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covered and cyprian boulding keeping us looking good on the video cam. >> happy wednesday >> bill: down in south carolina, you know yesterday, when we talked to chris moody from yahoo news from south carolina and he said that mark sanford. we knew the race was tied. right? elizabeth colbert bush had been ahead by 10 points awake ago. and then the latest poll showed it a dead heat. so momentum was going in sanford's direction. chris moody reported mark sanford had 10 eventsed scheduled and elizabeth colbert bush was going to vote and go home. i thought to myself, uh-oh. when it's that close when it's that close, you don't kick back. no? no cockiness. no over confidence. look what happened mark sanford beating her handily

5430 to 45. he found religion. >> i just want to acknowledge a god not just of second chances of third, fourth, eighth chances because that is the reality of our shared humanity. >> do you think he will move back into the c house? he very well could. the holy house on c street where all of the adulterers live. and he said, you know >>, look. i am not perfect, but i have some strong beliefs. >> i am one imperfect man saved by god's grace fwum have conviction about spending in washington, d.c. >> so he won but stop the god talk. >> i have sinned against you 0 lord. >> right. uh-huh. no this is not necessarily

god's will. this is not god speaking. this is just he is a skillful politician. >> he is that. >> rail >> retail politician and he shows where there are parts of the country where this idea that the federal government is still spending too much money and we have to cut spending, cut spending, the tea party mentality is pretty strong in some of those congressional district, like the first congressional district in south carolina although i must say i don't know elizabeth colbert bush but, you know, i have run a lot of campaigns, if you can't beat mark sanford, you don't deserve to be in politics. >> yeah. >> remember, he did it without the help of the republican party because the congressional campaign committee pulled out of that race and refused to give him any more money and he still

won. >> it is amazing to see what he did with that campaign in the last -- were in the last week and a half two weeks, he lit on fire, and he did everything right. >> yeah. no. he did. i'm sorry he won. i'm sorry she lost behe won that campaign buy out campaigning elizabeth colbert bush despite her help from her brother. all right, eliot spitzer it happy to have the former governor of new york with us. we will go down to south carolina carolina, talk to one of the leading political reporters. have you heard about this 3d printer? it is revolutionary new device. what can you do with it. should we worry about it? we will find out about that as well. president obama is fuming mad

over the latest figures on sexual assault in the military. >> that's where we start. but first, this is the full court press other headlines to think about, tom hanks is the most trusted person in america. >> that's according to a new reader's digest poll on people that have earned most confidence of americans. the top 4 most trusted are out of hollywood. sandra bullock and meryl streep in there. >> you can trust those holy wood stars. they never do anything wrong. good lord. >> the top washingtonian is to make the list michelle obama at 19. jimmie carter is the most trusted former politician at number 24. president obama is down to number 65. >> what? >> get out of here. >> yeah. we can trust jimmie carter. we just can't trust him to be president. >> right. tom hanks? really? >> number 1. >> no contest. >> an actor.

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to do the dance. >> gangnam? i can do that. i don't even see that >> bill: he's got some moves. you have to admit. >> i know he does. i don't want to the see that. >> bill: where do we start? with the biggest story of the day and one of the most shocking stories of the day. it is shocking. it is stunning, and it is sirius, talking about the latest numbers on sexual assault in the military. you know this iswe have probably been talking about for a couple of years at at least, congress woman jackie spear has been right in the forefront in this effort to bring this problem to the attention of the congress and the mfrn people so has senator claire mccaskill of missouri and carl levin has been there on this. but despite all of the

attention, the hearings they have held and despited all of the promises of the military we found outed yesterday, it's just getting worse and worse and worse. the latest numbers. the pentagon sends out a surfvay to 108,000 people. what they got back from this survey showed 26,000 cases last year of sexual assault -- we are talking sexual assault am this is more sirius that section annual harassment. sexual assault, to me at least, means physical assault, touching. not just word play. 26,000 cases of sexual assault in the military last year. >> that's up from 19,000s in the year 2010. again, despite all of the pressure, despite all of the news, despite all of the hearings, despite all of the efforts the military say that they are making and leaders of

the military and told us we are making progress. this is sirius. we are on top of that. bs. the numbers disprove that and made all the worse a couple of days when colonel jeffrey kazinski, the air force officer in charge of clamping down on sexual assault, he was arrested in an arlington, virginia parking lot, grabbing the buttocks and breasts of another female officer. so the guy in charge of it is guilty of it. is doing it. how bad can you get? kir kirstin kill i bran says this takes the cake. >> how can we stop the sexual assault if the person in charge of enforcing these policies committees the same crimes. >> it's interesting to me, so

the survey which is not official but, you know, it's private, people could respond privately and yoonmously what their experience was is contrasted with what was reported. because of people of afraid to come forward. the reported number of sexual assault cases was 3,374 and that was up 3,192 from the year before. but notices 3,00033. right in the compared to 2628? >> how many men but mott for the most part, women, they are afraid they will be demoted perhaps or somehow punished.

president obama was asked about this with the joint news conference with and he was blistering blistering mad. seldomom seen him as mad as he was yesterday. >> it's an outrage. it is a crime. >> that's true for society at large. and if it's happening inside our military, it will whoever carries it out is betraying the uniform that they are wearing and they may consider themselves patriots but when you engage in this kind of behavior, that's not patriotics. >> bill: in effect, et cetera calling them at any raters beat any rate training their uniform. they are not. the ped president says we are going to stamp it out whatever it takes. >> it's a crime and we have to do everything we can to root this out the president said he had already called the secretary of defense when he saw these later numbers from the latest and he said we have to step up our

game. >> i have spoke to secretary hagel and indicated to him that we are going to have to, you know, not just step up our game. we have to exponentially step up our game to go at this thing hard. >> bill: the president says people in the military have to know that you do this and you are going to pay the price. >> for those who are in uniform, i want them to hear from their commander in chief, i have their backs. we are not going to tolerate this stuff. there will be accountability >> bill: let's talk about this. 866-55-press. so many questions pop in your head. why? why? what is it about men particularly in the military who feel that they have got the power, they have got the control. that this is what they feel or them because they have the uniform on and a gun on their

hitch they can do whatever they want in terms of another person's privacy, another person's boyd. what is it that the that's responsible for this tell wave of sexual assault and what do we do about it? it a chain of command, so-called so you can have a jury trial and we have seen case after case and someone is found guilty of sexual assault and then the commanding officer will overturn that conviction. so skirstin said it should be automatic dismal it if you are found guilty of sexual assault. and that we ought to take it totally out of the chain of command. chuck hagle says we have to leave it in the chain of command. we have to be tougher on it. what can we do for our military all places? and i guess the other question is: what have we done successfully in the private

