[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> good morning, everybody. good to see you this monday morning. it is monday july 9, 2012. this is the full court press, your new morning show on current tv. great to see you this morning. thank you so much for joining us. mitt romney had a big day up in the hamptons yesterday, big dinner at the koch brothers. price to get in? $50,000 a plate for $75,000 if you came as a couple. imagine that. >> that's more money than most americans make in a whole year.

yeah. mitt romney, no man of the people. we will talk about mitt romney where his money and where he has parked it and a lot more on today's big full-court press. first, we go out to the los angeles to get the latest from lease a ferguson. hi, lease a. >> hi, bill. good morning. good morning, everyone. we are keeping an eye on a couple of things going on out of washington today. president obama will call for a one-year extension of the bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 a year. today's statement will draw -- excuse me -- a hard line between the president and house republicans who plan to vote this month to extend all of those bush era tax cuts permanently for both middle and upper income families. on friday, president obama called out mitt rom energy for planning to give $5 trillion worth of new tax breaks on top -- excuse me -- on top of the bush era tax cuts most of which would go to the wealthiest americans. and the house rules committee is holding an emergency meeting kicking off an unrealistic

attempt to repeal healthcare reform. they are planning to vote wednesday. panel members must have the access to the bill 24 hours. the texast has been on line and it is as you might expect. just for show. the repeal will not go any farther than the houses. mitt romney's campaign, as bill mentioned is padding it's wallet with an extra $3 million after a weekend of fundraising in the hamptons. romney and with reflon chairman ronald perlman and finally with david koch. it's possible that last appearance did romney more harm than good. >> that's what a group of protesters are hoping. about 200 demonstrators demonstrated outside the koch house and hired a plan to fly over ahead with romney has a koch problem. we are in chat right now. current.com/billpress.

he's back in d.c. and does face felony hit and run charges for >>we talk a lot about the influence of money in politics. it is the defining issue of this era. the candidate with the most money, does win. this is a national crisis.

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[ ♪ theme ♪ ] ' [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> broadcasting across the nation, on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> well, when do you know? we finally, got a break in the heat wave. it dropped 15 degrees yesterday in washington, d.c. down to a pleas ants 85. well with that start off the good week starting good and re-frenched over the -- refreshed over the weekend. here we go on a monday action monday, july 9. back in town from camp david, a big announcement we will bring

you the latest from our nation's country around the global and take your calls and give you a chance to sound off from what % all of these issues mean for you and your family. mitt romney with a big weekend in the hamptons yesterday, $50,000 a plate for fundraiser at the koch brothers. of course, the koch brothers can afford it. about but who else can afford it? i guess you and i didn't make it. we have lots to talk about today. >> that's why it's good to see you. let's welcome back the whole team press here this morning. peter ogburn dan henning. >> hey hey. >> bill, good morning. >> cyprian gets the big wave. everybody wave to cyprian. 106 saturday. it was too damn hot. >> it was hot out. >> yeah. >> it was hot out. >> rather warm although it could have been -- don't yell at me here. here in d.c., the humidity was only 25% on saturday. >> i heard that on the radio and

couldn't believe it. i was out, man. it felt like more than -- >> it was horrible. don't get me wrong. >> i heard that. i thought, that must be a mistake. >> yesterday was cooler but the humidity was higher. >> it was hotter until it kind of started to rain. >> when it gets to about 85, '86, which is not cool weather, it's like, oh my god. put on a long-sleeve shirt and go out and chill. >> on a day like that is go to the moves. woody allen's new movie one of the funniest movies i have ever seen. >> really? >> to rome with love. >> it has not been received well. >> no but leslie wanted to see that but i said, no, we are seeing "ted," the new setting setting mcfarland movie. >> follow your girl's advice. >> fiance.

she was happy. she ended up being happy. >> no. you. >> you liked the woody allen movie? >> loved t i totally recommend if if you want to go see a good flick. you will laugh your gut out. i am telling you. >> all of the reviews said it was the worst woody allen movie in years. it's nice to hear. i value your opinion. >> i am a woody allen fan. not all of his movies have been great but the reviews i read were pretty positive. the story is funny. roberto benini, shire. >> god. he is so funny. >> the tenor, i don't know his name, but a real opinionratic tenor who has a starring role in the movie steals the show. >> i will check it outeratic tenor who has a starring role in the movie steals the show. >> i will check it out. >> woody allen has a role as father of one of the leading actresss. really enjoyed it. a sad note from the hollywood. we lost another great actor,

t.v. and the big movies, too, earnest borg nine who died at 95. not a handsome hollywood actor by any stretch. right? >> i didn't realize he had won an academy award for best actor. >> he had. >> because he was not a leading man time thing. >> no. no. >> a big pouch, kind of weird, funny-looking kind of face. he was more a character actor than anything. what was it? mchale's navy? >> yeah. a t.v. show. >> he died. on the fox and friends, steve ducey asked him what's the secret for your long life? you look wapitiastic? you look like you are in your late 60s. >> i don't dare argue. >> tell me. tell me.

>> i masturbate a lot. >> that was great. >> ernie have you ever been on youtube. >> you are on you tune now. ernie, you are on youtube. >> that's the secret to long life. >> 91 years old. >> he lived to 95. >> that's a pretty good run. >> yeah. all right. but we have a great line-up for you today. she will be here it wasn't that great on friday. hilda solis will be here to talk about it in our third hour this morning, daniel stone from newsweek, daily beast, will be here as a friend of bill and we will check in with our buddy dave zyron, sports editor for "the nation". >> first this is the full court press. >> other headlines making news barney frank got a married over the weekend. the soon to be retired nasa democrat married his long-time

partner jim ready in a saturday-night ceremony outside boston officiated by governor duval patrick. over 300 people were in attendance to recognize first member of congress to be a same-sex marriage in a ceremony that lasted 5 years. ready is 30 years younger than frank and appear carpenter. >> and well-do. yeah. >> i like those short ceremonies. five minute ceremonies, i like that. >> they promised today love each other on msnbc and fox. i think that was the wording. >> justin beiber had a heavy led foot on a los angeles freeway. >> newly we had barnie frank will be in stud yost with us tomorrow. >> on his honeymoon? >> what a honeymoon, the full court press. what a honeymoon. >> justin beiber had a heavy led foot friday while trying to escape chasing paparazzi sfrafrz. riders report police pulled over

the 18-year-old and cited him doing 80 in a 65 but was doing well over 100 during most of the red in his high bred karma with a price tag starting at $100,000. >> what's he doing driving at 18? what's he doing driving? you would think somebody like beiber would have a car and driver. >> this kid is up to no good. i am telling you this is the beginning of the end familiar names, hoisted champ upon shim trophies. certain serena beat dewogsta. >> are you sure you have it correct. >> to win her 5th all england club championship in 14th over all. her sister venus was there, it ended a two-year drought. roger federer read his 17th grand alabama title over the british star andy murray.

it's 7th win the british drought continues. no one from the home country has won that in 76 years. >> nobody got until the finals until anthony murray. >> and e murray. >> i don't know whether you saw the video of the match yesterday. mainly brits in the stand were all crying. grown men, all standing there, tears running down their cheeks because andes murray didn't win. >> he was bawling. >> he broke down. >> very, very e motional. >> everyone was there. david beckhan, indicate middleton, pipap middleton quite a crowd to play in fronts of. >> nervous a little bit, do you think? yeah, we start out with mitt romney's money. look, we always knew he had a lot of money. let's put it this way we are go going to write about this one day. this man had made a lot of money

creating jobs. made a lot of money creating jobs in america. he paid a lot of taxes and the reason we know he paid a lot of taxes, because he released many of his tax returns, he produced basically all of the information anybody ever wanted to know about how he acquired his wealth and what he did with it, but, of course, that romney is not mitt romney. that romney was his father george romney, who released 12 years of tax returns. there was another candidate named romney and this guy made a lot of money, also. but he made a lot of money not creating jobs in america. he made a lot of money killing jobs in america, and he made a lot of money shipping jobs offshore from america. and he didn't pay so much in taxes. we don't really know what he has paid over the years because he refused to release his tax returns action unlike his father. he released only one year, not

12 years and he won't tell us how much money he has and how much money he has stashed away and where he has it stashed away. all of this is coming out more and more. there is an article that sort of broke in the barrier, raised a lot of questions, in "vanity fair" this month and it talks about gray areas we don't know about mitt romney's money. we do know without knowing the details that mitt romney has a swiss bank -- he says he is worth $250 million. it looks like he is worth a lot lot more than that. we do know he is the first candidate with a swiss bank account, the first president with a tax shelter in the kayman islands. again, we don't know how much money is in it, where it comes from. and he is the first candidate for president with a tax haven,

a tax shelter in bermuda. yesterday, the obama campaign put out at video by -- this is ben lebolt, the press secretary for the obama campaign where he lies lays out what we do know the little we know, but what we do know now about mitt romney's money. >> here are some things we do know: mitt romney owned a shell corporation registered in bedroom useda. he keepsrmudaa. he keeps. he had a bank account in schwitzer land, mitt romney lately talking about getting tough on china invested 1 dotted $5 million there. the romney campaign said when we pointed out these simple facts we distorting reality and launching false stacks but they never said what was false. >> that's because they are true. >> can you imagine? by the way, peter, do you have a swiss bank account? >> no.

