>>so, the tobacco industry is the smelly fish. (christof) in the spring of 2011, the indonesian government had yet to declare nicotine an addictive drug and it remained legal to sell cigarettes to children of any age. (christof)for one of those children, perhaps the most famous one, life has pretty much returned to normal, except when american journalists come to visit. (christof)today, "the smoking baby" remains smoke-free and so do his parents. (christof)but what will happen as aldi rizal and the other children in his village grow up?

if current trends continue, we can expect that most of them will one day become smokers. and no one would think twice about seeing a video of a smoking teenager in indonesia.

[ music ] [ music ] >> bill: good morning, everybody. what do you say? it is friday the 1st of march. good to sue he today. thank you for joining us on the "full-court press" coming to you live on this great land of ours on current tv. lots of news today. the sequester is here. now, how soon before the cuts are felt? they have already started. in a lot of other news the house finally, passed yesterday, the violence against women act, the version passed by the senate. it will go to the president. he will sign it as soon as he can. plus, president obama, the obama administration has jumped in asking the supreme court to

overturn proposition 8 from california, which is a great big bold move on the part of the obama administration in support of marriage equality. they already asked the supreme court to overturn the defense of marriage act as well. yes, in big news today. the u.s. is set to approve the first horse meat processing planted out in the united states out in new mexico. that may alarm a lot of people but they have been eating horse meat for a long time in europe. when i was living in europe i ate horse meat so as long as you know what you are getting, as long as you know what you are buying hey, what's wrong with horse meat? we will tell you what's going on here in our nation's capitol around the country, around the world and, of course take your calls at 866-55-press. all of that coming up next on current tv. [ music ]

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early. >> bill: it is not true that we already started here >> bill: >> i haven't. speak for everybody else. loose on fridays. great to see you today wherever you happen to be or whether you listening on current tv or on your local progressive talk radio station or listening on sirius xm this hour only. too bad for them. too bad for you. we love seeing you and love the fact that you joined the show here and look forward to bringing you up to date on all of the billg stories of the day, wherever it's happening on the globe. if it's worth talking about, we will be talking about. everything from the pope to john kerry to what's happening in the congress what's happening down at the whitehouse today and what's happening out of new mexico with it looks like the first horse meat processing plant in the united states just at a time when europe is all up

in arms until horse meat showing up in ikea meatballs. look forward to hearing from you at 866-55-press. join the conversation at any time. on twitter @bp show. love hearing from you on twitter and love the fact that so many of you are following us on twitter as well as friending us on facebookment facebook.com/billpressshow. as long as there is the current tv, there will be the chat room going on simultaneously with our show. people who are listening or watching to the show join the chat radioed, make friends across the country. talk about the issues among yourselves. how about that? here we go on a friday. it is teen press day. peter ogburn and dan henning. hey, hey. looking forward to the big hat. >> gin tasting later on >> bill: that's what we do on fridays? >> i am fine with that. i support that. >> bill: it's become a

tradition. we have the liquorama. phil backert's on the phones. he has to be sober to handle the calms. >> drinking alcohol sometimes. >> yeah. we cannot give sip ran anything because we don't want the cameras flying around, you know. well, you talk about the flying nun. yesterday, we had the flying pope. yeah. he had his last meeting with the cardinals, told them to behave themselves. no more little boys. and then he got in the helicopter, influence off flew off to the summer palace. >> it's a castle. it's amazing. he gets to retire to. >> bill: this is the time here until they get his cell ready in the monastery.

>> i am sure it will be very modest. >> a tiny little cell with a little bed and a little portapotty, thunder bucket as they call it. a nice little crowd waiting for him. he gave his final farewells. as pope. >> f grazzi. there will it is. now, what do you say in its there. >> that means? go, washington nationals. jay leno says we can all sort of identify with what the pope has done. >> it has to be tough stepping down as pope. one day you are infallible. you are a man who can do no wrong. the next day it's all gone. it's like getting married.

elevenmins eleven minutes after the hour. later in the show, the first actually brewery here. >> distillery. >> in years and years and years of maybe forever. they are making green hat gin. the maker will come in and tell us about it later in the program. we will have if studio as a guest a brand-new congressman from california, good friend of mine, mark. this acono to talk about the proposition 8 decision by the obama administration yesterday. the vice president of the national education association in here to get us all involved in national reading day.

but first there is one aspect of sequestration that joe biden is happy about. the vice president has to go back to using amtrak. when the sequester hits today, fox reports that air force two will be grounded for his weekend flights back to delaware. so when the vp wants to go home to see family and play golf he will take the train just like he did when he was senator because it will be cheaper than flying. in his speech to the nation, the attorney general said he was looking forward to being back on mr. amtrak. >> he loves it. >> that's a good quick ride up to wilmington, delaware. >> the first representative from the united states to meet with the new leader of north korea is dennis rodman, the former nba star hung out with kim jung ung.

robin told him he has a friend for life. and he called the u.s./north korea relationship regrettable. >> bill: why is it regrettable? they are building nuclear weapons. >> those pictures are insane. >> totally insane. that leader of north korea is in sane. any other country, he would be committed. in north car e a -- >> maybe iran. >> the ex miss teen delaware u.s.a. who res found our crown. >> i am so proud of her. >> speaking of famous delawareans. she resigned her crown after it was revealed she started in a porn video. she has gotten appear job offer offering her $250,000 to be the spokeswoman for the website since she can't be any teen usa.

they will call her ms. uporn. no response from ms. king yet. >> i wonder where she is from in delaware. i wonder if she is in my hometown delaware city. >> delaware city. >> 250, she is 18. >> 18, yeah. >> not bad money. look once you have made a sex tape and people have reported on it, you are going to have that with you forever. >> yeah. might as well cash in on it. david vitter didn't pay that much for his? >> no this ish we started off this morning with such a washington story but, you know it has national implications because i think it says a lot about the media. here is what's going on. you probably heard about the bob woodward flap. he is a great journalist great investigative reporter.

he will go do you know in history as one of the journalist who the has inspired thousands and thousands, tens of thousands, probably, of people to get into journalism because of the job that he and carl burn accident scene on watergate way, way back in the nexton years. right? since then, he is still at the washington post still writes good inside books. eats got sorted. he gets people to talk you would never belief and he has written the inside story, you know, the clinton white house and the bush white house and, of course one at least already on the obama white house but, you know, sometimes and they are all bestsellers and he is on all of the big shows. he is the star but sometimes all of that celebrity goes to your head. i think it has with bob woodward in a couple of weeks. first of all, it starts out with over the sequester, he jumps in and says.

this sequester is all president obama's idea and that he is lying if he says we ought to blame republicans in congress for letting the sequester happen because he said it started at the whitehouse. that's what i reported. therefore, it has to be true. it's simply not true. there is a slimmer little slice of truth there becauseperhaps but without getting too complicated, the sec ester started out. an old idea. but most recently in 1985 in the graham-rudman act. this time when they are at the white white house, the republicans say we will form am super submit committee but we need something to make sure the super committee gets a job done. at a meeting at the whitehouse somebody, make jack lew, maybe dean sperling andf somebody said one time they used a sequester that was so bad that everybody

would want to want to avoid it. republicans said great idea. they took it to the hill, voted for it 174 republicans voted for it john boehner voted for it. paul ryan voted for it. eric cantor voted for it and john boehner said this is great. i got 98% of what i want. so, you know, woodward is just not telling the whole story there. so then gene sper ling from the white house calls up bob woodward and they have a heated conversation on the phone and then he sends woodward an e-mail and e-mail complains about this and invites reporters from politico over to his georgetown mans and tells them how he has been threatened by the white house, threatened by this e-mail. what the blew the cover for woodward is somebody buzzfeed i think, released the whole e-mail. >> buzz feed reported first that

it was gene spiral ig and politico put out the e-mail. >> i want to read the velrelevant parts. here it is, you tell me if you think gene sperling. >> if you have kids in the car we should warn you, there may be some heated language here. gene sperling says i apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today. my bad. >> okay. all right. >> so perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here but, he continues, i truly believe you should rethink your comment about saying that podus asking for revenues is moving the goalpost. i i know you may not believe this, but as a friend, i think you will regret staking out that claim. >> that's a threat? >> that's the threat. >> jesus >> bill: then he closes this way: my apologies again for

raising my voice on the call with you. feel bad about that and truly apologize. >> that's what bob woodward -- the right-wing sean hannity, they have embraced bob wordward as their hero. he stood up to the obama administration. they threaten him and he fought back and everything. this is absolute ca-ca. jay carney at the whitehouse at the briefing this was raised, and i mean he really i thought did a good job of just saying, come on. get real. >> in cheapkeeping with a demeanor i have been familiar with for more than 20 years was incredibly respectful, referred to mr. woodward as his friend and apologized for raising his voice. i think you cannot read those e-mails and come away with the impression that gene was threatening anybody. >> bill: carney says, hey listen. i have been on the receiving end of those kind of calls.

