[ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: here we go again. good morning everybody! it is thursday. thursday august 30. great to see you today. thank you for joining us here on the "full court press" on current tv. we're coming to you live from our nation's capital bringing you up to date on all of the stories of the day. and inviting you to join our conversation. our two-way street, our big town hall. give us a call at 1-866-55-press. and down in tampa of course, the republicans reinvention

convention rolls on. on tuesday night ann romney trying to reinvent mitt romney as a warm and fuzzy guy. last night paul ryan tried to reinvent himself as reasonable, almost a moderate. both attempts failed because neither one are true! as we will point out to you all through the program this morning. but first, we get the latest. today's current news update from lisa ferguson out in los angeles. hi lisa. good morning. >> hi, bill. good morning everyone. a romney pollster has already come out this week and admitted they're not going to let fact checking play a big role in their campaign. and that's pretty apparent after paul ryan's speech last night. so let's do a little fact checking of our own. first off and perhaps most notably, here's what we had to say about medicare. >> medicare is a promise and we will honor it. a romney/ryan administration will protect and strengthen medicare for my mom's generation for my generation

and for my kids and yours. >> what ryan did not mention is his own medicare plan which makes healthcare more expensive for seniors by giving them vouchers or coupons that do not cover the entire cost. ryan's original budget plan called for cuts to medicare to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. now he says he would restore the cuts but that only speeds up the time line before medicare runs out of its trust fund money. next up is ryan's claims about an auto plant in his state. ryan, of course, has been very outspoken against the bailout and government spending even though he asked for bailout funds in wisconsin. last night he criticized obama for not using more government money to help a g.m. plant in janesville. he obviously did not re-up on his history there either. that plant closed under the bush administration well before obama took office. and lastly, ryan blamed the president for downgrading america's credit rating but the real reason there was the g.o.p.'s refusal to raise the debt ceiling and of course, ryan

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>> sometimes i feel like i don't even know you. >> just stay on your side of the screen, ok? [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation on your radio >> announcer: broadcasting across the country on your radio and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." >> bill: is it over yet? we still have one more night of this damn convention. hello, everybody. it is keeping me up too late and you, too, i guess. good to see you today. good morning, good morning. welcome to the "full court press" on a thursday morning! who needs sleep? so much fun to stay up and watch the republicans, right? great to see you today.

it is the "full court press" on this thursday. i want to double check. indeed it is thursday, august 30. and we're coming to you live as always from our nation's capital. we will be in tampa broadcasting -- no, whoa, whoa, in charlotte broadcasting from charlotte next week. this week we're keeping our eye on isaac which is sort of petered out but after leaving a lot of damage behind in particularly louisiana mississippi, keeping our eye on that and keeping our eye on what's happening in tampa. and also around the rest of the country. president obama back in the white house today and last night after a final campaign event in charlottesville, virginia. we got it all covered. we'll let you know what's going on. we'll give you a chance to sound off. can't wait to get your comments about paul ryan's speech last night at 1-866-55-press. here we go. peter ogborn and dan henning and cyprian bowlding. we may as well put cots in the

studio during the conventions right? >> they're late nights, man. they're late nights. i didn't even go -- >> bill: are they worth it? >> no is the answer. >> let me turn my mic on, peter. >> did we say hello to cyprian? >> hello. >> i couldn't even make it to the bitter end. i watched a good chunk and then it is just too much. it is just too much. it drove me crazy. watching these guys one after the other. if i had to hear one more person say "he built that" i was going to go elvis and shoot my tv. >> bill: nothing like having one good line and using it once. but to build the whole convention -- to "build" the whole convention around "build it" is a little -- i mean a lot

overdone. >> that is the theme of the convention. i mean there is no positive message of we're going to build something better and move forward. you did build that. we're going to build it. he didn't. >> bill: all by a bunch of hypocrites who are there every time they turn around with their hand out for either a farm subsidy, half of those farmers in the audience, right getting their farm government subsidies for their crops or the oil companies, david koch there his hand out for all of the money that he gets and for the pipeline that he wants to build. all down the line. my favorite story from the convention yesterday was they took all of the billionaires out for a little cruise on a yacht. can we put that -- we have to put that photo up on our web site. the yacht that they went out on by some big romney backer who is registered in the cayman islands. flying the cayman islands flag. there is a photo. you've seen it. >> it is on our facebook page.

"bill press show." comments from our listeners whoa! fun to read! >> bill: you can see the yacht and it's got the cayman islands flag. now what stupid advance guy for the romney campaign put them on a cayman islands yacht? >> dumb! >> bill: we're going to take you to see mitt's money. >> a detail you do not overlook. >> bill: i'm tellin' ya. last night before the main event last night was funny because it was -- the parade of the -- the people who were considered for vice president but never quite made it like poor tea paul. >> welcome to barack obama's retirement party. [ cheering ] >> bill: oh, my. he even took a dig at joe biden. of. >> when paul ryan speaks, joe will finally get to hear what a

real vice president sounds like. [ cheering ] >> bill: pardon me. >> wake up! >> bill: we had condy up there and i mean, you know, i hate to say it but if you're a female black republican, you're going to have a speaking slot at the republican convention. you could be somebody nobody ever heard of, right from el paso, texas and you're a black, female republican, you're going to speak at the republican convention. they had to trot condy out last night. such a mess. paul ryan was the main event. we'll talk to you about that. david shuster will join us, current tv's david shuster will join us from tampa as well as nia malika henderson from "the washington post." joe romm from climate progress will be in to talk about the latest frightening news. the arctic. look at the north pole now because you're not going to see it much longer.

