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it is "full court press." i'm not bill press.at i can to keep the ship afloat today. thanks so much for being with us. lots of stuff to talk about today. a new poll shows that barack obama is beating mitt romney in the very key states of pennsylvania ohio and florida. he wins those three states. he wins the white house. done deal. we'll see how that develops over the next couple of weeks. plus yesterday was chick-fil-a appreciation day. i for one do not appreciate chick-fil-a and i'll tell you why in just a few moments. plus a new wrinkle in the chick-fil-a story that hits close to home. can't wait to tell you all about it. but first, it is our current news update. live in los angeles, it is lisa ferguson. good morning lisa. >> good morning, peter. good morning everyone. we're in the middle of one of the worst droughts in decades and we're now hearing cattle farmers won't get any new help from congress at least for the next five weeks. the house plans to pass a bill today giving farmers federal disaster assistance but a senate ai

this is the "full-court press."dio station and on current tv, of course, and coming to you live from our nation's capitol in our studio right here on capitol hill, bringing you the news of the day here from warrant, around the country, around the globe, planet mars wherever news is happening, we are there. well, we will not only tell you what's going on. we will give you a chance to join the conversation. our morning townhall and give us a call to join the conversation at 866-55-press. 866-557-7377. you know, i am going to be heading out to san fran 7ing 0 at the end of the day today. no. end of the show today. i should say. not the end of the day. and very excited that john fugelsang -- you hear him often on stephanie miller see him on stephanie's show will be joining the team tomorrow to fill in for a couple of days. so there you go. >> yeah. fugelsang, ogburn and henning. >> i love it. >> bowlding. a new team. >> we will do our best without you. >> welcome, jon, to the pack. i hope they treat you well. be kind to

bill press show."filling in for bill. we have a lot crammed in for the next couple of hours of your life. i hope you will stay with us. i will be a preelection show with hal sparks in madison wisconsin at the barry more theater. we are talking about, of course governor romney this morning. but here is christine brennan sports columnist of usa today? >> what does it say? does it say that deep down inside he thinks he is guilty? there are so many questions left unanswered. >> john: indeed there are, and i don't think we'll get them answered at this point. >> i don't think we will. he has got to sort of keep out there and fight it publicly if he's not going to spend the money to fight it in court. >> john: we're getting really interesting comments on twitter. hilary says i don't think armstrong's earning potential changes. the suspicions over drug use was already baked into his brand. which is a very, very good point. and margaret says the usda is funded with tax dollars, but it is not a governmental agen

for decades the press corp especially washington press corp has been polled for whom did you vote forpresident also 90, 93% vote for the democrat candidate. the american people are wide awake they know what kind of bias they are getting with the advent of fox news there's an alternative so the bias from the other side is more pronounced. >> we have to take a break. first, controversy surrounding a republican congressman's comments about rape. >>> i used the wrong words in the wrong way for that apologize. >> missouri congressman todd akin zigzags from tv appearance to tv appearance blaming the liberal media and apologizing is his media strategy working? >> plus, two new books about president obama exposing secrets and conflict within the campaign. details next on newswatch. these fellas used capital one venture miles for a golf getaway. double miles you can actually use... but mr. single miles can't join his friends because he's getting hit with blackouts. shame on you. now he's stuck in a miniature nightmare. oh, thank you. but, with e capital one venture card... you can fly any airl

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team press here.and dan henning. >> happy tuesday. >> bill, good morning. >> bill: cyprian bowlding. nats won last night. >> nats won. >> 13 innings which was very long. >> bill: we're in the playoffs right? >> knock on wood. knock on wood. >> we're not in the playoffs yet. >> bill: they would have to lose every game from now on. >> do you not live in washington, d.c., home of the redskins and capitals who notoriously shoot themselves in the foot? let's keep hope alive. >> bill: idiot dan snyder owner. >> it is looking very good. >> last night was a little iffy on the pitching. we went through the entire pitching line-up. but we got it done. we're playing the braves which are a darn good baseball team. the nats still have the best record. >> it looked like a playoff game last night. it looked like a playoff game. two teams they knew that -- they knew how important it was to win that game and get the momentum in that series and it was great. they were battling it out. >> bill: all right. good for them.

