bush went to chris dodd and barney frank on three different occasions with don evans, secretary of commerce and said fellas, this is unsustainable. help me. let's do something and they said no, barney frank got on tv on "meet the press" and said it's fully funded and all that. what do they do? it collapses. the whole thing goes to hell in a hand basket and the next thing they do, they name the bill to fix it after barney frank and chris dodd. that's how we do it in america. i'm not going to let them have it both ways. politicians want it both ways. i'm not going to let them. it's like the old boy a veterinarian and aid taxidermist, either way you get your dog back. i'm not going to let them do that. not on my watch. >> this week the president was in colorado and his big crusade, as i said at the opening of the show is gun control. here's what his solution seems to be. >> every day that we wait do something about it, even more of our fellow citizens are stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun. now, the good news is colorado has already chosen to do something about it. [ applause ] >> al

bush went to chris dodd and barney frank on three different occasions with don evans secretary of commercend said, fellas, this is unsustainable. help me, let's do something, and they said, no. and barney frank got on the tv the next week, meet the press, it's fully funded. what do they do? it collapses, the whole thing goes to hell in a hand basket and the next thing they do, they name the bill to fix it after barney frank and chris dodd ap that's how we do it in america and i'm not going to let them have it both ways. the politicians want to have it both ways and i'm not going to let them kind of like the old boy who is a veterinarian and taxidermist, either way you get your dog back. [applause]. and the president's on gun control, and his solution. and every day we wait to see what to do about it every day our fell he low citizens are stolen by the bullet from a gun and the good news is colorado has already chosen to do something about it. >> mike: all right, andy, is he letting the media and particularly hollywood off the hook here? i'm not saying they're to blame for violence, but not

marketing strategy and we haven't stopped making money so they finally got the religion they got it chris dodd to. stop killing kids like guarantors meanwhile on bit coy similarly mastercard wall street will have their come to bit christ moment and they'll say you know what this is not a bad thing it's a good thing but by then the price will be well over a thousand dollars per bitcoin i personally don't like to talk about the price i think you know people are obsessed with it out there people are obsessed with not the function of a house to live in you know bathe in there and take and keep warm they're obsessed with the prices this is something that we see all over london but visible mr carden public are trying to companies with multi hundred billion dollars valuations they used to lobby washington change laws in their favor therefore the price is important for big going to get the market cap up sufficiently so we can have our own lobbyist go to washington make our own laws so we can push these renegades and terrorists out of the way for a bit coin reality in a big going society that's why it'

. >> call chris dodd. >> a lot of people have done it.e president of the united states need to it and joe biden needs to do it and talk about the violent video game. i'm sorry to repeat it but somebody just seeing the show for the first time, the second mika and i heard the news there was a shooting in connecticut, i said, you watch. this kid is going to have a certain condition. i won't say it here on the air because people will kill me for saying it. he locked himself in his room, he played violent video games probably five hours a day and he is probably 21, 22, 23. he is very angry and frustrated right now. said it before we knew the first child had been killed. now if that's the case and it's that obvious and there is this toxic mix, i'm not saying ban all violent video games. my son would never talk to me again if i did but this has to be part of the conversation and liberals won't talk about it! >> they need to step up. not just the president but like chris dodd and movie makers need to step up. video game makers even more so becaus

former senator chris dodd at a program here on capitol hill he was asked about the dodd-frank legislation and the first thing he said was, i wished they hadn't named it that. >> why did he say that? >> it's because, you know, he things it gets in the way of dealing with the bill, itself as it becomes more do you like chris dodd but he doesn't want that on his tombstone. >> 20 minutes after the hour bob cue sack managing editor of the hi the hill.com here on the "full-court press." we are taking a look at the issues facing this congress. they will come back to work one of these days and have a lot to deal with 866-55-press, the toll-free number. we invite you to join our conversation. >> this is the full court press. "the bill press show," live on your radio and on current tv. >> heard around the country and seen on current tv, this is "the bill press show." >> 24 minutes after the hour now, here we go on this monday morning, april 1st, with bob cusack intude studio with us. your calls welcome at 866-55-press. i have never seen anything like this before. the issue of marriage equality goes