but first -- what have you got dan? >> bill, other headlines making news on this thursday morning. love was in the air at the republican national convention. a man proposed to his girlfriend of three years on stage at the "tampa bay times" forum. abc reports that neither bradley thompson or laura bowman are delegates and it is not even clear they're republicans or not. they actually work for the convention's production crew. miss bowman said she knew the question was coming at some point but didn't expect it while they were at work. >> bill: had to get through security. they work there. they work on the stage. >> working for the convention. >> bill: that's the most exciting thing that's happened at the convention so far. >> "saturday night live" has announced who will host the premiere of its 38th season. seth mcfarland will take the stage with frank ocean. it is the family guy's creator's first time hosting. following him a week later is joseph gordon levitt and daniel craig, aka james bond with muse

after that. >> bill: when does the season start? >> september 15th. >> bill: all right. >> hurricane isaac has been causing plenty of damage along the gulf coast including destroying a home of a tv journalist. msnbc host melissa harris tweeted a house of a home she owns in new orleans -- >> bill: they just bought it. >> politico confirms the home was brand new to her family. she and her husband bought it and rebuilt from katrina damage. they hadn't put furniture in it. it was not inhabited. >> bill: i understand it was a fixer-upper but what they didn't realize, it was a tear down. isaac did it for them. that's sad. hope they have insurance. dan, thank you. yes, indeed. paul ryan, i gotta tell you first of all i had never seen paul ryan give a speech before. and with all of my complaints about why do we even have these dumb conventions anymore, i have

to admit that was one good thing, you do get to see these candidates and for the first time, most americans including me got to see paul ryan. i must say i kept thinking of him as a young guy that you might expect to see waiting on your table at the tortilla coast. by the way absolutely crappy mexican restaurant on capitol hill. i think i went there once long, long before we moved to washington. it is worst mexican restaurant i've ever been in. >> i've never gone in. >> bill: it is down right alongside, six blocks away. >> it has all of the warning signs of a bad mexican restaurant. >> bill: it is bad. it is the closest to the capitol. paul ryan used to wait on tables there. he looks like a guy who would walk up to a table and say "you want a margarita"? or what he really reminded me of was a high school student. he looked like a high school student. he's 42 years old.

looks like a high school student in a public speaking contest trying so hard to make his points and delivering the sentences that obviously have been written by somebody else for him. the good part about it was i must admit paul ryan gave a good red meat political speech. he gave the speech that i expected chris christie to give full of rousing one-liners to rev up the crowd like his first -- almost the first line out of his mouth. >> after four years of getting the run around, america needs a turnaround and the man for the job is governor mitt romney. >> bill: everybody jump to their feet. that was a good part of the speech. it was a partisan -- you know, rev them up red meat speech. the bad part was it was a pack of lies! one lie after another. i couldn't believe it. i mean i've never seen such

deliberate attempt to deceive the american people from a convention floor. never, never never. look, sometimes you hear this stuff. like the nra's going around saying barack obama's re-elected. he's going to take away every gun in america. right? that's total nonsense. there's no evidence of that. he hasn't done, unfortunately anything about guns in his first four years. no evidence he'll do anything. but that's sort of predicted. it can turn out to be true or not true. not true. it will turn out to be. but ryan was lying about stuff that's already happened. bold bold lies. let me start with -- and here are six of them that i identify -- i'll tell you them real quickly. these are only the six that i picked up last night. but let's start with the g.m. plant. the g.m. plant in his hometown of janesville, paul ryan. >> right there at that plant candidate obama said "i believe

that if our government is there to support you this plant will be here for another 100 years." that's what he said in 2008. well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year. it is locked up and empty to this day. >> bill: what he doesn't say is that plant didn't close when barack obama was president it closed under george w. bush! he also doesn't say of course, that mitt romney was for shutting down every single g.m. plant and every single chrysler plant! big lie to the american people. at least give barack obama credit for saving the american auto industry because he did. let's move on. lie number two. he talks about the stimulus as being a total bust. >> what did taxpayers get out of the obama stimulus? more debt. that money wasn't just spent and wasted. it was borrowed, spent and

wasted. >> bill: what did taxpayers really get out of the stimulus? by the way he didn't say he voted for the stimulus. he voted for it once the bush tax credits were extended, paul ryan voted for the stimulus. he sent four letters to the secretary of energy, asking for stimulus money for his district. what did voters get out of it, 3.2 million jobs according to the congressional budget office and 95% of americans got a tax cut out of the stimulus. almost half the stimulus went to a tax cut for the american people. paul ryan. lie number two. lie number three. he talked about obama care saying that obama care was putting the federal government in charge of healthcare when, in fact, as we know, the federal government has nothing to do with obama care. it just says that everybody has to buy private insurance. 36 million americans have to buy insurance from a private company. there is no public plan option. fourth lie.

