Night at the concernedKennedy Center last year as the kennedy eye wards were awarded to Dustin Hoffman and talk show host david letterman. There was one sole protester out in front of the Kennedy Center jay leno. He had a big sign saying what about me . Why dave . What about me . We will tell you more about the Kennedy Center honors and a lot more. Lets get the latest. Todays current days update lease a ferguson standing buy in los angeles. Hey, good monday morning, lease a. Hey, bill. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Hope yall had a good weekend. The president gets to take a little bit of a break from the fiscal cliff today. He got that around 11 eastern last night after hosting reception for the ken see center awardees. It celebrates talent in art and music. The recipients included david letterman, Dustin Hoffman and the surviving members of led zeppelin. The president is the addressing defense issues nationally and globally. He told boyko borisov, they talk plan on talking about leadership in nato as well as involvement with the International SecurityAssistance Force in afghanistan. The president will speak at the cooperative stlet reduction symposium at the National Defense university. That program is based on a law that was response orders by senator sam nunn and is aimed a lot of weapons of mass destruction in former soviet union states. He will talk about the progress in the specific area of National Defense. And the election was nearly a month ago, but many states are still tallying their ballots. The United States election project is gathering some of that data and as found 28 states are reporting their official and final results. According to that samples size 59 of eligible voters cast their ballots this november and in nevada. 6 voted for none of the above in the president ial race. Thats the only state allowing that option. Be right back. Alright, in 15 minutes were going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ theme ] [ music ] broadcasting across the nation, on your radio and on current tv this is the bill press show. Bill all right. 30 days now before we tumble off of the fiscal cliff. Will john boehner get out of the way and let us avoid another fiscal crisis . Hey, good morning, everybody. What do you say . Here we go. On a great big monday monday december 3rd, good to see you today. Hope you had a good weekend and watched some good football got maybe some Holiday Shopping christmas shopping. A lot of people around here in the Eastern Market neighborhood of capitol hill buying their Christmas Trees. I saw them all day saturday all day sunday loading xrays trees on top of the cars going home, carrying them home to deck raid the xrays decorate the Christmas Trees. Lots to talk about this morning here around the country, around the globe, around here in washington, d. C. We will bring you up to date on the latest to let you know whats going on, but most importantly, give you a chance to sound off. Thats what its all about. You can give us a call at 86655press. You can twit join us on twitter or tweet us bpshow and follow us on facebook. Com. And you can join the chat room and talk about the issues with your fellow fullcourt pressers across the land by going and click on the chat room and you are in. We have assembled the entire press team for this week team press to give you a chance to fully participate in the show. We say hello to peter ogburn and dan henning. Hi. We have assembled, like a weird version of the avengers. What is it . The zebra in there on the 1s and 2s. This is my us open shirt from the Golf Tournament bill it looks like a referee shirt like from a basketball game or Something Like you should be on the sidelines calling plays or Something Like that. I am here to keep you in line. I dont know. Bill backus has the phones and cyprian has the t. V. Cameras going. Good morning, cyprian. Peter, lets get it out. Reporter thank you bill lets do it. Get out of the way. Here it is. Here it is, the final call alabamageorgia. 10 seconds, 9, 8 from the game f out corner down at the 5 4, 3, 2, 1. Alabama wins. Alabama wins. The crimson tide will play again, and they will play for all of the marbles. Time to make a little more room in the trophy case. Thats right. Bill oh, my god. Peter im glad we started off with this clip because you would think that by now, i would be tired of hearing about alabama winning the championship. Bill wouldnt think that the that at all. Peter the the 23rd win going on to play notre dame. Bill you and robert gibbs. Peter gibbs is an auburn guy bill playing notre dame . Whose side god is on. Peter you know. Bill god is a catholic not a southern baptist. Peter wrong. Touchdown jesus . Bill you dont have a chance. Peter normally you are right but god coaches alabama crimson tide so we might have a little bit of a conflict of interest. Role tide. Here we come again. Bill it was a big game. Peter secfall is amazing, my favorite show on t. V. Its powerhouse after powerhouse after powerhouse dominant team. I think you could say they are four or five, six teams that could beat notre dame. Alabama is the one who was picked because they beat the other teams. Bill congratulations. Peter thank you. Bill we have a lot going on. Dave, zyron, join us a little bit later. We will talk to reporters from politico, from