[ music ] bill hey, good morning, everybody. What do you say . It is wednesday, january 16th. Great to see you today. Welcome to you from fullcourt press all across this great land of ours on thendzwednesday morning. It is now the law of the land in new york state under the leadership of governor and drew cuomo, new york state has become first state to act with tough new gun control laws covering a ban on assault weapons, a ban on those highcapacity magazine clips and a requirement that every purchase of every gun include a criminal background check. New york state has shown the lead. President obama will announce his plan with Vice President biden today. Is Congress Ready to follow the lead of new york state . Boy, that and a whole lot more here this morning on the fullcourt press. But first, we get the latest. Todays current news update, was a fergusons got it out in los angeles. Lisa, good morning. Hey, bill. Good morning, everyone. Thats right. We will here from president obama today, what his new proposals on gun control will be. He invites president beside he and Vice President biden are making that from the white house before noon eastern. No package will be a call to congress to reinstate the assault weapons ban and to strength be federal background checks. Obama has previously endorsed each of these proposals, but they would need congressional approve to be instated. Jay carney, not giving any daschle details as to what else the president might unveil today, but we do know this will be a comprehensive gun control package. We will have to wait to hear from the president later this morning. Ahead of the announcement, the nra is releasing a new ad with a personal attack against obama. It preemptively criticizes him for not supporting armed guards in schools and it calls him this. Mr. Obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, but he is just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to a fair share of security. 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Thats where you will find us coming to you live from our studio on capitol hill in washington, d. C. , our nations capitol. We are just down the street from the United States capitol building. The house is back in session, and the white house, if you will of activity these days. The senate is still out, but everybody gearing up for the big announcement at the whitehouse today on the president s efforts to reduce gun violence coming out of the Joe Biden Task force. Great to see you today. Weve got lots and lots. Thats not the only thing we have to talk about. We will bring you up to everything happening in our nations country and give you a chance to sound off. You know, you get up. You find out whats going on, it pisses you off or makes you happy or whatever. Tell us what it means to you and your family. Give us a call at 86655press. Thats our toefree number. You can follow us on twitter. We invite you to at bp show and on facebook. Everybody is on facebook these days including us facebook. Com bill press show. Here we go. Us, that means the whole team and me plus peter ogburn and dan henning. Hello, hello, hello. Good morning. Whats up . Happy wednesday . God. When is this going to stop raining . It was ugly yesterday. Its january. Supposed to be cold, wet and dreary. No. Cold and snowy not raining. Not in washington. Lets have the a winter this year. No snow . We jut shouldnt expect a lot of it. This is par for the course, this rain. Turn his microphone off. Phil bachus has the phones. Stop it. Stop it. I dont want to hear it. Phil bachus has the phones and cyprian boulding is on video cam. There we go. Man. I dont know. I dont know what will rock did he crawl out from under. Man, ive got to tell you. The ires preparable the irreppressableible bill clinton talking about dont worry about hillary. She had a Little Health problem here but she has bounced back. He said she is one strong mama. She has always been very very healthy and she has very low blood pressure, standing heart beat. I tell her she has time to have three more husbands after me. Great. This sounds like it will be a Little Family joke as she fires back at him, too. Whenever i am stubborn about something in my constant quest for self improvement, she refers to me as her first husband. So funny. My first husband. She is now, i mean, you know weve always thought of bill clinton as a rock star and he is, but she is getting up close to maybe even surpassed him. At the gold even globes the other night, when he was there, the two hosts, amy poehler and tina fey said, do you know who that was . That was Hillary Clintons husband. That was his husband, called him bill rodham clinton. I think she may have surpassed him. You know, i think what he is indicating there is we havent seen the last of Public Service on the part of mrs. Clinton. Who knows where thats going. Ten minutes after the how now. Yes, indeed, weve got coming up Eliot Spitzer, going to be joining us as he does every wednesday morning just a little bit later. We are