[ music ] >> bill: good morning, everybody. it is good friday. i hope it's a good friday for you. welcome to the "full-court press" here on current tv. coming to you live from our nation's capitol. a little quiet today. the supreme court is not meeting and the house and the senate are out of town. president obama goes down to miami for a big event, highlighting the economy and in that jobs and good news in the from the dow and the standard &

pours yesterday. both hitting new record highs. yesterday, in the east room of the white house, president obama in a very moving ceremony there surrounded by families of victims of gun violence called on congress to get busy to stop dragging their feet on the issue of gun safety. shame on us, he said, if we have forgotten those 20 little angels who were mowed down in less than five minutes at sandy hook elementary school last december 14th. in other news, defense secretary chuck hagel says that he takes very seriously the belicose threats from north korea. the united states takes them serious. they are upsetting the stability of the entire region. march madness is back in full swing. some of those games played here in our nation's capitol. the washington nationals, sports illustrated says they are going to win the pennant this year.

they play their first game at home today and pope francis is setting a new tone in the vatican. lots to talk about this morning 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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>> bill: every friday is a good friday around "the bill press show." ♪ alleluia. >> bill: our favorite day of the week. can't wait. here we go into the big easter weekend. but we have a lot to talk about before we get there. thank you for joining us. we've got our eye on what's happening here in our nation's capitol. the president's very emotional ceremony or, i should say, event in the east room of the white house. we've got our eye on a very shaky situation over in the far east with nor korea rattling the sabers there and making war talk which chuck hagle says we should take seriously and our attention on what's happening around the rest of the country, particularly the immigration a few senators looking at the border and talking about immigration reform john mccain and chuck schumer, leaders of the so-called gang of 8 in the senate. a lot to keep on top of.

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tv on your local progressive talk radio station and on sirius xm this hour only. march madness started up this last night. yes realize i was talking to friends, some of these gaze are being played at the verizon center in washington, d.c. >> yeah. >> i still have louisville to win all the way. how are we doing on our brackets? >> peter: here's the little deal. the three of us, you, me, and dan all have louisville winning. >> last week we were tied. >> we were tied for first. >> bill: okay. >> peter: that has changed. it is neck and neck. dan has 49 points. you and i are tied at 48 points. >> bill: whoa! >> the difference is that you and i both pick indiana, and indiana lost to syracuse last

night. >> that's who the president picked to win it all. the president's bracket is busted. he said before it was busted and it wasn't. >> bill: syracuse. >> beat indiana last night. i got destroyed by syracuse last night. they beat them up. ohio state advance last night. syracuse advanced. miami also lost, who i had in the final game. >> bill: you did? i had the final. no. i had the florida state, florida? right? >> peter: no. you had indiana and you had miami. you had miami advancingly. you picked the ohio game. >> bill: right. >> peter: and i picked the ohio state game correctly. but then ohio state and syracuse. >> bill: the team from ithaca. >> nothing to do with syracuse. please don't compare the two. syracuse in the final four.

so, you know dan is still alive >> bill: how much money do i get? >> what i want to know. >> you still have louisville, ohio state and florida and they play tonight against florida gulf coast university. >> bill: uh-oh. all right. >> peter: i am down to louieville. that's all i got. >> bill: dan, make you and me, mano-a-mano. >> sidney is going to be here in studio with us as well as father thomas reath. you saw him from the vatican. he will be here in studio with us to tell us about that and michaelen, lead reporter for protection politico will be here joining us as well. what a big friday morning. but first. >> this is the full court press. >> on this friday, other

headlines making musenize, the shake-up at cnn continues. they finally, named a co-host to join chris cuomo and it's not erin burnett as everyone expected. the network announcing kate bold boldw boldwon as the new coach host of the morning program at 29 years old, she will be the youngest co-anchor of any major morning news program. >> i don't really know her. >> she is good. we knew erin burnett was not going to get this job. >> cuomo is good. >> they tell gravelled that erin burnett was hard to deal with when trying to get this. >> they won't be around much longer. >> lesson to budding journalist if you are going to play hardball to get a new show off the ground, you might want to have some sort of ratings back

up. she was difficult. but i like her. she is very good. >> out in hollywood, the gives grizzwolds will appear in a new version of the vacation franchise playing clark and ellen grizzwold. they will be the parents of characters. the original vay"vacation" came out 30 years ago, 1983. this will be the 6th one. >> why do they take thinks i used to love and make them terrible. >> not going to work. >> that new jersey powerball winner has an obligation to pay off off. huffington post reporting he has $29,000 in child support payments to pay off. he has five kids. police have been after him for that money for a while now. he should have no problem cutting a check.

he is taking home $152 million after taxes from the powerball winnings. >> bill: i am glad you pointed that out. i saw this story yesterday. the headlines were serious problems. that guy really is going to -- it's a good thing he won the powerball. come on. $152 million? $29,000? >> not a serious problem. >> 29 grand here yeah. >> come on. all right. on the a much more serious topic yesterday, on the gun safety front, a couple of angles that really -- the fact that they both happened yesterday was pretty powerful. the police released a lot more details from up in newtown, connecticut, about this shooter, adam lansa and what they found in his personal effects. and it is just scary. they found -- he had three guns with him inside the school. they found. >> another gun and i don't know

how many rounds of ammunition 70 rounds for this shotgun that they found in his car and then at home they found a whole arsenal, four or five more guns more than a thousand rounds of ammunition a bay onnet and several swords. he had an nra pamphlet on how to use his pistols. there was a certificate from the nra made out to him. there was a check written out to him by his mother for him to buy another gun with. i mean it was just crazy what they found at the home of this kid. books, also, about autism and so here you clearly had a sick kid. you had a huge arsenal assembled by ms. by his mother and partly by him that was totally acceptable to him. he had this crazy game room all black ended out, windowed and

the walls painted black where he holed himself away and played nothing but video games and came out for one reason, to kill his mother and go kill these 20 beautiful little kids at sandy hook elementary school. sick, sick, sick sick. and, you know, how -- how and why should anybody like that have access to such killer weapons? it just made it even more shocking, i think, to hear what they found there. and then yesterday, it so happened that president obama was meeting with the families of victims of gun violence across the country. he did so in the east room of the white house surrounded by these family members and you could tell the president was ang reef angry and he was very shaken up by talking about these kids and reminding ourselves of what happened. as he said less than 100 days

ago. >> less than 100 days ago, that happened. and the entire country was shocked. the entire country pledged we would do something about it and this time, it would be different. shame on us if we have forgotten. i haven't forgotten those kids. shame on us if we have forgotten >> bill: the president very, very emotional. no teleprompter there. that was coming right from the heart and you could see he was angry and he really meant it. and it's true. shame on us if we have forgotten. the president said, you know, we are not talking about anything rad catical here everybody supports universal background checks. >> ninety % support background checks that will keep criminals and people whom have been found to be a danger to themselves or

others from buying a gun. more than 80% of republicans agree. more than 80% of gun owners agree. >> bill: so the president says again, all of this stuff we are asking for is not controversial president obama none of these ideas should be controversial. why wouldn't we want to make it more difficult for a dangerous person to get his or her hands on a gun? why wouldn't we want to close the loophole that allows as many as 40% of all gun purchases to take place without a background check? >> why wouldn't we do that? because the gun manufacturers don't want it and the gun manufacturers have convinced enough members of congress and this is a point the president made yesterday, that if there just drag their heels, drag it out, the american people -- they are counting -- they are counting on the american people to forget about newtown. they are counting on the media to forget about newtown, and i think to a large extent the american people have not. but the media has and the politicians have. shame on them. shame on us if we have.

