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hey, a big change in public opinion on a couple of important issues reported this morning. the latest washington post poll shows that 76% of americans now oppose. >>tive -- affirmative action in our nation's colleges and universities. but 57% of americans now support marriage equality, same-sex marriage, which is also another issue, of course before the supreme court. and with that background the senate yesterday voted overwhelmingly to begin debate on immigration reforms. the vote was 84 to 15 with some 30 republicans voting yes, not for the bill but to open debate on the bill, and president obama yesterday endorsed the bill prepared by the gang of eight

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start and starting the day with us here on the full court press. wednesday, june 2nd. we not only -- it's not only our job to let you know what's going on this wednesday morning as you start your day, what you want to get your teeth into but give you a chance to shout off and tell us what you think about what's going on as you hear the news of the day, you will have your opinions we want to hear them at 866-55-press. we want to get your comments on twitter @bpshow and we want to hear from all of our friends on facebook at facebook.com/billpressshow. give us a holler, and we will tell you about that immigration reform. the debate, itself starts today on the floor of the senate with the endorsement of the president of the united states.

continued protests in is t anbul and edward snowden hasn't popped up again yet. no sightings of him in iceland and he has disappeared from his hotel room in hong kong. meanwhile, the department of justice is preparing to level charges of treason against him. no wonder he is on the run. all of that and a lot more part of our program this morning with the team here, peter ogburn and dan henning. >> hey, hey, hey. >> what do you say guys? >> happy wednesday >> bill: alicia cruz is here on the phones, and cyprian bowlding has the video cams covered. all right, peter, we will start. yes. >> peter: go spurs! >> bill: we will start with the spurs, but why do they have to beat up on the heat so badly. >> peter: 0, come on. >> bill: isn't it enough to win by 5 points? >> peter: here's the thing, the

heat was beating the spurs soundly on monday night. >> bill: they did. >> peter: sunday night. >> bill: yeah. >> peter: by 30 times. >> bill: pay back time? >> peter: pay back is a pi t ch. last night, the spurs beat the heat by 36 points. >> bill: here is the final call on woai in san antonio? >> the san antonio spurs have taken game 3. it's a 2-1 lead for san antonio on the nba finals. they set an nba finals record with 16 3 pointers made. the spinal score san antonio 113. miami 77. >> bill: that is awesome, particularly particularly for a play-off game. >> peter: there is something very interesting going on these playoffs. right? because make no mistake about it. i really do think these are the two best teams in the nba that played all season and they are very different teams.

but both of them are known for their, quote, big three players. they have three stars and then they have a good sporting cast. but the big three on both teams aren't really the ones that are showing up. >> bill: is that right? >> peter: it's the other guys. the spurs have a phenomenal bench, and they have a deep bench and when they get on fire you know, you've got to figure out a way to stop them. >> bill: more sports with cindy boren with the washington post sports blogger. she will be here at the top of the next hour in studio with us. we love cindy, love having her. cecil richards president of planned parenthood will be joining us as well to talk about the big decision by the obama administration on the morning after pill, and that's where we will start this morning and take your calls about that. fred woodhouse, communications director, a real human dynamo for the democratic national committee is going to be here as well in studio.

we have a lot to look forward to, a lot to talk about, but first. >> this is the full court press. >> some other stores to take with you you head out the door this wednesday morning, the actor who plays chubbaca in the star wars film was held up at a t sa checkpoint because of his cane. walking cane. >> cocaine? >> cane. >> peter mayhew's cane is specially designed. it looks like a light sabre from the movies. >> t sa officers thought it might be a weapon because it's also heavier than a normal cane. after a short examination, they saw it was a cane for his handicap. he was allowed to proceed. >> if you are going to try to get on the plane with a light sabre, you can probably expect to take a little heat from it. >> bill: i think so. >> i think it's school that he has a light sabre cane.

in fact, if i get hobbled, i want one. >> another celebrity advocate is spending on the president to address climate change. robert redford says while the president has spoken out, he owes more and his intellect july july, obama owes them action now. he is starring in a new ad campaign for the national resources defense council which started this week. >> bill: it's nice that somebody -- there are people who have not forgotten the issue of climate change. good for robert read ford and the nr d.c. >> peter: the national museum set to open in washington in two years got a big boost to its fundraising campaign. oprah winfrey announced she is donating $12 million to the museum. >> that's in addition to the $1 million that she gave back in 2007 to jumpstart the project.

>> bill: oprah coming through. that big museum is under construction. >> it's a massive construction project. >> across from the washington monument there at the end of the upper portion of the mall. it's going to be a big deal. >> did you see the monument? they have the scaffolding and lit up. beautiful >> bill: spectacular. you probably weren't here. >> i wasn't. >> bill: they did that once before when they -- i think whatever, cleaning up the monument or for some reason years ago, they put the same scaffolding up and i was hoping they would do it the very same way. it was a work of art. >> it was beautiful. i love it. >> i was hoping they would never take that scaffolding down before. it really is. yeah. good. i am glad to hear that. i saw that they were putting it -- it's blue. right? and then lit from inside? >> it's a yellow light.

but they have sort of a darker scaffolding all around it and the light sort of spot lights >> bill: so yeah, this morning, we start on the morning, the morning after pill. i would love to get your comments. we have been talking among our team. this is a tough issue. right that a lot of people have evenlip liberals very long some mixed thoughts about. i mean, yes, i come down totally on the side of making the pill available and making it for sale crosses the board to girls of any age. i have to tell you i have mixed -- yes, that's my position. i am not trying to backtrack here but i do have some, you know, uneasy or second thoughts about it all. we know how it all started. the fda said look. you've got to accept the fact that young girls are having sex.

they need access to contraception, particularly after the fact emergency contraception. they shouldn't have section at thattage maybe -- have sex at that age. but if they don't, they make a mistake or they are a victim of rape or incest they should have access to emergency contraception across the board. kathleen sebilius health and human services secretary said, no, we are not going to go along with this. it's got to be 17 to get it over-the-counter. and the president endorsed that as well, said absolutely. look. i've got two teen-age girls. i don't want them to be able to get this stuff. and then we had a judge, edward korman who came in and said you are overruling your scientists. you have no basis on what to do that except you just want to be politically safe. >> that's not right. you've got to make it available across the board.

the obama administration responded by saying, all right. okay. we'll change from 17 to 15. wheel make it available but you've got to be 15. and the judge came back asked and said that's not good enough either. it's got to be, boom across the board. the obama administration originally said, you know, we can't live with this. the president really feels this is wrong. so does kathleen sebilius. we are going to appeal the judge's decision. that was the case and by the way, disappointing certainly organizations like planned parenthood who have long fought to have this emergency drug plan b availabled as it is in many other countries on the planet. until yesterday, the obama administration said, you know what? we realize we are not going to win this battle. we will never win it in the courts. so we are just not -- we are going to drop our appeal.

>> that's where we pick it up. eric herraro. we will talk to the planned parenthood who said yesterday this is a great flow for liberty. >> this is a huge ohiostep forward for women's health and women's equity, access to birth control has been a fight for decades. >> bill: eric ferraro continued. it doesn't mean that girls because of this, aring are going to have more sex. >> there are reams of research that access to the emergency contraception does the cause people to have sex more often, or more unsafe sex. >> bill: he says it won't be long before you will see this plan b, the morning after pill in the drug stores.

