Your muslim pal. Well be having a lot of great guests, talking about mitt romneys ultimate screw you which he gifted us with yesterday and general petraeus, the c. I. A. Had no idea when he said i wanted to tap that, he meant something completely different. Lets go to Lisa Ferguson for a current news update. Hey john. Always good to have you on the show. Good morning everyone. The president is dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy today. He heads to new york this morning to look at the damage and to thank First Responders who risked their lives last month. Later this evening president obama will host the cast and crew of the movie lincoln for a screening at the white house. He is coming off a very Important News conference yesterday. Not only was this the first since his reelection, it was also the first hes held in eight months. Several reporters did want to talk about the general petraeus scandal, of course but the president fortunately did get to spend a lot of time on the fiscal cliff which is what he was hoping for. While left room for a compromise by not taking a hard, red line on taxes he did say that he will not extend cuts for the rich. Obama when it comes to the top 2 , what im not going to do is to extend further tax cut for folks who dont need it which would cost close to a trillion dollars. Senate democrats are hoping he will stick to that claim and not compromise. With republicans theyre asking the president not to cave in on talks over the fiscal cliff. Those do start tomorrow. West virginias Jay Rockefeller and iowas tom harkin are passing around a letter and hoping that at least 30 senators will sign on. Now that letter calls for the president to stand firm on revenue entitlement programs and spending cuts. While the president did stop short of using the term mandate during the press conference yesterday he did repeatedly mention his election victory, laying the tone he will have the final say on taxes. Were back after the break. Stay with us. Youre about to watch an ad message created by a current tv viewer for capella university. Matter. Ive been a nurse since 1979. I love being a nurse. A few years ago a friend i went to grade school with showed me a book she had kept from third grade. I had written that i wanted to be a nurse. After being a nurse for about twenty years i decided that i need to further my education. My masters degree was done completely online and that gave me the freedom and ability to do my education while i raised my kids and worked full time. Raising my kids as a single mom and having them see me get my Education Online and work fulltime has given them the opportunity to see that they can do anything that they want to. 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Bring you republicans and democrats together. Whether it works or not. New York Magazine columnist jonathan will be joining us as well as buzzfeed reporter. Josh will be here to talk about the no kid hungry project. And finally comedian dean abdullah, a guy i had a pleasure of doing laughing liberally with off broadway, wake up your right wing hes muslim. Good morning dan. Thanks for coming in. We appreciate your presence. John thank you. I was in l. A. All week. And i just got back to new york yesterday morning from the red eye and then took the line down last night come here. I got to ride on a car with madeleine albright. You said that. I would have thought she would get her own train car. John i would have thought she had her own train. She was sitting right there in front. I dont get knocked down by celebrities all that much. Ive worked with half the beatles but seeing secretary albright on pretty stunning. Two rows behind her was david al gores lawyer in bush versus gore. It was a party. John it was a great ride. It is always fun to be here as well. Thank you for having me. Good to see you. John were taking your calls at 186655press. We got a lot to talk about of course. General David Petraeus, this is going to be a bit of a story. It is deeply embarrassing to me, as an american, that on the same day the new James Bond Film opens, americas top spy has to resign for having sex with one person. Deeply humiliating to our national pride. And especially considering i guess you could say that general petraeus killed enough people to run the c. I. A. But making love to one person cost him the job. So we want to know your thoughts on that and this ever widening, ever more scandalous affair. Now it involves, i believe, half of the state of virginia who have who have been hit on by jill kelley and it is only going to get uglier. I also want to say im going to be talking about my plot today to institute, to have the president , by executive order implement a David PetraeusConspiracy Theory tax which would balance the budget by christmastime. Likewise, mitt romney, i gotta say, i missed mitt. We had a whole week of no mitt romney in our lives first time in two years. Empty feeling in my heart. John was for me, too. I really believe that governor romney was so convinced he was going to win because hes been listening to his advisors who live in a bubble. I did feel sorry for him until he came out yesterday and pretty much