866-55-press. i was asked this by howie kurtz last sunday by reliable sources, if the media have forgotten about newtown. i told him sadly, i believe they have. i told howie kurt but i don't think the american people have. >> that's exactly what the killers want. >> that's exactly what the nra wants. it's exactly what the gun manufacturers want. they want us to -- typical add the way we are, we all focus on hurricane sandy and suddenly now, we focus on sandy hook. but we have to go out and talk about north korea or talk about immigration reform or something else or kim car dashkardashian or ashley judd. we can't let it happen this time. this is a time to move on these sensible gun safety measures

that the president put forward. have we forgotten? has the media forgotten? have the politicians forgotten? 866-55-press. i hope not. echo the president. shame on us if we let it happen if we do not take advantage of this opportunity to finally do something about making it more difficult fort if not impossible for people who don't have any business having these guns to have these weapons of war. 866-55-press. >> this is "the full court press: the bill press show," live on your radio and on current tv t that viewers like about the young turks is that we're

honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us.

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>> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show." >> bill: all right. 24 minutes now after the hour here on the "full-court press" this friday morning. shame on us, says president obama obama, if we allow -- if we do what we usually do, get all worked up over something, particularly one of these mass shootings and then maybe we are upset for a week. a little longer than that on newtown but already starting to fade. at least here in washington people who don't want anything to happen. are we going to let them get away with it? >> lots of comments on twitter that would like to remind us they have fonot forgotten. don says, bill we have not forgotten. we could blame it on congress. how could you get anything done when you work three days and take three weeks off. blue ghost says we have not forgotten the 20 children and

six adults who tried to defend them. find us on twitter@built bp show. >> those six adults who were heros, you know, trying to do what they could to save those lives and including the principal there and lost their lives in the process. for their sake, you know, we owe it to them and we owe it to their families to make sure that we take some sensible action in response to this so it doesn't happen again. mima, how are you in storage storagebrook new york. >> i listen every day. good morning, bill. >> about morning >> caller: i have a question i asked when the sandy hook thing happened about the responsibility of adam lanza's mother. and i also have a question about jerrod laughner's parents. what is the role of these parents in these events?

it seems hiding his guns doesn't really make much sense when you know that your son is dangerous, and adam lanza's mother said don't turn your back on him yet she gave him a gun for christmas and takes him to the shooting range. >> why did the -- i think the parents played a significant and dangerous roles. laffner's parents knew he was a potential problem. they tried to keep him home that night. his father did, and, you know unlike adam lanza's mother she was just clueless. she was encouraging him. i mean, look. she's dead so, you know don't want to dump on her too much. but she had the arsenal. she was a gun nut, herself.

right? she bought the guns. she gave him money to buy guns. she allowed him amsst access to the guns, took him to the shooting range and she knew he was mentally disturbed. so i think some of the blame definitely goes, a lot of it on her and lots of parents, again, i am not so sure. i think they tried to get some counseling for him and tried to prevent him from running around as much. but good question you raised. geoff, i see your call. we are right up against it. hang on there if you can for us. we will take your call on the other end of the half hour. the rest of you want to comment on this. the challenge, and i think president obama was absolutely, it was importantly he did what he did yesterday. basically take the 2 x 4 and hit us in the head and say wait a minute. we seem to be loseing our focus here we seem to be allowing the nra to change the subject and get us on to other stuff. we can't let that happen.

are with we going to forget newtown is the question. >> this is "the bill press show."

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capitol building brought to you today by the national education association. yes, salute a teacher the good members of the nea, creating great public schools for every student in america. they have good work at their website, nea.org. the -- we are talking about president obama issuing a challenge really to the american people people, to all of us yesterday saying: don't let -- don't -- let's not forget the media seems to have forgotten. the politicians seem to have forgotten newtown. let's not forget it because, otherwise, the nra and the killers win. comments and calls welcome at 866-55-press. what are we seeing? >> comments are pouringnat bp show. mr. johns says to forget newtown

means we have devolved terribly as a people. we have not forgotten. we will show it in the voting booth in 2014. >> a good point. >> another point, the g.o.p. was so hung up on benghazi. newtown had six times as many americans killed and why -- and wise guy you see says i myth anthony wiener now more than ever. he would be the one to say that the republican party was a wholly owned subsidiary of the nra >> bill: absolutely. he may have made a dumb move but he was a good congressman and a fighter. there is one other, before we get to your calls here, there was one other piece of this gun safety puzzle that we learned yesterday. there are now four -- get this. okay? talk about forgetting and talk about being owned by the gun manufacturers. there are four republican senators who have vowed to filibuster any gun safety

legislation. they are going to filibuster a bill that would require everybody who buys a gun to have a criminal background check. you know what that means? that means they are in favor of giving guns to criminals. >> that's what it means. if they are against the background checks, they are in favor of criminals and nut cases getting guns and those four senators are rand paul james en enhoff, nutty as a fruit case ted cruz and marco rubio. this is a guy that they say is the hope for the republican party, the new moderate from florida. they never called him a moderate but in the sense that he will have broad appeal, you know, to bring the republican party back. >> i couldn't believe that when i saw that. >> he is as big a tea party as ted cruz is. marco rubio going to filibuster he promised yesterday, any gun safety legislation. >> do not be fooled the next time that marco rubio comes out

and acts like he can relate to everybody because he knows about rap music, he is a little bit younger than your average senator. he will filibuster this? of all things? >> right. so you can see, man, this could -- this moment could easily slip away from us. we can't let that happen. carl is calling from palm springs, california, one of my favorite places on the planet. hey, carl. >> hi, bill. listen i just wanted to interject something. i am a professional in the film and television industry. i created minitel vision shows. i have been in probably as long as you have. my home up in the mountains, my home and studio up in the mountains in one of these counties here in the forest was broken into by an officer, by a

deputy in one of the small areas he has control over. we have a bit of a police state here in california, and when i attempted to find assistance from civil rights attorneys. from the grand jury and the attorney general's office because this gentleman -- using the term loosely -- is a rogue officer, when i was not surprised at all. i was told they do these kind of things and get away with it, and i quote. no warrants no nothing aapparently the patriot act allows this. >> did they think you were growing pot or smoking pot? >> i have never even smoked marijuana. i know everybody thinks all of us from the 60s. >> you worked with marty kroft

and you didn't smoke pot. >> there is a website by some yenning man saying what drugs the crate orders of the characters took. i contacted him and i said i know it sounds adventuresom and a v. a. nt guarde but i have never smirked marijuana. >> get to the point of your call. >> the point is, the advice i was given, bill, was if i had a.12 gauge shotgun, i would have been able to stand at the top of my steps there and it would have been a major deterrent and they wouldn't have been able to get in. >> if you shot a cop your ass would be in jail. >> shot or dead. >> i cannot believe that. right. put the burden on you and not on the rogue cop. oh, my god. carl, good to hear from you. a fellow hipster from the desert out there. >> yeah. yeah. >> out of my childhood. >> next time i am in palm

springs, carl and i've got to hang out. we will take care of that rogue cop. linda calling from bellevue texas. >> hello. good morning. >> what's your point? >> caller: well, what do you do when you have a senator like ted cruz? >> bill: you find somebody. i know. i know he just got elected. so it's going to be there for six years which is sad, sad, sad. first of all, i think you have to keep the pressure on him while he's there and just let him know that he doesn't represent you and then we've got to find a good strong candidate to run against him next time around. i think texas -- i think texas is going to come back linda t to being purple and then eventually blue. i don't think it's going to take, you know six years but it will probably stakes years but not 10? >> yes. i hope so. it's so frustrating. bill yeah, the people of texas deserve better than ted cruz.