press.. >> stand back! >> with an intro like that. >> other headlines making news on this thursday. in sports, another day another baseball play suspended for steroid use. major league baseball suspending oakland athletics pitcher bartolo colon for 50 years for testing positive for testosterone. he joins cabrera of the fran giants suspended last week for the same reason. big blow to the athletic wild card bid. colon did not appeal. he did apologize. >> john: back in the '90s, taking steroids was called saving baseball. we would have the home runs. >> sammy sosa, mark mcgwire battle back in '99. >> john: i'm against steroids in sports. i think we should have a dope league where people can take whatever drugs they want and then they can pay off the deficit. there is something wrong where you can't use baseball while using performance enhancing drugs but you can't use auto tune. >> in hollywood, l. l. cool j used his acting training to catch a burglar at his house yesterday. the rapper and acto

it's mitt romney. 866-55-press. current tv this is "the bill press show." [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> this court has proven to be the knowing, delighted accomplice in the billionaires' purchase of our nation. >> and you think it doesn't affect you? think again. joining us. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me, man. start you morning with a daily dose of politics from a fresh perspective. >>i'm a slutty bob hope. the troops love me. >>only on current tv. >> [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> on your radio, on t.v. "the bill press show," new on current tv. . >> all right. 13 minutes before the top of the hour. talking about mitt romney tried to get the tax issue behind him yesterday. it's interesting. this is still dogging him. right? this started way before he named paul ryan as his running mate. and he thought he would change the conversation to medicare or to budget or to whatever but this tax question keeps coming up. it's going to continue to keep coming up until he releases his tax return. should we believe him when he said he p

tell me 866-55-press. it means that mitt romney who has spent probably a third more money than president obama has been able to spend raised more money, spending more money, telling a pack of lies not showing his tax return it ain't work. the more people see president obama and know what he has accomplished, and the more lies that mitt romney tells the more people that are swinging behind president obama. let's talk about it. i think the president's message is working. 866-55-press, good friday morning, everybody. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ >>oh really? >>"if you ever raise taxes on >>the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true! en we have a big, big hour and the i.q. will go way up. how are you ever going to solve the problem if you don't look at all of the pieces? >>tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >>you're welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. >>sharp tongue, quick whit and above all, politically direct. >>

by contrast, obama hasn't done a press conference in months and the press are irked about it, but as as they get. irked. they certainly don't let it change their overall tone, which is you know-- >> but biden has been in washington since he was 30 years old. >> the democrats-- >> and the republican-- going on and because he's there, people just assume, oh, well, he's been here so he must know what's going on and that's the question and that's the big problem. >> let's turn our attention to the other guy running for vice-president. mitt romney has taken a lot of heat from the press, you know, the wimp factor cover and things like that, has any of that changed with the selection of paul ryan? >> i think it's beginning to change, i mean, you see a far more aggressive now, before the media, and interviews of mitt romney than you saw before paul ryan joined the ticket. so, yes, but you also see the labeling. the labeling is always there with the republicans so you hear things about controversial paul ryan budget plan. and devicive and we're getting back into the killing off the little old

tv, this is the bill press show.is supposed to be the great equalizer, where your vote start you morning with a daily dose of politics from a fresh perspective. >>i'm a slutty bob hope. the troops love me. >>only on current tv. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> radio meets television, the brill press show, now on current tv. >> fourteen minutes before the top of the hour. at the top of the next hour, sister simon campbell from new finland called network fighting the vatican. the vatican is trying to clamp down on them. she is going to tell us next hour how they are going to fight back. secretary of labor, hilda solis joining us later. we have been talking your calls about harry reid with the word that he has heard that mitt romney may not have paid any income taxes for 10 years. mitt romney is a very -- is very angry about that and said it's up to harry reid to put up or shut up. a lot of other people say are saying, the one to put up or shut up is mitt romney himself. we get into that and continue to take your calls on that. b

a press conference. based on lots of discussion and exploration with the city attorney around options, they are fairly limited in that while we do want to find a suitable, formal moment of issuing of the report, the problem is if we do it collectively, that it constitutes a meeting. once it constitutes a meeting, we are back where we started again. so our options are, a, we hold a press conference with less than a quorum present, which therefore does not constitute a meeting and we issue it, or to report its issued and a less public, less formal, less visible way and just gets distributed to committee and habitants. discussion? >> i have a suggestion. i suggest we hold a press conference with share mcdonnell and vice chair lam, and maybe a couple other task force members would be willing to participate in that so we would have at least a public presentation of the final map and the result. mr. mcdonnell: thank you. mr. alonso: or perhaps we could have john did a press conference on his own, provided he h

press call and press 60 for 60 free days.d cancel. they will give you a full refund. 1-800-356-5967. by the way, isaac shows no signs of slowing down. just the opposite it is gaining in strength as rick nab from the hurricane service tells us. >> prepare for possibly category 2, and if we see any indications that it is getting stronger, we'll let the emergency management officials know. >> bill: so amounting into at least a category 2 hurricane, projected to get even worse. and today we're told at this hour, it is headed straight for new orleans, the path of katrina and isaac are exactly the same. >> that's scary. >> bill: it is. the republican national convention starting tomorrow. and it raises the question do we really need these political conventions. i guess the best answer is well, we might discover somebody new. but is that still really worth it. hi pat in wisconsin. >> caller: that's exactly my point. i didn't know that young man that spoke about red states and blue states. and there he was and he caught my eye. and w

