep will fill in for piers morgan. >> regus. >> dynamite. >> and larry king. >> he will be interviewing david letterman. we are he left his daytime talk show back in november. >> you said there was good news coming up. is simon going to host something? did they -- no. regis. >> you don't like regis? >> i like him fine. but he is not going to save cnn. >> no. >> one night. by the way, i want to say when i was at cnn we were number 1 in

the ratings all day long. >> i am not saying it's cause and effect but pointing that out. thank you. >> john gehring, good to see you. thank you for coming in. >> great to be here. it's hard for me to make as a catholic, too, what is to make about these byrnes. maureen dowd points out this morning that in the latest gallup poll, 82% of catholics say that using birth control is morally acceptable. >> uh-huh. >> we have seen an earlier study that 98% of catholic women -- catholic women use contraception, artificial means of birth control. the catholic bishops are sort of out of step with american catholics even? >> absolutely. this is pretty much a settled issue in the united states. i mean with catholics with really anyone, i think that's why, again, so many of us who do

respect the catholic social justice tradition and are inspired aboutby it are puzzled about why the bishops want to double down on it. in the will be their key issue. we hear from bishops again and again that they are not partisan, that they are not picking sides during this election year. i think at the very least, they are giving the appearance that they are comfortable aligning themselves with right-wing eye delogs ideologues. 250 byrnes, there is diversity of thought. >> why don't we hear from the others? i haven't heard from one bishop frankly -- tell me if i am wrong. >> yeah. >> who would stand up and say, i disagree with what they are doing. >> interesting yesterday, bishop stephen blair, the bishop of stockton, california, who is also the head of the us conference bishops domestic justice committee came out with an interview in america a

pretty influential catholic magazine. he did offer a subtle critique said there are byrnes who are concerned with the tone and the strategy and pointed to very interestingly enough the fact that some on the very far right, his words, not mine are looking to co opt this issue to be part of an anti-obama campaign. i think that's heartening. i would like to see more bishops embrace that post fractured. i think he deserves credit for stepping out on that. >> so to back up a little bit, so a lot of our viewers and listeners remember, i mean the obama administration did come out with this rule that was supposedly going to be in place like for a year come out within a year making it without co pay for all women and then the catholic bishops said this is this anti-catholic infringement on our religious liberty. within appear month, they came up with a compromise that okay

so if you don't want to pay for it, you don't have to pay for it. >> right. >> they will make it available for women but you don't have to pay for it. and doland at first said that seemed like a doctor? >> a step in the right direction. >> then, oh, no. when i think about it now and yesterday cardinal doland accused the obama administration of strange ling the catholic churchling the catholic church as you pointed out several months ago, the obama administration heard from the catholic community. there was some feeling that the religious accomodation needed to be broadened. that happened. if you are a woman who works for a catholic hospital or a catholic college and you want to give birth control, the cath lick institution is not paying for that. you have to go through your insurer. let me point out, i think this is very much sensitive to the catholic moral principle of not

cooperating with something you morally disagree with. so the obama administration was sensitive to a the catholic moral principle in this case. i think that's sometimes missed. >> why is this rule or how is this rule -- i don't understand, an infringement on religious liberty? >> i don't understand it either. >> is it -- >> i don't see it. i mean i don't think this passes sort of the laugh test for most catholics and most americans who know there are threats to religious liberty, like in iraq, in saudi arabia in the middle east where people are beaten and killed for religious convictions. there are serious concerns we should be talking about. when we have moral standards like growing poverty, income ine quality, a broken healthcare issue. >> how about priests molesting little boys. >> certainly s that's an issue. >> that's hurt the credibility of the church over the last againingiated or more.

>> back, it seems like religious liberty is interfering with your ability to worship or forcing you, as a church leader to do something that you find morally repugnant. >> uh-huh. >> neither is the case with the obama administration rules? right? people can extra their faith. catholic women do not have to take birth chrome. the churches do not have to hand out pills at the communion rail. >> right. >> no way can i see that it interferes. i think what's really sort of disturbing for someone like myself who cares about these issues and cares about the church is the post your that the church is taking dest dest. in october, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the second vatican counselling vatican ii which is a historic moment ifn our church for our church to be more engaged with the modern world and it seems our church is being led by a culture of fear, by a culture of almost mccarthyesque witch

hunting. i don't think that's the face the church wants to present to the world. but right now in the u.s., at least, i think that's what we are seeing a bit of. >> john gehring is with faith in public life. we will be glad to take your calls, talking about this lawsuit filed this week by 43 catholic organizations including the university of noterre dame filed against the obama administration. john, we have been getion a lot of e-mails on this topic. and most of them come into the same -- end up with the same point, which is -- let me just read this one. this is from larry spathe. liberal and progressive organizations should file legal challenges to the catholic's church's standing as a religious organization forcing the irs to revoke their tax exemption and send a tax bill to the church might be what they need to hear.

