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investigations, when suddenly, it won't be necessary because the leaker, himself, has come forward. edward snowden is his name, 29 years old. you probably know that by now. he came forward and said i did it. i am the guy who told the guard"the guardian" and "the washington post" about the fact that the nsa was collecting phone calls and e-mails and instant messages or anything we put on the internet and he did it because he thinks it's wrong and he thinks the american people have a right to know. now, the big question is s. what do we do about it? do we hang him or do we honor him? do we treat him as the next daniel elslsbergellsberg? or is he the next benedict arnold? that has split washington down the middle. a lot of government people are

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a good weekend lots of sports lots of chance to relax and get caught up, and here we go with another addition to the "full-court press" coming to you live from our nation's capitol and our studio on capitol hill. the big immigration debate starts this week. president obama back in the white house and most of the talk is about the leaker a self-identified leaker of all of that information about nsa and sides are already lining up as to whether we should salute him or file. him. we will talk about all of it right here on the "full-court press" and give you a chance to way in as well. 866-55-press is our toll-free number. that's how you join the conversation at any time. love to hear from you on the phone or on twitter at bpshow or on facebook at facebook.com/bill press show. it is a good day here on the "full-court press."

the entire team back together again. peter ogburn here to keep track of the social media. pierced hey, hey hey. >> bill: now that dan henning is back from his honeymoon. >> good morning >> bill: good to have you back. how is married life? >> it's great. it's great. no mistake yet. >> bill: you can say that after a week? yeah. >> peter: i give it, you know >> bill: a month. >> peter: here, i will put it to you this way, dan. someone told me when i got married -- and i hope you won't take this the wrong way. >> sure. >> peter: in your first year of marriage, every time that you and your new wife make love, you put a quarter into a large container, and every time that you make love for the rest of your marriage, take a quarter out of that container and you will never see the bottom of that container. so there you go.

congratulations. >> i don't want to know how many quarters. >> i don't want to know. i am not asking. >> i don't know what quarters are in your bucket. >> alicia cruz has the phones covered this morning. a lot of quarters in her pocket. >> peter: wow. >> and then i don't even want to go there. >> cyprian. >> quarter right out of his pocket. >> bill: cyprian boulding has the phones covered this morning as well. and we do want to start here this morning because we remember that a couple of days ago, when peter was deciding where we started, of course, we started with the spurs, the first game of the nba finals and so peter, i think it's only fair. >> peter: absolutely. >> bill: with what happened last night, here from espn, the

final call. >> he wouldill very long to take it over mid court. this game will be over. a knock-out blow in the third quarter from the heat. the series is even at a game apiece. miami wins 103 to 84. we are headed to san antonio and the best of 7 is now the best of 5. >> close game there for the spurs. >> bill: that is the most, like, calm relaxed sports reporting i have ever heard. >> he sounds board by the game. >> peter: he is doing it for espn. so he is not a san antonio. i have to say i foolishly stayed up and watched most of the game. the miami heat, because it was a close game up until close to the end of the third quarter. >> bill: they turned it on. >> it is terrify to go watch. i was having nightmares last night about the miami heat offense.

offense. it's terrifying. >> bill: they go with a head of steam to san antonio, but san antonio has home-court advantage. it's going to be close. do you think? all the way? >> peter: i think this is going to be a long series. i don't think the heat are going to go on a run. >> bill: i know they stretch it out. the next game is like a month from now? >> tomorrow night. >> i suppose it's an advantage for the spurs, the next three games. >> in san antonio. the heat are going to have to win in san antonio but miami and san antonio are both very hard to beat at home. and so the spurs -- miami is going to have to beat the spurs at home because the spurs, the next three in san antonio. it's over. >> bill: next game is tomorrow night. there we go. hey, to help us out this morning, we are going to have reporters from the national journal from huffington post from politico as well as avery friedman from cnn here, our relation beagle to help us look

at the tray von martin case but we will start with the nsa leaker. what do you think about it? what he did. but first... >> this is the full court press. >> on this monday, other headlines making news >> the tony awards in new york city last night, the winner kinky boots over mathilda which did not go home empty handed. von i can't and so far e a and spike was named best play. cindy lauper accepted for kinky boots. it was her first award on broadway. >> i haven't seen it. heard good things about it. it will have a good run now with the tony. >> for a moment it looked like the preakness winner ox bo would win but we were left with three different winners for three different horse races in the third leg of the triple clown. alice malice broke out in the final quarter mile by over three

links and who won the kentucky by did come in third. >> three races, 3 different horses. >> you got it. were the right brothers really the first people to fly an airplane? maybe not if you belief the connecticut state legislature that just passed a bill who honored gustav whitehead who allegedly influence two years over bridgeport >> bill: the wright brothers was of the for like 50 yards. >> they are basing this on an account in a newspaper article from 1901, but they have now talked with the smithsonian aviation historian is out talking about it. he says he does not buy it. they started tackracking down witnesses. they say it is not true because they cannot verify that it actually happened even though the legislature doesn't care.

they passed the bill last week. >> i have been to the outer banks. i have seen that spot there where the wright brothers influence flew /* flew -- flew. >> yes indeed not leak investigation necessary. if you please. because the leaker has leakaged himself. it's never happened before. we spent some time on friday talking about this massive leak. we learned more about it over the weekend. this is the program whereby we learned, thanks to our leaker, that the nsa is and has been for the last -- what are we talking being? 2001? the last 12 years, collecting data data, building a massive database, records of every single phone call made in the united states, either domestic or international.

what will numbers were called? how long the call lasted and where the people were located. at the same time, the nsa has been collecting information on internet transactions, they say only enter net tracks between here and abroad if we are to believe that. i don't. and they have been doing that also, from all we learned over the weekend. they have been doing that, by the way, with the assistance of the willing, eager cooperation of all of the internet providers. peter, you were showing that microsoft and google and they have all given them their own little kind of lockbox as part of their system where only nsa can go in there and nsa can see everything that is happening on one system or another. >> peter: that's terrifying. >> bill: the phone companies

turned over the records. the internet companies gave them direct access to all of their information and we found out about it through reports in the"the guardian," english newspaper and in the washington post, it turns out that the number one source for both is a man by the name of edward snowden. he identified himself, came forward over the weekend in a videotape given to glen greenwold, the investigative reporter from "the guardian." he is 29 years old, living in hawaii with his girlfriend. once he came public he went to hong kong, living in a hotel room in hong kong for the last couple of weeks actually. he's a former cia technical assistant. he now worked as a civilian contractor with boos, allen, hamilton. as an aside, the fact that a civilian contractor for this accounting firm, consulting firm, would have access to all of these documents just shows

you how big our national security appeararatus is these days with over a million people. talk about living in a police state. over a million people with access to top security documents including him. but he said he decided to -- he didn't like what was going on. he decided to reveal it to the media and to do sop publically. he tells ideal it was important that he come forward, he said, because the people, we, the people, have a right to know. >> i am just another guy who sits there day-to-day in the office and watches what happens, what's happening and goes, this is something that's not our place to decide. the public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong. and i am willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity of them and say i didn't change these. yes modify the story. this is the truth.

this is what's happening. you should decide whether we need to be doing this. >> bill: i think that all sums it up. this is the truth. this is what's happening. you, you -- that's us -- should decide whether we need to be doing this. but snowden says his fear is he comes forward, we find out about it and nothing happens. >> the greatest fear that i have regarding the outcome for america of these disclosures is that nothing will change. people will see a media. they will know the length the government is going to grant themselves powers unilaterally to create greater control over american society and global society. but they won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things. >> bill: so it's up to us whether anything changes or not.