>> well a couple or few months, there should be at least one brand of emergency contraception on storage shelves and then others can apply as well. >> bill: jay carney told us at the briefing that president obama has not changed his position on this issue. politically, he has decided again not to appeal but he still, with his two daughters, thinks it should be only available 17 and up. not everybody's happy with the decision, of course. religious conservatives are accusing the president of buckling in to political pressure. actually, it's really just the opposite. he stood up to political pressure with a decision but then finally, realized he wasn't going to win in the courses, anna higgins is with the family research counsel sub sill. she said this is just going to help the people who pray on young girls. >> a lot of these young girls are often at risk to be sexually

abused and if they are able to access this over-the-counter, it's going to be a lot easier for predators to avoid getting caught because these young girls will not be getting guidance from parents or doctors. >> bill: there it is. love to know what you think about it. particularly you parents. we are so handicapped here in the studio because i have two boys. peter has two boys. we don't have girls. but maybe that's why the nexted feeling about it. but i think the fact is, you have to recognize that young girls are having sex shockingly younger and younger girls are having sex. they should have -- it's important that they have access that they know -- i say have some sex education so they know what precautions that ought to take and if they do make a mistake or are a victim of rape

that they should have access to emergency contraception and i think so even though it may make us a little uneasy i am all for the program. i think the judge did the right thing and i think we'll come to eventually accept it and it may be even wonder why we even question it. what about you? 866-55-press. 866-55-7377. there is no going back from this decision. plan b is going to be available in the drug stores starting within a couple of months like it or not. what do you think about it? especially be interested in talking to women and parents of young girls here on the full court press this wednesday morning. yeah. let's talk about it. >> connect with the bill press show on twitter. follow us @bpshow and tweet using the hash tag, watching bp. this is "the bill press show." on current tv.

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this is the full court press, the bill press "the bill press show," live on your radio and on current t.v. >> 25 minutes after the hour. the "new york times" here on the "full-court press," the "new york times" this morning tells the story of president obama making this decision under the headline, on the morning after pill "obama waives white flag in contraceptive battle." by the way two versions of this bill. there is the two-pill version, which is cheaper for some reason and the plan b, one-step pill which is a little more expensive but may be easier for younger girls to understand. we're not sure whether one or both are going to be made available, but with this decision the only other option for the administration for the president would have been to say, no, we are going to

continue to appeal. and if we lose, we are going to take it all the way to the supreme court. he they realize they probably would have lost there as well. what does this decision mean? is it the right 1? 866-55-press. to the phones. >> peter: on twitter @bpshow where done griffith says instead of all of this fighting on plan b, the government should stop cutting sex education classes from schools. those classes can stop unwanted pregnancies. >> bill: he would agree with that >> peter: jessica says this is a good thing. while i would like ladies to be safe, i know that's not always the case. the option to not be pregnant is a good option. find us @bpshow. >> allen joins us from battle creek, michigan hi halen. >> hi, bill. hey i have two granddaughters. they are 10 and 8 years old and i think this is a fantastic deal. >> bill: so you are not worried that they might be out there buying this and that might

encourage them to be more sexually active? >> >> caller: no. i really don't. it's just like the deal with the age limit at 17 and then down to 15. kids, younger, 15, don't have sex, i guess. >> bill: what are your sons or daughters, what are their parents' -- what do their parents think about this? have you discussed it with them? >> no, but i know my daughter wants it for my -- my one daughter, i know she has no problem with it. but my other -- no my other granddaughter's mother, i haven't talked to her. >> uh-huh. >> we haven't talked to them about this. we haven't talked about it at all as a matter of fact. but i mean as a father and a grandfather, i think this is a fant after thetic idea. it's got to lower teen pregnancies. >> bill: yeah. it seems to me that it would. and certainly better this than the alternative of having an abortion i would say. thanks, allen for the call. craig in niceville, florida.

hey, craig. call >> caller: i am wondering can anybody buy it for like some 50-year-old rapist in cleveland and give it to the girls he's got kidnapped or maybe some college kid can buy it and use it before he has sex with some girl. >> bill: that's a good question, craig. i would hope and that the answer would be no and think the answer would be no. so many opponents of this decision raise that had issue yesterday saying, this just means the pred ators and rapists are going to go in and get this pill and feel that they can go through with a rape and then give their victims this pill. i would hope pharmacists would sell it only to the girls. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ]

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 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 ] get social with bill press. like us at facebook.com/billpressshow. this is "the bill press show." >> bill: hey, you bet it is. thirty-3 minutes after the hour. the full court press here coming to you live from our nation's capitol. and we are brought to you today by the utility workers union of america, the good men and women of the utility workers' union under president michael langford delivering brighter services and a brighter future for all americans. find out more about their good work at their website, uwua.net the utility workers. yes, indeed, you know one other big issue in the news today, and this really strikes me as a -- i

am mixed about this one, too. okay. so yesterday they had the big debate on whether to open debate on immigration reform on the floor of the senate. it passed overwhelmingly. 84 to 15 said yes including 30 republicans, yes, let's go forward and debate this immigration bill. and as part of that tim cane got up and made a speech, senator from virginia made a speech explaining what's in the bill and how the bill works that's not the news. the news is tim cane gave his speech. tim cane, not marco rubio. not bob menendez. tim cane gave his speech entirely in espanol.

>>. >> prep /* /* [speaking spanish.) bills all right. he says there -- i know no enough spanish to say we are beginning debate on the immigration bill, and it's only appropriate that i explain what's in the bill in a language that the people affected by the bill can understand. >> that's the question. is it appropriate? it's the first time. everybody, all of the historians have said, yeah, first time. there have been occasional one sentence or maybe even a paragraph in spanish but the first time an entire speech on the floor of the senate has been given in spanish. is that is that okay? are you okay with that? i mean look. i am all for this immigration reform and i believe all of this ought to be bilingual, english and spanish but this is the united states senate and english

is our mother tongue. it is the language of the united states. don't you think that in the united states senate, everything ought to be in a language that every american can understand? hum? or that every senator can understand? 866-55-press. or am i being nativist here? 866-55377 i love tim cain. i am for bilingual education, but speeches on the floor when -- and, you know, maybe three senators can understand what he is saying? >> peter: you know why i like this? i like it because it's about the immigration bill and there are a lot of people who live here and they don't speak english and if they want to know what their elected officials are doing to help them, they might not understand, you know, what other politicians are saying. so they can understand.

>> bill: remember, immigration reform is not just about people from south of the border. >> peter: you are right. >> bill: immigration is also about a lot of people who come here from russia. >> that's a fair point. >> bill: who is going to give the speech in russian? so let me me here from you on that on twitter @bpshow. we will get back to your calls in just a second. i wanted to give you another reminder. you heard me do it so often about identify thing theft and how you have to be prepared against it. don't be like this woman up in victims until syracuse, new york a 25-year-old syracuse woman is now in prison for five years, and she's been ordered to pay $55,000 in restitution to these poor people who had their identity stolen by her and she used it to get their information to get loans and credit cards in her name. wouldn't happen if you were protected by lifelock ultimate as i am. lifelock ultimate.

of course, though, they can't protect you or your bank account if you are not a mer. visit lifelock.com or call and mention press10 and get 10% off your your lifelock ultimate membership. membership: lifelock ultimate. 1-800-356-5967. tim cane, the first speech ever in spanish on the floor of the united states senate. got a problem with that? peter? you've got a problem with that? no. you don't have a problem with that? >> peter: i don't have a big problem with it. and i will say i think that there are a lot of politicians believe it or not, who may stump for political gain and a lot of things republicans have done in the name of immigration reform have been total, 100% stunts, but i think that a lot of immigrants, they don't think

that washington is working for them. they've seen washington treat them like second-class citizens and if they wanted to tune into a big immigration debate and they saw a democrat from virginia speaking in spanish, that might say to them you are welcome here we welcome you. we want to make sure you hear what we are saying. >> bill: that assumes they are watching c-span. robert is calling from boston, massachusetts. hey, robert. >> caller: good morning mr. press >> bill: good morning. thank you. >> listen now i didn't appreciate that. i saw it in the news last night. 1996, bill colindon was out at portland state and said the face of america is changing and he made the quote that immigrants need toobey the laws and learn the language which is english. okay? i don't begrunge any person from coming to this kundcurrent tree who speaks a foreign topic.