>> uh-huh. >> a lot of people say if the catholic church is going to play politics and the byrnes are, they look like they become -- they look like they have become a bunch of right-wing republicans. >> uh-huh. >> and take glee in going after the obama campaign. i think they are putting -- that's putting -- do they risk it. >> that's a legitimate point, you had bishop jenki in peoria compare the obama administration to the days of hitler and stalin. several hundred meant went on this retreat. he encouraged them to vote their conscience. i would point out there are 260 by the ways. not all of them are. with bishop blair speaking up, hopefully that will encourage more to say we are portraying our own social justice

tradition. catholic leaders put out bold statements on as far back as 1919, catholic byrnes laid the moral ground work for the new deal. i would like to see church leaders revive that today. >> maureen dowd in her column this morning says that this is in effect, part of the war on women. the lawsuit reminds the rest of us what the bishops portray as an attack on religion by the president is really an attack on women by the bishops. this does, it seems to me fit with a tendency and a history on the part of the catholic church to put down women or not to include them as first class contacted licks, the fact that they are not allowed to be priests priests. is that what it's all about? >> i think at the at least, the bishops are giving the

appearance they are insensitive to it rights of women not speaking up about the life issues. the catholic nuns i work with every day, who work in this city to lobby on capitol hill are fighting for the dignity of work. these are central to the gospel message and to the catholic tradition. i don't know if i would use quite as strong words as war on women. i don't think the church wants to have a war on women but they are not giving the impression that will women are inclusive members of our global church. i think that's something that needs to be addressed. >> they also cracked down on the nuns because not the only were they not speaking out enough about life issues but because they supported the president's affordable care act. >> that was a big part of this. catholic health association led by a hero of our catholic church. she supported healthcare reform. the byrnes did not. there can be sgrooepts. >> that's fine.

you know but many bishops read that as dissent and took that as a threat to their authoritydisagreements. >> that's fine. you know, but many bishops read that as dissent and took that as a threat to their authority. >> the idea catholics cannot support the affordable care could not support obamacare is so far from the gospel it seems to me. it's as you say, doesn't pass the laugh test. john gehring is sticking with us. we will be glad to continue our conversation. john is with faith in public life. we are talking about the catholic church declaring war, at least the bishops have, on president obama. ♪ >> radio meets television: the bill press show, now on current tv. vice president al gore joins jennifer granholm. >>we're just getting started.

>>the state of the 2012 campain. brought to you by spiriva handihaler.

tt vanguard: the documentary series that redefined tv journalism. >>we're going to places where few others are going. >>it doesn't get anymore real than this. >>occupy! >>we will have class warfare. >>i'm being violated by the health-care system. >>we're patrolling the area looking for guns, drugs, bodies. >>we go in and spend a considerable amount of time getting to know the people and the characters that are actually living these stories. >>the award winning series "vanguard" new episodes coming soon. only on current tv. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ]

>> this is the bill press show. >> going to talk drones next. now, we are talking about the catholic bishops speaking out against president obama. this week, our guest, john gehring for fath in public life. be sure people know where to find you faith in public life.org. >> that's right. pretty straightforward. >> john, as i pointed out 82% of catholics say that birth control is immoral. not all agree with the bishops on this. do you see any blow back on the part of catholic faithful just saying, you know, come on. get off of this crap, you know. do -- jump all over these priests who still haven't been

brought to justice and get off of this birth control issue. >> i do. i mean, i think particularly with the vatican vacdown on the nuns, i am seeing kind of a ground groundswell of frustration, anger, puzzlement around this. i think you will see more progressive contact licks, more mod rats speaking up, faith in public life, we try to broaden the values narrative. for a long time, that's been dominated by the religious right. we need a deep he and a better conversation about the role in faith and politics. i think that movement is growing. you will see more people speaking out on issues that are sentra to our justice tradition. >> i would like to see the bishops spend a little more time on, for example the immorality of the paul ryan budget. >> absolutely. >> first they were silent about it t i wrote columns but they ought to make -- it seems to me they ought to make something like this a priority get being to the social tradition of the catholic church.

>> i would agree with you. san francisco is on current tv. >>every night on cable news networks everyone's focusing on what's wrong. i want this show to move past that. i love creative people, and with all the vexing problems we have we need creative thinking. >>(narrator) with interviews with notables from silicon valley, hollywood, and beyond. >>at the end of the day this show's simple. it's about ideas. ideas are the best politics. ideas can bring us together. >>(narrator) the gavin newsom show. friday at 11 eastern/8 pacific. only on current tv.

