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else is making news. do or die time for the indiana pacers after a dominant game 6 bev teething the miami heat. the series is coming back to south beach. an abysmmal performance by dwyane wade opened the door for the pacers stostay alive between the two teams. that goes down tonight at 8:30 eastern time. the winner of today's game will be in the nba fields. they will take on the san antonio spurs. >> i have a feeling indiana is going to win this game. >> they have the momentum. they have the momentum. it's in miami. working gfrnings them. they shall the momentum. they came out strong. >> they sure did. >> its official, i know you were worried about this. kim car dashkarda is. hian are having a beep baby girl. we have known for a while she was pregnant but we didn't know the sex. last night, we found out in the most appropriate way possible on her reality t.v. show.

they brought the cameras into her doctor's office where she was given the news and she said quote, i am so excited we are having a girl. who doesn't want a girl? they are the best. >> sounds like she is ready for motherhood. >> what does kanye have to say about it in. >> unprintable. >> one hor hit of coffee, man, a new study has confirmed caffeine addiction is a real thing. the american psychiatric association's official manual now lists caffeine withdrawal as a serious medical term. they list symptoms as fatigue, headache and difficulty focus can. remember, caffeine is a drug but it's safe for adults to consume 400 milligrams per day, which comes out to be about four cups of coffee. so if you are having more than that, you are having too much. >> you know, i had a coffee addiction at one time and i quit coldtie. >>. >> did you? did you jones and get the shims

and freak out? >> i just said this is wrong. i can't do this any more. i just stopped. >> people always ask us because we get up so damn early. >> i never drink it. >> i can't in the morning. i get hooked. i get hooked if i don't have it and i feel the withdrawals. >> bombay sapphire? >> there you go. yes, indeed here is the question i have to ask you this morning. what i wonder, maybe you can tell me, how much do you think the republican party is paying for public relations advice? that's in what i want to know. okay? i will tell you. i don't care how much they are paying. the how much or how little they are paying they are paying too much. absolutely. if i were a republican, i would want my money back. i mean who is the dumb jerk that told them, for example, here is a great thing you ought to do. do you want to win friends and influence people, here is a

great thing to do. why don't you vote against obamacare to repeal became care for the 37th time? that will win you a lot of friends. >> that's going somewhere. who gave them that advice? how much do you think they paid for the advice what time republican party ought to do is really beat up on fellow conservative republican chuck hagle. they don't think that's going to bite them in the ass some day? yeah. they don't think it's going bite them in the ass some day? yeah, such a dumb move. this is not complicated, folks. this is not complicated. first of all, this is an important issue, affects millions and millions of people graduates in 2013 are getting out of school with an average $26,000 in depth because the federal government student loans. okay? so that rate on those lanes is now locked in at 3.4% thanks to

what congress did last year. but we are here so it's going double to 6.8% on july 1st unless congress does something. this is not rocket science. just do what they did last year. lock it in for not just the year, maybe two, three years whatever at 3.4%, at least years. no. no. republicans have come up with some cockymamy scheme. it's a market-based, rate-based thing where we are not giving students a break and wherever it floats and it could go up as high as 81/2 %. this is ridiculous. they look like the party that doesn't care about higher education, doesn't care about young people. and doesn't want to help people certainly, in lower income or middle class families. that's another dumb ass thing they are doing. maybe the dumbest of all is on equal pay for women. this became a big story on friday because the pew center

release add news of survey of women in america which was really stunning. it showed that more women than ever are raising themselves single moms in other words, more women than ever who are raising children by themselves number 1, and two, there are more women than ever who are the top bread winners in their families. and, of course, more women working than ever. 40%, 40% and 40% of american families 40%, that's huge women are either the sole or the number 1 bread winner in 40% of american families. and one out of four couples, one out of four couples, the wife makes more than the husband does. i mean this is -- this is radically different than the way it was just 10 years ago. i think 10 years ago, it was the like 11 persons. now, it's up to 40% so you would

think this is like now, the problem with that is women still are getting $0.77 for every dollar a man mistakes. that's just unfair. this is grossly unfair. i don't know how anybody could not see that and say yeah, women are contributing. leadership polka-dot jersey they are doing the jobs as well as better than men. there is basically no difference. women or men, same job whoever is most qualified gets the job, can do the job better. i think a woman can do most of them better, but still, they are only getting paid 77%. all of the study you would think, though, the fact women are playing such an important role and so many of them are the number 1 bread winner in the family, would be good news to republicans. oh, no, no, no no, not good news. eric erickson starting out. conservative commentator, head of the red state blog and by the way, remember, remember

maybe you don't. i will remind you. this was like, maybe five years ago. i came out and said, he was the ynn contributor at the time. i came out and said cnn ought to the fire this guy who said any -- i'm paraphrasing but if ne census workers walks up you will get my wife's shotgun and am blow his head off. cnn got pissed off because i identified him as a cnn contributor even though he was a cnn contribute on the cnn payroll. he said it on his blog. he works for cnn this is the same guy on with megan kelly, now a contributor to fox news. he is on with megan kelly friday and he wrote on his blog that this idea that women are no. 1 bread winners or so many women are working is terrible for american families. he said, a woman belongs at home number touring children. megan kelly, who is a mom of

three, i believe, and a damn good television anchor i must say. she is a star at fox news. she took him on. >> when you go into the middle class where a lot of these issues are bubbling up when you have a mom who is working 12 hours a day and a dad who is working 12 hours a day and they come home and they are trying to be good parents, you can't have it all. and they are making compromises and i am not judging them. and no one should. >> you are judging them. you are. >> i am not. >> you are. you are because you come out very clearly and say that you believe that women who choose to work instead of staying at home to, quote, nurture their children, and, instead have the father do that are imposing a worse future on their children than women who make a different choice, the choice you and your wife make. >> bill: he does say that. he says it's the wrong chase choice and a woman's place is at home. chain them to the stove barefoot and pregnant and in the curb kitchen. >> that line he said in there, you can't have it all is a line that i am sure a lot of women have heard. >> yes. >> as women who want to be

professional women and also have a family of guys saying oh, suiteie, you can't have it all. you can either be a mother or an employee. >> there is something else and listen, i've got two sons and they work and both of their wives work. you know why? they need to, to pay the bills at the end of the month. those couples where both of them are working there are a couple of factors going on. number 1, you are right. women want to be real -- have real responsibilities enter the work place, lead -- get a good job, maybe lead a company or whatever. they want to fulfill their own potential but they also need the money to make the family work. then megan in the end, she just kills eric okie son. >> i was offended by your piece. yes like what you wrote one bit and i think you are judging people. to me, you sound lineke somebody who is judging and say i am not, i am not. and judge, judge and its science and science and science, fact, fact, fact, i have a list of

stickers saying your science is wrong and your facts are wrong. >> your science are wrong. he doesn't have science or facts. eric erickson a commentator on fox news marshal blackburn, this whacko now that michelle bachman is gone, it's going to be marsha blackburn who gets all of the attention on meet the press sunday and she says women -- there is equal pay? the fact that women, there ought to be a bill pass sod that women get equal pay to men? she said, no no, no, no, no. women don't want that. she said all women want is they want companies to recognize. they want recognition. they don't want equal pay. where is she coming from? i mean especially as a woman, she ought to realize that's just kak k caca. it looks like they are anti-student and anti-women. no wonder they are losing the women voted. no wonder there is a gender gap, if you will. it's this republican war on women. and it continues.

when are they finally, going to get smart in the i don't get it. 866-55-press. so what about it? the equal pay for equal work. i think it's great news that so many women are the number 1 bread winners in the country and so many women are now in the workplace and doing a damn good job at it. we all to celebrate it not bemoan t you tell me. >> on your radio and on current tv this is "the bill press show." the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv.

