[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> good morning, everybody. it is monday, monday july 2nd. so good to see you today here on the full-court press on current tv. welcome to the program this morning. hope you are doing well. hope you had a great weekend and hope you are managing to stay cool wherever you happen to be in this great land of ours. it may heat up after you find out. how about this? the supreme court upholds the affordable care act as unconstitutional. the republicans say so what? they insist they are going to repeal it anymore. theyt mitch mcconnell said that

republicans don't care about the 30 million americans who still don't have any health insurance. they don't care about the middle class. man. that ought to the get you going. we have more to talk about but let's get the latest from jacki schechner out in los angeles on the job early this morning. good morning, jacki. >> always early. good morning, bill. good morning, everybody. i know the minute i say this i am going to totaly jinks it but we are expecting a relatively quiet start to the week on the presidential campaign front. the president and his family are going to be at camp david in maryland and then on wednesday, head back to the white house for the fourth of july weekend. they will host a picnic on the lawn for members of the military then the president is heading off on thursday and friday for a two-day bus tour. mitt romney planning into spend the whole week at his family

vacation home at new hampshire. his only scheduled appearance is at wolfe borough. the president will be we will poised to address those while mitt romney will have to find an alternative to things six-bedroom, 13-acre home. driano espiat is challenging the uncouple bell charlie rangel who beat him by 2300 votes. the two campaigns are expected in court today as a weekend recount has shrunk the difference between the two to 802 votes. he elections officials are looking to election night discrepancies and errors and 2000 absentee ballots have yet to be counted. >> that's expected to start on thursday. bar with more bill after the break. joints us in chat, won't you?

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[ ♪ theme ♪ ] [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] broadcasting across the nation, on your radio and on current tv. this is the bill press show. >> we are having a heat wave. have you noticed. if not where have you been? good morning, everybody. what do you say? hello. hello. hello. and welcome. welcome to the full-court press coming to you live all the way across this great land of ours coast to coast, from our nation's capitol and our combination book factory radio factory, t.v. factory right here on capitol hill in washington, d.c.

bringing you the news of the day from the nation's capitol such as it s not much around the country and around the globe and, of course taking your calls, giving you a chance to sound off about what it all means to you at 866-55-press. 866-557-7377. good to see you today. hope you had a great weekend and are ready to go into this fourth of july week here our birthday week in the united states of america. good to see you today. you are looking good. and so is our good crew here, peter ogburn, dan henning. >> hi. >> cyprian bowlding. >> did you have a good weekend. >> sure. got through the weather in d.c. it was crazy. >> i escaped the weather. i was up in rhode island. it was considerably cooler at the beach in rhode island and considerably cooler in the ocean, too. >> any other ways you want to rub it in for the rest of us who

were stuck here? >> do me a favor. don't tell my doctor that i took a swim yesterday because i was not supposed to be in the ocean. >> sure. yes hear anything. >> it was too soon after my subject. i figure salt water can only help. right? >> exactly. it was pretty -- it was pretty gnarly here and at one point, the at&t tournament out at congressional country club there were so many trees down on the fairways that they had to close -- that they cancelled the tournament. >> on saturday, they didn't allow spectators in and they didn't start play until the afternoon. >> delayed play but no spec tatos or volunteers on the court. that must have been weird. >> totalsy quiet tournament. >> a professional tournament with nobody there and it may be that's what it takes for tige tory win one. he explained his win yesterday. i think didn't he begin this tournament. is this his? >> he hosts this tournament, his

own tournament. >> he won his own tournament. >> i give it everything i have each and every day i play. some days, it's better than others. some days, we are just like that. we are all human. i try hard. i try everything i possibly can and give everything i possibly can and sometimes i don't quite hit the ball well. >> yeah. >> or hit the ball not well and do everything right and not chip well. welcome to golf. >> i know what that's like the difference is he said sometimes i hit the ball right and sometimes i don't. >> yeah. >> sometimes you have good days. sometimes you have bad days. i always have bad games. >> the only difference between his game and mine is when i win i don't celebrate. >> things his 74th career win six months ago, he was out with that torn achille's and he now has more wins than jack nicholas nicholas.

>> amazing. i never said he wasn't a good golfer. >> i am just saying a lousy human being and he's not -- he's not where he once was? >> no. but he is still number 4 in the world. >> tiger is not back but he is getting there. >> he is getting there. >> okay. we will give him one. answer is, keep the crowds away. >> yeah. >> no distractions out there hey what a great show we have for you today. by the way, what are we doing here? ideal are we hear? >> there is nobody else in washington d.c. >> edge. senate is gone. house is gone. the president is at camp david. he never goes to camp david, seldom goes to camp david. he likes hanging out here and being able to play golf and the girls have their school activities. so they are out of town. most of our friends, reporters

out of town. right? taking the whole week off. here we are. >> the head of the bill press show told us to be here. >> is that right? >> that's why we are here. >> we are on your side america. we are here for you. >> that's right, damn it. you better be here for us. we have some good friends coming in today catherine crier will be here. tom harken talk being guess what. congress did something about student loans right before july 1st. nia malika henderson will be here as a friend of bill in our third hour today. we have lots coming up, but first: >> this is the full court press. >> on this monday, other headlines making news no more jump okay oprah win "'s couch unless it's katie holmes. the hollywood couple calling it

quits she says she had enough with tom's scientistsology beliefs. >> signology leads to a divorce. i love that. >> this could be really really interesting because she is the one that's pushing for the divorce or filed for the divorce. and because these reports are saying that it had to do with signology. i am hoping for juicy stuff. >> scientology demands weird things. >> he is the king of scientology. >> no big fanfare for guthrie who took over the chair. no mention of why she was there. and nbc didn't put out a press release announcing her position inch after the show was over. she officially starts next monday in a bid to try to make that show the morning network broadcast king over good morning america.

>> i don't think one person is going to do it. >> in sports. >> rots on of ruck. >> spain besting italy in the european championship final, clob clobbering them 4 to nothing. captain ikar kasia who played in his 100th vicktories in international soccer said what they do is difficult but they make it look easy. the thirdly soccer title for germany. >> okay. great. dan, thank you. yes, indeed here we go. you know what? everybody is talking about, i want to talk with you, what it means. everybody is talking about the weather. oh, my god. we have never seen temperatures like this in anybody's memory. certainly the weather channel and weather people say they have never dealt with anything like this. as if we didn't have enough to worry about. right?

as if topics and hurricanes and typhoons and whatever else weren't a big enough problem. now we have to worry about something i never heard about before a doratio. carol and i went out of town friday morning so it hit this washington d.c. area, but it was wild. we got -- dan contacted us saturday morning and said you better check in on your neighborhood because i just saw your house on television on capitol hill. >> it's never a good sign. if your house is on t.v. >> holy, you know what. we called neighbors. you guys were here. you can talk about it better than i can but it was 80-mile-an-hour winds with like no rain. this is called a dor air doratio.

i never heard this. >> i never heard of it. >> right? al la duat ratio. >> right. massive damage in this area. we had a huge tree down our street. this big oak went down across the street and wrecked three houses across the street took out the stairwell, and three cars smashed in half. fortunately it happened in the middle of the night. no one else was around in the middle of the street. you saw scenes like that similar all over washington, d.c. you had the duratio that hit washington, d.c. and by the way, i don't know how many people lost power. they still, still, people don't

have power. poor cyprian doesn't have power? none of us will take him in. >> hell no. >> every man for himself. >> exact. but martin o'malley governor of maryland said they are doing their best but that's not quite good enough. >> there is a lot of untang ling of downed limbs and wires and all of that sort of tedious work that has to happen but overnight, we have been able to cut by a third the number of people without power. >> then on the western front, president obama friday weather related, of course, going out to colorado, to see this unprecedented damage there in the colorado springs area, but colorado, the entire state, it seems, there were so many fires that the entire state was on fire. the president said, you know what? we need mother nature to step in and help us out here. >> ultimately, they are going to need a little bit of help from mother nature in order to fully

extinguish these fires. in the meantime, some lessons are being learned about how we can mitigate some of these fires in the future. >> you have the duratio, tornados, more severe tornados than ever before and a greater number than ever before starting earlier than ever before. the hurricane season starting early and then these temperatures. i mean i saw, the map i saw at the end of the weekly. i am sure you have seen it over and over again from the weather channel and the weather stations where, okay, which states are going to be 100 degrees today? the entire 50 united states. maybe with the exception of a couple on the west coast up in the northwest. owes, everybody was having 100 plus degrees. i i saw in atlantaa they had three days straight of over 100 degrees. we get back to washington last night. it was 100 degrees. peter, you were saying in atlanta, mets were playing down there, strauss borging, they had to take him out?

