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CURRENT Full Court Press December 4, 2012

To date on all of the latest news of the day and take your calls at 186655press. And word is out this morning that roger ails told David Petraeus when he was still in iraq that he should quit and run for president of the United States against barack obama and if he did so, roger ails said he would quit fox news and run his campaign. How about it. Dont tell me fox news is not the broadcast arm of the Republican Party. That proves it all right. Well get into that and a whole lot more here. First we get the latest current news update from Lisa Ferguson out in los angeles. Hi lisa. Good morning. Hey bill. Good morning everyone. So far the president seems to be staying strong when it comes to taxes. As you all know by now House Republicans sent in a fiscal cliff counter offer yesterday but the white house is calling it no good. I want to give you an idea of where the two sides stand right now. Boehners new plan would raise 2. 2 trillion. Now it would extend the bush tax cuts for everyone and yes that does include the top 2 . And it would instead raise 800 billion in revenue from socalled tax reform and thats what we mean when we talk about capping deductions and closing loopholes. The rest of the money comes from cuts to both mandatory and discretionary programs. Now to recap again on the president s offer, he wants to raise 1. 6 trillion, thats double boehners amount on the rich an and hes asking for more than 200 billion in stimulus spending and promising about 400 billion worth of cuts to social programs. Now obviously those two plans have very little in common. Neither side is budging when it comes to their demands on taxes. But now here are a few problems with boehners proposal. For one, he has yet to get specific on which deductions and loopholes he actually plans to get rid of. For another, hes trying to borrow from the Simpson Bowles agenda of raising revenue by lowering rates. Now obviously that seems a bit contradictive. The difference here is that the Simpson Bowles plan let the bush tax plan expire first before they revise the rates. 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. [ male announcer ] red lobsters crabfest ends soon. Hurry in and try five succulent entrees like our tender snow crab paired with savory garlic shrimp. Just 12. 99. Come into red lobster and sea food differently. And introducing 7 lunch choices for just 7. 99. Salads, sandwiches, and more. At cepacol weve heard people are going to extremes to relieve their sore throats. Oh, okay, you dont need to do that. But i dont want any more of the usual lozenges and i want new cooling relief ugh. 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On the news here from our Nations Capital. On the news around the country. Here in our Nations Capital, it is mainly fiscal cliff. Around the country, duane says it is too bad his girlfriend didnt have a gun then they could have had a shootout and other people could have been killed. In syria more signs of president assads days are numbered and the white house warning syria you better not think about using chemical weapons like Saddam Hussein did. So well bring it all to you. Take your calls. Give you a chance to sound off. You can do so by giving us a call at 186655press. That is our toll free number. Follow us on twitter. Give us your comments on twitter at bpshow and on facebook, follow us on facebook, facebook. Com billpressshow. Here we go. Peter ogborn and dan henning. Happy tuesday. Bill team press here this morning. Good morning. Bill phil backert has the phones. Cyprian bowlding, a delighted redskins fan this morning. Hes got the video camera. Hes going to celebrate this morning. Bill dan didnt wear his giants garb this morning. For those who dont know, there is a rift here in the bill bill press show. Dan is a big giants fan. Cyprian supports the Football Team here in washington. It is a heated rivalry. Bill even if your team loses, dont you think you would wear the gear . I have the hat. I am absolutely loyal. They played a solid game last night. Right up until they didnt win. They almost won. Spoken like a true fan. They played a great game until they lost. Bill heres what it sounded like on espn right at the end there. Rejuvenated football in the Nations Capital. Redskins and giants split. It looks like theyve won a game here at fedex field. And all they are is within a game of the division lead. Bill 1716. I will say as a giants fan the redskins are a solid contender this year and they have a fabulous rookie quarterback. Bill rgiii. Hes very good. Bill there we go. Weve got the nats and redskins coming up. Whoa suddenly, sports town. I wouldnt get too carried away with that. The last couple of games they looked very good. They also lost to the panthers this season and they had some very terrible games. If they had really gotten their act together and if they played the way theyve been playing the last couple of games things might have turned around for them. Bill if our sports teams can start delivering, maybe our politicians can. Dont ask too much here, right . I was