did a triple axle flipflop and said screw you 47 but a different 47 all over again. The susan rice controversy which i dont really know if it is a real controversy or if it is just republicans trying to play politics over something. Well be getting to that as well. The fiscal cliff right now somewhere in america a man named cliff is plotting on killing the coworker who keeps calling him fiscal. Finally, secession because really folks why dont you just go overseas and be ignorant there for awhile. I have one rule on secession if you cant spell it, youre not allowed to do it. Or am i wrong dan . If you cant spell it, should you be encouraged to do it . When you say you want to secede and become part of canada or move to another country where they accept gay marriage, then your adjust an idiot. John they have so insulted the rest of the world for everything, theres no one who would take them. Go ahead and secede and try to restart the confederacy again. Lets put that on tv and make that a payperview special and balance the budget that way. Take your calls as always at 186655press. Lets begin with the susan rice issue. Of course, on september 11th, 2012 as you all know, our embassy was attacked over a video on youtube, that was a trailer for the unwatchful film, innocence of muslims. Of course, im talking about our embassy in cairo egypt. Local tv host had played this clip incessantly and raging muslims enraging muslims throughout egypt who stormed our embassy and tore down the American Flag and put up an islamist flag. A few hours later the they said it was over the video even though the next day the president referred to it as an act of terror. Four americans were killed including our ambassador. Ever since then, our republican friends have been using this terror attack, im sorry did i say using . I meant exploiting this terror attack to smear the president in any way they can. As you know, in 91101 a terror attack is a reason to unite and cheer a president and in 91112, it is an excuse to smear a president. There have been rumors of course that the president might be nominating susan rice, our u. N. Ambassador to be his next secretary of state. And the most unlikely love couple of all in d. C. , john mccain and Lindsey Graham got together to well, to say a lot of ignorant stuff. Lets begin with john mccains clip if we can. Dan, this is john mccain on john mccain by the way who voted to approve Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state. Talking about susan rice. Heres the clip. Susan rice should have known better and if she didnt know better, shes not qualified. She should have known better. I would do everything in my power to block her from being the United States secretary of state. She has proven that she either doesnt understand or she is not willing to accept evidence on its face. John that was the man who thought sarah palin was qualified to be president talking about someone who doesnt understand. Now not to be outdone senator Lindsey Graham, the most interesting of all southern republicans i would say came out a few hours later and took a break from his momentarily bouts of sanity to say this. Die trust her in two ways. If she didnt know this was a terrorist attack then she didnt look very hard. Why do you pick her . What responsibility does she have over the benghazi consulate. Nobody sent her a request for fortification. Why wasnt the secretary of state telling us about benghazi . John okay. The secretary of state did talk about benghazi you about the u. N. Ambassador came out initially and talked about it. Maybe Lindsey Graham has a point maybe they put the wrong spokesman out. I dont think so. Theyre looking for fault in this president any way they can. I can promise you one thing if governor romney won the white house, we wouldnt be hearing about benghazi ever again. Because he didnt, well be hearing about benghazi, theyll try to make it their whitewater. It will be going on for awhile. Now these men Lindsay Graham and john mccain both voted for another rice to be secretary of state. Of course, im talking about Condoleezza Rice. After september 11th, 2001, the greatest National Security failure in history, you would think the first person to be fired would be the National Security adviser. Instead, she was promoted to secretary of state. And she was a dutiful soldier to george w. Bush. We remember Condoleezza Rice talking about a Mushroom Cloud and helping lie america into a war. They had no problem with that. And this is my problem with the benghazi outrage my friends. I want to know your thoughts at 186655press. If you have bad intel that leads to a war that kills thousands of americans, thats okay. You get a pass. You get promoted. If you get bad intel after four americans have been killed. Thats an impeachable offense. This is the hypocrisy of benghazi. Our question for the day is what do you say to your right wing coworkers when they begin saying benghazi . And youre a rightwinger listening to the show, let me say benghazi, benghazi, Benghazi Benghazi because thats fox dialogue these days. We do want to know your thoughts. Now, the president , of course, came right out and defended secretary ambassador