>> ivs. they were saying it was close to 123 degreesborg, they had to take him out? >> ivs. they were saying it was close to 123 degrees. >> think about that. >> let alone playing professional baseball. >> right. >> it's unbelievable. so here is what i -- here is what i wonder: you know have you ever seen the weather channel talk about and refer to all of this as maybe, maybe just maybe we ought to start taking global warming seriously? what is it? how much more evidence do we need? i mean look. look around you. right? we know the glaciers are disappear disappear disappearing. we see it everywhere. evidence of this we see record temps being set year after year after year. we see storm activity whether it's typhoons o tornados and now

duratios for god's sake getting more and more severe and more and more common. a friend of mine in new england yesterday told me that they have reported that the sea level has actually gone up three inches in new england in the last 20 years. so you see signs of global warming everybody. it has to be the impact of global warning. what are we doing? nobody is taking it seriously. the congress has not passed one single bill to do something about greenhouse gas emissions, whether it's going to be a -- whether it's a carbon tax or shutting down cold power plants or moving into non-fossil fuels whatever. there are things we can do as individuals. i think most of us i think most the vast majority of americans recognize that global warming is a serious problem and it is man-made but in the small

band of vocal idiots like jim inhofe from oklahoma managed with the help of the republican party managed to strangle and beat back any attempt to pass any global warming legislation here so what can we do as individuals? let's talk about that? 866-55-press. there are things we can do. you know use a bike more often. we can take the metro or take the bus or walk and not use the car as often. there are things we can do to reduce our carbon footprint, if you will, but it capital be done on an individual level. it has to be done on first of all, a national level. this country ought to take the lead, has to take the lead for the power that we are in the and the resources that we use. it also has to be done on a global level. here you know these international treat he's come along along. i hope it's not too late to save the planet but i think the most

guilty people on the planet today are those who are standing in the way of recognizing what's going on with global warming and not doing anything about it. how much more evidence do we need? 866-55-press. can't we see what's happen to this planet? what we are doing itto it? 866-55-7377. there is no more important issue t >> this is the bill press show. feel? collide on "the gavin newsom

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hour on the full-court press, monday july 2nd, reading the latest from reuters, several american cities, southern cities, including atlanta had all-time top 100 degrees fahrenheit over the weekend. atlanta, an all time record of 106 degrees on saturday. reached 105 on saturday over two dozen cities set all time record high teachers including columbia south carolina, knoxville, tennessee and rally and get this peter, one of the hardest hit cities, charlotte north carolina where the mercury reached 104 degrees on sunday sift it going to be fun to go to charlotte for the dem cryophake national convention. >> i hope it cools off by then. >> paul in anchorage alaska.

>> bill press, i grew up in philadelphia and internal at kbc dmm los angeles. >> get out of here. really? oh, my god. how did you end up in alaska? >> well, i had a broadcast job up here that went away and i always wanted to move to alaska because it's cooler. >> no sign. >> until line right now. >> cool. i started to be a geologist and actually, you know, anybody who thinks climate change is not caused by mankind, the crisis is a fool. what we really need to do is what germany is doing right now. and they are ahead of their solar energy plants switching to alternative energy. so i think that we are in deep doo-doo right now. but i think we have a solution. we have to understand that it's a crisis right now. i e-mailed my congressman and the president about it because, you know, we have to do something about it. i think we have to follow the lead of countries like germany who have a lot tentive energy. it's doable. >> good for you.

here is john obtain spending time. right? holding eric holder in con demand of congress and all of this other crap that they are working on. right? and they are ignoring the number 1 problem, i think facing. good to hear from you. ron is in philadelphia, pennsylvania. hi, ron. >> good morning, bill. >> hi. >> i didn't realize you were from the philadelphia area. >> grew up in delaware northern delaware. >> close enough because delaware also had a track-lesstrolly zimfoam at one time. many cities had these. most got rid of them. a handful still have them. san francisco has expanded their system. >> yes. >> what bothers knee particular here in philadelphia is we have two lines that are not in use. so they are running diesel under the disused wire. >> ron, listen i lived in los angeles. los angeles had a great system. sorry to run, but i will check it out. >> this is the bill press show.

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warren, great lady senate candidate, the next democratic senator from the state of massachusetts. we talked to her about the meaning of the healthcare reform legislation and where we go from here. that is the big question we wanted to call on another one of our good friends sharp legal mind of catherine crier this morning. you know catherine crier, a good friend of the program and, also the receipt book patriot acts. kathleen, good morning. >> mr. press, how are you? >> i am good. thank you. good to talk to you. >> congrats on the show. i haven't talked to you since you have your current tv gig. >> current tv. >> starts with a c, rhymes with -- yeah. that's fantastic. >> i loved our days together on court t.v. >> y.e.s. >> catherine a couple of questions about the supreme court decision as a former

judge, what does this all mean and i want to ask you about john roberts. first of all, republicans are saying, well it doesn't matter what the supreme court does. we are going to go ahead and repeel it anyway. is this a big deal? >> of course it's a big deal. one of the biggest issues facing this country. it was interesting that when you talked to sort of the academicians, the vast vanth, whether they were conservatives or liberals thought themajority whether they were conservatives or liberals thought the it would be upheld. >> upheld. >> yes. >> yeah. folks really don't know -- there was no precedent that would indicate this was not within authority. now, i am sort of in agreement that i don't like expanding, expanding the commerce clause but i thought that -- i thought roberts' analysis -- >> whoops. hello, catherine. you know what? i think that dog --

>> i will get her on the line. >> i think that dog chewed through the line. >> something happened. >> did you hear that? that was really strange. i never heard anything like that. anyway we will get catherine crier back. academyians, constitutional dollars said this is going to be upheld or should be through the commerce clause as we know. the court said not through the commerce clause but through the taxation of congress. catherine, do we have you back? >> my dog and none of them are near the phone lines. >> i thought that puppy chewed through. let me pick back up because there's a point i really want to make that the republicans are obviously going to take the three-letter word "tax" and make it, he is taxing you. look at the increase. no. no.

roberts said it's under the taxing authority but that is the authority to the enact essentially a penalty which will only be applied to people who don't get the insurance. >> got it. right. >> they estimate that is 2 to 5% and the personally the penalty, i think, is quite minimuml mall because it's essentially what someone would pay for one month of health insurance. >> that's annual penalty. relatively minor 2 to 5%. it is a penalty for free-loaders who want to put their costs on everybody else democrats just don't know how to sell things. they don't know how to march in lockstep. they don't know how to pitch things and they need to know how to sell what is so desperately needed in this country to bring cost costs. mitch mcconnell goes it's not

the 30 million people we net to get insured. it's a system of keeping the finest healthcare system, which is not true and in fact bringing down costs but nothing that they have proposed would bring down costs. the first step is expanding the pool, broadening the risk so that we all experience a drop in premiums. >> what is curious about that, of course, is that the individual mandate was originally proposed by them. >> sure. and why am? i talk about this in the healthcare chapter in the book. it was in, you know 93, when bill clinton was in there working healthcare reform and the head of the american health insurance association goes in and begets for the mandate because he knew that the costs were going up. he knew you had to spread the risk and he had -- he saw two futures for private healthcare. that was single pair through the government who we have to do something or he was going to get all of these new customers

through an individual mandate and argue, of course broadening and spreading the risk although i firmly believe that will be coupled with, you know, the rise in premiums because of profit executive slarz administration costs, not because more care is being delivered. but still, he begged and up until, jeez, '07" quotes in the book, '07, '08 from senators like grassley and others and gingrich, newt gingrich. >> bob dole. they all were on board here. >> yeah. >> "the des moines register" is going, you cannot have free loaders if you refuse to buy it we require that you put up a bond to show that you are capable if you are sick of carrying your own weight. it wasn't until our democratic president started asserting their positions that it all became socialist and marxist.

>> of course recover romney adopted the same thing. both the individual mandate and the penalty is the law of the land in massachusetts thanks to romney. we are talking about catherine cryer, author of patriot acts. it's patriotacts.com. catherine, how do you read john roberts who was expected maybe kennedy would be the 5-4 against but we know roberts wrote the mament opinion. >> i was pleasantly surprised. the backroom stories are brilliant. did scalia become a bridge too far. did alito, did these guys get so political and so off-base that the man, the chief justice's

integrity just overwhelmed them and he said, i can't do this because, in fact, the courts -- remember, we hear from the right all the time about the activist courts. right? did he say, no, our job is to try to uphold legislation. it is to try and say: we are not a political body. we are not supposed to write the laws. we are supposed to see if there is a way to accommodate what congress passes? >> what he did. there are all sorts of legislative things that will follow and plenty more lawsuits because when a court says its constitutional, that doesn't mean the legislature can't, you know, come back and mess with laws. >> right. >> and do things with it. but his action in upholding this law supports every conservative principles about the role of the third branch and the judiciary in this country. >> it looked like he felt he had to redeem the reputation of the court and he personally was the

only one who could do that. didn't go too far too my part. >> his mission for the court i think, is absolutely appropriate. that is, my function as chief justice is to try and uphold laws unless we truly cannot do so. you know, they are saying, he found taxing authority instead of, you know, instead of commerce laws. it doesn't matter. >> right. >> it doesn't matter. now, you know, it's sad that we are still listening to those on the right going, we are going to decimate this. we are going to keep it, you know, in the realm of profit-driven. i am all for profit. i am all for captallism but this is an industry that is decimating the economy of this country. and unless we figure out how to get a handle on it as well as providing the life and death services to people in this country then our gdp, our