never. >> i lived in switzerland for two years. i went to school there. i got a degree from switzerland. i don't have a swiss bank account. there are only two reasons, only two possible reasons you get a swiss bank account. number 1, to avoid paying taxes or, number 2 -- u.s. taxes or, number 2, because you are involved in some criminal activity. i am not suggesting mitt romney is. but clearly, then he's only got it to avoid paying taxes. then it continues. these are questions i love to get your response on. 866-55-press. here are questions all of this raises for all of us about mitt romney. >> so here is a list of questions the american people deserve the answer to: first, does the romney family still own the bermudan shell corporation in question in the if so why won't romney's campaign admit it. >> good question. >> second, why did romney transfer ownership to a bland

trust in his wife's name the day before he was sworn in as governor. >> good question. >> the only logical explanation is, in order to avoid disclosure. if romney has a better explanation, lease here. >> let's hear it. >> third, bermuda doesn't tax corporate gains. convenient. what taxes would romney have paid inf his money was invested here in america. >> good question. >> military romney hasis saying he hasn't technically broken laws in keeping offshore tax haynes. is not technically breaking the law a high enough standard for someone who wants to be president of the united states. >> my number one question -- my number question to you is: why? why why? why does mitt romney have a swiss bank account, a tax shelter in bermuda and a tax shelter in the cayman islands? 866-55-press. i think this is a huge huge new

issue. 866-55-77377. tell me about your swiss bank account. how much money you've got in it and how much in u.s. taxes are you avoiding paying with your swiss bank account. what cheater. >> this is the full court press, the bill press show, live on your radio and on current tv.

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tv. >> so mitt romney racked in about 3 to $4 million over the weekend up in the hamptons. first of all, a little reception at the home of ron perrelman. ron perrelman's estate 57 acres, the main house, 40 rooms, nine fireplaces, costs you $5,000 to get into that reception or $25,000 if you wanted to get your picture taken with mitt romney. then you had another event at the home of former ambassador clifford sobell, ambassador to brazil under george w. and then finally, the dinner at the combo koch brothers, david and charles there. the koch brothers, subjects of my book, "the obama hate machine." that costs you $50,000 a head or $75,000 if you went as a couple. i am sure mitt romney we want and talked about they probably compared notes on their swiss bank accounts or their kaycayman

island shelters. join chat room. encourage you to do so with other current tv watchers and radio listeners on current.com. join the full court pressers in the chat room. >> so what about your swiss bank account? romney is calling from north carolina. >> i don't know. >> what's wrong with you you slouch? >> i haven't met that 5 million marker to transfer over to it. you don't have that income income to go bury. >> not this year. >> doesn't it say a lot about mitt romney? not just the 1% versus 99. he is up there in the .0001%. >> this is just more of the hippocris e from the right because they screamed about

president obama not being transparent. can you imagine the uproar if president obama had swiss bank accounts when he was running for president? yeah. and we didn't know what he was worth? >> there has never been -- there has never been -- look. you have to have a lot of money to get involved in politics and i am not saying obama is a pauper. there has never been a president that we know of that had a swiss bank account. we would have known about it, or off-shore investments like in the kaymen islands and bermuda. i think it's -- i think this is it. the other thing is, and peter, you made this point earlier, too, you know, romney has been running for president for what? 10 years? >> basically. >> i mean he knew this stuff was going to come out. why doesn't he have an answer for it? is it just that their answer is we are not going to tell you. paul, in -- if they don't tell us, what are they hiding? paul is in lebanon, ohio. >> good morning, mr. press. >> bill. thank you. good morning. >> good morning. my question is: if republicans

are ask ridiculous birther questions, why can't democrats ask: where is your money at? >> yeah. good, good point. also, where is your money at and why are you parking your money in bermuda. right? >> and how did you get it? >> amen. yeah. how did you get it? and this one in bermuda, by the way, sankady, named after a light house up in massachusetts has no assets. it says zero assets and yet it spins off a hell of a lot of money, income every year so what is this money and where did it come from and what's he doing with it? and how much is he not paying in u.s. taxes by parking his money in switzerland and the cayman islands. >> this is the bill press show.

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goiam.org. talking about mitt romney and the latest and the questions that have been raced by a big article in vanity fair picked up by the obama campaign over the weekend. mitt romney still not providing any answers to the fact that he's got a swiss bank account, why, and how much money is in it and where did it come from? number 2, he's got a tax shelter we know in the cayman islands. how much money is in it? where did that come from? number 3, another big tax shelter in bermuda. i don't know how much money in it or where does it come from why does he need a swiss bank account? i am telling you. you know as well as i. you don't have one. i don't have one. there is only one reason, maybe two. the real reason is not to pay u.s. taxes, to avoid paying u.s. taxes, unless you're laundering money involved in some criminal activity. i don't suspect that mitt romney

of that at all. >> well. >> no. i don't go there. i don't want any right-wing blogs to say bill press accuses mitt romney of being a crook. i am not saying that at all. i am saying we know he is not. therefore, we know he is sheeting on his taxes. 866-55-press. don't you think? robert calling from rockford, illinois. hey, robert, what do you say? >> first of all, bill, i love you and your show. >> well, thank you. back at you. >> i think he is probably doing something that's not legal. and i don't have any off-shore accounts. >> what's wrong with you? where do you park all of your money, robert? >> at my local bank. >> you would think. >> i don't have an offshore account. it reflects the type of person this man would be as president. he would be easily influenced by the autocrats. >> like the people he was hanging out this weekend. right?

when the only people you hang out at the beach. >> exact. >> president was in ohio, you saw the people he was hanging out with. at produce stand, whatever. mitt mitt romney is in the hamptons with people who pay $50,000 a head to come shake his hand. >> he is hanging with the elite, which is what he is. >> exactly. very good point. robert, good to hear from you. thank you so much from checking in. i think it does say a lot yesterday. it says who romney is, who he hangs out with and as robert pointed out, what his priorities would be as president because the only people he really -- we see this before. we saw this when he talked about his best friends having only nascar teams, his best friends own nfl teams.

right? when he talks about ann's favorite support, dressage. she not only has this million dollar horse. she's got, you know, people that groom that horse,tation care of it for her and fly it all around the world to compete as she is going to take it to london so it can compete in the summer olympics. so every time he opens his mouth almost, he is telling you how much money he has. did you see the photo of him over the weekend in this huge power boat where he has the big family of his and kids and grandkids and in-laws and everything on this power boat up in new hampshire? >> wow. >> mitt romneys, man of the people, i don't think so. steve in lansing michigan. hey, steve, what's your take? good morning. >> good morning. >> yes. what's going on. >> yes, bill, what i heard about this same report was about romney's 401(k). >> 401(k). >> i'm sorry. i am a little nervous.

yeah, supposedly there is a report of a $1 million that's in there what little bill i know about this retirement program, you are only allowed to put 6 ,000 in there on a yearly basis. he's only been doing it for 15 years based on a report. and at the most he could ever have in the 30-year period would be $180,000. >> right. i believe it was his ira. peter and dan and i were talking about it this morning. he has somewhere between $20,000,101,000,000 in an ira. i have an ira. peter and dan have. and what we recalled was 5,000. maybe it's up to 6,000 now. but there is a limit on how much money you can put into one of

those puppyies right. how did he get $11 million in there? who knows. >> how can you do it if a commoner like me can only put one 80,000 in there. >> i think you raise an exelements question. guys when we were talking this morning, i had that article in front of me. at any rate, i remember the facts. it was the ira. yev in palm city florida. >> you hear about romney and his offshore accounts and not paying his taxes on that stuff and you wonder why we don't have money to fix a bridge or a pothole or pay for a war. >> yeah. >>. >> here he is feeling -- hiding all of the tax money. >> hey, hey, you know what? that -- i just remembered it was paul krugman this morning who reports on that ira. and geoff, you are absolutely right. the point that krugman makes

makes -- we hope we have to put that on our website. paul krugman's column. the point he makes, geoff, is the one you are making. we don't know how much money he avoided paying in taxes because he only gave us one year of his tax returns. when ms. father put out 12 years of tax returns, his father said you know, i am putting out 12 years because, he said one year tells you nothing. >> that's what he said. one year could be a fluke. you need to see a whole stretch. right? obviously. >> can i ask another question? >> yeah. go ahead. >> he was in charge of the salt lake city olympics. what happened when the olympic committee send the kids to college and stuff when they extorted money from the olympic schmidt. >> you know, geoff, i don't know anything about it. my impression is that romney did a pretty good job of shaky -- my recall, fuzzy. right? is that the olympics there were

pretty shaky. they brought romney in and i think he did a pretty good job, my impression is running the olympics in salt lake city. >> that's not an endorsement for president. ron calling from springfield, illinois. hey, ron. >> how are you doing? >> bill. yes. >> very briefly, first off, he is not doing one thing wrong here that is in any way, shape, or form. understand i agree with you up to a point but he has not done anything wrong here. he has taken advantage of tax laws that the wealthy have put in place over the last 30-some-odd years starting with ronald reagan. >> i would agree with you but why? why a swiss bank account ron? sklar. >> here we go with the swiss bank accounts and the bahamas, it's the message framing here rather than concentrate on that what in my opinion progressives and democrats should be concentrating on and not even avoiding the taxes. what they should be concentrating on instead is here is a man who has so much wealth he has it spread all over the