the hotline and from Huffington Post most of which will be intude studio with us and john boehner, is it finally time for john boehner to get out of the way so we can get something done in washington . Yes. But first on this monday other headlines making news, president obama and the first lady attended the Kennedy Center honors, the 35th annual tribute to honor Dustin Hoffman, led zeppelins zimmy page and john paul jones. Makarova. Eclectic list. For contributions. At a time will air on cbs the day after christmas. Bill it was a big name today for president obama yesterday. So he had the kennedy honors. During the day, he went to Saint Andrews and played golf with bill clinton and terri mccall mccalliffe. Peters that was a little bit more of a highprofile sunday than i had. Bill al good return. Ron kirk, the u. S. Trade ambassador. Bill a frequent golf partner with the president. We are learning more about what mitt romney has been up to including having a nonhomecooked thanksgiving dinner. He ordered in from Boston Market for the family saying there were too many kids running around to be cooking. Peter how the mighty have fallen. Photographed pumping his gas since he has no entourage to the pump it for him. A sad story, nothing to do. Peter i dont feel that bad about it. Hanging out with his car elevator taking rides. Spiritists one of his many homes. The author of the hunger games trilogy is taking a break by writing a childrens picture book an auto guy graphic piece about coping with her fathers military service in vietnam as told through pictures. Bill all right, dan, thank you. All of the talk on the sunday shows yesterday and talk here in washington is still about negotiations to avoid going over the fiscal cliff. I think its time to call it out. I am tired of all of the crap. Lets go to the chase this morning and say there is only one person standing in the way of resolving this fiscal cliff, john boehner. Who probably now has earned the titles of the worst speaker certainly in our lifetime if not the worst speaker ever in the history of the house of representatives. The guy is just a totals total loser. Look. Here is where things stand. Right . Its not complicated. President obama, weve got this big debt crisis. President obama, two things number 1, months ago, he put out a detailed plan. Its in print, and its online, of how to resolve this fiscal crisis. No. 2, the republicans said we are not going to deal with it. We will take seven weeks off. We will have an election and let the people decide. President obama went out in front of the American People. There was one issue, the central issue. It wasnt the war in iraq Irans Nuclear possibility of iran Getting Nuclear Weapons it wasnt peace in the middle east. It wasnt immigration reform. The number 1 was issue was president obama said very clear, we want the wealthiest two percents of americans to pay more in tax after having 12 years of a special tax break, which was only supposed to be temporary. If you say yes vote for me. Mitt romney says, no, we are going to caudle, protect that top 2 . We are not going to raise their taxes. So if you say no, vote for me. That was a choice. The American People overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly, margin of 5 million, voted for president obama. John boehner is acting as if we never had an election in the first place and the election doesnt mean anything. Is the senator has passed a tax break and john boehner is saying no, we will let 98 of americans pay 2,000 more in taxes. We will give a tax increase. We will raise taxes on 98 of americans unless you give us another tax break for our buddies and millionaires and billionaires, the top 2 in the country. You cant blame even Mitch Mcconnell any more. Its john boehner who is standing in the way. He did so again the republicans give this babble. The president says whats your plan . What do you want to cut . Close loopholes. What loopholes . They wont say. To them, nothing. A detailed plan versus nothing. Youve got a existed in in president obama versus a lose her in john boehner. And here is boehner again yesterday, on Fox News Sunday saying, when he looked at the president s proposal, oh my god. I was flabbergasted. Flabbergasted. He cant be serious. I just have never seen anything like it. Weve got seven weeks between election day and the end of the year three weeks have been wasted with the nonsense. Who is flabbergasted anymore . Have you ever heard that word . Peter an old word. 1920s called. They werent there. Bill yeah, my great aunt madeline used to say, flabbergasted she was 90 then. I was waiting for him to say we got beat, it was a slobberknocker. Maybe they say that in the bar. The other thing is t flabbergasted . He has known about this plan. You can check it out. This is nothing to be flabbergasted about. This was out there long since the election and ever since. A nonserious proposal. The president was asking for 1. 6 trillion worth of new revenue over 10 years, twice as much aziz been asking for in public. Stimulus spending in here exceeded the amount of new cuts that he was willing to consider. Boehner it was not a serious offer. Not a serious offer. Wait a minute, the president has offered a detailed offer. Right . Not to get too technical but its a 4 trillion plan, been out there a long time 1. 