workplace where you don't see and don't hear as many cases of this or not as many cases now of sexual assault in the private workplace? what works there that could work in the military? let's get into it. 866-55-press. join the conversation on today's "full-court press." >> this is "the bill press show" live on your radio and current tv. [ music ] i think the number one thing 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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karen says on sexual assault. what's the difference between the military and the catholic church? nothing. they both turn their heads to sexual assault. >> bill: that's an interesting comment that occurred to me, too, that these -- some of the military commanders who overturn verdicts, jury verdicts of sexual assaulted are very much like the bishops who look the other way and didn't report when there were known cases of priests abusing little boys. paul calling from out in the albany, oregon. hey, paul. >> good morning, sir. how are you? >> good. what's your thought on this? what can we do about it? >> i am a career military guy served in every echelon. he was a warrant officer and they have given us a lot of training on death by powerpoint on how to conduct ourselves on

matters like sexual assault. they opened the flood gates and let about anyone join the military that. coupled with the economy brought the character of candidate down a degree. what they need to train us to do, which i think they don't admit is how to weed these guys out. they need a social psychologist or someone to come in and teach us how to tell if our buddy is a sexual deviant because everybody sits through these videos playing with their cell phones making fun of them and talking amongst themselves. >> bill: how interesting. well, there is a real point. you make a rather serious point about how we are getting people in the military today with the so-called all-volunteer army. maybe people getting through that shouldn't. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ]

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>> chatting with you live at current.com/billpress, this is "the bill press show" live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: how about it? 33 minutes after the hour. can you believe it? it's wednesday may 8th. this is the full court press, and we are talking about the shocking stunning figures on sexual assault in the military released yesterday. it's the lead story on both the "new york times" and the washington post this morning and on most of the networks, 26,000, 26,000 people, members of the military said they were victims of sexual assault last year upn from 19,000 in 2010. what explains that and what can

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was, himself, arrested two days ago on a sexual assault charge over in arlington, virginia. the chief of staff of the air force yesterday, general mark welch testified in front of a senate committee and he royaly pissed off kirstrin jimmyllkirstrinjillibran. he said it has nothing to do with the military. it's because of the general hook-up culture in our society today. he said most of these women were sexually assaulted before they joined the military. so basically, this is the way things are today. and it's no worse in the military than it is anywhere else blaming kind of the way of blaming the victim. >> yeah. >> blaming, again, he called it the hook-up culture really. [. >> i i think it shows how out of touch these officers are in the military. they don't understand what's going on. they don't take it seriously

enough. they tend to it dismiss it. >> that's why the numbers keep getting worse. >> it's a disconnect. they are disconnected from the real problem. to find a solution find a way to make it better >> bill: what do we do? jessica up in caribou, maine. >> hi, bill. good morning. i spent eight years as an advocate for survivors of sexual assault. i now volunteer phone for military veterans >> bill: uh-huh >> caller: same thing. i am not surprised that the report rates are so low because usually only one in nine that ever gets reported >> bill: that's what it looks like. >> caller: it's not about sex. it's about power, whether it's in, you know, out anywhere. if chuck hagel and congress doesn't make it law to take it out of the chain of command,

then it's going to perpetuate because, you know, you can't tell people enough times: rape is not about sex. sections annual assault is not about sex. this will sexual assault is about power and who has it and who doesn't. >> it's interesting, take it out of the chain of command. >> that's what senator jillibran wants to do. that means what? jessica? you would have a trial but if found guilty, then there is no way that -- they would automatically be discharged, i guess. >> they would have to serve prison time. the guy said, you know your previous caller said it's deafiance. it's not sexual deviance. it's what power is b what they have to do is officer almost going to have to set up something within the jak core to investigate sexual assault

assign investigators. they are going to have to do something like i used to do where they have people train to be the add vo cats for the survivors to take them through every step of the way and then help them because they say, of if you are going to ruin team morale if you do this. you have to put it right down to the brasstacks of, this is why it happens. it's about power. we have to make sure that the people who -- the men and women who commit this crime pay for it and by taking it out of the chaffin of command by having a separate office that investigators it can't overturn your own buddies and friend's conviction, that's the only way you are going to get a handle on it. >> makes sense to me. i appreciate it, jessica. i think people, if people -- if others see if those who very many been found guilty face the

max maxmum face prisons time or are thrown out of the military, i think that's one way we would see the trend reverse itself. virginia from alexandria. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. the steam is coming out of my ears at the moment. i have been a victim in my youth and when i was an innocent young girl it doesn't gettys year no matter what age you are but i don't understand how our society can ask how all of this rape is happening when we have a society full of macho bravura, strength is sented with being a violent bully, a percentage of this country, torture is accepted in the military. how much less is rape? i want to say on facebook you can see torture of animals. you can watch movies where it's

actually actual real torture of human beings bondage. >> bill: do you think that explains this may be one of the factors of what's happening in the military. >> we have an entirely immature population. preschool is where you learn how to share how to think about how other people feel. how to learn how to empath eyes how to communicate, how to reach outside yourself. we don't have preschool in a huge percentage of this population >> bill: yeah am >> caller: parents don't even get to stay home with the baby. they have to go right back to work. the nurturing and the society. people turn up their noses at positive emotion. they just think that, you know it's all about facts and data. and anything related to the other side of the brain. >> bill: >> bill: clearly, some of these members of the military out

>> bill: in san rafael, california, our friend july yeah >> caller: it's lovely out here. >> good for you. can't wait to see it, myself. >> caller: anyway, here is the deal: thighs guys are being sent back. they have no power over choice of their lives. they are sent back four, five, six times, are given psycho psychotropic drugs in order to keep them able to fight. the woman who was talking about power is absolutely right. so they have no power over whether they are going back to iraq or afghanistan even if don't want to go. people are deserting, committing suicide. people are committing sexual assault. the culture of that, of our armed forces is so oppressive that they i think the power

comes out so they will have power over some -- >> bill: over something? >> over innocent women. but the thing that's sickening is if you read a lot of articles, which i do how many drugs they are being given and we have a prescription drug problem in our general population and we have it greatly in the armed forces. these guys, many of them don't want to be there any more. they signed up and they are stuck. sauce >> bill: wow. i had never heard that about the abuse of prescription drugs in the military to keep them going. but i am sure y'allia is right, they are pumping them youup saying you will feel better. take this drug. >> yeah. >> it is scary. who knows what all of those drugs are leading to. maybe that's another factor. >> the drug culture and the violent sexual culture.