economy, the nation's wellbeing continues to spiral downward. >> you mentioned anton inin scalia. he went off of the reservation with his rant about president obama signing the -- a few days before actually. >> immigration. >> on the immigration thing. under on on to this rant about president obama signing this executive order, which was the dream act, but that issue was not in front of the court, not part of the arizona law and scalia as if he were on fox news. right? just pontificating. is that an appropriate role for a supreme court justice? >> roberts, it's not going to be able to restrain. he may be able to write on the other side of the hall. but he can't restrain scalia. two things, we have not been complaining when, you know scalia and alito and thomas show up regularly at the coach

brothers con -- koch brothers' conventions, speaking to the federalist society, doing things with mrs. thomas earning all of this money undeclared by clarence from very, very conservative organizations t you know, that is really critical and one of the most important things when we cast a vote is understanding that the appointees -- and they are getting younger and younger, may have a 30 and 40 year reign on our courts and they are every bit as if not over the long-haul more important than the president of the united states. >> absolutely, catherine crier, i am so glad you are out there still raising hell. >> i am there. >> you are in fact. "patriot acts" is her book. or follow catherine @catherine catherine @catherinecrier. say hello to your friends and

animals out there on the big ranch. what about this? this is really i think, the fact that we will talk more about it in the next hour, too, mitch mcconnell and john boehner vowing -- they don't care what the supreme court did. they are going to repeal healthcare and mr. mcconnell said we don't care about those 30 million people. 866-55-press. 30 million don't have health insurances. >> this is the full court press, the bill press show. live on your radio and on current tv. collide on "the gavin newsom show." this week the experts are wrong. failing is good and wall street is bad.

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bill press show, now on current tv. >> hey twelve minutes now before the top of the hour. we are talking with catherine crier about the impact of the supreme court decision. i would love to get your calls on that at 866-5 press. my column at billpressshow.com talks about john roberts making this decision, writing this majority opinion in order to save the court. check that out. of course, remember while we are live on the air, you are live or can be live in our chat room sandwich you can access by going to billpressshow.com or current.com and join other watchers, viewers of the show, listen to the radio show talking to your fellow viewers and listeners about what we are talking about. so imagine with the supreme court decision just imagine.

the republican response to it, i find so interesting. imagine that if it had gone the other way, which everybody expected it to go the other way. everybody expected and predicted that the court would overturn the entire act. mitt romney predibbed that. or it would certainly, almost 99% of pundits and court watchers predictedcted that. or it would certainly, almost 99% of pundits and court watchers predicted would overturn the individual mandate. if it had, imagine the gloating right? on the part of the right-wing. they would have been, this proves what we have been saying all along. this proves obama was wasting his time. this proves it was the wrong thing to do. this proves it is government going too far. this proves it is a western european style of government-run healthcare. it didn't. so now, the fact that they upheld the affordable care act,

the best that they can say is, so what? who cares what the supreme court does? it's laughable. john boehner on face the nation yesterday, nora o'donnell filling in for bob schieffer, john boehner saying we don't care what the court did. we don't care if the court upheld it. we are still going to try to repeal it. john boehner: >> we are going to do it one more time. >> what's the point? >> we want to show people we are resolved to get rid of this. >> yeah. it doesn't mean anything. they can't do anything about it. but they are going to have one more meaningless symbolic vote just to show that we are serious. god. what a lose her. pat reece calling from oakland california. hi, pattries. >> hey, bill. >> you know,. >> justice roberts, i had a feeling it wasn'ted going to be

overturned. i felt like him or maybe some other republican on the bench would have made the right decision because there were too many provisions in there had a actually helps people. however, i am a little skeptic about at a time moechz behind roberts doing it. but he did ift. i am glad he did do it. what i come to realize that this is basically a haitilex. >> that's what this is. >> uh-huh. >> it's a haitilex using money to glorify their hatred for obama so they can get back in power. and i just hope that the american people are smart enough to see this i can't wait for the debates to start so obama has the opportunity to give it to romney and let him know what time it really is, i think that you know, a lot of this drama

and all of these polls that are supposed to be so close, hopefully will change. >> well, i will tell you pat patrice patrice, i just remind you, right right. i have written a book about it, "the obama hate machine" because i think that's largely what's fueling the opposition of president obama. if you look at it, they don't have anything else on their side. i mean he has taken the lead on immigration now with this. he has taken the lead on same-sex marriage. he has taken the lead on healthcare. he, president obama has taken the lead on getting jobs back particularly our great auto industry back, and so what do the republicans have? what do they offer as an alternative? just the fact that they hate barack obama and they are not barack obama. and so what? take us back to the policies of george bush and dick cheney? they don't have anything else?

and i don't think whipping up hate read of president obama is enough to get them across the finish line. mitch mcconnell, remember he said the 30 million americans don't have health insurance. >> on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show.

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the glaciers are melting. how much more evidence do we need? when are we going to do something about global warning? first, let's get the latest out in los angeles here she is, jacki schechner standing by with the today's current news update. hi, jacki. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everybody. speaking of weather, there is 1500 personnel still out fighting the waldo canyon fire. about 3,000 people are still under evacuation, but that's minor comepired to the 30,000 people or so who have been evacuated over the past week and now being allowed back into their homes. investigators are starting to look into the cause of the fire too, which has cost the state about $9 million to fight. early returns projecting enrique pena nueto has won which returns

to the power of the group that held power. they were known for corruption and voter fraud but he is vow to go act more trans parently. the national action party. in the wake of a supreme court ruling on healthcare reform, democrats are pushing back on republicans' claims that this is a massive tax hike. nancy pelosi and jack lew and others are pointing out the redefined mandate is a free-loader tax or a free loader penalty. they are pointing out it hits those who refuse to buy insurance and insist on so shoving the costs off on the rest of us. >> that's no surprise that florida rick scott is refusing to ply. he said he won't set up a healthcare exchange. go figure.

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thank you for joining us for the full court press here on current tv and of course on your local progressive talk radio station. thank you for listening. whether listening or watching. join chat room or go to current current.com many, many many. it's fun to see your comments on the chat room and good to have you with us this morning. however you happen to join us and these issues mean a lot to you. we know that which is why we give you the chance to weigh in and we look forward to hearing from you taking your calls at 866-55-press. saving a seat for the table for you. take it. 866-557-7377. what do you know? no matter how hot it is, the team is still here peter ogburn and sib rean bowlding. >> yes indeed. >> cyprian doesn't have power back on from over the weekend. let's get -- everybody call pepco and tell them to give out

cyprian's home around and say this should be your number 1 prior to. i am without cable and internet at home. i am struggling. it is tough. >> poor baby. >> get out. >> i have to go out to a bar yesterday afternoon to watch a soccer game. >> and whyfy? three separate places. >> i had to go to three bars yesterday. but you do touch on something with the big armticle in "the new york times" about the businesses. this is serious the businesses that commend on internet connections lost power. arch. a lot of them are people that depend on cloud services and they are all gone. so a storm like this yeah, you use your internet at home which would piss me off and prevent me from getting work done but those businesses that depend upon it, that's serious stuff.

>> you talk about becoming a cashless society. where i live in beth he is did a was a cash-om society because a lot of places had power but didn't have internet and they couldn't take credit cards. >> couldn't run credit cards. >> cash only. >> imagine. like the wild west out there. we could get along without plastic? >> yeah. >> i could never imagine it. >> no indeed. president obama friday morning went off off to visit the colorado springs area so hard hit by the -- in fact, the entire state so hard hit by the wildfires out there. he said we are doing -- the people out there, the brave firefighters are doing the best they can but they need a little help from above. >> ultimately, they are going to need a little help from mother nature in order to fully extinguish these fires. in the meantime lessons are being learned about how we can mitigate some of these futures. >> need change in the wind or some rainfall. a great line-up for you today even though by the way, the

three of us that you see here, we are the only people working today in washington, d.c. i want you to know. >> feels that way. >> it does. congress is gone. house is gone. set is gone, president is out of town. everything is shut down a lot of employees have a chance to stay home. >> and with july 4th in the middle of the week. amount of people have taken the week off. we are here for you. >> we are not happy about it. we love being here for you every day. >> strong word bill. move on. >> one more time. we have a good group of friends, great group of friends nia malik malika handerson will be here as a friend bill. arthur delaney to talk about the minimum wage and a couple of important issues and senator tom

harken coming up next hour, very, very excited about the senate and house getting together on doing something about student loans. but first: this is the full court press. >> resurgence of tiger woods. the golfer won his third tournament winning his own as he hosts the at&t national outside of washington at congressional country club. he went 41 straight hopes without a both e 8 under par, with the 74th career win. he moves past jack anything lus to number 2 on the most pga tour wins list, eight short of sam sneed's record. >> they had to shut down the course congressional for a short time to get trees off the fair way. when they opened up, they didn't allow spectators in. not spec tatos and no volunteers on saturday. it was just the players, just the players. >> it was on television.