the people of america deserve better than ted cruz. linda, thanks so much. good to hear from you as well. one other story you have to mention here before we move on, mike allen from politico is going to join us in the next segment to give us his take on house serious the news is from north korea. it certainly looks like they are ready to start world warr iii over there. but meanwhile, there is some good economic news yesterday. we have made it a habit here on the full court press to tell you the good news about the economy, not just the bad news. right? >> most of the media, you will not hear about wall street. you will not hear about the market. you won't hear about the dow or the standard and poors index unless it craters. when it goes down 200 points, when it goes down 100 points, then it's the top story, but when it continues to go up and up and up and hit new records

there is silence from most of the media. i don't think that's fair and we don't buy into that but i want you to know because you won't hear it anywhere else that yesterday the s & p index, standard and poors had a new record high surpassing the high point in 2007 before the george bush crash of 2008 and the dow also set a new high yesterday. we are the only economy, the only market index in the world today that is going up. if you look across board, france, germany, asia japan, everybody, they are going down. the america economy, the american stockmarket is up, up up every day. we saw like seven or eight do

you see days in a wrote, the dow set records but the s & p is more significant because that represents 500 stocks and is considered the greatest indicator of the health of the american economy. so that's really big big news good news. the market is only one indicator. and as we made this point and have to keep making this point, unfortunately, that is not yet translated into new jobs, but for that one indicator of the economy, how robust and how healthy american corporations, american companies are, the s & p and the dow yesterday showing the wi. now, heads of those companies, here's what we have to do. they have to take those profits, take that money and invest it in new hiring and new jobs and then we will we will be back. good news, mike allen from

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solid reporting on what's happening here at the nation's capitol and at the congress. for many of us, the facilitiese and the voice is mr. michaelen, who is also theke allen, who is also the. joining us on our news line this morning. hello, mike. >> blessed beautiful friday to you, bill >> bill: thank you. good to talk to you. it's been a long time. let me play a clip from the secretary. >> very provoctative actions and bell i know belligerent tone has racheted up the danger.

>> it seems line the u.s. is taking is seriously. >> the united states is. you can see the president appears more worried about north korea in a way that we had been worried about iran. remember the good ol' days when we were working on afghanistan. >> hard to keep track of those. >> "the wall street journal" is playing this up this morning "they put on the front page north korea warned in show of might." the story about this is south korea, the neighborhood, because

saying he could settle accounts. no one things he has the capability at the moment to attack the u.s. but there could be and this is what the concern was, that there could be something in the region. >> right. >> that could cause problems there. this was part of a drill. bombers dropped dummy munnicians on an unibuninhabited soth korean island. a message is being sent. north korea showed a video showing the united states capitol hit by a north korean

missile. >> impossible. pure propagabbed a, a young leader trying to prop himself up in his country. he has a demonstration going yesterday. someone who is week. >> follow him on politico.com. i want to ask you yesterday in the east room of the white house, we saw a different president obama really a very emotional, very angry -- usually reads from the teleprompter but he was emotional meeting with these families, and he seemed to be -- he was broadcasting the

next that we seem to be forgetting newtown. do you think he brought that back to an urgent level yesterday? >> we have a lead that said newtown may have changed the nation but it didn't change washington. you have been covering this sort of sapping momentum for aggressive gun control. this was a remarkable event in the east room yesterday where the president had about two dozen women who had been affected by this. al family member of the virginia tech meeting, a mom there of someone who was killed in a d.c. drive-by shooting and when the president says, the pain never goes away, you could hear people in the audience saying "amen."

"you are right. i was with howie kurtz last week with "reliable sources" and said do you think the media has lost their focus? and i said, i do. i think we have in the media. the politicians have. the nra wants us to. i am not sure the american people. that was the president's message yesterday. it seems if you have any questions about his determination to get something done here he may not succeed but he is determined to try to make happen. i think that was pretty clear yesterday. wouldn't you agree? >> no. absolutely. one of the many hard parts of being police department president is you have to show immigration is one and you he may be talking about infrastructure. >> a lot on his plate as we always have a lot on our play

plate. it's good to have you with us to talk about those issues. good to talk to you. hope to talk to you soon. >> mike allen from politico politico.com. >> this is "the bill press show." so, stop just cleaning. start healthing. but not all cleaners are equal. at lysol, we go beyond cleaning, we call it healthing. healthing is killing germs, and having more cleaning power than bleach without the harshness. it's being the #1 pediatrician recommended brand. and sharing healthy habits in 65,000 schools. so, stop just cleaning. start healthing.

this show is about being up to 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.

>> laura points out the sad thing about marco rubio, maybe a good thing for us, is that he is the future of the g.o.p. if that's the case i really think it's over for them. i wouldn't count on that future. glenda points out the financial list yesterday indicated that harry reid took $15,000 from the nra. i phoned my indiana democratic senator, joe done low donnelly and said he needed to show a fraction of the teachers of sandy hook displayed that fateful day. good question. good point. milton points out gay marriage is not a question of redefining marriage. it's a question of giving legal rights to people that are already in committed relationships. absolutely the case. cindy borin joins us from the washington post sports blogger.

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>> on the gun safety issue, shame on us said the president if we forget about those 20 beautiful little kids at newtown and the 6 grade teachers who tried to save them. this is time to move. the president encouraged everybody rightfully so to put the pressure on congress not to let this opportunity slip away. mean while, defense secretary chuck hagel says we are taking very seriously the bellicose threats from north korea which are now destabilizing the region. march madness is back in full swing. we will talk about that at the top of this hour here and, pope

francis over in rome setting a whole new trend for the catholic church. you see, lots to talk about. and we'll get to all of it right here on current tv. going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us.

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this is still current tv damn right. here we are, coming to you live from our nation's capitol bringing you the news of the day and giving you a chance to sound off about it. we will tell you what's going on here in our nation's capitol around the country and around the globe and welcome to your calls at 866-55-press. welcome your twitter comments comments @bp show. peter ogburn standing by to catch those comments and also your comments on facebook at facebook.com/billpressshow. this is a wild sports town with the nats coming back to town and also march madness at the verizon center a good time to welcome back to the studio our good friend, the early lead sports blogger cindy borein in studio with us. >> good morning. >> you just started this this morning. >> every morning. >> the bloggers have to get up. >> conquer the internet yeah. >> like we conquer the air waves

early, you conquer the internet. >> with a flag. >> it's the best time. you get the first crack of the day? >> uh-huh. seriously. it is. >> at night, you have to get up. >> the downside everything happens at night. watching games until midnight. >> florida gulf coast starts at 10:00 o'clock tonight. >> yes. >> florida gulf coast versus florida. >> yeah. >> actually, the other games tonight are good and they should be entertaining and there are some of the big dogs are playing the three earlier games but doesn't everybody want to see florida gulf coast? >> yes. >> bill: friday night. >> everyone can sleep in tomorrow. >> peter ogburn and dan henning. >> hey, hey. >> stevie lee web has the phones. cyprian has the video cam this morning. before we get into sports a little bit of politics.

immigration reform is like with gun safety, the two big priorities for president obama. this term, this year this term of his, and we are watching members of congress line up on this immigration reform. it looks like not all of them are ready to jump on board. i wouldn't count on don young from alaska for immigration reform. here are his comments yesterday on what he thinks about the whole situation. >> i used to own a gun. my father had a ranch. we had 50 or 60 wetbacks. you know. >> i'm sorry. is it 2013? >> no. i think it's 1970s maybe. >> i can't even remember the last time i heard that term. >> i couldn't either. i can remember when i first got to california, that is a term of derision. >> right. >> years and years.

