K 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. Announcer on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. Bill its 25 minutes after the hour now. A lot of outrage big editorial in the New York Times blasting john boehner for delaying the vote on no reason to do it. Theyre not delaying the vote on relief, of course for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. What do they need more . They need more evidence there was a lot of damage done there. Havent they been watching television . Maybe they should have gotten on the plane with president obama and toward the area with governor christie. By the way, i was reminded yesterday, my favorite memorial here in washington, after the lincoln memorial, is the fdr memorial. Etched on the walls of that, some great statement by president roosevelt. This one always struck me. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Boy, republicans certainly flunked that test again today. Peter, whats going on . On the christie press conference, were tweeting at bpshow. You can find us there at bpshow on twitter. Travis moss says governor chris tiss problem as a republican is he actually cares for all of his constituents, not just the rich ones. Fred wilder says Congressional Republicans define success as how Many Americans they can cause real misery to with their votes. Bill these guys would walk away from this. Remember eric cantor walked away from the earthquake victims in his own district. A couple of years ago. Refusing more money for fema for the earthquake victims. In his own congressional coldblooded. Bill totally coldblooded. Fran in springfield missouri. Good morning. Caller good morning. New york and new jersey are blue states. Republicans are not going to out of their way for that. Bill good point. Governor christie made that point yesterday. New york and jersey, weve been there on the front lines helping people in other parts of the country, right, like in the tornado belt and others where they needed help. Now it is our turn . What do we get . There are more food stamps in the red states than the blue states. Bill its interesting. They are blue states but there are a lot of republicans in those states, right . Look at governor christie. So this idea that the politics would be behind it, i think youre right fran. Unbelievable. You would think that in time of disaster, you dont ask Peoples Party affiliation. Im sure thats part of the thinking of the tea baggers. Good for you fran. Larry up in new briton, connecticut. Hey, larry, good morning. Connecticut had a lot of damage. Caller happy new year. Bill happy new year, yes indeed. Caller i could sense mr. Boehner doesnt have many friends in washington these days. I sense a crying fit coming, dont you . Bill you know, i dont know whether he certainlyu isnt crying for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Caller not for them. No, no. But anyways bill, i would like to say one thing about these republicans up in the northeast like governor christie and representative king that mayor bloomberg has acknowledged Climate Change has had an effect on us and i think its about time that they would recognize we have to do something about Climate Change. Bill larry excellent point. I would hope and i do think i do think that Hurricane Sandy particularly has raised the wereness of this awareness again of this as a problem. We have to do something about Climate Change. I hope thats on the president s list of priorities for 2013. 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The good men and women of the nea under president Dennis Van Roekel creating great Public Schools across this country for every student in america. You bet for more information look at their web site at nea. Org. Today, the day that the new congress will be sworn in. It is a day of festivity here in washington, d. C. Not only the new members of the senate and the house but even the returning members, the veterans who have been here, sworn in again and then they all invite their friends and neighbors and supporters for receptions and dinners and cocktail parties and there will be nothing but parties all day today. Ive been invited to several. Im going actually this afternoon, invited to attend the swearing in receptions for our good friend senator Bernie Sanders. Nice. Congratulations. Bill senator amy klobach. And the congressman who defeated allen west. Oh, yeah, of all the wins, that was one of my favorites. Bill indeed. Probably the best of all. We didnt get michele bachmann. We did get allen west. Were talking about the fact that the old Congress Still here until noon today but one thing they will not do, theyve already done all of their business. John boehner says no no, no, come on. Theres no urgency with Hurricane Sandy. Weve already waited, force those people to wait six times longer than it took to get help to the people of new orleans. We can let them wait until two weeks. Whats the hurry . Yeah. Ask Chris Christie about that. Why would republicans do this . Whats it all about . Arthur is in miami florida. Good morning. Caller good morning and happy new year bill. Bill happy new year. Thank you. Caller i just think that the republicans in particular, the tea party is so inhumane, this is payback for christie seeking praise on obama right after the storm. Bill i think there might have been some of that. Well teach this christie a lesson or Something Like that, right . Caller they cant single them out but they just have no conception as to the suffering of the people over there. They know the wealthier theyre okay. Theyre covered. Bill how petty can you get, right . Caller you tell me. How petty have they been . Bill i think we see it in this case. More so perhaps than any other. You know, again i think they flunked the test back to fdrs admonition there. I think they flunked that test of caring more for the people who have too much than the people who have too little. They flunked that test twice this week. First in the buildup to this whole fiscal crisis because they were willing to let the country totally go over the cliff. Let the economy tank if they didnt get their tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, they ended up caving in on that. Secondly by this refusal to allow a vote in this session right now, you know how long that vote would have taken . Probably ten minutes. Because you do it electronically. It was not like they would have had to be like three or four days to debate this. Everybody knew. Hurricane sandy we saw the damage and destruction. The senate has already acted. 