>> crazy man. >> just crazy. >> california's fuaface gras ban ban, went into effect with eaters to have the duck liver delicacy one time. some are pledging did i feel disobedience risking a thousand dollars fine but there is a loophole in the law. if you bring your own faux gras they will cook it for you for free. bring your own booze, they charge corking fees. bring your own wines same idea that is legal. it is a loop hole in the law. >> faux gras made by force feeding birds with a feeding tube. >> what do they think about this. >> no word from the geese. >> did saturday feel a little longer? >> because it was. the daily beast reports that the earth's official time keepers held back clocks by one second saturday night just before

midnight. they added time to the day to keep them in sink. >> i thought saturday was dragging on. yes realize it. >> they had to keep it in synch with the planet's rotation in relation to the sun as a solar day as actually longer than 24 hours. every so afternoon >> 25 leap seconds have been added to time since 1972. some websites had problems over the weekend because of the time adjustment according to the folks at the national institute of standards and technology. >> i slept in a little bit later, you know. >> isn't that funny? isn't that funny they have to adjust? also, precision in their measurements. i am impressed. >> i mean i can't even balances my checkbook right. all right. hey, dan thank you. yes, indeed, i want to the talk

about this because this is interesting to me, fascinating. it's a laugh-out loud funny but also just makes you really angry. the republican response to the supreme court decision last week, to just imagine this. right? what if the supreme court had ruled the way most people said they were going to buy either invalidating the entire affordable care act or invalidating certainly the individual mandate? oh, my god, fox news would have had a field day. it would have been a collective originally. i mean and everything from mitt romney on down and john bajner and mick milk connell would have said this proves what we have been saying all along. rush limbaugh. can you imagine the trumpeting and self glorification coming from these guys? we told you. we told you. yeah. nobody listened to us but now, this proves it. the supreme court proved it.

it's wrong. it's unconstitutional. it goes too far. it's nothing but government run healthcare, on and on and on. well, gets what. it we want the other way, the conserve i have to reports supreme court with roberts himself, writing the majority said this is okay. congress has a right to do this. this is a good thing to do and there are some good provisions in it t now republicans don't know where to run. all right? well first of all, so their attitude is again, they are ready to say this is the cat's meow, for the supreme court to agree with us that this is unconstitutional. when the supreme court doesn't, the re, from john boehner is: so what? we are going to repeal it anyway. >> we are going to do it one more than time. >> what's the point? >> we want to show people we are resolved to get rid of this. >> yeah. going to have another vote that. that was nora o'donnell filling in for bob schieffer on "face

the nation" yesterday. boehner says they are going to have one more vote when they come back to repeal the affordable care act a norma question is the perfect one. what's the point? number 1, the house alone cannot repeal it. and i guess, number 2, on what grounds will they repeal it? right? other than purely purely political showmanship. what are the chances of this getting through the united states senate? what do you think the chances are that the president would sign it? it's just totally, totally add sush absurd. major what boehner would say if the supreme court had overruled the affordable care ac? oh, my god. now, then, as bad as he is mitch mcconnell goes on fox news sunday yesterday morning and he is asked by chris wallace so

when you say you are just going to repeal this what does that mean? what about all of those people who still are out there and not covered? here is the -- just the first part of the exchange. >> you talk about repeal. how would you provide universal coverage? >> i will get to it in a minute. the first step we need to take is to what's there. it's job-killing proposal that has all these cuts to existing healthcare providers. >> yeah. so the first thing they are going to do is get rid of it. repeal it again. repeal it t repeal it. then he goes further than that. i have to tell you. you heard me say before he may be on fox news but chris wallace is a damn good interviewer and a damn good journalist. he pushes here he pushes because this is the real question. you say repeal and replace. well, replace with what? because you still got a problem,

which is some 30 million americans who can't get health insurance. chris wallace won't let mitch mcconnell off of the hook. >> what specifically are you going to do to provide universal coverage to the 30 million people who are uninsured? >> that's not the issue. the question is -- >> no. >> how can you go step by step to improve the american healthcare system. it's already the finest in the world. >> no. >> it depends. >> you don't think it's an issue. >> let me tell you what we are not going to do. we are not going to turn the american healthcare system into a western european system. >> that's exactly what is at the heart of obamacare. they want to have the federal government take over all of american healthcare. >> now i love this take. you talk about the height of

affair ganz, the elitist saying we don't give a damn talk about let them eat cake. it's not maria antoinette, it's mitch mcconnell. 866-55-press. two points i want to make. number 1, working backwards, he says we are not going to let this become the western people healthcare system. >> that's the heart of obama care. no. it is not. no. it is not. >> that's an outrightly. that's not spin. that is an outright line and mitch mccogknows it's aly. what the affordable care act does and you have got to know this. we talk about it so much. it extends healthcare insurance to 36 million americans by what? by making them not get government health insurance. that hasit is not a private plan, not expansion of medicare and medicaid. i wish it were. it says the 36 million americans have to buy private health

insurance. not only that. if they don't buy private health insurance, they have to pay a what do you call it? tax? penalty? fee? who cares what you call it? it is the opposite of government run healthcare. i wish we had a single pair system. i wish that's what it were. this is not. it's handing 36 million people to the insurance companies and making those 36 million people pay by private private insurance. number 1. no. 2, he says 36 million americans, 30 million without health -- that's not the issue. >> that's not the issue? well, if that's not the issue, what the hell is the issue? >> what i want to know. it's the idea -- if the idea of universal healthcare is not taking care of those people out there and those families out there with these kids and parents and all of these people who have healthcare problems and need some hecht insurance so they can afford to have themselves taken care of and we don't have to pay for them if that's not the issue, again,

what the hell is the issue? but don't you hear that attitude? that attitude is so classic from republicans, when it comes to jobs, with the auto industry: let it fail. right? when it comes to the dream act and these kids who have served in the military so what if their parents brought them here illegally, they have graduated from high school or maybe some from college and the republicans say, we don't care about that. send them all balk. now, 30 million americans without healthcare? what about them? what are you going to do about them? they are now covered. they now have the opportunity. mitch mcconnell says that's not the issue. it gets worse and worse and worse. 866-55-press. you know with a? damn straight, that is the issue. the republicans' attitude about the middle class is also the attitude in this election. 866-557-7377. i think mitch mcconnell showed their hand. maybe he didn't intend to but he

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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] [ music ] >> radio meets television the bill press show, now on current of itt. >> 40 minutes for the hour from huffington post in studio with us in the next segment. right now we are talking about mitch mcconnell saying we don't give a damn about those 30 million americans, 30-plus million americans who don't have health insurance. we don't care about them. tony is out -- check out my column on this issue, the supreme court decision up on the

website at billpressshow.com. john roberts saving the court. storage, riverside, california, hi, tony. >> hey bill. how are you, sir? >> doing good. what's up? >> i thought i would let you know i am a conservative. the last great conservative our country had are bush, senior. these conservatives do not represent my party. my party believes in a stace and our more allottedty as a nation and as a party, it's a human thing to take care of people. it's a human thing for healthcare. they would rather rebuild iraq than help their own country. these people need to get out of government. they only care about the top 1%. they don't care about the rest of us. they don't need to be called republicans any more. mitch mcconnell needs to get fired. john boehner, they have no idea what the real republicans in the

streets care about. we care about safety. i care about gun laws. i don't like illegal immigrants. i have a moral standing, i believe, in god. these people don't believe in anything but the top 1%. >> here is the problem. here is the problem, tony is that they have taken over the republican party. right? >> i know. i know. i have been a conservative since, you know, i was able to vote, and i have watched and, you know i am an african-american and my whole family is democrat. and i am the only person who argues, you know, my morals and what i believe. they keep telling me this isn't the party that you are used to. i am watching and looking and learning, and i am doing my research. it's not. it's bad. >> i know. hey, tony, a couple of books ago, i wrote a book called train wreck about this tea party taking over the republican party. no. it is sad, and maybe tony, you ought to find another party. >> this is the bill press show.