world. you randydon't know how much money he has and yet he is doing everything he can to lower taxes even more on the wealthy. that's the messaging we should have. >> yeah. i think that's the message that the obama campaign is putting out there. but they are raising the question of the. why? i mean, why? there is no doubt. right? wouldn't you agree? forget criminal activity. yes suggest it. there is no doubt, he has the swiss bank account to avoid paying u.s. taxes. >> that's the point. the point is that that's personal legal to do and the wealthy have been doing this for the last 30 years. >> right. >> they continue to do this. >> here is the point. yeah, here is the pointed. s the first candidate for president ever with a swiss bank account and tax shelters that's a big deal. >> also, if you look at it realistically, again looking at it from i must admit a somewhat prejudice view point there is no way this election should be close. obama should walk away with this election when it comes strictly to the issues and things of this nature such as swiss bank

accounts and yet it's incredibly close. why is that? because our messaging is not getting through to the american people the conservative messaging is s. >> you are singing my song. i made the point many, many times that we have to do a better job of messaging. but, you know, in this country today, we are -- we are a divided nation, you know. there is no doubt about it. we are like/40 with maybe 20% in the middle somewhere that's probably hike, probably more like 10% in the middle. this is not and the president is the first one to say that. you might think it ought to be a landslide. it's not going to be a landslide. it's going to be a close election which is why we have to work our butts off. good to have you with us here on the full-court press. >> this is the bill press show.

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like this. i mean driving out to dinner saturday evening in the coor, showed 106 degrees. i went to the movies over the weekend. at 8:00 o'clock at night, it was 96 degrees. 8:00 o'clock at night, it was 96. it's insane. >> toefshlths. we will find out more about what's going on from the searchior meteorologist for accuweather, paul pastelock coming up on the next hour. on the political front, some things to catch up with thaddeus mccotter one of the strangest members of congress who suddenly jumped into the middle of the republican primary for president he announced he was going to run against rick perry and the rest of those clowns. didn't get off of the ground. so he dropped out of that and a

few months ago, he wasn't going to run for reelection. friday, he up and resigned quit the house. not even going to wait until the end of the year to finish out his term. you know, something is going on with this guy. weird, weird weird. he may not be the weirdest. i think that goes to alan west from florida. we talked about allen west last week. he has been representing a very republican area west palm beach. he saw a possibility of moving to a more republican area up around jabsonville so he just

moved he was in the news last week because he said obama wanted us to be slave. he likes as an african-american talking about bringing back slavery. it's sort of a one-trick pony now because on fox and friends yesterday morning and he can't get over the slavery gee. >> so once again we are creating this sense of economic dependence, which to me is a form of modern 21st century slavery. we need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit, the abdominal spirit of the united states of america and not make more people wetted to government policies and programs. >> the most shameful part of this whole thing is, so you have an idiot like that who says, you know if a draft said that, republicans would have been all over him and so would other leading democrats saying no, that's not fair. let's not go there.

>> that's ajust a bridge too far but rience prebius, he saide says, no no, no. he's got freedom of speech in this country, his first amendment rights. he can say whatever he believes, and i am not going to criticize or chastise allen west. big difference between the two parties. dan mentioned at the top of the hour, big news up in massachusetts on saturday where bark frank tied the knot with his long-term partner, jim ready. barnie becomes the first member of congress ever to come out as a gay person gayman and the first member of congress ever to marry a person of the same section. so definitely going down in the history books. also, mostly go down in the history books because he is one of the smartest, i think, and

most effective people ever to serve in the united states congress. awhile back earlier this year he was on with jim -- was it jimmy kimmel is. >> with jimmy kimmel. right. jimmy got into the age difference between barney and his now husband. >> may i ask what the age difference is between you and jim? >> thirty years. >> you dirty dog. >> barny is 72. jim is 42. president obama winding up his bus tour in pennsylvania on friday talked about healthcare reform and, again, he says this is for everybody and there are not going to be any freeloaders. >> if you can afford to buy health insurance and you don't get it so that you force us to pay for your health care when you get sing or you get in an accident, that ain't right. >> not right. >> that's why everybody's got to be in and that ain't right. >> that ain't right. he didn't say that's not right.

that ain't right. that ain't right. i love it. >> that ain't right. right. and then the president said again, as he said in ohio the day before obamacare is not going away. it's here to stay. >> i make no apology for it. it was the right thing to do. we are going to keep moving forward. >> that's why i am running for a second term of the united states? >> he is prout of that record, proud of delivering hanged for 36 million americans. check out my column at billpressshow.com. obamacare is here to stay. there is no way republicans are going to repeal it, no matter what mitt romney says. >> on your radio, on t.v., the bill press show new on current tv.

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hung hungarian apple pie having fresh horse meat in it is not only grossly inaccurate but gross besides. he said hungarians are excellent cooks and bakers something the english could learn from. also, he said hungarian are great horse people who would never think of horses as food. this is the polar opposite of the belgians, french italians germans and swiss. so he wants you to retract your comment about hungarian apple pie and horse meat. >> to be fair, i said the british apple pie was probably terrible action too. it's not like i was just -- man you said apple pie had goulash in it. >> i didn't say horse meat. you are getting me in trouble. >> all right. i don't apologize. >> whoa. >> that's right. you heard it. >> he didn't apologize. >> this is the bill press show. together. yeah. they are.

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>> good morning, everybody. good to see you. welcome to the full-court press here on current tv. it's monday, july 9th. a lot going on our nation's capitol, around the country, around the globe. we will tell you all about it. president obama set to make a big announcement today a little bit later today in the rose garden. he will propose extending tax cuts for every american who owns -- who is earning res than $250 a year. >> that's most of us: let's

hope he can get it done first, let's get all of the latest of today's current news update out in los angeles from lease a ferguson today. good morning, lisa. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everyone. as bill has been talking about over the last hour democrats are using a recent wave of news articles to attacks mitt romney for his offshore bank accounts. the obama has a new online video featuring ben lee bolt who is saying we don't know if romney put money offshore to avoid taxes because he won't release his tax returns. >> here are some things we do know. mitt romney owned a shell corporation registered in bermuda. he keeps millions of his income in the caymans. he had a bank account in switzerland. mitt romney, who is lately talking about getting tough on china invested as much as $1.5 million there. >> lebolt points out romney

transferred ownership to a blind trust in his wife's name the day before he was sworn in as governor. bermuda does not tax capital gains. it seems the obama campaign as are working in swing states. the latest gallup poll surveyed voters in 12 battle ground states and found one in 12 said campaign ads have changed their minds about the candidates of those people 76% say they prefer president obama. only 16% support romney u.s. ahead toward predicts $100 million in ad spending over the next month. also, according to the poll president obama is up 4730 to 45% in swing states and 48 to 44 pes overall. back with more, bill after the break and we are live in chat right now. current.com/billpress.

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cool and get ready to tackle issues. day. we will tell you what's happening around the country, around the globe. we will take your called at 866-55-press, and you are lucky this hour because you are not only getting to talk to me when you call but you will get to talk to the one and only daniel stone who covers the white house and congress and all kinds of stuff for newsweek daily beast, daniel stone, nice to see you. >> good morning, sir. >> all the way from california? >> i live here now. i certainly wish i was back in california. >> back in california. nice to see you. you know our team members here peter ogburn and dan henning. >> yes, sir. >> cyprian bowlding our videographer. here we go. >> good weekend. >> it was the great. it's just really pleasant to live here. >> you know what? it's the season in d.c. with anybody with any sense is out of it. >> absolutely. >> no kidding.

any way you can escape. >> my favorite in d.c. is in august when everybody leaves town. you have the whole place to yourself. >> if you can stand it. >> exactly. >> i mentioned that carol and i found the escape from the heat over the weekend as we want to see woody allen's movie. in the theaters, you have to wear sweaters at most movie theaters. they crank it down to about 55 degrees degrees. >> it's awesome. >> to rome with love. great movie. really, really good. peter went to the movie. dan said he and his fiance saw ted "ted." what's that about? >> fascinating film. >> you will love it, bill. >> i highly recommend it for you especially. carol will love it. fascinating film by the director of "family guy" seth mcfarlane. fantastic. >> you didn't say what it's about? >> dirty humor about a teddy bear. >> teddy bear comes to life. >> oh, yeah i am looking forward to that.

>> it's raunchy and all of that. >> well, my wife and kids are out of town so i actually saw two movies over the weekend. i saw -- >> "magic wife." time is gone -- wife is gop. i saw the amazing spiderman, which i loved. i really enjoyed it. >> i said superman. >> i saw the amazing spiderman which is very good. i saw it in imax, which was really cool. >> 3d. >> yes. i don't want to totaly nerd out on you. it was a good movie. it was unnecessary. all of the scenes felt a little familiar because, you know, the one they did just a few years ago with toby mcguire and i saw "abraham lincoln: vampire hunter" which was awful. it was awful but it was so much fun. >> i'm sorry i asked. >> we all had the same reaction

at the same time. >> you might like "abraham lincoln: vampire hunter". >> dan is with us this entire hour, so friends of bill we are excited about that. we are going to be joined by the senior meteorologist for accuweather in about half an hour and then the next hour labor secretary hilda solis in studio to talk about the latest job numbers. but first, the this is the full court press. >> i do. other headlines making news a big wedding in massachusetts over the weekend. soon to be retired democratic congressman barney frank became the first member of congress to be in a same-sex marriage. he married long-time partner jim ready in front of over 300 people. friends included nancy pelosi and president obama was not invited because mr. frank and the new husband did not want the secret service to disrupt their small town. >> smart move.