>> i haven't heard that term in 20 years. fifteen years. >> what a throwback. don young, not known for being the brightest light bulb in the constellation. nine minutes after the hour, cindy borein. we will tall talk sports and dan stone from national geographic is coming in to talk monsanto and talk about what they have gotten away with in this congress. it's a scandal and scary stuff. father tom reeves a leading jesuit, back from the vatican, installation of pope francis will give us his impressions of the catholic church's new pontiff. melanie sloan from citizens for safetity and ethics in washington to tell us of layer their latest esc papers of some members of congress they are chasing. a lot coming up here. all right. but first. >> this is the full court press. >> other head likes making news

as we get closer to the weekend, a financial scare for the chief justice of the supreme court, john roberts has been hit with credit card fraud. washington post reports roberts was seen at his local starbucks paying for his coffee in cash instead of credit, which surprised his regular baresta. he mentioned someone stole his credit card number so he had to cancel all of his cards. he then got a haircut later in the day. this was wednesday night, paid his barber in cash, too, and mentioned that they had tracked the suspect using his credit card number, to kentucky. >> well, when the chief justice is receptible to identity theft, it's a big problem. >> how stupid do you have to be to steal the identity of the chief justice of the supreme court >> bill: i am sure whoever got it had no idea john roberts. right? >> he controls the court for the

rest of his life. >> i hate to the bust your bubble but not everybody in the country knows who the chief justice of the united states is. >> it's not like he stole obama's credit card. >> duck dynasty has become one of the most popular shows on television and its cast wants more money. hollywood reporter says they have halted production until they get a raise. they are looking now for $200,000 per episode from a &. e. duck dynasty is the second most washed show on cable television behind the walking dead. >> oh, my god. really? >> i will have to see it. >> it's a hilarious show. >> do not pay that much per

episode. >> and kim kardashian warrants to attend this year's white house correspondents dinner despite the fileting she got, the reality star is considering going this year but no word on who has invited her. >> "the bill press show." >> i was about to ask. >> has not invited kim kard kardashian. >> we have low standards but we have some standards. >> bill: that's right. we are holding out for paris hilton. cindy it's good to have you back. we were here when we started march madness. we filled out our brackets together. peter updated us at the beginning much the show this morning on how we are doing.

president obama who picked indiana to go all the way, he is toast how are you doing. >> my bracket spontaneously come busted about three hours ago, it burst into flames you know. it's over. i filled it out in about four seconds. yes even think about it. yes have louisville winning at all. >> a safe pick. >> by about 10:00 o'clock tonight, that could be down. >> don't say that. >> i don't think so but oregon is tough, so. >> yeah. they play oregon? >> at 7:30. >> i didn't realize until last night a lot of these games are here in d.c. ? >> uh-huh. uh-huh. they are closing late last night here in d.c. they played tomorrow on saturday and the cool thing about it is, it's marquette and syracuse who will play for this final 4 burst. it's the last hurriedly afor the the -- hurrah for the big east,

if you care about the garden and the hoops that have been played in the big east, it's kind of a sad thing to see. it's certainly sad to see syracuse departing and no one is sad earn jim bayheim. one last go-round. it would be nice if it were in the garden but it's nice to have it here in our backyard. >> for those who didn't stay up and watch the game syracuse beat indiana, which a lot of people had including the president. his bracket is toasted. reerectably, we are still alive here on the show. >> three of us that have brackets. we take louisville. >> it's all talk. >> you are right. cyprian is way out. >> sorry about that. should we send him appear flower boquet? >> he is broken up about it. >> that's sad. >> we are still alive. dan picked syracuse to beat indiana. >> that was genius.

shear genius. >> bill, though, still has louisville, ohio state and florida in his final 4. >> you know, now we get down to where people are going to start falling off after tonight, you know with the big guns playing. >> is it over this weekend? >> no. another weekend they drag this thing out. >> they do. >> saturday and monday. >> real quick, i want to ask about how real florida gulf coast university is because everybody is paying attention to florida gulf coast university and they are playing florida. are they real? can they beat florida? >> sure, thing. i mean i have a great deal of faith in bill e donovan. i like florida, but who is more entertaining than florida gulf coast, you know, with the whole young city thing? maybe they get slowed down by florida. there is usually a team that manages to get. maybe there is a final 4. we will see. >> what i find so interesting

about them is even at the end of the game, they are running as hard as they were running from the the beginning. they fly the whole damn game. >> they have some great plays. >> bill: you guys are tempting me to stay up late. >> you should watch florida gulf coast university. >> and then you can go out to the club. >> that's right. >> the game will end about midnight and then the clubs, the action in the clubs is just getting started. >> bill: cindy, what are you doing tonight? i am sure carol won't want to go. this is the cover of "sports illustrated." right? it has our steven straussberg and sports illustrated is saying the nationals will break through and win the world series. whoa. >> that's it for the season. >> yeah.

>> bill: is that the kiss of death? >> the good thing about this is it's mitigated by the fact that they have regional covers so maybe it's not like a total thing. >> i like that logic. >> i think four out of the seven experts pick the nats to win it all which should make everyone very nervous. >> bill: yeah. yeah. i mean -- >> they won 98 games. >> based on last season making the playoffs t real sad when they lost the first game and today, they are back. it's an exhibition game. >> against the yankees yeah. >> how do the nationals handle their off season in terms of trade trade? >> they picked up denared sands which is fantastic and added to their bullpen there. i think that clearly that's a little bit of a message there will to have that horrible

meltdown. >> yeah. >> against the cardinals in the division series in the last game two outs away, you know wrapping it up. >> yeah. >> you know, it's interesting to me the way they are set up because it's so similar to the mets team so great in the late 1980s. i think his mets team the year before they won over 100 games, they won it all, they won 98 games, you know, straussberg and harper correspond to gooden and strawberry back in the day. now they only won one world series, you know, and they had to have a little bit of help there on that. but we will see. >> let me ask you about another message found this week. tiger woods is back. >> he is back, baby. >> he is back, number 1. no doubt about it. and then nike comes back with this ad as and says look at tiger, winning is everything. >> quoting tiger.

>> that's always been -- he's always been someone who sort of speeches in cliches and plattudes. >> that's been one of those things he has thrown out. >> offensive message on one 11. isn't it? >> yeah. i tend to cut woods a little bit more slack among, you know, the whole pantheon of misbehaving and breaking the law athletes just because, i mean the person hurt was his wife and himself, you know and i guess his kids were a little too little to be cognizant of what was going on back then and realize what a deplete complete punch line their father was for quite awhile. he seems to have it together. he has gone through the counseling. he has reworked his golf game. finally he is healthy after having all sorts of leg problems. we will see. >> bill: a new love life. >> there is that which is

interesting. we will see how that works out. >> do you think nike keeps this cam campaign going? >> here is the thing about the ad for me. i was less offended by the ad, i think than most people because it accomplished what an ad is supposed to accomplish. everyone is talking about it. >> it is sort of a messed up message. it's one thing to say what happened in the past happened in the past and now he's back and we are behind him and let's see him win. but to say that you can act like a total ass and then all you've got to do is go out and win. >> but this is a country that loves the cockback story. look at michael vick the athletes's redemption, return to glory after the complete fall from the pedestal. >> i am not saying it's not true. i am just saying it might be a little messed up. >> bill: here on the "full-court press," two famous -- one is winning everything is and the other is if you ain't cheatin, you ain't

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with cindy boren. where is the best place for people to find you? on twitter? >> on twitter, yeah. that's the fastest way. twist twitter/cindyboren. >> and your tag is @cindy boren. >> or washington post.com. here is this headline oscarpet pestorious. this guy is charged with murder and -- first of all, he is out on bail. now they are making it easier for him. why? >> he can get his passport. i think they feel that where is he going to go? he is pretty well recognized for many reasons. he has been in the headlines an awful lot lately. he was recognizable before that. >> why would he want to leave the country? >> maybe they want him to. i think they think he will come

back. i think they don't believe he is a threat to go someplace and disappear. i don't think he can. the guy needs to make some money. he's lost all of his sponsorships. he is going to conceivably try to compete, i would think. i am guessing that's why this has been done. he can get his passport. it has to be held by a court. he can go get it when he needs it and go compete. imagine what that's going to be like if he competes. >> imagine walking into a stadium and then the crowd when they see him? >> yeah. >> pretty ugly like nike says, winning fixes everything. >> hmm. yeah. i don't know. i don't know. it's interesting. >> having it adjudicated, it can be fixed and come back fresh. >> sendcindy boren, it's so much fun to have you in the studio. thank you so much. march madness.