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the senate is out of town. the president is out of town. able nobody here but bill press show and authur delanie. >> i am so glad to be here. >> authrthur, political reporter for huffington post. what's going on? everything good? congratulations. haven't seen you since you got married. >> thank you so. >> your second anniversary? >> second month anniversary. >> great. >> married life is good. >> that's not what peter says. look. i am glad you found somebody. she makes you happy, i assume. >> yeah and we have a stabilizing marriage. i hope i didn't ruin it for you. >> traditional marriage. >> good to know some people have survived same-sex marriage. on the front page of huffington we have been talking about this also on the front page of

huffington post, one of the big stories today, mcitch mcconnell on 30 million uninsured, that is not the issue. as you reported, he was on with chris wallace yesterday just because we can't hear it often enough here is chris wallace badge badgering, rightly so, mitch mccome. >> what specifically are you going to do to provide coverage to the 30 million people who are uninsured? >> that -- that is not the issue. the question is: how can you go step by step to improve the american healthcare system. this is already the finest healthcare system in the world. >> but you don't think 30 million -- >> our friends -- we are -- >> you don't think 30 million is uninsured. >> let me tell you what we are not going to do. we are not going to turn the american healthcare system into a western people system. they want to have the federal government take over all of american healthcare.

the federal government capital handle the healthcare it's already got. >> aside from the fact, arthur as i pointed out, that is a huge lie, that the affordable care act is a western people style single pair system, it's at the opposite, requiring 36 million americans to by private health insurance from private health insurance companies. what about the statement that all of those who are uninsured, that's not the issue? it's just kind of an incorrect statement. >> that was the issue. it's actually 50 million people who are uninsured in this country and 30 million is the number the white house says will gain coverage as a result of this law. 30 million is the number. the huge number of uninsured, i thought that was the if it it's not? >> he could have said it's not the whole issue. he said it's not the whole issue after repeated badgering by

chris wallace: does this indicate a certain level of disdain, if you will for average americans? >> well, it's surprising that he said it. i am sure his republican colleagues were pretty surprised john boehner just kept saying over and over we are going to take a step by step common sense approach. that was their parking point but he said that's not the issue. it's pretty surprising because it is the issue or at least one of the biggest issues and one of the reasons that healthcare reform, you know, is widely viewed as something that needs to be done one way or the other. >> what i find interesting, too, is you can imagine if the supreme court had ruled the other way, what they would have been saying on the sunday shows yesterday. this proves we were right. right? this pros everything we had said all looping. >> right. instead they have to say we will repeal the law, which they have already done in the house of

representatives like 30 times. so they will repeal it again. it's not as exciting a talking point, i guess, as we were right. >> we are going to have one more vote. it doesn't mean anything. we will have one more vote. it's sort of like a giant, the separate property said it was constitutional. so what? >> i think it's that the government takeover talking point persists because there were a lot of democrats who actually did want a government takeover. >> right. >> that was rejected. >> i am one of them. obama would not even put it on the table up for consideration. it was not even one of the options. president obama said he is not for single pair healthcare. >> widely views as one of the casualties of the farma deal making that was going on. >> yeah. no. exactly. and then the closest we came to that was a public plan option. president obama even abandoned that. >> right.

>> which would have given people the option in addition to choosing among all of these private insurance companies having one that was sort of like an expanded version of medicare. he dropped that itch too soon and to our regret. so the only options are how to make it and if you can't afford it you get somebody to buy health insurances. if you don't, but now some people are calling it the romney tax which is the mandate. 866-55-press. we want to get your comments, too, on mitch mcconnell saying basically he doesn't care about you. this is not the issue. but i have to ask you about another issue that you have been writing about nobody else is talking about and that congress is doing nothing about, which is the minimum wage. you have made this be your issue. what's the status today and what are the prospects for any action? >> well, the minimum wage is $7

$0.25 an hour. they are proposals. >> how long has it been there? >> since the '90s. >> 7.25 an hour? yeah. it translates into i could do the math quickly, i guess, or peter get out your iphone but trans lates into what a year? 15,000 a year? >> 22,000. something like that. it's not a good living wage and with inflation, it's been stagnant for a long time. and so there are proposals to raise the minimum wage and connect it to the consumer price index, something like that. but they are about as likely to fas as a proposal to cut the pay of members of congress. it's not going to happen. >> why not? how can people really justify letting people work, you know a minimum for 7.25 an hour. >> it smacks up against the same talking point that is used against healthcare reform and

everything else which is that it's a job killer because businesses, if they have to pay workers more, won't higher anybody. >> you know what? they have been saying that arthur since long before you were born, long before i was born, and it's bogus and there has been study after study that shows paying people more does not mean that they are going to -- more people are going to be fired or more people are going to lose their jobs. >> some states do have a higher minimum wage. so that may be the better place. >> the federal we are talking about? >> right. the federal minimum wage and washington and other states have recently raised their minimum wage and broken the $9 an hour. they could be more focused on what's happening in state legislate temperatures. >> what are the proposals? various proposeals totten dollar range? >> i can't tom harken had a proposal that would put it up to that range and index it to

inflation so that it keeps going up automatically without needing a vote by the congress. >> making a note because senator harken is joining us in the next hour. i would have to ask about his proposal. you don't see any prospect of federal action. is this something that the administration is pushing? >> this was a campaign promise by obama that he isas not fulfilled fulfilled it's a broken promise basically and something mitt romney has flipfloped on. there is just no love for raising the minimum wage from these guys. >> from anybody. right? i was just thinking, the reason i asked, i haven't heard president obama ever talk about it. >> he talked about it in 2008. he is not talking about it now. >> calling from ticondaroga new york. what do you say? >>. >> hi, guides. first, it's not the issue. >> what? >> thanks for listening in because i can't, you know, i

can't bear to listen to fox or rush or any of those guys. it's more than i can stomach. >> that's why we do it so you don't have to. >> and we appreciate you for it immensely. >> thank you. ? >> it's not -- it's not the issue. isn't grammatically correct and he was upset because he was being asked questions by a guy with actual journalistic cred one of the few in fox. >> right. >> it's not an issue to republicans. it's like minimum wage is not an issue to republicans. the issue for them is exactly what mcconnell stated when obama was sworn in, making him a one-term president. get the black guy out of the white house. that's the issue for them. >> but you know what gets me beit? ken, i appreciate hearing from you. is that as you said, mcconnell went off script. i really do think they don't care about the uninsured. right? or the unemployed.

but for them to actually admit it is what i found startling about mcconnell's statement. >> well, you don't know what's in his heart. it's not the thing that they want to work on right now. >> yeah. so they want to work on improving health insurance for the people who have it. he has this -- he had this sort of throw-amp proposal that was their alternative to healthcare reform to expand the state high-risk pools but 35 states have them. they only cover 200,000 people, and they are expensive plans . >> i am uh-huh. >> they have waiting periods. they won't cover you for six months for whatever condition you have so it's tough to see how expanding those would really get to 30 million people. >> i think the fact is this: and again we always save a seat at the table now 866-55-press. i think the reality is that the right-wingers have lost the battle here if not the war, and

they just are not going to admit it. and they are going to kick and scream for a long, long time. no way of turning this battleship around right now. healthcare is on its way. still bumps along the way. arthur delaney from huffington post in the studio with us. you join the conversation at 866-55-press. we will be right back. >> on your radio. on t.v., the bill press show, new on current tv. collide on "the gavin newsom show." this week the experts are wrong. failing is good and wall street is bad. but how does vinod khosla really feel?

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before the top of the hour nia mallick maliak henderson in the studio for the next hour. and we will be joined by senator tom harken. we will talk to him about the agreement reached, believe it or not before they left town, the very last hour agreed both on the student loan issue and on the highway transportation bill. he will tell us all about that. we will ask him also about the minimum wage. we have been talking to arthur delaney about the minimum range raised to 729. in 2009, i want to say i misspoke earlier. >>edes to do. >> a 2007 deal bumped it up the next two years. >> all of us, every one of us occasionally misspeak. >> i apologize. >> you don't have to. liz is calling from red oak

texas. what do you say. >> good morning. i am calling with regards your your question. it's not the issue? then what is mr. mcconnell? i say the issue is you have sold out the middle class to farma and big business. can you not make peace with them over thispharma and big business. can you not make peace with them over this i think his piece by piece fix with know details of the current medical situation in america is a piece by piece destruction of the middle class. >> i appreciate the comment, list. i mean it does come across arthur, doesn't it, as a disdain for or certainly not caring for the middle class by that comment? >> it was a really surprising comment. you would never expect to hear a politician, especially a real pro se that. but i think people really should look at what their alternative is with these high-risk pools in

35 states and cover 200,000 people. >> that's what they -- that was the center peace of the alternative law. there is a little pilot version of it in the affordable care act. they thought it would get hundreds of thousands in addition to the states, it's got 67,000. it seems like an ineffectist way for covering 30 million people. >> isn't this the problem for the republicans in that they don't have anywhere to go after they put all of their eggs in one basket? right? the supreme court is going to take care of this. right right? immediately they didn't try to implement the affordable care act or make it work the best they could. they immediately went after declaring it unconstitutional and got the state attorney's generals to do it, take it all the way to the supreme court and the supreme court and they lose. so what do they have? you know, romney says two days before the court decision, if the court overturns the affordable care act, that will mean that the entire three and a half years of president obama's

administration has been waited. well well, one would argue then the reverse is also true. right? >> i am sure mitt romney would now not argue that the reverse is true. >> that was one line of stake. now, what we will do is we will call it a tax because it's okay tund the taxing authority. we will call it a tax. the problem is that this is exactly mitt romney's solution in massachusetts which is now the law. land. if it's a tax for obama, it's a tax for romney. that line of attack right this is why you are not hearing about the high-risk pools. john boehner and mitch mcconnell both talked about them yesterday. hadn't heard a peep about the high-risk pools for a long time. now, they are back. >> so then, they have the, all right. we will just -- we don't care what the court did. we will repeal it anyway, ourselves.