going to say lets not get too carried away. The wizards have won one game this season. Bill they should never have changed their name from the bullets. I agree wholeheartedly. All of the new ones. Bill downhill ever since. Coming up today senator Sherrod Brown, big winner for reelection in ohio even though the super pac spent billions of dollars against him. Well maybe not billions but millions and millions against him. Sherrod brown is going to tell us how he did it. Tuesdays, think progress igor volsky from think progress here with us later in this hour. Lynn sweet Washington Bureau chief for the chicago suntimes as a friend of bill. Lots of fun coming up. Lots of important stuff to talk about including a bogus proposal by john boehner yesterday. On the fiscal cliff. But first. Announcer this is the full court press. On this tuesday other headlines making news, the most eagerly awaited pregnancy in recent times was announced yesterday. Duchess Kate Middleton pregnant with what would be the third in line to the british throne. Child of Prince William. He and kate have been married for 19 months. Kate was admitted to the hospital yesterday suffering from acute morning sickness. She needed extra hydration and nutrients and will spend a couple of days there. Shes reportedly not quite 12 weeks pregnant so shes likely due in may or june. Bill third in line. It would be charles then william and then the baby and harry gets pushed out to pasture. Bill even if baby x is a girl . Absolutely. The way they changed the line of succession to the throne, even if its a girl. Bill you know its big news when the White House Press briefing opened with jay carney congratulating on behalf of the president and the first lady and everybody here at the white house, we all congratulate Kate Middleton for her pregnancy. It is a big story. Bill it is hardly the number one news story hardly worth the white house briefing. Anyhow, not the first one to get pregnant. It is not that hard to get pregnant. I mean good for her and everybody. President obama has not started his second term yet but there is already a push to create his president ial library. The chicago suntimes and lynn sweet is reporting the university of chicago is pushing to figure out how to get the president to make them a serious contender. Maybe an easy push as the obamas have many close ties to that school. President ial libraries act as part museum, part archive and theyre funded through Public Private partnerships. Bill he was a professor there. Obviously that would be the place to put it. At the same time, let me say the last thing this country needs is another president ial library. Theyre all i think total waste of time and money. They should put their papers in the Smithsonian Library and stop all of this crap about everybody having to have his or her own library. His so far. Besides, the university of kenya already has a very nice library. And in sports, the top finalists for College Footballs most famous player of the year award were announced yesterday. Contenders for the Heisman Trophy are texas a m quarterback Johnny Manzel. Linebacker manty taio and collin klein. The winner will be announced this saturday in new york city. Manzel is the favorite. The correct answer is Johnny Manzel will win the Heisman Trophy this year. Thats all there is to it. Bill is he the freshman . He is going to win. Bill ill take your word for it. I dont know any of them. I wouldnt know who to vote for. You dont get to vote. Luckily, you dont get to vote. They will give it to the defensive player. Collin klein had a very good year but nobody had a better season than Johnny Manzel. Bill ill take your word for it. Ill tell you what, i have a vote on John Boehners baloney plan yesterday they threw out there on the table. I would love to get your take on it too at 186655press. My vote is no my vote is laughing all the way. So, you know what was going on. So for the fiscal cliff negotiations so far it really is serious stuff because the last thing we can afford right now is another 2008 debacle where people lose their shirt because the federal government the politicians here members of congress cant get their act together. But at any rate, you had one plan on the table. The president s plan. Republicans saying the president there are too many questions and theres not enough specificity and baloney. President put out a plan about a year ago. It is in print. It is online. The president has a very specific plan. The republicans who didnt put anything on the table who had not countered with anything concrete at all. In fact, yesterday at our briefing, before boehner released his counter plan, jay carney said again that all you hear from the republicans are vague promises. Youre making vague promises about achieving revenue through capping deductions or closing loopholes simply doesnt add up to a serious proposal. Bill so then yesterday the republicans realized they had to come up with something put something on the table. Come up with this proposal which would cut 2. 