you can follow her at rollcallcome or at meredith shiner on twitter.estration, right? >> yeah. >> we know how it harded, republicans said we're not going for the debt ceiling unless -- so they got their way, and they got this supercommittee that were going to come up and serious debt reduction measures. the super committee failed -- >> in fairness the super committee was harry reid's baby. >> but nonetheless -- >> nonetheless. i think there were people working in good faith, but the conventional wisdom from the onset was, if every other budget negotiation group has crumbled over the strain of this revenues versus cuts question. how is this going to succeed. >> congress created the problem in a sense. congress set this up and put on this -- this big hammer this sequestration, these drastic cuts for military, that would kick in so now congress is stuck with something they created, and they are crying like help -- help us out of this. how did president obama do this to us? congress did this to themselves didn't it? >> oh, and i think that particularly the

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bill is happy with yesterday's combination of meredith shiner [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: good morning everybodyjuly 17. good to see you today. welcome to the "full court press" here on current tv. your morning roundup of all of the big stories of the day. good to see you. we'll tell you what's going on and take your calls at 1-866-55-press. and meanwhile, mitt romney is still whining over his tax returns despite the fact that haley barbour and george will and bill crystal and another -- a lot of leading republicans are telling him just release all of your tax returns mitt. get this issue behind you. mitt romney insists he's only going to release one year so far and at most, only two. my question is what's he got to hide? we'll get into that and of course, a whole lot more here on the "full court press." let's get today's current news update from lisa ferguson out in los angeles. good morning lisa. >> good morning, bill. good morning everyone. >>> president obama will host campaign events in texas today as mitt romney hosts a rally in pennsylvania. in advance of romney's visit the obama campaign