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> heard around the country, and seen on current tv this is the bill press show. >> it is 33 minutes after the hour now here on this wednesday may 23rdrd. the full court press coming to you live from our nation's capitol brought to you today by the labor's international union of north america under president terri o'sullivan the good men and women under the laborers

union building a better america. check out the website. we have talked before about drones and the fact that it looks like drones are not just going to be stuck -- not just going to be used in afghanistan or pakistan or yemen but brought here to the united states, particularly by your local police department. now some conservatives, this may be one issue in which liberals conservatives can come together on. some conservatives saying, we don't want those flying overhead. geoff from salon.com joining us in studio. >> nice to be here. >> the conservative charles krout heimer saying they ought to be banned, what is the drone industry doing about this #ed.

>> the drone industry is concerned after krauthammer said drones should be banned the trade group for the drone industry. >> on-demand vehicles? >> they are going to be to do a public relations campaign to define drones in a more positive light. i think drones have this association with the war zone. these comments last week from the conservatives, anti-government people are feeling drones as a threat threat to privacy. >> that's something we have seen on the right and on the left. so i think the industry realizes they need to prepare the public or sell the proposition of these unmanned vehicles flying in u.s. air space. >> the availability of those drones -- correct me if i am wrong -- comes from legislation passed by congress that directed

the f.a.a. to lay down some rules for police departments getting these drones. are presidents going after it. >> there are a dozen police departments that have called for a coa, certificate of authorization. miami dade, florida, is probably the police department that's farthest along in doing that. the city in obama is thinking about it. seattle is thinking about it. mesa county in colorado has drones in the air now. >> what are they using them for? >> makes the counties industry. search and rescue primarily. >> i could see it for churchsearch and rescue. i don't think anybody would have a problem for search and rescue but if you have drones circling overhead getting a picture of your license plate or your movements or your face, right? >> right. >> all of this information could be be gathered. talk to people in police departments, they say, you know,

we are really not interested in that. we don't have time to do that. they really talk about probably search and rescue as the most pressing and hostage situations. >> if you had, for example, an anti-war marriott mall -- >> right. >> right? it is not impossible or like i am not wildly exaggerate to go say that the fbi or whom ever could take a picture of everybody, everybody on that on the mall. >> yeah. >> right? >> yeah. then they could run that they could run those images through photo identification software. >> yeah. >> figure out who was there. >> that's technically, that's very feasible and very doable. the reason people are worried is, we have this new technology coming, that congress has ordered the f.a.a. to open up the air space to these vehicles but we don't have any new laws governing it. i think that's why we are seeing this widespread concern all across the political spectrum.

it's like what's going on here? what protection do we have? right now, we really don't have any. >> would these domestic drones be armed? >> there is one drone manufacturer in texas which offers a capacity for we hopeonization and says our drone could carry -- you could launch tear gas or fire rubber bullets. the weaponization of drones in the domestic air space is possible. we have no new legal framework for this. so there would be no laws preventing it. when you talk to peep in the industry, they say the existing laws are there, you know. they are strong enough to do that. but, you know, it's with this kind of technology, it's different. it gives police such a different capacity than they have ever had

before. the laws were not written for this situation. the idea that those laws we can be sure they are adequate, that seems a little complache want to mean. i think people need more assurance. >> geoff morely writes about drones and drones coming to a town or city near you. if you have a question about it, 866-55-press. jumping back overseas just for a second because i saw an article the other day about yemen. kuwait, that's why to me going to war against one country for al-qaeda is so ludicrous because it just moves to another country? >> right. >> they were in afghanistan. i don't know. then they we want to pakistan. now they seem to be in yemen. >> yeah. >> now the drones, our drones are like following them. do we have international authority to use these drones? >> really, we don't. >> we kill people in other countries with these drones.