>> i never took it personally when my former boss here, rahm emanuel when i was on a reporter give me an earful about something he didn't like. it didn't affect my relationship with him. it didn't stop me from talking to him. i just happen to know that was rahm's way. >> right. by the way, so a lot of veteran white house reporters have said woodward is dead wrong on this. now he is a hero of fox news a hero of the right-wing websites but major gartet from cbs says this is just run-of-the-mill. this is what happens when you are a white house reporter. you expect calls like that. jay capper, now with cnn, used to be with abc said this is nonsense. ed henry with fox news also says this is not unusual to get a call like that. i mean this is the most respectful e-mail that i can imagine that you could ever get from somebody. i have made calls worse than that. i have made e-mails worse than that.

and i have received calls and e-mails worse than that. it goes with the territory. >> yeah. >> bob woodward thinks since he is so famous to be can dare agree with him. right? >> i twheetd out yesterday and i will say it again today. bob woodward is a horse's ass. his ego is out of control. come on, bob. get with the program. if you say something wrong and if you say something the obama administration doesn't like, they have the right to call you up and tell you you are full of crap. >> that's exactly what happened 34r50i89. let's talk about it. 866-55-press. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ]

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>> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show". >> all right. 26 minutes now after the hour. yeah, headline in "the new york times" this morning. woodward is the new hero for the far right. yeah. oh, boy, they love him now because he declared war on the obama white house. what's interesting to me is that a lot of the white house reporters across the board have said bob woodward is just too thin-skinned, too be sensitive, too full of himself. get to you'll cars in just a second. in the social media word mama from obama -- for obama says bob woodward glue his reputation in order to attack the president. he is a liar and he has been shown to be a liar. don't downplay it.

bill w. says he was trying to put himself in the news. he should come back down to earth. he acts like he was alone in taking nixon down and rippa says, white house to woodward, sorry about that horse's head in your bed, pal, but, hey, call me, maybe. let us know what you think about bob woodward. it is always a mistake when the reporter makes himself or herself part of the news. >> bill: that is not their place. when they project themselves and make themselves the source, it is bound to fail. john is out in ferndetailale washington. >> good morning, bill. i remember a couple of years back there were some details aboutthat copy out about the watergate reporting that were inaccurate. and his editor had had a disagree withdisagreement with him.

i don't think bob woodward has recovered from that. his ego is so large. part of the washington establishment. i think that he just thinks that if he says it, it must be true. there is one other thing that bob woodward, a side thing, right, but the way he says, "reporter." he always says rip-orter. >> bill: john g to hear from you. it's so early on the west coast. i don't remember that thing about watergate reporting. i will check it out. but ben bradley was his editor at the time at the washington post. woodward's head has gotten too big for him. >> this is "the bill press show."

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>> chatting with you live at current current.com/billpress. this is "the bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. [ music ] >> bill: here we go 33 minutes after the hour. the full court press on a friday march 1st. can you believe it's march already. holy mackarel. a little bit later here in this hour, top of the next hour, lily escolson is vice president of the national education association. this is national reading week. we are talking about the bob woodward flap. he claims that the white house, they are the ones who came up with the idea of the sec wester. more importantly, he claims he was threatened by the white

house. he insists he never used the word "threat" that he didn't say, i was threatened. but he gave an interview to politico. politico reported that he was threatened and the right-wing has embrace would him because he is standing up to the alabama white house. major garrett says he thinks this is a completely ridiculous claim. jay tapper says from now on cnn, in my experience neither side has a premium on tones that may not be soothing. and even ed henry who covers the white house for fox news said, in fairness to the white house, the first amendment applies to them as well. they've got a right to express their opinion. >> oh? >> bill: but you can't disagree with bob woodward because he is the pope. linda is in cincinnati hoy. what do you say? >> caller: bob, i'm sorry, bill. >> bill. >> caller: listen, bill. word of mouth is the best

advertisement. this is my mouth and this is where people ought to buy the obama hate machine that you have there because to make heads or tails of the ignorance, just the shear ignorance bob woodward, he's with too cute. he let's his good get in the way of his better like the lot of them. come on >> bill: well said, linda. every time i go out now and talk about the obama hate machine, i am going to take linda with me. >> telling you >> bill: she's got it. but this is woodward. he figured he could make news become part of the story. right? if he comes out and attacks the obama white house. form and friends and sean hannity last night embrace them now as their new hero. what undercuts that story, it was legitimate bona fide

reporters across the board said, hey, woodward, get a life, man. we have had worse than that and we have given worse than that. it goes with the territory. >> yes. >> i remember when i was -- a quick story when i was working for jerry brown first time around in california i was standing with him. we went back to the governor's office and we waited those days were before instant twitter and all of that kind of stuff. we waited by the print machine for the associated story on what the governor had just talked about. we are standing around the press. the story comes across. i will never forget it. jerry picks up the story and reads the first paragraph and he said i won't february -- i won't repeat it. the guy picked up the phone, called him and screamed at him.

it was the first time i had seen anything like that. he said, no, it's wrong. you have to correct that, what you have said. it's factually wrong and here is why. the guy corrected it. >> that's the bids. >> you never hear about reporters whining and complaining about how they got yelled at by somebody they use as a source but when gene sperling says i apologize raising my voice. my bad. i know you may not believe this, but as a friend i think you will regret some day staking out that claim. you could not say it any softer. >> no in fact, i think some people around the obama white house probably told gene sperring, you are too nice. roy in south carolina, what do you think about this? >> caller: for a long time, woodward is kind of a

nervous-nellie anyway. has a quavery voice but he's been a flunky for the years. >> big time. >> ran us into iraq. didn't have anything to say about that. as soon as president obama is in office, he is calling them obama' wars and obama's did he have sitting here today that. seems like clear responsible liabel to me. he acts like hey black man, hurry up and clean up this white man's filthy mess. i think he is like an old plantation hand. >> bill: there have been signs really for a long time that woodward has gotten too full of himself, if you will. i think now the whole world sees it. i think this hurts his reputation. i will tell you what else it is going to do. it is going to limit his access in the future. i mean the thing that he had going for him was that he could get to anybody in any white house in any agency anybody in

congress because he was bob woodward. what? bob woodward wants to talk to me? i will now become famous because he will be in a woodward book. i think those days are over. >> they are gone. they are long gone. if you know one journalist in this country, you know bob woodward. he is probably the most famous journalist that we have. >> bill: and has become a very very rich man. >> i am sure >> bill: astasia is in masheen appear, california >> caller: good to be here. last night, jon fugelsang had the conversation with wolfe blitzer and they did use the word threatened and wolfe was so snide, he said i guess they should know better than to threaten you, bob. bob is going, oh, well, you know, of course, you know, like he is so smug after the watergate, you know, i am alive

long enough to remember that. but common on. how long do you have to be able to live off of that one book? until >> bill: your point is good. cnn bought into this, too. fox news has embraced him as a hero. but cnn is making him a hero too. they did at the whitehouse briefing yesterday, you know, saying that they buy into the fact that the white house threatened bob woodward. if that e-mail is a threat, that's a love note to me. >> bob woodward jon fugelsang had the e-mail bob replied and basically, he said, it's no problem, dude. everything's good, you know. >> yeah. >> we are still good friends. like no big deal but then on cnn, i won't tell anybody who wrote me. >> bill: in fact, i've got that astasia, thanks for the

call. bob woodward wrote back to gene. you do not have to apologize to me. you get wound up because you are making their points and believe them. this is all part of a serious discussion. i for one welcome a little heat. then he goes out and says he was threatened by the white house. i am telling you see, what a phony f he were a real mensch i think woodward would say this thing has gotten all blown out of proportion. i have to tell you i respect gene spiraling. he has his point of view. i have my point of view. i should not have -- i should not have talked to politico. i should not have the made a big deal of this. i'm sorry i did. if he had any, you know, trues convictions left. right? >> what he ought to do. >> yeah. >> that's what he should do. >> don't hold your breath exactly. gary is in woodstown new jersey. what do you say? good morning. gary? gary?

