the only man who can answer that question is bob miller himself, the author of "son of a gambling manank you for joining us. first, i have a nasty habit, obnoxious habit of saying nevada. i will say nevada. >> except there. >> i'm correcting myself. your family's story is the story of the state of nevada which has become this large and the fastest growing state in the country and basically was built in the last 50 years. >> i hope that's accurate. my intent was to parallel the met morph os it is of my family with that of nevada, more particularly, las vegas. >> so we learned a little about your rough and tumble family. what impact did a lot of the lessons that you learned from your family have on your politics later in life? >> well, one lesson that i learned spi admired my father to do what he said he would do. and as one local attorney that is mentioned in the book said, that's probably because he was a bookie. as a bookie, you have to be true to your word. now, that's something i admire. as it related to my politics, it was an issue that was raised in every election that i ran. my

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>> joining us from north coast research is bob darrington and nicole miller from piper jaffrey. ng to pick up on that idea that maybe they say it's healthy but it isn't really as healthy as they say. >> well, you know, to be fair, i'm not even sure consumers really know what the term healthy means. the usda and the fda don't generally agree on the exact same definition, and i think broadly consumers think healthy means lower calorie which sometimes that's right and sometimes it's not. >> do you think that people are going for this so-called healthy stuff, because i don't know about you, but when i go to mcdonald's, i can get as many free refills of a soda but i have to keep paying for more orange juice. more expensive to go healthy. >> there's something to that, and one of the main things that the restaurant industry chains are doing today is they are trying to evolve their menu to be more responsive, you know, to shifting consumer demands and especially as affordable care act or the food police essentially mandate that they come on by the end of this year. >> nicole also, it hel

former governor of nevada of bob miller recounts his life in some of a gambling man:my journey from aasino family to the governor's mansion. in young titan:the making of winston churchill, michael sheldon recalled the early life and career of winston churchill. and in here i am:the story of tim and renton, war photographer allen hoffman recounts the career of the late photojournalist who was killed by mortar blast in libya in 2011. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> we had this incredible inability to digest information processes in our brain. we started to get where we could be a little bit faster but we develop the system called f 3 e a for fine, fix, finish, exploit and analyze, a cycle you go through, you find somebody, you fix them in a location at a time now, finish by capturing or killing, you exploit whatever you capture, you analyze that and learn from it. basically learning cycle, and we would do that and we could go through that process but it would be painfully slow because we are o

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bob brisco's about to jump into the office... oh, he did. he's already burst into the office with miller. oh, god, this is a disaster. maybe not. maybe before bulldog starts miller will tell him what the meeting was about. you're right. they may be having a good laugh about this right now. ( ferocious growling ) grab that mike. we're on in one minute. i did it! i scorched him! you should have seen his face! i even told him fe came on to me at the christmas party but that there wasn't enough liquor in the world to make me sleep with that porker! you said that to nedhis wir? yeah, he even took a swing at me. but i gave him a little okey-doke. my god, he tried to strike you! hey, hey! no millen moves, doc. i'm too pumped. i feel like popping someone. my god, this is unbelievable! a man has quit because of a rumor that you spread! sudde me? the whole point of gossip is to talk behind the person's back not in front of them! i didn't realize you were unclear on this! i'm a bad, bad man. we weren't really morning people. then we tried new nutri-grain fruit crunch bar. it's so crunchy. crunchy granola, mmmm... made with real fruit 20 g

bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. this show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy 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 am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. 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? vo: the war room tonight at 6 eastern >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"

bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're current tv audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. [ music ] >> on current tv this is "the bill press show." >> bill: ten days in a row, the dow has set at record. the obama economy. welcome to the "full-court press." we are coming to you live all the way across this great land of ours on current tv. good to have you with us. also on your local progressive talk radio station. you are lucky if you've got one. not every part of the country does. but many parts do. we appreciate your joining us because you don't have a lot of choices in the morning. make the full court press your first choice. we will tell you what's going on the nation's capitol, around the globe and give you a chance to comment. give us a call at 866-55-press. >> that's our toll-free number. you can follow us on twitter @bt show or on facebook at facebook.com/bill press show and the

bob dylan, joan baez, bruce springsteen, writers and playwrights like arthur miller and tony kershner who is the author of the film, playwright and the author of the film lincoln. photographer like lewis hine, an unknown figure among most americans who is responsible as anyone for ending child labor by being a great photographer who did some incredible document with photographs of the abuses of children working in factories and in mines and other dangerous workplaces. he really held a mirror up to america and say, these are your children, and these are the conditions they are working. and the child labor movement really took off with the help of people like jane addams and florence keller and other people that are in my book your untrained. and the national consumers league which was a leader of that movement against child labor, with sally greenberg in the room tonight who is the coming of the national consumers league. and thinkers like abraham joshua henschel, the great theologian, william kaufmann, mentioned dr. seuss, langston hughes, the great negro poet, and w.e.b. dubois, who

bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "full court press," the "bill press show," live on your radio, and on current tv. >> bill: in the next segment we'll get back to the economy, taking a look at the record high of the dow yesterday, and what it means, and why there's still so much unemployment in this nation when corporations and corporate profits are so high. right now we're talking politics particularly the u.s. senate, and some important senate races that are up in 2014 with the control of the united states senate, and in many ways president obama's second term agenda on the line. alex jaffy covers the senate for the hill, in studio with us alex again, welcome. next cycle, 2014, how many total senate seats are up? >> 23. >> bill: democrats again like they did in 2012 have more seats to defend. >> exactly. and there are a few more d