he talked about obama cutting $716 billion. we've heard this before on the campaign trail. here he is in front of the world repeating this accusation, lie number four against president obama. >> $716 billion funneled out of medicare by president obama. [crowd booing] an obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed to pay for a new entitlement we didn't ask for. >> bill: he doesn't tell the american people that the same, same exact same $716 billion cuts is in his budget which he and every house republican voted for and the $716 billion comes out of insurance companies and hospitals. does not come out of medicare benefits. it is a big lie. on the next lie, number five. he talked about the fact that the credit rating of the united states has gone down under

president obama. >> it began with a perfect aaa credit rating for the united states. it ends with a downgraded america. >> bill: why? because house republicans were playing games with the debt ceiling. remember that's why the credit companies -- credit rating agencies rather downgraded america's credit. because the republicans wouldn't raise the debt ceiling which they've always done automatically. president obama was begging them to. urging them to. they refused to do it. they're responsible, not president obama and finally lie number six paul ryan attacked president obama for not accepting the recommendations of the simpson bowles committee without telling us, the american people, that he was on the simpson bowles committee! he sat on if and he voted against it! paul ryan voted against it! how could the guy just lie through his teeth that way to the american people? and those dumb ass republicans

in the crowd had no idea what he was saying. all they did was cheer every line because it sounded good. no idea what the facts are! that's why we're here to make sure the american people know the truth. let me tell you. don't just take it from me. fox news summed up the -- they said there are three words to describe -- this is fox news! three words to describe paul ryan's speech last night. dazzling distracting and deceptive. fox news called it deceptive. it was. it was nothing but a pack of lies! do you think they're going to get away with this? 1-866-55-press. you and i have to make sure they don't. let's talk about it! 1-866-55-press. hey, i told you, six lies i picked out. big fat ones. maybe you saw even more or heard even more. give us a call here on the "full court press." we got it. paul ryan, we're on your case,

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♪ announcer: radio meets television, the "bill press show." now on current tv. >> bill: yes, chris christie was expected to give the barn burning speech at the republican national convention. he did not. paul ryan did last night. unfortunately, it was packed full of lies. talking -- mentioned "the washington post" headline. talking points memo headline this morning is top five fibs in paul ryan's convention speech. and "huffington post," the front page, they're calling them paul

tales. ryan's lies about medicare and the stimulus on and on and on. we'll talk more about that in the next hour with karl frisch. joe romm joining us, too to bring us up to date on climate change. president obama back in the white house for the first time this week, actually. he and the vice president will get their daily briefing this morning and then the two of them will have lunch. all other meetings of the president -- nothing else on the public schedule today. jay carney will be holding the first press briefing of the week at 1:00 in the white house briefing room. i will be there. representing all of you. so can paul ryan get away with these lies and what kind of lies can we expect from mitt romney tonight or will he be able to succeed in humanizing himself? maybe he'll talk about shopping at costco. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show."

[ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: hello everybody. it is thursday, august 30. good morning! good to see you today. thank you for joining us here on the "full court press" on current tv. good to see you today. it is the morning after the second night of the republican reinvention convention down in tampa. and on tuesday night, it was ann romney's turn to try to reinvent mitt romney as warm and fuzzy. last night paul ryan tried to

reinvent himself as a moderate, as a reasonable person on the issues. guess what. both efforts failed because neither one of them is true. so we'll get into that and a whole lot more here. take your calls at 1-866-55-press. but first, we get the latest, today's current news update, here's lisa ferguson standing by in los angeles. hi lisa, good morning. >> hi, bill. good morning everyone. threats of bad weather in charlotte have the dnc prepping a contingency plan for next week's convention. this coming at the same time we all watched the effects of hurricane isaac come down on louisiana. president obama has declared federal emergencies in both louisiana and mississippi. right now, authorities are warning people in towns outside new orleans to get out. thousands are already fleeing the storm and many more are trapped or stranded. lake pontchartrain is flooding and isaac sparked three tornadoes overnight in mississippi and alabama.

of course, what we could see in charlotte would not be nearly as bad but forecasts do show a potential for rain and thunderstorms. as of now both obama and biden are planning on giving speeches at an outdoor stadium next thursday which could soak tens of thousands of convention-goers democrat officials say they're keeping a close eye on the weather and they will release a back-up plan closer to the convention. romney is getting ready for a big push for florida's latino voters following his republican convention. an aide is telling puz feed the blitz will include a big increase in spending on spanish language ads and we will see a bilingual mailout encouraging early voting and 13 full time field staffers dedicated specifically to courting the hispanic vote. it is going to be a tough sell though. up until now we've seen a few spanish ads from romney but he has largely ignored the hispanic population and a recent latino decision poll shows president