i think it depends upon how much hell we raise but the immediate question is: what should happen to edward snowden? what do you think? 866-55-press. 866-55-77377. this town is already split on this issue. it will be even more so today as congress comes back. but mark eudall, a senator from colorado along withsnared ron wyden who has been warning cryptically about this program for some time. he couldn't talk about it. but he knew about it. he different like it mark eudall says no, that we, the people should decide this and should know about this. >> my main concern is that americans don't know the extent to which they are being surveilled. we hear this term "meta data" that has to do with who you make calls to and i think that's private information and i think if the government is gathering that, the american people ought to know it. >> bill: but for mark for edward snowden no doubt about it, the republican head of the house intelligence committee,

the democratichead, mark rogers the democratic head of the senate intelligence committee, senator dianne feinstein this week both said he should be -- this is even before they knew his identity. he should be prosecuted. >> i absolutely think they should be prosecuted. >> do you, senator feinstein? >> i do. >> what do you say? 866-55-press. i will tell you one thing: i don't think he should be prosecuted. i think he has done a public service. were there any lives put at risk because of what he revealed? no. was this really such a big deep dark secret? no. congress knew about it. the add miles per hourstration about it. the phone companies knew about it. the internet companies knew about it. everybody knew about it except us. they are getting our records. here is the deal, i really want to hear from you on this. what do you think should happen to edward snowden? here is the deal: we know that in this age of this -- we don't call it anymore war on terror but whatever you want to call it. right? in this dangerous times we live

in we may have to sacrifice some little aspects of our right of privacy in order to keep ourselves safe. and we've already done so. we got surveillance cameras in the city streets. we know it. we accept it. we have surveillance cameras in every freakin 7-11 and every shopping mall. we know it. we accept it. you go to. sa, you have to take your shoes off all and all of that other crap. air marshals on planes we know t we accent it. going to get our phone records, get our e-mail, we should know it. and then we will accept it. but don't do it and keep us in the dark. i think edward snowden is a hero for revealing this information. i am glad i know about it now. i think they ought to erect a statute to edward snowden on the washington mall. he is our new daniel ellsberg. he is a public hero as far as i am concerned. how about you? 866-55-press. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ]

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[ music ] >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show." >> bill: i don't want to live in a society that does these sorts of things says edward snowden, the 29-year-old whistleblower who is the guy who told us all about what the nsa is up to, through "the guardian" and "washington post." people will demand his hell rolled. i think we ought to stop and think twice before we prosecute him and find out what harm he really did.

i think for the american people ought to be saying, thank you, edward snowden. before we get your calls, 866-55-press. >> we are on twitter at bp show. twitter where you called eric snowden a hero. the crisis mag says how can he be a hero if peoples life are in danger. >> i have heard non-dianne feinstein, mike rogers general clapper head of the nsa, nobody has said lives were put in danger by the fact that we know that they are getting all of our telephone calls. >> peter: one other comment. maybe he says snowden just wants a book deal out of this. >> bill: i don't know. he deserves one. mike from atlanta, georgia hey mike, what do you say? >> good morning. i think it all depends upon whether someone was life was in danger or not. if it wasn't, i don't think he should but i am with lindsey

graham. i don't really care. i mean, you know i want, you know, people would be complain being safety if there was another terrorist attack and somebody said we knew there was because the phone calls, we were monitoring phone calls. to think somebody is sitting there listening to your phone calls is ridiculous. they are looking for keywords, you know, and i have been a verizon customer for a long time. i am not going to change. and i don't know. i mean i just -- >> bill: okay. i hear you, mike. i hear you. i disagree only on this. first of all, i don't want the getting my phone records. i don't think they have any business getting my phone records. i really am going to fight to defend my right of privacy but here is where maybe you and i do agree, that if they are doing it -- and they are -- then damn it, we have a right to know. not as a verizon customer not as an at&t customer. we have a right to know as americans what our government is

up to. and now we do, thanks to eric snowden. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ] to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal, or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a dozen years. (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic ocean border and pacific ocean border. the bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the

minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right?

>> get social with bill press. like us at facebook.com/bill press show. this is "the bill press show." >> how about it? 33 minutes after the hour here on this monday morning, june 10th, not too early to thank a teacher. we do thank the members of the american federation of teachers the good men and women of the afc under president randi weingarten. we thank them for their support of the program. good to see you here on this monday morning. we are talking about edward snowden.

by the way, the reading him al break, he is the whistle blower, self-identified. he came forward, wanted people to know who he is. nothing to hide, he says. those calling him a hero on twitter outnumber those calling him a traitor by 30 to 1. not that people on twitter necessarily represent the universe but that is an interesting -- i know, you know this is not a beating hype up-on barack obama session here but for the government to collect this information is unnecessary and wrong and an over reach, an abuse of our right of privacy but i tell you one thing for sure, and let's remember this. if this happened under george bush, we would be raising holy

hell. we should be equally concerned under president obama. i don't care who the president is. i think it goes too far. peter on the social media again. back to the phone? >> still on twitter @bpshow. hom birdie says it's stunning how many americans have been considered by big brother under the guise of national security. >> bill: sure. so we roll over and accept it. >> peter: right. rip them up says bill before you buy a homing pigeon know that the nsa isn't listening and recording your phone calls. so some people are okay with the fact they know just not what's in thisem >> bill: i am concerned with the whole thing and i don't believe them when they say they are not listening in on the phone calls either. they've got access to all of that information. i think they are listening in on the content as well. wanda is down in a lot lanta. hello, wanda. good morning. >> good morning. first of all, let me make a correction.

it did happen under george w. george w. bush. bill and by the way, wanda. thank you for that. it did. it was wiretapping. they were actually wiretapping. they were actually listening in on conversations and not just getting the content but remember, we also raised hell about that in george bush's day. >> i did not. >> bill: you did not? >> yes. you know what, the. sarnaev brothers need to remind us to something. you know what? it amazes metsarnaev brothers need to remind us to something. you know what? it amazes me i am a democrat but liberals like you guys and katrina and chris hayes and all of these -- >> bill: good company >> caller: no. always provide the democratic party, always. what they are doing -- excuse me -- who would have thought? the problem is you don't know who a terrorist is. who would have thought the tsarnaev brothers would have done what they did.

>> bill: they had seems these guys were sending back and forth. they had phone calls of these guys. and they still didn't do anything about it. so to me it just proves that the whole system is worthless. they knew. they knew these guys were communicating with that radical muslim cleric that we ended up killing over there in yemen. right? and what happened? nothing. nothing. so what's the program worth? >> caller: okay. they were acting within the confines of the law. >> bill: no, it doesn't. it tells me they weren't doing their freakin' job, but they are listening to my phone calls and yours >> caller: come on. please. >> bill: i am all for being tough on the terrorists but that doesn't mean i am going to go after wanda from atlanta or ike from charleston or bill from washington, d.c. i mean come on. it's an overreach of government, wanda. again, as liberals, i think we

have to be as tough on our own as we are on them. we were tough on george bush. we have to be tough or barac obama. i am not making this against barack obama. i am saying this is us the american people. and what is our government doing? and is our government going too far? and i say, damb right they are. we ought to raise hell about it. and one other thing, ike i know you are holding but why the hell can't we can't about this? do you think they are going to change? do you think anything like that will change because we know about it now? no. again, i come back to the surveillance cameras. we know they are there. okay? we accept it. well, if they are monitoring our phone calls, why the hell do they keep it secret from us for 12 years? you know, treat us like mushrooms, keep us in the dark and feed us you know what. >> peter: yeah. >> bill: ike, how are you doing, ike? >> caller: real quick i will try to get this in here. i would have paid a dollar.99 a minute to listen to your phone

calls until vegas. this is another example of the outside contract orders who get paid big bucks that handle national security stuff when that used to be the purview of strictly the governmental workers. >> bill: good point. >> caller: you want to give this guy a pass? fine. what's the difference between him and bradley manning. bradley manning is facing life in prison. if you are going to do that to bradley manning because this boy is a civilian contractor he deserves to go on the same law. >> bill: i would give bradley manning a pass too. i don't know anything, the information he real veiled i don't think put lives at risk either. >> caller: bill i didn't even graduate high school but i've got to tell you something for you folks out there that are surprised about this, they just opened up a billion dollar facility that's going to have a compute that a computer alone will handle enough electricity in one day that could power 65,000 houses. now, what do you think they are going to do with all of that

computer space. >> bill: i know it. >> that's the plant they are being in utah. >> that's your records and mine, ike. this is classic big brother. it is just government gone, i think, way, way, too far and i ike, you will never know about my phone calls and my e-mails from my trip to vegas. tom >> peter: thank god. >> bill: tom up in quincy, mass. >> this kid is a hero and for the lady who just called from atlanta, she is in denial. i was born a freeman in a country called america where i have a bill of rights that's not political. barack obama or george bush do not have the right to take those away from me. okay? >> bill: thank you. >> caller: what don't we understand here? >> bill: exactly. i don't think this is political at all. i think this is do you know to the basic right, constitutional rights that we have as americans and whether or not they are being infringed upon by our government. >> caller: right.