. >> i don't know as much as you about louisville, chris dodd went to louisville law school. >> as did i. >> but what you do is solidify your base quickly. so, he didn't have to convince anybody beyond his 36% yesterday he was the victim. that's what he was doing. >> one of the republicans i interviewed today for this piece said, you know, there's a lot of unhappiness in mcconnell land here in kentucky among the republicans. he's basically had an iron grip on the kentucky republican party for most of 30 years, which rand paul broke in 2010. >> he's basically hugo chavez here. >> he's holding together his party. >> by the way, three of us together, i'm convinced, could figure out the world some day. probably a park bench somewhere. >> as long as the facts don't intervene, okay. >> you don't have to do that. confidence, howard fineman, david corn. by the way, congratulations again. i do want to know who this guy was. was it a male? we'll be right back after this. let's get a recap, merv. [ merv ] thanks, other merv. mr. clean magic eraser extra power was three times faster on permanent m

when we were able to have the excitement with the president and hillary and edwards and chris dodd during that time. >> a lot of it with john edwards. >> yeah. >> so 2.9 million new donors, these are people who they'd gone all the way through 2008 and hadn't given, despite all the excitement. >> right. >> who were those people and where did you find them? >> we did a lot of online advertising, found a lot of new online contributors. we, you know, talked to a lot of new donors that could give at the higher level and were able to get a the lo of new bundlers and those who followed what the president was doing and wanted to be a part of this campaign and for whatever reason hadn't been involved in the last one. >> what was your breakdown between the percentage that gave over $100, or $250, if you want to mesh occur that way? >> our average contribution by the time it was all said and done was $66 which is pretty amazing. so about 97% was under $250. >> ok. now, this is not really a question that you probably want to answer, spencer, but how about for you guys? >> didn't look quite like that.

when we were able to have the excitement with the president and hillary and edwards and chris dodd during that time. >> a lot of it with john edwards. >> yeah. >> so 2.9 million new donors, these are people who they'd gone all the way through 2008 and hadn't given, despite all the excitement. >> right. >> who were those people and where did you find them? >> we did a lot of online advertising, found a lot of new online contributors. we, you know, talked to a lot of new donors that could give at the higher level and were able to get a the lo of new bundlers and those who followed what the president was doing and wanted to be a part of this campaign and for whatever reason hadn't been involved in the last one. >> what was your breakdown between the percentage that gave over $100, or $250, if you want to mesh occur that way? >> our average contribution by the time it was all said and done was $66 which is pretty amazing. so about 97% was under $250. >> ok. now, this is not really a question that you probably want to answer, spencer, but how about for you guys? >> didn't look quite like that.

left, i stayed on and was asked to stay on by the incoming chairman, senator chris dodd. i had the great honor of serving as his economist through 2007 when he took over the committee, through 2009. then, in the beginning of 2009 with the incoming obama administration, i got a fantastic increase -- opportunity to go to the treasury department. in all my career, there is something special about serving your home state senator. i am in maryland. i served for a great senator from maryland. there is a value that everybody gets in their lives from giving back to their community, whether you define it as your state, your nation, your church, your community organization. how you do that, i would argue, do it as an integral process of your career, whether it is through your business, after spending time in or out of government, government can always benefit from expertise from a wide variety. think about integrating that through your career. i will touch on how business interacts with the formation of policy, to improve it and in some cases maybe not so much. theduring my time wi

why can't the president pick up the phone today and call his own friend chris dodd and say you got to joke. we know it. a pg-13 movie is as violent as it can be. this is not acceptable. we have to do something. help me. >> and video games. >> today's piece is in "the wall street journal." campbell brown, thank you very much. great to see you. come back soon. >> we hope your mom still talks to you after this. >> not allowed to criticize the president at my mother's house. >> up next, "the new york times" catherine rampell and jean chatzky. a new property tax cap... and the lowest middle class income tax rate in 60 years... and a billion dollars in tax breaks and incentives. new opportunities for business. over 250,000 new private sector jobs were created over the last two years. and 17 straight months of job growth. with the most private sector jobs ever. lower taxes, new incentives, new jobs, now that's news. to grow or start your business in the new new york visit thenewny.com trust your instincts to make the call. to treat my low testosterone, my doctor and i went with axiron, the o

anything for miles and so that is where chris wood came into the picture and he took it on himself to organize a relief effort that has really become a model on how dodd himself to get this fragile community back on its feet. >> my business partner came up with the idea, well, let's start a nonprofit and let's call it -- we pete came with the name sea bright rising. today i think we have raised $1.25 million and given awe over 700,000 with assisted 225 families, about 10 or 11 businesses. and we are starting to work on some of the infrastructure in town. >> this is a tight-knit community where people stick together and, frankly, why people choose to live here. >> countless amounts of people are have fond, fond memories of this town and, as a result, people have come to its rescue of sorts. >> it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter if you live in a house with bean bags and microwaves because material things don't matter. it's just the people that matter. >> joining us here here is mike barnicle and jon beach mooech a. -- jon meacham. joining us here -- it was building up. i was building to it. >> i don't think he needs a buildup. >> okay. >> i don't thin