>> you know, the obama administration is still claiming the authorization that comes from the use of force after 9-11, which seems like a stretch to me. it's not clear that entity that attacked us on 9-11 still exists. i mean there are still people who call themselves al-qaeda, but it's not the same people. they are not in the same place. it's a very extensive claim to power. within that, there are all sorts of claims built in that the u.s. executive has the right to target and execute u.s. citizens, which we have seen happen in yemen. this is part of the public relations problem that the drone industry has at home, which is people see this, you know, this war, this technology being used in the wars. >> the collateral kills. right? >> yeah. this tremendous amount of collateral damages, civilian

deaths, the new america foundation estimates that maybe as many as 10% of the people killed in drone strikes in pack pakistan have been sillians a lot say that's a low estimate. >> one i remember is 17%. >> yeah. which a lot of people say is still low. >> i think this is part of the unease that people have is they see this technology used in the war zone without -- without controls, which might be appropriate in a war situation. or more appropriate. but then they come home and they are told oh, the laws are fine. don't worry about a thing. we are going to go complete change the nature of air space in the united states and fill it up with potentially tens of thousands of unmanned vehicles and the assurance of the industry is, it's okay. we don't need new laws. >> that's what's hard for people to believe. >> if i just -- i was remembering this one article i saw. you wrote it. an airplane pilot reporting a

near collision with a drone over denver. >> yeah. now, this was an ince dept that has not really been explained yet, but the pilot looked out and said, it looks like a remotely -- a remote-controlled aircraft. those were the pilot's words that he saw going by. i called the f.a.a. they said we had nothing on radar and nobody else reported anything like that. but you can go online and hear the pilot talking about it. he clearly saw something. so, you know how areour air space is going to be governed is a big technical challenge that the faa is now facing is how do you put these unmanned vehicles in the same air space as manned vehicles? it can be done but it's not simple. >> and the -- for the police department's, what i have also read is some of them are attracted to drones because of the cost advantage. correct? >> yes. i mean -- >> cheaper than a helicopter?

>> far cheaper. >> a helicopter might cost you from a thousand to $3,000 an hour to operate. a drone might cost you $50 an hour to operate. so the -- >> the difference action of course, one other difference is that helicopter is not gathering all of that inform it is. right? >> what the drone can do. they have got their cameras and their microphones and particularly cameras. right in the and they are just circling all the time. >> you hum. >> now it is important to remember, you know, the drones that -- the size drones that % police departments are talking about using and the faa said public safety agencies can use drones up to 25 pounds. >> uh-huh. >> those are not capable of flying for hours on end like the big predator drones over pakistan. they might is a flight time of an hour or two. they are just not big enough to have that type of endurance. they can go up. what they are really good at is

aerial visual surveillance. >> that's what drones do best. >> that's what a lot of people are worried about, including me. so we have heard about the drones. you have refused about the drone attacks in afghanistan and pakistan. would you be comfortable with drones invading u.s. air space? they are there. there may be a lot more on the way. give us a call at 866555 press. our guest, geoff morley on drones coming to the united states. we will be right back. yeah. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ current tv. >>somebody somewhere can listen, record, track, gather this data. >>arrangements were made. >>(narrator) independent unflinching. >>there is a wild west quality to it that permits them to do whatever they wish. >>(narrator) and above all politically direct. >>facts are stubborn things.

if you have copd like i do you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. and it's steroid-free. spiriva does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you take, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek immediate medical help if your breathing suddenly worsens your throat or tongue swells you get hives, vision changes or eye pain, or problems passing urine.

other side effects include dry mouth and constipation. nothing can reverse copd. spiriva helps me breathe better. does breathing with copd weigh you down? ask your doctor if spiriva can help.

vice president al gore joins jennifer granholm. >>we're just getting started. >>the state of the 2012 campain. brought to you by spiriva handihaler.

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the bill press show. jefferson morley writes about drones. that's what we are talking about. brad woodhouse communications director for the national democratic committee joins us at the top of the next hour. geoff, what happens now, before we get back to your calls at 866-55-press? what happens now with the faa? they are promulgating rules. >> congress ordered the f.a.a. to open up the air space to unmanned vehicles and it's kind of a two-track. first track is public safety agencies have an expedited process to get approval to fly drones. >> that's what the faa announced last week. that's going to go into effect and they will announce -- pleat

the rules probably by the end of this year. >> uh-huh. >> we should expect to see, i think we will see a lot more law enforcement agencies. the next part is to complete that, to open up the air space to civil purposes, which would be commercialized drones by mid 2015. at that time, there should be an expedited process for anybody who shows they are capable of flying a thrown to be able to do that. this thing this phenomenon is coming fast. we can expect within three years that unmanned aviation if our national air space will be much more common. >> will citizens of any city let's say you mentioned miami dade or the city in colorado those of us who live in washington, d.c., will we have any opportunity to oppose this at a local level? >> yeah. i think because congress is kind of in bed with the industry and passed all of this legislation without holding any hearings

about privacy and safety, i think the leadership will come from the local level i think cities will look at this and say how do we get the good side of this technology while assuring people it's not going to be abused. >> frank is calling from saint petersburg, florida. what do you say. >> i say we have many laws and rules and such on our privacy with our telephones and our cell phones. but b the bush -- and say, you know, we want in. they handed it over. >> to the nsa. >> son what are they going to do with? >> i think this is the point about the existing laws were not written with this technology in mind. >> that's just not going to be reassuring to people to say, what we have is going to work.