and one other point on this issue of the patriot act i would like to remind the lady from atlanta. in 2008 when barack obama ran for president in the primary, he said -- impair a phrasing but he said we should take a close look at that patriot act and repeel some aspects where it goes into personal information what has his administration done? i am a conservative but an american first and there is no democrat america. it was no republican america. there is only the united states of america. and the bill of rights. >> that's what separates us from the rest of the world, mr. press. >> bill: thank you, tom. and you remind me of what a senate candidate named barack obama said in boston paraphrasing tom where he said -- remember? there is no such -- there are no blue states or red states. there are just the united states of ney.

well said, i think we have to keep that focus on the constitution and on the proper roll of government. again, i don't think this is necessary. i don't think we ought to be doing this. but if we are, then we the american people, have a right to know it we were kept in the dark all this time. members of congress knew. the administration knew. the judicial branch new. we were not told. >> peter: part of the thing that drives us so crazy about this, >> bill: we were not told. >> peter: i think part of the thing is number 1, we knew this was happening. and part of the reason part of the appeal to candidate obama was he wasn't going to do this the. he was a different kind of candidate. now that he is in? >> we would get away from this national security state that the

george bush and dick cheney have built. >> mark eudall said over the weekend, too, that this is really -- what we really should get out of this is a drive, a push, the necessity to put the patriot act back on the table and to revise it. we know it was passed just within days of september 11th by members of congress who were just scared out of their pants and didn't know -- most of them didn't even read it and gave john ashcroft and george bush powers whiched government should expand, police powers which the government should never have. so if it -- the results of edward snow deny's whistleblowing is that we revise the operate tree on the act? all the more reason we ought to consider him a hero.

i just wish that would happen. i don't count on it. when we come back, more calls throughout the show this morning. we are going to come balk with a big question. he had what to do with edward snowden. we will talk to read wilson editor-in-chief of the hotline. >> radio meets television, "the bill press show" now on current tv. [ music ]

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show." there we go at 13 minutes before the top of the hour on a monday morning, june 10th. good to have you with us today. talking. this is a big week in washington, d.c., the senate will begin debate on the immigration bill on the floor a lot of fireworks expected. fireworks expected as they come back and debate what to do about the self-identified whistleblower for the nsa and phone and internet data collection program. in the middle of it, editor-in-chief, reed wilson for the national journal joining us this morning. >> bill, how are you doing? >> bill: i am doing great. yes realize when i was in the big crowd at the grand reopening of fraggers's hardware store that you were there, too. >> i wondered by and ran into

vince gray, who is still unindicted as of today. that line must have been 200, 250 people long. a community store that had been there since 1932 or something like that. we talked about the tragic fire destroying the hardware store. their garden store has been relocated. they had the grand opening with the mayor and about a thousand locals all there lined up. do you live in the neighborhood? >> i am a couple of blocks away over there. >> bill: get your ass in here one of these mornings here i didn't know that. where do we start? let's say, first of all, i have got to start with edward

snowden. to many journalists he is a hero. to members of congress, it looks like they are going to treat him as a villain. what's the story? >> i don't know exactly how we are going to sort of proceed on this but it's interesting to know the u.s. has an extradition treaty with hong kong so this notion he was going to try to apply for asylum somewhere else probably could have picked a better place. we may a request for hong kong now part of china. >> i think it's with hong kong but according to at least one of the reports that i read this morning, the decision would come from beijing. >> is there any doubt the department of justice will go after him? >> no, given the fact the bradley manning trial is going on. in some of the coverage over the

weekend, snowden seemed to recognize that this was all coming. >> bill: yeah. he also did talk about getting asylum. >> iceland was the one he had aimed for. >> he better get on that pretty quickly. >> i read iceland's' ambassador to hong kong had been asked about that and said he will need to request it from inside iceland. >> i was theret thinking about the ecuadotorian -- >> he can how the with julian assange. >> bill: i have to say i am looking forward to today's briefing at the whitehouse. >> yeah >> bill: because i think the administration's comments on what should happen to edward sdmoen will be interesting. >> that willing something you will be talking about tomorrow morning. >> you bet. on immigration, what can we expect, do you think? >> we are going to have a big floor fight here in the united states senate.

looks like senator chuck grassley will lead the opposition on the republican side. we are starting to get a little bit of a sense of which republicans are going to be for this and who is going to be against it. you know, there are a number of senators from farm states especially, and swing states who are working. like they want to vote for this bill so they are looking for the base to vote for this bill. some of the folks i think you will see voting for it are people like dean heller from nevada, rob portman from ohio. they haven't committed yet, but they have been meeting with folks in their their states hispanic activists so when they vote, sthek capitalize. i think some of the farm state senators, jerry moran and pat roberts from kansas, you know mike joe hans from nebraska, deb fisher from nebraska people like that who would really benefit from the my grant workers who come in average

year, and then et outline, the connell tours, if you will of the opposition are shaping up as well. i think you will see grassley probably even though he is from iowa, i doubt grassley is a yes on this at the end. people like geoff sessions and richard shelby in alarms, sessions is driving the opposition. she willbey goes look with him. one of the things i am actually going to do in all of the amendments that are going to come up over the next couple of weeks -- and i think there are going to be a significant number offered from the floor. i will keep a close eye on how marco rubio, rand paul and ted cruz vote on this because when they vote differently on any of these amendments. >> bill: yeah. >> you are pretty sure you are going to see those in those particular votes show up in opposition research and, you know, direct mail pieces in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina. just to sort of preview some of

the attacks i think are coming a couple of years down the road when they are all on the presidential trail. >> what i picked up is there is no doubt the bill will pats. the question is how many votes can they rack up? >> the important thing to realize we started seeing a little bit late last week is how much do democratslet marco rubio drive this process. rubio has intelligently, i think, tried to steer the bill to the right. intelligently for his own political purposes to placate the base, and, you know, democrats are starting to say that's enough. we want our bill. >> reed good to have you on the program as always. we will look for you around the neighborhood. >> sounds good. >> from the hotline. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ]

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radio, on television and good to have you with us all across this great land of ours a lot to talk about this morning. going to want to sound off on the big question of the day which is what should happen to edward snowden now had a he has identified himself as the whistle blower or leaker or patriot or traitor, whatever you want to call him, the man who told the"the guardian" and "the washington post" about the nsa phonedate collection and internet data collection programs. we are talking about this morning and taking your calls at 866-55-press. looking for your comments on twitter. and there have been lots and lots of them this morning morning @bpshow and want to hear from our friends on facebook at facebook.com/bill press show. one who has been very busy covering this story as its developed, changing just about every day, rebecca sinderbrand

is joining us in studio which morning. rebecca, nice to see you? >> thank you for having me >> bill: you want to get a little closer to that microphone, please. there you go. for your first of many visits, i hope, to the program. nice to have you here all the way from risalland. >> a long, winding journey. >> ginning our team, peter ogburn and dan henning. just back from his money moon. >> here i am. rinse and everything. >> why i see the ring yet? >> it's right there. >> a ring pop a locally pop on a ring. >> come on. we've got alicia crus on the phone phone. taking care of the video cam for current tv. big night last night, we have to tell you in new york the

biggest night for broadway big night of the year has a lot to do with how much lives some of these shows on broadway if they get and if they win a tony it gives them another big boost. last night the big winner this musical, getting a lot of good reviews called kinky boots. >> and the tony goes to "kinky boots." [applause.] >> bernadette peters making the big announcement last night. >> have you seen this yet? >> i have not. i am excited to see. >> heard good things about it. it's got to be on your list now that it's -- >> i thought the "mathilda" with the little girl was going to win, it's gotten so much attention. kinky boots pulled it off. so field trip to new york. >> sure. it's based on a movie, kinky

boots boots which i saw and didn't live and the fact they have told it into a musical pretty much ensures i won't see it but i am an uncultured swine. so you don't need to take my word for it. >> rebecca sinderbrand and we will be joined later by avery friedman, cnn legal analyst, our legal analyst as well to talk about the george zimmerman trial starting today down in florida. we will get to the news of the day. but first the full court press. >> other head lines making news simon cowle got egged over the weekend. he is working okay britain's got talent. sought night during a live episode, there were two men singing on stage. one of their back-up viola players got up out of her chair with a carton of eggs and pelted 5 at the judges and one hit simon on his jacket before she was stopped by security.