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and this is the "full court press" here on current tv. i'm bill press.s." your only progressive morning show anywhere on cable television. we certainly have lots to talk about. including the fact that the circus is over. they're folding up the big tent down in tampa florida after turning over the stage last night to geriatric clint eastwood. why they did that, we'll never figure out. mitt romney finally took the stage and we discovered once and for all that mitt romney has nothing to say nothing to offer, other than the fact that he hates barack obama and he wants everybody else to hate barack obama too. that's all they've got. we'll tell you about that and a whole lot more here. but first, here we go. we start out each hour by finding out all of the latest, today's current news update, lisa ferguson standing by in los angeles. hi lisa. good morning. >> hi, bill. good morning everyone. before we wrap up the last hour of bill press we want to touch on one more misleading claim coming from romney's speech last night. this one has to do with healthcare. rom

1-866-55-press.o see you today. and oh, my god, look who's back. he found out that north carolina and south carolina weren't quite as -- you know, entertaining, captivating. >> yeah, right. always entertaining all right. there's a lot -- >> bill: peter ogborn came back. welcome back peter. >> nice to be here. >> bill: the team all back together again. dan henning. cyprian bowlding here as well. good to have the first a-team back. >> here we are. >> bill: president obama was on the road yesterday in iowa. and first day of a three-day bus tour, first you met with a group of farmers. saw him walking into one of the fields of corn. it was all dried up and shriveled up. it was pretty sad. tom vilsack the agricultural sect. he told farmers, we're going to do -- congress of course, didn't -- hello paul ryan did not pass a farm bill before they left. they would rather go to the beach than pass a farm bill but the president said we'll do what we can by executive order to provide some relief. >> obama: today,

yes, he hasn't had a press conference. he should haven't a press conference.ake questions from people who actually follow national news. and give him a real good scolding. ask about syria and the likes. he goes out and does it. you come back and say oh, why did they fold so quickly? why did they show up so easy? >> dana: juan, you have covered washington for so long. i can't believe you wouldn't agree with me. for example, this is technica technical. a press office thing but i'll take you back. one thing when you have a world leader meeting, the president sits there, and leader sits there. chitchat for the camera and you take two questions aside. that's semily been done away with. >> juan: that is not what we're talking about. you have been pressing this guy to take some questions. >> dana: answer some questions. >> juan: i will say this. as someone -- i used to cover ronald reagan. i got to tell you something. reagan, mike siever and those guys said we can do regional stuff, local stuff, entertainment stuff. we get better coverage and we feel better about it.

866 -- let's start there. 866-55-press. >> this is "the bill press show."ce versa. [ charles ] when you can make a person smile when they taste the food that you cooked, >>i jump out of my skin at people when i'm upset. do you share the sense of outrage that they're doing this, this corruption based on corruption based on corruption. >>i think that's an understatement, eliot. u>> i'm not prone tot. understatement, so explain to me why that is. i think the mob learned from wall st., not vice versa. [ charles ] when you can make a person smile when they taste the food that you cooked, it does something to your heart. i think what people like most about the grilled food is the taste. the flavor comes from that oak wood. the shrimp, the fresh fish the steaks. it locks in the flavor it seals in the juices so that when you put the fork in it, it just goes through it like butter. it's beautiful. [ laughs ] i'm proud to be a grill master. i love food. my name is charles himple. i'm a red lobster grill master and i sea food differently. um, miss ? you have hard wate

1-866-55-press.at to see you today and today is the official first day now of the republican national convention. but the focus the spotlight is not on tampa. it is on new orleans where hurricane isaac threatens to hit shore tonight on the 7th anniversary almost to the day of hurricane katrina. so sorry mitt romney. nobody cares about your dumb convention anymore. we'll get into isaac and a whole lot more here on the "full court press." first we take time out as always to start the day with today's current news update from lisa ferguson in los angeles. hi lisa. good morning. >> hi, bill. good morning everyone. it is full speed ahead with the republican national convention today. tampa is missing the brunt of tropical storm isaac and a romney advisor says he expects no change in convention plans over the next three days. today's events start at 2:00 p.m. eastern with the roll call and nominating paul ryan as the vice presidential nominee. we'll later hear from rick santorum who we're expecting to spea

we are awaiting a press conference. they believe there is only one shooter but those at the scene say shooters, multiple shooters. at this point police believe only one shooter. details, more of them on the other side of the break. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> don lemon cnn world head quarters in atlanta. deb is in new york getting details. we will get to you in a moment. we want to tell our viewers here in the united states and around the world there has been a shooting at a temple in wisconsin. seven people are dead. they believe including the gunman. four of the people were found dead inside, three of them outside. one of the three outside is the gunman who police are saying presumed dead. in about 15 minutes we want to tell you there is a press conference in wisconsin to talk about this. we are also getting analysis from the sikh community to talk about what happens in their places of worship. obviously a stunned community. when we see something like this happen in the united states at this point we are all am