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bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're current tv audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: day number two on the issue of marriage equality and it looks like the defense of marriage act is going down. they made that pretty clear. good morning everybody. great to see you. it is thursday, march 28. this is the "full court press." we're coming to you live on current tv all across this great land of ours. we're coming to you live on your local, progressive talk radio station and nationwide. you're lucky if you've got one. we're coming to you -- no, that was last hour. sirius x.m. only. sorry, sirius x.m., can't hear us this hour. complain to them, not to me. whether you're listen organize watching, good to have you with us. to tackle the big stories of the day. and to talk about what's going on. that's what is unique about the "full court

miller, "n.b.r.," new york. >> susie: for more about the economy, growth and the sequester, we turn to robert brusca, chief economist at fact and opinion research. hi, bob, how are you doing? >> fine, susie, thank you. >> susie: all right so, we've been talking a lot about how the economy did in the last three months of 2012 but how about right now, the current quarter? how would you describe the health of the economy right now? >> well, right now i would say confused. we have some positive indicators. we have some negative indicaters. we have had some recent indicators that were a little bit better than we expected but they're still in the good. consumer confidence, for example s a little bit better than we thought. it's still very weak. federal reserve has a survey of manufacturing in february, you look at the five districts that report, some of them are, one of them at least is pretty strong. but the others are quite weak. so you've a lot of mixed numbers here. the one thing people are looking at that are kind of encouraged are the somewhat sporadic decline in job its claims this is really volume difficult-- volatile and it hard to pin it down. >> su

miller show." >> caller: yeah i listened to what bob woodward said and it seemed a little bit over the -- you knowgate. i was just starting in radio, and i admired him, i really did for the job he did. but now getting together with the republicans -- they love him now. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: and i don't care for him. >> stephanie: isn't that something? seriously can you believe comparing these ridiculous polite stupid emails to watergate. ♪ a pocket full of lies ♪ >> that was a mort soul album. >> stephanie: wow, jim. thanks. that's old timemy radio. >> yeah. >> stephanie: forty-five minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: the only place in america where descent is still allowed. it's the "stephanie miller show." >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>we tackle the big issues here in our nation's capital, around the country and around the globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning. current tv is the place for true stor

bob redell, "today in the bay." >>> dozens of neighbors are expected to show up to protest the location of mcdonald's on or charred farms shopping center on bollinger and miller. they turned it down last month saying it was not appropriate for the neighborhood. several schools are in the neighborhood. a community meeting will be held tonight. san jose city councilman is expected to attend >>> a man accused of duping a bay area woman out of thousands of dollars in a super bowl ticket scam could be in court. he is in jail and could be extradited to alameda county. he put an ad on craigslist offering to buy four super bowl tickets. sharon osgood responded and wired him $5900. when she checked the mail instead of tickets, she received a taunting note that said, go ravens. the ceo of ticket master gave the family four super bowl tickets. any money recovered will go back to ticket master. >>> a massive burglary spree in a palo alto parking garage may be opened this morning. they spotted a suspect acting oddly tuesday night at this parking garage where some 45 cars have been broken into on high street. minutes later, officers found two new car break-ins. a few block

bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: all right. twenty-5 minutes avenue the hour. vice president joe biden in rome. we are here in our studio with cindy boren with the "washington post." all right. guys why do we go? let's go right to the final four? >> let's do it. peter and i both like louisville. ganzaga is the number 1 seed. but i'm picking ohio state. >> i'm going with wisconsin. >> i'm going with ohio state. >> yeah wisconsin and ho ho state play -- ohio state played yesterday. >> uh-huh. and louisville has to get past duke, and you and i came up with a new rule any team that beats duke twice automatically gets in. i really do think that lou -- louisville should get the about 1 seed. >> i have miami beating indiana. >> i do too. their coach is 63 and he said i want to see if this will work on a

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bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you'reent tv audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. >> announcer: this is the "full court press." the "bill press show." live on your radio and on current tv. >> bill: 26 minutes after the hour now. here the "full court press" on a tuesday. tuesday, march 26. here is a "friend of bill" for this hour. evan mcmorris santoro covers the white house for "buzzfeed." we go to briefings together. peter, what's up? >> we're on twitter at bpshow. on your question to josh ernest about michele bachmann, phil says, the president doesn't bother with michele bachmann because there's no benefit to punching her down. it actually is more beneficial to just let her self-combust. so you can find us on twitter at bpshow with your comments. >> bill: i got some comments from friends in california about that, yesterday, too after i made that -- was on "the war room" with michael

bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you'reence for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. [ music ] >> on your radio and on current tv this is "the bill press show." . >> all right. make it 25 minutes after the hour now on the "full-court press," covering the politics of the day with michael mean from the democratic strategist and president and ceo of ben squared communications. their website is ben sq? correct? >> ben sq.com, bensq.com. peter. >> quick story out of london this morning researchers have come out, the chief medical officer for england, i should say, came out after looking at a study saying that there is a new strain of super bugs that is sweeping the earth saying that it's -- these bugs are resistant to antibiotics and they are out there and they are very dangerous and deadly if we are not careful. >> bugs like, you know, you get sick from or insects? >> bugs like viruss. normally you tak

bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you'rerrent tv audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> with a distinctly satirical point of view. if you believe in state's rights but still believe in the drug war you must be high. >> only on current tv. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show" live on your radio and current tv. >> peter: happy tuesday march 5th. it is "full court press." the "bill press show." i'm peter ogborn sitting in for bill today. thank you so much for being here. shout out to the lee brothers for joining us in the last segment. get some good recipes there. next hour, we'll be talking to "buzzfeed's" washington bureau chief john stanton and roger gastman, curator and producer of a cool new documentary called the legend of cool disco dan. who is cool disco dan? stay

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