it was not part of the ability. simon took it in stride and went on with the show. >> these were performers? >> yeah, someone in the back-up band of the two guys singing an opera duet. >> exactly. >> couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. >> there are a lot of people who wanted to eg g simon for a long time. >> the miami heat soundly defeated the san antonio spurs 103 to 84 last night. thankfully 33 to 5 run. >> bill: what happened to your spurs, peter? >> peter: you know. >> bill: a bad night? >> peter: here is the thing about the heat and the spurs. the spurs are old men. their big three are old men. their big 3 didn't play well last night. i was telling cyprian, this he

can't win on the backs of the back-ups. they have to win on the big 3. when they aren't playing well. when the miami heat turn it on they are sick. >> march yo t almers put up 19 points and lebron james put up 17. >> they went insane nuts in the third quarter. was it was close. >> 35 to 3. >> i was watching it freakin out. >> game 3 is in san antonio tomorrow, the next three games are in san antonio. i think some of the odds leaning a little more towards the spurs. >> the white house chef had the night off friday night when the president was in california meeting with the president of china and said sellcelebrity she have bobby bfley cooked up porterhouse stake and cherry pie. >> i thought they might order in chinese: there has to be a

china tease takeout at el el ranchero mirage. reb he cana, here we go. this story about the nsa just keeps growing and growing and growing. first, it was phone records of verizon and then of every phone company and then it's prism internet records. right? and then, yesterday, we find out the name of the guy who was the principle source. >> right. we have been hearing from days from the reporters who work on these stories that this guy knew he would have to be outed. he knew it was impossible to stand. >> what happens to him now? >> that's the big question. there are a lot of question marks here it's interesting he chose to spend his exile, if you will call it,ing in hong kong he pointed to, you know, the tradition of free speech and so on. there are a lot of question marks over hong kong. there is technically an

extradition treaty in place signed before the handover. a lot out there. china can step in at any point. for matters of dissent now. effectively, that's true. it's also technically in there, you know purely political they don't have to hand them over. they can as their judgment. it come down to china. >> the president finished the submit. i guess we will find out how well that went. this guy is number one, espy onnage is gold mind. >> for china he might have value.

>> how often do you have a guy with top-secret clearance with a willingness to share deliver himself to your doorstep. >> he doesn't strike me to somebody who wanted to give secret service to the enemy. he wanted to give secrets to the american people. correct? >> that's true. just speaking strictly for purposes of the motivation to hand them over when you think about the fact bayeijing knows it's a big deal, especially in something so high profile where the entire world is watching you can't think that there is going to be very eager to if push comes to shove, send this guy back if he doesn't want to go back. >> is there any doubt based upon what we have seen so far that the president and the attorney general will want to go after him full-bore? >> one of the last thing we heard last night was the justice department opened a leak investigation into this

literally within hours, we had a statement from the dni the justice department saying we are looking into this. this is something that dion a clapper referred to this as reprehensible and za grave threat to national security and so on. when you use that kind of language i don't think you can every day to not go full bore. >> director clapper said he wants an investigation even before they knew who he was. yesterday morning before his identity had been revealed senator feinstein shared senate intelligence, mike rogers both said we have to go after him. we have to prosecute. the fact that we know his identity do you think changes nothing? there is a couple of other things. stepping on the story, number 1. changes the story from what he would like it to be probably a

little bit, at least for a couple of days from the -- you know, the content of the leaks, themselves, to his identity. but the other thing and we were talking about this last night. how does a guy get this close to begin with? >> he is a civilian contracto. >> he's got a ged. you know, he didn't even finish his computer courses in college. he was working for booz for less than three months. how does he get this kind of access? we are talking about, you know, 845,000-plus people with this type of top secret clearance in the united states. so the question becomes, okay. who is watching the people who are watching our secrets? it's one thing to have that access to your id, too. >> bill: he knew length point. so many people who will have access to this, you know, i

think out of control. he talked about why he thinks it's important that the public know about this and the public decide that we in the public decide whether or not this is something that ought to be happening. >> i am just another guy who sits there day-to-day in the office, watches what is happening and goes, this is something that's not our place to decide. the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong. i am willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity of them and say i didn't change these. yes modify the story. this is the truth. this is what's happening. you should decide whether we need to be doing this? >> i think it's powerful this is what's happening. you have to decide. you should decide whether or not we should be doing this.

so, to me, the fundamental question, rebecca, is what harm does it do for the american people to know about the existence of this program? i made the point earlier, for example, we recognize we live in a dangerous time. sorry. so there are certain things we have come to accept. we know about surveillance cameras in the streets of new york. right? the streets of washington, d.c. we know they are there. we accept them in the shopping malls and the 711s. we know there are air marshalls on planes. we accept that. right? so why didn't they tell us about this? >> you know -- >> what will harm does it make for us to know? >> the flip side of it becomes -- and this is just speaking purely from a practical, political perspective. what good is it going to do now? because the question becomes, how much does the public care about this? it's something we touched on earlier, bradley manning.

can you point to one policy that's changed as a result of the information that bradley manning gave to wiki leaks? the question becomes here, okay, what kind of impact is this having? sure making a lot of headlines. then you look at social media and you look at are we seeing these mass calls for boycotts of these companies? are we seeing people, you know protesting on the streets of the capital? maybe we will. we are not seeing that yet. it's certainly not making an immediate impact that perhaps he might have wanted >> bill: it's too soon i think. >> it's too soon and, you know, something, a point that some people have been making people may have become so inured today why they are being watched, question will be, will they react now that it's been confirmed. i think people probably assigned it's going on. what comes next?

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trayvon martin over a year ago, and the trial starts today. avery friedman will bring us up to date on what we can expect there with the big issues. right now, we are talking about the fact that edward snowden, 29-year-old civilian contracto for booz allen hamilton identified himself yesterday as the principle source for the guardian and the washington post and word about the nsa's big phone collection data, data collection program, whatever you want to call it, prism is what the enterinternet side of it is. i haven't heard a name for the phone side of it either >> peter: i haven't either. >> bill: now, the question is: what should happen to edward snyder? >> not the only question. what should happen to the program? will it be continued? what should happen to edward snowden. daniel elsburg praised him.

michael moore and glenn beck having praise would him as a hero. i read this morning that on twitter, those who brand him as a hero outnumber those who brand him as a traitor by 30 to 1. >> twitter has spoken. >> twitter has spoken. any comments on the social media >> peter: you get in a conversation with people watching and listening. dule says he is a criminal. he didn't expose a crime. he exposed a legal surveillance program. he should be punished. one of our other viewers says what's legal about secretly spying on law-abiding citizens? we are tweetingat bp show. >> bill: i must say, rebecca i am looking forward to the briefing today at the write house and the fact that the president does have a couple of opportunities where he might say something would we expect that? >> i mean, you never know. you know, it's one of those

things. on friday when these stories were swirling around knowing there was nothing on the schedule, nothing said he should way in and yet he did. he seemed egard to way in. he took a healthcare event and repurposed it essentially as a national security event. so you never know. >> the president defended the program on monday. >> forcefully. >> today the question quowould really be what do you think should happen to edward snowden? should there be another attempt to do that? i bet you he does go after it today. >> it was interesting because when it comes to specific individuals. >> that's it. reb i can a, thanks for coming in. >> this is "the bill press

show." >> get social with bill press. like us at facebook.com/bill press show. this is "the bill press show." >> bill: thirty-three missed after the hour on june 10th, the full court press coming to you live from our nation's capitol. it was february 26th, 2012 that george zimmerman, who we know shot and killed trayvon martin. he has been charged with second-degree murder and the trial finally, gets underway with jury selection down in sanford, florida. a lot of issues of was it murder or self defense as zimmerman claimed?