>> yeah. >> that's not going to go anywhere. >> that's sort of a joke. right. >> you already repealed it. it's pretend legislation. >> how many times can the republicans in the house of administration do that now they will fall back and say we have an alternative here, the high risk pools. >> and medical malpractice reform and letting people buy insurance. it's hard to see how these small things add up to 30 million people. it seems like mcconnell is kind of at a loss. >> that's my point, i guess, not just mitch mccome. it's the entire republican party that is at a loss here well we will see if they come up with anything. i think they just lost this issue. i think they have lost the national security issue. they have lost the immigration issue. they have lost the jobs and certainly the auto industry issue and now they have lost the healthcare issue. i am not saying the election is

over. >> maybe high-risk pools is a good talking point because it's so hot out. >> would you. >> i would like todive dive in right now. thankful for your good work. all right. we will be back. i will tell you what the president is up to today. >> >> this is the bill press show. honest about it, the policies. i think that's really important for people to recognize is that

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united states is up to this is the first time in the three years that i have been covering the white house that we did not even get a schedule today from from the white house. not at all because the president is out of town. he is at cap david. there are zero publicents schedules. i think he has a scrabble game with malia a8:00 o'clock and then the first family is going to hit the pool at 9:00, i think. then they are going to take bo for a walk at about 10. a few other minks maybe. touch football or something until noon. >> a busy schedule. >> no schedule there but there is a big protest scheduled at the whitehouse today over the fast and furious proposal, they will demand president obama be held accountable. they are expecting 30. not 30,000. they are expecting 30 protesters. >> this is the bill press show.

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> good morning, everybody. welcome to the full-court press here on current tv. so good to see you today on this monday, july 2nd. thank you for joining us. we've got lots to talk about even though nobody is left in washington d.c. except. there is a lot going on to talk about around the country including this. it doesn't matter what the supreme court did. it doesn't matter that they upheld the affordable care act. republicans now say so what? they are going to repeal it anyway. mitch mccome over the weekend even said republicans don't care about the 30 million plus americans who don't have any

health insurance whatsoever. they don't care about the middle class. they don't care about you and me. hey, we will talk about that and a whole lot more. first, let's bounce out to los angeles, say good morning to jacki schechner standing by with today's current news update. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everyone. i like when you bounce my way. senator jim demint is breaking up with its leadership pac so can formal super p.a.c. he has pulled in money in support of conservativecans but a super p.a.c. would allow them to raise unlimited funds. it would not be allowed to endorse demint but by the rules, he can show up at event thes including fundraisers and continue to advise the senate conservative funneled, the leadership pack. a former isr official is asking the agency to pull alec's tax exempt status.

roll call reports marquez owen who was once in charge of proving the organization's charity status has sent a letter on behalf of christian clergy saying the american legislative exchange counsel has violated the requirements for it to be tax exempt. at least 18 corporations have dropped their affiliation with alec including amza zon and wal-mart. owens and those who he is working for says it lobbies and crafts legislation. a federal judge in mississippi has saved the state's only abortion clinic from being shut down. a new law requires anyone who performs abortions to be an ob/gyn ob/gyn. the clinic says that's tough to come back and the doctors are ob/gyns but they are from out of state. the jackson i am with's association says he wants it clear -- the governor has made it clear that he doesn't want

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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] broadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> the storm is over but the heat is not. doesn't matter where you are. probably hotter temperatures than ever. good morning, everybody. it is monday july 2nd, great to see you today. thankful for joining us here on the full-court press. your new progressive morning show on current tv and of course, your local progressive talk radio station. good to have you with us. and we have got lots to talk about today despite the fact that it's a pretty quiet day in washington, d.c. the president's out of town. congress is out of town. both the senate and the house,

leftists are out of town. gyppie. there ain't nobody here but us chickens, meaning, of course, our team peter ogburn dan henning, cyprian bowlding and nia-melika henderson. nia, good to be here. >> just our chickens. >> good to see you. >> do you have like a sucker? >> i am here working. >> don't we all? right. >> that's right. what are we doing here? >> it is -- i was just mentioning the first time i can recall from the white house for those of us who cover the white house, we did not get a schedule today at all. >> great. the president has no public event schedules or something like that. it's out of town, carney is out of town, i guess. and there was nobody there to put a schedule up? >> that's right. nothing going on. the streets are empty. everybody has gone home because

to maybe their vacation hopes. i think people are staying home because they don't have power and they are waiting on the power to come on. >> right. maybe some people after the storm friday night just said, i am getting the headll out of town. i was out of town friday night. i was not here for the duratio. >> is that what they are calling this thing in. >> a land hurricane otherwise known as a duratio. >> it's fascinating. i read about it it's like what you said, a land hurricane. a straight line storm that came from chicago right across the land here. >> like a rocket. >> 80 miles an hour wham, hit us like we didn't even know what hit us. >> there was not much preparation or advanced warning at all. >> no. the sky was purple and orange and it was crazy. >> carol and i are up at the beach in rhode island.

i look at my iphone. i have a tweet from the a neighbor who said you may want to check with your neighbors because i just sawyer your house on television and your street is closed because trees have fallen down and there is lots of damage. >> yes. never a good sign to see your house on t.v. unless it's on like lifestyles of the rich and maimous. >> major tree down not far from here, took out the parts of three houses across the street from us and took out three cars. >> you weren't there? >> yeah. yeah. >> i will send pictures to you. >> this was split in half action unbelievable. >> my goodness. >> i haven't had a single conversation around town in the last three or four days that

hasn't started with: so, do you have power? >> do you have power or not? >> we have people calling once word got out we have people saying can we come stay with you? >> that's probably what it was. >> that's what it is. the story of the haves and the have-nots. >> 1%, the 99% in studio this entire hour as a friend of bill. we will be joined by senator tom harkin from iowa a little bit later. very excited about the students loan agreement finally reached at the 11th-plus hour of course, on friday. but first the full court press. >> on this monday, no more jumping on oprah winfrey's house unless katie homes goes on there to do it in celebration of leaving tom cruise. the hollywood couple is calling

it quits. katie is seeking divorce and asking for custody of their 6-year-old daughter, siri. she said she has had enough with tom's scientology beliefs. >> it's three for him now. right? the third marriage i hope john trav oath a is involved somehow. >> they have demands as they move up. >> i think siri is at the age where it's time for her. >> she had to either -- yeah. >> the fastest man in the world, maybe no longer. jamaican runner lost in the 100 and 20 ohm meter qualifying sprint in their country's trials. he blamed it on being distracted by his competitor moving his feet. they are going to london and he

was the first to congratulate blake on his win after the race. >> if nothing else we cannot have the fastest man being johan blake. the fastest man is bolt. let's keefe that alive. >> another attempt at swimming unassisted from cuba to florida has been abandoned, penny pelfrey ended her ament after 41 hours in the water because of the strong ocean currents working against her. she was only about 26 miles from key west. >> that's all? >> the ap reports. the 49-year-old vam a total of 79 miles her previous personal best was 67 miles. >> she is getting closer and closer. >> not even fidel could do that. >> nia-malika, have you been on the road? >> with mitt romney. >> did you make it to wolfboro

new hampshire? >> i did not. he is going to be up there all week in his vacation home all of the romney clan is going to be there. i think there are about 30 and 18 grand kids and they have rom romney olympics and bike riding and swimming and sports that they do. they will be up there all week. i am surprised at how inactive he is as a candidate so far. he is doing allotted of fundraising. they have a goal of something like 100 million over this nextquah quarter and it looks like be doing that. he was in new york hanging out with donald trump for a couple of fundraisers and, you know, they pulled in a lot a lot of money. i think next week after he gets back, he is going to speak in front of the naac. down in houston, texas that will be certainly an interesting speech. >> i hope that goes better than his speech in front of the latino executives elected officials. were there for that? >> i wasn't but the thing about mitt romney is not going to change his speech.

i am sure he will have some portion in there making a very soft appeal like he did in front of the latinos but i can't see that he is making a hard play for african-americans or latinos. i think you have to look at where the money is going. is he spending money on national spanish ads? is he doing the kind of ground work and manpower work on hiring people to reach out to those different communities? it's my sense he is not doing it. >> the rap on him amongst republicans. now, it's starting to be among republicans that he is just not specific enough on any issue he doesn't say what he would do about immigration. he doesn't say what he would do. i want to particularly talk about healthcare. what he would do about healthcare or what he would do about jobs, what he would do about other than criticizing president obama who hasn't done enough on this or that. >> that's right. >> or syria or iran. you name the issue? >> he has plenty of

fault-finding. >> but he hasn't comported with anything. how long can he get away with that that? >> i think they will try to get away with it. he has talked about this. >> hate read counting on hate red of president obama? >> that's right. they count on winning by default. they are running this by a court case where you have to raise reasonable doubt, don't have to put on a case of your own. you are hearing republicans now say that you can't just say you are going to repeal and replace. you have to come up with a replacement plan. what have you got on the table in terms of healthcare? so far they have beenability get away with this general approach to all issues appear not put a lot of meat on the bones and tell us what he will do. >> on healthcare and you were with him on the road when this decision came down or following him at any rate. it seemed to me he was caught sort of flat-foot.