>> i don't think he was offended either. >> with a change of character, barney and -- barney who will be here tomorrow morning in studio spending his money moon at the full-court press. >> nice. >> which you will do. >> got me on the record. i will do it. >> tell alex. that means you have to propose. thank you for getting ahead of me. >> man. >> i realize i might have gone a bridge too far there. >> come on guys. >> anyhow barney was on with jimmy kimmel a couple of months ago and kimmel asked about his partner. >> may i ask what the age difference is between you and jim? >> yes. 30 years. >> you dirty dog. >> retiring congressman might he head to the t.v. world in his

next gig? the detroit news. >> with a name like that. >> the detroit news reports the michigan republican actually wrote a pilot for a raunchy variety show in his free time after dropping his presidential bid last fall. he says the concept includes him and members of his staff making crude jokes about his campaign the female an addatomy and said the pilot package was never intended for a wider audience. he did it for self therapy after dropping out of the presidential race. >> something is really screwy about this guy. >> strange. >> think about it, two, three months from now when there is only one news story in politics that would be a good time to leak this pilot and let us all take it apart. >> a major league baseball hit the halfway point of the season. the all-star game is in kansas city tomorrow night. players will have fun at the homerun derby. the texas rangers, new jersey yankees, washington nationals,

pittsburgh pirates,la dodgers. >> nationals. i can't believe it. >> nationals, only lost two over three on the weekend. >> horrendously horrible. >> you know it was too hot. >> i am pulling for the nationals although i have been saying, i am fearing when they hit the brakes and they start to slide. >> shut up. >> i am afraid that this was -- i am hoping that this wasn't the type. >> no keep hope alive. they are going to take make it this year. daniel stone let's start off with the most important question of the day: do you have susways bank account? >> -- a swiss bank account? >> i might explore a run for president. no. i mean i haven't seen any statistics on how many americans do. i don't know if those statistics are kept by their very nature. but i suspect this is an issue that the romney campaign does not want to talk about for too long because of that exact issue.

most people cannot relate. >> an the second question is: why we you have a swiss bank account? why does mitt romney have a swiss bank account? is there any doubt why? >> no. you would only have it for a reason of advantage. that could be a tax advantage. it could be some sort of interest advantage if you get a higher interest rate on a money market account in geneva or what-have-you. >> even if you are not paying u.s. taxes on it. >> correct. and mitt rockny. >> the number one reason is to avoid paying u.s. taxes? >> sure. >> that's why everybody -- >> correct. >> has a swiss bank account in this they are engaged in some criminal activity. i am not suggesting that at all. >> uh-huh. >> but so then i guess third question is: the rock in connection campaign knew that mitt romney had a swiss bank account they knew he had a tax shelter in the cayman islands and a tax shelter which came out

thanks to vanity fair. why weren't they better prepared to answer, to respond in they are acting like it's private information. >> we don't know about these accounts, their size. >> we know they xifkt. we didn't know some of them existed before. >> i honestly thought they didn't think it was going to come out. >> who among us millionaires doesn't? right? that was their key argument when we see the full landscape of these accounts, piece it together, when we think about and have conversations like these where we talk about how you can avoid paying u.s. taxes when you have all of these accounts, i don't think they were prepared for that discussion. certainly their response shows they haven't. >> do you think it's a big issue? >> i don't think it's as big as people make it. look, you know, we talk a lot about this election, talk about getting votes. most people are already really

cemented in their votes. there is a small slice in the middle that can be swayed. >> right. the obama campaign is asking the question: do you have a swiss bank account? first president, presidential candidate ever to run with a swiss bank account. >> right. which certainly does not do well for the romney campaign but, look. i have read studies. we have seen this happen again and again. biography matters in presidential e elections. it matters where romney was from, who hez father was. but mostly it matters about their vision, it matters about the future. if romney can articulate a vision that people can buy into, i think that matters more. >> when are we going to hear that? >> that's their problem. he is resting on his reputation. he is resting on his business experience, kicking obama out of office without him lifting a finger? >> let me challenge you at one point. >> sure. >> in that, doesn't like the

people that romney was hanging out with yesterday in the hamptons $50,000 a plate, at the comb brothers $50,000, doesn't the fact that a swiss bank account cayman island bermuda, say something about the people that he would be filing for, caring about as president? doesn't it say something about his priorities? >> absolutely. it. >> that is the problem? >> that is the problem. i don't think it's ever been a secret, though. i mean you look at the george w. bush. >> this reinforces maybe? >> right. i don't think that's in dispute -- i wondhe were not to change topics. the president where he announces he was going to go out fighting for tax cuts, to extends the bush tax cuts for those making under 250,000, how that will play with the broader g.o.p. but mostly how mr. romney will respond to that. >> right. so daniel stone covers the white house for newsweek daily beast,

mentioning that as we talked it hasn't yet been announced. it's not officially yet on the president's schedule but it's reported this morning widely that the president will make an announcement in the rose garden sometime today where he will call for congress to extend the nother year for every american making under $250,000 a year. which, of course is the vast majority, the 99%. >> right. >> and those making over $250,000, their taxes would go would go back up. whether he can get it through congress or not, right, i guess, the question is: the political viability of this. >> right. and, you know, for the sake of your listeners i don't think there is any threat that tax cuts will not be extended for the 99%. i think those will make it through. the real political question is whether the g.o.p. says, no. we are going to hold on to this. we are going to make you suffer

until you releapt to extend all of them including for the 100%, for everyone. >> the president did the last time around. >> sure. >> he extended the bush tax cuts for another two years? >> right. >> this time, he says there is no way, no how. is this sort of like the student loan battle where republicans did same no. no. no. no. we are not going to extend those -- we are not going to keep the interest rates low unless you agree to cut this preventative healthcare funding and in the end, they caved this time and agreed to keep the student loan rate at 3.4%. so this is going to can another showdown. isn't it? >> right. this will be another game of chicken. we haven't really seen one in real bombastic fashion since last summer, the debt ceiling but this will be one because everybody has a stake in this. this is real money out of your poth. it's not some abstract program that they are talking about,

about, you know, some healthcare. this is hundreds of dollars coming out of your paycheck. so everyone has got a stake. i don't think the g.o.p. is going to relent as easily but i don't think there is threat taxes will go up on those making under 250. the question is whether they will go up or stay the same on those making over 250,000 a year. and one important point is it's not just that's the thresh shoulder. it's all of your income over 250 gets taxed, not under 250. does that make sense? >> in other words, taxes only go up on the percentage of your income which is above 250,000. >> correct. >> right? so anybody even those making more, get a tax break up to $250,000. >> correct. yes. >> all right. now we got it daniel stone newsweek daily beast 866-55-presses, president obama proposing a one-year extension. you are making less than $250,000 a year. you are part of the 99%.

i think it's like 99.5% of americans, president obama says he wants to give you a tax cut for another year. will republicans go along with that? what about your swiss bank account? how much money are you hiding? 866-55-press. we will take your calls, continue with daniel stone on the full-court press. >> on your radio and on current tv this is the fullbill press show. only on current tv. collide on "the gavin newsom show". this week: can a futurist really

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>> twenty knife minutes after the hour daniel stone, senior correspond ent from newsweek daily beast. daniel? >> good morning >> welcome back. welcome back. follow us on twitter, of course,@bp show. my phone, iphone i don't know i get messages, so and so is following you? >> everyone following you. >> i am going on the freeway, going to go 120s miles an hour. >> there you go. >> pulled over by the cops like justin beiber was over the weekend. thank you for joining us at bp show. so daniel stone, we are talking about mitt romney and his swiss bank accounts and all of this other stuff he has got, money he has got stashed overseas and maybe why.

and how much income is being spun off. paul includingerman in his policy in "the new york times," contrasting mitt romney with his father, george romney, when he ran for president, made a lot of money, like his son. he didn't park his money offshore. >> uh-huh. >> he paid a lot of taxes. 12 years of tax returns and he said the reason i am doing that is because if i release one year, that's just a fluke. could be just a fluke. so i want you to see the whole pattern here why won't mitt romney release his returns? and do you think he should? >> i do think he should. i think every candidate should. >> more thanwin year. >> more than one year for that exact reason. it's like he couldn't have made the argument better that his son should do the exact same thing. you know look, money is someone's personal issue. we don't talk about too much money in our society about personal money. when you are running for president, your money says a lot about your judgment. right? about what you value, about how many taxes you pay, whether you are pulling your weight and paying your fair share.

certainly when you are worth somewhere around 250, $300 million like we suspect mitt romney is. >> now, we suspect a lot more. he says 250. >> right. but it could be more. we don't know. but it doesn't -- it poses questions about his judgment. >> that's where i think it matters. the fact that his father essentially created precedent -- he was one of the first politicians to release a lot of tax returns. the fact that his son won't is quite a contrast and perfect for journalism. >> at his father's time the tax rate for people at his level was double what it is today if they were paying the full tax rate and we know that the one from the one year he released mitt romney was paying what was it? 14 or 17 or so. when we come back, we are going to jump with dan stone and talk to the head meteorologist at accuweather. >> this is the bill press show.