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closed-minded, racist rigid and old-fashioned. >> that's about right. >> couldn't have setaid it better myself. milton calling from frankfurt, illinois >> caller: good morning. of course, women should get equal pay, but the problem is they are not going to do that because they are hurting every constituent that voted for president obama. everybody. they hurting them all across the board, which is sequester, and it's all about because they reelect obama. >> yeah. if you look at the people who are hurt by the sequester, if you look at the people who might be helped by immigration reach or if you look at the people who might be helped by equal pay, those are constitwent who voted for obama. so what are they for? they are for extending the tax cuts for the 1% because they are the people that voted for mitt

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[ music ] >> radio meets television "the bill press show," now, on current tv. >> here we go monday june 3rd, '33 minutes after the hour the full court press coming to you live from our nation's capitol. we are talking about republicans having a problem with equal pay for women as if they don't have enough problems already. this is the party that the vowed it was going to realize they got shellacked last november. they are going to reach out to minorities, reach out to women,

reach out to young people and yet they can't even agree that maybe women ought to get equal pay to men for the same job in light, particularly in light of a pew center study released over the weekend shows that women today in 40% of american households, women are either the sole bread winner because they are single moms or the number 1 bread winner earning more money than their husbands. good news for women, but not republicans don't see it this way. they say this is bad, bad for families, and bad for women, i guess, eric eric son republican commentator making that point on fox news and marsha blackburn, republican member of congress from tennessee. what's it all about? 866-55-press. more calls coming up but first a quick word, you heard me talk so off about identity theft.

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coming out today from the college republicans saying we look at the party today republican party today and it looks close-minded and old fashion. that will mirrors the autopsy report remember with the the republican national committee, itself released in march which said that the republican party came across looking scary, narrow-minded, out-of-touch and if you will of stuffy old men. and they see that and they know that and they still come out and say, now we have a problem with equal pay for women. yeah, well what's your problem? carol is calling from crystal lake, illinois. hi, carol. >> hi, how are you today? >> i am good. i am worked up about this but otherwise good. hi? >> hi. well, i have a comment about women working. everybody i know that has kids,

the mom works because there is female jobs out there, 7, joe 8 or $9 and most men won't work for under $20. >> uh-huh. >> labor job or construction, you know, or even a good factory job but nobody pays $20 any more. but i had a comment about if a man's home, it's important that one of the parents be home or a grandmother. and i don't believe in baby -- home, you know, the day care centers, though. they are really bad for kids. >> bill: why do you say day care centers are bad for kids? >> it's not personalized like a grandmother would be. my, you know -- >> bill: carol, i think you are totally wrong. i think you are just totally wrong. let me tell you something. you know, i know a lot of kids and a lot of parents have their kids in day care centers. and they are great. they are great. they are great places, and the people there really love those kids and i tell you i got a couple of grandkids in day care

centers. they love their teachers. they think of them, you know as almost like members of the family. you are totally wrong on that. don call from al banal, georgia. >> good morning, bill. >> good morning. >> how are you doing? >> i am good. how are you doing? >> great. albany oregon. >> i recognize your name and i that, georgia? what? hey. i recognize your voice i mean. >> i didn't put the move on you or anything like that? >> glad you didn't -- >> i was going to say, i have to agree women deserve equal pay for equal work. it's been myself experience that people know we guys never really grow up anyway. the toys we play with simply change. i thought you would also like to know i turned 62 last on wednesday may 29th. >> bill: good for you. i'm sorry we weren't invited to the party but i hope you had a good one. >> yeah. oregon and dara calling from

felton, delaware my home stay. dare a g morning. >> hello. >> yes, yes, indeed. you are on the air. good morning. >> it's actually roger. i am in boston something happened. >> roger, good for you. i don't know what's going on with the folks this morning. go ahead. >> i am going to -- the general ideation that wasjust made about day care. if day care has worked out so great, why do our kids in this generation, the last couple of generations more violent than they have been? >> bill: i don't think you can blame that, rajoger on day care. >> it's a lack of discipline is what's happened with our culture in this country in accepting violence. i'm sorry, but anyway, as far as women i work in construction. if they can produce the same amount of labor units i can, absolutely. and the devil is probably in the details with these bills. i don't -- i don't -- whoa. so are you saying -- i am interested in your experience

that women can or cannot do construction jobs? >> of course thing. absolutely i work with them all the time. >> yeah. that's what i would say, too, yeah, i am glad to hear you say that. right. >> if they can't do the same amount of work that i can do yeah, absolutely. absolutely. i have no problem with that. but like i said, i don't fall for the eight-second sound byte from the middle any more. the devil is in the details in these bills >> bill: the devil is not in the details. here is the detail. right? $0.77 on a dollar. >> that's what women get today. that is unfair. they ought to get $1, the same that a man gets for the same job. period. it's not a detail. it's not complicated. it's not rocket science. you can't defend it. and republicans who say, like marsha blackburn that women don't want this, you know, they got their head up their ass. dara call from felton delaware. i have dara. don't we? >> okay. am i on now? >> you are on and you are from my home state of delaware.

we finally, got you. >> okay. all right. thank you. >> how are you doing? >> pretty good. and yourself? >> i am doing good. i was in southern delaware over the weekend. >> oh, my. >> i want you to know. took that foe our foe all the way over to fenwick island. >> goodness. well, i didn't get that far. >> okay. what's up, dara? >> my husband and i were listening to this comment about marsha blackburn. >> bill: yes >> caller: said if she is so crazy about this idea, she should -- she should get $0.77 for every dollar her male colleagues get. >> bill: you know what? >> not a bad idea. i wonder what she would think, right, as a member of congress when they get paid by the way, about $175,000 a year for doing nothing. yeah, uh-oh, marcia you are not going to get $175,000. do the math. whatever $0.70 on the dollar equals, that's what you get. yeah. i think, dara you've got a

point there i think marsha blackburn would be maybe the first one to scream about that. stewart is down in saint petersburg, florida. hi, stewart. >> good morning. i hope that you are great. bill, i find this is an absolute truth about the $0.77 did. it started it unions and everything else. i think it's more in like to white collar than blue collar. because if you are going to say that -- >> it why do you say it started -- stewart, you and i almost disagree on everything. but why did it start with unions? if anything, unions have worked for equal pay. that's what they are all about. no union. no union today is going to support paying a woman only $0.77 >> caller: bill, if you are saying this happens in every line of work, it goes to white-collar, labor, and union. >> bill: 85% of workers in this country are not union members. i am sure that's where you are finding the unequal pay and those non-union jobs.