i'm bill press. liberal and proud of it. look forward to talking with you about all of the big issues of the day. we're coming to you live from our nation's capital and ready to take your calls at 1-866-55-press. here on current tv and on the "full court press" where there is also underway a battle for the heart and soul of the republican party, jeb bush telling reporters yesterday in washington that he doesn't recognize or respect today's republican party. they've become so extreme says jeb bush that neither his father nor ronald reagan could get elected today in a republican primary. so let's throw the extremists out and get back to some good, sensible, moderate republicans who want to get things done. we'll talk about that and a whole lot more here on today's "full court press." here we get the latest from jacki schechner out in los angeles where she's got today's current news update. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everybody. the department of justice says it plans to sue the state of florida fo

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should the press turn him off? and a bogus story about the heat, burned some in the press. >> oh, boy, do we have a show this week! on panel, writer and fox news contributor, judy miller. radio talk show host and author of the new book "what the bleep just happened" monica crowley and deputy washington bureau chief and news director and daily beast commentator kirsten powers. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. ♪ >> do you think you're getting a fair shake from the press? >> i think i'm getting exactly the shake i expected. [laughter] >> all right? which is-- >> as a conservative, i'm interpreting what you're saying as a conservative you don't think you're getting a fair shake from the press. >> what i think is, in a nation that has a free press we recognized rights of members of the media to pursue their own views and agendas and i realize that there will be some in the fourth state or whatever state. are far more interested in finding something to write about that's unrelated to the economy, to geopoli

>> dana: press coverage, decision. president obama when he campaigned as senator said i will have one press conference a month. at the time i didn't think it was that was sustainable. but they have had them for a while. joe only had once official press conference in the year. in march. last time he took questions from white house press corps in june in the event in chicago where they had canada and mexico altogether is where he said the private sector is doing just fine. haven't had one since. the white house press corps starts to get twitchy when they say they only talk to "people" magazine and "entertainment tonight." well, we have a job to do an we'd like to ask him questions. >> brian: that has to be disturbing to do this every day and see somebody else get your interview. then he did three local radio spots. [ inaudible ] for the stations in iowa. but i think now, they are going to react. my hunch, you would know better, that he called a snap press conference next week. >> eric: wait, wait, wait. >> bob: you got t

the "bill press show." >> bill: 25 minutes after the hour, thursday august 16. we're tweeting on twitter at bpshow he. that's our handle. one other exam of a lie that mitt romney and paul ryan are telling over and over again in paid ads, saw this also in a paid ad last night here's ryan talking about it yesterday. >> the president took $716 billion from the medicare program, he raided it to pay for obama care. >> bill: what ryan doesn't tell you the ryan budget, his budget cuts the same $716 billion out of medicare because it is waste, it is fraud. it is duplicative payments to hospitals and providers. he does the very same thing. doesn't tell you that, does he? in his budget which every republican member of the house voted for except maybe three john boehner voted for it. now they're accusing barack obama of doing something which paul ryan himself does. freakin' liars. they're complaining about a negative campaign. they're the ones running a negative campaign. steve is up in vermont. good morning. >> calle

and bill press, host of current tv's "full court press." michael sheer, that was the last stop of the trip. reporters weren't going to have another crack at romney. they had the shot. was that the symptom of a deteriorating relationship? >> i think it was definitely a symptom of a problem on the trip in which the campaign had made the conscious choice t put romney in interviews with television anchors but to keep him away from the reporters that were traveling with him. and what they i think discovered in the send if they had taken a few minutes with the reporters, done a little press, 15 minutes every day, they probably would have avoided that scene. >> on friday perhaps in responding to the criticism, romney did hold a press availability in las vegas. debra saunders, when he goes to three different countries and -- and news organizations are spending all this money to send reporters on the trip, and they get three questions, does that in your view effect the tone of the coverage? >> yes, it does. in fact, governor romney was in california

the opportunity to talk to the press is much more important than the formal called press conference.his president for the last several weeks in a terrible economic time in our country has ducked every major hard question and instead talked to the friendly softball media because he knows they won't be as tough as the press corps. >> it's important to be accountable to the american people. as i talk about in my book. he kept his campaign promises. an independent pulitzer prize organization evaluated over 500 campaign promises obama made. he kept 74% of his promises. he is keeping his vows. shannon: if you were advising him, would it be best to engage or stay buttoned up? >> i have no doubt in my mind as we head into the conventions and post labor day campaign period. the president will be more than thane to address the press corps. >> i have no problem with the press criticize mitt romney for not being available as long as they have the same outrage when the president is not available. the president has gone radio silent for 7 weeks. the reason is he's much more effective in a controll