here is fred from is it wakegan illinois. >> wakegan. >> thanks for joining us. >> hello. it's my first time calling in. let herephrase that. my first time getting through. long time listening. >> welcome welcome. >> a short-time viewer. been on the air six, seven weeks. a short time. to get to the point here, the only time we hear about drones for the most part, we heard about their success when they said we are hit by a drone yeah, we were hit by a drone. now, let's go to washington new york. we were chasing this criminal by the name of bill press the we found him in new york city.

how accurate are we going to be in those sky scrapers? >> uh-huh. >> that's my question. >> got it, fred. >> well, you know, the surveillance came capabilities on cameras that are on these are pretty amazing. s sneeze dloenz are not big enough to stay in the air for a lo angel timerones are not big enough to stay in the air for a lo angel time. for police departments, they would not be able to follow somebody for hours on. >> that's probably beyond the capability of most of the drones that -- of the size police departments would be using but they would be able to do plenty in an hour and follow people quite closely. >> i guess the question is: there is very positive potential here, and there is very scary privacy concerns here. >> right. >> is it possible to limit the

drones to things that we could accept like search and rescue like maybe weather related? >> yeah. >> or even traffic reports like that and limit it to that and keep it away from snooping & into our private lives or organizations that may happen to be not politically correct? >> yeah. i think it is possible. i think it's going to have to happen two ways. one, congress has not shown any leadership on this. they are doing the industry's bidding. the industry wants to go out and sell drones. >> totally? >> every privacy concern, but at the local level of, this is where cities and states need to step up and say, yeah, we want this. we want the good side. we want to never have to call off a search. but it's going to be tightly controlled to make sure it's not

abused. >> yeah. in other words, you and i, we are going to have to be out there and fight to protect our privacy against the onslaught and the invasion of these drones. jefferson morley, you are on top of this, way out in front. thank you for doing what you are doing and thank you for coming in this morning. >> thanks for having me, bill. >> on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] let's hear yours. politically direct means no b.s. just telling you what's going on in politics today. >>at the only on-line forum with a direct line to bill press. >>it's something i've been waiting for a long time. >>join the debate now. hello. is this where we do that bundling thing? let's see what you got. rv -- covered. why would you pay for a hotel? i never do. motorcycles -- check. atv.

i ride those. do you? no. boat. house. hello, dear. hello. hello. oh! check it -- [ loud r&b on car radio ] i'm going on break! the more you bundle, the more you save. now, that's progressive.

while you're out catching a movie. [ growls ] lucky for me your friends showed up with this awesome bone. hey! you guys are great. and if you got your home insurance where you got your cut rate car insurance, it might not replace all this. [ electricity crackling ] [ gasping ] so get allstate. you could save money and be better protected from mayhem like me. [ dennis ] dollar for dollar, nobody protects you from mayhem like allstate.

vanguard: the documentary series that redefined tv journalism. >>we're going to places where few others are going. >>it doesn't get anymore real than this. >>occupy!

>>we will have class warfare. >>i'm being violated by the health-care system. >>we're patrolling the area looking for guns, drugs, bodies. >>we go in and spend a considerable amount of time getting to know the people and the characters that are actually living these stories. >>the award winning series "vanguard" new episodes coming soon. only on current tv. thooechl theme >> this is the bill press show. >> here we go at 33 minutes after the hour t the bill press show coming to you live from our nation's capitol brought to you by the united steel workers and their international president, leo girard. united steel workers north america's largest industrial union rep precepting over 1.2 million active and retired members and you can find out more about their good work at

usw. usw.org. two weeks from yesterday, we are closing in on it. the big recall election out in wisconsin. what's the latest? how is tom barrett doing? we turned to a good friend editor of the progressive magazine from madison wisconsin, matt roth child this morning. hey, matt good morning. thank you for joining us. >> hey, bill. thanks for having me on again. >> okay. so what is the latest? where do we stand with two weeks to go? >> the latest is a more promising poll that just was released yesterday, actually it shows walker still up a little bit but the democrat tom barrett gaining some ground. it was 50-47. >> that's within the margin of error. so it looks like it's getting back to that neck and neck spot that it was after the primaries and also you have russ feingold out on the stump in hugely popular figure here among democrats and among the progressive base. and there is a new ad campaign going up, you know, the problem,