>> most of the craven craven cents being paid to women over men, i think it's more in the white collar because i am blue-collar and i find that every woman that i ever work with got the same pay i did. >> bill: okay. yeah. i think you may be right about that by the way. >> caller: it's just that the do not put it as a broad spectrum. i think it's more white-collar. >> bill: i don't care whether it's white or blue or red or pink or green, its strong. my point is its wrong. manifestly wrong and for the republican party leaders of the republican party to defend it, and say there is something wrong with america for women to have such importantly roles in the workplace, it's just crazy. what are they thinking? >> my point. what are they thinking? defending that. when we come back reed wilson is the editor-in-chief of the hotline at the national journal joins us on our news line. >> this is "the bill press show."

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[ music ] >> radio meets television, "the bill press show," now on current tv. >> bill: here we go 13 minutes before the top of the hour early on this monday morning here on the "full-court press" with congress coming back in town, what can we expect? what's on the agenda? can we expect them to get anything done? reed wilson is editor-in-chief of the national journal hotline on our news line this afternoon. how are you doing? >> am i am doing well. here is the question, i guess. congress comes back in town.

will we be able to tell the difference? i can't seem to get much done. >> your studios up in the eastern market area. right? so there will be more traffic that's how well know there are back. aside from that, it was interesting to me that last week, eric cantor the house republican majority leader made some -- sent around some note that said that they had had more than 100 oversight hearings over the month of may going into june. i am pretty sure that we can expect now, round of oversight hearings some of the will be news happeningly. >> 98 were on benghazi. >> and the others with the irs. >> but i saw some report that the maybe it was in the national 20% of the time of congress the last two years has been devoted to naming post offices. i wonder when they will run out of post offices. >> a good point.

aren't they closing post offices these days? >> exactly. they are closing them. maybe they are renaming post offices. i am not sure how long that lasts. president obama usually a challenge to republicans. here is one thing that will be on their plate. student loans. right in the president obama issuing a challenge friday. why is this a complicated issue? why should it be? >> it's a plic indicated issue because it's good plans for the president. the area, the proposal that president obama has offered is not that dissimilar. it's not exactly what the house republicans are offering. there be still parts of it that both sides could negotiate over but it's not, you know, they are not starting from, you know completely different chapters if you will. there is room in the middle. the one body that has not acted and i think the body that would eventually come up with something that can be guaranteed or can be a middle ground is the senate. the house passed something.

the president has requested something. the senate hasto yet to act: it would require enough votes to overcome a filibuster. that would suggest you would try to get something in the middle. so if have there is some sort of grand bargain on student loans, i would expect it to come from the senate. then again, at the moment the senate is business with immigration reform an the farm bill. flosses gang of x number of people working on the student loan modfications or anything like that. so i think we are probably going to see another temporary fix which is becoming de rigur these days instead of the long-term fix. >> you know, it's interesting to me that you've got -- you have right. the obama plano, obama challenge, if you will and what et cetera calling for, what the republicans want, this floating market rate on student loans and then the senate, elizabeth % warren, she has out-topped them all and said why should it be

3.4%? let's make it what the banks get their money for. >> right? from the fed which is about ..7 knife %. >> yeah. >> and she said after all, students some may default on their loans but as many banks default as students default. let's treat them the same. >> this is the first time i think we have seen elizabeth warren get to the left of not only the senate but also where her own president is and i think we believe protect expect this from elizabeth warren during her senate career. this is, by the way, this is one of the reasons that elizabeth warren was able to raise. what was it $40 million or something for her senate race in a relatively short period of time. she became sort of the great liberal hoax. she became what all liberals and constituents sees wantedto.

she sort of represented all that they wanted more so this is her first moment of demonstrating that. >> and her first bill in the senate, picking up a lot of support in the academic community for it. i have to ask you, eric holder, does he survive, read snvp? >> you know, i don't know. i think he probably survives in the short-term. president obama isn't good a firing people. he doesn't do it a lot. serious liabilities. but i don't think he is going to make it through the second term you know. secretary at homeland security janet napolitano has been sort of maneuvering for the attorney general position for a long time. >> once eric holder goes, napolitano is the only name on the short list for that spot. she, purposeby the way has -- how

does a confirmation hearing look. it could be a problem that any administration has do face. she has much better relations with members on capitolal hill than i think eric holder does. she was a politician. she was the governor of arizona a democrat, by the way working with a republican legislature so she knows how to reach out and build those relationships. so i would expect that she would be the event annual nominee once she goes. that being said, it looks as if eric holder is there. he is serving at the pleasure of the president and the president is not terribly displeased with his service. >> yeah. i think he would be doing the president and the country a great services if he decided his time had rup out and go back and make some money in the private sector but that's just my opinion. hey, read, great to talk to you today. thank you so much. always good to have you on the show. >> national journal.com.

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i go to every day, clinton, there are a lot of important issues and at the same time, sometimes you never know what's going to come up. so jays carney was not in on friday. josh earnest deputy press secretary was holding court at the podium when he got a question he didn't expect but he had an answer for it. it the there was an after thesteroid heading toward the plant plant. >> scientific i felts have concluded it poses no threat to planet earth. never really thought i would be standing up here saying that. >> something you never here really. rarely do hear from the benign asteroid. it's always the fireball of des desstrucktion to blow up the

entire east coast. it's fun network me how the context of things like that are mentioned. going to destroy humanity or steer clear on wait to destroying something else. i hope they reconsidered their stances on not building a death star. they put out that release about how they weren't going to build a death star. maybe they should. stop an asteroid >> bill: the only plates they hit is siberia. >> that's true. >> all right. a lot of room up there. here we go. we have a lot to cover here, clinton for the first half hour ryan grim at the washington bureau chief for huffington post will be joining us a little bit later. eric byrnes here as a friend of bill in the next hour from bullfight strategies. we will get into it, clinton, but first. here is the "full-court press." >> here is what's making news. congressman steven segal, not exactly. went to russia to find out if anything more could have been done to deter the boston

marathon bomber. he said nothing specific could have stopped it. to me, that's not the big story. the big story is that some of the higher level meetings were made possible by the intervention of former action star steven segal. he, as they say is big in russia. they still love his movies and he met with putin earlier this year. steven segal. he and putin might get along. >> michael douglas revealed because of his throat cancer. a visiting performances in "liberace." he said the cause of his cancer was hpv which he contracted through cunnilingus.