gary? no. obvious. say hello to dan in shan 'tily, virginia. good morning >> caller: woodward, i don't know who wrote -- i'm sorry. i don't know who i don't know what his tactics are. he goes to you in the whistlete house and threatens you. he says you give me background or i write whatever i want. >> uh-huh. >> that's why they say, well he's got all of this access. so, you know, that is the truth of whatever he writes because he gets all of this background because he sort of threatens you. you either give me some inside skinny, or i am going to write what i want. and you are going to have to live with it. he just blew that relationship just now. >> i think you are right dan. always good to hear from you. i would like to see, dan, some of the e-mails or listen in on some of the telephone calls that bob woodward makes to people

that he wants to talk to in the white house, especially that's originally initially say, no. i am not going to talk to you. i bet you. i bet you, dan, you are so right, that he really puts the pressure on and threatens them that if they don't talk to him, he is going to make them look bad in his book. you bet. all right. you know what? david jackson, former head of the white house correspondents' association, one of the best reporters in the white house, among other topics we will get his take on this when we come back in the next segment of the "full-court press." >> this is "the full court press: the bill press show," live on your radio and on current tv. billy zane stars in barabbas. coming in march to reelz. to find reelz in your area, go to reelz.com

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[ music ] radio meets television "the bill press show," now, on current tv. >> 13 minutes before the top of the hour, it is friday march 1st. boy, to be a fly on the wall today, 10:00 o'clock this morning, the president welcoming to the oval office john boehner and mitch mcconnell, harry reid. the vice president will be there, sit down and talk about, all right. here we are, the sequester is here. now, what the hell do we do? david jackson covers the white house for u.s.a. today. david, i am sure you would love to be listening in on that meeting. hum? >> love to cover that one live but i don't think they will let us. >> no. i don't think so either. hey, david, before we got to the

news of the day, okaying? i just have to tell you david, you know, that you are a friend of mine and i have great respect now, but i think you ought to rethink your position on that issue because i think some day, you may regret staking out that claim. now, david jackson, do you feel threatened by what i just read? >> no. not at all. i have got to tell you. it's write a little bit on woodward and then when i heard that the alleged threat ner were gene sperling i raised my eyebrows and regretted the whole thing. i didn't consider that any kind of a threat. i have got to tell you, you and i both received nastier e-mails from than that >> bill: by the way i have written nastier ones. >> i could attest to that. >> a strange story. that's all i can say about that one. >> bill: i had to ask you because i saw you yesterday, major garrett, edhe had capper,

all said come on. >> yeah >> bill: i thought jay karen, can you imagine the calls he got from rahm emanuel? >> my goodness. i had some different suspects when i heard bob talk about that. i have gotten similar. i know some of the word usages back there. you will regret this. maybe because you are wrong not that because i will cut you off. >> bill: and he kisses up to him before he gets there gene sper ling is hardly rahm emanuel. very odd >> bill: this sequester, have we nailed doubtwn yet, has it kicked in at midnight or tonight at midnight? >> the way the law reads is it's all day today. so basically until 11:59.

what i understand to happen is president obama will have to sign a sequestration order. >> bill: uh-huh. >> detailing what's going to be cut where and the omb based upon information provided by the office of management and budget the omb will transmit the report to congress. >> bill: i see. >> barring some kind of change in legislation which we are not going to set because the senate isn't meeting today. all of that will have to be done before 11:59 tonight. >> the senate took up the two measures the republicans and democratic version yesterday and both of them neither one of them passed. >> right. >> the house is out. what's the purpose of this meeting? >> good question. these cuts are going to stay. as president obama has said in recent days, they are going to be -- it's 85 billion over seven months. these things will come in line over the next several days, weeks and months and it will be a while before people will feel

it. so no one really knows how this is going to play out politically or how people are going to react to it. if i were in that meeting, that's one of the things i would try to assess is: how is this going to play out in the days ahead? how are people going to react? and how should i react to that? >> i guess for both sides, we know this is serious. we are dealing with it on the very first day. >> exactly. one thing you have to remember, bill, is the continuing resolution funds the government at the end of march 27th. that could also come up during the meeting. i keep hearing rumors they are trying to work on a deal on that to basically funneled the government until the end of september. that will take a little bit of the pressure off. i suspect that's another thing that will come up at this meeting. some people have talked about it publically. >> bill: there is a lot of buzz that the end of march is when they will resolve the budgetary issue and the sequester issue. right? >> right. >> that's one of the things that there is a lot of sympathy for when we extend the continuing

resolution, it makes sense. a lot of times what makes since isn't always what's happened. >> the president has spent a lot of the last two weeks, right? warning about what would happen with the sequester and trying to get the public roused up so they could prevent it. as it happens, is it sort of like will it be business as usual at the whitehouse from now on? >> here again, i don't think anybody knows. i have been told not to expect much over the weekend. everybody will be down -- i am sure people will be walking on the sunday shows. i think the only thing i know for sure is that people will be anxious to see what happens when the markets open on monday. that will be the first tipoff of the -- of how this thing will go. what wall street does. >> bill: the white house has the climate control. there is the gun issue, i am dpraings reform. the if the has been talking about. so i mean all of that is not going to come to a standstill i wouldn't imagine? >> no. they are talking on this that. although the sec wester is not

sucking up all of the political oxygen in the air. it makes it tougher to get anything else done >> bill: it was interesting at the briefing yesterday, christie parsonss asked is the obama administration going to jump into this prop 8 thing before the supreme court and carney said i have nothing to report on that. later they did, wrote an amicus brief and filed it with the court. >> like at 7:00 o'clock at night, which i thought they would do it by 5:00 o'clock. i had a much later night than i thought i would because of that. i think that was kind of expected. it's a big case. other gay rights cases before the court. it would make sense for them to weigh in on this one involving gay marriage. i think, you know, president obama changed his own position on gay marriage last year. he got tremendous support from the gay community. it seemed natural they would weigh in on this case because there was a lot of pressure for them to do so. >> it would have beennub for them not to.

>> i don't understand. nothing happens until it happens. i think there might have been some concern inside the administration as to whether they should weigh in or stays silent. i think it was a debate. might have been one of those things in the last minute. >> bill: david jackson covers the white house for usa.com. you have my vote. okay? ? >> thanks. i am jealous of you sir >> bill: you have my proxy, david jackson at the white house. >> this is "the bill press show." lysol disinfectant spray freshens doesn't stain, and unlike febreze it's approved to kill 99.9% of bacteria. join the mission for health. see how people everywhere are using lysol disinfectant spray

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representatives finally, voting to approve the violence against women act yesterday sending it to the president for their signature. they could have done this last year. they just delayed it. the obama administration has asked the supreme court to overturn california's prop 8, another big blow in support of marriage e quality did i. the administration already asked the court to overturn the defense of marriage act on the same issue. "new york times" reporting the united states is set to approve the new -- a new horse processing plant in this country, and bob woodward says he was threatened by the white house by gene spurling down at the whitehouse the but most veteran reporters have told bob woodward, hey, woodward, this is nothing. this is this just goes with the territory. you are too thin-skinned. all of that and more coming up next right here on current tv. >> go ahead!

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866-55-press. look forward to getting your calls on what we are talking about about, or you can follow us on twitter @bpshow and give us your comments. @bpshow. facebook.com/bill press show. i bet you didn't know. i didn't know until just a few minutes ago, this is read across america day. also what cuts might mean to public schools, lilly, vice president of the association. >> thank you for celebrating with us. >> bill: we will find out more about it and how dr. seuss plays a role in that, too. >> absolutely. >> we have the team here peter ogburn and dan henning. >> good morning. >> dan suited up? >> i am here. >> and cyprian.