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[ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." >> bill: >> bill: all right. we've had two nights so far of the republican nationalú convention. are you excited yet? well, if not wait until tonight. hey, hello everybody. welcome to the "full court press." here we go. on this thursday, august 30, good to see you today. thank you so much for joining us here as we boom out to to you live across this great land of ours from our studio on capitol hill coming to you on your local progressive talk radio station

and on current tv. and giving. >> chance to weigh in on the issues yourself at 1-866-55-press. the reward for staying up late to watch this dumb convention is you get to talk about it by giving us a call so don't forget to do so. join the conversation and then you can sound off get it off your chest. tell them how much -- how upset you were by the lies of paul ryan last night. well we've got -- almost the entire team here this morning. dan henning is here. peter ogborn ran out -- he's back. >> faster than a speeding bullet. >> bill: cyprian bowlding our videographer is here. a regular member of the team, a frequent member, karl frisch with bullfight strategies in studio with us. hey, karl, good to see you. >> good morning. >> bill: you're very excited this morning? >> can you feel the excitement, tampa?

can you think of anything less exciting than tampa in august with mitt romney? >> bill: no. you put the three of those together. >> it sounds like a horrible family vacation you were forced on to when you were 12 years old with your family. >> don't forget the dog! >> schamus. >> what a vacation. >> get on the roof, kids. >> bill: i saw that charles krauthammer said one of the ways to humanize mitt romney was to bring the dog on stage with him. schamus is long gone. >> for the record, he wasn't killed by romney. [ laughter ] >> bill: that we know of. >> in fact, he quite liked it up there. he was such a goodfellow about it. such a good sport. [ laughter ] >> bill: he tries everything. i'm telling you. so it is all -- mitt romney's gotta turn it on tonight. this is it. >> he has to do something. i don't know if he's capable of turning it on. but this convention, what a snoozer!

i mean i've been to a lot -- you and i have been to a ton of these things. i've been to a couple of republican conventions, a few more democratic conventions. it is beginning to remind me of the '96 dole kemp ticket where it was dole's turn and they got the youthful vigor added with jack kemp. >> bill: that's a good analogy. >> i remember the rally signs the day after the convention in san diego that said kemp is the dude. okay, that's not going to appeal to anybody. i would much rather, you know, vote for president obama than have to deal with the hall monitor and chief that is paul ryan which is essentially the role he played last night. and i think the american people aren't going to fall for what they saw last night. >> bill: we're just getting into it. you're welcome to join the conversation at 1-866-55-press. karl -- joe romm from climate progress will be joining us

later. we'll take time out to get the latest from him on -- by the way, mitt romney has a piece for "huffington post" about mitt romney and on climate change. but first -- >> this is the "full court press." >> bill: all right dan, what have you got? >> is there bad blood between fox news and sarah palin? the normally marquee face on the network took to her facebook page yesterday to announce fox had canceled all of her scheduled appearances for last night where she was set to comment on paul ryan's speech at the republican convention. she had a brief appearance tuesday night but nothing at all yesterday according to "the huffington post." fox, of course, signed her to a lucrative deal a couple of years ago. their coverage plans changed because of the convention schedule. that's why she was not able to appear last night. >> rupert murdoch and roger ales are so, so smart. here's what they did. follow me with this. it is a little conspiratorial. they hired sarah palin to a huge contract at fox news to keep her from running for president and

ruining the republican party for good and now they don't need her anymore. and since she wasn't invited to speak at the convention, they're like we don't have to hear from her about the convention when we're trying to put other best foot forward. >> bill: i think they see that her brand has faded. who is she now? >> political rat poison. >> bill: totally. >> an update on the highly secretive white house beer recipe from the man himself president obama of only ten answers he gave during a q&a on read it yesterday, one was in response to the question where's the recipe. he said it will be out soon. i can tell from firsthand experience it is tasty. the petition at white house.gov to get the recipe released needs 25,000 signatures by september 17th still needs 14,000 signatures. >> bill: come on guys! go to the web site. it sounds like the president's going to do it regardless of it. >> exactly. the food writers at the "huffington post" blogged about

it. they feel regardless, since they don't get the signatures, they'll still release the recipe. >> mitt romney is committed to releasing his favorite milk recipe right bill. he says which is it? is it whole? is it skim? is it 2%? you won't know unless you vote in our poll. >> joy behar -- >> bill: i'll be at the briefing today. i'm going to ask -- if i have a chance i'm going to ask jay carney about giving us the beer recipe today. >> hel thrrks, get a beer from him. bring it in to work tomorrow. >> recipe is glass or mug and beer. >> mine is the same expect add a little bit of shame into that. >> joy behar who is joining our current tv family starting tuesday did not mince words about her former employer in an interview with "the huffington post." she said bluntly that her program was indeed canceled.

when she takes to the current air was, we will never hear her utter the words casey anthony. overly extensive coverage of the trial she did and maybe was forced to do on her former program. she can't wait to start on current. the show premieres tuesday night at 6:00. >> bill: i think it is great. her show is going to be great on current tv. i love her show at hln. >> she's smart and funny. you don't get that from the other side. >> bill: no, indeed. you get neither smart nor funny. so karl, let's start -- this convention has been a real snoozer. ann romney, her job was to humanize mitt romney. how did she do? >> i think that's a tall order. >> bill: impossible. >> looked at that request and said can we just focus on mars? that's an easier task. i didn't buy -- beautiful woman.