i haven't seen any science that backs that up but i am not going to argue with the man and say anything else about that story. >> any comment bill? so many places you could go here i am not sure where. all i have got to say is i think that gay men are going to have a lot to say about this that nobody ever got cancer from kolaches. >> its do or for the indiana pacers and miami heat after a dominant game six from thepatesers. the nba is bringing it back for a game 7 and a bysmmal performance one final game between the two teams tonight at 8:30 eastern. the winner will go on to face the san an drex spurs in the nba

finals. but that is not the biggest story to come out of the game, now, is it gentlemen? >> no. no. no. the pacers killed the heat. looks like they are having son infighting as a result. >> absolutely. >> the big story came out of that game, clinton you have written about it and talked about it is that ray hibbert, roy hibbert with the pacers he was asked, well, so, you know what brought it about? what was it all about? something? and he is like a motor mouth talking and how he had to back up his guard. ride? >> yeah. >> and he, in making those comments, came out with a homosexual slur as we say. here is what it sounded like,

and then i want to get your take on it. >> i really felt i let paul down in terms of having his back when lebron was scoring in the post or getting to the pink because he stretched me out so much. >> that was nohomo. in case you missed out. he has since been reprimanded and fined $75,000, but he will play tonight as of this point. you don't think he should. why? >> i think the nba had an opportunity to make a statement about what is and is not acceptable behavior in their league. if you suspend him for game 7, you make the point, listen, we understand there are things that are going to be said, things that are sort of regular parlance in nba parkthe locker rooms but that's a large amount of money but he makes that running up and down the court for half a basketball game. if you find him at game check or make him sit out a game, the

point is made, we are not taking this. it is not reasonable to stand in front of cameras and make anti-homosexual remarks like that because it gives the -- listen, the slur is one component of the problem. the other is that that entire problem propagates the notion there is something wrong with being gay. >> that's pat evently incorrect in my opinion. you can't have people talking like this in front of -- in front of the public representing your league. >> wouldith the championship am league on the line? >> i am not willing to say basketball is more important than intolerance. >> that's the thing. if you want to make the point that this is not acceptable, you have jason collins. they did not week issing under the road. that was at the end of the regular season. he wouldn't have been playing by this point. somewhat a credit occur stance on this.

this is a guy in our league. you turn around and it's sort of the biggest moment of the playoffs, this man says something like this. a fine which as up to a slap on the wrist if you care about being an agent of change in america. >> kobe bryant not that long ago not similar trouble because he said the mother of all gay slurs. he yelled it at a ref. he got more than 100,000 dollar fine. um, it is -- i don't want to say -- >> any playing time? >> no. he kept playing but paid one 00 grand. between what he did and hib we can did? >> there is a difference. mls, suspend add guy three games for using the f slur peter is referring to. the precedence is not important.

at some point you have to say enough is enough and there is going to be a penalty that is seemingly out of whack with the rest. again, the point needs to be made, this isn't okay. is it different? what kobe said to a ref? yes, times have changed drastically. it's not okay to sort of stand by and say there is a dollar amount that can indicate i am more gay-friendly than some gays i know. is what hib we can said, was it meant as a slur or do you think he is a real homophobe or is that is this something as you say he has kind of grown up with, it's a word he shouldn't use but part of his vocabulary and he threw it out there without -- not even knowing what he was saying? >> to me, that's almost a larger problem necessarily than a specific slur.

if he is saying something he is designed to insult people with, that's different than not understanding how, you know, how sort of society works when you have so many stigmas that in order to properly operate, he feels the need to throw that out there. >> that's as big an issue as anything because there is a whole community yenration of people that think its reason tomb simply outcast people that are gay for the purposes of effectively a joke. you heard how he laughed after he said that. >> take away was he does laugh. >> when he thinks its funny so say things like that. he is a young man. he apologized and that was pretty sincere but the fact that he can even think, wow, i didn't even mean that in the sense, it shows how little the understanding gap is there. >> you think thepatesers missed an tint? >> i think the league has to step in there. they have to say listen, i understand this game in the nba finals and it going to fuel

stereotypes. the conspirtee theories. i don't care about that. it becomes bigger than basketball and you have a responsibility there. do i think that -- i don't think its ridiculous he didn't get suspended but i think they had a chance to make a statement as a manager of change. >> they didn't. >> i never thought i would put these two stories together. you and i have talked about the virginia governor's race before. >> yeah. >> kuchenelli and mcauliffe at the republican convention they kind of surprised everybody by nominating this bishop jackson as their lieutenant governor. you talk about gay slurs. >> yeah. >> this guy is out and out homophobe. here is a republican candidate for the governor of virginia. >> i know people say it's unfair to associate homo sexuality with pedophile i can't or some of

these other perversions but i believe that there is a direct connection because what they really want is absolute complete and total sexual freedom. >> this guy, number 2, on the ticket? >> yeah. >> kuchinelli has been trying to distance himself say he's over there. here is who i am. yet the washington post, you heard newspaper reports this morning ew jackson says kuchinelli encouraged him to run for lieutenant governor and said he would be proud to have me as a running mate. >> this is a big problem for kuchenelli. hayes mainly skill was keyeping himself in the headlines for a guy who is a state attorney general. this is a real problem. look, the thing is that jackson's view is a very popular view amongst, you know, certain sort of crowd it, you know not just the black religious community but a lot of conservatives.

>> religious right. >> right, the religious right. he says that he's going to try to sort of help all virginians all constituents after all but i don't think you can recover from something like this. again, what is going on with the gop in virginia between this guy, kuchenelli. we saw what came out today about bob mcdonald's wife and that whole situation. the republican side of the village ticket is just a mess right now. there is not a lot of confidence on them from their constituents. when kuchenelli said don't associate me with jackson and saying you are the one who told me to run. wait throughout in turns of his view. he is saying no. no. no. no. tu need to be over there. >> that's a real indicator of somebody who is way pout there in terms. >> news of the day from basketball to village politics with clinton yates and more

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columnist. >> i do. >> in fact, the point that you often write about is our d.c. metro system ryan grim may be a little late getting here because he is on the metro. >> on the metro. >> what's up with this metro? >> well, there is a new story all the time. a new story about how much metro exeks are getting paid and the general manager brought in after the 2009, both people are saying how bad the system runs on a regular basis. but that system has endimemic problems. lack of federal funding between the amount of people going up on a regular basis, between the age. a lot of issues with getting people around in d.c. listen, i frankly don't really ride metro unless i have to because i don't think it's that reliable. but there are a lot of people who really have to use it.

not in a good place at all. >> i use it every day to get to the white house and back. right? i think it is a great system. at the same time man, it is falling apart. >> there are things i like about the system. >> falling apart. i have yesterdayridden it since is a clield. it's in bad shape. >> we have about 20 seconds. i have to ask you. do you think eric holder survives? >> when you first said that, when i was here last time, i thought that was -- i am not going to say outrageous but pretty far out there as a stanchion. i have to agree with you now it seems like every time you go up something is -- every time you turn around, something is gone wrong now that he says i went too far with that rosen from fox news. what was he thinking? >> there is no shame in not necessarily doing the best job in the world. you tried. weren't that great at you. it's been four years. may be time to do something else. >> we got it. you are on a roll. thank you for coming in. >> we will look for you at