i'm sorry. we have a huge latino explosion because mexico has failed their citizens. all right? but no. i'm sorry. it's not my job as an american born here to learn their native tongue of spanish. so i am going to disagree with you on that. >> bill: i don't know that we disagree. i think the fact is they have to learn english if they want to get a job and basically survive and thrive in this country. and i don't have a problem with -- there was this english-only ruling at one time, this movement. i don't know whatever happened to that movement that said you couldn't even speak pan issue to the workplace to somebody else who happened to be of spanish decent. i was picking up a sandwich and the two women behind the counter were speeching the language. i am talking about official business like on the floor of the united states senate yeah, i think it ought to be in

english. >> caller: it should be english. >> bill: so i don't know what tim cain was trying to prove. kathleen in chicago. >> caller: your old friend kathleen. >> bill: here she is. >> caller: how are you doinging? >> bill: haven't heard from you. where have you been? >> caller: i have been trying to call in. anyway, you are right, bill, if you are going to come to the united states and stand up in the senate we can't hardly understand english any more with this senate. stop laughing. >> bill: that's true. >> that's true. >> peter: stop laughing, bill. >> caller: but if you are going to come here adapt to our language. everybody wants to come here to america but everybody when they get to america want to shape it their way. speak in english. you not only have spanish. you have all kind of nationalities here >> bill: kathleen, this wasn't somebody, you know, who came here from another country.

this was like tim cain born in the united states of america. >> caller: that's what i am saying. it was wrong for him to do that. if he was going to do that have an interpreter stand there and go along with him and let other people know what he is saying. you know what i am saying? >> bill: i am just thinking about so the idea of debrate on the senate floor is you are trying to convince the other senators that this is what you ought to do. >> caller: right. right. right. belichick probably 97 or 96 of the senators of the 100 senators couldn't understand a word he was saying. >> caller: you know what? he probably didn't know what he was saying. he was probably reading it. >> bill: on that one, you are wrong, kathleen. he spent a lot of time in south america as a missionary and he learned the language down there. see? >> caller: he should be on that floor speaking english. speak our language. >> bill: good to hear from you. i miss you. let's take another comment from ann in rom chester, new york. do you have a problem with this?

>> i wonder which one of the senators even understands english. >> bill: kathleen made that point, too. sometimes you wonder. >> caller: i have no problem problem with them. they don't even know which end is up. >> bill: there are some there who do not understand engthe english language that can't get a good argument done in english hearing it or expressing it. i don't want to name names but james inhoff >> peter: thank god you didn't name any names. >> bill: i appreciate it. >> peter: comments from twitter and i would point out that one of the reasons i like it is you know that that had to piss off marco rubio and ted cruz who think they own that sort of segment. >> bill: that's the thing. if marco rubio had done it people would be attacking him saying, i don't care if you came from cuba or not.

you don't speak english. >> one person said bill you are acting like a grumpy old man. it's great that they did it in spanish and ripa demup said it was symbolic. stop making it out to be anything more than that. >> bill: i think it was more than symbolic. if you had spoken in greek? receipt? what are begoing to do? applaud because it's the first greek speech on the floor of the united states senate? i'm sorry. in the senate, speak english. >> this is "the bill press show."

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>> this is "the full court press: the bill press show," live on your radio and on current tv. >> bill: you bet it is. twelve minutes before the top of the hour cindy boren here in studio with us at the top of the next hour. then we will be joined by mike moffat. i'm sorry. mike german from the aclu. they filed a lawsuit yesterday against the nsa over it's big phone record collection program, that and the internet collection program, and while find out what that lawsuit is all about. meanwhile, ginger gibson has been report okay this whole issue of the nsa for politico. it still remains the biggest story in our nation's capitol. ginger joins us on our news line this morning. good morning ginger. >> good morning.

>> bill: where is edward snowden and what's going to happen to him? >> it would appear that the nsa doesn't know where he had ward snowden yesterday. >> bill: the nsa doesn't know where he is? nobody knows where he is. right. >> axially chambliss has said they don't know where he is. it would appear he was lost. after what's going to happen to him, a number of members, a mert number of politicians don't want him treated lightly. we heard from republicans and democrats alike that say they think he broke the law. he should be investigated and prosecuted. >> bill: there is also the story about senator ron wyden particularly unhappy with the fact that at a hearing a couple of months ago, he asked mr. -- he asked james clapper general clapper, head of the nsa -- right? or the director of intelligence.

he asked him this hearing -- at this hearing, he asked this question: does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? and clapper replied, no, sir"no, sir ". was he telling the truth ginger? doesn't seem like it? >> it appears he was not telling the truth. it would also appear that senator wyden at that time knew he wasn't telling the truth and he had access to this classified information. he asked the question on the record in a public hearing and senator wyden told a group of reporters yesterday he tried to give him another opportunity to come back later and and that answer, that he had the question the day before so he should have been prepared with an answer that was truthful, but he got none of those things. so in the most con dealial senatorial way, senator wyden was chastising clapper for

giving him an untruthful answer. >> bill: what does it say about this whole program when man in charge of it lies to congress about it? you know. >> we are looking at something that was highly classified that senators like wyden were very frustrated. they couldn't disclose publically. they were making attempts to try to corner someone. everyone knew about it that was in congress, that was in the executive branch, keeping quiet. >> bill: i am sure you have probably talked to her about it. senator feinstein yesterday, it's sort of an add monishment to the nsa has requested that some details of this program be declassified so that the american people will know what's going on. do you think that's going to happen? >> members of the senate intelligence committee asked some of these be classified saying they want to be able to talk more.

senator rubio said that details that are in the public right now aren't accurate, that there are inaccuracies, that there is a full picture and that he thinks if more people know about the safe guards that are in place that they will feel more comfort al- we also heard from angus king from maine said i want these to be classified. i want to be able to talk about this program more. asked by a reporter if this program was used to track the boston bombers and his response was i can't answer that now but i hope to be able to answer that in the coming days. there is a clamor if more people know the details they know they are going to feel more comfortable with this program. >> bill: yeah. i hope that push continues because i think that's certainly in the right direction. i mean we have talked about here on the program, it seems like everybody knew about this program. members of congress. members of the administration.

members of the court. the phone companies knew about it. the internet companies knew about it and 500,000 civilian contractors. everyone everybody knew about it except us, the american people. so, i think there will be a push to say here's exactly what we are doing and here is why you don't have to worry about it. >> the concern that our enemies are going to know what we are doing, what we are monitoring. >> that's gone. they know the leaks, they might as well tell everybody how much it works and how there are, as they clachl safeguards in place. >> any hearings called on this can yet? do we know of any that have been announced? >> we know that intel, the senate intel community met yesterday and talked about it in a private meeting and senator wyden says he is pushing to have public hearings. those could be coming. >> bill: keep us posted. ginger gibon at politico politico.com on this wednesday,

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who must use sign language? okay. del says okay with me. if they are going to speak spanish, they better be prepared to speak in greek italian, yiddish, chinese japanese the multiple native american dialect, irish and ebonics. spanish and redneck are not the only foreign languages. peter speaks redneck. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> bill: on the nsa, wayne b says, if americans are okay with the nsa vacuuming all of their data then, americans deserve the kind of government they vote into into. good point americans. we ought to raise hell about this. >> this is "the bill press show."