6 trillion over the next years, cutting the deficit, 1. 6 cutting the tax cuts for the wealthiest for americans, and medicare and medicaid and farm subsidies and other, 1 trillion in additional spending cuts that the house, the senate and the white house have already agreed to and then 800,000,000,000 in new spending new revenue from cuts and spending because of ending the war in iraq and in afghanistan. The president s budget is out there. On the republican side, there is nothing. I am going to get back to it. Here it is, also guy in the way is boehner. You have heard me say this, that boehner is not a bad guy. I used to think that and if you let him go, he would make a deal. I dont believe that any more. I think boehner is out to he doesnt care about the middle class, and his goal is to let this country go over the fiscal cliff because he wants the economy to fail because he wants president obama to fail. John boehner, again, i think the worst speaker ever, its a time for leadership, not for playing political games. American people have spoken. This is a time for leadership. I think if john boehner is unwilling to lead, weve got to put pressure on him to get the hell out of the way. Fish or cut bait. Get the hell out of the way. He has no backbone. He has no balls. He is a lousy, lousy leader. He is a looser. I think we ought to start putting the pressure on him. Lets pick a fight today with john boehner. Its not picking a fight with boehner. Its just doing something to save this country. So, peter, how do people i call on you join me in call okay john boehner lead or get out of the way. Peter if you want to send him an email speaker. Gov contact. You can send it to him. If you are on twitter bill speaker. Gov spiritists we are tweeting this as well. If you are on twitter he is tweeting speakerboehner, speakerboehner. Or call the office of the speaker, 2022250600. You can call the office of the speaker right there. Bill 2 on 5 . Whats that peter congressional office. The office of the speaker is 2022250600. 2022250600. Thats where he spends most of his time. Bill whats the twitter again . speaker obtain. We will tweet that out. Send us bp show. Lets start it right now. Okay . The message, the message to obtain is the American People have spoken. Raise taxes on the wealthiest of americans. Give 98 of americans a tax cut. And either you agree to the deal, as the American People want you to as the American People have demanded, or get out of the way. Lead or resign. John boehner. Now is the time. 86655press, lets talk about it right here. Heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the bill press show. [ music ] they wont go to. Oh, no. 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We now look like a bunch of clowns because 98 of americans are going to get a tax cut, a continued tax cut on january 1st unless we stop it. And why should we block that . Bill kristol who is as conservative as you can get, former chief of staff for dan quail, publisher of the Weekly Standard weekly on fox news, he said after the election on november 11th, he laid it out there. Float new ideas. Lets have a serious debate. Dont scribek scream and yell. It wont kill country if we raise taxes on millionaires. I dont sundays why republicans dont take obama offer to freeze taxes for everyone below. The Republican Party is going to defend a bunch of mil on arizona half of whom live in hollywood and voted democratic. We are calling on john boehner. See whats happening. You know, wake up, smell the coffee, lead or get out of the way. Peter what do we have . On twitter bp show. We have given you the ways to reach out to john boehner. Helen say calling on americans to tell Speaker Boehner to listen to what we said in thely. Lead or resign. Thats what we are telling speaker john boehner. Find us bp show. We are giving you the ways to reach out and touch someone. Speaker. Gov contact. His office number, 2022250600, or twitter, the most powerful media for sending out a message today speakerboehner. Say, the American People have spoken. The wealthiest 2 ought to pay more and 98 ought to get tax cuts, what president obama has proposed. This is not rocket science, not complicated. Boehner, lead or resign. This is the bill press show. Ed is calling from frederick maryland. What do you say, ed . Caller good morning. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ music ] coming to you live at current. Com billpress. This is the bill press show, live on your radio and current tv. Youve got it 33 minutes after the hour now. Here we go with the fullcourt press. This monday morning, december 3rd, coming to you live from our nations capitol brought to you today by the communication workers of america, good men and woman of the Communication Workers Union under president larry koen the union for the Information Age indeed. Filed out more at cwaunion. Org. Talking about john boehner, the obstructionist, continued obstructionist doesnt want to deal, unwilling to lead his party, unwilling to listen to the American People. John boehner, we are saying this morning, time for him to lead or get out of the way. Inway. I am telling you how to put pressure on him. Back to your calls and twitter comments in just a moment. First, this time of the year especially, people realize that running short at th