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at hell of a lot better than 106 which it hit in washington, d.c. daniel sthoen still in studio as a friend of bill. always good to have you hire. we are joined now to talk about the weather with the long-range department leader, paul pastelock. thanks for being with us. >> good morning, bill. it's great to be here. >> so what go,000 temperature records broken every day. what's going on? >> there are a few things for this year, shorter-term but overall, we have seen a very extreme pattern over the past few years, and there are scientists i was who say it is a

direct impact of global warning and i intend to agree with the second half. it's climate variability because i think we go through these phases that we get caught into with changing patterns that lock in over, you know, just not over a one--month period but they could lock in for about a knife year period. i think that would be one of the trends. >> is it true? i want to confirm with you that 2010 was the hottest year of temperatures ever recorded which was surpassed by 2011 and 2012 looks like it's even going to surpass that? is that true? >> well, right now i think up through may, globally i think we are the 11th warmest through may. haven't seen the latest statistics. i can't verify the exact stats. i know last year was the warmest, i believe, over the 12-month period. i know that over from may, from

may to may was the warmest period. from last may to this past may was one of the warmest, i think the warmest period for the country. so yes. we are in a warm phase. the global temperature, you know, over the last septembernt re has risen about. so yes, there is global warming taking place. a lot of these records that are being broken are back in the from the 1930s there was a lot of heat in 1930, 33, 34, 36 showing up a lot there is a lot of climate variability and it takes time getting out of them.

>> paul, dan stone here i wonder how much seasons influence each other. so we had a very warm winter here in washington and much of the east. now we are having a very warm summer. i wonder what we can expect then for the fall and the coming winter, if they are inter-related. >> i think so. let's go back and look at the winter they just had. we had a la nina. you believe a typically jetstream from the western rockics into the plains states and usually these colder air at times over the northern plains northern rockies. we didn't see a lot of that. we couldn't get any snow cover the winter can continue to stay mild they had record, you know, december temperatures there because there was no snow cover accumulating on the central prayers.

so these air masses were wimping out as they came out of the the northwest. now, it's having an effect on the spring and summer because those areas didn't have any snowpack hardly at all. a little late in the winter. now, we are dried out. we are looking at one of the worst corn crops in the midwest i think since the early 1970s. is it enhances the heat an the dryness is hard to break. pal, i am not a scientist so not fit to challenge you. there is global warming taking place but these temperatures are not necessarily related to global warming, if i understand you. in the 1930s, we weren't losing

the graze easier and ice caps seize were not getting warmer. when you put all of that together today, plus these temperatures, how can you deny this is a manifestation of global warming? >> i can't deny it totally. the atlantic ocean goes through a rollover affect. right now we are in a warm amo. that usually can bring a lot of drought weather to the plains states during that period of time. >> how many years would you have to see this pattern where you would say i guess this is not just another cycle? >> more than three. >> that's what we have been looking at the extremes the last years. i would have to he see.

i would have to see if it is the marriage impact here. >> i wonder how far ahead you can forecast. >> he is the department leader of long-range gasting at accuweather. >> we have seen the past three years. we have that amount of data. what do you see coming up? what do you see the future looking like? >> i see us going through a different change it will take a little time here probably into the fall across the pacific what i do see happening here is a change where i think we will look at september and october specifically being continuously mild through the midwest, tennessee valley into the northeast and not a lot for

alaska missouri and i will know. i think the pattern stays there but i think there is a change. the jet stream will change a little bit different from last year where i think we start to see more and more moisture coming up by january and february, up the eastern seaboard and, you know, when you get the split -- when you go into an he will nino, a lot of times you haveel nino, a lot of times you have the southern branch is usually typically a little stronger, hard to say six, 7 months out in advance. you are going to get bigger storms and you would have the potential for bigger snow storms. last year, we didn't have that. >> paul pasteloch, the senior immediate roth at accuweather. follow their reporting and learn a lot more about them than we have time for here at accuweather, accu-c-c-ua-c-c-u, agent accuweather.com. it will seems that we do see a lot more storm activity and a lot more serious, like tornados where we didn't see tornados and

the tornado season starting, you know, sooner more destrustive patterns and couple that with the hurricanes another storm systems around the globe. do you see -- do you have account for any of that because of climate changes? global warming? >> i don't mean to interrupt. sorry. but, it's one of those things. we had that forecast based on transitions transitions. we look at past years and what happens cocking out of la nina into a neutral stage in the springtime period, and usually, what we see is a lagging jet that's very strong coming out of northern -- out of western canada and usually can signify early september ear season and we had severe weather prediction in late january and february back in the late summer. now, that can happen. that has happened. and i think that you owe got theo

look back. things are seen on television and internet and those things. i don't want to take that some of these things have been very strong. you know, you have to look at the last several years here with cat written a, the devastation there, the tornado outbreak last april in the south, not this past april. the april before. >> right. >> you know, it's just, you know these things have happened if you go back and track. there have been outbreaks that go back there. so, you know, we get into these variability patterns and changes in a take place in our pattern and if it's the transition that takes place that's worse, el el nino to la nina. >> final question i have and dan, to round things up here i

seen a map of the sglufrnings, the states that are experiencing record temperatures, let's say usually in the 100 degree range. right? the entire freaking country is red it's a sea of red. have you ever seen that before? >> no. i think i was about 15 when i watched the weather on t.v., i saw that. i haven't seen it lately. it's been one of those things i haven't seen a lot, even where we are in the northeast, you know, i haven't seen at a time record heat until recent last couple of years, some really good records. >> one thing is i remember bigger snow storms in the northeast. i know the northeast, new england has been hit hard, but i

remember when i was 8, 9, 10 years old and when i started at accuweather 20 years ago, we had some big storms then too. snow storms. >> no. if you do some short range forecasting for us, when is it going to get cooler around here. >> i think places are changing now. the corn belt area is going to stay dry and will not be essentially hot but will get hot again. the south is going to get wet, the monsoon will kick in, in the rockics, moisture waking its way north. the northeast is starting to see cooldown. the extreme heat is going away. there is going to be another surge late next week. the west coast is staying kind of cool but along the coast but the interiors are heating up boise, all of the places in hide hoe are topping out over 100 degrees. they started out normal to cooler. now they are starting to heat up

there. >> right. >> there are changes going on. >> paul pastelok. thank you for your time this morning. it's too damn hot but we don't blame you entirely for it. >> that's great. >> job security. >> he could control it. >> thank you, paul. we will be right back with daniel stone here on the full court press. 866-55-press. so, is it global warming or not? there is a scientist who says he was not sure. jesus, it's a cystist who can't make up their mind, what are we supposed to do? we will be right back. >> this is the bill press show. find out on "the gavin newsom show". only on current tv. collide on

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court press." the "bill press show." live on your radio and on >> room meets television the bill press show, now on current tv. >> hey 10 minutes before the top of the hour now here in the next hour, katie paris from media matters will be here to bring up the latest and what's happening with the media these days. labor secretary hilda solis here talking about the latest job numbers, daniel stone is in studio with us as a friend of bill. dan yellowstone, senior core spoenlt respondent for newsweek daily beast. before we get to the phones do you think it's global warming or not. >> i think all signs are pointing to something going on globally with the climate, yes. >> i wish scientist would get their ass in gear and admit it. >> the probably is i sort of thing that they are -- i don't know.

betraying their own science if they make us like they are telling everybody who they are going to vote for if they say it's global warming, their job, i know i think is to tell the truth. true? i am not saying he didn't tell the truth. i don't want too hard on them. % i think the evidence is 1930s. in the 1930s, the glacier ears didn't melt. the icebergs were not braking up. they ain't coming back. there is no way they are coming back. >> that's a big difference. don't you agree? >> i agree, yeah all of these signs now that we have never seen before through history warming of occasions in a signifcatch way, ice caps, high temperatures we are tealfeeling, that's an equation. >> 72% of this country today is in drought conditions. right office we are losing crops and the scientists are going to say, i guess this isn't a cycle after all. right? there is really something happening. take it from dr. press. anthony is calling from las

vegas. we have been talking about mitt romney and parking his money offshore. here is anthony from las vegas, nevada. anthony? >> hey, bill. how is it going? >> hey, what's going on? >> i just want to capitalize on a point that daniel was making earlier. it's about transparency and the fact that, you know, you really can't trust mitt romney with the hiding the money offshore and the kind of -- it makes the precedent you can't trust the guy the you don't understand where he is coming from. at the same time i still think that logic should be applied to obama when it comes to the birther issue, and not automatically people should say it's racist for bringing that up. >> whoa. whoa. whoa. he did release his birth certificate, the long form. what more do you want? >> well, you know, i don't know. there is just a lot of questions. >> no, there are not anthony. name one. >> name 1? i don't know.