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president lee saunders. for more information, check out the website at www.afscmee.org. making america happen. one the topics being reported on huffington post calm out at the end of last week on friday, a very important study by the pew center showing that women have really risen in terms of importance in the workplace in this country n 40% much american homes today, women are either the single sole bread winner or the number 1 bread winner for one out of four american couples today, women the woman makes

more money than her husband does. it's remarkable progress on the part of women. but what kind of you undercuts that is the fact that still in this country, women are only earning across the board, average, $0.77 for every dollar that a man earns which is not right, not fair indefense iible and yet there were some republican conservative voices over the weekend who came out and said, oh the idea that this pew study shows so many women are out there working today is bad news for american families and even one republican woman who said we don't want equal pay. it was nothing wrong. we don't have to fix that 77% over $0.77 over a dollar. the chief voice among

conservatives making the point that the idea that so many women is working and they are making so much money are working and that they are working so much money is bad news for american families, eric erbicson head of the red state blog crater of that and used to be at cnn now a contributor for fox news, he was on with megan kelly friday afternoon, dumb fool. he should have known better than to go up against meg alan kelly. she gives him a chance to say what did you mean when you wrote on your blog that having so many women in the work force is not good for the country and not good for women? >> when you go into the middle class where a lot of these issues are bubbling up, when you have a mom who is working 12 hours a day and a dad who is working 12 hours a day and they come home and they are it also trying to be good parents, you can have it all. and they are making compromises and i am not judging them and no one should. >> you are judging them. >> no, i am not judging them. >> you are because you come out

very clearly and say that you believe that women who choose to work instead of staying at home to quote nurture their children and instead have the father do that are imposing a worse future their children than women who make a different choice, the choice you and your wife make. >> she is right. he is judging them. what he is saying is that those women that stay at home and just take care of the kids that their and that that, in effect very much so is putting down women who work because they want to or have to or both. eric erickson says all kind of facts show ditties do better when they stay home and cook and change diapers. >> megan kelly says you don't know what the hell you are talking about. >> i will tell you i wasonteded by your piece nonetheless. yes like what you wrote one bid

and i think you are judging people. to me, you sound like somebody who is judging and wants to come out and say i am not. i am not. and am am judge, judge, judge. and saying its sighence. there is a list of studies saying your science and facts are wrong. that sums it up about so many of these guys. they just say this stuff. they don't note what they are talking about. >> is he completely insane going on t.v. and making that argument to megan kelly who works for fox news and before she was on t.v., she was a prominent, very accomplished lawyer. she is raising, i think two or three children. >> she has had at least two babies while working at fox news. >> an on air personality. she is smart. i have debated her. she is tough: she's good. and she is smart and she, remember, election night, when

karl rove was saying this is bonkers, you know ohio there is no way ohio went for obama and she walked down the hall to the fact checkers and said who is telling the truth here? and they said karl rove is full of hot air. that was megan kelly. she is tough. >> not the person you want to try to make the argument that eric erickson was making to. >> you don't want to try to make his argument. he is just wrong. on top of this marcia blackburn, republican member of congress from tennessee was asked on meet the press yesterday and asked about, so the 77%, unequal pay, so so couldn't we agree there should be legislation to say women should get the same pay as a manyman for the same job and marsha blackburn said no, i don't support that. women don't want that. they don't want equal pay. all they want is to be loved and

recognize recognized by their employers, it's insane she withould take that point of view. i would like to meet the woman who says i am okay with -- i am okay with paying me less than the guys for the same job. it just doesn't make any sense. also, particularly, for a party that comes out and says we are a partied we got shellacked so we are going to reach out. reach out and show that we are their sportive of racial minorities and supportive of women. yeah, not doing a very good job.

in fact, the republican party came out with the autopsy of what went wrong in the 2012 election. they polled republicans all across the country. the words that came out of those interviews with republican voters, what's wrong with the republican party why we lost in 2012? they included this description of the republican party: scary, narrow minded out of touch, and if you will of stuffy old men. that's pretty devastating. that was the republican party's own report. today, there is another study coming out. >> that's profile of the republican party done by college republicans, college republicans. their report which will be issued today, they say, here are the words that they use for the republican party. that it comes across to young people today as quote, closed

minded, racist rigid and old-fashioned. now you put that equal pay pays comment by ericson and blackburn. what do you get? the agejectives, for the republican party two different reports of republicans by republicans about republicans. scary, narrow minded, out of touch, led by stuff fy old men, closed-minded, racist rigid and old-fashioned. i couldn't have said it better myself, today's republican party. 866-55-press, your ticket join the conversation at any time on the subject of equal pay or this latest report by college republicans about the republican party which i think is right on.

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acts. the this is an important issue: this is not helping some privileged class. this is important. millions and millions of americans today. i saw over the weekend the average 2013 graduate will be getting out of school with debt of about average, $26,000. student loan debt in this country today is the totality of it is bigger than credit card debt. imagine that. all of the americans with credit cards. we hear over expose odd their credit cards. student loan debt is bigger than that because people don't, you know, rack up usually 26 ,$000 on a credit card, maybe 5 or 7 or whatever, but average student loan debt $26,000, total student

loan debt greater than and the president is saying to congress, look. even, by the way, president obama and the first lady they have admitted they had student loans. debt when they graduated and they were only able to pay them off nine years ago. it took them that long making a good living in the private sector to pay off their student loans. he knows what this issue is. he issued a challenge to congress on friday to do what they did last year and just pass special legislation that would keep it at 3.4%. here again president obama in the rose garden talking about the average student loan debt. >> these days, the average student who takes out loans to pay for four years of college graduates owing more than $26,000. how many people are on track here for $26,000? >> yeah. show of hands. show of hands. and by the way the president said clearly one of the reasons

that student loan debt is so big today is because tuition has been going up so fast. >> since most of today's college students were born tuition and fees at most public universities have more than doubled. >> here it is. here is what gets me about this issue. this is ab easy one to understand. right? going to double july 1st unless congress acts. so what he ought to do is on do what they did last year and keep it at 3.4. instead, republicans are making this complicated again. it just sort of like i was just talking about with equal pay for women. some republicans opposing that. why? what are they thinking? do not make this. this should not be complicated. this is easy to fix. instead, republicans are come up with some cockymamy scam where

they would tie the student loan rate to the market and link it to 10-year treasury notes which means it will be a floating rate of interest that would be recalculated every year and could go up as high as 81/2 % for 3.4% to 81/2 %. now, so that's just crazy, but here is the other thing about these student loans. so you got the obama plan. just double it to 6.8. you have the republican plan and by the way, with president obama once you fix it in, it's locked in to the life of the loan. the republican plan, which is a floating plan recalculated every year could go up as high as 81/2 %. in the senate, the one flan makes the most sense, elizabeth warren, you know, we elected her as a great progressive and she has proven to be. this is her first fwhal she introduced which would say uh-uh. let's not -- let's forget this

3.4% even let's give students loans, federal government, at the same rate that the banks are able to borrow money from the fed these days and from the treasury department, that special prime rate for the big banks which is less than 1%, and elizabeth warren says about that: you know what? why should banks get a better rate than students? yeah, some students may default on their loans, but a lot of banks default on their stuff, too. so let's treat students the same as banks and the other point she makes is that the if he hadral government today is making millions and millions of dollars off of these student loans by charging even 3.4% and why should we the federal government be making money off of the banks of those students in the that's not the fair. that's not right. again, let's give them the same rate as the big banks, and that

is the bill that the academics and people in the academic community, she is getting all kind of supports from student groups and educate ors groups and some big colleges and college groups and some of the big colleges and college organizations. this is in it. the president had the a little round of golf. yesterday was sort of a kick-back day at the whitehouse. we will tell you what he is up to today when we come back here on the "full-court press" hear this monday morning, june 3rdrd. good to have you with us. >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show."