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national geographic. >> good morning. >> it's been a while. used to hang out together at the whitehouse. >> all the time. >> with newsweek. my partner down there. so what is this monsanto protection act? >> the montansano is the unofficial name. it's a smart part of the continuing resolution, the big budget that president obama signed to avoid a government shutdown. a tiny part of that. >> like a poison pill. >> exactly. two paragraphs that essentially says that companies that do biotechnology for agriculture like monsanto and other ones, too, cannot be held up in federal court over some of these patents over their technology. they are producing general theically modified seeds, organisms of different sorts. the federal courts can't challenge them. people can't try to stop monsanto from taking seeds. >> there may be other companies but monsanto is the big mama

here? right? >> right. >> this provision in that bill which the president did sign wasn't just that. it was one tiny part of the bill but gives them a free ride. >> monsanto and everything they produce has to be cleared at the epa. at the federal level someone has to say this is okay. this isn't. >> can't challenge? >> people can't challenge it. the epa gets the final authority. as we know from things that have happened with food inspections this year, the epa can't be on top of everything to the fullest extent. it removes some of that. >> here is an article from the international busy times which says this provision, effectively, reinforcing what you just told us effectively bars federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of gno or ge crops and

seeds, no matter what health consequences from the consumption of these products may come to light in the future. how could they do that how could obama sign. >> there is a doo bate about gno crops. it's like where we were with climate change like 10 years ago. all of the scientists are saying all of these things. nothing had criticalized into a consensus. people are saying these are totally safe. others are saying these will kill you. there is a lot of noise in this debate and a lot of noise that to clog up the if he hadfederal court system. >> that's why monsanto was saying we will submit to checks from the epa and federal government, state epas but we don't want to get into federal courts and all of these prigs dragged out. >> bill: so what? i don't want to be dragged into court either but i am not going

to get special interest legislation only for me. >> we will work on it >> bill: where it says bill press is exempt safe from any federal court challenge at all for the rest of my life. >> right. the get news is that this only extends as six months and then the usda the committee on agriculture. they have to review this. this isn't a permanent, forever policy. but even for six months. >> getting a foot in the door you know. it's going to be hard to dislodge it. >> people are frustrated about washington. this didn't get a hearing, didn't get a congressional hearing, this was tucked in most democratic senators said they didn't know what was in the bill. >> isn't this what we used to call special interest legislation. >> if you are an $11 billion company a year you can afford

some things to sneak in for you. >> if you are going to have this kind of representation surely you are on the up and up not doing anything bad? right? for people who don't know, a lot of people -- >> monsano is one of the biggest biotechnology companies in the world. there are hundreds of other biotech companies everything from bioy pharmaceuticals, everything. they say we want to produce food, more food more e financial for more people around the world. that could be controversial because the agriculture and crops we have now might not be that e financial but they say if we could genetically engineer a soybean or cotten crop that decreases the amount of water you need that can make them grow more deposition for more months. year, that increases the yield for everyone.

if the population is increasing monsanto sees market shares. they say we need to fill this need. there is a lot of money in doing it and we want to do it. a lot of people disagree with that and say, i am a local farmer. i want to do it the way i used to do it without you boxing me out of the market. there are a lot of scientists who have done studies who say maybe it's not so healthy to produce ge crops that might have adverse effects that haven't been fully studied. it's controversial. >> you have mentioned that a couple of times that the scientists are split on this. we had a guest earlier in week to talk to united states about this new salmon that they want to ex perment with a genetically modified atlantic salmon which grows faster and fatter and they will keep them in the farms and none are going to escape and none are going to get out into the wild.

is this the where we are going with whole foods now genetically modified? i mean is this good for us? right? what do scientists say? where do you come down on this? >> this isn't where we are going. this is where we are. most food you eat -- salmon is one example but almost everything that grows out of the ground comes out of a lab in some way. it could be if you are cross breeding the seized genetically engineered. no one knows. a lot of these things are harmless like you take a gene from a corn plant and could say let's make this grow faster. that could be harmless. but what monsanto and other companies do is produce crops that might -- you know they change the genes to produce an insecticide. the plan, itself can emit an insecticide but if you eat it, what effect does that have on you? >> terrifying.

>> i am glad this tomato is. >> monsanto operates in more than 100 companies. we don't have to have these debates. if these countries don't have a reliable quantity of food and a supply they can rely on, then they are the ones that monsanto is trying to feed. >> are you saying this is a world we are already living in. this is not the future. this is the present. shouldn't i as a consumer know whether what i am buying is gno or ge for real? >> yes and no. you deserve nutrition facts. but what if it's harmless and it makes you have this adverse reaction and fills you with stress to see a gno on the label? it isn't that bad for most foods. for some, it is.

it's sort of a blanket approach that mightdrantatically change your health habits your buying habits and the way you think about food. a lot of these companies are saying, don't give us this scarlet letter for things that aren't that bad. now, for things that could be bad, we should do more research but the things that aren't, you know, we don't want to go out of business. >> there is no labeling requirement today? >> no. i think california was considering a label requirement. other states as well. but no there is no -- there is no federal requirement. >> what do you think, foodie? >> peter: i hear what dan says and it's an important point, there is a food scarcity across the globe is a big, big problem. i don't know if i could be okay eating something that i know was engineered in a lab in that way that has like self emitting pesticides.

>> that's scary. >> that's one example. >> i know this is one example but that alone that sort of makes me go if they are doing that. >> let's take a quick break. your invitation to join the conversation here if you say gmno gno, it probably gets your blood boiling here daniel stone is with us from national geographic. 866-55-press. it is not the future. it is now. so what's going on and are we ready for it i guess? fascinating stuff. we will be right back. >> radio meets television "the bill press show," now, on current tv. smooupz (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision.

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[ music ] >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show." >> bill: twelve minutes before the top of the hour. we are talking genetically modified foods. a lot prompted by the continuing resolution signed into law by president obama that not only continued the sequester until september but gave monsanto this six months where they can't be sueded in any federal court. >> threw me for a loop. we got awful high falutin here.

>> a lot of people are angry here reading during this break many food safety experts say there has not been enough study. this has been a passion with daniel stone for national geographic who joins us in studio to help us this morning. damage yell, good to see you. thanks for coming in. >> a couple of comments on twitter, by the way, where we are tweeting@bp show.com. carol says that one of the problems is with these types of crops, there is no reproduction. you have to buy from monsanto every year. is that true? >> yeah. most of their seeds will reproduce every year but it's a crime if you are caught with the same seeds next year, they could sue you. monsanto has produced seeds that essentially, they kill themselves after one season so that if you are a farmer who buys them, you have to go back

to monsanto buy another round of seeds. >> that seems like people hate that company. >> this invested billions of dollars to create these seeds farmers wants. >> the car will self destruct, you have to buy another one. >> at the of the last lifetime but a car doesn't renew itself year after year. >> seeds do. in one of the arguments is food scarcity and they have perfectly good sees they are going to go after people and sue them and i imagine these are farmers and they don't have a great legal defense fund set up to fight a billion dollar corporation. one comment, who put the protection inside the bill. >> we don't know who put the language in but roy blunt was the one who worked most closely