>> cyprian has his hat on. >> he does indeed. >> we all have one. yeah. >> i was going to wait until we get into it. >> nice. >> you can put your hat on now. >> cool. okay. sure. yes. yes. yes? >> for your radio listeners, you have to tell them what these hats are. these are cool. >> bill: yes. >> all of the cool people wear one >> bill: we are all going to wear our doctor seuss, cat in the hat hats. right? green eggs and ham, that's a different book? >> different book. same author >> bill: everybody knows the doctor seuss cat in the hat. i mentioned the sequester. this is the day it kicks in. some point today before 11:59 today, pompom will sign that, has to sign that executive order to the in the of management and budget. these are the cuts that are required by law now. they have to kick in.

i keep calling her speaker but leader pelosi yesterday said here is what the sequester really means. >> sequester, one of my colleagues who is a latin sklar told me means really to hold hostage. >> that's exactly what this does. it holds hostage, the future, the growth of our country for an ideological, anti-government attitude >> bill: she said so republicans are so happy with this, they are calling it something else. >> some of it have called it a home rup. that doesn't sound line like anybody is on team america if they think mindless cuts across the board are a homerun. >> bill: i like that. team america. you can't be on team america and support the sequester. so we are going to be talking about importance of reading and teaching kids to read and what we are doing about it on this national read across america day mark takano a new member of

congress from southern california just recent elected in november. a good friend of mine to talk about the obama administration asking the supreme court to overturn california's prop yeah. >> we will meet head of a new distillery putting out a great gin called green hat gin. but first. >> other headlines making news on this friday even a member of congress -- >> >> >>. >> gina controlled substance. >> perfect. >> even a member of congress will get carded at a bar patrick murphy from florida, he is just 29 years old. he is the youngest member of the house of representatives, youngest congress. he was honored at a bar in d.c. this week by the new leaders' council and the hill reports. he got himself a drink, he was asked for his id by the

bartender. he was happy to oblige. >> i am telling you. it's a sad day when they no longer card you in the bar. they know then you know you are over the hill. >> many are calling duke basketball duke k, he wants fans to stop rushing the basketball court after every game that duke loses. it's happened a few times now this season. the latest, late night when uva upset the blue devils 73-68. mike k doesn't want his players to get hurt. try telling several thousands of college students that's one of the greatest traditions. it's better than dragging down the field goal. i love the rushing of the basketball court. >> that's campaign. >> finally people got busy

during super storm sandy busy in the bedroom. new york post reporting that a sandy baby boom is happening in new york. >> jeez. >> a big increase in expected mom -- expect ant moms due this july and august, nine months after super storm sunday. one office predicting a 30% baby delivery increase during its 30 day period beginning july 15th. >> you have no heat, no electricity, no running water. >> no t.v. to watch. >> not a lot else to do. >> peter? >> it's wrapped up. >> bill: i will open it. here we go no party pooper? >> i have such a big head hats don't go well. >> you and bob woodward. >> i thought he was going to the gym. >> thank you.

lilly, vice president of the national education association, read across america today what are we doing to celebrate, to get kids reading or help kids to read? >> we are so thrilled at any age. >> dr. seuss's birthday. we work with the seuss foundation, 16 years after we started, we announce we are the world's largest reading event in the history of history. we are going to have 45 million kids today. 45 million kids in libraries schools, nurse lees camps. we have teachters, politicians. they love these hats. it makes a great photo op. they push each other out of the way to get to the hautes. but there is a lot of science behind reading. we don't do that on read across america day. it's pure magic. it's pure moop magic read with a child. >> bill: that's what we are asking people to do today. you have all kind of special

events. is the first lady part of this? >> we have had the first lady. we have dennis van roekel is at the new york public library with uma thurman. we have sports stars. but i am telling you the biggest rock star today is you and you and all of your -- all of your engineers and anyone who has access to a kid because there is something magic when an adult sits down and opens a book with a kid. i, when my son was two years old, i would sit and i would read him green"green eggs and ham." i read that book with him two days ago. my son is now 36 years old, and i am 39. so the math is getting harder and harder to do. he sat there on the couch and we just laughed. i mean what you do for a teacher, when you are reading with a kid at home, your grandkids, your nieces and nephews, scout troops, sunday schools, whatever it is, when they come to school especially

the young ones, they go, books, i love books. >> that's cool. they want to read. it sets a tone for me as a teacher to be able to say, this is really cool. we've got to do the grammar and the spelling and all of this stuff that you have to learn. but if they have actually had a caring adult read with them. >> the hat, peter? >> do you still have it? we have the hats. >> bill: it's in your lap. it doesn't belong in the lap? >> i have two kids at home. >> do you read to them? >> i have a second grader. his homework to read to himself. so we sort of watch that. i have a 5-year-old. every night, he gets a book. >> bill: a book? >> a book? >> bill: milo gets three books. three. he picks them out. three. >> nice. >> bill: as i say, there is

nothing more meaningful, i guess, in my life, than reading to my grand kids. right? or taking them to the library. >> exactly. >> watching them light up when they get in the library. ? >> what's great is when you -- after you read a couple of times and they start to pick up, when you see it start to happen, it's the closest thing we have to magic. >> you get that part. >> bill: yeah. >> i mean i taught 5th and 6th great in utah for 20 years, and it was part of my -- part of my day, that right after lunch, i read old"old yeller." i read "charlotte's web." i read out loud. there is something, when you hear the voice, you are sitting close to these kids. it's a magical thing. we are seeing testingmanian and everything if it doesn't come off on a standardized test stop doing it. our teachers have literally, you know, said, absolutely not.

this is an important part of reading, is loving that book action teaching kids do love reading. if they love reading, then they are going to be good readers. >> bill: i think everything else follows. but, okay. here is my fear. okay? what -- what thrill is it to read from a nook? none? right? i mean seriously, part of it is holding this book and seeing the pictures and turning the pages but the idea of your nook sitting on the kids' bed and they are going to enjoy that? no way. no way. would you agree? you. >> i agree. we have a couple of things on our ipad we do for when we are traveling, but we just, for my 8-year-old's birthday, he got a new desk and it has a big bookshelf. so it's filled with books. it's filled with books. there is something really cool about picking the one you want and sitting in bed and flipping

through the pages. >> the thing whether you are in a hard-bound situation or electronic, it's that personal enter interaction with an adult. so if you just give your kid some electronic toy and say here, go teach yourself to read no. but even if you have it all on electronic book, there is something about having that kid sit next to you and you talking to them. you are giving them your time. >> it's better than not reading at all. but it is not as good as that and the pictures. >> i love the paper. i am loving the paper. >> children's books are wonderful. >> they are. they are some of my favorite books. >> the art work is great. yeah. then the other thing is, i am just afraid that people are not reading as much any more. there are a lot of families where there is not a parent to read every night. we were lucky and our kids were lucky and our grandkids are

lucky. not every kid has that opportunity. those who do how do we keep them reading? >> you have to be that model for your child. they need to see you reading the newspaper over breakfast. they need to see you -- >> what's a newspaper? >> exactly. now that's what i realize. they need to see that you enjoy reading. so to say, i am getting to that novel. here is my vampire slayer. i don't care what it is. it doesn't have to be great rit literature. they need to see you like reading and that it's just a routine in your life. you don't lecture them in to this this. you show them you are enjoying it. >> thighs. events are so important to bring awareness because it is so easy to turn on the television? >> too easy. >> and let them gravitate to that and say okay. you can watch, you know, 30 minutes of this show tonight instead of a book. it's easy to do that while you get other stuff. >> your baby sitter.

quick break, the next question is, as important as read across america day is, what happens to america's reading from programs particularly pre-school when the sequester kicks in? i also want you to know the rule is -- here is the rule. it will be enforced. there will be no gin provided to certain members of the team this morning unless they put the hat on. i am not mentioning anybody by name, but there will be no green hat gin later in the show except for those who are willing to wear the hat on the air. we will be right back on the "full-court press." >> okay. >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show."