he did say two days before, tuesday of last week he said i thought a colossal mistake but if the supreme court invalidates the affordable care act, that means that the first three and a half years of the obama presidency have been a waste of time hello. >> yeah. >> they would have argued that the opposite was true? >> that they did push through successfully this bold plan ream neo this. >> i think they believe the conventional wisdom in washington which, by that time was that the individual mandate was going to be struck down, maybe these other pieces would have been kept in place. you could tell they were subdued. the whole romney campaign, his aides, staffers, sub due diligence. they watched the decision in a holds room in the hilton washington hilton the hinkley

hilton and, you know, they came out with that statement, which was probably his strongest statement on healthcare so far. this whole idea of he is the only one standing in the way of getting this thing knocked down. he is the only one he can do it. he is an imperfect messenger for so many reasons, because of romney care and those debates he had with tim pawlenty and rick santorum. they made that case. he is an imperfect messenger but he will do that. it will be interesting to see how much he talks about healthcare going forward. >> he presents a problem, it seems to me for republicans insponding because they can't be too critical of obama on healthcare and some of the particular prove faiths because they are mitt romney provisions some said i know how to attack

this because roberts said it's okay under the taxing authority. they say they are going to say this is tax, tax, tax, the biggest tax in american history but the fact is this came from mitt mitt romney. >> who talked about it adds like the personal responsibility clause and really framed it in this conservative language. >> that's where the individual mandate came from, from heritage foundation. in talking to democrats, it's a tax in massachusetts but also there is a sense that people who don't like the healthcare plan already understand it as a tax and this government encroachment. so it's not necessarily a new framing that republicans have now. people don't like it already understand it. >> others have pointed out, and correctly so, that the only people who would pay this penalty, fee, or tax, whatever you want to call it are people who don't by health insurance. who can afford it but don't buy it. >> right. >> who want to be free loaders. newt gingrich had some harcial

things to say. this is the language mitt romney used. this whole idea of just because you you don't want to buy it you think go to the emergency room and have everyone else pick up the tab if you get in a motorcycle accident. >> one nice thing about having the week off in wolfeboro new hampshire this week is maybe they can figure out what they are going to have to say about handwriting when it comes back on the healthcare trail. i thought last week -- >> they were flat-footed, trying different kind of things. >> that's right. they are going to wry to wrap it into an argument. >> as we discussed in the last hour, what john boehner's answer is, we will just repeal it again. >> right. right right. >> we will have another vote among the house republicans and we will repeal it again. that will show them. >> they are fighting the last war. you know from campaigns, this is not what you want to do. you don't want to keep relieving the past campaign but they feel

like this is what their base wants. certainly some of those house races, they feel like this ruling is going to energize folks on the right. >> nia-melika henderson, national reporter for "the washington post," here as a friend of bill. we will invite you to the table. we save a seat now 866-55-press is the toll-free number where you join the conversation on the full-court press for monday, july 2nd, birthday weekend for all of us. week rather. not the weekend. week. >> that's right. >> not yet. right? [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> radio meets television the bill press show now on current tv. collide on "the gavin newsom show." this week the experts are wrong. failing is good and wall street is bad. but how does vinod khosla really feel?

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[ music ] >> this is the bill press show. live on your radio at current tv. hey, you bet. it's 25 minutes after the hour. senator tom harkin will be joining us. by "us," i mean me and nia-melika henderson from the "washington post" and all of you in our next segment. before we get to your calls at 866-55-press, nia-malika, you mentioned mitt romney was in new york for a day or so. he was hanging out with donald trump. he had an interesting meeting with rupert murdoch, head of news world. murdoch and rupert tweeted afterwards that mitt romney has a tough road ahead of him. the only way he can win is da-da-da. and he ended up with the world "doubtful."

he saw it t rupert is not high on mitt romney. he basic says he has to fire all of the folks that he has got around him now and who are advising him. otherwise, he wouldn't win. he was doubtful that he would do that. he talked about the obama team being just much more seasoned and experienced at this kind of thing. the pros in chicago. >> that's right. so did rupert have to tell anybody at fox news that maybe they had better maybe stop beating the romney drums? >> i don't think that message has yet gotten down to fox news yet. >> boy, the romney network. >> yeah. yeah. yeah. they are high on mitt romney but it's been something of an evolution. they haven't always been. >> no. in the primaries, rick santorum accused them. >> yeah. >> of being in his camp but now they do seem to be partial to mr. romney. >> one of the hottest cities on the planet yesterday was raleigh, north carolina.

here is careolcarol. hope you are staying cool. >> hi, bill. happy fourth. >> thank you. >> when you were speaking of the heritage foundation the first thing i thought of was i think the obama campaign should say thank you to the heritage foundation. they came up with the mandate. >> nia-malika, you referenced that earlier. this is where it came with. >> this is where it came from you. you have got mitt romney on video talking about it talking about it as personal responsibility, the personal responsibility call talking about how much he is in favor of the individual mandate. i am guessing there are probably going to be some ads if not from the obama campaign, itself maybe from some of the super p.a.c.s that are gearing up. and seem to be wanting to frame healthcare a little bit more than the top of the ticket because i am not sure yet how much either side wants to talk about healthcare at this point.

>> but isn't it interesting as your client did a great piece in new yorker magazine, this idea came from the heritage foundation. >> right. >> it was the conservative answer to clinton's healthcare reform legislation. >> that's right. >> and it was embraced enthusiastically endorsed by bob dole. >> by newt gingrich. >> by chuck grass lee and you name it. all of the republican senators and by governor mitt romneyley and you name it. all of the republican senators and by governor mitt romney the individual mandate coupled with the penalty for not buying or now that they are calling the tax, that was their answer to cost-cutting and their answer to universal coverage. >> that's right. >> so once president obama embraced it. >> all of the sudden it's big government take offer. >> then they turned against it. we will get tom harkin's take on that as well when we come back with nia-melika henderson. >> this is the bill press show.

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[ music ] >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the bill press show. >> thirty-three minutes after the hour. well, who says that the house and the senate cannot get together, and who says the republicans and democrats cannot get together and get something done in congress? they just might just have to wait a long time to see it happen. it finally, did happen. nia-melika henderson from the washington post is in studio with us and to get up to date on some of the successes of the congress before they broke for the july 4th week we go to our good friend back in iowa the senior senate, tom harkin a great friend. good morning, senator. >> good morning, bill. sorry i

have to be with you this way but i am out in iowa. >> we love having you in studio but we understand how important it is to get home to the district. >> absolutely. >> back to the ranch. >> right. that's right. >> good to have you with us. senator, you and i last time we were in, we were talking about the student loans and how important it was that studinues to have this break of loans at a 3.4% interest rate. it looked like july 1st was going to occur and they were going to double. what happened? >> well, reason prevailed. we worked out agreements with the republicans in terms of what they call the pay force. how do you pay for it? >> uh-huh. >> we worked it out in a way that everyone kind of agreed on. we took a little bit of what they had and they took a little bit of what we wanted. cripples, that's the way this place is supposed to work. the interest rates will stay at 3.4% for the nestxt year. >> part was the transportation

bill. what's that going to mean this 105 million bill? what's that going to mean for the jobs picture? >> getting the highway bill through, the transportation bill through. >> into the fall, next summer also, it's a two-year bill. that's probably the biggest problem, only two years. most of of our bills on transportation have been five-year bills. it takes a long time to plan. >> sure. >> for sanitation bridges, things like that. the republicans insisted we have a short-term measure and, well the agreement we could reach was two years. better than nothing but it is going to help the job picture a little bit. >> you know, senator, i think a lot of republicans watching the program this morning or reading the news over the weekend would probably say, william, this is good, but why did it take you so long? not youpey of course? right? why did it take so long and why couldn't can as you pointed out,

why couldn't you do this for five years or make the student loans permanent? there is a frustration there which i am sure you feel senate. i know you do. >> it's very frustrating. have you met the new republican tea party yet? there is not two parties the there is one party now, a republican team and they just a few people they just won't budge. they won't do anything until you reach the final, you know, the deadline and they try to get out of it everything thing. you know, it's an old tactic. and sometimes, it's been used in the past. i won't say politicians have never used it. but they have taken it to the extreme on just about everything. and so we come up to the last minute. and we finally, reach our agreements and move ahead. but i can tell you it's moving us in the wrong direction in terms of having decent legislation, well thought out and voted upon and amended. we don't do that any more. >> senator, you guys were able

to come together around these bills so some breakout of bi-partisanship. is that going to last? you get four months into this election. >> last week was a pretty good week. the food and drug administration reauthorization of passed overwhelmingly, in the house, senate, sentence to the president. that bill came through our committee. i am proud of that. it's a good bill. we are going to get generalerics on the market faster than we have in the past. now, we keep drug prices down. so we got that through. the student loan, major issue, pointed out. we got through the highway bill. yeah, congress can -- we can get the job done. it's just the republican team is just making it tougher and tougher to get things done in a kind of an orderly manner so to speak. >> well, nobody except perhaps the late great senator ted kennedy fought harder and longer