i think, so far has been there hasn't been enough ads on the air for tom barrett and actually for months and months, walker had a huge advantage and it's just an enormous money advantage. so it's money against people. but at some point, barrett has to go on the air. he has just started to do so now. that could be decisive. >> i know one big question, matt, has been whether or not the dnc -- i know -- we know the republican super p.a.c.s are all over this thing and the koch brothers and all of the special interests supporting-to-scott walker. a question about what the dnc would do. i don't know whether you had a chance to hear but just in the last segment, brad woodhouse, communications director of the dnc was on the program. i want to play for you a clip because i challenged brad about wisconsin. let's listen and get your response. >> we absolutely are supporting tom barrett. remember the dnc and campaign are really one entity in all of this. our entire field operation in wisconsin that would otherwise be organizing to reelect the

president is all devoted to tom parrett right now. the chair is going there next week to host a fundraiser for him. we have an e-mail solicitation going out. >> is the dnc going to put any money in? >> we are absolutely. we are raising to go directly into that race. one of the hottest things on the internet right now is wisconsin. so we are going to go out to our donors and raise money and we are going to raise money either directly into the state party there or directly into the barrett campaign. whatever we are legally allowed to do. >> so what do you think, matt? do you have the help you need from the dnc? >> it's a joke. where have these guys been? we are going to do this. the day is 13 days away. we are dying out here. >> and, you know, they are still getting their schedule straight as to when they are going to send people until here and try to raise money. by the time they raise money the thing will be at the end of the game. it doesn't mean that tom barrett can't win without the help but walker is so far ahead in the money game. for the dnc just to be now

waking up to the fact that this is a hot race just shows the kind of backward thinking out there. and, you know, they are not even -- they don't understand what's at steak -- what's at stake nationally. nationally if walker wins, it's a huge blow to organized labor, a huge blow to progressive forces and speaking narrowly which seems to be the only language the dnc understands, it's a blow to the obama campaign. walker will be in power and that's not good for obama. so i really don't understand it. the rnc gets it. they said they will give walker whatever walker needs. >> it does have a huge national significance. i couldn't agree more. so do you think president obama himself, ought to come in and campaign for at least a big rally for tom barrett? >> i sure do. i mean democrats and progressives have been wondering where the white house has been the past 16 months when we had 100,000 people in the streets. we were wondering where obama or

joe biden were. obama promised during the last presidential campaign when people were out there striking he was going to get his marching shoes on and join the picture line. we had a strike and they didn't show up. in wisconsin it seems like they are abandoning us. >> we were talking -- we are talking with matt rothschild, editor of the progressive magazine, progressive.org. great magazine if you want to keep up-to-date. matt, tell me again when the progressive -- when did this start? like 100 years ago? >> yeah, we are 103 years old and we still have teeth. if you can find that. founded by fighting bob lafollett, the man who ran on the progressive party ticket, one of the founders of the whole progressive movement. >> it lives through the progressive magazine, progressive.org.

walked to the milwaukee sentinel in endorsing scott walker? >> it was one of the most pathetic endorsements i have ever seen. what made me wretch is scott walker is an honorableman. like shakespeare saying they are all honorable men. the most crooked and deceitful. he said to his, you know, funders and his hacks that he was going to drop a bomb on wisconsin. he didn't say that during campaign when he was running last time but he did drop a bomb on organized labor as soon as he got in. they they pushed things through in a crooked way and twisted the state supreme court to their way of thinking. it's been one crooked think for them to say he is honorable and people should vote for him is shameful. >> you mentioned the unions. we know the unions supported another candidate in the primary election. have they come around, has the party now united behind tom barrett?

>> yeah. the party is totally united and the wisconsin afl and the local labor unions here totally behind tom barrett as soon as the primary was over that night, they announced their support more than anybody. >> i talked yesterday evening to rich mccull ski from the machinist union gotten off of the phone with tom barrett sending more help for this campaign. they certainly see the national significance of what's happening in wisconsin. matt, i also wanted to ask you about the state senate races that are up. remind us how many are up for recall and what do they look like? >> four up for recall, four state senators. remember we are tied here, 16-16 in the wisconsin state senate. and four republican state senators are up for raul. if one gets recalled, the state senate will flop to the democrats. they are close races. they are close races. a couple of them very close and

one very interesting one with laurie compass running against the senate majority leader, fits fitzgerald fitzgerald. this was a grassroots effort the democratic party didn't want to have happen but she was one of the organizers running a strong race against fitzgerald. that would be a shocker if she pulled it off. >> finally tammy baldwin running for the senate seat, is she -- does she have opposition in the democratic primary or is she going to be the candidate? >> no. she will be the candidate. people love tammy baldwin. she has been a great representative. she is a wonderful person a grainlikeous person and principled progressive. i have been saying all along i think she will win the senate seat here no matter who the republican candidate is, whether it's tommy thompson or one of the people challenging him. keep your eye on tammy. >> she is great, been a great member of congress, great person, great friend and would be a dynamite united states senator. >> that's the latest from wisconsin. matt, good to hear that the polls are closing up because