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we have to -- we need famous words of the beatles a little help from our friends. eliot spitzer joining us. good morning elliott. >> good morning. i am honored by that introduction. >> bill: there you go. >> it there is a god of second chances, i guess? ? >> this is south caroline so who knows what to make of it. right? i couldn't say that. >> that's not fair. i think the good news in that race is that it was a lot closer than we thought his sxwnths will be known he beat stephen colbert's sister. redemption is good. i suppose that is a good strand in our society as well. who knows what it stands for?

>> bill: but it also shows, i think, that it the government spending, the tea party argument, there are parts of the argument where that is the dominant issue no matter what else is out there, you know. he turned it into a -- he wasn't running against her. he was running against nancy pelosi, you know, which is ridiculous but it worked. >> it we have seen over the past couple of years, frustrating as it has been, the rational discourse simply doesn't persuade people who want nothing more than to/and use the -- i mean, the government is the enemy. even with this remarkable example of austerity in europe the intellectual disstructionestruction, nonetheless, the emotional power of that argument knows know bounds. it's very frustrating. >> bill: it is. it is. it worked again. so some good news from wall street yesterday.

well we know the economy has a long way to go. the dow closing now, not just touching but closing over 15,000. what's it all mean? >> what it means everyone is in mourning. we are live nag bifurcated economy. ult companies are getting item profitable by becoming intentionally efficient. all of that is good. if that didn't happen there would be no future for the economy but the benefits have not perklated down i guess, have not drifted down to the larger mass of the middle class. the middle class income is still way down where it was years ago. what we are seeing is profits are up by and large because of the efficiencies and global sales. can that then translate symbol health year wages and hiring for

the middle class? >> the issue. >> right. it's the dow and s & p. >> broad based. the equity markets are important to the asset values of most of our families here in the country. i would say over 50% of us owned stock in one form or another. >> uh-huh. >> the housing market is coming back. it's nowhere near back where it was, you know, but coming back off of its lows because there had been no production for so many years. that apply is slowly being eaten up. it's housing and equity market come back and the assets people own will begin to show increased value. that can stimulate the consumer spending, all good stuff. the question is how quickly will this kick in. >> eliot spitzer joining us. follow him on twitter twitter @elliottspitzer. elliott, as if congress hasn't already spent a lot of time looking at this, guess what. we have a big hearing and the

house government oversight committee on benghazi hearing number 1,332. i have lost track. if. >> is this going anywhere? >> i don't think it goes anywhere in the longrun. there is one diplomat whose testimonys is going to be there were be consist he knew sees people told to stand down. who knows? in who want to see some conspiracy. here is what i think we should do. take it out of the context of these congressional hearings which are nothing more than showmanship and ridiculous opportunities for right-wingers to grapple with the white house and state department. they should get two imminent -- the people we could trust, george mitchell and a jim baker. let them look at the record and give us a report this is the

death of a sdmroment diplomat. have two people diplomat in the. >> focus on the people who did the attack rather than the people who were attacked this is going to be a sore spot. it's going to be one more in the list of issues that right wingers view as part of the grand conspiracy of the evil government and you will never push those folks back. get a good record about what did and didn't happen. critique the performance of people involved and move on to the next issue. >> bill: i think that's the only way. it wasn't satisfactory everybody. most people and be able to move

on as we do have to do right now. eliot spitzer, thank you for being with us. >> enjoy wednesday mornings wouldn't be the same if i couldn't be here. >> bill: talk to you on the next one then. we will we will be back. see you. >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show."

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absolutely flabbergasted that an error and liar could be elected to one of the highest offices in this country. the people of south carolina must get some kind of catharsis out of for giving and voting for him. ronald willis says the air force officer in charge of sexual assault shows the air force was not sirius about controlling the sexual abuse. the top officer who has the office of combatting sexual abuse should be at least a two-star general. >> how can you talk about beeps benz and not -- benghazi and not talk about the bald-face lies.

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it covered. we, the team here, peter ogburn and dan henning. >> hey, hey. >> good morning. alicia cruz on the phones. and roundtion out the team cyprian boulding on the video cam keeping us looking good current tv. >> i saw this last week carol castello, whom i knew when i was working at cnn a very accomplished anchor walking down the street in atlanta last week where her cell phone was stolen. this is a crime by the way, more and more in hurriedliban areas. i find myself doing it too. carry their iphone cell phone, whatever, in their their hand, you know, because either they are texting or ready for a text or rally ready for a call. it's easy enough for somebody to come by and help themselves to it. if you are in an urban area or a city.

put your phone away. >> it happened with carol, a cnn anchor. jay leno finally, caught up with this last night. >> cnn anchor carol costello wassed robbed of her phone. it was on cnn so there weren't any witnesses. a lot of little jabs like that. >> assuming it was on nbc, no one saw the joke. all right. there you go. yes, indeed, lots to cover today. we are going to jump down to south carolina here with robert bear from the charleston post and currier. how about the 3-d printer? have you heard about that? it's carry. we will find out about it with magan garber.

head of a new program called working america at the top of the next hour. lots coming up but first. this is the "full-court press." >> other headlines making news on this wednesday, dennis rodman steps back into his unofficial self-proclaimed diplomat roll yesterday he called on his north korea to do me a solid and let kenneth bay loose. thenalized american citizen is a tour operator in china near the north korean border taken in and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, accused of trying to start a revolution dennis rodman trying to step up for him. >> i think he was confused. michelle obama is not the only person to sneak out of the white house the. chelsea admitted while if i have

fillming that she and her mom, hillary would sneak out of the white house back in the '90s and take walks on the national mall the. they would put on hats and sunglasses and head out among the people. no word if the secret service was keeping a watchful eye on them or not. >> i remember hillary telling me about one such escape that she loved being able to walk out. the i know michelle obama has done that. she went to a pet store once with bo. >> the inspiration for the cartoon character marge simpson passed away, margaret groaning, the mother of simpson's creator matt groaning passed away at the age of 94. her husband, homer groaning he passed away back in 1996. the organizian report matt loosely based a lot on what his parents were like when he was growing up. >> he must have had a very weird childhood.

you should see. you should see the obituary. when they printed it a couple of days ago, there are the marge's sister named after his real-life aunts. his mother's waden name is wiggam. there are 10 different simpson's coacts in herobituary alone. >> i never realized they were based on his family. >> came from real stuff. >> or real names anyway. >> yeah. great stuff, great stuff. brig political news of the day. no doubt about it all eyes on south carolina. first congressional district. robert beear has been on our go-too geothis race. he joins us this morning. robert, good morning. >> good morning to you. >> it wasn't even close. right? >> exactly. a lot of people the latest poles that came out as recently as sunday night showed it as 47-46.

one point apart. final margin was nine points. >> bill: what happened? there is a poll a week ago that showed her up tep points. >> i think what happened was that the district just revealed you know what it was of a partisan group. the district went to mitt romney and you subtract a few points for the section scandal and get 54-45. >> you know e lith bell keith bull bush, i think sunday she got the endorsement of your paper. so she had a lot going for her. >> right. she played that up. our paper is conservative one of the few papers in south carolina to endorse republican nikki haley when she ran for governor three years ago. that was a big coup for her. she did not get the endorse thement of the hillon head paper down in buford county.