for universal healthcare than you have, senator tom harkin as chair of the health labor and pensions committee. there was another victory. you were there thursday in front of the supreme court when that % decision came down. now, we know you were happy with it but you have got to admit you were as surprised as the rest of us? >> truth be told, you bet i was. >> pleasantly surprised. >> right. >> but surprised, and i was hoping, well action we can just move forward but again, it seems like again i just have to say this republican tea party they will stop a lot nothing, nothing to protect the insurance companies and to defeat our healthcare reform. now, i see they are outgoing after justice roberts. i heater stories they changed his mind at the last minute. well, you know, maybe he had a pang of conscience. you know maybe he realized that this was the right direction to

go in. but i see now the republican team, they are going to go after him. >> right. but this is, and also we were talking about this a little bit earlier. republicans basically are saying, well, so what? we are going to try to repeal it anyway. they may say so what but to have this particularly, they may say so what. the roberts supreme court affirmed constitutionalty. joe biden would say this is a bfd. would you agree. >> i agree it's a billg deal. i see the boehner thing. they have voted to repeat it in the house once before. it's just another political vote. >> sure. >> but, you know, another thing, maybe john roberts, justice roberts, wanted to help mitt romney because, you know, i have a quote here from mitt romney in january of 2008, and this is his direct quote no, no. i like mandates. the mandates work. so maybe justice roberts is trying to help romney out a

little bit, you know. >> a secret plan to help mitt romney out. what do you think, senator, this will mean in iowa? >> a state six electoral votes for the fall, it's a swing state. what the do you think this decision means for that campaign for that state come november? >> what i think is that for a long time, there has been a cloud over this bill. >> uh-huh. >> as soon as we passed it, republicans attacked it, went to court, winding its way through the courts. i think a lot of people were just, william, is this really a law, or is it not? what's going to happen? i think now, with the supreme court saying this is constitutional, it's settled, i think now people rig go to start saying, if this the law, what's in it for me? what's in it for my family? once they start asking that question and start thinking about how this is going to be good for their kids, how it's going to be good for their families, where if they have a sonora daughter who had diabetes, that they are going to be able to get health insurance throughout their lives even if

they did have a pre-existing condition. they are going to be able to get that. people who have bumped up against lifetime caps because they have had breast cancer or something like that, now there is no more lifetime caps. the elderly, the doughnut hole is closing. elder are getting rebates back. so preventive care, you you can get immunizations colon ausccopy screenings mammogram screenings cervical cancer screenings, all of this without any co pays or deductibles. when people start looking at this, they say this is a pretty good deal for my family. >> yeah. those individual provisions. senator, president obama said last week this means we have to keep moving forward and keep building on this. i know because we have talked about it when the legislation was underway. this did not do everything you would like to see in universal healthcare legislation. building on it, what would you like to add to the affordable care act? what do you think should be kind

of the next goal as to expand it? >> well, of course, bill i have been for singel-payer system which i think is the best way to go for our country. we are not there yet. i think one of the best things we can do as we add on to it in the future is to do what we really had the votes to do when we passed it, but it got shunted aside. >> that's to put a public option on the health exchanges so that people can go to private insurance companies if they want or they can opt into a medicare type system. i believe that will tend to really keep prices down and give people an option that they don't have right now. i think that's one of the best things that we can start working for. >> you know, i remember when president obama who was the chief advocate of the -- thenu 1 advocate of a public option at the time, he said it's important if not essential to guaranty choice and to keep down costs.

>> well, and that's my -- that's why i think a public option would go a long way toward doing both of those things. i am not going to give up on the effort to, in the future to and this, to work to get as exchanges come up in 2014, bill, to try to get a public option out there. >> what are your concerns senator, about the man dates? one of the thing was they had the option of whether or not they want to actually expand medicaid and include some of their citizens who can't afford healthcare. what are your concerns when you hear that some republican governors are saying -- >> already. >> already are sawing they are not going to opt into this? >> a couple of things. first, some states have already done certain things to get up above that poverty line for people on medicaid. some states have already done that. secondly, i can't imagine a state legislature regardless of what the governors are saying that wouldn't say, my gosh, we can get this up to 130% of upon

and the federal government is going to pay the whole ticket for three years. >> that's money coming into their state to help their healthcare system. and then, after that three years, i think it's -- what is it? 2017 or 2018, then they pay 10%? >> still a heck of a good deal to get that much federal money coming into the medicaid system. i will tell you this: i remember when we were debating this, that came out of the finance committee. >> uh-huh. >> all of the man dates and all of the other things pre-existing condition, all of that came out of our health committee. when we were putting these two things together, this issue came up on the medicaid >> and i can remember it well because we were talking about well, why do you even have that personally in there because states are going to want to do this anyway. and that's how i feel about this medicaid decision. i don't think it's going to mean much because i think states regardless of what a republican governor may say now in the

frenzy of the time. when it comes down to it, i believe states are going to opt in. the governor may not want to but you wait and see what those legislateors have say. >> good to have you with us. have a great break in the state of iowa. enjoy your time, and we will look for you. >> keep cool. it's hot out here, too. >> thank you, sir. >> you got it. all right, thanks. tom harkin very interesting there, i think, saying that the next step is a public plan option. i think he made a little news there. >> yeah. yeah. >> that's what he wants to do. and i say he is absolutely right on. nia-melika henderson, national political reporter for washington post in studio. we will come back and take your calls at 866-55-press. >> on your radio on t.v. the bill press show. new on current tv.

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>> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the bill press show. >> it's 11 minutes before the top of the hour. boy, we covered the water around here politically with nia-melika henderson, national political reporter for the washington post. i am glad to join you in the conversation. 866-555-press. interesting tom harkin is thinking about where we go flu here. >> yeah. >> on the public plan option. >> that's right. obviously, it all depends upon who is in the white house and what the senate and the houses look like going forward. but, yeah, ig a lot of

progressives still want that public option. >> i love that attitude, which is don't retreat. right? >> yeah. >> don't hunker down. >> yeah. take this affirm a from the supreme court and build on it. right? >> right. >> the first most e immediate "thing is to fullilism the affordable care act, some of which didn't kick in until 2014." >> that's right. >> and that's what catherine seb i will yas is focused on. as these things kick in, as the senate was pointing out, i think, public support for the families is pretty good. >> about 46%. as we were saying, 46% for, 46% against. once people actually start to feel this in their daily lives, then i think there will be more attached to it and they will support it more. >> once they've got it. >> probably right. hard to let go of something you have. >> all of these stories, they

are real true stories about parents who county by health insurance for their little girl because she had diabetes and now she is 12 or something and they can't buy health insurance. all of these hardship stories and these people now are able to have health insurance and there are millions and millions of them more every year. >> that's right. >> they are not going to turn this around. >> can you imagine democrats will try to start to connecticut the policy to people much more than they have. joe the plumber, people like that who they can hold out and say this person -- >> they had better. >> that's what they need to do. they need to do to make sure all americans understand exactly what was upheld by the supreme court. it's not something esoteric theoretical. it's something that helps you and your kids, your family. now, i have to ask you this, too. this is sunday's "new york times," geoff seleni good friend of ours with jim rutenberg. the headline is: bain attacks main make inroads for the

president. the gist of it is that despite what cory booker says. ? >> and bill clinton and a couple of other people. >> bill clinton and ed randal saying, this is unfair for you to attack mitt romney that the bain which the obama campaign i think, to its credit had not given up on. bill burton hasn't given up. they keep making the case that mitt romney says i am a businessman. look at my record at bain. i know how to create jobs. they say when you look at bain he was destroying jobs. >> they created jobs in singapore. >> this criticism seems to be working for obama. >> it is working. he specially in those swing states where focus have experienced outsourcing jobs going overseas and so that is what they have he'sed on. this is, of course, a story we ran in the washington post, i think it was last friday all about bain being an army investor in companies that were trying to figure out the whole idea of outsourcing jobs. >> yeah. >> and taking jobs overseas.

they were obviously very, very worried about the story. they were very much confronting the washington post. >> they tried to get you to retract it. >> they did not. we will not. it's a wonderfully written and deeply reported story. but they are worried about it. i don't have a sense from the romney campaign. you see them. they are up with these ads in some of the swing states that call these ads, the obama campaign calling romney outsourcer in chief. and hillary rodham clinton calling obama a liar essentially saying he is dumping millions of ads. this is from 2008. i never really am convinced those sorts of as matches # work because people understand that was in 2008. in twelve now, it's a different ball game. so we will see what sort of pushback. but you are right. the obama campaign, that's why you see them ahead, i think about an 8-point gap that the

obama campaign is ahead in these swing states. >> romney a job destroyer. how dare you confuse outsourcing with offshoring. let's make this campaign 2012 a debate between offshoring and outsourcing. fun to have you in studio. happy birthday. >> yeah. thank you. yeah. >> i will be back with a quick parting shot. i'll be back with a parting shot. >> this is the bill press show. now on current tv.

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