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>> this is "the bill press show" live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: it's doctor seuss's birthday and read across america day. i am going to san diego right after the show today. dr. seuss lived in san diego. i think in la joya. >> that sounds familiar. >> i wonder if there will be a big. >> maybe you can sit next to a crying child and read tollo to them on appear ebook. >> you have never flown with bill. bill is a crying child. >> if there is as crying child, i will not slap him. >> that's how some of us will celebrate. we will take that. >> tweeting @bpshow on reading, paul winters says, i am a reader

because my parents read, especially my mother. i wound up with a ph.d. in english. not bad, wise guy eddy says book shelves are trophy cases for liberals. so true. another tweeter says, i agree up reading mad magazine. i love reading today. find us on getter @bp show. >> it's all right to read mad magazine. not when i was 5 or 6, but a little later on. high school. >> the page at the back. only people that know what i am talking about are worthy people. >> so what happens to public libraries, public schools action reading programs pre-school as the sequester kicks in? >> that is disaster of biblical proportions for 50 million public school kids and head start kids. the kids that are going to be hit first -- i think all kids

are going to be hit because it's public dollars, but special education, title i, which are our schools in our poorest neighborhoods. these are the most devastated families. headstart, don't get me started on the department of defense schools. these are the schools that serve our military families overseas. so all of that meat ax across the board, not, you know, well what can we do? let's prioritize. no. just a meat ax. people are furious. i don't mean just our teachers and our school employees. people are absolutely furious, but the snowball the horrible snow ball is going to happen is this is march. i was talking to a reporter. he said this won't happen overnight. >> yeah. >> this is what's happening overnight. school districts are this week and next week at the beginning much mark is when they approach the budget for next year. they know how much money.

they think they know how much money is coming in. they go, here is the program. here are how many people we can hire. here is who is retiring. they figure all of that out now. they are now faced with this huge question mark. are we going to get our special ed money? special ed doesn't care if you are rich poor, middle class. special ed kids, kids with disabilities happen everywhere. they are going to be giving pink slips to people this week. >> this week? >> sure. >> the sec wester already kicking in. it under cuts everything we have been trying to do. it is read across america today today. read to tour kids today. read to your granted kids today. legally eskelsen thank you for coming in this morning. >> pleasure. >> this is "the bill press show."

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[ music ] >> chatting with you live at current.com/billpress. this is "the bill press show" live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: hey, what do you say? good morning everybody. thirty-three minutes after the hour here on the "full-court press." coming to you life all the way across this great land of ours from our studio on capitol hill in washington, d.c. the obama administration last night, about 7:00 o'clock last night, i was at the briefing yesterday. there was no word of this. but the obama administration again making big news last night when they filed a brief with the supreme court asking the court -- remember, there was a marriage equality case two important cases in front of the supreme court, and one of them

deals with proposition 8 in california where the voters overturned a court decision allowing same section marriage in california. the obama administration asking the supreme court to overturn prop 8, voters don't have a right to discriminate. the president did so partly until response to some pressure in a letter from a freshman member of congress, mark takono representing the 41st. he joins us in studio? >> good morning. glad to be here. >> we have known each other a long time. goes back to when i was state chair of california and you were on the executive board we used to have the big executive commit meetings also chair the asian pacific islander committee. >> combined was. >> we had a good time. it was an interesting time in camera. you are chair during a time of

great turmoil, i think. we had prop 187 related to undocumented workers. >> when the issues 1984 is also the year my second run in congress. >> '94. you were chair then? >> right. >> it was the election where i was outted as a candidate. i had come off of 1982 election where i came close and it was a nationally watched race. i was involved in one of the closest races. it wasn't close. it was the wave newt gingrich year. you were chair during that time. an extreme right-wing senator, ray haynes famously outed me at a church meeting. you were the chair at that point of the party. >> do you think that i -- i remember campaigning for it. do you think that that cost you

the election then? >> i don't know that that particular -- that cost me the election. i think i was in a district that was a very close district in 1992. in wave e elections, you know, this was a rise of republicans. it was a republican ascendant year. those kind of districts are difficult to win. i i think the sexual orientation issue might have contributed a small %. but i think overwhelmingly it was a rebuke of democrats that year. again, i have known you a long time. loved working with you. i loved your work. to see you as somebody who is a committed democrat, very effective, a good campaigner, that's how we work together, and now you are known as the first openly gay person of color in the united states congress. is that a big deal or -- today or not as much as maybe it would have been at one day?

>> i think it's -- i think it's significant in a number of ways. let's not forget i am also the open gay member of congress from california, the largest state in the union. >> bill: i hadn't thought about this. >> this least cycle, we elected the first openly gay person from the state of new york. what's significant is that both sean maloney and myself we don't come from the urban center, we are from exurbs or suburban areas that are not known for highly-defined gay communities. openly gay candidates are winning in areas that aren't, you know, known for having organized gay communities. kir city council cinema from arizona. >> now tammy baldwin of the first openly gay member of the united states senate. >> from a midwestern state, wisconsin, kind of a purpleish state what i think of. >> yes.

>> i don't think as riverside as santa monica. >> my colleague to the east, dr. owise, riverside county we have three congressional seats for, you know, people think of 750,000. >> yeah. >> people each. three complete congressional districts in riverside county. >> two-thirds of the county now is blue. it was red for 20 years. enormous changes in my area. >> yeah. >> so what's significant about being the first openly gay member of congress who is a person of color is that i have a kind of, i think, double understanding much what it means to be a minority. i am zapnizet knees american. i am in riverside county because all of my grandparents settled there after the war to rebuild their lives after being in

interment camps. we certainly new -- my community certainly knew the risk of not having representation in congress. there were no japanese or asian americans in congress during the war. nobody could speak up for the community. the people were loyal americans without due process put into interment camps. >> yeah. >> and by franklin roosevelt of all people? >> yeah. there is a lot of history there. earl warren was the governor of california. i think he looked back upon at a time chief justice that led the court to some great civil lights breakthroughs. so, it so this goes to show who we have in government is really important. >> you mentioned the first openly gay member of congress from california. california which we californians

think as such a progressive state and such a leader. i always am ashamed of the fact that there are nine states now that have recognized same-sex marriage plus the district of columbia hand california should have been the first and is not the first. in california, it's still illegal. so for the obama administration to come in on the side of prop 8 was significant. >> you know it was not just prop 8 but during the election, during the election action he made, you know an astounding stand to back gay marriage. but, you know, in a way, in a way, bill, the court, an elected body, they are appointed and confirmed by the people broke it open. >> yeah. >> they said the california constitution, that same-sex unions should be allowed. then the initiative process

brought forth by people who changed the constitution, that's what proposition 8 was. >> right. we have to remind people this was supported financially by the mormon church and by the catholic church. >> yeah. it was -- it was, you know, i don't want to cast aspergses on either. there are good people mormons, good people who are catholics, but it was -- it was initially funded by some conserve twitchtive limits within those bodies and, you know proposition 8 did especially well in the area that i am from. gu but i believe people in my area have moved on this issue. i think that attitudes across the country are moving very very quickly. and that's why on monday as word was getting around that the president and his administration were considering issuing what's

called an amicus brief for those viewers who know what an amicus brief is, a friend of the court brief, which tells the court what the president of the united states feels as representing the american people. and he is solicitor general under the department of justice can write a brief, an argument to the court stating what the president believes. >> yeah. >> for the people. i was just so proud that yesterday, the president weighed in on the indicates. i was just before i got on the show, i was reading through the amicus brief. and it's a very proud document to me that he is telling the court the equal protection clause clause, 14th amendment should apply here, heightened scrutiny should apply >> bill: the "new york times" sal on thes the president for asking the court to overturn proposition 8 but makes a point that sadly, in their opinion,

the president didn't go far enough. he didn't say, make marriage equality the rule of the land in every state. not just in california. do you think he should have gone that extra step? >> well i think he -- i would have liked him to go further. however, he also weighed in on the windsor case. and for all intents and purposes, if both of these cases are ruled on positively by the court from our point of view, lgbt quality, the windsor case calls for overturning the doma. >> defense of marriagealt act? >> which would basically extend federal recognition to marriages where people are allowed to be married. >> you what i think "the times" is criticizing them for is that it mainly applies to california. >> right. >> it would not -- it would not be a summary but the fact is, is

that those rights would follow them wherever they have chosen them. for all intents and purposes marriage would be available to people across the country. >> it's one step i can see where the administration would say it's kind of one step. but the president has put himself in the camp. we have to say great. >> thanks. >> here from california. we will welcome your calls, tour comments at 866-55-press. >> that's our toll-free number. send us your comments. the big, big, big move by the administration. send us your comments on twitter @bp show. >> this is "the bill press show." globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning.