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in. i guess we should have known that all along. david letterman even got into it last night talking about how -- how you can listen to him. >> i don't know if you saw it last night and let me just apologize. we had a bad show last night. to tell you how bad the show was last night, halfway through, the white house stopped listening in. >> bill: that's how bad the show was. but not our show. they listened to all three hours of our show. yeah. absolutely. but david letterman, like most americans, doesn't have a problem with all of this snooping. >> tell me how you feel. do you mind that the nsa is opening your mail and listening to your phone calls? >> no. >> me neither. i don't care. it's nice to have a friend. don't you think? looking over your shoulder? it's like the lady that tells

you the directions in your car. at first, i thought it was annoying. then i realized it was like being married. >> bill: one time, a car and driver picked me up to take me to a t.v. appearance. we were going from capitol hill to the capitol and he had this voice that said turn left here. and i finally, said, how can you stand that? just turn that off. and the driver said no, you don't understand. she keeps me company. >> my little friend. >> he said, particularly like at night when i am by myself. you know, i just love having that voice in the car with me. it keeps me company. >> let me off at the next corner. i will walk. >> crazy. yeah. absolutely. cindy is here on bring us up to

date on a lot of fun sports stories. mike german from the aclu will be joining us a little bit later. they filed a lawsuit yesterday against this nsa snoop phone internet program. we will find out all about that here it just happened yesterday and cecil rich arpdz, the president of planned parenthood joining us at the top of the next hour but first. >> this is the full court press. >> other headlines making news on this wednesday, warren buffett put out a not-so-subtle hint on twitter yesterday that he wants hillary clinton to run for president. the oracle of omaha said he was happy to welcome one of his favorite women in the world to the social media world and ended with hash tag 45 meaning he wants her to be the 45th president. >> bill: maybe that means he will give her $45 million if she runs. >> shacky times at ka t ie

couric's new talk show. it has been renewed. two of her top producers and the show director are leaving the program, which last year saw its crater, geoff zucker leave to take over at cnn. couric was asked about the room occurs she was going to call it quits to go to cnn leaving her job at abc. she denied that report and asked the online reporter who asked her if he was having a slow news day? >> in other words, that's a yes. >> bill: how did she do in the ratings? >> quite well. >> she had the man t ae t ao. >> queen oprah. she did pretty well. she was getting her time slots. >> with the healthy options available to america, no surprise a majority are not touching them. a new survey by market research company mpv group find 25% of us

say they eat health whshing they go to restaurants. 37% say they want to eat what they want to eat. 23% saying specifically they go out to inactually. only 25% eating healthy. >> bill: not surprised at that. i figure what the hell? i am paying money. i am going to pig out. >> peter: if you want to eat a salad, you could do that at home. if you want to go out and eat, you know a bomb, you can do that in a restaurant. i don't eat healthy in restaurants. >> bill: i am tempted to talk about the vegetarian restaurants. >> peter: don't even. >> bill: cindy, i don't want to spoil your day. let's start out with something exciting. how about the spurs? what do you think? >> peter: yeah. go spurs. >> how about those spurs? >> peter: i have liked the spurs for a long time. i think they looked fantastic.

>> gary neil and danny green? tony parker got hurt. >> it was unwatchable after the middle of the third quarter. >> you have to add thirty that. >> i wanted to see if lebron james was going to cry. i was screaming "i hope you cry." there was so much emphasis put on the big 3 on both teams. >> yeah. >> the big 3 have been really quiet on both teams for the whole game. >> lebron james had one spurt of 12, 15 minutes of shear awesomeness. >> fifteen points? >> i think there is an apb out for chris bosh. the guy has disappeared.

world. >> i said to cyprian, you know, the spurs can't win on the backs of leonard and danny green and gary neil but i might be wrong. >> i believe you are wrong. >> they are up 2 to 1 now in the series and two more games at home. >> bill: miami has to win one, too. >> have to. >> yeah. if they don't, it's over. >> bill: yeah. with you surprised? >> not terribly, about two-thirds of the way through the season i was talking to a friend of mine. we were both talking about the spurs and i said i think the spurs might be the team to beat here as you kind of saw the thunder struggling a bit and then you just sort of watched the spurs do what they do, which is quietly win. so i am not -- i am not surprised. i thought the heat would put up a little more of a fight but you know they won all of those games. they went on that great march and i think they are pooped. >> bill: wow. tim tebow.

why did the patriots hire him? >> because bill bellettibell >> bill: . >> >> bill: he coached tim tebow in florida. >> peter: that's interesting. >> he sees something in tebow that he thinks he can use. let's face it. teboy is not going to replace tom brady unless there is an apocalyp t ic event. >> is he going to get to play? >> he didn't in new york. i am not sure he will be on the roster after training camp. >> bellichek didn't share the enthusiasm allotted of other people did. here was a response to the question of: why did you do this? >> anything we do is what we feel is in the best interest of

the team. a talented player that is smart and works hard. we will see how it goes? >> bellichek is like that. he looks as if he has witnessed some unfathomable tragedy. >> popovich. >> i have grown to love his press conferences. they are challenging to a reporter. parcels were the same way. he was a little fun year and march sark after theidge but bellichek was asked about it. ebowing. he changed the subject. he said, i think we have talked enough about him. the circus will be kept to a minimum. there was a flock of reporters certainly at the mini camp yesterday. i am sure they will be there today. tebow came off of the field. there was no big press could be friends. he was immediately engulfed by reporters and all he did was read a 36-second statement saying how happy he is to be there.

>> struck by what you said that you are not sure. isn't he hired for more than three months. >> this is the nfl. you can cut a guy tomorrow. >> bones are crushed every day in the nfl. >> this is a two-year contract. putting it whoseley but there is no -- there is no guaranteed money. they can part with him whenever the whim strikes bellichek. if he doesn't see this working out, they will cut him. >> couldn't they -- and i heard some speculation that they might not play him at quarterback but put him as a tight end. >> he was drafted by josh mcdan yields when mcdaniels was thehead coach. mcdaniels used him in a lot of odd packages like that and goal line things specialty packages. >> washingtonpost.com is where you can find cindy boren, early league sports blogger. you have blogged that tiger

woods says sergio hasn't apologized yet. grow up. right? how long is this going to go on? >> they shook hands which was an awkward handshake. >> so weird. >> here is what sergio should have done. he should have said how long does it take to shake hands? five seconds? 10 seconds? i'm really sorry. i was a glass bowl. i was a jerk. i couldn't have said that. i'm sorry. that really would have covered the handshake. >> it wouldn't take long. >> right. instead, it didn't come up. he didn't say anything for whatever reason, according to woods. and then sergio afterward went into the media room and said well, i left him a note in his locker. >> both acting like babies. aren't they? >> i don't think tiger was. >> i think tiger likes to keep

it alive? >> i think so, too. well, you know. >> i don't blame him. it's a mind game. >> for the most part, there is a ride on this. why would you? >> bill: here is the question i have about that: are they going to be able to play? >> sure. >> a picture i saw of this golf course, people were walking around, you know, like in mud up to their knees. >> and there is more rain expected. what are the conditions? golf -- not all golf courses drain that well. >> this one unfortunately has a creek running through two holes. but it's prone to flash flooding, i think the 11th and 12th holes. they have a contingency plan in place where they will play on those two holes. it's the east course. there is also a west course. they would move play to two holes on the other course. now, the problem i just saw on twitter is that a dora t io is forecast for tomorrow. >> whoa. we saw the one that came through

washington, d.c. >> it tearfies everyone here maybe it's nothing. i think they have them all the time. i ammed from midwest, you know, they are fairly common but the one that went through here last year is bad. the course is already soggy and the cart paths were flooded. the other problem is the u.s. open draws a huge crowd. this is a tiny golf course. it's lined by railroad tracks. there is a road that runs right along beside it. you would be driving along and hey, what's that? >> the u.s. open golf club outside philly. it's going to be really tricky. it's a really short, tight course. no room for people. >> bill: when courses are wet there are restrictions on where you can take the golf court and everything. how are they going to get crowds through the mud?

>> if they are not going to walk on the cart paths. they were flooded the other day. i think they have cleared that up. it's going to be interesting. >> it is. it's going to be a mess. it's going to be as messy as the redskins trying to figure out what to do about the name "redskins." we will tell you their latest ploy when we come back with cindy boren talking all things sports here on the "full-court press." >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ] >>i believe people are hungry for it. and on twitter at bpshow. >>i believe people are hungry for it.

