cyprian bowlding here on video cams as always.peter i thought i would try out this today. >> you look much more comfortable in that seat than being here in my job in my role. >> bill: i think the new model is that everybody should be able to do everybody else's job. right? 's redundancy. >> bill: monday could be running the board. >> why don't you come in here and run the board bill. see how that goes. >> bill: just pushing buttons. >> that's all i do. >> yep yep. >> bill: i can drive. i can handle a computer. i think i could handle that. >> yeah. >> bill: answering phones. [crashing sound] >> i'm sure that would turn out well. [ laughter ] >> bill: cameras moving around. >> giving everybody a headache. >> bill: focus focus right? anyhow, good sigh you guys today. everything good? >> happy friday. >> bill: how about it. we've got -- we're going to be talking about a lot of movies today. i'm very excited because this weekend i'm going to go see "zero dark thirty." gotta see it. i was ready to see it before christmas when it first c

and cyprian bowlding our videographer extraordinaire on the video cam. >> happy thursday. >> bill: what's guys. big news is it has snowed in washington for the first time this winter. >> for the first time in like two winters by the way. >> bill: we had no snow at all last winter. and it was cold yesterday man. it was really cold. and this time we had -- you can't say it was much more than a dusting right? about an inch? >> i would say about an inch. >> we got an inch. covered the roads. >> bill: looks pretty. >> yeah. >> bill: but not enough to snarl -- one would hope, not enough to snarl traffic or close the schools or the government. >> federal government is on unscheduled leave today. >> bill: get out of here. >> unscheduled leave or telework. >> you overestimate -- >> bill: that's ridiculous. i didn't even have to put on my snow boots this morning. just regular -- >> a lot of schools are on a two-hour delay. >> bill: weenies. >> i will give a shout out -- we complain it is cold here. a shout out to our brothers and sisters in ithaca, new york. i spent five years of my life there. >>

making us look as good as he can on the video production is cyprian bowlding.rting for duty. we've got a big big show. paul singer has a lot of good stuff to talk about with what we can expect out of this coming congress including some of the wackier ideas that we've seen. we'll go through all of those. but first -- >> announcer: this is the "full court press." >> a couple of other headlines you need to know before you head out the door on this thursday. a big change is coming to monopoly. hasbro has announced it is retiring one of the current eight playing pieces and wants to introduce a new one to the popular real estate board game but it is letting the public make the big decisions. so you can head to hasbro's facebook page and vote as to which piece will not pass go. could it be the car thimble the boot, the scottie dog the iron or the wheelbarrow. potential new game pieces they're letting you vote on, a robot, a cat a helicopter, a guitar and a diamond ring. monopoly has been around for about 80 years. >> peter: whatever they do, they can't get rid of the

phil backert and keeping us live, looking good -- well, on the cameras sometimes look good, cyprian bowldingg. we know the first question that you have, you have a lot of questions. so do we. we don't have any answers. yes, it is true. al jazeera has purchased current tv. the deal was completed yesterday. it was signed yesterday. it was announced yesterday. that's all we know. and we will tell you all we know and we've made it possible for you to find out the facts of the deal by going to our web site at billpressshow.com or follow us on twitter at bpshow where we have posted the statement put out by current tv. the statement put out by joel hyatt, the cofounder of current tv with vice president al gore and the article on the front page of "the new york times" this morning by brian stelter with the headline "alza rear ra seeks -- al jazeera seeks a u.s. voice where gore failed." that's the article. that's all we know, peter right? >> that's all we know. >> bill: as we know more, we'll tell you on twitter. best way to find out what happens from here on is to follow us on twitter at bpshow. >>