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no. you would end up running alongside the train until you hit the wall of the tunnel and then aur toast man. we've got almost the entire team here today. peter ogburn's running the board. >> hey. >> doing everything else here dan henning ab 70. he is on his honeymoon. >> like another wedding i wasn't invited to. >> you weren't invited? >> no. >> don't worry. we weren't either. >> no. >> we this think the wedding did take place. i mentioned alicia cruz has the phones covered and cyprian has us, all of us looking good on current tv. a sad moment over the weekend. we lost jean stapleton, one of the legends of t.v. with carol o'connor, archie and edith bunker. we will never forget their singing the theme song of the

show ♪ that miller played ♪ >> songs that made the hit parade. ♪ >> guys like us, we had it made. ♪ those were the days. ♪ i was there when you were there. ♪ girls were girls and men were men. ♪ >> what a great show. it was so popular for so long. you couldn't put that on t.v. today. wouldn't washing? would it? >> definitely not. put it on netflix maybe. >> maybe net flix will do sort after sem e original series. >> the thing about it was it appealed to everybody. this is what it was really like you know no hollywood glamorous family. this was just a blue collar middle class. >> i loved the archie bunker we need a man like herbert hoover again. where does that come from?

>> ryan grim and eric byrnes, ryan, you made some news last week. so eric holder after the news that the department of justice had come down hard on associated press, come down hard on james rosen from fox news and said maybe we went a little too far, maybe we better talk about how we all work together. so let's get together and talk about it and i want to invite you to my office to have a little confab as long as its off the record. your response was? >> we were extraordinarily flattered to be -- to be invited, you know. you know, we had been scraping clawing to become one of the big boys in washington. >> yeah. >> for years now. >> you are. >> to get the invitation was truly flattering. but still, we said no thanks. you know there wouldit would be inappropriate to sit down and have a secret conversation about press freedom. we are totally fine to have

off-the-record conversations with political actors across the spectrum. >> you do it all the time. >> we do it all the time. these are on editorial issues which is different than coming in to have a conversation about whether or not the press is committing, you know, a criminal act by trying to suss out classified information, that just having that conversation erodes the protection that the press has because, if you look at the letter of the law, a lot of what the press does is, in fact, illegal. there is no -- there is no carve-out in the espionage act for journalists and there is no way to exactly define what a journalist is, but it's kind of a cultural normal that protects reporters because we have -- we value the first amendment. we value the freedom of the press and so if you even begin to have a conversation about that, it erodes it. so, you know, freedom of the press is not up for discussion especially not up for discussion

off of the record. that was our posture. >> what do you -- >> we are happy to send our lawyer, like, if you want help crafting legislation or whatever, but, you know, remember not going to participate in editorials. >> would you agree there is a delicate balances between the reporters doing their job and in some cases, at least the government having to protect our national security? >> i don't think it's as delicate as people say that it is. and the government has tipped it so far in the wrong direction that it's hard to even have that conversation. they classify everything nowadays. and for no reason. i mean one of the best examples i think, is the photo, the famous photo of the night that osama bin laden is killed. it has the president looking tough, looking at the screen. there were hundreds of other photos associated with that night. >> that's the only one that they declassified. >> uh-huh. >> and they declassified it because that's the one that they wanted to appear in the newspapers because it made them look the best.

so, you know, i assume that they are doing that kind of thing all the time classifying things to avoid em embarrassment classifying things so they can tilt a message one way or the other. so, you know, until they get a hold of that, you know, there isn't much room for a conversation about this delicate balance. they don't seem to care about the balance at all. they only care about the balances when it comes to the other side and, you know, i would challenge them to actually point to at leak that has genuinely harmed somebody, that has quin winly damaged national security. what bradley manning had done has made the world a better plates. it's this over classification. it's the things they are doing with to begin with. they shouldn't shoot righter's cameranen from iraq and they shouldn't classify that to keep the video tape from leaking. there was no reason to classify that videotape that private manning leaked. >> for the record, i was not invited to the meeting.

had i been invited, i would not have gone either. i salute you for taking that stand. i was having this conversation with a friend at dinner last night who raised the national security issue, and i made it when he said the problem is under the banner of national security, bay of pigs. >> uh-huh. >> going way back. right? the pentagon papers. hello. and the bradley manning thing, those three things popped into my head right away. right? and even in this case with this james rosen, he was -- the story was, what would -- what would north korea likely do if the united nations imposed additional sanctions on north korea? how does reporting on that jeopardize the security of the people of the united states? >> right. they talked openly about his story repeatedly after it came out. so, you know, they clearly actually were fine with it once it finally, came out. >> uh-huh. >> so what do you say to your

can colleagues in the media who did show up? >> well, you know, everybody is free to make their own decision and it looks like, you know, after they went there, holder kind of changed the rules of engagement and said that, you know, okay. if you guys want to go out and talk about this meeting after its taken place, you know, that's okay. so, you know, if those had been the ground rules from the beginning, then we might have actually gone it. so i think even holder towards the end recognized that it just didn't look right to be having a completely off-the-record discussion about press briefings. >> do you think holder survives eric? >> i don't see how he does. i mean like there is just too much. he has been in office for a long time. i think that, you know, people have been, you know kind of lukewarm on eric holder and/or unhappy with eric holder with good reason for a long time. i think we have talked about this before, bill. i have been frankly where you are.

i think it's time for eric holder to go. >> he has had four years. >> this moment where, you know, in the wake of everything that we have seen involving his office, yeah, for him to come out and actually even suggest that there be an off-the-record conversation with america's, you know news organizations just i think, is really kind of one of those moments that shows you how flat-footed, you know, they really are and, you know, and shows you there is a problem and it's just kind of sim 3w08ic i think of everything else we have seen. >> what's struck me as the most flat-footed of all was at one of the briefings last week -- i attended several of them. when the story of james rosen particularly came out, from fox news, and he had been -- he was branded a criminal co-conspirator by the fbi investigator and the question to jay carney was, jay, wouldn't you -- do you think that a reporter who is doing his job, calling sources, is a criminal

co-conspirator? jay carney would not say, of course not. >> right. >> his answer was, i can't comment on an ongoing investigation. you know, i thought, no. come on. come on. just say of course not. >> they've already said that they are not going to pursue criminal charges against him. so what's ongoing about it? did carney accidentally make news there and hint at this ongoing investigation? >> they just bungled this. so, holder does he survive or not? did journalists do the right thing? we talked about that last week? one of the major players in studio with us, in ryan xwrim, 866-55-press. your comments. when i look at huffington not morning, the headline right here, cyprian, if you can show that clean, closed minded racist, rigid and old-fashioned, this comes from a report that's going to be released today by college republicans. college republicans looking at

what college republicans today see when they look at their own party. closed-minded, racist, rigid and old fashion. >> it's the archie bunker. >> right. it's stunning. >> right. you know, you know it also goes to how low the party's image is now. college republicans, they feel like they have to slam their own party in order to maintain credibility among their own -- their own peer set. there is already a report that slammed republicans from republicans a month or two ago. so this one had to up the ante a little bit. >> and that report from the party, itself, basically, i think said pretty much the same thing. threw essentially the same conclusion. >> i double checked this morning. the four adjectives from the autopsies report they called it, which i thought was by the way, you don't do an autopsy on somebody who is still alive.