with monsanto to get this profession crystallized. >> this article points out a lot of consumer groups are angry at senator barbara mccull ski, chair of the appropriations committee who failed -- didn't have a full hearing on it. but she may not have had, within how those things can be like everything else around here thriventh-plus hour. so they might not have had an opportunity to. >> a lot of democrats and republicans but mostly democrats said they didn't know this was in there. i wouldn't be surprised if she didn't know. this was a huge bill. the economy, the weight of it was hanging on. >> we would hope the legislators would read the bills before they vote for them. lindsey is calling from south hadley, mass. >> your point? >> i was going to say what was brought up about monsanto but a lot of farmers this happened up in canada where they have soy

soybeans have been infected the farmers in canada didn't want this and they were sued by monsanto which happened to be the most e greenous of all of these companies did he have egregious. they have successfully sued these farmers up in canada. on top of that now because they are talking about prove viding a cheap food source for those current treed that need food desperately over in africa what they have done because these people in africa reap the seed from the crop. they can no longer do that. they are paying out more. >> bill: which gets to the point i think we were just talking about, about the seeds not -- not -- if you can't use them year after year. lindsey, i interrupt only

because we are short on time and get dan's response. >> monsanto does a lot of that. >> that's one of the major sticking points is if you are a farmer and you want to do your own thing and the farm next to you uses monsanto gno seed and one blows into your field and propagates, you could be sued for using a seed, using a patent essentially that you don't own. >> that's why biotechnology, especially with agriculture is a thorny area that there are a lot of innocent people, a lot of guilty people and there is no resolution to getting by producing more mood and more e efficiently efficiently. >> it sounds like competing issues the one is gno and ge food modified seeds and food and whether that's good for us or bad for us or helping us out or helping cure the problem of hunger and starvation around the world and then you have this company, monsanto which sounds

like a bad company doing a lot of bad stuff. >> it's the same goal. they are saying we have to do all of these things. we have to sue people. we have to proal upset local farmers for this goal of producing food better and get getting it more places around would work. >> sounds like if you could get monsanto out of the way maybe there would be more support. this might make a good book daniel. you might think about that. thank you for coming in here. national geographic remains a graduate magazine as always. nationalagree nationalgeographic.com. hope you will be back soon. great to see you. >> this is "the bill press show" live on your radio and on current tv. so at air wick, we waited. crafted by our expert perfumers for your home. air wick cactus flower and warm breeze

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the vatican, the organization of the catholic church back from rome and in studio with us this morning. good morning. >> good morning >> bill: you joined us from rome a couple of times by phone. we thank you for that, too. >> absolutely. >> you had a good time over there. it looks like. three weeks in rome? >> three weeks of surprises every day. it was extraordinary. >> the crowds in saint peters square, where do these people come from? >> we had 200,000 people for the inaugural mass. and people coming from all over the world, heads of state coming for us. we had vice president biden and nancy pelosi rosa delaro, the president of georgetown university were all part of the delegation sent by the president. >> is that right? what a great town. you did a great job over there, too. thank you for joining our team peter ogburn and dan henning. stevie lee web has the phones

and cyprian action of course, as always, on the video cam. so we want to talk about this new pope and his new wafys get your take on that and how it all came about. a little bit later in the hour we will be joined by melanie sloan on the latest with michelle bachman and louie gohmert and other congressional scandals. but first. >> the full court press. >> other headlines making news barbara walters expected to announce her retirementsoon t.v. news saying she will retire next may of 2014 and abc will air several triptributesseveraltributes. the 83-year-old started her career with the today show in 1961. she has been with abc since the 70s co-hosting the view since 1997. >> bill: she has had one hell

of a run and a great career. i have never been a great van but i have to give her collected and, also, for a woman to survive to the age of 83 in television is very rare. usually, they push women out of the way, you know. >> i am not a huge fan but exactly what you said. >> bill: absolutely. >> identity theft has been a problem for many americans. this week one of the biggest ones in washington, the chief justice of the supreme court of the united states. john roberts, he has been hit with credit card fraud. washington post saying he was seen at his local starbucks paying for his coffee for cash instead of credit. that surprise his remember coffee baresta and he mentioned someone stole his credit card numbers. then he got a haircut wednesday night and had to pay for that in cash, too. they have tracked the suspect using his card enough in the state of kentucky. >> when you see the name jobhn

roberts? >> i would hate to be that guy. >> i think a lot of cops are going to be looking for him. >> yeah. >> a bracket buster tournament number 4 syracuse upsetting number 1 indiana to advance to the elite 861 to 80 market advancing for the first time in 10 years for the elite 8. they defeated miami by 10. no. 2 oklahoma state defeated number 6 and number 9 wichita state beat lasalle, the 13th rank team. sinned recall a, number 15, gulf coast and number 12 oregon facing number 1 louisville. michigan against kansas and michigan state plays duke. >> those are two, three big games tonight. >> huge games tonight. >> it could all change tonight. >> louisville has to beat oregon a 12 team in this

tournament but they are better than a 12 seed so they could pull off an upset. it's not sol farfetched. >> father reece, pope francis was a big surprise. wasn't he? >> absolutely. absolutely a big surprise. nobody expected cardinal bergolio to be elected pope. all of the italian press was wrong. they had all of these predictions. i think the more -- there are more creative writers than reporters working for the italian press. everyone was prepared with the wrong biography when the white smoke came up and they said it was cardinal bergiolio. >> where were you? >> i was sitting in front of a camera trying to look calm and checked for the bbc at that point when the smoke came up. i was all prepared with three biographies, the three top runners, and who were cardinal

scola, schere from brazil and scola from italy and willette who works in the vatican. luckily i had my ipad. so, i just pulled up cardinal bergiolio's biography which i had of course read before but we were totally surprised. >> it should not have been such a big surprise. yes realize then but learned later that he was the runner up to benedict the last time around. right? >> absolutely. he was the one everyone turned to when they wanted a stop benedict campaign but he only got about 40 votes, you know, at that time. and he was eight years younger at that time. so, actually, people thought, well, he is 76 years of age. he's only got one lung. he's from latin america. he is a jes witt, you knowuit, you

know. all of those things made people say, he might've been at that candidate but just because of all of those things, no. >> his age was a factor and a surprise, i thought. so is this kind of a sign that he is another, you know,trition pope? >> well, the age thing is interesting. all of the commentators thought well, now that pope benedict has resigned, they could get a younger man because he could resign. it wouldn't be a really long papacy. it works the other way around. you can elect an older pope because he can resign if he gets sick. he is two years younger than cardinal ratsinger was when he was elected. he could go eight 10 years if he gets sick or has -- starts to have health problems he could resign, also. we might have two resigned popes at the same time.