i just don't trust -- >> name one. wait a minute. we know the doctor that delivered him. we know the hospital he was born in. we know -- we know the day he was born. we know the name of his mother. we know the name of his nary. we have seen the birth certificate. we have seen the announcements in the newspaper. what more do you need? do you want to see the placent a? >> obviously not. >> what do you want? i just want to be able to trust either -- both of them you know. >> anthony -- anthony, this is based on nothing. don't you hear? >> i can trust one candidate and you have to admit when there is enough trust, when someone has met the burforden of proof, you have to admitted that as well. >> hang on to the birther thing come on. what planet are we living on? i don't know. daniel stone do you see what happens? you always cause trouble. >> i haven't seen you spring into action like that in a

while. >> so be sure to say hello to your girlfriend. >> girlfriend. not fiance. >> and come back and see us again soon. >> yes, sir. >> daniel stone from newsweek daily beast. i will come back and tell you what the president is up to today. >> this is the bill press show. not something where you go to jail but you could, in fact, be required by the court of law -- by a court to stop and i guess at some point, if you were in contempt of court or something like that, you know, you could imagine it although generally these political matters don't get settled that way. certainly, they're in some legal hot water. >> bill: the way the process works is the federal government would drag the state of florida into court and it would be resolved in front of a judge or in front of a jury. works. want to come back to this -- to the teachers thing. because again, we're in the

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get this. he will be talking to reporters from new orleans manchester, new hampshire, louisville kentucky. miami, raleigh and milwaukee, and he has two campaign events late this an at the mandarin hotel in warrant. what is nots on the schedule, he keep looking for it, "new york times" reporting this morning that the president will be making a statement in the rose garden sometime today, again, not yet announced, where he will proceed propose giving a 1-year tax cut, extended tax cut to anybody making under $250,000 a year. >> that's that most of us. those making more than $250,000 will pay a higher rate of taxes. busy day at the whitehouse. katie paris starts us off at the top of the next hour here on the full-court press. hang with us. >> this is the bill press show.

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> hey. hello, everybody. good to see you today. welcome to the full-court press here on current tv this monday monday july 9th, a lot to talk about this morning, including mitt romney. boy, he had' a big hall a big day up in the hamptons yesterday. raked in about three to $4 million for his campaign including a big dinner at the coach koch brothers where it cost $50,000 a plate or $75,000 if you were a couple.

that hasppens to be more money than most americans make in an entire year. mitt romney not exactly a man of the people am. we will talk about mitt's money and a lot more. but first, let's find out the latest to today's current news update in los angeles. here is lisa ferguson. >> hi, bill. [morning. good morning, everyone. we are talking voter id laws this morning which could exclude thousands of otherwise he will eligible voters from casting their ballot this. the ap has an article out revealing hundreds of ballots have been blocked this year during state primaries. people often don't realized they need to bring a photo id in certain states or if they don't have a photo id in order to have their vote counted. georgia, indiana and tennessee have strict voting laws. we have seen eleven statespass pass new rules thanks largely to republicans but this could

disproportionately pass democratic voters who don't have a driver's license. for his part eric holder promised over the weekend to do everything in his power to protect americans right to vote. the justice department has already blocked a texas law that would have required voters to present personal id before heading to the polls. the democratic senatorial campaign committee is finding a complaint with the fec against three groups, the dsc says crossroads grassroots, americans for prosperity and the 60 plus association have willfully violated election law. groups like those with 5014 c status request not primary engage in politics but the groups have spent millions on campaign ads against the president. democrats point out that sure sounds a lot like a super p.a.c. we are back with more bill after the break and we are live in chat right now current.com/billpress.

>>we talk a lot about the influence of money in politics. it is the defining issue of this era. the candidate with the most money, does win. this is a national crisis.

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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> broadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> mitt romney, says of course i have a swiss bank account. doesn't every american have one? hardly, mitt. what do you say? good to see you today. here we go. it is monday july 9th, beginning of a whole busy week here in our nation's capitol. we will bring you the latest and take ire calls at 866-55-press. tell you what's happening here in our nation's capitol, around the country and around the globe and find out what is all means

to you. pleased to welcome back in studio katie paris, senior vice president at media matters for america. hi, katie. good to see you. >> hello. we will be joined later withhelda solis to talk about the latest job numbers as well. we have rounded up -- took us a little work but we were able to round up all three members of the brill press team. >> it was a rough weekend. peter ogburn dan henning and cyprian bowelding, our individual obvious rather. >> hi. >> president obama on the road last week with his betting on america tour. when it comes to healthcare, the president saying there is no way that he is going to give it up and there is no way he is going to allow people to get a free ride not buy health insurance

and have us pay for it. >> if you could afford to buy health insurance and you don't get it so that you force us to pay for your health care when you get sick or you get in an accident, that ain't right. >> i love that. that ain't right, he says. >> putting that on a bumper sticker. obama/is besiden 2012? >> that ain't right. >> so i made the comment. i did this thing on fire dog lake, two hours talking about the obama hate machine and andsponding to questions and i was talking about that. i made the statement i don't want to pay for freeloaders. they started attacking me for being a right-winger for making that statement. it makes me smart. >> sure. >> if somebody can buy life insurance. i am going to wait and go to the

emerge he knows see room. >> that's how -- it's about time we are having an honest conversation about how this healthcare bill works. right? it's constitutional and the law. now, we are learning how it works. so for people who need help, who are struggling, who contact afford health insurance there will be help for them. right. exactly help for them. they are going to afford it. so we are going to end up where a situation where about 1% of americans who say i am not going to get health insurance. i don't want to do that. you know what? in america, if you get hurt, you get seriously injured, we are going to take care of you because this is america and we take care of each other. but no more are you going to freeride and be passing on all of the costs to us. >> that's all this radical healthcare plan does. this is why, you know, all of that started as a conservative idea. so, bill, keep at it. keep out there informing the public about how this thing

works. >> you don't have to encourage me to do so. believe me? >> i know. >> i ain't going to shut up. >> right. >> we have lots to talk about can katie paris and hilda solis, but first. >> this is the full court press. >> i do, congressman barney frank got married over the weekend >> soon to be retired massachusetts democrat married his long-time partner jim ready in a saturday night ceremony outside boston officiated by governor duval patrick. over 300 people were there to recognize the first member of congress to be in a same-sex marriage. it lasted all of five minutes. >> that's all i wouldn't. ready is 30 years younger than frank. he is a carp he wanter and photographer originally from the state of maine and congressman frank skipping his money moon to be here with us tomorrow morning. >> how about that. where did you go to your honeymoon? i went to the bill press show. >> that's kind of sad. sorry, bill. sorry, bill. he

is coming in tomorrow. >> he is a committed public serve ant. >> flowers? >> cake. >> find out where he is registered. buy him a wedding gift. >> that's what we should do. who wants cake at 8:00 in the morning. >> i would take a piece of cake. i love cake. i agree. go to the reg-streep. practical. >> senator susan collins is hitting a big milestone. she is expected to cap her 5,000th consecutive vote on the senate floor. abc ran the numbers. she has not missed one vote since taking office in 1997. doing so has resulted -- >> get out of here. >> in a few mishaps. she once had a sprained ankle. she had on leave a plane after boarding when being coloneled called to make it back to the senate floor, and she scheduled her wedding during an august

recess with hopes of not having to be in d.c. at the time. senator chuck grassley of iowa cast 6 with 444 votes since 1993. never. >> never missed a vote? >> 5,000 votes. this week. >> i like it. >> in sports, the olympics basketball team is set, in london, players included lebron james, colby bryant carmelo an though e, kevin durant anthony davis did not make the official roster because of a sprained inc. ankle but he may show up as an alternate if he is ready to play. >> i like that term. i like that team. >> i wonder degree weeks. >> july 27th. they have a game here in d.c.

next week playing brazil here in d.c. >> whoa. >> i wonder where you get tickets. that would be fun. >> i am going. i am going. >> verizon center? i have one extra ticket. i have one extra ticket if anybody wants to come. >> 866-55-press. all right. katie paris, always good to have you in the studio. i was particularly interested to talk to you about something media matters reported on last week. ? last hour, we talked to the senior meteorologist from accuweather who says it could be global warming or a cycle that sdpoiptd me because i think it's clear, what all of the indications are, that this is what global warming is. if you want to know what global warming looks like this is it.