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nsa with mike german from the aclu about the big lawsuit filed, that they filed yesterday against the administration. the nsa phone collection program. right now, we are talking all things sports with cindy boren from the washington post early league sports blogger. so cindy, you know, this question about whether or not the red scans would ever change their name. they are finally doing something about it. peter, you might -- >> peter: our friends at think progress found this out: that the nfl is bringing in frank lun t z, republican you see on fox news all the time conducting a football focus group in alexandria village tomorrow. he is going to pay participants $100 each to share their opinions about football and there are specific questions in there about the redskins' name and so, they are trying to find out how people feel about the

name, the controversial name "redskins" and the redskins are dan snyder is in bed with frank lun t z, two of the most heated people in washington, d.c. >> i think snyder sort of dug himself out of that hole. i think there is a little more for him than there used to be. why alexandria? because it's a liberal community. >> right. >> and a pretty democratic city. ty find that kind of interesting. >> frank is of the school, you know, you find it's all about words and you just find that's what he has done for republicans for years and years and years. right? ? >> yeah. the polling thing didn't work out too well until last election for that side as i recall. >> bill: it did not. i don't know what he is going to do for the redskins. finally, i have to ask you about the na t s? >> they are still struggling along but they got a little good

news. >> they got hammered? >> in colorado, they couldn't hold on against the rockies. but they did not get some good news harper, you know, in florida, the guy who operated on rgiii's knee and he doesn't have to have surgery. the doctor said there is no structural damage. he just got a couple of shots that he didn't want. he got them anyway. >> i am good with that. >> bill: now they have to win games. >> oh, yeah. >> there is that. >> there is. >> a long way to go? >> this is baseball you have to do it. good. keep home alive. >> cindy, thanks for coming in today. covered a lot of territory. great fun. we will come back to you at the ends of the day. >> this is "the bill press

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stop the collection of our domestic phone records. that lawsuit filed by the aclu. mike mike german, 7 ario policy counsel for the aclu, a former fbi agent, himself, in studio with us this morning. hello, mike. good morning. >> thanks for having me. >> i didn't know you could sue the federal government. can you? >> oh, yes. we do it regularly. >> you do it on behalf of? >> well often, we have clients whose constitutional rights have been violated. >> right. >> in this case, the aclu is a verizon customer so we are actually suing on our own behalf. >> bill: i see, because your phone records? >> right. >> were seized? >> the phone records that were leaked out to the media actually covers it. >> so your contention is what? that this is illegal? >> it's unconstitutional infringement on the first and

fourth amendments. >> and the administration says on, you know, the reverse much this which i have been hearing at the whitehouse for the last few days, this is an important -- this is a necessary program, important program, as part of our -- they don't call it the war on terror any more, and it's keeping us safe? >> and there is no evidence of that, as mark eudall on the intelligence committee has said, he is not clear this program has been helpful. and, you know, if you go back to 2008, the department of homeland security had the national academies of science, national research council doll a stud fy data mining for terrorism -- because that's how this works, collect all of the data and we will use algori t hms to sort through it to figure out who were the bad guys that it's not feasible and would create so many false positives that the government would have to chase down, infringing on the rights of people who are completely innocent that it would not even be a good policy choice to go

that way. and why et the government has moved completely in that direction to what they call big data, doing exactly that. >> the argument that i have heard which you just sort of alluded to is someone supports the program and told me, i am just wrong by sharing your concerns about it, is that in order to find out who the bad guys are, you have to know who the good guys are. so you have to collect all of this dad /* data and then kind of sort out and set aside the good guys and then you are left with the bad guys. >> well, 16 years working in the fbi, 12 of which is working domestic terrorism, what i found was the opposite. if i spent a lot of time chasing down information about innocent people, that was a waste of time, that the evidentiary standards that were required then that required me to have reasonable suspicion which, let's face it, most law enforcement officers wake up in the morning suspicious of people. so it's not a very high standard but it helped me focus my

investigation. so i was actually looking at the right people. more likely to be looking at the right people. you know, that you want to be spending your time on the guilty people, not on innocent people. every resource you spent collecting information analyzing information about innocent people is wasted resources that should be focused. if with he look at boston, foivens, if it's true that tamerlan t saernaev was responsible, if we put this money in tried and true law enforcement, perhaps it would have had a different outcome and practices you would not only have saved future crimes but solved real crimes in communities that are making them less safe. >> the aclu file a lawsuit against the buck administration for the wiretapping under nsa? >> yes. >> so, isn't there a difference

between what happened in the bush admin station and what's happening under the obama administration in that obama unlike bush, has gone to the fisa court and the fisa court said, okay with us. follows the law, the patriot act, which is the law? >> a problem for you isn't it. >> the program when it was revealed in 2005, the bush administration -- this is kind of part of the trouble talking about this issue, when something comes out, they define it narrowly. this is only talking to terrorists. if you read the law, it says they can do more than that. they can gather foreign intelligence, defined very broadly in the statute. so it was brought, the program

was supposedly brought under the fisa court the secret court in 2007. so this program appears to have started around 2006 using section 215 of the patriot act. >> bill: right? >> even representative sessenbrenner, the chief sponsor said nobody at the time in congress considered this type of interpretation that would allow the wholesale collection of all americans communications. so it's an interpretation of the statute that's beyond reason. you are questioning the constitutionality it. there are sgeingsz at the district court level where they make a mistake in the law because it's a complex question. here you have a secret court that only meets with the

government so they never get the benefit of our adversarial system where there is somebody saying, hey, wait a minute. you are omitting one case that, you know, nobody is talking about here that's controlling here or, you know, here is a different point of view on that. that's how our system works is you have two sides so the judge can hear both arguments. in the fisa court, it's not that way. >> this is -- this program is authorized rightly or wrongly by the patriot act. right? >> right. section 215. >> bill: why did congress so readily go along with this? not just initially with the patriot act but with a renewal of the patriot act? i mean some of our progressive liberal pro-civil liberty friends didn't seem to raise that much of a stink about it? >> much to my consternation, against the reauthorization, part of the problem is the secrecy, only a few members of congress could get any detailed briefing of this and when those briefings come in, you know as

we have seen recently, the words that the intelligence officials use often have a different meaning to them than they do to the congressmen so there is a lot of confusion about what's actually authorized. and there is too much secrecy so that most members of congress don't actually get to see what's happening. so what happens now to your lawsuit? do you you filed it just yesterday. >> right. >> bill: department of justice has responded? >> not yet. there is a bill introduced that would bring more transparency required. because that's a lot of the problem is that we don't know how they are analyzing the law and part of the reason it's being kept secret is because they know americans won't like the way that they analyze that law and will call for a change. >> so this would be heard in new york at the appellate -- some appellate court at some time in

the future? is that -- >> it will go through the district court level. >> district. >> yeah. >> to have success there. perhaps the government would then appeal to the circuit court and we would proceed. >> if you contend what the government is doing is illegal is what he had ward snowden did legal or illegal? >> so -- >> did he break the law? >> that will remain to be seen. you know, he has -- >> he took an oath. >> well, he took an oath to defend the constitution. >> that's the same oath i took which is why i left the government which i felt like i could no longer do that within government. so his oath is first to the constitution, as all government employees are. >> isn't it also to keep the secrets? >> that's the contract that he signs when he joins up with an intelligence outfit with the fbi

as well. there are certainly legal concerns with this type of providing classified information. first, you have to decide whether it's properly classified understands the executive order. you can't classify an illegal program, you know, you can't classify something to hide it from the government because -- or from the public because it's illegal. that's not an easy question that we can make with the facts that we know now but clearly, we believe that what the government was doing was illegal. and, you know, parts of the problem is there aren't safe avenue avenues. one of the reasons i left the f.b.i. is because i complained about an illegal activity in a case and, you know, got put inin on the bench you know, for two years wasn't allowed to work cases. bays they didn't like that i was complaining about a case. and illegal activity inside the government. so there is no safe averagenue in

the intelligence community. >> that's interesting because i have been told by several people, snowden, if he really thought something was wrong, then there were lots of opportunities for him, you know, to -- >> i would suggest you refer those people to tom drake, the nsa official who reported to the inspector general and found himself understand the espinoage act act and the case fell apart when it went to try, partly because the do you think weren't properly classified that they were claiming he had. there aren't safe channels unfortunately. >> it will now be in the court, the nsa program thanks to the aclu filing their lawsuit yesterday. mike german, senior policy counsel for the aclu here in studio. i am sure you have questions or comments about this latest action. the aclu i think they are represent representing all of us. how about you? do you think they have gone too far? 866-55-press. like politics?