>> was there any -- any real issue? this campaign? or was it, in fact like a referendum on mark sanford? >> it was absolutely a referendum on mark sanford. the three issues that she was raising, that's report of her stump speech were all things he was also planning to do, too. she was promising to get her fiscal house in order. she was promising to work to create jobs. she was also campaigning as somebody who could be trusted. well, i think, you know, sanford is very much was talking about the finances on the national level. he was also talking about his record of governor creating jobs and certainly seeking redemption and telling voters he had learned a lesson from the 2009 implosion. >> bill: i think it's interesting that what was it maybe a month ago or a little less when sanford's wife jenny,

accused him of violating the agreement or whatever by going into the house and watching the super bowl. at that point, with his son at that point, the republican congressional campaign committee pulled the plug and said this scoundrel, we are not going to give him any more money. >> a lot of the money spent on the race on both sides, more than $2 million when you add it all up doesn't really look like it moved the needle that much. >> bill: isn't that amazing? yeah. so i would imagine he comes to washington with a message to some of the republican leadership up there. right? >> it's going to be fascinating to see how he has created up in the neck of the woods, what sort of perception he gets, whether he gets his seniority back is a big question. >> i think the answer to that is, no, you know, frank

lautenberg, senator from new jersey, who left and was re-elected, he may be 95 or whatever he is. he is still the junior senator from new jersey. >> i think the answer is "no," too. >> it could be he is completely wrong. >> on the democratic side, the democrats saw this race and they did put a lot of money in and they stayed with elizabeth colbert bush, saw this race as a chance to get some momentum for taking the house back in 2014. >> allotted of pund itself were really -- a lot of pundits were really wary about this race having any relevance to 2014 >> bill: uh-huh. >> saying it was such a race about sanford and whether -- whether -- and on him and whether voters should forgive him, that anything else any

other teal leaves were relevant. sanford advance that had theory on the stump. he wanted to do everything he could to make the race not about him or character or trust but rather about issues. who was going to vote which way? and he it was about 35%, which was more than double what it was in the primary. >> yeah. we were told some of the reporters we talked to down there that they didn't expect it to be a heavy turnout. it worked in mark san 40's favor. let's be honest here from our perspective, let me ask you the question straightout.

how about good a campaign did elizabeth colbert bush run? >> not a great one. i just talked about her issues. i don't think she gave voters much of a reason to vote for her other than she wasn't mark sanford. there wasn't one thing that she was going to promise to do that i think resonated with mod rats and democratic-leading voters that got them excited. she also admitted to me when i asked her what was the most difficult part about campaign she admitted that it was learning to campaign. she faced a big learning curve. she had never been in politics before. she was going up against veterans that had never lost. that was tough. part of her strategy was to keep the focus on him where the candidates and at a meet and

greet and am she served on the board of the chamber. she should have been very at home there. she arrived 15 minutes early but went upstairs and didn't even mingle with the crowd. she did finally, come downstairs and ming he he will with the crowd, five minutes to speak but only took three and was wisconsined away to another event that she was sheltered or overly handled. she wasn't running like the challenger that she was given the partisan make-up of the history. >> every time i saw her make an appearance or give some sort of a speech she never looked comfortable. she didn't look like she deserved to be there and sanford, who should have looked uncomfortable. >> yeah. >> looked like he was right at home home. >> uh-huh. >> exactly. sanford is right at home on the campaper trail. >> yeah. >> that's certainly the

impression that i take away from this race. he really just likes going out and meeting and talking to strangers. >> that's something that she is very personable, too. she is very friendly. but i think she was just not comfortable doing this on campaign trail in a public setting because, you know, early on in the campaign, she addressed a labor gathering in charleston and she told them that, you know, their voice was not being heard and that she would be that voice. well, there was a reporter there with a video camera and that grainy, you know, kind of lousy footage was being made public and and, indeed sanford seized on it during the last week and made one of his negative commercials saying she would beat the union interests. the focus will shift. i have talked to several reporters in washington who are pleased sanford won only because he will be so much fun to cover

up here in the united states congress. >> my favorite remarks last night was from ari splasher the apalachian trail leads somewhere. >> to washington. >> to washington, d.c. >> close by. >> hey, robert, thanks so much for joining us. all right? say hello to don and carol for us, too. >> thanks. >> this is "the bill press show."

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this is "the bill press show" 25, about 26 minutes after the hour, we are going to talk about the 3d printer to find out what that's all about with marggan garber from the atlantic within the next half hour of the show. right now, very disturbing news coming yesterday out of the pentagon. the pentagon revealing it had just conducted a survey of 108,000 active members of the military asking them their experience with sexual assault in the last year that survey revealed that 26,000 men and women, mainly women in the military reported they have been the victims of sexual assault last year, and that's up from 19,000 in 2010, so despite all of this talk from the leaders of the military, that they recognize they got a problem with sexual assault, they are

doing something about it. they are on top of it. it just proves that the exact opposite is the case. president obama, himself was asked about it yesterday. he was livid at this news conference and made very very clear, he is angry about it and going to do something about it. >> sexual assault is an outrage. it is a crime. >> that's true for society at large, and if it's happening inside our military then whoever carries it out is betraying the uniform that they are wearing. they may consider themselves patriots, but when you are engaged in this kind of behavior, that's not patriotic. >> bill: in effect, the president was calling them at any raters betraying the uniform they are wearing. the president also said that we are going to keep on tom of this. they talked to secretary hagel

about it and solve this problem. sxwrrnling >> bill: pom >> bill: >> bill: saying those who commit these crimes are held accountable. kirstin jimmylljillibrand wants to take sexual assault cases out of the chain of command and decide whether that guilty person, if they are found guilty, should serve prison time and/or be meal discharged from the service. the 3d printer. can you soon make your own guns? we will find out. >> this is "the bill press show."