that last one was a little scary, but, you know, if it's neck and neck and we put in all of the resources we can and we can shake the dnc and the obama white house plus the leadership of the unions and the good people of wisconsin, we are going to win this thing on june 5th. thanks, matt. >> thanks, bill. it's very doable. >> right. absolutely. and so, so, so important. so much hinges on winning this as matt pointed out, this is all part of the fabric of 2012, a big win in wisconsin on june 5th, so, so important to show that the koch brothers are not going to rule this world, run this world, and that governors like scott walker and john kasich and chris christie are out of touch with the american people, out of touch with the working class. a big win in wisconsin would go a long long way to energizeing the base motivating people, getting the message out there

for 2012. and to see scott walker beat back the tide and survive would be a disaster for all of the things that we believe in. that was matt roth child the editor of the progressive magazine progressive.org. >> this is the bill press show. theme theme street. >>the leadership of high finance just doesn't get it. >>(narrator) the former governor of new york, eliot spitzer is on current tv. >>somebody somewhere can listen, record, track, gather this data. >>arrangements were made. >>(narrator) independent unflinching. >>there is a wild west quality to it that permits them to do whatever they wish. >>(narrator) and above all politically direct. >>facts are stubborn things.

i have the most common type of atrial fibrillation, or afib. it's not caused by a heart valve problem. i was taking warfarin, but my doctor put me on pradaxa instead

to reduce my risk of stroke. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate) reduced stroke risk 35% better than warfarin. and unlike warfarin, with pradaxa, there's no need for regular blood tests. that's really important to me. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don't take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding and seek immediate medical care for unexpected signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. pradaxa may increase your bleeding risk if you're 75 or older, have a bleeding condition like stomach ulcers, or take aspirin, nsaids, or blood thinners, or if you have kidney problems especially if you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all medicines you take any planned medical or dental procedures and don't stop taking pradaxa without your doctor's approval as stopping may increase your stroke risk. other side effects include indigestion, stomach pain, upset, or burning. pradaxa is progress. having afib not caused by a heart valve problem increases your risk of stroke. ask your doctor if you can reduce your risk with pradaxa.

vice president al gore joins jennifer granholm. >>we're just getting started. >>the state of the 2012 campain. brought to you by spiriva handihaler. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> on your radio. on t.v. the bill press is show, new on current tv. >> here we are 14 minutes now before the top of the hour. we will get back to your calls about wisconsin, about bain

capital. first, a little reminder, and a little advice maybe if you are struggling at the end of the month to make -- to pay those bills, looking for some extra income, goss an idea for you. check out the good folks at incomeathome.com, america's leading work-from-home business today, doing business in over 80 countries. they are legitimate. you can trust them. this is something you can do, do yourself, no matter your age education, or experience. you can literally earn money from your kitchen table, do it 24/7. all you need is a little extra time and the coaching that the folks at income at home will provide. here it is if you are sick of living paycheck to paycheck worried about retirement and ready to make extra money from home part-time or full-time, incomeathome.com. they are adding listeners in record numbers and giving away a

thousandbucks today for checking them out. that somebody could be you. income incomeathome.com, a-t-home.com. before we get back to your calls, a couple of quick little political notes just wanted to inform you. this is so sick. somebody has put up on ebay a blood sample. they say it's a blood sample of the late president ronald reagan, a vial of blood is now caked, of course, dried up but it's the vial that was allegedly taken at george washington hospital the day that he was shot and they were drawing some blood for obvious purposes. i mean, how sick can you get in the family is very very upset. i don't blame them. something like this, if anything should go in the smithsonian or the reagan library but to put it out there for auction to the highest bidder is just really -- >> wait, let's turn these lemons into lemon ade.

