judd legum good stuff. thinkprogress.org.ll press show." the real world and politics collide on "the gavin newsom show." this week the experts are wrong. failing is good and wall street is bad. but how does vinod khosla really feel? [ ♪ theme ♪ ] [ ♪ theme ♪ ] [ ♪ theme ♪ ] press show." [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: the president's schedule today one short line from the white house. today, the president will remain at camp david. that's it. >> busy schedule, huh? >> bill: no briefing, no press briefing, no presidential briefing. no work. no nothing. he's at camp david and you know what? good for him! mitt romney is on vacation. president obama is on vacation. the bill press team is here on the job! with the "full court press." >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." of him in fund-raising. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: good morning everybody! what do you say? it is tuesday july 3rd. how about it. big holiday tomorrow. and we begin the birthday celebration right here. welcome to the "full court press" on current tv this tuesday morning

judd legum from think progress in studio with us.o calls, one other issue. the republicans again shot down yesterday the disclose act in the senate. which would have at least maybe not stopped the flow of corporate money to campaigns right but let us know where some -- where most of the money was coming from. >> basically the supreme court and citizens united said we're going to let all of the corporate money flow into the system but it's disclosure and transparency that essentially solves for it. as long as people know what's being spent, it is okay. >> bill: that was part of citizens united which most people don't even realize. >> the reality is there's still a lot of the political contributions that are not disclosed. and also not disclosed in a timely manner. and this act would make all that information public. and the republicans filibustered yesterday. so now we have essentially the worst combination which is lots of corporate money but then also no disclosure. or not enough disclosure where a lot of it is being -- is still sec

and on twitter, it is at judd legum. ll: i'll be back to tell you what the president is up to today. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >>only on current tv. dose of politics from a fresh perspective. >>i'm a slutty bob hope. the troops love me. >>only on current tv. joining us. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me, man. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: radio meets television, the "bill press show." now on current tv. >> bill: okay. president obama at the white house today. no events scheduled. yeah, well he gets a daily briefing as he always does with the vice president at 10:30 and after that no public events scheduled. which, as we say at the white house usually means he's on his way to iraq or ohio. >> there it is. >> bill: so wait and see and jay carney, who was not there yesterday because he was taking his son to camp, will be back today to give a briefing at 12:30. but there is other news from the convention today. this is interesting. it has been announced that the first night of the convention, tuesday night

judd legum from think progress.st... >> this is the "full court press." >> some other headlines making news on this tuesday, the london assembly is calling for a ban of two of the biggest sponsors of the upcoming olympic games. they want coca-cola and mcdonald's gone because of their fast food and soda that contributes to obesity. >> bill: what about diet coke? not cherry coke. >> coke is the longest running sponsor of the olympic games. they've been there since 1928. olympic organizers admit they would be under serious financial strain without those two companies. overall cash generated by all of their commercial partnerships account for over 40% of olympic revenue. >> bill: wow! sell out to fast foods to put on the olympics. >> that's amazing how much money they create. >> mcdonald's put out a statement saying they do offer salads, chicken wraps. >> how many people go to mcdonald's for a salad. coke offers water. >> the lifeguard fired last week for helping rescue a distressed swimmer outside the perimeter of his

right now, in studio is judd legum, editor of think progress at thinkprogress.org.ney, president obama and i want to get into what's happening with cat caterpillar but first kathleen has a quick comment. >> three things, first of all, the president was not talking about -- i mean, talking about' gives you didn't build. he was talking about roads. mitt romney in the same sentence turned around and said the same thing thing the president said. the guy he had in the commercial came on fox and reinstated what the president said that he did have help with three different government agencies. >> yeah. >> you go back to the olympics in february, 2002, mitt romney told the guys at the olympics they didn't build that. what is he talking about? we made that point. you have reinforced it. people successful are able to do so because of where they are living and the advantages of being an american. right? >> yeah. i think, you know, somebody who had been following along with the story knows all of the details here and it's going to be interesting, talking about what things penet