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one? i don't know but hopefully megan garber has the answers. she is here from the atlantic, a staff writer who deals with technology issues and has written a lot about the 3-decision printer. megan, welcome to the show. >> thanks for having me. >> let's start from the beginning. real these printers? is that? >> that's a good question. printer is the name that makes them a little bit familiar to us. they are printers in the sense that they take a design sort of command and make something physical out of it is this this happens in the third dimension. >> i watched a video on this and it shows these machines. obviously, you put in a blueprint or a plan. >> exactly. >> right? >> yeah. >> and then the machine actually makes it? right? >> exactly. instead of just, you know, inc. on a on a page, it's usually extruded

plastic or some other soft material that is made in three dimensions. >> bill: so it could make this cup or whatever this thing is called? >> it could. exactly. >> it would just -- >> peter: it would be like a physical form of a cup. >> right. >> bill: the machine would just do, do, do do. >> exactly. it follows the directions the computer gave it exactly. >> bill: i went once a couple of years ago out in detroit to general motors to their assembly plant, and they were making, i saw, i saw the machine making a clay model, not a model. like a clay car. >> uh-huh. >>. >> they make these protocol types of cars, new cars before they -- prototypes. >> that's what this machine was doing, the material there was clay. but somebody had fed in all of the dimensions of this car. actually, it has been demon-japandemon been done

in japan. there were these arms. it was one machine and they are following these internal directions. >> so what kind of things are being made with the 3d printers? >> that's one of the things i am most coo excited about is this very idea of prototypes. it's actually helping architects to sort of build models that would otherwise be more difficult to build. there was a dad who had a stroller and one of the parts had broken for the stroller. normally, you would have to buy a new stroller or send it away to the factory and wait for two months and pay an exorb tant amount of money and he 3d printed it for $2 or something inexpensive. it's little things like that, sort of incremental manufacturing developments that it allows you to do.

there are other things as well. >> what kind of materials can you make things out of? is it all plastic. >> usually plastic it's very soft and malleable. i met some one else this weekend, though, who had made you'll jewelry out of metal using a 3-d printer. while it started with plastic, i think the tools and the >> peter: i grew up around construction and contracting. they have giant machines where you put the in a large piece of metal and it etches what you want out of that.

so we are talking about having it carved out of a bigger piece of metal. >> i am thinking like could you make any product? some products have to be can anybody sell it anywhere? >> chris anderson, who is an editor at wired or former editor of wired, a big addvocate and he basically he expects there is a lawsuit waiting to be made basically because it's such a new territory, it's sort of the wild west but ostensibly, you are going to. i think we are in a an early stage when it comes to the regulation of all of this.

we will soon see this is about to arrive. you are saying these 3d printers are here now? >> they are here. definitely? >> there is a lot of variation. 2000. >> surprised not more? >> you can how big are they? have you seen one? >> i have seen some. yeah. that varies a lot. some are very big. some actually do just didn't it on your desktop: they are literally like a desktop printer in that way. usually a little bit taller. they have kind of a chamber inside where the product is actually made. >> yay they are desktop appliances yeah. >> all across the country. there is a big concentration in

people in sort of the oakland area and places where there is a lot of -- >> what kind of offices? >> offices? >> architects? >> architects sure. actually nasa uses them to proceed toe type pieces they are thinking about it so it can have a model of something on its desk to work with. artists use it. i think a best of your knowledge of people but in manufacturing. >> you mentioned the makers movement. what is that for people who aren't familiar with it? >> yeah. it's this idea of sort of putting manufacturing back in the hand of the every day person basically. it used to be something and it's in the hands of companies and protected and regulated. this is the idea that in a people can make what they want to make. it's trying to be a personally empowering movement. >> are you ready for your 3d printer or do you have one? are you using it? 866-55-press.

i want to go way out there. could you is what about medical snows devices? or organs? >> both. both actually. there is work. >> stem cells? >> i don't believe it's stem cells. i think skin cells sort of a grafting idea. i believe there was something like with a cochlear am implant and trying to create organs basically and definitely medical devices as well. it's this idea of trying to explore new ways of growing body parts. >> wow? >> it's futuristic i guess. only it's here right now. >> bill: franken stein. >> yeah. >> bill: in the video one of the other at vandages someone talked about was the supply chain so that with a printer,

you don't have to make you are selling a new with. you don't have to make 500,000 of them you only make as many as you get orders for? >> it's a very efficient order if it works, definitely >> bill: curt is calling from anyhow. curt, what's your take on these things? >> where i work, we have a 3d printer. we use it. they are not something you can go out and buy just yet. but you can't really make a gun right now, the militaryaterial is not strong enough to survive an explosion once the bullet is fired. it will just shatter.

you can print something but you can't just take it out and fire it. >> bill: what does your company use this for, curt? >> for advanced prototypes. we also use it for form fit and function, and >> bill: for what? >> form, fit and function. >> that can be a lot of things. >> bill: form, fit and function? you have a model of it on your cad software and you will print it out on the printer and go put it on the piece that it's supposed to fit that you are going to make that part for. if it fits and works, you go ahead and build it out of metal or make a mold to make the production part.

i run three different machines. they are getting faster, more accurate. right now, you can't make a gun. >> the stuff you are making is made out of plastic? >> the material that we have on our current machine is a photo poly member t hardens with uv bites. it can lay down a thin layer of a gooey material and then the uv light hardens it and just keeps building up layer by layer until you have a part. there is other systems out there that use a lateser to melt the plastic. there is another one that uses a heated head to extrude the plastic and they are making implants with this out of titanium, can peat material steal, metal parts body i am planets, everything. those machines are $500,000 and up. >> that's not something you are your average person is going to go out and buy. >> bill: amazing.

these are -- these are out there. >> like you said $500,000 now. >> bill: right. >> peter: we know how these things works. >> bill: for making the body parts. all right. we are talking with megan barber with the atlantic.com. there is another new development that's gotten intleeftd if not worried. >> that's the google glasses. erested if not worried. >> that's the google glasses. we will find out what you know about that on the "full-court press" this wednesday morning. >> this is "the bill press show."