she was well spoken up there. but it's hard for -- pure politics, it is hard for anybody to come off natural when they're talking to millions of people about their of a action for another human being. not everybody is an actor or an actress. i don't think ann romney has it so to speak. she's a perfectly capable woman. that's just not one of her talents. >> bill: no. i mean everybody said it was the best speech of the night. but of course, compared to chris christie, who really kind of bombed. >> everybody said well she's a better speaker than mitt. that's a pretty low bar right? i'll give both of those. but still -- >> well, you know, in the case of chris christie, there was a whole bunch of republican governors, a gaggle of republican governors that spoke i guess the day before yesterday now at the convention. >> bill: and some yesterday, too. >> they were all kind of the ones that didn't run in 2012 or were doing hail marys at church with their fingers crossed that

romney wouldn't tap them to be his running mate. these are the people that are auditioning for 2016. and you heard a lot more about their personal stories and their supposed accomplishments. remember, these accomplishments all happened under the horrible reign of obama but they happened nonetheless, they were the focus of the speeches. and the brown nosing with the attacks on president obama then you heard about their praise or affinity for mitt romney. it was like watching an episode of "america's next top model" where the contestants talk about themselves and pat themselves on the back, ignore the person who just won who will never go on to be a top model or president anyways. >> bill: certainly christie. i keep seeing 16 minutes into his speech before he acknowledged that mitt romney was the nominee. >> i realize we cannot hold everybody to the standard that obama set in 2004 but you know, this was probably right up there in terms of bad timing and

everything else as clinton in 1988. he was a better speaker, he spoke too long. it was a poor showing all around. chris christie missed a golden opportunity to have everybody talking about him in the republican party and they're not. >> bill: so when you look at that -- before we get -- i want to talk about paul ryan but before we get there i've been on the floor -- i don't know how many republican conventions. watching this one last night and the night before on television, every time the camera pans -- have you seen a black face in the crowd yet? have you seen a brown face in the crowd? have you seen anybody but a sea of old white -- there are some young ones, too i must admit. >> there are some anchors from various news outlets that are of color. no, i mean, this is a party that is of itself, mostly white male older crew. you know, i remember being in st. paul in 2008, sitting at a

starbucks downtown not far from the convention center when news came down that sarah palin had been picked to be the running mate. and a lot of my democratic friends would say why would you go to a republican convention? i can't tell you how much fun it was watching octogenarians pull their jitterbug smart phones out to hear the news of sarah palin and lift their heads up to say who the heck is sarah palin. that's the problem this party faces. it is a demographic problem which is why they've put in all of the voter i.d. laws and voter suppression tactics because if you're faced with the problem of a shrinking electorate for yourself and a surging one for your opposition, you can do one of two things... you can change your policies to attract these growing number of voters. or you can change the rules. they chose the latter. >> bill: in some states, they're getting away with it. paul ryan, first time, i must admit, i -- as close as i follow this stuff right i mean i've read a lot about him. i had never seen paul ryan

deliver a speech until last night. most americans of course, had not. and the reviews this morning even fox news said his speech was dazzling but deceptive. "washington post" has a headline this morning paul bryan's breathtakingly dishonest speech. he told a whole pack of lies. can he get away with it? >> yes. that's what they're banking on. so in 2008, you had sarah palin saying what's the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull, the lipstick. what's the different between a p90x dad and a cat burglar sociopath? >> bill: oh, my gosh. i don't know. ryan is a p90x dad. >> cat burglar can fool a lie detector. the romney team doesn't even care that paul ryan's triggering it left and right. they brag about it. their own pollsters for crying out loud say we won't be

dictated by the fact checkers. so is it surprising? >> bill: they're banking on the fact they can tell all of the lies about medicare, $716 billion, about the stimulus, about that g.m. plant in janesville. >> that's the biggest whopper of them all. >> bill: just so all of our listeners and viewers understand, again, paul ryan says gee, barack obama came in 2008 and stood in front of the plant and says if everything goes right this plant will be there for another hundred years and yet it was closed within a year. the fact is -- >> it was done by george bush in 2008. >> bill: may i think it was. >> here's the thing. so people like david gergen who are the creme de la creme of the chattering class in washington say he had misstatements. no no, that was an outright lie. the letter has been put up online this morning from paul ryan's office requesting that the plant not be shut down.

the letter was written to president george w. bush. signed by paul ryan. so these are not misstatements. these are calculated lies. they're calculated deceptions to fool the american people. >> bill: and the $716 billion calculated lie. the fact that the simpson bowles commission, president obama didn't approve its recommendations. paul ryan was on the commission. >> he must have just forgot. >> bill: i've never seen anybody -- more brazen string of lies. >> it is as if they wrote the speech two months ago before they had a vice presidential running mate and said here, kid run with this. >> bill: and forget about anything else. >> we'll paste your bio into it a little bit but these are the attacks we're going after obama on and we're sticking with it. >> bill: you saw it, you heard the lies last night from paul ryan. let's talk about it at 1-866-55-press with karl frisch from bullfight strategies. here as a "friend of bill" this entire hour. we've got lots of time to get to your calls when we come right