avery friedman led analyst for cnn, and we claim him as our own here on the "full-court press" as well, joins us on our news line this morning. hey, avery. >> hey, bill. how are you doing? >> always good to have you with us. thank you. so this jury selection starts today. if you are george zimmerman's defense attorney, who do you want on that jury? >> well, actually you want someone that doesn't have pre-conceived notions about what's going on because they are completely and absolutely diverse. there are people certain before hearing any of the evidence that this is second-degree murder. this was the actions of a depraved man who knew exactly what he was doing. he was a vigilante. he was a wannabe cop. then you've got your conviction. then you have others who are saying well, this had to have been nothing other than racial profiling so you are going to see, bill, an enormous intense effort in this jury selection

because this is -- this is going to burn up the entire summer. at least it will go through probably late july. the proper election of the right kind of so-called impartial jury. >> now i have seen the number six jurors. i thought it was always 12. >> in florida, there are some strange things going down in florida. i don't mean that disrespectfully. whether it's 6 or ten or 12. it's going to have to beun an muss. remember the thing that was probably most disturbing in addition to the loss of a young life was it took law enforcement six weeks to charge george zimmerman. >> that's where the protests were. not the trial but leading up to the arrests and i think many people were in accord that that was just simply wrong. >> bill: correct.

but the conduct or the ineptness of the police department will not be on trial here right? i mean the question still comes down to whether or not george zimmerman shot in self defense or in -- they have to prove the prosecution that he had a depraved mind. >> yeah. >> yesterday? right? >> yeah. >> a deliberately depraved mind he wanted to shoot and kill this man. >> that's a tough test? >> this, to me, bill action is a manslaughter case because there is so much reasonable doubt here this was a reaction recall the governor appointed the state's prosecuting attorney out of jacksonville and charged him with second-degree murder. nod in order to meet that standard and all of the razzmatazz beyond a reasonable doubt you are going to have a tough time. will the cops be on trial?

i actually think they will. much of the evidence was developed after that initial one by the media by the way. i shear you. i hadn't thought about that aspect of it. doesn't zimmerman have a couple of strikes against him in recent rulings of the court leading up to this and also the fact he lied to the court about how much money he and his wife had together? >> yeah. they were trying to get bond. everybody in this case at least the witnesses are lying all the over the place. one of the key prosecution witnesses will be the woman who claimed that she heard trayvon screaming. there is a debate about that. judge deborah nelson hasn't resolved that question. this jury, bill, is going to get loaded up with witnesses, many of whom were lying all over the place. and you know who that favors.

you've got people that are a little bit short of completely truthful. 2458 favor the defense. >> this comes back to, also zimmerman that night, remember -- this will come out. won't it? that he was told by the police department to stay in your car. don't follow this guy. >> well, and that goes into the theory that the prosecute wants to advance. in fact, there was an enormous debate this weekend. there were hearings about voice recognition. the question was: can the prosecute during the opening statement can they characterize him as a wanna bee cop, as a vigil ant e because that's more of an ant rather than a factbe cop, as a vigil ant e because that's more of an ant rather than a fact. it's central to the defense and the prosecution. >> i read and i didn't understand this. i was curious that the wanted to have some of their witnesses testify in secret?

>> this is not uncommon. it's characterizing, correctly i think in the media. but often before you put a witness on, if there is something this that's going to come out that could somehow adversely affect the jury, you voir dire the witness in front of the judge in the absence of the jury to see if it's going to be prejudicial or probative. that's not all that unusual. there is also a fear factor too. some people don't want to testify because they think there will be retribution and they could be in danger. not uncommon in a criminal case. i thought everybody ought to hear. you have you get to screen them ahead of time. if not. >> happens every day, bill. >> bill: damn it. i knew these trials were rigged.

savoryfriedman is where you can keep track of the big legal issues of the day he is always commenting on. i want to come back now. we will talk again and again and again about this trial. >> yeah. >> you say it's going to be going on and on. let's talk about cleveland. last time we talked was about this kidnap case. aerial castro was brought into court the other daycare day. what's going to happen to him? >> he is facing over 300 counts of kidnap and rape. where the controversy is, bill is one of those counts is a murder count. the prosecute, i think -- the prosecutor had enough to send this guy away with life without possibility of patrol but with cast row they are charging him with a murder count because of the so-called unlawful termination of a pregnancy.

the problem is this was an amendment and -- and 38 states have this recent amendments which get you into the right to life, pro-choice when does life commence? unnecessary. it's a distraction. i am troubled by it but at the end of the day, the grand jury is coming back with about another 300 charges. i understand the prosecute in making the statement. bill they had enough without that. >> overwhelming. >> bill: now, was his brother, did they find out his brother was or was not involved? >> he has two brothers, neither of whom the prosecution says had anything to do with it, nor the daughter nor anybody else. how this guy covered that up for 10 years, bill. >> bill: i find that hard to believe. but my biggest concern here with this whole case is charles ramsey, avery. i hope -- i home charles ramsey the neighbor who blew the whistle and called 911, i hope he is being taken care of? >> he has legal counsel.

they wanted to put him on talk shows and give him free food and stuff like that. i think, you know, the best charles ramsey could say is if you interview this guy, it's going to be kind of short. esis got nothing to say. this case will never go to trial. it will never go to trial. i don't think we are going to go to trial. he's a local hero. >> when you say it will never go to trial. >> the account is so powerful. some of the defense team saying he is he was a wonderful family man, 0 my goodness. >> bill: good luck. >> shut up. >> next time you see charles ramsey, buy him a big mac for u.s. >> will do bill. >> you have it. avery friedman. thanks so much.

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had award snowden. he is the young man who has come forward, the whistle blower in the nsa scandal or controversy. he is a guy who told the guardian and washington post about the collection of all of the data on our phone calls and on our internet activity. what do you think should happen to him? 866-55-press. should he be prosecuted or should he be hailed and thanked as a public hero? i think the latter. back to your call on that in just a minute here first, a quick story, a quick word about identity theft something that keeps popping up all over the country out in the san francisco bay area to show how far identity thieves are willing to go. this man used his own child's social security number in a scheme to illegally receive welfare benefits.

he's been nabbed. he now faces four years in prison. identifyty theft is everywhere. you have to be protected against it. i am with lifelock ultimate the most comprehensive id theft protection out there. lifelock services can't protect you or your bank account if you are not a mer. so visit lifelock.com or call and mention press10 and get 10% off your lifelock ultimate membership. call 1-800-356-5967 for lifelock ultimate 1-800-356-5967. before we go to those fanlights peter. >> bill, you love costco. >> i love costco. >> i love costco. we like costco very much. you will like it more after you he this story. richard gal anti is their chief financial officer. he sat down for an you interview with "business week" and he says since the company went public in 1985, wall street investors and

their board of executives having saying if you lower employee pay, lower wages and cut health benefits we can make a lot of money. in fact, the quote gallan t i said is: could costco make more money if the average wage was two or $3 lower? the answer is, yes but we are never going to do that. >> all right. taking care of the workers. i found this to be stunning. the average costco worker makes about $45,000 per year compare that to sam's club. their workers make an arrange of 17,486. 45,000 versus 17,000. >> bill: there is no doubt, no doubt about it costco is a better store. it's a better place to shop better service, better products all the way around. >> bill: there you go. and they take care of their workers. we are not getting any money from costco. >> peter: not at all.