right? i above love the fact they called it the autopsy report. the four add jectives that came out, republicans speaking about republicans like this: scary, narrow-minded, out-of touch-and if you will of stuffy old men. >> et cetera like a lou dobbs party. >> but i thought that was. when you look at some of the still opposing immigration reform, even marsha blackburn hardly a stuffy old man saying we don't want equal pay for women. >> that's an old-fashioned idea. i me these addject itemtives? >> where is that idea from? >> these adjectives kind of ring true. don't they? >> yeah. you know, it's not the place you want to be. >> that's for sure. i think they made two good

prescriptions. they said get over this gay marriage thing. put it behind us. this is from the college am republicans. we cannot compete as long as this is an open debate. there is going to be, you know a third of republicans or so that will never, you know, 100 years from now won't be accepting it. but you can move the party forward and leave that third behind. and the other was we can keep our opposition to is abortion but stop associating it with contraception, with planned parenthood, with rape. that didn't work out so well. the planned parenthood thing was interesting because the college republicans because they know so many people use planned parenthood for health sfshsz. >> absolutely. >> they are specifically telling these older republicans, stop messing with planned parenthood. we will see if they hear that. >> i think it's really -- i am skeptical that they will hear it

but i think it's worth noting the college republicans are actually a very powerful entity inside the republican party. >> spoken as a former republican. >> karl rove, i think. >> rick perry in texas. >> you will never let him live that down. >> i remind people of it. i apologize to the people here on the bill press show. i sincerely do. >> erie burns and ryan grim with us here on the "full-court press." join the conversation. your comments -- you don't have to agree with these guys. 866-55-press is the toll-free number. we will be right back. >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show." converstion started next. >> i'm a slutty bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv.

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entertainment, sports, you name it. >> a couple of minutes left. congress is coming back in town today. as i was saying, not far off. don't expect them to get much done but ryan you are reporting they might get one expected thing done on the issue of? >>n industrial hemp production which has been illegal since the early part of the 20th century. i guess briefly legal knights world war ii because i think we were getting our hemp from the philippines or something and couldn't for a little while. >> that's wheretha that hemp for victory came in world war ii. the current law is hilarious. you might notice you see hemp soap and granola. you can sell hemp products. you can produce products with imported hemp. you can import it from canada and wherever else you want but you can't grow it domestically. >> can you smoke it? >> well, once you imported it. >> that's the question you ask. >> someone can. >> you probably could smoke it. you could smoke a hemp t-shirt.

>> won't get you very far. >> wouldn't get you high. you can't get high from hemp. it's just simply impossible. it's like smoking actual grass out of the ground. >> she's done that too. >> he's done the banana peels. the an arkansasist cookbook other herearchist cookbook other here here. >> why wouldn't it become legal? >> rich mcconnell doesn't want a primary from his right. he has been taking the lead of senator rand paul on all matters political. rand paul is a big hemp guy, big product in kentucky. so, it could get a tapped to the farm bill, you know. this is a last-minute kind of thing. >> hemp, thanks to mitch mcconnell. who would have thunk it? ryan grim, thanks for coming in. >> this is "the bill press show." guys that do reverse mortgage

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mckinsey winger covering all media related for politico in studio this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> let's start. we talked to eric -- i'm sorry. to ryan grim who is here about why huffington post refused to attend this session with attorney general eric holder because it was off the record. but a lot of news organizations did go. how about politico? >> politico was one of the ones that attended the thursday meeting. >> why did you cave in and go? it was off of the record . >> i am disappointed? >> our editor-in-chief said it was important to have an open conversation with, you know, officials in government that they would have the same both ways and they were one of a couple of organizations that did decide to go the first day. and after that, actually there were some comments that were allowed to be made clearly the ground rules shifted shifted on the media. it wasn't fully off of the

record. on the friday meet reuters said they wouldn't go to an off the record meeting. they showed up on friday because the doj had clearly kind of shifted the ground rules, not the direct comments were repeated in the press but they were able to give the general tenor of the meetings. >> so what do you think that holder realizes they went too far in thighs investigations? >> that's -- that's what he told the media organizations. he said he was very interested if he kind of re-exam anything the guidelines for investigating journalists. he wants to look into how to change them. he is going to take this 45-day review that president obama has given him and kind of cock back at the end with new guidelines. he's not pleased with how it went. he doesn't think it looks good. >> that's what he told most of the media executives and what they said in return to the press. it seems he is trying to make an attempt to placate the press on this. >> is the answer a media shield. >> i guess there have been

proposed media shield laws in the past. is that the answer to sort of lay out some guidelines and establish that where there is a real challenge and reporters feel like they have a right to do the story and the government says, no. this is national security they could take it like to a judge who would decide is this for real or not? is that the answer here? what do you think? >> there are two -- >> go ahead. mckinsey, you first. >> there are two minds about it kind of in the media criticism world. one, 49 states have a local media shield law. some say it's already sort of an assumed shield law. >> the if he hadral government doesn't. >> the one that kwournlth go up in the senate so by put that exception into law, there are some first amendment experts who

say that's more dangerous than not having it on the books right how now. a lot of people think a media shield law would have protected in those cases. >> i think mckinsey makes a good point in her last one. one difference when you have a industrial complex so powerful and bent on using secrecy using, you know, your -- declassification of documents and investigations of this nature. this is not a problem that is specific to this administration. >> no. yeah i am thinking about in my years, dwight eisenhower when he went to office his stern warning about the power of the military industrial complex. >> the easiest way, you screw up. you forget to do something or

you -- whatever. something goes wrong. the easiest way to cover it up is to say its national security. right? or classify it. >> yeah. >> it's so broad. >> right. it is. >> that's why first amendment experts are saying this media shield law it sounds really good and it's getting out there in the press, but some are really concerned about what it actually means. >> bill: but i like the idea and conseptember, at least, of having a judge who would be the ultimate decider and have the government make its case. here is why this story, if this story got out, it would put lives at risk and then having to prove it in front of a judge and the judge will say, you know when? okay. in this case, you know, reporters have to back off because i think in the two cases that we are now talking about, the associated press, a successful intelligence plot to prevent throwing up of an airliner, which the white house was going to release and what north korea, in the indicates of fox news what north korea might

do if the u.n. imposed more sanctions against them, it's hard for me to see how either one of those put lives at risk. >> its's a balancing act for the administration. the a government understanding a free press that's free. >> that's its own national security issue of a different sort perhaps. >> we will see what comes out of these meetings. there are no more meetings scheduled, are there, mckinsey? >> with the press not at the moment but lots with other media executives throughout this 45-day process. there will be more meetings with the doj. >> 45-day process? >> that's what president obama asked for. >> right. >> the administration, obama has said he supports a media shield law so that could move forward. >> bill: now you have also been writing -- the reasonable i said megan, you have been

writing about fox news a lot about fox news and about megan kelly who on friday, a little context here the pew center came out with a report that showed really astonishing numbers about women in the workplace today that there are more rim than ever who are single moms, the om bread winner in the family and more women who are earning more money than their spouse. one one out of four couples, the wife earns more than the woman. women were celebrating about news in the workplace except for some commentators. eric erickson said there are more money making money so this is not good for families. the women belong at home taking care of their kids. megan kelly on fox news took him on friday. here is a little clip of megan kelly and your commend?