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>> announcer: this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: joe cirincione is our >> announcer: this is the "full court press." the "bill press show" live on your radio and on current tv. >> bill: 25 minutes after the hour here. the "full court press," thursday, august 30. joe romm from the center for american progress who is their lead guy on climate change will be joining karl frisch and me in the next segment. joe also has an interesting piece. he just wrote a book about

language intelligence. and he's got an interesting piece in "the huffington post" about mitt romney's lack of language skills. which should be interesting with his speech tonight. we'll talk to him about that in the next segment. karl, you and i have been talking about this convention so far. paul ryan's speech last night. g is calling from philadelphia. hey, gee, good morning. >> caller: good morning, bill. how are you? >> bill: i'm good. what's up? >> caller: first of all, i just want to let you know i'm a 65-year-old african-american male. i served in the military during the years of '65-'68. >> bill: good for you. >> caller: i am an america. i love america. i don't feel i'm one of the american people the republican party like to refer to. >> that's because you're not. [ laughter ] >> caller: i 100% disagree with the outright duplicitous lies

and deception and distortion all throughout this campaign. >> bill: they'll save social security and medicare for you. >> we may have voted for it when it came into creation. we may want to get rid of it ever since but we're going to be here to strengthen it and secure it for future generations. >> caller: i gotta thank you and msnbc for making it clear to me how the president is taking the $716 billion that is out of there to use to start the affordable act care program. last night i watched several speakers and i just was beyond -- i watched them where i could kind of objectively listen and learn from what they were saying. it is all lies. but i was appalled at what that warmongerrer mccain insinuated about president obama's role as commander in chief. of this military.

and the united states. i kind of wanted to add another comment aside from the medicare what not. >> bill: hey jee you have a lot to say and unfortunately, we don't have a lot of time. i really appreciate the call. but just on his point about john mccain. you just gotta admit, john mccain is all sour grapes. >> it is all get off my lawn. he is disgruntled he's upset. he's not been the john mccain that the media came to love and know since 2008. he has no interest in legislating anymore. >> bill: no. >> his primary motivation in life now seems to be being a thorn in the side of the obama administration. >> bill: i'm sure he really resents barack obama's success in foreign policy. by the way the fact that he's tough as nails when it comes to national security. mccain is a has been. i don't know why they invited him last night. more karl frisch coming up. >> announcer: this is the "bill

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>> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: here we go. it is 33 minutes after the hour. this is the "full court press" on this thursday, august 30. karl frisch with eric burns head of bullfight strategies, karl is in studio with us this hour as a "friend of bill." always good to see you karl. >> good morning, bill. >> bill: we have talked several times here, we're talking for the most part about the convention, paul ryan's speech last night and mitt romney, what to expect tonight. but take time out for another important issue here. we talk several times over the

last few weeks about indications of global warming. in fact, being already here. the wildfires the drought the extreme temperatures we've had. increased storm activity. the latest is this headline this week arctic sea ice melted to record low levels this summer. the national snow and ice data center reporting. we thought it would be a good time to check in with our friend joe romm who is head of climate progress. climate progress.org. the editor of climate progress, i should say. joe, good morning. good to talk to you. >> hey bill, thanks for having me. >> bill: what do we know about the melting of the sea ice and why is it important? >> well it normally sets the record for being the least amount of ice near the end of september. and we just set the record for

the least amount of ice and this is the sea ice -- a few days ago. a month ahead of schedule. it is still losing ice at a staggering rate. it is not the ice that raises sea levels because that's only ice over land just like an ice cube in your glass, when it melts, it doesn't raise the level of the water but it is incredibly important for a bunch of reasons. one of which is that ice is white and reflective and as it melts away, the ocean which is blue and absorbs a lot more of the sun's energy so you get the warming of the arctic ocean which is a feedback effect which then melts more ice. and that's one of the reasons why we're seeing ice melting so much faster than people thought. and as the arctic warms up and it is warming two to three times faster than the rest of the planet it accelerates the warming up there and that's why greenland -- the greenland ice

sheet melts which can raise sea levels that is accelerating also thanks to this effect. and i think the other key thing that people need to understand is that there's now emerging science that the loss of arctic ice is actually partly responsible for the tremendous amount of extreme weather that we're seeing here down in the united states. if you can believe it. >> bill: the warming -- i'm the last one to start talking science but my understanding is the warmer the water the more fierce the hurricanes can become right? because they depend on warmer waters to be able to pick that up and then as we're seeing with hurricane isaac. >> yes that's absolutely true. as the planet warms the oceans warm and that puts more water vapor in the atmosphere and what goes up must come down. these super storms, isaac is a lot like irene. it wasn't a powerful storm but

it was big and slow-moving which meant it could suck in a huge amount of this extra water vapor in the atmosphere and then dump it. and that is exactly what isaac is doing. you know, irene which obviously slammed the east coast last year was the most destructive category one hurricane in history. so we're seeing, you know, more destructive storms even when they're only category one. so yes, that's absolutely the case. global warming leads to more intense deluges. but this loss of arctic ice also appears to weaken the jet stream. and the jet stream is what drives weather quickly through the united states and with this weaker jet stream, systems get stuck. and that's what we've been seeing. that's why we had this unbelievably hot march. it is why we had this unbelievably hot july. it is because these weather patterns get stuck because in part the jet stream is getting weaker. >> that's why i'm so comfortable with the republican majority because of their respect for science and technology.