60 billion. Boom. All they need to do a schedule a vote. They push the button, its done. John boehner had it up to here, didnt want to do it, walked away. Doesnt give a crap. Damon calling from detroit michigan. Hey, damon what do you say . Caller im over here in chicago. Bill im sorry. Caller im a detroiter. Im work over here. Bill what is your first name . Caller david. Bill david, good to have you with us. What do you think . Caller i agree with the last caller. I think it is political payback. Makes it tremendously easy that the vast majority of those districts affected were democratic districts and i think it is political payback. You par took in the action that was the demise of the last election and by god, youre going to pay the price. Bill its like when if youre driving down the highway right, and you see an accident and somebody really needs help and you stopped to offer some help, you dont ask them are you a republican or a democrat . This whole concept is so foreign. Caller i wholeheartedly agree. Went through the same thing in 08 when the majority of the Republican Party didnt want to help out with the restructuring of the auto industry. Bill yep. Yep. Exactly. All of those jobs, all of those american jobs, all of those american companies, the only real Manufacturing Base that weve got left in this country and theyre willing to let that collapse as well. David, good to hear from you. Stuart down in st. Petersburg, florida. Hi stuart. Caller good morning, bill and happy new year. Bill happy new year. Whats your take on all of this . Caller i think they should vote for it but i understand reading on the Huffington Post that there are hundreds of millions of dollars of pork tied into this bill. And i mean for example, why would the e. P. A. Need over 100 million for Hurricane Relief when the e. P. A. Has nothing to do with it . There was one that i agreed with. Fema should get money. Bill right. But there was another one that they tied in thats also getting millions hundreds of millions of dollars that has absolutely nothing to do with the storm. And if youre going to tie a bill in for relief, for people of this devastating storm, i dont think any i dont think any group other than what is needed for them should get a dime. Bill yeah. Stuart look, you make an excellent point. And thats kind of the unfortunately, kind of the way washington works right. Its almost theres almost never a pure bill. For example, the fiscal fix right, included what was i had some notes here. 74 billion in goodies for nascar among other things. Sure, why not. Bill for the hollywood film industry. You come down to it, stuart, when youve got the choice of just no help at all right or swallowing that putting forth that help with a little bit of pork to it, whats your choice . Right . Right. Thats what im trying to i think that people dont realize sometimes as crazy as it is, bill, i think that we should send help down there but as crazy as it sounds, you know, its the pork has to stop in washington and you and i know it will never stop. Bill it wont stop. It wont stop as long as the lobbyists are camped out in washington stuart. You know that. I tell you one thing, i think thats why the president should have the power that some governors have to lineitem veto so you get a bill like that. Heres the good stuff in the bill but this pork, boom, boom, boom, im going to red line it out. Sometimes you gotta take the little bit of bad with the whole lot of good. But ill tell you again stuart thats not why john boehner walked away from this bill. He said he just didnt want to deal with anything else. He was so pissed off. He was so frustrated. He was so tired after the fiscal cliff fight that he just reneged on the people of the northeast who needed help from Hurricane Sandy. One more here. Mary is calling from atlanta georgia. What do you say . Good morning. Caller good morning, bill. Bill hi, whats up. Caller your previous caller, arthur, mostly had it nailed. My take was that i dont think boehner could have gotten the expenditure through without some form of offset. I think he had a feeling or fear that the tea party is in the house the tea partiers in the house would have voted against it and therefore it would have had democratic support and maybe some republican support and he would not have looked good. Bill yeah. That could be. Theres certainly some tea partiers saying two things. First that they didnt think there was sufficient they hadnt seen sufficient evidence that these people needed help. I dont know what planet theyve been living on. The second point you make is we may give this money but only if we can cut the same amount of money somewhere else like out of medicare or Social Security. Which they always try to do. So maybe that was part of John Boehners political calculation as well, mary. Good to hear from you. Love those southern voices. I really do. Makes me miss home. [ laughter ] bill indeed. Good news, too we mentioned yesterday. Doctors were predicting a complete recovery for secretary of state Hillary Clinton. And what do you know. Not that shes totally recovered yet but she did was released from the hospital yesterday and it was a great photo to see her and former president bill clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton walking out getting into the vans and driving home to chappaqua. Im sure shes delighted to be there. We wish her again a continued speedy and full and complete recovery. 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Bill whats the feeling around the white house about the fiscal cliff and are they ready for the next battle . We checked in with the Deputy White House editor for politico. Edward isaac devore. Hello. Good to talk to you again. Good morning, bill. How are you . Bill is the white house big victory chants at the white house when this thing came down . How do they feel about it . What do you hear . In general, this was seen as a big win over the House Republicans, they feel like they got a fair amount of concessions from the other side especially when it comes to a the larger philosophical question of how taxes were going to be done and what was going to be done with tax rates going forward. The issue though is what happens next and thats where things get a little tricky and where the white house feels confident about how theyre going to approach the next part of this and the next round of all of the budget discussions. But its much more of an open question whether it would have the kind of leverage that theyll need to get the kind of deal that they want. Bill i have to ask you this question. It is reported this morning i saw in the reports that the president actually signed ordered this bill signed. It has been signed, by auto pen. Thats right. Bill now, is that legit . The Justice Department says so according to the white house. But this is where maybe taking right off to hawaii after he finished that statement on tuesday night and bill i dont blame him for not hanging around but im surprised, they usually fly the bill over there and he signs it. There was another bill that he signed. Bill the Defense Authorization act. Exactly. But the fiscal cliff bill didnt arrive so he had to directly sign it by auto pen. I think this is the third bill that hes signed by auto pen. The Justice Department says it is totally legal. But i would imagine that this is the sort of thing that we will actually hear more about from at least some groups that are going to want to press to check if it is legal. Bill on the other hand, if he had stayed around to sign it, he might have had to do so with john boehner standing alongside of him. Risk it. Go with the auto pen. Leave the family waiting in hawaii for him. I know they were in love with it. Bill i gotta ask you also, the president when you look at this package that we finally got, its a far cry from what the president did say he would settle for right . He did say for two things. One, i only want i want to demand a comprehensive package right, that includes the debt ceiling. So w