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it's more of those parts that you, you know, are simpler, i guess. >> so there is a guy in texas actually cody wilson who has been trying to make a 3d printed gun. he had done t before there was a problem with basically you would make the plastic parts of the gun and it would explode because the pressure was too much on the inside. also, there is a law that says that guns have to be detectible by metal detectors so by law, there has to be some sort of metallic element inside the gun in order for it to be legal. >> that's part as well. cody wilson in texas has he a 3d printed gun so we are in a new world if that's the case. >> bill: god forbid people running out there printing their

guns. so of much for the background checks. google glasses? >> yes. >> hei cannot imagine anybody wearing them, allowing them. some states are saying we are never going to let you drive with these google's glasses. are they for real. do you think they are going to take off? >> they are definitely for real. whether they are going to take off is a different question. i have asked myself would i want to wear them? and i think, you know, there are some really cool things about it. you can shoot video have this experience of augmented reality, which i think is kind of a logical cal action tension of what we have with our smart phones i can see myself being hesitant and loving t there is cause for concern you could take

video? >> the three of us are wearing glasses. >> right. >> who is to say i am not watching a rambo movie right now behind my glasses. >> i am watching breaking bad right now. yes mention that. >> a huge distraction. you are driving. right? you decide that you want to, like, just watch this movie out of one corner of your eye or something like that. you know? >> right. it's very hard. >> or check your e-mail or text. >> or anything. it's the lens of your glasses. >> or get directions to the pizza place or something. >> exactly. >> is it true that if you are

wearing google glass and you look at your iphone you will just spontaneously combust? is that true or false? >> that's accurate. >> very dickensian. it is it's the way you are going to go. >> you look at your phone with your glasses. poof. i am a little disconnected because i have my phone in pie pocket. >> bill: i theory and i feel that but every time we try to say, technology, no, slow down, you know, we are wrong. >> yes. >> people prove that we were just old fuddy duddies. so get your google glasses, baby. you are going to need them and your 3d printer. oh, my god two more do you see

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>> thank you. it's nigh pleasew. >> want to hear more about it. it's fun to attend this big kickoff at the afl-cio a couple of weeks with you a couple of weeks ago when you launched your campaign to be active in all 50 states? >> that's right. >> in the next five years. find out how that is go can. you join the team here this morning, peter ogburn. you have met peter ogburn and dan henning. alicia cruz has the phone lines. cyprian golding keeps us looking good on the individualvideo camera. on the political front yesterday, it was big news out of south carolina. not necessarily good news for us progressives but mark sanford is the comeback kid. he says this is all part of god's plan. >> i want to acknowledge a god not just a second chances but

third, fourth, fifth, sixth because that is the reality of our shared human manty. >> so he won. lay off the god talk. ity. >> so he won. lay off the god talk. >> i don't think got the god wanted him in the u.s. congress. he has bigger fish to fry. on the entertainment front a little news yesterday, believe it or not, it was 50 years ago today we heard these words. >> i admire your luck mr. ? >> bond. james bond. >> dr. noe. >> bond. please just call me mr. bond. we will talk with juana summers from politico about those shocking numbers yesterday on

sexual assault in the pentagon a lot of generals saying we are on top of this. we know what we are doing. obviously they do not. all of that but first. >> big stories of the day. >> other headlines making news on this wednesday, tom hanks is named the most trusted person in america according to a new readers' digest poll on people that have earned the most confidence of americans, top 4 on this list are all out of hollywood, sandra bullock, merrill streep in there, top washingtonans is michelle obama at number 19. jimmie carter is the most trusted former or current politician and number 24, president obama is number 65. 5 most trusted people are movie actors. >> get an agent. >>. nbc's fund night football sticking with the country music

opening song announced carrie underwood will take over for faith hill who says she will not be back for a 7th year. the lyrics waiting all day for sunday night will stay the same. carrie will change it. >> hank wellsilliams stuff in it? yakes. >> six years. >> lay's po tate potato chips, cheesey garlic bread potato chips will go into mass production that. beat out charucha and chickem waffles. karen submitted the idea. therefore, she will get either a million dollars or 1% of the cheesey garlic chip sales for 2013, whichever amount is higher. >> that's a hefty price. i hate to say it i feel like so

like van ill a bread, white bread or van ill a but i just like good old fashion regular potato chips. sometimes it's hard to find just -- >> you are right. >> a rig potato chip. >> you know. >> need a lifetime supply. do reach out to people who are not lucky enough to be a member of the union? >> that's right. working america is the way any person can be part of making change in this country by joining the biggest definition of the labor movement you can

find. people who don't know they are looking for us, start a conversation about it lobby christs distorting our country and two or three sign up as a member of working america. they become part of the afl-cio. we are the best kept secret in the progressive movement, bill. over the last 10 years we have recruited more than 3 million members. >> whoa. >> you bet >> bill: how many states? >> we have members actually in every state and every territory, but really we are strong right now but the work has been going so well that partners have said we need working america here so our labor partners all thearound the country say we need to have work in america everywhere we want it in 50 states over the

next five years. we decided to take up that challenge launching it this new campaign to have an actual physical presence with an operation, organization in every one of the 50 states. >> you bet >> bill: in the next five years. so when you go to people, what is your mission? just so our listeners, our viewers, understand. is your mission to recruit them to join a union? >> no. working america is affiliated with the afl-cio and so when you join working america, you are part of the afl-cio part of the labor movement but you are not part of a union that bargains for you on your job. the part of the power that you get is good information. you can be part of local organizing that fights on issues like we just won a higher minimum wage in albuquerque and we are about to win a higher

minimum wage, i believe, in minnesota this week. is we have been working with allies making those real changes. organize on the job. that's going to be with affiliates. unions that already represent workers in those areas. >> we want to bring people into the broadest net so people have the benefit of our information, the experience of the power of collective action. so that means that you are signing up means first of all, you just agree. yeah. i want to be a member of working

america, a part of afl-cio >> bill: you start getting e-mails or snail mail or whatever with information? >> right. some of those people become active in the community. may many pay dues. but dues are voluntary. and more and more people are paying dues. really, it's where you want to be on the scale of activism. some people find their way to have a stronger voice on the issues they care about. >> bill: what do you consider in any of the feature 15 states? what do you consider your biggest organizing success? >> minimum wage. we won a higher minimum wage for 50 workers in albuquerque and the areas around them.

paid sick days in portland oregon, affects $100,000. >> that's a big benefit. we also have a big influence on elections. we find that people who otherwise had been against our interests, with a little bit of information and a sense that you can really affect the economy if we ban together so it's turning around city e elections, statewide elections, a big part of what we are able to do. >> bill: what can you do in a state like wisconsin with scott walker who is really enemy of organized sflaib particularly the public employee, the same with ohio, with john kaysic? you can go down the list? right? florida with rick scott.

is your plan to be active in those states? >> yes. we have members and in wisconsin, for example, what we need to do is organize not so much in the big cities like milwaukee but in the more suburban rural districts where there is less of a connection to a progressive movement. >> that's where working america does its best work. otherwise there is not anybody reaching out those these folks, the working class mod rats who get sheared off from a progressive economic agenda. >> that's where working america connects people. a lot of em where we don't have a way in. it's not going to happen on failure job. for the activists out there who want to support labor, they don't he had need to just

support labor. they can join it by joining working america. >> this may be the answer for some wal-mart worker where wal-mart won't allow them to form a union. they should be involved working to better their own conditions regardless. >> luckyly, wal-mart work versus an organization that's not quite a union called "our wal-mart." thru br another what? 100 million workers out there looking for some solutions. compil, we are about to kick off a new, actually, this week a place where any working person in this country to find out how to make change on their job. it's called "fix my job.com." it gives you information about what to do about any workplace problem and also walks you through, how do you become your own organizer? how do you organize the folks right around you to make change? >> bill: i like that.

fixmyjob.com. karen nusbaum executive director for working america looking for guidance in your community. it's working america.org. or you can give us a call right now. get your answer from the woman who is heading up this effort and has been for the last 10 years, karen nussbaum. our number is 866-55-press. "full-court press" this wednesday morning. we will be right back. >> this is "the full court press: the bill press show," live on your radio and on current tv. the issues of the day. >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> with a distinctly satirical point of view. if you believe in state's rights but still believe in the drug war you must be high. >> only on current tv.