rice. Can we hear that first clip, dan. Obama let me say specifically about susan rice, she has do not exemplary work. She has represented the United States and our interests in the United Nations with skill and professionalism and toughness and grace. John wellspoken. He came out a few minutes later and this, i guess would probably be the clip of the day yesterday where we saw the guy we voted for in 2008. Obama if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. And im happy to have that discussion with them. But for them to go after the u. N. Ambassador . Who had nothing to do with benghazi . And was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received . And besmirch her reputation . It is outrageous. John dan, it seems pretty open and shut to me. Whats your take . Absolutely. John i dont know how you can argue this. I wonder if senator mccain and senator graham are doing this to put the president on defense during a week when he should be coasting and being happy. Absolutely. They got smacked last week and theyre looking for any way to stay in the headlines and they saw this as an opportunity. They saw a door opening slightly and said lets take the opportunity. Lets slam this down. We can get some republican headlines on the benghazi. John ive never seen a terrorist attack exploited like this since the attacks of 911 were exploited to justify a war with a country that never attacked us. And again im sorry i wasnt here last week. I watched the show last week. It must have been very, very exciting for bill and everyone here on Election Night and the next day. It must have been a lot of fun for you guys. Oh, yeah. It was magical and it was huge and then just to watch the the three days after, through friday, it was all just watching the selfdestruction of the Republican Party. Them sort of eating each other alive. John fantastic. I want to talk about that today too. Karl rove, watching the karl rove meltdown was like porn for moral people. It was great john it really was. Like a little child asked me who that was. I said thats karl rove. He used to be president for eight years along with dick cheney of course. It was so hilarious to watch karl rove just completely unravel. Watching all of fox news unravel. I think the most fun part about it was the realization that the morning after election day last week the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson woke up and realized the Republican Party had redistributed their wealth. Let me ask you a question. Do you think that karl rove still has credibility among republicans or are they going to ask him to come back and run the next election . John the fact that he squandered 100 million proves one thing. He can raise money. I dont think youll ever see him back as big again. He probably alienated a lot of people. He raised 100 million and every candidate he backed, lost. Not good. John i want to talk about Election Night. I had the unique experience of covering it with Vice President gore and governor granholm and governor spitzer. Were talking about everything on your mind. Im John Fuglesang filling in for bill. It is the bill press show. Well be right back. Announcer this is the full court press. The bill press show live on your radio and current tv. Perspective. Im a slutty bob hope. The troops love me. Only on current tv. [ male announcer ] its that time of year again. Time for citi price rewind. Because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. And you really dont want to pay more than you have to. Only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. And if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. And register your purchase online. Have a super sparkly day ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. Citi price rewind. Buy now. Save later. 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And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Announcer heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the bill press show. Bill hey, it is 24 minutes after the hour. Talking about jeb bush yesterday coming down, clasping down hard john this is the bill press show. Im John Fuglesang filling in for bill all morning long. Taking your calls at 186655press. And taking your tweets at bpshow or on the twitter on at John Fuglesang. Which is my name. I apologize for being the whitest guy with the most ethnic name ever. According to the daily caller, worthy resource, less than a week after a new orleans suburbanite petitioned the white house to its allow louisiana to secede from the u. S. , petitions from seven states have collected enough signatures to trigger a promised review from the Obama Administration. The report notes that 69 similar petitions according to the alter net have garnered over 670,000 signatures from all 50 states. Prompting a review that will no doubt consist of junior white house staffers enjoying a good laugh before placing them in a circular file. Not to be left out someone offered another petition to the administration to strip the citizenship from everyone who signed the petition to secede and exile them. So it is good to know after the election and a decisive Democratic Victory that we are all united now a