>> bill: that's the way it is. yeah. back to this nsa story, we learned yesterday the name of the whistle blower edward snowden. eric holder is gearing up to go after this guy. he is in hong kong. they are going to try an extradition treaty, throw the book at them and probably like bradley manning put him in prison for life. i think this guy performed a public service. if the government is spying on us damn it, we have a right to know. number 1, he says he carefully chose what he would reveal what he would not reveal because he did not want to put any lives at risk and nobody has said so far that i have the information that came out collecting the phone data or the internet data has put -- has put any lives at risk. it is not the case in this

situation. he believes it's wrong. he believes the person em people are avite to no. congress knew about it. the justice department knew about it. he's been a civilian contractor for booz, allen, hamilton and he knew all about this. everybody knew about it except us. we, as american people have a right to know and for revealing that information to us i don't consider him atrator at all. i consider him a operate tree on the, edward snowden. i would hope they would welcome him back to the united states or let lim lim it in exile. laden? >> caller: good morning. i think this guy should be tarred and feathered.

>> bill: because? >> caller: yes. i think what he did was illegal and i am really, really, really tired of people invoking the constitutional. if these people came to america came to a country that they did not love the constitution totally $black people. i think a lot of times. and what this guy did i hope he gets >> bill: you think what is the government is doing to us is the injustice? why do they have a right to collect this data? >> caller: why don't they? >> bill: because of the constitution of the united states. because we are free. we are free and the government

we don't live in a police state. >> caller: let me ask you that. it's funny until something happens. everybody always barks about we are a free country. no one says we are scared. one thing is for shoe sure, you wear your seat belt and watch your environment at night as a woman. a woman should watch her surroundings. bell let me put it this way. you may want to surrender all of your freedoms. okay? i do not. the worst thing is trust the government. they can do anything they want to do. we don't care. no. no. >> that's not who we are. i think edward snowden reminds us who we are. he said it best: this is the truth. this is what he said on video yesterday. this is the truth. this is what is happening. you should decide whether we

should doing this. i decided we should not be doing this. but if we are, we should at least know about it. we know about it now, thanks to edward snowden. be right back. tell you what the president is up to today. >> this is "the bill press show."

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[ music ] >> bill: good monday morning, friends and neighbors. it is monday, june 10th. great to see you today. and welcome to the "full-court press" here on current tv coming to you live, coast to coast, from our studio right here on capitol hill in washington, d.c. our nation's capitol and where there is a lot of buzz today about the latest we are just reeling from two big leak investigations by the department of justice gearing up for a third in the nsa matter when all of the sudden, oops there won't be any leak investigation necessary because the leaker has leaked himself. edward snowden came forward

yesterday, 29-year-old civilian contractor for booz allen hamilton to say, i am the one. i did it and i did it because of what i thought was happening, what i knew was happening was wrong, and i thought the american people had a right to know. therefore, he told the story about the nsa monitoring all of our phone calls and all of our e-mail and internet activity. he gave that story to the guardian and to the washington post. now, the big question is: what should happen to him? should we hang him or hale hims a hero? daniel ellsberg has come forward and said he is a patriot and this is a man, daniel ellsberg says i have been waiting to see for the last 40 years. we will talk about that. take your calls at 866-55-press right here on current of it that viewers like about "the

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[ music ] >> broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv. this is "the bill press show." >> bill: well one thing's for sure, we are not going to need a new leak investigation on this one because the whistle blower has leaked his own name. big news today here on the "full-court press." it is monday, june 10th, coming to you live from our nation's capitol, bringing you all of the big stories of the day. there is really only one. edward snowden is the beg story of the day and your calls about what ought to happen to him at 866-55-press. your comments on twitter. and we have been flooded on twitter this morning at bp show ant i want to hear from all of our friends, every last one of

our friends on facebook at facebook.com/bill press show. you know, if congress comes back in town after the weekend, the nsa story is going to be dominating their ks not only on whether the program is a program that ought to be continued, but now, what should happen to the whistle blower who told us about the program. sabrina sadiki is political reporter for huffington post who will be on top -- has already been on top of all of this story since it started in studio this morning. sab written a, welcome back? >> thanks for having me back. >> nice to have you here it's going to be a business week. don't you think? >> today, the white house briefing. >> gentleman. >> the president has two different occasions today where he might say something about this. >> exact. this is a big immigration week but i feel bad for all of the folks behind that effort. it's going to be overshadowed. >> you know, something about us.

we can only really cover one story at a time. it's got to be 24-7. right? >> absolutely. >> we get into it. >> that's the way it is you know the team here we welcome dan back from his honeymoon. >> there we go. cyprian boulding keeping us looking good on current tv. there is a little sports activity over the weekend. i understand there was a basketball game. >> yeah. >> spurs? >> nba finals. not that big of a deal. >> if you are not following sab written a on twitter she tweets about all kind of stuff but during basketball games, she knows her basketball. it's fun to watchsabrina on twitter, she tweets about all kind of stuff but during basketball games, she knows her basketball. it's fun to watch. we will spell it siddiqui-i-d-d-i-q-u-i s-i-d-d-i-q-u-i. >> always helpful. >> put that link up on our

website so people can say it. the biggest sport was the belmont, triple crown. the kentucky derby wassing one winner, the tweak preakness, the belmont. >> coming down to the finish, and it will be tall as malice. here in the belmont stakes ox ox bo. >> palace malice. >> palace malice. it reminds you of prince hair, i think. >> he will always be the one who wore a senates costume. he will be that guy. >> tough to live that down. this trip.

there was that one. >> the pool game might be what he is first remembered for. we will talk about the nsa and what should happen to dan snowden. big stories of the day. >> other headlines making news on this monday a record for nadal, the spanish tennis store won the french open for the 8th time, more than anyone else in tournament history, he beat a fellow span crashed but not without being interrupted with a masked man running across. serena williams won her first championship in 11 years defeating marie e a share a pova. >> i got into that stadium stuff. >> simon cowl got egged on saturday on live television the former million idle judge.

britain, two men were singing on stage. one of their back-up musicians got up with a carton of eggs and pelted five of them. at least one hit simon on his jacket before the lady was stopped by security. she later did apologize. >> amazing. >> a member of the band on stanley. can you believe it? brought those eggs in for that purpose. >> that's what i am going to say. i think they probably had some sort of a procedure for people who were going on stage with simon cowl they would get frisked for eggs pies whatever because you knew something was coming. all of the people that hate that man. you would think by now he would have bet hit. >> couldn't happen to a high school?er guy. >> the white house chef had the night off friday when the president was in california meeting with the president of china. they were treated to a meal prepared by bobby flay.

he made lobster, tammale's porter shouse take and cherry pie. >> cherry pie. sounds good. >> i haven't had cherry pie in forever. >> thank you, dan. yes, indeed. >> blueberry pie. >> sab writtena there are two stories in one here. one story got overshadowed, the nsa program. i might add a new wrinkle to that story, which is the fact that we have learned the internet companies, google, micro soft and all of them were very willing partners, i guess, in this collection effort, even set up special online rooms where nsa, if the need to they were the only ones who had a key, the password or whatever to get into these rooms. so it was easy for them to get this data.