we just found mitt romney's running mate. >> they could use the dna. >> recreate or have the vial of blood. he could say look. i have ronald reagan's blood as my running mate. >> as of yesterday afternoon, a bidding for the vial had exceeded $11,000. it's just -- >> the only thing donald trump is back campaigning again, wants you to know this time donald trump is campaigning for a speaking slot, a prime time speech at the republican national convention in tampa. he tweeted out yesterday: can you imagine me speaking at the rnc convention in tampa? >> a speech everyone would watch. and he is asking his twitter followers to contact the rnc and tell them that they want to hear donald trump speak at the rnc

convention. i want to know. i want to tell you, i sign on. i am absolutely in support of that. i think i will send -- i will send them a twitter and facebook and everything message. i want the republican national convention to have donald trump up at the platform. >> if the rnc is looking for ratings, you know, put him up there and let him speak. >> uh-huh. >> you are right. i would watch. >> i absolutely would watch because you never know what that -- >> right. >> -- moron is going to say. >> remember that rant about the f-ing chinese? let's see that again. >> maybe they could play a video of that speech. >> right. >> let's go back to the phones. kathleen is calling from chicago. hi, kathleen. >> hi. how are you doing? >> great. what's up? >> i want to comment on what mr. roth child said about the president and dnc aband oning. president obama begged to give

the keys back to the republicans. they didn't listen to him. they were so angry at him. they are going to help wisconsin out. they had to get this, they had to get the republicans in there to let them see the republicans don't mean anybody working the poor any good. now they have learned they lesson. they won't be so quick to try to hurt president obama. as far as the -- >> do you think president obama should go out to wisconsin? >> president obama we want out the first time. he we want to wisconsin and begged them: don't do this. no. they had tea baggers out there calling the president all kind of names. he we want there. they reindirected the president. now all of the sudden they want the president to clean up their mess. wisconsin is coming back because, you know, unless you step in somebody's shoes, you don't know what's going on. sometimes, you have to hit a hot spot in order to realize what you got. wisconsin is coming back. just like the president, he went there.

now, you remember he went there. he went to tell all of these people: don't give them back to republicans. they told president obama go drop dead. >> kathleen, i appreciate the call but i have to tell you with those big protests taking place at the state capitol in wisconsin, president obama did not show up, and neither did joe biden. >> no, i am not talking about protests. what i am talking about, when he went around the country doing the lesselection time, trying to tell different states because see all of these states had democrat governors. wisconsin chose a democrat governor. president obama didn't get rid of him. they got rid of him trying to be mean and haitiful. what i am trying to say to you, bill, stop siding against this president because this president is trying his best to do what's right for this country of the he didn't get elected today hurt anybody. >> bill -- >> kathleen. wait a minute. i am here every day defending president obama. that's all i have been doing all morning. >> i am glad you are taking

that. i want to get to bain talking about those democrats going against president obama. don't worry about that. he has been soloing. he is going to be all right. that let's you know a lot of them go on joe. joe's show. and joe, is messing over them democrats like i don't know what. this morning, randel and ford was on there. steve wagner was on there yesterday. they trying to walk this stuff back. but, you know, president obama going to be all right. because he is for the right. >> all right. you have got it, kathleen. i want you on my side. yeah. i tell you, exactly. you heard me talk about those democrats, those disloyal democrats today. we were talking about them all week corey booker and ed randel and harold ford, jr., they ought to remember whose team they are on and support their leader. just like kathleen does. all right. i will be back with a parting shot. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> on your radio and on current

tv, this is the bill press show. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] almond joy and mounds. unwrap paradise.

and there's lots of cool stuff happening with progressive mobile. great! tyler here will show you everything. check out our new mobile app. now you can use your phone to scan your car's vin or take a picture of your license. it's an easy way to start a quote. watch this -- flo, can i see your license? no. well, all right. thanks. okay, here we go. whoa! no one said "cheese." progressive mobile -- insurance has never been easier. get a free quote today. >>we have such a big show today it may, uh, actually explode. >>(narrator) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >>we're hogging all the sexy on our side. hello!

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> the parting shot with bill press. this is the bill press show. >> hey, on this wednesday may 23rd my parting shot for today, brought to you by sherwin williams, make the most of your color with the very best paint. ask sherwin williams. you know, every time i hear somebody say there is no difference between republicans and democrats, it makes me want to scream! the hell there is not a different. i will tell you one big difference: republicans between republicans and democrats,

republicans take pride in standing loyal to their team members. democrats take pleasure in stabbing their team members in the back. take the unholy trio of cory booker, he had ran dallied and harold ford. el and harold ford. all three put themselves out as spokesmen for the dhatic party. all threemademocratic party. all three. they have ties to the financial industry. they are just dead wrong. i mean if romney can brag about creating jobs at bain capital president obama can tell the truth about romney killing jobs. the worst part is: they are traitors. they are supposed to be out there representing the party and yet they are really the party's worst enemies. yes, democrats could learn something from republicans: a little bit of loyalty and a lot of discipline. all right. that's it for today, folks.

have a great, great day. make the most of it. come on back. we will see you on the radio and t.v. again tomorrow. >> this is the bill press show.