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1-800-356-5967. peter, comments? >> yeah. >> bill: online. >> peter: on twitter at bp show. you can find us there and join in the conversation. the suit that's being brought, first of all, did the aclu ever look at the bush administration sort of how they did some of these -- some of their techniques? >> bill: i think the answer to that is yes. >> yes, of course. and another -- something else somebody brought up is should there be any lawsuit or looking at any lawsuit towards congress itself? because they are the ones who put the patriot act through? >> as far as the aclu suing the bush administration we sued them a number of times about the warrantless wiretapping program. >> bill: yeah. >> the difference there is there is something called standing. you have to prove that you have been harmed. >> that's the first question that the court looks at is how do you prove you have been

harmed? it's a secret program. the government said we won't tell anybody who we are listening to. so you can't prove you were harmed. we actually -- so we weren't able to proceed because we couldn't prove that. the difference here is -- >> you were a verizon service customer? >> clearly this covers us. so we believe that we will be able to overcome that standing hurdle. >> so is the problem with this program the program, sits itself, or the fact that it was kept secret? >> well, i think the reason it was kept secret was because they knew the public wouldn't stand for it. so, you know, when you have -- you know, there was a lot of resistance to the words on the page in that stat your report. we resisted it. a lot of groups, you know, there was a lot of, you know, concern over this unfortunately. congress passed it. and, you know, we said it was over broad and could be over interpreted.

over interpreted. >> as it has been. >> as it clearly has been. even the authors now, this is far beyond what we had considered would be possible under this legislation. so we can the legislation has to be amended. there is a secret court opinion saying this is how it works. you've got to change the law. >> general he i calling from lepor t >> caller: i had like to make a comment. i totally support the aclu. if we didn't have them we would be in trouble >> bill: amen. >> caller: i think we are heading down a slippeshy slope. it's looking like 1984. i am very disturbed, very upset. i think americans have become too complacent and we should not give up our privacy for this type of surveillance. i think it's quite scary. >> bill: thank you, jenny. well said. well said. quickly: mr. clapper or

director clapper in testimony in front of the senate when he was asked directly by senator wyden, are you collecting information on millions and millions of americans? he said, "no, sir." he's in trouble, too. isn't he? >> yeah. and he even said that at the time, he thought it was the at least untruthing he could say. it's a difference flu how the intelligence community understands the word "collected" they believe it's not collected until human beings are looking at it, electronically taking it and putting it in computers is not collecting. >> good luck with that one. >> he lied to congress about this program. he lied to the american people. >> certainly senator wyden has suggested he wasn't truthful >> bill: this is a very, very important step. you are kind of preping this to a head. as it moves along, i hope you will keep in touch with us and keep us up to date. >> absolutely. >> aclu.org.

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a politician on twitter? what could possibly go wrong? >> by the way, so just thinking the number that she is up to. >> she is 429278. >> 429,000. okay. >> peter: yeah. >> bill: let's find out how many people have now signed the petition on the white house to pardon edward snowden? it is 60,465. >> not bad. >> bill: more than halfway there. we need 100,000 to get that up to where the white house has to respond. we are going to talk to cecil richards about the big decision about the obama administration on plan b, the morning after drug, morning after pill coming up here, right here at the top of the hour and then brad woodhouse from the dnc communications director will join us.

but first. >> this is the full court press. >> a check of other headlines making news on this wednesday in sports, lebron james took the blame in the locker room. lebron james took the blame last night after the miami heat got destroyed by the san antonio spurs 113 to 77 in a 6-minute post-game interview. james who scored just 15 points said, i've got to do better five times. the spurs went on a 69 to 33 run, thanks to 27 points from danny green and the team scored 16 3-point shots. >> that's an nba finals record. the spurs now lead the series 2 to 1. game 4, tomorrow night. >> bill: i mean in every category, the spurs just killed them. >> peter: spurs crashed it. 14 points last night. unheard of for him. >> the host of a popular food show says he hates cooking

shows, host of bizarre foods on the travel channel told the huffington post yesterday he believes quote 99% of all food shows are crap. he says the word offenders are fake experts who have no expertise other than they look good doing it. all of the shows where people stand behind cutting boards and chop and talk are simply boring. >> i don't disagree with him. >> i don't either. >> the actor who plays chubakka in the star wars film was helped up at a t sa checkpoint in denver a couple of weeks ago at the airport because of his cane. the hill reports peter mayhew's cane is specially designed. it looks like a light sabre, the weapon from the movie that t sa's officers thought it might be a real weapon after a short examination, they thought it was a cain for his handicap not a real light sabre. he was allowed to proceed.

>> you would think they might have recognized him. >> chubakka. >> yeah. that's right. out of his suit. yeah. >> i would hope they don't -- >> got it. got it. the "new york times" headline this morning, on the morning after decision by the obama administration, obama waf's right flag in contraceptive battle. we know the administration originally said they were going to appeal a judge's decision that the pill should be available across the counter to girls of any age. they have simply -- since dropped that appeal cecil richards, the ceo of planned parenthood welcomed the obama administration's decision and she joins us on our news line this morning. good to talk to you again? >> good to hear from you, too. >> why is this decision by the obama administration, why is it so important? >> it's just great news because

it's going to mean essentially birth control is more vaible to women. it's going to help prevent unintended pregnancies, safe for women and it's been a long time coming, but it was worth the wait. the concern was, right for younger girls? that's why they wanted it 17 or 15 but the judge said it's got to be available for girls of any age. why is that necessary and important? >> i think what's important is the more barriers we put up for women getting emergency contraception, folks are older teens and young women but everything that has been done so far has made it difficult to get behind the counter. now the fact is women are going to be able to go in, get it just like they should be able to off of the shelf and purchase it for those kind of restrictions is going to make it more available all of the science and research that has been done shows that very young women do not use this

contraception: it's been proven safe, proven effective. it's going to give us one more chance to help women prevent an unintended pregnancies which is what we are all about. >> and will not encourage younger girls to have section even more to have sex because this is available? >> absolutely not. there is no evidence that that happens. and in fact, you know, there has been some question about how easy it is to get emergency contraception. this is not a cheap investment you know. >> right. >> so there hasn't been any evidence that that is true. what i do think we have to do a better job of, bill and you and i have talked about this before is we have to do a better job providing sex education to young people, help them from getting in a circumstance that they would needy merge emergency contraception in the first place. >> that's what we are focused on at planned parenthood.