but you reported with all of these wildfires and all of these drouth conditions and record temperatures, youghdrought conditions and record temperatures, you, you looked at the mainstream media and how much they have made any clink to glob warming. what did you found? >> we found that in all of the coverage from around about april when these wildfires out west started, that they have -- there has been a lot of coverage, both on television and in the print of these wildfires. >> right. >> but we found that on total, about 3% of all of the coverage mentioned any mention of climate change. the coverage of climate change is being left out of the coverage, of this satisfactoryvery serious issue affecting so many people. >> it was higher in print 6% in print 1.6 on television. >> exactly. >> they have less time on

television but still. >> i don't think this should be a matter of opinion. well, thela times has this opinion. the latimes has this opinion. the the. this should be limited to the facts, a news story. >> right. >> it shouldn't be a matter of opinion of whether or not there is a link here media matters, we are not saying we think there is a link so we think there should be more coverage. we look at what the studies and data and report and we look at it from all sides, the bush administration commissioned a report looking at asking the question: is there a link between wildfires and the answer was clear, absolutely yes. >> you look at the fact there was no snowpack, very little snow so no snowpack, water is not coming down, the land is

parched everything is perfect for a tinderbox related to climate change. >> i think the media has some fear of, you know, we don't want to seem alarmist. >> why wouldn't they? you have a public that feels, you know, maybe like there is probably a lot of reasons contributing to this. >> that's true. there are a lot of reasons and nobody is saying that climate change is the only factor contributing to what's going on here but all of the science says that it is a factor and that humans, you and i, we are con contributing to problem, help to go cause it. for that reason, we should be reports of this in our media coverage. how is this happening in terms of the media landscape and echo chamber? i think what you are getting at is, what role is the right-wing media playing in this because what we see from the right-wing media is all kind of fear mongering, accuses scientists of cook can books to try to prove that there is climate change. >> right. >> when there is not. >> that's all been proven false.

i mean these are all trumped up false stacks. why? because we have a fossil fuel industry, multi-billion dollar fossil fuel industry paying to create think tanks and paying all kind of pun dits to get out there and say climate kwhaping? >> a hoaxchange? >> a hoax. that would be bad for their bottom linedits to get out there and say climate change? >> a hoax. that would be bad for their bottom line. >> they are afraid of using the phrase "climate change" or "global warming" because then they will get attacked by the right-wing and so, what they do is they just don't talk about it. >> exact. >> they don't mention it. >> we end up with the news coverage. >> the ig torn in minority rule the day by scaring the hell out of people. >> dangerous mainstream coverage. they say there is only 99% agreement on this. so maybe let's just not mention this at all.

that ends up being a huge disservice to the american public, you know. it means that we are not finding out about a very important factor that we are all contributing to. you know, and this then that ends up affecting our political process. people say this isn't an issue we need our leaders to deal with. this isn't an issue we need to think about changing our policy on. >> same impact on members of congress. >> exact that's been well documented. >> that's been well documented. they are very afraid of how these debates play out on fox news and other places. so you end up with fox and other right-wing media playing into a lot of fear on this saying it's a hockeyax. this is all just that there is a scientific consensus but then they end up scaing the mainstream media into not reporting things sacramento members congress saying we shouldn't spend or time on this. the problem is worse. we have had the hottest decade

on record. >> we have a good watchdog made media matters. katie paris, senior vice president. check them out as we do many times a day at mediamatters.org. so we just saw president obama today, it now has been reported, i mentioned at the end of the last hour, it hadn't it the official. now it is. about 1130 this morning in the east room, not in the rose garden. the president is going to propose that there be extended tax cuts for every american for one year for every american making under $250,000 a year. those who make more than that will pay a higher rate of taxes over $250,000 a year. om on that part of -- portion of their income. already, the president made a statement. fox news is out there calling it class warfare. >> what a shock. they do love that class warfare.

they love to wage it but accuse everyone else of waging it. this is an issue of fairness. right, bill? everyone needs to do their part. it is real time to end these bush tax breaks for folks who make a whole ton of money. >> or as warren buffett said, yeah, there is class warfare and -- >> it's being waged by my class. >> waged by his class. >> and fox news actually. we are winning. exactly. yeah he could accurately end by wage being waged by their allies. i believe it was earlier this morning, they were attacking unemployment benefits, you know, i mean they are constantly going after struggling americans. these are the folks who are waging class warfare on this country it is a talking point they love to pull out. everything i have seen is that it's a very inside-the-beltway saying americans are like class warfare warfare? we need more good jobs. let's get serious. this is a mantra that this will he hit again and again. but we need to stay focused.

this is about fairness. >> right. it's about fax fairness. the president makes that point, it's about tax fairness. it's only fair 99% of americans get the a tax break and those who are doing so well in this difficult economy who had a huge tax break for the last 12 years just stand up and do their fair share. right? >> you are exactly right. these are the people who have gotten the biggest tax breaks. you are exactly right. they don't need them. many of them are saying, hey, don't need them. move on. you know we've got roads, roads to build and bridges to fix, you know, like don't need them. >> okay. class warfare from fox news already accuses obama. katie paris from media matters, join the conversation. always save a seat at the table for you at 866-55-press. that's our toll-free number here on monday, july 9th. we will be right back. >> radio meets television the

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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> heard around the country and seen on current t.v. this is the bill press show. secretary of labor hilda solis, cabinet member, of course of president obama's cabinet in studio with us in the next segment. right now, we are visiting with katie paris, senior vice president for media matters. media matters for america mediamatters.org. we never get, katie, time to talk about all of the issues we want to talk about. you can keep up with everything

else media madtters. let's let's say hello from sharon. >> thank you for taking my call. >> glad you are there. what's your point? >> i am calling because of the president again introducing the tax, holding the taxes for middle class people. it just seems like we've covered this ground before. there was no traction does he listen to anybody? we have said let's have a simple message we can repeat and embrace and just move along. i don't think this tax message is going to go anywhere. i would like to thank you and the current network and stephanie for bringing liberal opinions here in nashville. >> you have good music.

katie, what about that sharronp saying the president tried this before. i have to say i disagree with her. i think giving a tax break to 99.5% of americans is pretty good. >> i am not sure. >> good policy and good politics. >> what's happening with the policy is that these tax cuts are in place now and actually if congress doesn't do anything they will expire come january 1st. this is a debate we are going to have to have no matter what because, what's going to happen with them? are they all going to could not? are we going to end them all? are we going to continue them all? or are we going to do what the president is saying? you know what? in this economy, middle class families, we need to keep those tax cuts coming to them but time for everyone to do their fair share. >> i think it's a clear choice. i think it's a good idea. >> this is the bill press show.

>>we talk a lot about the influence of money in politics. it is the defining issue of this era. the candidate with the most money, does win. this is a national crisis.

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> this is the full court press, the bill press show, live on your radio and on current tv. >> haygood morning everybody. welcome back to the full-court press here on this monday july 9th. good to see you today. lots to talk about. president obama has scheduled an announcement in the east room of the white house just about noon today, a little before noon where he will call for -- call on congress to extend tax cuts for at least one more year for all americans making under $25,028 a year. and he is saying those who are

lucky enough to make more than that should pay a higher rate of taxes on that portion of their income, which is over $250,000 a big challenge on the part of the president to congress a little bit later today. of course, we are still talking about the job numbers that came out friday and no better person to talk about them she honors us by coming in ever monday after the latest jobs reported our secretary of labor, hilda solis. >> good to see you. >> this announcement of the president on the tax break for those earning under $250,000, that's 99% of americans who deserve a tax break? >> it would be a tremendous stimulant because people would spend that money. typically they will purchase items, appliances or goods and things that they put off and that would help to create jobs as well as stimulate small businesses and just keep the economy moving in the right direction.

whereas experience as the studies have shown for these people whose income is in the 1 offer $2 million, democrats, they will add it to their swiss bank account. right? >> our folks, it's intended to help the middle class. >> sure. >> you think about a couple that earns less than maybe 80,000 or 70,000, a family of four, that money comes in and can be used to purchase money through their children or pay some other debts off, but money will go right back into the economy. >> sure. >> kind of serves as, you know, a stimulus and it does accurate jobs. >> food on the table or a few days vacation or pretty soon buying clothes for kids. >> to go back to school. >> back to school. >> yeah. >> all right. so the numbers came out, friday we were anticipating, as of

course were you, 80,000 jobs created in june. you have to admit that's not necessarily good news? >> you know, bill, i have to tell you that it's allegation -- it's always new information the day that i see the actual report. so, i have to base my comments on what i have seen happening and when i see numbers that are above the line they are not negative, that shows me that we are adding jobs because all we have to do is look back three and a half years and we remember hemorrhaging well over 800,000 jobs. so you have to put it in perspective. in the last 6 months we have seen a million jobs created. a million and you don't hear that ringing true in any way in the media. i mean they are focused on just that one month and when you look at the big picture, president in two and a half years created 4.4 million private sector jobs. a lot of that we want into the automobile industry. a lot went into, as a result of the tax breaks that we did

receive, extension of other services and employment training programs that helped get people into jobs. we don't talk a lot about that. unfortunately, you don't hear enough about it. i know there are good things that the president has done to really put people back to work. but obviously, yeah, we have to do better. we have to do more. but we need the cooperation of congress. >> yeah. i want to get that in just a second. mat a am secretary, the last time you were in i remember wlaurp saying. i want to ask about it again that the average, when george w. bush was president the average job creation -- >> 11,000 jobs in that 8-year experience that we had with that president. sot when you look at that collectively, this president has had to undergo a recession, a recovery, and insurmountable opposition in the other party who didn't want to necessarily cooperate. we didn't get a lot of votes for the recovery act. >> three republican votes as i