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nothing more important in america. karen nusbaum is head of working america in studio with us who is in all the 50 states, the opportunity to get involved, to organize, to improve the conditions that they are working place and conditions for all workers in those statements karen, a very ambitious goal. find out more in just a second. peter? >> we have talked this morning about mark sanford's win in south carolina last night. he has made the rounds done some of the morning t.v. shows. he did cnn where john burman asked him if he had any advice for anthony wienerean who is looking to mount his own comeback. >> if he is saying if mark sanford can do it, so can i. >> john sanford asked do you have any advice? mark sanford said, i wouldn't

give any politician any advice under any circumstances. >> karen, you made is it clear working america is not out there recruiting but as a union member knowing the importance of being a union member in my life and for my family i wish all american workers were members of the union and had those protection? >> you bet. >> so i don't have to you tell you how important it is. what is your take on why only 13% of america's work force today are union members? it keeps going down and down. i don't understand it? >> the biggest reason is you could lose your job if you tried to start a union. >> companies and laws are more hostile in our country than anywhere in the western world. there is -- most places you don't have to have an election to just decide to join an o but

you do in the united states. >> uh-huh. >> that's why still, clearly, the strongest way to have any influence over your workplace is to have a union on the job that bargains with the boss and we help people wihelp people. >> that's got to be the first goal. the workplace has changed. the work force has changed. we have got to also find new ways for workers to exercise power whether through their whole industry or as a group putting pressure on trade associations or business groups or finding small groups. >> city council or county board of supervisors? >> right. >> yeah. >> we have got to reignite just the hunger for change and the skins for doing that in as many workers as we can. we are quining to see it bill. it's a lot of fun. the women who work at weight

watchers recently decided to organize because they weren't getting paid enough for the weekly sessions that they were doing or a group of models in new york called the models alliance has started an organization. for the first time, can dancers on videos organized and joined sag some of the we are seeing the bubbling up of research. >> happening largely because of the work of working america now now, fix my job.com. we have a link on our website. karen nusbaum thank you for what you are doing. >> this is "the bill press show."

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show." >> bill: you have it 33 minutes after the hour. it is the full court press this wednesday morning, may 8th. good to have you with us today. some shocking numbers yesterday out of the pentagon. the pentagon, itself on the issues of -- on the issue of sexual assault in the military. leaders of the military have been telling members of congress for some time, yeah, we know this is a problem but we are on top of it. we are making progress. we have got it under control. apparently not. juan a summers covers defense issues for politico. a good friend of the program. back in studio. juana, always good to see you. thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me back >> bill: according to the latest survey of the pentagon things are getting worse? >> absolutely. there are two important things to look a in the survey. first, the sexual vieolence in

the military is going up. the other thing that lawmakers are critical of these type of issues point out fewer people are reporting these assaults and both of those combined together are what they say is just an ep epidemic of sexual assault in the military a huge problem. >> 19,000 cases, people said in 2010 that they were victims of sexual assault. last year, it was 26,000. do the math like 1 in 8 maybe, only 3300 last year, cases reported, but that also was up from the year before when it was 32 -- 3200.

show there is a fear of retribution. if you think of the military, it's a cohesive unit. many times it might be a commander or someone that you work with. they are the men and women who are supposed to be fighting on the front lines next to you. i can imagine that would be a difficult situation to come forward if you come forward these allegations. as someone who reports from this, i hear from men and women who have been victims of sexual assault all the time. he said i reported my assault years ago i want still facing retribution retribution. it's a difficult position particularly when you are dealing with the military. >> the victim is facing retribution and the assailant? >> i can imagine it would be very difficult. think about the translation to the civilian world. for example, one in four women

in college will be raped. it's like reporting your ra or the kid who sits next to you every day. it's a very sticky situation with a lot of legal this is congress is surely trying to push them along. >> to mat make matters worse, of course, a couple of days ago, the lieutenant colonel in the air force, jerry kruzenski who was in charge of enforcing the law, making sure we are cracking down on sexual abuses was himself drunk some parking lot in arlington virginia tech here is senator kirstin jillibrand. she has been the leader in the senate. >> how can we stop the amount of sense annual assault in the military if the person in charge of enforcing these policies

commits the same crime? >> speaks volumes? >> it does. i think we have to be a little fair. having, this man came from the air force. i feel like the air force gets a bad wrap when it comes to sexual assault. some of the highest e has come out of the military. this permeates through the services. it's not just an air force problem. it speaks volumes when you have the person supposed to be dealing with these problems, himself, being arrested for sexual battery. that happened just 10 missed away from the office i work out of on a daily basis in virginia tech the chief of staff of the air force testified in front of senator jillibrands committee and he said the reason we have this problem in the military is not this the military problem but there is this hook-up culture we have now in this country. >> that's what he called it, the hook-up culture so of course, it's happening everywhere and,

of course, it's happening also in the military. it's not true. there is a hook-up culture. >> i don't want to be flip but hook-up culture and raping someone which is really the same aren't really the same thing. >> thank you. >> he infuriated kristin kristin jillibrand and men and women by this flip remark of his. you see it is reflected in the sickles? >> that's the point man lawmakers have made with my conversation with them about this issue and we talk about the legislation moving forward to combat this issue all the time. they say, the military says, sure, the top brass says this is a serious problem. we are going to fix it. we are going to do something about it. they say they have heard that all before. it's not changing. in fact, it's getting worse and the types of measures they have put in place so far haven't worked. >> bill: they have commanders

who have in many cases overturned jury verdicts where people were found guilty of sexual assault and their commanding officer who might know them or like them or whatever so kristin jillibrand said we should take these out of the chain of command. is that the answer? >> i am not sure that's the answer. chuck hagel, defense secretary, seems to have some willingness to look at proposals such as that that would limit the commanding authority, the ability of commanders, of generals to take thighs major convictions to overturn them like you saw in these air force cases. air force secretary michael donnelly, other top military leaders say they don't think that's the answer, adjudication for these type of demands am belongs here there will be push back for that. we are heading into the big fight over the big defense authorization that goes down every year.