>> right. it would be like former presidents, now, a club. right? >> they are going to have to build a motel in the vatican for them. >> what about the fact -- first of all, you mentioned he is a jesuit. you are a jesuit. is he still a jesuit? >> under canon law, he is a jesuit but he doesn't have to take orders from the jesuit superior general. he only has to take orders from the pope. i guess he talks to himself in the mirror every morning to tell himself what to do. >> bill: it's a big deal for the jesuit order. >> absolutely. we have never had a jesuit pope before. and never thought we would have a jesuit pope. in fact, we have a vow that we take saying that we will not seek ecclesiastical. no politicking, you know, no trying for careerism and that kind of thing. now, if the pope orders us to

become a bishop, we become bishops, and we have done that in many parts of the missionary world. we have three bishops in the united states. but that's very rare. the whole idea of a jesuit becoming a pope is just -- was not something we thought would happen. >> bill: the big question that i hear about pope francis and his ability to do the job is his ability to stand up to the roman currie, the bureaucracy like in washington there is a bureaucracy that the president has had to tackle. do you think he is up to it? >> one of the attractive things for the cardinals was that he had not been part of a currie. >> that could work either way. couldn't it? >> absolutely. absolutely. that was a debate they had. do they need somebody who knows

the beat to control the beat? or did they need somebody totally from outside? and they came to the conclusion they wanted somebody totally from outside. i mean, in effect, he's already changed the culture of the curiat by his simple lifestyle, has modesty, his talking about leadership as service. saying that in his life and the way he acts, but, you know, he's also said it to the politicians, to the political leaders that were there, you know, that they should be in service to the poor, protect the poor protect the environment. and, you know, just the way he dresses. you know, simple cross, simple vestment, already we have noticed cardinals putting away their gold crosses and pulling out simple crosses. >> yeah. >> you know the life surpluses are disappearing and simple cotton surpluses are coming out. you know, this is a man who

refused to live in the bishop's bal as in buenos aires. he said, no, i want to live in a simple apartment. i am going to cook my own meals. he got rid of the chauffeur-driven lim zee that the previous cardinal archbishop had, took the buts to work like everybody else. i am waiting for bus companies to start running campaigns if the pope can take the bus, why can't you? so, i mean he will be an icon for mass transit. >> bill: wearing the red prada shoes? >> no. absolutely not. in fact, when they took him in to what they call the room of tears where they dress the pope after he is elected, they call it the room of tears because often the pope >> the new popes when they get into that room and start getting dressed in white break down because they for the realize what's happened to them an the weight of the responsibility. but anyway, so they dressed him

in the white hassock and they have this red cape that normally, he wears for special occasions and they brought that out. and he said, no. no. no. in fact, one story said that his words were the carnival is over. you wear it. that he just is not going to -- he is not going to dress up in all of this fancy regalia. he is wearing the simple vestments of the bishop simple miter and that's who he is. and that kind of style in the currie is sending a message that he wants a much simpler, a servant. currie. >> we are talking pope francis with the man who was there when he was elected on the bbc helping announce it to the world, father thomas reece, an analyst for the "national capital reporter" here in studio

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hour now father thomas reece, the author of "inside the vatican," in full display with the resignation of benedict xvi and the election of cardinal berg bergolio. father tom reece. pete officer. >> earlier mitt romney sat down with dennis miller talk radio host and he says quote, it's good to live a normal life again after running for president. a normal life to him is probably a little bit different than a normal life to you and i. we don't go on a multiple million dollar mansion. he said i wouldn't have gotten into this if i thought everything was going swimmingly when he decided to run for president and happy to be living a normal life. >> for me, it does not include a car elevator. >> horses that can dance. >> now fairther, there are some

of us in the catholic church who have been advocating that the church has to make major changes like allowing ordination of women, allowing those who would like to get married and still be priests, maybe easing the ban on contraception, major changes. it's unlikely we will see -- would you agree it's unlikely we will see those changes from the pope is my first question. and the second is, if not, if he doesn't make those changes might we still expect him to change the focus of the church so the church is talking more about helping the poor and serving the poor rather than sex, sex, sex? >> well there is only one group of people more obsessed with sex than the catholic church and that's, of course, the media. yeah, i don't expect those kinds of changes from this pope. you know the cardinals that

elected him and he were appointed by pope benedict and pope john paul and, you know, anybody who is in favor of women priests would never have been appointed abishop, let along a cardinal. now, of those issues that you mentioned, the one that is probably the most possible and, you know relatively is of course, the ordination of married men because there was actually an interesting interview with cardinal bergolio on the question of celibacy. he starts out his answer by pointing out there are married priests in the bizantine and ukrainian catholics and he said they are very about good priests and he said this is a matter of law, not faith. now, he goes on to say that he sports celibacy. he thinks it works. he thinks, you know, you don't set aside a tradition of all of

the thousand years on this. but he qualifies all of his statements by saying for now. for the moment. and even at one of point, he says, now, hypothetically, if the western church reconsiders it, dot, dot, dot. normally beneficials and card -- bishops and cardinals don't use that kind of language. i think it might be possible he might, you know, open this up for discussion. i don't know. but of the issues you mentioned, that's the one where there is the most potential. you are absolutely right on the question of he is looking at other issues. than just these >> bill: one post script also. there are now priests who have converted from the anglican faith and allowed to be catholic priests, bringing their wife with them. >> that's another sign of that. >> absolutely. >> we are out of town but welcome back from rome. thank you for your great work over there and thank you for

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retired members. check out their good work at usw.org. well, we found out that -- we talked about this a few days ago, michelle bachman has an ethics investigation open against her, and now we have another congressman, louie gohmert who got himself in a little bit of hot water because he got very upset when he got a parking ticket from the park police and put a note on the officer's car saying, don't you realize, i am a member of congress? you can't give me a ticket. not exactly. paraphrasing. but for those ethical issues we turn to our citizens watchdog keeping an eye, democrats and republicans to make sure they tow the line here the citizens for responsibility for ethics in washington or crew melanie sloan. >> always a pleasure to be with

you. >> last time we were inyou were in we were talking about senator bob men endez, these complaints or allegations came to you first and you turned them over to law enforcement or whoever. >> right. justice department. >> justice department. what's the latest on senator menendez? >> this is a story that could be like a movie of the week at this point really. it turns out through many, many stories that we have seen since that he -- the alleged profit prostitute that and last fall say they were now paid and they never had any interaction with senator menendez and there is now a dominican investigation that says they were paid by the conservative website, the daily caller, and there is an unidentified man named carlos with half his face in the video, the person who was paying them. we have his picture on his

website, so if anybody recognizes him everybody would like to know who carlos really is. >> that's the real question. who is carlos? who is behind him? there have been many reports -- >> daily caller denies that they are. >> the daily caller say they have never paid anybody but it's clear and they still stand by their story amazingly, there has been a lawyer who says he was paid and the prostitutes say they were paid to gin up this story and senator menendez says this is what i said. abc news has reported that republican operatives have to protect their anonmity for people who brought this. and all of that is looking terrible and senator menendez is going to be cleared and the f.b.i. has investigated the allegations. it doesn't mean he is out of the woods. it's the subject. >> the money stuff.

the financial -- alleged financial improprieties. >> far more serious. senator menendez was flying on dr. melgin's plane and taking lash lavish vacations. he didn't disclose it. more than that dr. melgan was interested in getting a port security deal in the dominican republic. senator men endez interviewed and about a medicare investigation involving dr. melgin's office in florida. it has been raided by the fbi. there has been a medicare fraud investigation. what was senator menendez doing it when he wasn't a constituent? what did he get in exchange for that is this. >> if you want to have a port security build a new security system for the ports of your country, you have to see an opthalmologist. wouldn't you? >> first thought.