the phone companies also cooperated. >> that's one story. the other story is we know who revealed this information, and it is edward snowden and that is sort of overshadowed the first story. >> right. i think it has. i think it defeats somewhat of the purpose of his leak. now, they are going to be this whole debate over what will happen to snowden. will he be a hero or a villain? you know he is at the moment hiding out somewhere in hong kong. though his exact whereabouts are not known. it will be a conversation about the relationship between the u.s. and china. this is right after the president, of course president obama had, you know, a summit and a meeting with the chinese president. so there will be a question of, you know, how does this impact that relationship. will the chip ease government be willing to hand him over or will they, in fact turn this into a political matter and say he might have informing that's valuable to us an especially because they said these, the online surveillance is more

targeted toward foreign government. i think that will be of interest. >> let's go back to the program. and i guess so now that we know about this program, is anything going to change? >> well, you know, i think -- >> will it could not? >> i think it will continue. absolutely. >> it's been going on for a long time? >> over seven years, that's at least the phone surveillance and i think the problem is you have a handful of usual prospects like murkley and eudall and libertarians like rand paul who have sounded warnings about possible overreach but by and large, for all of the, you know, partisan bickering we have this issue is one that has broad bi-partisan support. the idea the government can do whatever it wants in the name of national security, we saw it under the previous administration and seeing it under this and as long as there is this obsession over terrorism

and the threat of any sort of terroristic attack toward the united states, they will continue to take whatever means they see fit and you don't even see that much outrage among the american public. it's more among the media and a now, you know the rare alliance between the far left and the far right right. >> uh-huh. >> who have constitutional concerns. >> senator mark eudall, one of the two senators, senator ron wyden from washington -- washth? oregon? >> oregon. >> oregon. i knew it didn't sound right. the two senators who knew about this but couldn't talk about it but who cryptically kind of warned there was something going on here senator mark eudall said at least this should trigger a review of the patriot act because it's understand the patriot act this program was allowed to continue. we ought to take another look

and it may be tone it down a little bit. likely to happen? >>. >> i don't think so. i really think by a majority lawing makers in the house and senate have supported a lot of these measures and there hasn't bin enough pressure on the administration because it comes down to the public. though actually are very comfortable t at least more than half of the americans appear comfortable with the idea that, you know, they are being kept safe even if it means some breach of privacy. >> okay. a contractor with booz allen hamilton, in hawaii, now hiding out in hong kong said i gave the information to the "guardian" and to the "washington post." what should happen to him, i

think, should maybe at least in part hinge on what real harm did he do? okay. we know about the program now. so what's the harm here? that's the thing. these leaks have had a damaging impact on our national security. >> that's what we say. the reality is to what extent can that possibly be true? this information, unless they have a fear that he might be working with now a government, he is overseas, is he giving away information to people who might not have the best, you know, but there is no evidence of that. i think actually if anything, there could be more public outrage over what could happen to him in terms of, you know the next step to whether he is in fact, prosecuted which, of

course, he would have to be brought back here to the united states and that could trigger more public outrage than again, the existence of the program, themselves because he outted himself, there is already a human face. not someone who is hiding out somewhere and caught through an investigation. >> bill: not somebody sellingjets toot russians or anyone else. here from the video where he did self identify as the whistle blower here is why he felt he should and happen -- why he thought compelled to come forward, edward snowden yesterday. >> i am just another guy who citizens there day-to-day in the office, watches what's happening and goes this is something that's not our place to decide. the public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong, and i am willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity of them and say i didn't change these. yes modify the story. this is the truth. this is what's happening.

you should decide whether we need to be doing this. >> bill: to me, that sums it up so powerful. this is the truth. this is what's happening. we -- right? -- should decide whether we should be doing this. >> right. >> bill: hard to argue with that? >> it's really hard to argue with that, of course. i think it will be interesting to see how the public responds. i am concerned about how much as a culture, you know, folks here have accepted the idea that the government can take whatever means necessary to protect the country, keep people safe. i worry about a tragedy like boston as to that idea that they really need to take extraneous measures in other words tore protect our national execute interests but maybe this could be -- >> yeah, and you are touching on something, a point i have made earlier in the show today, and again, we want you to join the conversation because this is important to all of us. edward snowden now come forward

as a whistle blower. what should happen to him, 866-55-press. but the point is, we recognize we live in dangerous times and there are certain things we have -- we have to be and it may be have already agreed to give up in order to keep ourselves safe. we see these surveillance cameras all over the place. we accept them now. right? >> right. >> nobody is throwing stones at them. we know they are there. we accept them sort of as necessary. i still have some questions. i think we might have known about it. if we know about the surveillance cameras, why couldn't we know about the fact that they are keeping every one of our phone calls. they kept it secret for us from seven years. we know about it today because of edward snowden. i think it's a tough call.

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we are@bpshow. palaqui said bill press is starting to lose credibility over these leaks. but margret colvin says -- >> i am supposed toe say let's go get him. no trial. he has admitted it. >> margaret sort of makes the point a lot of us are feeling says we won't always have obama even if you trust obama, god help us if a koch sponsored candidate becomes president. what would they do with the help of nsa? >> i would hope president obama would have done more than this than he has. on the leak thing, i would point out that rand paul glenn beck, and michael moore have all said that edward snowden is a hero. >> this is turning out to a bad

joke. i am in squirrelly company maybe. >> a wack into a bar me on the left and glenn beck on the right. both saying this guy performed a public service. 866-55-press. if we don't get to you now we will as soon as we take a half hour break but sabrina, i have to ask you this question that i think we see here the access. this guy had been working at booz, allen hamilton and he already had top security clearance and a million people have access to this data. >> right. >> it's remarkably. he didn't have this in this position but it elevated his security clearance. i wonder if that might change.

i wonder if anything that comes out of this is what kind of access do they give to government contractors and how quickly do they grant them access to the -- >> wouldn't you agree if we found out about this under george w. bush, liberals would be raising holy hell? >> absolutely. >> right? >> i think people continue to protect the president, even democrats who raise a lot of these issues about the bush administration have been mostly quiet. they are very re t icen t to criticize thisadministration >> bill: i think politics has nothing to do with it. this is about our rights as american citizenship. keep it up. >> thank you. >> on twitter too. sabrina saddiqui from huffington post. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ] to the fire. are you encouraged by what you

heard the president say the other night? is this personal, or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a dozen years. (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic ocean border and pacific ocean border. the bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right?

[ music ] go mobile well bill press. download podcasts and listen any time anywhere. this is "the bill press show." . >> all right. here we go. 33 minutes after the hour, now. two big -- on the "full-court press" on mopped june 10th. two big questions before us, both important and i am afraid one may dominate and cancel out the other. he would hope not. the first question is: the nsa program, itself, why should the government be selecting records of every phone call that we make, every single phone call every american citizen makes anywhere any timetime to anybody and all of the e-mail traffic that

americans might have with anybody overseas including for example -- and i have friends in paris i e-mail to frequently. and so why should the government be tracking that? >> the one question which was the question we faced until yesterday when a second question came out and kind of blew that out of the water when he had ward snowden 29-year-old civilian contractor for booz allen hamilton came forward and said i am the guy. he had only been working there three months. he already has all of this top secret information, and he said, i don't think what we are doing is right. and i think the american people should know about this and they are the ones that ought to decide now the question is what happened to him before the identity was known.

now james clapper, senator feinstein had a senate intelligence, mike rogers, head of the intelligence committee came forward and said he should be prosecuted. we will find out what the president says about that today. so, should he be considered a patriot a hero a brave man for coming forward and telling us what our government is up to or should we consider him a traitor for doing so? your response to both questions, 866-55-press. peter, br we go to the phones on the social media? >> peter: lots of comments on twitter: rip them up who has been tweeting all morning lock says going from canada to president and being privy to the realties of the world can change a perspective. we talked about how candidate obama was running and saying

once he became president that he sort of got a new perspective on the idea and cagey says americans already express the outed rage when the patriot act came into being. this is old news. i am not sure this is old news mark udall said maybe we will look at it and decide this went too far. edward snowden, one of the things, regarding the outcome.

people will see the media all of the disclosures. they will know the length the government is going to grant themselves powers unilaterally to create greater control over american society and global society. sxwilz that is a fear of mine as well. the only thing that will happen is they will throw him in jail but the program will continue to grow bigger and bigger. now to your calls at 866-55-press. donald calling from saint croix which is a beautiful, beautiful island. but they drive on the wrong side of the road. high donald.