>> you alluded to the price of this. this is not like buying an aspirin. right? >> absolutely right. >> i have seen the research that has been done showing women do not use this as a form of birth control. they use it as it should be used which is in emergency or there is some reason to believe they might be pregnant when they don't want to be. it's a very effective safe way to prevent unintended pregnancies. >> do we know? i couldn't understand from the news accounts whether it's going to be the one pill or the two pill version of this that's available. do we know? >> of course, you know it depends, you know, the companies that produce this are going to have to go back to the fda but this should make it available for the one-pill version which is again a safe, effective and needs to be more available so that's what i think we are -- you know, we are waiting to see. obviously it will be important that the companies, themselves have to make this did be go back

to the fda. but we are encouraging the fdas to make this happen. >> are both equally effective? >> they are. >> one pill ease year the other than because it's just one pill? >> that's exactly right. >> that's exactly right. you know, it's very effective. it can help prevent pregnancy if taken within five days of unprotected sex. and i think that's, again, we have unfortunately the u.s. still have the highest rate of unintended pregnancy in the industrialized world so this is a real opportunity, again, to help women from becoming pregnant when they don't want to be. >> when you say in the industrialized world. we are hardly the first nation to make this pill available. correct? >> that's correct. now, that's correct. and again, the problem is the barriers that have been put up have not been medical or scientific. they have really been political. we just got through a period where we are actually getting birth control for the first time covered by all insurance plans

again, you know, there are political fights. we have more than 50 lawsuits that have been filed to try to prevent this. the american people agree getting birth control to be more available, more affordable for women does exactly what the vast majority of americans want to do which is help women prevent an unintended pressure noonings, plan their family so they can have kids when they are ready to support them. >> cecil richards with plannedparenthood.org. how soon will we see plan b available in the pharmacies? >> i think it's going to be a few months before it moves to the store shelves. it's already available behind the counter in pharmacies but i think we are going to see, you know i hope in the very near future, it will be on the she was like it should be available for women all across the country.

one made this available. what's going to happen is predators are going to come in woo be rapists will buy this pool and have this tool. so it's a boon for the predators. who is going to be -- what do you say about that? and who is going to be able to buy it? >> first of all, there is no evidence that that is true and it's been used as an argument to prevent women of any age from getting emergency contra exception. quite honestly, bill right now anyone over the age of 17 can go and get -- 17 and over can go and get emergency contraception, you know, over-the-counter without a prescription, so that's really not an issue. >> that's a false issue. i think that the problem we have had is that for women who needy merge emergency contraception -- and again, it's called emergency contraception because you need it in an emergency, not between 9:00 and 5:00 when the pharmacist is on duty. the problem is women have not been able to get this important

birth control option unless they could get it from behind the counter. this is really simply going to make it easier for women to get right off of the shelf like it should be. >> bill: it's a big victory, big victory not only for planned parenthood but for the women of this country. you have been fighting very hard for this for a long time cecil richards. congratulations. congratulations. >> thanks, bill. >> bill: most progressives are happy to see the obama administration even if they are accepting the reality they were going to lose in the courts they came to the right decision at any rate. >> it was the right decision for women's health. look, i think it's important to understand this is not a partisan issue. i had republican women and really very excited about this, too, because again, i think this is something that brings people together on all political sides which is with he need to help women prevent unintended pregnancy. this is a great, great advance for that cause. >> we sat you'll the great work you are doing. thanks so much? >> thanks. >> take care.

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this is "the bill press show." >> bill: here we go 24 minutes after the hour now on -- early on a wednesday morning june 12th. brad woodhouse is communications director for the democratic national committee. livewire indeed. brad will be here in studio with us in the next half hour the latest on the nsa front is edward snowden is still nowhere to be seen or heard, although there are reports this morning that he is still in hong kong in a safehouse somewhere and that he is consulting with legal authorities on his options. meanwhile, the department of justice is preparing to file official charges against him for violating, they say, the espionage act of 1917 by releasing to the guardian and to

"the washington post" documents noting the existence of this massive data collection program on the part of nsa. it was the subject again of several questions at our briefing yesterday with jay carney at the whitehouse. carney repeating that the leaks like this are dangerous. >> we have very serious concerns about the leak classified information about programs that are very important to our national security. >> bill: and jay carney said that even though snowden was a civilian contractor not a member of the military not a -- an employee of the federal government, he still had an obligation to keep these secrets. >> videos who take an oath to protect classified information are bound by it whether they are

government employees or contract employees. >> bill: now, to me, this gillsets to the central question of which i want -- tried to get carney to answer yesterday and did not get called on probably because he doesn't trust me any more. >> who does these days? >> he knows is of i am not going to be a geoff gannon. the question to me, i think this is an unnecessary program of vast overreach on the part of the government and a basic violation of our right of privacy. however, the real question i had is, why does it have to be a secret? i keep coming back to that. but i do not understand. if this program is so important, is so vital to our national security is so necessary to keep us safe then tell us about it. >> that's all. just say, you know what? in this day and age, the only

way we can keep track of their only ifs is to keep track of your phone calls, too. we are not listening in. we want to know all of the calls that are made. that's how we find the bad guys. i think most americans would accept that. you know, again, we have accepted so much else. surveillance cameras everywhere you look, for god's sake. air marshalls on planes. i have mentioned that. t sa screening. we accept all of that. i think americans, they would say we have to do this. we just want you to know we are doing it. it's the keeping it secret that drives me crazy. i think our guest from the aclu mike germany made a good point, where were they during george bush? they went after the bush administration for overreach okay privacy issues then and they are going after the obama administration now for the same thing. if wither going to be consistent about it. >> how far some of these people are willing to go pete king peter king, republican from long island yesterday said we even should -- listen to this

prosecute reporters for asking questions. >> if they willingly knew this was classified information, the whole issue there is an obligation, i believe again against disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security. >> yeah. now let's trash the first amendment in the name of national security. i am telling you, national security is out of control. we have a big debate on immigration. we have a big special election in massachusetts to fudged outed what brad woodhouse has to say about both. >> this is "the bill press show."

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massachusetts between ed markey and mr. gomez, gabriel gomez, the republican opponent. >> that's just one of the big priorities now for the democratic national committee. brad woodhouse communications director of the dnc has taken just a few moments out from his hard work there to join us in the studio. brad, good to see you. >> bill, thanks for having me. >> leading the fight on many fronts. >> doing the best we can. how do you call this senate race up in massachusetts? >> well, i mean i think if you -- you know, if you look at the public polls you have to feel decently good. i think the politics mark them up about 10 points. we had some good public poles in south carolina in the colbert-bush race and that turned quickly. so i would tell people who are thinking about making an investment in this race or volunteering for this or deciding whether or not they are going to go out to vote, you

know, and want ed markey in the senate, don't take anything for granted. these things in special e elections are very unpredict unpredictable. the vice president, it's interesting. i mean, you talk about having the party, the party behind markey. the vice president and al gore had a fundraiser for ed markey that he was not in attendance for because he had a debate in massachusetts. the president is going there today. so no one at the very highest level of the party is taking this for granted. we don't want anybody else. if you are thinking about volunteering, thinking about giving, thinking about voting, don't think. go vote. it's very critical. as you know, these senate races and these special e elections can have a big impact on the momentum as we go in to a lot of things. >> up hoe. >> not just political races but as we, you know as we go into debates on capitol hill. people would take a loss.

a loss by ed markey and a win by someone that believes assault weapons should be on the streets and believes we should have high-capacity magazines floating around. it would be a setback for the gun issue. it has a lot of important meaning beyond just the seat, itself. >> ed markey has to be one of the most qualified, most experienced people ever to run for the united states senate. particularly on the issue of climate control room. he has been such a strong leading voice for years and years and years. >> the leading voice on that issue and been a real leading voice on the issue of reducing gun violence. >> yeah. >> he's been a huge leader on that. that. he has massachusetts at its heart in terms of what their priorities are. with all due respect to mr. gomez who served his country admirably, he is out of step.

it's hard to be a republican in massachusetts, but, you know, that's why they keep electing democrats. it is a state that believes fervently in a woman's right to choose, they believe in access, you know, having access on your insurance to birth control and things like that and they believe in reducing gun violence and, you know, they want to get rid of these assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and he is not there with those issues. >> bill: the message is it's 2 weeks? >> 25th. >> bill: 25th? thirteen days ago? >> that's right. it's the 25th. the day after -- the day after that race will be the 100th anniversary or the 100th day since reince prebius came out with their autopsy report. it's an opportune time or inopor

tune time depending upon the election the night before. >> bill: don't take massachusetts for granted. >> no. >> bill: mistakes can happen and turnout can be low. we want to do everything we can to make sure ed markey is the next senator for massachusetts. >> let's for the forget what happened in a special election before. we have evidence that a special e elections are unpredictable and even in massachusetts, they are not necessarily going to go the democrats' way if we don't pull out all of the stops. >> there is another special election coming up brad. there will be soon in october in the state of new jersey. >> that's right. >> bill: now, don't know who all of the candidates are going to be. so far three democrats, two members of congress. congressman hope comes from clone cologne and mayor booker. >> there is some discussions on the republican side. i don't think they have the candidate they would want.