i mean i trust that todd akin, as one of the leaders of the science committee, looks at this information in the same way that you do. with critical reasoning and has decided we better do something. and that he's not like the other people in this party who believe that science like letters shapes numbers and the media have a liberal bias. >> well, you know, it certainly is one of the great tragedies that one party has become so anti-scientific. we just celebrated -- we just remembered neil armstrong. we use science to put 12 men on the moon and get them back. >> get your hands off my moon, you comi. >> we use science to create the computing power in your phone has more computing power than neil armstrong's entire apollo rocket did. so this is what science does. you can't just say ooh, i'm

going to believe this science but then i'm going to ignore science when it tells me something that i really don't like to hear such as hey greenhouse gases are called greenhouse gases because they trap heat and they make extreme weather more extreme. >> bill: they're always going to be a couple of total nut jobs like jim inhoff and others, right, that will convince everybody. when do we get to the point where you just say look, we're just not going to listen to those chicken little people. >> george w. bush said he believed that global warming was real and for a party that doesn't believe in evolution there's nothing more apparent. they must believe in -- you know devolving because mitt romney doesn't believe in climate change. paul ryan doesn't believe in climate change. and that's -- a backwards retreat compared to george w. bush even. >> bill: i keep asking -- every time we talk about this, joe, when are we going to get to the point where people will say all right look, let's just move

on and deal with this problem and stop paying any attention to the deniers. >> it is a challenge only because -- you remember the tobacco industry and how long the tobacco industry spread this information and fought off claims that -- and the tobacco industry has a lot less money than the fossil fuel industry. the fossil fuel industry is making hundreds of billions of dollars a year. exxon mobil you know and the refiners and the people like the kochs. so unfortunately, they have a vast amount of money to spread this disinformation and it is going to take some -- you know, republicans with some guts to say you know, this is hurting our own states. states like oklahoma which is land of deniers, has been slammed by the most brutal heat wave and droughts. >> if they would only pray more. >> bill: we're talking with joe romm, editor of climate progress over at think progress.

you can follow joe's good work on this issue at climateprogress.org. joe, i have to point out this is an important -- i'm glad to you have on the show today. you have a new book out which has nothing to do with climate change. it is about language intelligence. name of the book, language intelligence. lessons on persuasion from jesus, shakespeare lincoln and lady gaga. now whoever thought that jesus would be in the same sentence with lady gaga. >> lady gaga did. >> bill: but you have written a piece for huff post, the headline of which is "will we elect a president with no language intelligence and should we" and it is all about mitt romney. now, mitt romney is speaking tonight at the convention, joe. what are you saying? what do you mean when you say he doesn't have any language intelligence? >> well, he is just a guy who can't speak off the cuff without making some sort of a gaffe and he has to be carefully scripted

but even his scripts haven't been very good. >> bill: even his scripted speeches aren't very good. >> these trees are just the right height. >> bill: do you mean speaking skills? >> language intelligence is the ability to be persuasive and memorable. and the book lining wage intelligence -- language intelligence goes through what are the secrets of the greatest communicators. it is not complicated. use short words use a lot of repetition and use the figures of speech like metaphor and you may remember bill clinton's famous -- his convention speech for his re-election, he talked about building the bridge to the 21st century. that's a great metaphor. you can visualize it. he repeated it two dozen times. and it is what we remember about the speech. and it is inspirational. [ laughter ] >> never going to use the word inspirational and mitt romney. >> if he gave a speech like that, he would probably say something like my friends, we're going to get a bunch of people that are athletic people that

are into sport and we're going to construct a device that would let us go from one side of a vast sea of water to the other as if it is like moving the country in the direction that would be considered not backward but perhaps this way forward. >> or he might have said we'll build a yacht to the 21st century. >> bill: flying the cayman islands flag. [ laughter ] >> the point i was trying to make in "the huffington post" piece is it does matter if your president isn't a great communicator. all of the great presidents, the ones at the top of the list your lincoln, your jefferson both roosevelts, even a guy like ronald reagan, the people who are viewed as successful presidents, these are people who communicate because a lot of the president's job is a, talking to the public. and b talking to world leaders and cajoling members of congress and if you're just really bad at that, you're not that likely to

be a great president. >> when you think of -- especially the ones in the media age, the ones that you mentioned, the ones that are in the media age you that mentioned all had that ability to comfort the american people during either national tragedies or during times of war. i mean you've got reagan with the space shuttle over florida. you've got roosevelt with the war, the second world war. and clinton you know, the oklahoma city -- i don't think romney has that depth of empathy to do that. >> bill: it is an important piece. i'm glad we're able to talk to you about it. one more reason for voting against mitt romney. [ laughter ] >> bill: on climate change and language intelligence, joe you're doing good work. thank you. >> i definitely want to come in some day that i'm not on duty. >> are you watching paul ryan?

>> bill: we'll get knew the studio soon, joe. thank you so much. >> all right. >> bill: karl frisch is a "friend of bill." joe romm on -- that's interesting. no language intelligence. more calls on paul ryan, the big liar. liar, liar pants on fire for sure last night and more lies coming up from mitt romney. we'll be right back. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and current tv.