. >> bill: cyprian bowlding has the cameras going.l backert is standing by to take your phone calls. you know, i'm really tired this morning because i had to stay up late last night. i couldn't go to bed without catching "american idol," you know, my favorite show. >> what's "american idol"? >> bill: can you believe it? still on. season number 12. >> pretty impressive. >> so we've had 11 "american idols" now. i know i couldn't name all of them. >> bill: are you kidding? >> i could maybe name half. >> i could name half. i just haven't watched in recent years. i know last year was phillip phillips. that's an easy name to remember. >> pretty good song called "home". kelly clarkson. >> bill: the first one. you've got lee dewise, you've got david cook, carrie underwood is huge then other big names like chris daughtry didn't win. he was third place and he's doing better than half of the winners. >> bill: he was good. who was the kid that everybody was so excited about? i got his autograph. >> remember william. >> bill: well last night altho

cyprian bowlding as always got the video cams. back backert has the bones. >> we missed you of course. >> bill: as a christian as a catholic peter, i have to say now look, you southern baptists, this was the southern baptists versus the catholics. >> some notre dame fans was calling it the catholics versus the cousins. >> bill: i like that, too. >> cousins kicked your ass last night. >> bill: it was like a roman coliseum. threw the christians to the lions. at least you could have been kinder. >> alabama -- wanted to come out and make a statement. they were number two going into the game. >> bill: they made a statement all right. >> they made a damn statement. >> bill: that quarterback a.j. mccarran on espn throwing his fourth touchdown pass. >> he throws it into the end zone. touchdown. it's two for cooper. and it's 41-7, alabama. and a.j. mccarran has thrown four touchdown passes on this national championship night. >> bill: on the final call, crimson tide. >> the celebration is underway. the tide has risen again for the third ti

. >> bill: phil backert has the phones and cyprian bowlding always keeping us looking good. >> there to the rumor that clarence thomas' first words in seven years was when elaina kagan started shouting, he just started shouting baba baba booey. >> bill: talking about what qualified someone to appear before the supreme court. apparently he was trying to make a joke. >> he woke up. >> bill: he woke up and said that's not -- then everybody started laughing. >> that's right. >> bill: like the sphinx spoke. [ laughter ] >> bill: it was not a complete sentence. it was not even a thought. >> so he spoke but he didn't say a whole lot. >> bill: exactly. by the way, jon stewart spoke last night. this back and forth between jon stewart and paul krugman over the trillion dollar coin. paul krugman actually surprised us after coming out in support of the idea of minting the trillion dollar coin. jon stewart slammed him for it and said it was a dumb thing for a nobel prize winning economist to do. and then paul krugman slammed back at jon stewart. jon stewart last night i think has the final word o

and for our videographer, behind that door there, cyprian bowlding.have a special guest joining us this morning. ♪ this is your birthday song ♪ ♪ it doesn't last too long ♪ ♪ hey ♪♪ >> bill: we keep john boehner standing by at any time. so senator, i want to get right to it with you. this is this week's edition of the new yorker. i'm reading it last night. ezra klein has a story here, the political scene that says let's talk. it is all about the filibuster. this one sentence here. shortly after the 2010 mid-term elections, a group of frustrated, democratic senate freshmen led by jeff merkley of oregon and tom udall of new mexico mounted an unexpectedly serious campaign against the filibuster. now, didn't succeed in getting rid of it. what do you think about the deal that we did get? >> it has a couple of positive aspects. one is that the senate made a decision the status quo is unacceptable. we have to take on the dysfunction of the senate. the second is that it has several tools that may prove useful, a couple different ways to approach the motion to

peter ogborn and cyprian bowlding. >> hi, bill, how you doing? we were down on the scene. henning and phil backert here backing us up. >> good morning. >> bill: sending out the photos. hope they all got out there yesterday. we had a great perch. and it was -- it was a lot of fun. >> it was a wild time. >> bill: it really was. great ceremony. peter and i -- we could have spit on the president. >> those photos showed how close you were. i was amazed. >> we were very, very close. >> bill: we were as close as john mccain was, you know, maybe a little farther back. >> you know -- >> bill: we didn't have a seat like he did on the podium but just beyond that was our media riser. >> we were on the media riser. if you look straight out, you would see the president sort of at the podium but between us and the president that's where all of the senators were sitting. so -- >> bill: at least half of them. >> yeah, but you saw a lot of senators, a lot of familiar faces. >> bill: right in front of the senators the president first lady the three daughters and then right across from them,