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interesting. the james beard foundation yesterday announced their five new winners under the james beard -- >> bill: that's crazy. >> lifetime achievement award or they sort of reward these restaurants that have been around for 10 years and they are locally owned, called american classics entireties. these are the five restaurants that they have been given. known for serving sauces prince's hot chicken shack in nashstrum. it's very good. king's steakhouse in new york. cf if you knows here in washington, d.c. that's the lunch-only restaurant. >> that's right next door to the palm. and in sacramento california. >> right next door to the pom? >> they do a lunch. >> i have seen it and never been in it. >> it's been around for a long time. locally owned, an american classic. finally in sacramento california, frank fats. >> you guys might know a thing

about that. >> withhave we spent time in frank fats. my job interview with jeremy brown was in frank fats at 11:00 o'clock one night when there was nobody else in the restaurant because they had closed and jeremy re-opened them. yeah. >> legendary, supposedly great deals got done on the back of napkins. >> that's what the james beard foundation said famous for the napkin deal. >> i wouldn't say at a time quality of the food? nicholas calling from san francisco with a comment. hi, nicholas. >> hey h bill and congressman, i have to disagree with you. i think the catholic church in california and the mormon church here in california, for lack of a better word, had been enemies of gay freedom. i am stopped from getting married here in san francisco because these bigots these closeted gays and people who have protected pedophiles tell me i am the worst thing that's happened to marriage or civilization. so i think these people need to

be called on the mat. and they need to be outted as bigots bigots, anti-gay and whatever they do in their synagogues and mosques and churches, fine, but stay out of my bedroom. >> bill: i think the point the congressman made is that there are some catholics and mormons who don't disagree with the leadership of the church. we made the point, you can't deny the leadership of the church put their money in support of this intissuetive regret fully? >> many leaders of the church did do that. i work with many people in the faith community. people are fully on board with lgb equality. the choice issue many catholics, every day catholics, a big distinction to a lot of the leaders in the church. i distinguish between the institution of the church and the believers.

the institution of the catholic church is dead wrong on the issue, the choice issue. not just marriage equality but gay rights issue. some day they will come around. it's too bad that their leadership is so bad on these issues. i have to ask you before i let you go. we have been involved in a lot of political issues and it always takes time, you know, for the public to come around and support what we know is the right thing to do. >> yeah. i am. >> i am stunned by how fast the marriage equality movement as an issue has turned around from where it was let's say, five or 10 years ago. you have must be too. >> i am -- it's remarkable. i am -- stunned might be the word. 18 years ago, i was involved in

a congressional race where my sexual orientation -- i was outed basically in that rates. and to be -- and i lost that race in 1994 by 17 points. my most recently election i won by 18 points. and for the first openly gay member of congress to be elected from riverside county i think is a remarkable thing, you know. it's not san francisco la or san diego. it's riverside county. and i think of, when you think about how we moved on, say, emancipation of slavery and where the battles were fought out, they were fought out in the western states, the new states, new territories, illinois, you know missouri where these great moral questions were thought out. it's no surprise that as we try to get america to move forward on this latest civil rights battle that where it's being played out are places like riverside county. i would say that riverside county can be on the right side of history so can our nation.

>> bill: absolutely. absolutely. congressman, so glad to see you where you are fighting the good fight. thank you for coming in this morning. you are welcome here any time. >> thank you very much. >> and greetings to all of our good friends out in riverside county mark takano. i will tell you what the president is up to this morning, very important meeting at the whitehouse this morning. >> this is "the bill press show."

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tax, and the economy in general. we will be talking to john euselton, the co-owner of the new distillery in washington, d.c. where they make green hat gin. they are starting to make new whiskeys. we will find out about that and sample the goods as well and then we will give you our favorite clips of the week. the president today, one big event on his schedule. >> that's a meetingly at 10:00 o'clock this morning in the oval office with mitch mcconnell and john boehner and nancy pelosi and harry reid the purpose of the meeting is okay. the secquester is here. you republicans failed to stop it. what the hell do we do now? all right. i would love to be in that meeting. >> this is "the bill press show."

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866-55-7377. you can join us on twitter @bp show. we've got it covered there. peter will be following your comments on twitter and too facebook at facebook.com/bill press show. lots to talk about today. one of the important -- it's not all sequester, sequester, sequester. there are a lot of other priority items on the president's plate and in front of congress. immigration reform, gun safety and climate chain. remember that one, robert frank is a professor of economics at the -- -- at cornell up in ithaca an expert on climate change. good to see you. >> good to see you >> bill: we have great friends up at wnyy in ithaca new york. it's a great town. it's gorgeous as they say? >> a garden spot >> bill: even in the winter? a garden spot? >> you have to be adaptable but

yeah, i grew up in miami, florida. i have grown to love it. >> it's nice to have someone from the other studio in ithaca ithaca college graduate. >> great town. it's a great raidostation up there. great people from the figurer languages area. enjoy our visits up there. nice to have you in studio. covered the phones and cyprian boulding with a video cam. he is no longer pope. officially got in a helicopter went up to the summer castle for the popes where he will hang out for a few months while he finishes up his quarters to be new quarters inside the vatican and a monastery there. pope benedict, xvi, greeting the crowd, the only italian all of

us could understand? >> grazzi. >> grazzi? >> it's like italian for bob woodward is a horse's ass. >> come on. >> jay lennon said believe it or not, even though he is infallible, there's a way that all of us men, at least, could identify with the pope. >> it's got to be tough stepping down as pope, you know. >> yeah. >> one day you are infallible you are admired, you are a man who can do no wrong. the next day, it's all gone, you know. for guys, it's like getting married. you know what i am talking about. >> one day infallible and then it stops. we will be talking energy, economy, carbon tax with professor frank and a little bit later in this show, how about home-grown gin?

>> what we have here. it's called green hat gi. n a co-owner of the distillers here in the district will join us and give us a chance to sample his fare. but first. >> this is the full court press. >> a check around the headlines p one aspect of see questration joe biden is happy about. he has to go back to using amtrak. when the sequester hits today, fox reporting air force 2 will be grounded for weekend flights back to delaware because of the budget cuts. when he wants to go home to see the family or play golf he's got to take the train like he did when he was senate because it is much cheaper. his speech to the nations attorneys general this week, he said he was very much looking forward to climbing on board again. >> he is a big amtrak fan. i bet you they name the station in wyoming ton delaware after joe biden. >> they should. they haven't had a better pitch man that joe biden.

he used them every single day he went home to his family in wilmington when he was senator. >> first representative from the united states to meet with the new lieder of north korea is dennis rodman. yes, the former nba star hung out with ping yun. ung. robin told dictator he has a friend for life. he called the u.s.-north korea ian relationship regrettable. finally, a couple of weeks ago we talked about the survey showing washington was the in case's infidelity capitol, a new survey says d.c. is the city where people lie the most in their online dating website profiles. 37% of those in washington admitted to embellishing their career and education components. san francisco and new york city

are second and third on that list of liars. >> but in washington, it's okay. >> a way of life. robert let me ask you, do you think this will, working with this issue for a long timing. it looks like we are going to get immigration reform this year. it looks like there will be some gun safety measures past. maybe not everything the president has asked for. what about climate change. is there going to be any action? how would you read it? >> you wouldn't want to place a big bet on anything getting passed in the current congress. there are a lot of people in the current congress who don't believe climate change is a reality. >> i think it's probably going to take a shift in the majority in the house to get anything done at the federal level. there are tom easy steps we could take to eliminate some of

the worst risks we face. i don't think anybody was willing to think about it seriously as long the narrative was, in 100 years, it might be a little warmer. >> right? >> i think now the scientists are able to say with some confidence that the volatile weather that we have been experience can in recents decades is, itself an outgrowth of a gradual warming trend of the earth. we have big problems in the short return as well as the long-term. >> at the grayishers, the sea cap or the ice cap, rather and either poll and i mean the wildfires last year the tornados last year, hurricane sandy, it goes on and on. it's staring us right -- i mean -- it's not something that's going to happen. >> it's now, and the overwhelming consensus you can find a scientist or two who was bankrolled by exxon or some energy company saying we are not