they obviously especially national republicans national senate republicans, the nrsc feels a little hamstrung by what governor christy did. he could have put a republican in that in that seat to serve until 2014. >> to build up some credibility maybe and try to win that seat in their own right. instead, he appointed a caretaker and had this special election occur, you know, occur sooner which we think we have add anan advantage. >> do you feel democrats have an advantage? new jersey? >> look. i think so. you know one, if you look at the trouble that they are having recruiting someone for that seat on the other side. remember, these primaries are this summer. the general e legislation is in october. they are really running, really kind of running out of time and we are blessed with a very, very deep bench. any of the three men you mentioned would obviously make

strong united states senators and, you know, frankly, if the handicapping is correct and we can win this special election in october, obviously they have to turn around and run again in november of 2 ent 14. they will have a full head of steam to do that. >> yesterday, talked about issues that could be impacted by either of these races yesterday, the senate overwhelmingly 84 to 15 voting to begin debate on immigration reform. 30 republicans even. the president came out yesterday and supported the bill. so we are going to see an immigration bill out of the senate. >> i think so. you know, i think that's pretty clear. this is like the markey race. let's not get ahead of ourselves. we have got to work. we've got to, you know work the phones. we've got to work these phones and legislators. because as i remember, we got a pretty strong vote on the motion to proceed to the mancien-t

oomey bill. we did proceed. >> not as big. it did not get passage in the end. we got over 60 votes on the motion to proceed. we didn't get the 60 votes we needed to off come a filibuster and get an up-or-down vote on that. so, let's not -- let's not count our chickens before they hatch so to speak but you have to feel good. this is one of the encouraging things. whatever the motives are, frankly. probably the fact that they will have a lot of difficulty ever winning another national election if they don't do this. but with the demography you know. >> clearly and i think some of them recognize this. john mccain has said that. whatever their motives are, there are republicans and democrats working together to try to get this to try to get this done. you have the gang of 8 which i think is going to try to make sure no poison pill amendments

get a tapped. there is some encouraging -- i have a hard time i believe i am saying this but some encouraging signs out of the house leadership. they want to move this along. they like to have the debate. this bill on the floor, you know, and even there was an article yesterday, i saw, where john boehner hasn't said he absolutely would stick to the hasser t rule to get immigration reform passed. those are encouraging signs. >> they both speak to this question which you raise of there is no doubt. put it this way. crenels, wow. >> 871%. >> that's what they promised to

do as part of their autopsy report. i want to come back to that. you mentioned it. the committee report and the college republicans report. both calling for major, major, major changes in outreach in the republican party. 100 days anniversary of that autopsy report. brad wood house is here with the dnc. you know the number, 866-55-press. brad is more than happy to take your challenges your comments or your praise by phone, 866-55-press. >> hovered around the country and seen on current tv this is "the bill press show." ney

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[ music ] >> this is "the bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. >> 13 minutes before the top of the hour. here we go on the "full-court press," talking with brad woodhouse about some of the important democratic races around the country, and brad i do want to ask you about first of all, i find it very very funny that the rnc would call the report on how the party needs to improve their autopsy report, you don't do autopsies on people that have any life left in them. >> that's right. that's right. who knows? that was always a curious time. >> all of this talk about reaching out to women and minorities and to young people

how are they doing? >> well extraordinarily poorly if you ask me. i want to be the first to say we want them to come around on this immigration. a suggestion out there, democrats would benefit if republicans stood in the way of immigration reform. you would get that latino vote again in 2014. we want to get it done. it's the right thing to do. it's the right thing for the economy. it's a broken system. get people to follow the rules. the politics take care of itself unbelievably poorly to outreach. they specifically. lgb t community but definitely african-americans, women as a place where they needed to reach

out. north dakota republican-led legislature has banned abortion. that's going to get -- i mean, they've all but banned abortion. a woman's right to choose. >> that's going to get certainly overturned at some point, you know, by the supreme court. you've got nominees for governor and lieutenant governor in virginia who were so discriminatory against the lgb t community and have some of the most horrible things to say, the lieutenant governor there has come paired gay men and women to pedophiles. and, you know, it is extraordinary. then you look last week, the house of representatives, all but four republicans voted essentially to deport 800,000 dreamers. they said they took away their vote if law which would become law, it would have the effect of taking action to defer these

prosecutions. by their parents or by some other family member. the their response is deport them. we are back to mitt romney simple deportation but in this case, available for deportation. the president has provided so next week, the house will have a bill on the floor to restrict abortion. obama care which we know african-americans, many americans care about but particularly those that are already through obama care so you can't find much evidence, can't find any evidence.

in fact, they seem to have almost regressed since the election. i tell you what i think. that was all talk. they are banking on hoping that the 2 ent 14 mid-terms are a base election and they are going to push all of those but they are important races in allotted of states that where these demographics are going to be run against them even in the mid-term. >> a quick word from dave in denver. >> caller: good morning, gentlemen. thank you very much for taking the call >> bill: glad you are there? >>t >> caller: you are wrong on the immigration issue. of the citizenship is the biggest legacy the biggest inheritance most americans get from their parents and when we give immigration an especially when we don't force our own law, that's called corruption when the government won't enforced its own law fairly. we are giving away the opportunities that are there for

our american fellow citizens to these immigrants who really don't care about the country, don't care about america. they are here for the money, gentlemen. they are here for the money. they don't care about anything else. >> bill: this proves, dave i guess as president lincoln said, even a dog can't catch all flees. right? we are not going to convince everybody. >> it's importantly. >> one thicken we can all agree with dave on everyone in this debate agrees on is that we have a broken system. but the answer is not to do nothing. so we know that we are not going to round up and deport 11 million, 11 million people. it's impractical. it would be devastating to the economy. law enforcement would be overwhelmed. it would balloon our deficit. we have to fix this system. no one is talking about, you know, flipping a switch and having 11 million people who are undocumented become citizens but we are talking about a fixing

the system and dealing with the problem that we have. i mean you could wish it away. you could wish away, you know, the broken immigration system but that's not going to happen. so, you know, in theory, a lot of what dave said may be true about the value of citizenship, not undermining that but that's not going to happen here. i mean the people people are coming here not for the money. they are coming here because they see opportunity in america and they believe that the american waymuch justice and democracy and the economy is where they want to be. they are coming here. you know, they are coming here because they want to be part of it, not because they want to abuse it. >> we do not under value our citizenship by sharing some of the blessings of this. >> not one bit. >> like our ancestors did. >> not one bit. >> brad, so good to see you. >> are we done? >> we are done. can you believe it? you are just getting warmed up.

>> you can stay the fourth hour. stig around. >> all right. good to see you again. come back more often? >> absolutely. anytime. >> i will come back and wrap it up with a parting shot. >> this is "the bill press show."

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anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> the parting shot with bill press, this is the bill presses show. >> bill: well, we know that in a recent piece at the defense university, president obama said he wants to have an open debate about the necessary balance between national security and privacy. well, i would agree that debate is more important today now that

we know about nsa, which we didn't then. but here is where i believe the debate has to begin, with this question: if this nsa program is so vital and so important, why does it have to be a secret? why can't we the american people, know about it? you have heard me say before we know about surveillance cameras on city streets and in stores. we accept them. i personally think the nsa program is a massive overreach of government but i might be willing to accept it if they could profits necessary. what i can't accept is keeping it a secret. we have a right to know what our government is up to, period end of story. and end of program for today. we will see you right back here, all of you, right here, again, tomorrow. >> this is "the bill press show."

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