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>> bill: it is 12 minutes now before the top of the hour. karl frisch is here as a "friend of bill" this hour. from bullfight strategies. you can follow karl, go to -- you got so many handles here. it is karlfrisch.com. or bullfight strategies.com. or on twitter at karl frisch. you tweet a lot. you're like david shuster. you guys are out there -- i don't know what -- >> there was a washington -- >> bill: do you have a job? >> if it strikes me, i say something that i find amusing. or i retweet an important story that i think other people should read. the washington "life" magazine if you don't get it at home, i guess you can go to the internet, had a list of 30 people under-known 30 people that twitter. i was listed on there. and i thought to myself what does it mean about me that i'm

not known well enough but you should follow me on twitter? >> bill: seems like a contradiction, doesn't it? >> yeah. >> bill: so sign up! find out. follow him on twitter at karl frisch. we've talked a lot about the people who have spoken or are going to speak at the convention. it is also interesting the people who will not speak at the convention. >> i think it is more interesting, bill. >> bill: yeah. so who's not there? >> okay. the likely suspects, george w. bush is apparently too busy clearing twigs and branch on his ranch in texas. >> bill: or picking up dog poop. >> dick cheney must be bringing his warm bedside manner to a hunting buddy. >> bill: i think he was fishing. >> you don't want to be near his hook. >> sarah palin is filming a very special mother/daughter episode of her daughter's reality show because she won't be there

either. we won't forget there was a bush administration just because they're not there. bush's own economic adviser said his economic policies would be like george w. bush's on steroids. >> bill: so they didn't want those guys. i was surprised in the sense that they invited mccain. almost like they didn't want to be reminded we lost the last time out you know. >> independents didn't vote for mccain in 2008. i think in large part because the economy collapsed toward the end of the campaign. i think he is still popular with them. but the old mccain, this is the cognitive dissidence that the republicans have. they think mccain was always popular with independents, he will be, too now. he is a different man today. we should have a woman up there. that's not how people think. independents don't look at mccain the same way they did five or eight years ago. >> bill: mitt romney has gone out to costco and he bought some new undershirts which he ironed

himself. >> yeah. i would like to get the extra starch on my undershirts please. >> bill: you think of mitt romney, you think of starch. what's he have to do tonight? >> not talk about costco. is a good place to start. not talk about doing his own laundry. first of all even if you do it, mitt, nobody believes you. and they think it is all calculated to appeal to the middle class. so embrace who you are and explain to people why you want to be president. not why you don't want the other guy to be president. americans like electing people and voting for people. >> bill: for a reason. >> they don't generally vote for somebody because it is at the expense of somebody else. so it is going to be a difficult road for him to travel in doing that. he's not as we were just talking, a particularly good communicator. he's awkward. he has been running for president for nearly a decade.

and he's never been able to close the deal and this time, it just happened to be his turn and anybody else who could run against him as a more capable candidate than the crazy people he ran against from herman cain to michele bachmann, the jokes that even gave mitt romney a hassle on his way to tampa you know, it was his turn. and that's not -- that hurdle was a lot easier to cross than going into the oval office as president. >> bill: i heard john fuglesang say this the other night. i think it is true. obama is the person these republicans certainly love to hate. but they haven't -- they also hate to love mitt romney. mitt romney is a person they hate to love. and he's gotta convince them to love him tonight. i think it will be a tough job. i think there will be a lot of buyer's remorse after his speech tonight. karl, great to see you today. thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. >> bill: we're going to be together in charlotte. >> that's right. >> bill: we'll see you. >> i'm excited about it. >> bill: i am, too.

i'm already excited about that one. we'll see you in charlotte next week. >> sounds great. >> bill: i will be back with today's parting shot. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." (vo) every news network will cover the convention. but only current coverage will put you at the collision of tv and social media. we'll provide unsurpassed insight into the most buzz worthy tweets, posts and pontifications, from the entire social stratosphere including you. join in, tweet us, and you could be a part of our on-air and online coverage. >>now that is politically direct.

[ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: the parting shot with bill press. this is the "bill press show." >> bill: on this thursday, august 30, my parting shot for today, well, yesterday was day two of the republican's reinvention convention. on tuesday night ann romney tried to reinvent her husband as warm and fuzzy. last night paul ryan attempted to reinvent himself as reasonable. both attempts failed because neither one is true.

no matter how much he tried to round off the edges paul ryan remains the most extreme right wing candidate ever nominated for a national ticket. he may run for cover but he can't run from his record on the fiscal issues. paul ryan advocates destroying medicare and medicaid, privatizing social security, and, of course, raising taxes on the middle class in order to give the wealthiest of americans another tax cut. on social issues, he's joined at the hip with todd akin, anti-abortion with no exceptions, cosponsor of the human life amendment against marriage equality and against gay adoption. yes, how the republican party has changed. not so long ago paul ryan would have been dismissed as an extremist fringe candidate. but mitt romney has put him on the national ticket. that's it for us today. don't forget to watch current tv tonight from 7:00 on for convention coverage. we'll see you back here tomorrow morning! post" will be here as well.