sure this is the real thing but overwhelmingly the scientific community believes it's happening. the latest evidence we see at than we thought and that it's and that's something we know how to address. we have needs for revenue in any event. we need -- we need to have some money to deal with the fact that tens of millions of americans are going to be retiring in the next deckadesdecades. you can say cut out wasteful government spending. >> that's how well pay for that. >> that's a pipe dream. nobody who has looked at the numbers think we can do that. >> it's carbon emissions mainly coming from existing power plants? is that? >> or a variety of sources. power plants are probably the biggest one. then you've got internal combustion engines, anything that uses energy and emits c 02

into the air is part of the problem. a comp prehencei, broad-based tax on carbon is the simplest most efficient way to address it. the reason we put too much carbo carbon in the air is that it's free and it will cost money to take it out. >> you he that phrase "carbon tax." i am not sure how it will work. it would just charge utilities so much a ton of carbon that they release? can you measure it? >> the easiest way would be to go as far upstream as you can. taxing the fuels, the utilities that burn the fuels. right as close to the source as you can and then there have been several ways of describing a tax on co2 or a tax on carbon, the tax on carbon dioxide would be

have to be a lower amount because there is less carbon and co2. >> they may be paying the tax or the penalty but the stuff would be pumped into the air? right? >> many people driving vehicles would get 8, 9, 10 miles per gallon. that may be a reasonable choice when you are paying $2 a gallon for gasoline. now we are up over 4. in europe, it's $8,910 a gallon. you don't see very many people in europe driving cars that get 8 miles an hour. typically the european fleet gets 30, 40 miles per gallon. we could easily have a fleet like that here. >> back to the power plants so that if they had to pay the extra penalty, then they might clean up. is that the idea? >> that's right. >> or go to a different kind of fuel. >> they can switch to alternative fuels.

many are switching from coal to natural gas, which is a much cleaner energy source than coal is but in the long run, i think we can make a smooth transition to renewable forms of energy wind, solar and other forms we have had a couple of guests in studio talking about this issue, who have said as you did, unlikely congress will move now so that the only hope this year for any action is executive, particularly the epa to crack down on existing power plants. >> that's a step we can take. i think every economist will tell you that if you are going to try to deal with an activity that causes harm to others that the source of the problem is in every case the same. it's because you are doing something that spills over onto others and you are not paying the cost that they suffer as a

result of it. the most direct way to address that is to make what you are doing more expensive to you not artnitially expensive but expensive enough intra so that you take those costs into account. >> uh-huh. executivetions can do an end run around that approach because it always costs more takes longer less efficient. i think if we are confronted with the reality that the president's determined to act, which he has said he is and we are going to solve this problem in an inefficient way, maybe people will become more recepti to the idea of doing it right. >> robert franks your comments we have talked a lot about this on global warming or climate change or carbon tax specifically 866-55-press. robert, you also write a weekly column on the economy for the "new york times." so i do have to ask you: the

walks, the sec ester is here. congress is out of session now. there is no way that they could stop the sequester from happening today. the economy is in recovery t the dow almost at a record high. what will happen to the economy as the something quester continues to kick in? >> this is a setback for sure. people aren't spending enough. consumers are holding back because they are paying down debts. businesses are sitting on mountains of cash because they could be investing but what reason if people have been, people in total aren't spending enough to put people to work who want to work. government can step in. >> that's not going to happen. opponents of stimulus say we tried that.

never mind we tried too little of it and its run out now. so basically cutting government spending. the one actor on the scene who has the capability to help keep spending at elevated levels and put people back to work is just exactly the wrong thing to be doing right now. i don't think anybody ever internaled that this would happen. >> no. right. >> but now we are kind of painted into a corner, it seems. the republican speaker of the house, by all accounts would lose his job if he accepted any kind of a compromise that would entail closing tax loopholes or any other source of tax revenue. the president, i think, legitimately has said if we are going to try to bring the budget into balance, it has to include spending cuts and additional revenue revenue. >> i was at an event last night where a conservative journalist told me thought the sequester was an outrageous -- ridiculous dangerous idea but that boehner

would lose his job as speaker if he agreed to any new revenue. >> that's what it was about. he recognizes that. robert frank professor the economics at cornell university in studio with us your calls and comments welcome at 866-55-press. we will be right back. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ] the bar harbor bake is really worth trying. [ male announcer ] get more during red lobster's lobsterfest. with the year's largest selection of mouth-watering lobster entrees. date, staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding.

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we haven't but we are -- some of you may have but we are about to. we will talk to the makers of greenhat gin. right now, we are talking about green energy and doing something about climate change. good morning. >> good morning. listen, i must comment just gone done with my paper route. yes appreciate that rack about what is a newspaper? >> yeah, bill. >> i have 2 newspapers delivered to my door every morning. i am a newspaper man, but not enough people are reading them johnson. okay? if you wanted to call and talk about climate change. >> about carbon. >> carbon is this thing that carbon is not carbon. all of this the president is

talking about clean coal and they wanted to switch to wood chips at the university. >> i guess johnson maybe that's all of the above is the strategy there. in the minute we have left, i want to come back to the sequester. it's not going to happen all at midnight tonight. on the economy, how are we going to deal with this as a -- cuts get more and more severe? how do you think it's going to play out? >> the kitscuts are going to be focused in defense. that was one of the strategic

events when it was supposed to be so heinous to cut defense, that would force us to do a budget deal. i hope there will be some executive judgment and we won't cut the most important things first. we will see increasing pressure to do something about the mess and gradually, i think, the unwillingness to compromise in the house of representatives will give way to the reality that if you don't compromise your brand's going down the toilet fast. hopefully people will come to their senses before too long from your lips to god's ears. good to have you in the studio? >> >> my pleasure. >> robert frank from cornell university. >> this is "the bill press

show." >> chatting with you live at current.com/billpress. this is "the bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: thirty-three minutes after the hour. it is the full court press coming to you live from our nation's capitol on your local progressive talk radio station and on current tv. good to have you with us today. so, if you come to shatchateau press and you open the freezer, part of the refrigerator, you will see right up front one of these bottles. i am telling you green hat, it's called green hat distilled gin. it is a new sensation here in our nation's capitol. john euselton is one of the

owners of columbia distillers which makes green hat gin? >> thank you for having me. >> so, i am going to ask you. there is nothing like gin at 8:30 in the morning. right? >> i wish i could say this was the first time i have had gin at 8:30. >> i have an excuse. >> right. >> bill: what's the significance of why green hat? >> green hat a really dc story, george casty who came back from world war i, needed a job, lived on capitol hill, couldn't find a job and found out that people in the capitol needed some liquor. so, met -- nothing has changed. >> a couple of southern house members and started selling liquor to them. they set him up with an office in the canon office building. oh yeah. for five years. had a little rub-in with the law and moved over to the senate

because they were quieter and had another office over there for five years. when it was said and done, he wrote a series of articles for the appropriate page of "the post" writing everything he had roted it which he was kind of known for being the man in the green hat. >> he wore a green hat? >> when he was arrested in 1925, he was wearing a green hat. the "post" basically mentioned a gentleman was arrested on capitol hill wearing a green hat for bootleg liquor. >> green hat gin, available in washington, d.c. i bought mine at haydens on the hill, schneider's, over in washington do. is it available around the rest of the country yet? >> not yet. we have only been if business producing gin for about six months. so october 1st was our first production batch. >> i must have gotten one of the first bottles. >> hayden's. i live on the hill. hayden's is near to me. he was early on our list. >> are your plans to go to

national distribution. >> yes. we should be in five more states in the next six months, virginia is a controlled state. so, yeah, we are planning on doing some expansion and distributing farther afilled. >> you make -- distill, i guess is the word, right here in washington. right? >> we start with 100% raw grain we get from a farmer that comes in the door and finished gin comes out the door. everything, labels filling the bottles, everything is done in our warehouse by the hex warehouse building. >> it's interesting. you have heard for a while, eat local, buy local. that kind of stuff. drink local is a new thing you are seating. it's starting out, i think with beers, distilleries, you hear about them positiving up in local communities >> bill: you are going to branch into other forms of hard liquor? >> we have two seasonal gins coming out this year. one, a spring/summer in april.