>> first case you would turn. what's up with michelle bachman? how serious is this for here? ? >> it's hard to say whether it is going to be serious for her or her campaign because the real question about michelle bachman will be what did she know and how much was she involved? there is clearly some wrongdog going on, this iowa state senator who hascorenson paid by the bachman for president campaign in order to campaign and politic for her. in iowa, that's prohibited. state senators can't be paid by the presidential campaign. the way they did it was they paid mr. sorensen through michelle bachman's leadership pac, her congressional pac. they shouldn't have been paying him at all. secondly. the leadership pac isn't allowed to pay for presidential expenses. there was a lot of back and forth between what was going on with the leadership p.a.c.

when they were paying for the presidential expenses when it was prohibited in engaging in. a former stamp peter waldren, has come forward and filed a complaint with the federal election commission and something with the office of congressional ethics. it's clear there is wrongdoing involved. the only question and i think what the oce is looking at is what did michelle bachman know? the thing about michelle bachman, if her lips are moving she is lying. so it's so it's really hard to judge her it credibility. so i think there is more that remains to be seen. >> this is the investigation t she is also involved in some lawsuit out in iowa and staffers didn't get. >> there is a lot of stuff that went on, financial proprieties alleged, a bunch of staffers who say they were supposed to be volunteered not being paid and somebody else was being paid and there were a lot of payments made scrawled through some kind

of shell corporation there are lots of questions about the finances. >> if the office of congressional ethics finds that they believe that she -- she or someone in the campaign -- broke the law then what happens? >> the office of congressional ethics will only be concerned whether michelle matchman and if she was involved in making those decisions and she might have been, we are going to have these staffers who are disgruntled who are going forward and talking to the the. they don't have a lot of incentive to lie for her. if they find wrongdoing they will push it to the house ethics committee. the committee takes misuse of campaign funds seriously. there are two other members of congress, don young and rob andrews, democrat from new jersey who are both under investigation by the house ethics committee for improprieties involving their campaign fund. even while the commission is

doing a lousy job, the ethics committee has strong rules. if michelle bachman was personally involved, she could expect to see consequences. >> that would be? >> hard decision. fine reprimand, censure. >> meanwhile, lou gohmert has gotten in hot water here in washington, d.c. and you have taken action on this as well. >> this guy deserved it. so here he is. he goes on i think it's in mid march at 11:00 p.m., he goes and takes his step-sister and her husband to the -- to see the lincoln memorial parks in a space reserved for the national park service. when he gets a ticket, he hands him a business card basically saying, do you know who i am? i am on the natural resource committee. this is oversight. this is official business. official busy is touring the monument at night? not exactly. he rants and raves and gets in

an argument and says he refuses to accept the ticket basically due to who i am. it is really the do you know who i am that gets you into hot water. you might remember a few years ago, senator larry craig got into a lot of trouble over his arrest in a men's room but part of what the senate ethics committee found he had done wrong was he handed the arresting officer his business card and said basically do you know who i am? and the -- and the senator ethics committee said that is an abuse of your power as a senator and you are not entitled to special privileges and treatment. so, obviously, seems lou gohmert, not entitled to special privileges either. >> a $20 ticket? >> i forgot. >> 25. >> $25 ticket. >> a $25 ticket? pay the damn ticket. >> i think they didn't think it would come out. in this day and age when almost everything comes out, he is lucky nobody took out their iphone and papered the situation.

>> don't you know who i am? >> this is his card. right -- his car? right? >> he had a congressional placard. wherever you want when you want? you have to be on official business. >> yeah, i think they believe it does. >> they do. i am certain they do. >> what could happen to him? what did you do. >> he filed a complaint with the office of congressional ethics and said it reflects discreditedably. they think they are arrogant and entitled to special treatment. they will have to say to gohmert, you were wrong pay the ticket and don't behave like this. >> it sealsems he ought to know that? >> we shouldn't have to tell him. it should have been clear in kind

kindergarten. >> believe it or not, crew has also been involved in the marriage equality case in front of the supreme court on wednesday, the defense of marriage act, filed an amicus brief on that. melanie sloan will tell us about that when we come back. your questions, your calls about michelle bachman or bob menendez on twitter @bpshow. >> on your television and radio, this is "the bill press show." [ music ] that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us.

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bill press show" now on current tv. >> thirteen minutes before the top of the hour here on this friday, good friday, march 29th. melanie sloan is in studio with us, the executive director for citizens for responsible ethics in washington 11th year. a great party i was pleased to attend. find out all about all of these cases that they are involved in at their website, citizensforethics.org. you might be able to take a look at carlos and see if you have seen him around town. >> exactly. >> starbucks, the car wash or whatever. peter, what's going on? >> quick story last night, mark sanford. >> no. >> and his opponent had a debate in south carolina. >> in the republican primary? >> yes. they had their debate last night. it was a pretty low-key affair.

i watched online but during the debate curtis tweeted he claims he will fight for the taxpayers but he didn't have a problem burning it to fly to arrange en tin argentina. >> he has been on a tour trying to talk to people about it and say how, you know, he is reformed but there was a lot of misuse of taxpayer money involved mark sanford claiming he was a deficit hawk and a budget hawk misusing money all over the place, not just the one trip for argentinea argentina. he was sanctioned by the south carolina legislature. >> the american people seem to be very forgiving of politicians who say they are sorry and then

usually take a little time out and then come back. there is earlier this week i think it was in the washington post end of last week a big story about david viter. >> yeah. >> re-electeddder. >> yeah. >> re-elected. >> i would even say, you know, compared to the taxpayer stuff aside, you know, marble sanford is still with the woman he was having the affair with. he was with his wife and he basically fell in love with someone else and when you compare that to david individualvidder frequenting profit stit duties. >> tuts? >> jenny sanford, that's an issue. so, it will be interesting to see how that goes if he can win the primary. if he does will voters forgive him? it's a conservative state. it would be an odd thing to find a democratic member of congress elected. >> christians believe in

forgiveness. doma, you filed an amicus brief in the defense of marriage act on what grounds? >> in the first second, 2nd circuit and supreme court. crew argued it under mind federal ethics laws. members of congress and executive branch officials often have to file financial disclosure forms that includes information about their spouses' finances and same-sex couples are exempt. similarly, anti-nepotism laws that prevent you from hiring your spouse or spouse's child. there are a lot of provisions. >> what does it say? >> they say, doma says you are not a spouse. a same-sex spouse isn't a spouse. similarly, you would see in the bankruptcy code and tax code a bunch of provisions that are

intended to prevent fraud by married couples. all of those things don't apply. the congress that enacted doma obviously like state people had an animus against gay people, thinking they are more or lessethless ethical ethical. they apply to heterosexual couples. they should apply to same-sex couples. do you are exempt from these laws. >> yeah. so they set up a special category inadvertently? >> yeah where they are exempt getting in this one case, better treatment, special treatment preferential treatment and obviously it doesn't seem to upset that. that wasn't what congress intended or on members on the supreme court would think is a good idea. >> as justice cagan,

accompanying the defense of marriage act -- i forget the exact words, but she read out the language basically that congress was making a moral judgment. >> exactly. >> on the homosexual lifestyle. >> this was also something. >> these were hardly the people that would give gay couples a special break. >> right. this is also what ruth bader beginsburg has done advocating on behalf of women. she was arguing about how many of the laws that discriminated had bad effects on men. that had been a way she was able to overcome a bunch of discrimination provisions we would love to follow in her footsteps. exciting for us to be a part of this historic movement. >> how do you think they really going to rule on doma? >> i think they will strike it down but i think prop 8 probably they will find there was no standing, they shouldn't have brought the case and they don't need to go there really. so why will they? justice kennedy, some of his answers or questions in the doma

case suggested that he thought it was time to go there and they are going to strike that down. >> bill: i think you are right. prop 8 as we talked about yesterday, that means same-sex marriage will be legal again in california but sadly not in all 50 states. not yet? >> not yet. it's coming. >> melanie, great work. you are on top of everything here again, citizens citizensforethics.org. see you again soon. >> thank you. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ]

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show." >> bill: all right. you know, this holy week there has been a lot of attention on the -- media attention on pope francis at the vatican, and most of it has been pretty positive. i have to say, so far, i like this guy's style, the fact he has chosen not to live in the regal papal palace and the fact he doesn't wear the fancy pope clothes that benedict loved. i like the fact he rides around in an open pope mobile. i like the fact he travels around rome without the big motorcade. i have no high hopes he will make the major changes i think the church needs like or daning women, like allowing priests to get married, like getting rid of the ban on contraception, but still, if only he changes the tone, if only he continues to talk more about helping the poor than about sex, sex, sex. , pope francis will be okay with me.

have a great easter weekend. we will see you right back here monday morning. >> this is "the bill press show."