in the next hour congressman john yarmouth from kentucky here in studio with us. also be talking to nasa's dr. luther beagle about the latest finds from curiosity. we like to check in on mars on the "full-court press." >>>. >>> president obama going out to chick to o 'hare this morning. they will he will visit the argon national laboratory talking about america's energy policy and the need particularly to get into renewable energy at 1:30 this afternoon. coming back to washington arriving back at the whitehouse late this afternoon at knife:35 p.m. -- 5:35 p.m. no briefing at the whitehouse today. there will be a gagel with reporters aboard "air force one" more coming up right here. >> this is "the bill press show." >> bill: say, good morning, friends and neighbors. it is friday march 15th. good to see you today. thank you for joining us on the "full-court press." welcome to the program here on current tv. we are live all the way across this great land of ours bringing you the news of the day and giving you a chance to comment. you do so by giving us a call at 866-

yarmouth from louisville is enthusiastic, but other democrats think she is not the strongest candidates just 34 years old, a year as secretary of state and somebody who think has a bright future ahead of her, whether she will jump in. i thought this was a great scoop by politico. kudos for finding out about bill clinton's action on this. >>> i want to ask both of you about south carolina. mark sanford comes back from the appalachian trail and has a strong showing in the house primary, heading back to the house potential. he does face a runoff. had el is the favorite and has a strong candidate on the democratic side colbert bush, stephen colbert's sister. is that all correct, chris? >> you got it. if you ever didn't think american politics didn't believe in second chances, all you have to do is look at mark sanford. this is a guy when he left in 200, everyone, myself included, said that's it, maybe he'll show up on a reality show, but never coming back into politics. there's a two-week runoff with a guy names curtis bostics while elizabeth colbert bush will raise money, not just because

joining me is congressman john yarmouth, a democrat from kentucky.ake of mcconnell's fast and furious ad buy. and why he's doing it right now? >> one more indication, that mitch is very insecure about his re-election. he knows he has trouble, particularly with women. this ad was specifically targeted to women over 25. that was the statement from his campaign manager. and as someone who voted against the violence against women act and has consistently supported programs that don't support women's values, i think he's got a lot of work do do. >> congressman, what's the inside track? does this ad indicate in the rising number of democrats targeting mcconnell, really show that ashley judd is about to announce her candidacy? i mean the speculation has been she's going to do it on derby day. >> well, that would be the wrong day to do it. i think people will be pretty distracted in kentucky. >> well around the derby. >> right. around the derby, that sounds like a good target date. but i'm fully convinced that she's going to run. she has not told me definiti

. >>> for more on the sequester and the president's dining diplomacy, let's bring in john yarmouth.elcome back. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> do you think the white house really needs to suspend the white house tours because of sequestration, or is that just for show? we did find out it costs $2 million a year for the secret service to run it. you weigh the pr there. what do you think? >> i think it was a mistake. i wish that they had not made that decision. $2 million is $2 million, but when you basically shut the public out of one of the most iconic symbols of government, then i think that's a bad idea. clearly, the -- it was designed to show that this really does have a significant impact. that's something that's highly visible. but there are other ways that i think the white house could have made -- made those cuts. >> yeah. let's take a look at your state because kentucky, the white house is projecting some mandatory spending cuts of about $20 million in education funding. more than $100 million trimmed from the military. more than 10,000 civilian d.o.d. employees be

you heard congressman yarmouth say he ran from the budget proposed by congressman ryan.document. >> mitt romney kind of ran away. a large part of what they campaigned on was with a few exceptions the ryan budget plan. one of the reasons why paul ryan was tapped by mitt romney was to say they wanted to make bold decisions, bold moves when it came to the budget. >> he never fully endorsed congressman ryan's budget. there were nuance when's it talked about the cuts played to medicare as it relates to obama care. >> they can run, it wasn't entirely based upon paul ryan. but in large part, some of the change to medicare, the tax, the big scope of things. you asked about compromise and can paul ryan compromise. the house is putting out their budget. you'll have senate democrats put out their budget and then they'll go to conference. at some point that's where the horse trading is made, where the deal are cut. up until now, paul ryan has yet to end up cutting a deal. he had a great opportunity during the simpson boles commission. he voted against that when many others ended up

florida, the group's democrats are gutierrez, xavier becerra, zoe lofgren of california and john yarmouth of kentucky. give us insight into what we've heard about that proposal. >> guest: so, um, it's very promising that, again, on the house side there's been bipartisan conversations. in the group has actually been meeting, most of the members have been meeting for the last four years in secret, so it's only been in the last month and a half or two that it's become public that they are actually very close to reaching an agreement. similarly, on the house side their looking at -- they're looking at possibly a path to citizenship, although they're a little bit farther apart on that. family reunification being a central component as well, looking at visas both for low-skilled workers and high-skilled workers. and then what both the house and senate are looking at is the employment verification system to hold employers accountable when they hire undocumented workers. >> host: and that proposal in the house, obviously, speaker john boehner will have a say in that proposal when it does come up.