>> seasonable but gin? >> my background i was a beer-buyer at schneider's. ai saw these seasonal products. michael and i started talking about it. the number of bow tan calls you can use and change there is no reason you can't do different takes on your gin product f. >> michael is michael lowe your father-in-law who is your partner any business. >> yes. >> michael lowe and john uselton. two seasonal gins? >> we are working on a rye whiskey, we are doing expertments, see how those go over the next year and full-size mashes in barrels and hopefully release in about five years. >> talking my language man. gin and rye whiskey. those are two of my main vices. >> bill: talking about gin is one thing.

you know, let's get to the main event here? >> exactly >> what have you prepared? ty think this gin is so good that i hate to mix it. i just like drinking it neat or a martini with no vermouth. >> i drink a bit of it without anything else but i made a couple of cocktails for us today. >> bill: all right. >> the first of which is a ricky. >> looks like a gin and tonic? >> it's soda water, lime and gin, called air conditioning in a glass. it was came up with here in the district. and in the late 1800s. it is the official cocktail. today is dc repeal day, the day the district went wet when the rest of the district had gone wet several months beforehand. it took an act of congress. on this day in 1994, it happened.

>> this is ricky? >> a gin ricky >> bill: what day? dc repeal day? >> yes. trucks that were escorted by the police march 1st, 1934, the first shipment of liquor went to the national press club. >> there you go. right. read across america and get drunk and read to your kids about it. okay. here is a ricky. cheers. >> supposed to look people in the eye. that's right. >> that's refreshing. air conditioning in a glass. so good. >> why yes. >> in the late 1800s it was steamy and hot in the summers and they needed something to kind of quench their thirst and this is what colonel ricky came up with. there was a bar down on rum row that came -- that helped him come up with it.

it is now dc's official cocktail. >> if i went in a bar, pardon me, in d.c. and ordered a rick e? >> they better yeah. there is a big contest every year for a number of bars across the city come up with their own kind of variation on a ricky. this is a classic, basic, and they come up with a bunch of variations and have a contest. >> i was thinking of going to the gym after the show. i think i might have just changed my mind. >> good luck. >> yeah, right. >> good luck. >> this is delicious. >> i never heard of a ricky before. >> that's good. what is it again? >> a half a lime soda water ice and gin. really simple. >> half a lime, soda water and as much gin as you like to taste? >> typically a cocktail is an ounce and a half to two ounces. i put two in ours. i was going to say you can

really actually taste the gin. the gin and topic is a lot of people's standards, my go-to-drink, i think. with this, you don't tut taste the tonic. you taste that good gin. people can find out more about your work at newcolumbiadistillers.com. >> uh-huh >> bill: can you order it? >> if you don't live in the district, go to snyder's website and they do ship across state to a good bit of the country. not every state. laws. laws vary from state to state. >> bill: schneider's? >> schneider's of capitol hill at sellers.com. >> seller.com. and look into green hat and what the great work they are doing at columbia distillers. what is this next one here? >> the other one is a white w ragoni, come up with by a local bartender. a lot of local bartenders have come up with cocktails for us. this happens to be one.

jp featherston at rappahanic oysters. >> so local here. >> so the white ragonni. this is a variation on a really classic cocktail magroni, a white version. you have a little bit of a fruit liquor. this one is pear, like sellers from france. gin, an ounce and a half three-quarters of an ounce. >> a leave of mint? >> it's a sage leaf from my garden. >> whoa. this is a white ragoni. i don't know a nagroni? >> dude. >> bill: no. >> typically, a classic one is gin, red velv, the classic, variations, white and depending upon, you know, you can

substitute. we did sellers from france. there are all kind of bitters. a friend of mine at obelisk does one with an artichoke bitter which is delicious. that was my other option. i voted for the ricky >> bill: cheers. >> yes, sir. do it. >> bill: okay. that's tasty. >> bill: my. >> a little more bold. >> bill: beautiful little glasses, too. wow. wow. wow. so --? >> my wife and i search out cocktail glasses. one of those things. >> these are cool?

>> thank you. >> bill: if you want to go out just for a drink in washington, d.c., you know, what's your favorite bar? >> wow. i don't know if i am supposed to say that. we are in about 60 props, one is derrick brown in the passenger and columbia room, a phenomenal bar. i love that. there is a number of great bars. there is more and more opening all the time. there is a restaurant that opened this week over in capitol hill that we went to last night that was great. bucharts a new saloon. >> on 8th street. >> that's where i was. >> on pennsylvania. >> i was there last night. >> on pens? >> on pens. there are three guystion local guys one of them owns a form. gets most of the produce from there. >> a restaurant? >> a restaurant with a nice bar? >> it's a saloon. >> you know the new speak easy

here on 7th straight? >> i haven't been able to get in. i am aware of it t i have been trying to get in. >> bill: talk to me. i might be able to help you? >> all right >> bill: i have to tell you this is so good. everybody that comes to our house and i shared it with is he can static about it. green hat, new columbia distillers. you can find out more about them at their website, new columbia and go to sellers.com? >> otherwise, come by the distill re. >> thank you, man. thank you for doing -- for us and everybody in the whole wide gin world. >> check it out. >> bill: thanks for coming in. >> this is "the bill press show." >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"?

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>> this is "the bill press show." >> bill: eleven minutes before the top of the hour. it's hard to follow the gin. >> you have to, to wake me up >> bill: the only way i can think of following up a gin segment is to say: it's friday. [ music ] >> bill: friday mornings live. start at the bottom work the way up to the top, oscar night last sunday seth mcfarland, i thought he bombed but here is a little montage of his best lines. >> number 5 argo says host revolutionary iran, the story was so top secret the film's director is unknown to the

academy. django unchanged, a story of a man fighting to get back his woman who has been subjected to unthinkable violence or as chris brown and rhianna call it a date movie. >> the big surprise for the academy wards show the best picture, who was going to give up -- announce the best picture this year? the surprise. >> number 4. >> the oscar goes to: "argo. ." congratulations from the diplomatic room of the white house, making her star appearance looked spectacular. the oscar going to at"argo." former surgeon c. edward koop,

for cracking down on smoking but that famous interview with alli g. >> what is the chance that i will die. >> 100%. i can guarantee that 100 percent. you will die. >> he is being a bit of a pessimist there? >> i am being a realist. >> i didn't realize he was a player here i would like to get a second opinion on that. >> knobby know who has a mind and a brain who doesn't know anything indifferent die. >> what are the chances i am going to die? 100%. >> koop is so good. >> borat is so borat. the wizards playing the pivot options. big call. it looked like right at the end, they were able to sink a 3-pointer and win the game. at least the sports caster here was sure.

he uses the word "dagger for a good shot. right? uh-uh. >> number 2. >> alica, wow. for 3. the wizards with a miraculous one in washington. >> it did not go. >> bill: what? what? daggers. >> no dagger? >> no dagger? and finally, we have been waiting all of these years for somebody, for somebody to throw a pie in the face of sean hannity. well, keith ellison finally, did it. he was in washington. sean hannity was in new york. he certainly put him down. >> i guess that's what we could describe as tastaying on message, something the democratic party, i would argue, is very good at.

>> good attitude. >> thank you. >> quite frankly, you are the worse excuse for a journalist i have ever seen. >> you heard me. >> yeah. yeah, you heard me all right. i will take one problem with what the congressman said. he called him the worst journalist he had ever seen >> bill: using the word "journalist," that is a bad use of the word. score one for keith ellison indeed. i will be back with a quick parting shot on transhis friday. with a world premiere episode. it's a pretty, little town, with a pretty big problem.

>> it's like an infection, and the longer they let it set in, the harder it's going to be to get rid of it.

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>> bill: the parting shot with bill press, this is "the bill press show." >> bill: a little breaking news this morning. just broke: 212 democrats in congress 212, 174 in the house 40 in the senate have filed an amicus brief with the supreme court asking them to overturn the defense of marriage act joining the obama administration and joining 80 leading republicans. this is huge. the supreme court has to act the right way there. now, on the parting shot all together now one great big, oh poor baby for bob woodward. what a cry baby. what an ego, a horse's ass his successful writing career