2 trillion over the next ten years. The president by the way would cut 4 trillion over the next two years. But heres out how republicans would do it. They would cut Social Security. They would cut medicare. They would cut 600 medicare meaning they would raise the age eligibility from 65 to 67. They would cut 600 billion in unspecified cuts. Theyll cut spending. They dont tell us where. But its not defense spending. Those are social programs. They would cut another 800 billion or raise 800 billion in revenues they say by closing loopholes and getting rid of deductions. But again they dont tell where. What loopholes they would close. Is it the mortgage Interest Deduction . We dont know. They do not specify. So again it is a lot it is filled with vague promises but heres the big difference. Notice what is not included and what they say they will not do. They will not raise tax rates. They will not raise taxes on the top wealthiest 2 of americans. They say no way. No how will that be included. Theyre dead wrong. Theyre wasting time. When i saw that proposal yesterday, to coin a word, you know what my reaction was . I was flabbergasted oh, my god. I was flabbergasted. Thank you mr. Speaker. Bill john boehner isnt the only one. Flabbergasted that they would have the audacity to put Something Like that forward when they know its not going anywhere. Its a total joke. Social security has not contributed to the deficit. Social security should not be on the table. These guys hate Social Security so much, they want to get rid of Social Security and medicare so much that everything they put forward has to have cuts in medicare and Social Security. So thats a nonstarter. The president has said hes not going to touch Social Security. The president said hes not going to raise the eligibility age for medicare. And the president has also said jay carney said it again yesterday, hes not even going to consider any bill that continues tax rates for the wealthiest of americans. He will not sign an extension of the bush era tax cuts for the top 2 . Full stop. Bill full stop. This is what i dont get about this. This is not some new idea. This is not something that obama is you know, pulling out of the clear blue sky. It is something he ran on. This is what the election was about. Bill and the people voting. Overwhelmingly. Bill we have to go back to the beginning. These tax cuts were enacted by george w. Bush in 2001. Still a bad idea then, i believe. At any rate, we had a surplus. It was sold to the American People because we have a surplus, we ought to give money back. Well have the tax cuts across the board which benefitted mostly the wealthiest of americans. We knew that at the time. They were adopted as a temporary measure. What part of temporary doesnt john boehner understand . What part of temporary dont these republicans understand, right . I mean what is it about suddenly suddenly, its become gospel. It is sacrosanct that you can never raise tax on the richest of americans. The very ones im one of them, who ought to be paying more in taxes. It is just insane so they were attempted as a temporary measure and theyre going to expire in ten years. Why in ten years . Because everybody knew in ten years things might change. We might no longer have a surplus and we might need the money. Thats exactly what the case is today. President obama extended them for two years. I wish he hadnt but he did. Why . Because it was the price he paid for getting the debt ceiling increase and for extending Unemployment Benefits for millions of americans. Well now everything has changed. Now we can we simply can no longer afford welfare for the rich. It is handing millionaires and billionaires a great big fat like 150,000 check a year. We cant afford it. We dont have the money. Peter, as you pointed out, this is the number one issue in the election. The president made it clear at every appearance. If you want tax cuts, if you want the wealthiest of americans to pay a little more in taxes their fair share vote for me. If you want to give them a free ride, vote for romney. Its over. This issue has been decided. John boehner total total joke. I think the president i mean should just reject this thing out of hand and say we would rather have okay, heres my vote. Do you agree . 186655press. My vote is no deal. No deal rather than a bad deal. No deal rather than give the wealthiest 2 another tax cut. John boehner no deal im flabbergasted. Announcer this is the bill press show. Talking points that the right have about the heavy hand of government. I want to have that conversation. Lets talk about it. Really. Really that youre gonna lay people off because now the governments going to help you fund your health care. Really . I wanna be able to have those conversations. Not just to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying. And you know, id like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. 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Elections have consequences. Peter ogborn, whats happening in the social world . Were tweeting at bpshow at bp show. You can find us there. Weve already given out Speaker Boehners twitter handle and phone number and web site if you want to get in

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