gord gord gordon ghee is retiring, not firing.ghee did say the controversy surrounding his comments about catholics played a role in his decision on a conference call, gee jokingly referred to the executives at the university of notre dame as, quote, those damn catholics. gee is 69 years old, and says his age is another reason he decided to retire now. larry? >> they going to replace him? any candidates? >> we'll have to see what the update is. >> put a catholic in there. >> that would be perfect. >> all right. seema mody, thanks for that update. up next on kudlow, the white house says it won't settle for anything less than a major long-term budget deal in congress that ends the sequester, and jacks up taxes. no way, friends, president has got a veto strategy and that could lead to a government shutdown later on this year. that's next up on "the kudlow report." my mantra? always go the extra mile. to treat my low testosterone, i did my research. my doctor and i went with axiron, the only underarm low t treatment. axiron can restor

another thing is, ghee, i'm having a problem with my teenager or my mother is dying and you can allow that to pass or say this requires more conversation. why don't you come in. so there is easy accessibility. the other time is life cycle, in marriage, death, there are all kinds of gates that open for periods of time and if there is no intervention, that becomes a time. people are over to intervention and that's when you can become very helpful. >> what people don't always realize in especially helping professions social workers and psychiatrist is the degree that people actually do go to their clergy at moments of this kind of vulnerability and in your thinking with your complimentary background in psychology, what are some of the things that are important for other helping professions to know the role of clergy, the role of rabbi in this arena of human help? >> there are organizations like hospice and organizations that reaches out to clergy that says this is a situation, we can use your help. but that's a model and also other service agencies that what possible good could that do f

. >>> gordon ghee, have you heard of this? he is retiring as president of ohio state university after the controversy over comments he made last year. speaking to the university's athletic council in december about expanding the big ten conference, gee who is a mormon joked about other schools including notre dame. gee said, quote, you just can't trust those damn catholics. can you believe he said that? oh, he's not done yet. gee went on to say, the goal was to, quote, make certain that we have institutions of like-minded academic integrity. so you won't see us adding louisville. really? yep. unfortunately, he said it. >>> in french open tennis, roger federer was knocked out, losing in straight sets to jo-wilfried tsonga. serena williams advanced to the semifinals. >>> and in baseball, cleveland's mike aviles argued with the umpire with a called strike and then he ended the game. a 4-0 loss to the yankees. but that argument, it continued. and the umpire ejected the player from the game. that was already over. i don't know if t

." >> president back from rancho mirage and the summit with president ghee and a busy day today at the white houses. he with the vice president gets a daily briefing at 10:30. after which he will make a public appearance in the white house on the east room. it's open press talking about the equal pay act. then, he meets with senior advisors at 12:30. he and the vice president have lunch, their weekly lunch. at 2:00 o'clock, again, in the east room he will be naming jason fuhrman as the new chair of the counsel of economic advisors. it will be interesting to see if at either of those two open precedents today the president will have anything to say about edward snowden and what might happen to him, whether the government would try to prosecute prosecute him. jay carney has his press briefing at 1:00 o'clock. it looks like he has a busy day at the whitehouse today. we will tell you all about it right here again tomorrow. meanwhile, another hour coming up on the "full-court press." >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ] >> bill: good monday morning, friends and neighbors. it is monda