the guy did what he thought was great and for the american people. i have a problem with him run to go china to hide or, you know. he should believe in what he's doing. it adds up. man up to it. by doing that you will really expose the truth but by running away from it, people will say why are you running? do you know what's going on here? this is my problem. you know, this is what i did. let the american people if they are going to protect me. i don't have to go to jail. this is what i did. i know the sequences and i am going to man up to it by run to go china. now, china got all kind of arms and stuff, you know why are you doing that i guess i might feel even better about him if he stayed home here to face music

but i don't know. i sort of understand why maybe he wanted a couple of more days of freedom before the justice department gets their hands on him. one thing for sure. it's a little bit murky but we talked about this in case you are just joining us. he is in hong kong. we don't know what's going to happen. hong kong does have an extradition treaty with the united states, which was signed before the takeover and before hong kong was swallowed up by china before the transition in other words. but the chinese government could say we want to give this guy protection. they might also say we want to milk him for everything that he

knows. so who knows what's going to happen? but if i were edward snowden, i wouldn't count on my freedom in china. purportedly, he is thinking about seeking extradition to to -- i mean seeking asylum in iceland. >> i he iceland is lovely this will time of year. >> he better get there fast. >> he should. >> bill: next to chicago, i think iceland is about the freest spot on the planet. >> all of you americans, terrorists have already won. you americans are so chicken, chicken littles i can't stand living in the same country as you people. the their rifts won when you are willing to give up your rights because you are a little bit afraid >> bill: joe, you have heard a lot of people this morning saying just that, look. the government knows what it's doing, and i realize i have to, you know, give up my right of

privacy to get these terrorists. >> that's all i've got to say. i am embarrassed for you all. they have already won when you people are willing to turn over so easily. >> all right. not all of us are, joey. not all of us are ready to bend over so easily. rissa is in lubbock, texas. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. >> bill: hi. >> hey, listen. i have a kind of different perspective. >> bill: let's hear it. >> i think this young guy is in it for the money. look, he goes out of the country and then says here i am. i will tell you about it now. i think he's probably got an agent already if not lawyered up and everything else. i think et cetera doing it for the money. when we get him back to this country, you have asked what to do with him. i think that's the hard question. he is 29 years old. who wants to see it kid go to prison for life? >> bill: some people do. i know that. yeah. i don't know he's in it for the money.

look, i could be proven wrong. i have been pretty impressed with this guy. i think he beliefs what he is saying. he believes, rissa that this is wrong, and he also said he is sort of -- he picked and chose what he would release and what he wouldn't release because he didn't want to put any lives at risk. he comes across to me as a pretty smart sincere guy. you don't think so? >> i don't -- from what i think, he is smart. i think he is trying to make money, bill. that's what i think. >> yeah. >> i don't think he is trying to make money, bill. i think he is. and i am a liberal. it doesn't bother me. maybe i am not that much of a liberal as guess >> bill: you can still be a liberal but the problem is, i think, too many liberals conservatives, we just swallow sometimes what the government tells us that this is for your own good and we've got to do

this. and we have to protect our rights on they will be taken away from us. it doesn't matter what party is in charge. any administration, any presidency, we have to be -- i know i sound like rand paul now but we've got to be vigilant and protect our rights against encroaching government power. >> quick heads-up because our friend netta found this quote and tweeted it just a little while ago from candidate obama in 2008. quote: i will protect federal workers who expose abuse of authority in government. remember that when we go through the extradition process when they go after snowden. >> can i have that quote again? >> it's i will protect federal workers who expose abuse of authority in government. >> bill: edwardson is not a federal worker but a federal

contractor. >> yes. >> if i have a chance today, i will ask president obama at the whitehouse about that quote and whether he is still going to live up to it. so we've got two questions before us. what should happen to the nsa program? is it okay? do you support it? or office it go too far? and then what should happen to the leaker who told us about it? and i still come back to i don't like it. i don't like it at all. i think it's a massive government overreach. but if they are doing it, then damn it, we've got a right to know about it. 866-55-press. tell me i'm wrong. i dare you. >> radio meets television "the bill press show" now on current tv.

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>> like politics and like "the bill press show" on facebook. this is "the bill press show." twelve minutes before the top of the hour here as we wind up here on a monday, june 10th, a little change of format this morning rather than have another guest. you want to leave time for your comments and calls because this is a very, very important issue which we should have some say about. after all these are our phone records. and our e-mails that have been tracked by the government every single last one of them i think this went too far f they are doing it, the government should tell us about it.

all after, the administration knew all about this. members of congress knew all about this and support it. both parties. the justice department knew all about this. the phone companies knew all about this. they were giving thegiven the information. the internet companies knew all about it. they were cooperating with the nsa and the if he hadral government. everybody knew about it except you and me. it's our stuff. it is the government. we are the government that we should decide this is a point of, i think, that edward snowden made most tellingly in the video that he released yesterday as to his motivation for coming public with this information. >> i am just another guy who sits there day-to-day in the office, watches what's happening and goes this is something that's not our place to decide. the public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong, and

i am willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity of them. >> this is the truth this is what's halppening. in rochester, new york, gary good morning >> caller: i don't see why everybody is so upset. you have known for years. you put something out on the air waves. it's out there for ever. if you don't want your privacy, don't have a cell phone. i don't have one. >> they are getting your land line records, larry. >> they have to have a specific warrant. >> bill: no, they don't. no, they don't. no, they don't. they do to listen in to your conversation. but to get the information they are gathering what number you are calling, what time you are calling and where you are calling from and where you are calling to, they don't need a warrant. >> yeah, but to hear the specific conversation.

>> bill: so what? yeah. so what? they are still collecting. they know every single phone call you have made. why? >> you don't have to use e-mail. >> come on, larry. you don't have to breathe either you know. you don't have to eat either. there are some freedoms. willing to surrender all of them? sacrifice all of them in the name of what? >> no. i am willing to not put up with that garbage if you want to send an e-mail, i will write a letter. >> yeah. okay. larry, fine. you use smoke signals. letters, remember, it's the federal government that delivers the mail larry. i wouldn't trust them. uh-uh. yeah. >> this is the problem. this is the problem. idiots like that let the government get away with everything. right? uh-huh. >> peter: a lot of people have

made the point. >> bill: come on, americans. stand up for who you are. >> peter: even if you are a progressive and you are okay with the president doing this, with president obama doing this which, you know, i am not. but if you are okay with president obama having this kind of power, how would you feel if the next president is -- how would we have feel if george bush had done it? >> when he started this snooping, we raised holy hell about it. under president obama, under pusher pusher, nothing to do with it. it's about our freedoms and the government's curtailing our freedom. pat is out in beloi t te wisconsin. >> caller: the way i look at it, since we began as a country, through nor manmandy, we have sacrificed to keep those liberties and now people laying out their conversation on a phone. we are fools. this generation is a weak

spineless generation, many of them. >> bill: pat, all right. what a good note to end with. we fought many, many millions of brave men and women put on to fought to defend those freedoms. we should not sacrifice them so easily. i will be back on with a on a final thought of what should happen to mr. edward snowden. >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show." >> i think the number one thing that viewers like about "the young turks" is that we're honest. i think the audience gets that i actually mean it. >> you're putting out there something that you're proud of. journalists want the the story and they want the right story and the want the true story. >> you can say anything here. >> i spent a couple of hours

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show." >> bill: and on this monday, june 10th, my parting shot for today, well, at least we won't need a big bad department investigation. a man has saved us all of that money. edward snowden as we have been discussing this morning, 29-year-old employee of booz allen hamilton has come forward and identified himself as a man who told the guardian all about the math of collection of phone records and internet communications what we used to call the war on terror. snowden left no doubt about why he did it. quote, i can't in good conscience allow the u.s. government to destroy privacy internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine that they are secretly building end quote. so, now we know who the whistle blower is. the big question is: what should happen to him? which, of course i believe depends upon the impact of his

leak. in this case, remember, no lives were put at risk and since members of congress knew all about it for a long time no real secrets were told. all snowden did, in other words, was tell us the american people what our government was up to behind our backs. and for that, i don't think we should throw him in prison for the rest of his life. i think we should erect a statue to edward snowden on the washington mall as an american patriot. my parting shot for today, focus. tomorrow egar volumeski from think progress and bob kusack from the hill. have a great monday. see you right back here again, you bet. tomorrow morning. >> this is "the bill press show."

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