>> i was offended by your piece. i think you are judging people. to me, you sound like somebody who is judging but wants to come out and say i am not. let me judge. and its science. science. science, fact, fact fact. i have a who list of studies saying your science is wrong and your facts are wrong. >> your science is wrong and your facts are wrong. so there boom. >> it blew up the internet. people were watching the hell out of that clip all the though a lot said they were surprised. they shouldn't be. she is a working mog, pregnant. >> for her third. >> she has had as a host of fox news, while hosting on fox news. i am a big fan of hers. >> she had on eric erickson and lou dobbs and broke down both of their arguments is it seemed to

end as molingan kelly as the victor. >> where is lou dobbs coming from on this? i must admit, eric erickson was on his show. >> right. it was on the lou dobbs show. >> was lou agreeing with eric erickson? >> yes, the entire all-male panel. >> it was despicable. i watched the clip and i was embarrassed for lou dobbs and, of course eric erickson. i am always embarrassed for him when he has a -- opens his mouth. as a media person, he shouldn't be on the area but he really is honest about, you know, what these folks believe and who they are and lou dobbs is the same way. it's despicable. it was offensive. at one point during the interview, lou dobbs called megan kelly the -- >> he referred to as oh dominant

one, interrupted with excuse me. let me finish my point, odomnant one and she applied, excuse me. >> the man who discovered the wheel and built the eiffel tower out of melts and braun. that's what kind of man i am. >> you are just a woman with a small brain, with a brain a third the size of us. it's science. >> its science. >> is that lou dobbs? >> yeah, lou dobbs. that was him. >> or ron burdenundy? >> i guess what will happen is eric erickson will get his own show fox news because because that's what happens when these guys make these comments. >> pretty embarrassing. >> but, you know, it's also fox news gave the air time for megan kelly to have that and get a van sus stren has been pushing back against t they are not brushing it underneath the covers and shying away from it. they are letting it go up front. i am sure its helping already with their great ratings. >> their ratings are doing very

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"full-court press," pleased to have in studio with us as a friend of bill at bullfight strategies eric byrnes good to be here. machine kings e wangser from politico, media reporter working with dillon buyers who is another frequent guest on all matters media related. >> we should point out mckinzie made it here on time which is something that dillon can't seem to do. i am kid asking. >> dillon, if you are watching. >> kidding kind of kidding. >> right. >> so one of the big stories in the "new york times," major story this morning on the fact that msnbc which was doing last year pretty well in the ratings, they were beating cnn, they were not just behind but second to fox. now, the latest month, they came in, not number 2, not number 3, but number 4, trailing fox and cnn and headline news hln, as

it's now called. what's happening to msnbc? >> well, the "new york times" premises is basically people are starting to figure out its maybe not a news channel that its mostly focusing on commentary. >> which is true. >> which is very true. and it's been that way for a long time and, you know, conservative media has loved to point that out for a long time but apparently people are just figuring it out. but also hln did the fact of having the infamous jodi airuos case that was insane for them the numbers that they did on that. but msnbc is in a unique spot a couple of months after the election, and they are having some difficulties. >> people are sick of politics. so why does fox do so well? because fox is not a news channel either. or is it? >> i think fox has more shows that kind of report the news. like, they have like shepherd smith on during the day and he doesn't have guests come on and just have a round table of

politics like alex wagner. it's a different vibe. fox also does more i guess maybe entertainment. segments. msnbc is straight politics straight commentator after commentator all the time. they have one formula. >> i don't know i would agree with mckinsey is more of a news organization than msnbc. you know i feel like they played it fairly straight but perhaps that's been changing. >> msnbc? >> nsnbc. >> its changed a lot after joe in the morning, chris jansing is pretty straight news? >> yeah. >> in the afternoon with alex and then from then on. >> it used to be it would kind of be night would just be the mostly commentator so that'shift pushing it all the way to noon. >> you bring up a great point about fox entertainment. they have been good at weaving

entertainment into their broadcasts in a saavy way from a programming perspective and you don't see that on msnbc. >> i saw phil griffin president of msnbc said we don't do breaking news and in the last couple of weeks, for example, if you talk about breaking news particularly weather-wise, that's what people wanted to see. they wanted to see coverage of the tornados and from that area. well, if you are not doing breaking news, you are out of the game. i mean how can they -- how can they say we don't do breaking news and expect to survive? >> right. as and if you look at their ratings, you think it would kind of add up that there would be some kind of proof positive of what's working and what's not. so i think that they are still kind of -- they thought their formula might work after the election. there was a lot of speculation, especially a new york times piece, msnbc is primed for since a come of months later and now we have the apocolypse.

it's just been a couple of weeks. >> what happens next week. back on its head again >> bill: i used to bitch and complain, for our show, buchanan & press, i can't tell you how many times we were bumped for breaking news. they used to do it. train wrecking, a derailment, pat and i sat there on thesat set for an hour and a half of the two hours we were supposed to be on while they were talking about this train deal, you know it happened all the time. i remember, you know, other news stories, too, where in the middle of the afternoon, we suddenly would be off of the air for breaking news. you have to be able to do breaking news. >> they did do some on the tornados for example, but there were other things that, you know -- >> but they -- >> at the didn't break into it. >> they don't have a newsroom or reporters. >> they have to call on nbc news

reporters to do those. things. >> that's a state your full namey relationship because mbc has a news brand they want to protect. >> not to avoid this at all, not to beat up too much but they made a big change in their evening line-up, too, eric. did they make a mistake in throwing ed schultz under the bus and putting in chris hayes? >> i think chris hayes is great but pulling ed out of the line up, i think he brings in a demographic that's important. i think he speaks to progressives, you know, of a different ilk than other folks in the prime-timeline-up. i think that's an important part of the mix. it doesn't mean chris isn't fantastic. >> bill: i agree. and i think there -- i would think they would regret that decision. mckinsey, it's a lot of fun. >> it is. >> a lot to talk about. you have a great beat. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me.

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secretary of defense? well, now, they are about to walk into another public relations disaster on student loans. this is an important issue because student debt total student debt is higher than total credit card debt and it's not hard to figure out. this is easy to fix unless congress acts, the student loan rate is going to double from 3.4 to 6.8% come july 1st. but once again, instead of just fixing the problem, republicans are coming up with some complicated market solution that could raise rates all the way up to 8.5%. no wonder they come across looking like a bunch of uncaring cold-hearted white men. see you right back here again tomorrow. >> this is "the bill press show."

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