most changes to these kinds of codes will come in the vehicle of that legislation. i don't think they will let go of this. >> it seems like some guy in bank of america or wherever is accused, taken to a jury trial, found guilty of rape and the president of bank of america could say, oh yeah, but, you know, etta pretty good record last year so i am going to overturn that verdict and give him another chance. it is outrageous there would be higher authorities than the jury. in the military, it does exist. why should it could not? >> it is difficult because there is no perfect corollary between what happens in the civilianed

world action network who work with this, many of them are interested in seeing some kind of independent panel come out that can look out and deal with sexual assault sexual misconduct cases within the military's ranks. it takes that commander completely out of the e coordination, to get more victims who are term survivors to come forward and say this is what happened to me without fear that, a, they are going to face that retribution or b that they are going to go through what is a horrific or deal of coming through and going through proceedings to deal with their rape or sexual assault and have it thrown back, look your conviction is being overturned >> bill: here is where you may be can make the connection. i must admit i don't know the numbers but it seems to me that we don't here as much in the civilian workplace we used to

sot somehow p maybe through education, training fear of god, agent of court. i don't know. is it the tougher enforcement? >> i can't see too much of the civilian workplace. i don't have statistics to back that up if you rape somebody, you assault somebody, that is a crime. >> that's seen as a crime. >> bill: a crime? >> a crime. not just a misconduct. not something you get a slap on the wrist for. you will be arrested if you sexual lie assault a woman and you are found guilty in the civilian world. that doesn't translate over in the military world. that makes it a sticky situation. occasionally i have heard stories of people who fear like

am they have gotten an honorable discharge a horrible crime. >> if that doesn't happen. >> if it's not treated as a crime, i can't see why i would come forward. >> why come forward the or why people won't continue to do it? >> absolutely. >> juan a summers from politico on the number 1 story in the washington post and the "new york times" today and most of the networks new numbers on sexual assault in the military, pretty stunning, sick stuff, 866-55-press. got some experience, some thoughts you want to share with us? love to hear from you here on the "full-court press." >> connecticut with the bill press show on twitter. follow us at bpshow and tweet using the hash tag, "watchingbp." this is "the bill press show."

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[ music ] >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show." >> bill: president obama yesterday asked about this issue of sexual assault in the military at his news conference. he was pretty steamed up about it. there is -- >> sexual assault is an outrage. it is a crime. >> that's true for society at large. if it's happening inside our military, then whoever carries it out is betraying the uniform that they are wearing. and they may consider themselves patriots but when you engage in

this kind of behavior, that's not patriotic. >> bill: betraying the uniform they are wearing. pretty strong stuff, juana? >> absolutely. strong rhetoric from the president when he was asked about this the question is: what do you do about it moving forward? the trends we saw in the survey aren't acceptable. how you fix that from a 30,000 feet level, from the offices they sit at is difficult when it speaks to a much lager cultural problem when it goes down to the boots on the ground in these saefshsdz. a tough situation to be in. i am sure it is very heartening to hear at a time commander in chief say we are not going to let this slide again. >> bill: you had social media comments? >> tweeting attatbp show. michael jinks said it's nice you are talking about the women because it's a power trip. men get raped, too as torture

and sdmrim. there is sexual assault. juan a, you referenced that earlier earlier. >> juan a summers from politico. they figured 26 ,000, the survey relates to 13,900 men victims of sexual abuse out of 1.2 million men, 12,100 women out of only 233,000 women. >> it's herefying. the first time twitter made a good point, whether you are talking about the military or talking about just everyday life in people, this is something where you think of women as convictedims and men as purpose at any raters. >> that's not fair. et the military it affects men

and women. it's important to note that. there is a cityingma of men. i have talked with many outside the service. it is important we don't forget them in this conversation >> bill: what is the next step in this? is it the debate over jillibrand's legislation which i believe jackie spear is carrying in the house as well. >> that's going to be the issue, is whether or not to take this karl levin has been strong on this issue. >> it looks like legislation has gotten a ton of traffic. i spoke with representative spear out of california after she introduces the house version. it is likely to be the big vehicle. it is important it should change

the military code to come to the national authorization act and supposed to work through that process near the end of that month. it has been a bi-partisan push both chambers, the leaders of both defense committees are serious on cracking down on this. they have crossed the aisle and said this has to stop. we have to help the military fix this >> bill: on a related issue in terms of dealing with the military. a former official from tripoli is going to say that he requested fighter jets from the pentagon once he heard about this, the problems in benghazi and the pentagon refused to provide flighter jet coverage. if they had, they might have prevented the people getting killed at benghazi.

>> there is toso much attention being paid to this as houses republican leaders set a hearing one benghazi before law makers left town. lawmakers say it's important to have eyewitnesses, people who are intimately involved instead of hearsay. so, it will be interesting to see how this changes the debate over that deadlytac and what it means obviously politically. there is a lot of doubt being cast on the role as well as that of secretary of state hillary clinton >> bill: there is doubt i think being placed on the idea that the jesus would have had to have come from i thinkly, the close theist place there are jets placed that they could have conceivably reached libyan air space and flown over and prevented death and mahem on the ground in benghazi.

>> my sources think that's a little bit wobbly claim. juan in a summers, thank you for your good reporting on this issue. keep at it. we will keep in touch with you. i will be back with a quick parting shot. >> this is "the bill press show." >> lots of terrible things happen to people growing marijuana. >> this crop to me is my livelihood. >> i'm being violated by the health care system. (christoff) we go and spend a considerable amount of time getting to know the people and the characters that are actually living these stories. (vo) from the underworld to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. >> occupy! >> we will have class warfare. (vo) true stories, current perspective. documentaries. on current tv.

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33 times and continue to hold hearings on benghazi, yet another one, today, by darryl issa and the government oversight committee which has held half adowns hearings on the same topic. don't expect anything new. get this. the september 11, 2012, attack on our consulate in benghazi has been investigated by the f.b.i. by one senate committee, by five standing house committees and by one specially appointed house committee. not only that, it was also investigated by a state department review board headed by ambassador thomas pickering and admiral michael mullin who placed the blame for attack where it belongs, on the terrorists, not the obama administration. so if republicans really want to play politics with benzghazi, ask them this: how many were killed at benghazi, and how many were killed on 9-11? and then ask them which

president was soft on national security? yeah. they don't want to answer that one. >> that's my parting shot for today. tomorrow, congresswoman rosa delaro joining us here in studio. wednesday, may 8th. go out and have a good one, folks. come back here and see us right here again tomorrow. >> this is "the bill press show."

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