recall. >> right. three. three out of hundreds. and that money went to help preserve and at the end. day, we saw bridges, different people found jobs, teachers firefighters that kept their jobs, healthcare workers. all of that helped to bo into the system. those people spend that money, too, by the way, when they earn those wages, they go out and spend it. it goes back in the community. >> i am glad to hear you say the 11,000 because i have quoted you often and i wanted to be sure i had the right number. the average created per month in the eight years of the george w. bush presidency was 11,000, which i think is important for everybody to keep in mind when you say, oh it was only 80,000. >> that's still... >> you have to keep in mind, too, that we had, you know, a war going on that was being, you know pretty much paid for through our credit. right? and then, also, you know, all of the other things and challenges that went on >> the financial institutions, the clamps that occurred and all of that. them the automobile industry. the president made some really

strong, good choices, hard choices. now, it's paying off. you see it. you see it in the numbers in terms of jobs being created in manufacturing. >> yeah. >> 100,000 jobs created alone in the last, you know 24 months. 500,000 jobs. we have not been at that level since about 1995, i believe. >> in manufacturing? >> manufacturing jobs. those are good-paying middle class jobs. >> manufacturing jobs coming back to the united states? >> being created here and stabilizing that industry. now we need to do more obviously. by insourcing, by bringing those gyps that we want to china, indiana, brazil, or mexico. bring them back home. >> the fact is there are people out there that were skilled but businesses are not hiring: so that's the problem. is that the case do you find? and if not, why not? >> i think there is allotted of things going on, bill, and one

of them is demand and as a consumer, who is purchasing those goods? and in europe right now that's also having an impact, something that we can't totally control but we can control what goes on here and we can free up monies and allow for prior toization of where we want those funding levels to go. i think that's really important. >> that's why the congress has to work together. we did it on the transportation bill. now there is going to be a million jobs created and another two million that will be saved. >> that's going to go a long way for us. why can't we keep doing that between now and the evened. year. >> the president has made that challenge several times, secretary of labor, u.s. secretary of labor, hilda solis in studio with us. we will be glad to take your calms. we don't often, as we say, get a chance to direct a question to a member of the president's cabinet. you can do so by calling 866-55-press. you mentioned a couple of times, and i do want to ask you about it.

in fact, i have an article here this is from think progress at scepter for american progress. the head line just is: five ways republicans have sabotaged -- sabotaged job growth. that is also something that you don't hear about much in the mainstream media. >> right. >> i mean one of the reasons there are not more people more jobs created is because the job creation bill that the president has put in front. congress have been shot down by republicans who are the first ones to complain about the fact that not enough jobs are being created. >> that's true. they have been able to sometime and filibuster as well. think about all of the tools that they have uteslized to put up barriers to probation and in the end, it's not just hurting, say, the elected officials. it's hurting the american public. it should the be about partisan issues. it should be about helping america get the back to where they should be. >> that's putting people to work. >> the president had the whole jobs bill.

it he broke it down into bite-sized pieces, the one that was for public employees. >> right. the public settingor out? >> another one which was infrastructure. >> infrastructure. a larger package and, also tax credits for small businesses and closing the loophole so big corporations can't get away with putting their money into other current trees to create jobs abroad and giving incentives for people to bring jobs back and in renewable energy, tax credits there to create our sources of energy here which we need. >> why doesn't -- this may be an unfair question. why doesn't the president call them out more? i wish he would. i was waiting friday for them to say, one of the reasons there aren't more jobs is the republicans killed every one of my jobs bills. >> people are beginning to

understand quite clearly they are starting to focus on what's happening. there have been roadblocks put up. when you look at the bottom line action the president has worked very, very hard. they don't blame him for, you know, how we came into this mess. they know how it started. but they know that the other side of the aisle is not % cooperating, doesn't have a plan to take us anywhere new. they want to go back to resort to the same practices that put us into this mess. and now, you see the president making slow progress but it's going to take a long time. we know where we need to go. his -- the president's prior to is the middle class. that's what's going to build our country up where it needs to be. >> that's where we should be going. >> the two things we learned was the whole was deeper than we thought it was. >> yes. >> it's going to take longer than we want to dig ourselves out of it. >> and there are much factors outside that, you know what's happening in europe. >> all of that. >> all of the restructuring that's going on there. people can take a lesson from what we did here, what the president did here he made investments. he made decisions that may not

have been fully understood at the beginning but now they are starting to pay off. i see it when i go out around the country. i see investments we made in education and training and i hear them saying these programs work. we want to utilize them more. we want to be a part of that discussion and we want to make sure that we can get qualified employees at the end of the day. >> talking jobs with u.s. labor secretary hilda solis here on the full-court press here on this monday morning. a seat right there at the table for you. you can take it by giving us a call at 866-55-press. join the conversation, and we will be right back with secretary hilda solis. >> on your radio and on current tv. this is the bill press show. >>

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>> radio meets television. bill press show now on current tv. >> twelve minutes before the top of the hour we know coming to you live. the station here in the studio. by labor secretary hilda solis. your calms welcome at 866-5 5. you you. when you look at the potential for job growth what are the sectors? because of the highway bill the president signed friday, there will be some immediate construction jobs. >> right. >> what other sector do you see

see. >> their growing? >> that are growing. >> i think what i see is the healthcare industry. >> that's been growing for the last two and a half years. in fact, i say it's recession-proof. >> that's an area whether you are changing careers, you can start up in the ambulatory area, a lot of jobs that have been created there. people are living longer. they have choices. >> that's one area. the other one is actually engineering, science, technology. those are still the key areas. you don't have to have a 4-year degree but employers are looking for people who have at least a credential. you can get that at a community college. we are pushing that forward. the president has asked for a billion dollars to go into more training meeting up with industry and the community colleges to get the curriculum the employers want. >> do americans have the skills that american companies are looking for today? are we turning out enough people? >> i think we are in the node where we have to change quickly

because -- mode where we have to change covélinkquickly. the competition requires more credentials. people who were displaced in the job maybe 10 years or for so many years they need to be trained. we encourage to go to the one-stop centers, 3,000 around the country, resume writing, coaching. [you qualify for advanced train go online to dol.gov. >> dol.gov. >> dot gov. >> louuis is calling from phoenix arizona. >> thank you, madam secretary. i am calling in regards as a small business. i have been in business for six years. i am experiencing the most difficult time this one year because of the uncertainty. i have investments to make and a business plan that i am a little sketchy on because i don't know what's going on tomorrow. but we do know this: our federal government has a $1.5 trillion deficit that we

want to get to in the future, and it's going to be coming in pieces. as a small business, to continue to build the courage in our entrepreneurs across america, we need to be able to define a vision that could work and fit with all of these changes that are happening. what kind of advice can you give us, madam? >> well, what i would say to you is that we are really trying to help small businesses whether it's through more opportunities for federal contracting, because that, obviously, is available. but, also, making sure that you have the necessary tools and investments and that you have capital and that there is appropriate small business administration loans. and that comes in different forms. if isn't just from that administration, from that particular agency. there is also opportunities for energy through the department of energy, but, also different commerce, also has a small business component. there is a lot out there so i wouldrel you go online as well. you know sba.gov and download some of that information. if you also may not be aware

that we give tax credits for hiring up people. so that can help you also, keep individuals who are currently on your payroll so you don't have to lay them off if they qualify for uihey can help you. or if you need new people brought in we can help you idea where the tax credits are and insentence vise young vets that need work experiences. i hear you. small business owners are the engine and growth of our country. it's not going to come exclusively from the federal government. we know that, but we want you to be successful especially minority entrepreneurs, and women-owned businesses. it's really important. >> there are tax breaks today for those who higher veterans? >> absolutely. >> i have seen the president a couple of times talk about that and tax breaks for those who provide healthcare to their employees? >> that's for the lower, your budget overall when that kicks in fullly and you woement have to have -- be saddled with that.

in many ways, that's abruptly in the past. the of that will be contained and there will be opportunities through these exchanges that will allow for people to go on those exchanges or to give you credit that you will give back almost i think it's 33% break in terms of the costs there for healthcare. >> all right. so important to remember 80,000 might not have sounded like a lot. we wish it had been higher. the labor secretary, hilda solis is the first one to say that but one million jobs over the last six months and 4.4 million jobs in the last two and a half years. madam secretary, tough job. you do a good job at it. thanks for coming in today. >> thank you bill. thanks. >> see you in a month. all right. i will be back with today's parting shot. >> this is the bill press show. live on your radio and current tv.

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>> the parting shot with bill press. this is the bill press show. >> hey, on this monday july 9th, my parting shot for today, yeah, president obama just continued his two-day bus tour through ohio and pennsylvania on the theme of betting on america, whereas more and more the theme of the romney campaign seems to be betting against america. as we learned over the weekend, mitt romney has been betting against america for years. he has millions of dollars stashed away in a swiss bank account. he has got millions of dollars parked in the cayman islands and he has millions more in a shell investment fund park in bermuda. now, as all of us not wealthy

enough to have a swiss bank account know there are only two possible reasons for americans to have their money offshore to avoid paying american taxes or to hide criminal activity. which is it with mitt romney? we don't really know because he refuses to release his tax returns for more than one year. again, no reason to suspect romney of criminal activity but we will never know the truth about his offshore tax invasion until he releases his full tax returns. and until mitt romney does it we will still ask that question: why? why? why does he need a swiss bank account? tomorrow, what a line-up, congressman jim moran, congressman barney frank and judd legham, see you here tomorrow. >> this is the bill press show.

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