going to talk to geoff moore from buzz feed about Lance Armstrongs pseudo confession yesterday. And congresswoman january schikowski one of our favorite liberals in the congress here in studio with us. President obama and Vice President poised to annoyance recommendations to the nation at 11 55 this center. A preview of whats coming up. But first this is the full court press. On this wednesday, other headlines making news president obama is getting new license plates for all of his cars. The white house announcing yesterday he is having the dc taxation without representation license plates put on the official president ial limousine to stand in solidarity with dc residents who pay taxes but dont get representation in congress. He did not have the plates on his cars in his first term. George bush, the president did not have them during any of his eight years, but president bill clinton did. As a dc resident, i have a few things to say to president obama. Number 1, thank you for recognizing that basically people live in the nations capitol real col onnists who pay taxes and dont get representation. No. 2, mr. President , what the hell took you so long . You have been there four years. There is no better screw you that washington inplate in d. C. I love it says that. Thats the way people here live. The content of zero dark 30 has been a hot topic on capitol hill with several senators investigating certain partiess of the movie. Now we have a comment from the man in charge of the cia, leon panetta. The outgoing defense secretary was asked about the movie but said, you know what . I lived it. Did he see the movie . Thats all he said. He had to see it. I hope he saw. I hope they had a special screening for him. A quick answer here i saw it yesterday. Peter has already seen it. I liked it a lot. I did. I dont know how authentic it was. Parts of it remember very authentic, and some were not. The guy who made it said make sure everybody understood it was a movie. I think it does give the false impression that they learned more about from waterboarding about where bid laden was or the alqaeda connection than they actually did, we have been told. But otherwise, its a good flick. Its exciting. I think argo is a much better movie . I enjoyed argueo much more. O much more. I think its a better made movie. I think captain bigalo should have catherine bigalow should have been nominated. Its a powerful story. Go see it. Go see it. And a big list of celebrities are coming to washington this weekend. The hill reporting the entertain entertainers performing around town include katie perry, brad pace lee. Stevie wonder, usher, the cast of glee Russell Simmons john legend and beyonce, Kelly Clarkson singing at the ceremony on monday. I saw two inaugural balls, one for military families and its about like there will be about 2,000 people and the president and first lady will go to both of these. The other 40,000 people. Thats huge. Can you imagine . Who would want to go to an inaugural ball with 40,000 people. At the convention center. Right . Yeah. Like being in times square when the terrorist is let out. Its hardly an intimate experience. Who wants to go to a party with that many people. Imagine getting a drink. Right . Bring your own. bring a flask. A lot of activity on two different fronts. On the gun control issue today, first of all, new york state, we told you yesterday, the state senate had passed that legislation 43 to 18. The asem bi was poised to act. It did, Governor Cuomo was poised and did, signed the comprehensive bill, a sweeping piece of legislation into law. The governor was crowing yesterday, and rightfully so, that we moved fast and we got the job done. We saw, we learned, we responded, and we acted, and we doing something about it. We are not victims. Quotecuomo comes across, man, i think really good in this whole thing. Its showing a lot of leadership and pulling that republicanled state senate into acting. First state in the nation to do so after the newertown tragedy and andrew cuomo says, this isnt wild stuff. This isnt crazy stuff. This is just stuff everybody can accept and believe in. This is a gun control bill if you will that actually exercises common sense. Common sense. The first point is, people who are mentally ill should not have access to guns. Start from there. You know hes good. Hes good. This is such a critical time because we have had the conversation. Its time for action. We are going to see, and leaders are starting to emerge on the gun control debate and the gun safety debate and he is one of the loudest voices and he is smart on it. I think the most effective voices are those who can speak in terms that everybody can understand. Exactly. And not instil a lot of fear you know, we are going to take over your guns and that kind of stuffl a lot of fear, you know, we are going to take over your guns and that kind of stuff. You listen to cuomo, you have to say, yeah, he makes sense, and he pointed out that one of the things they just dont look at the guns. They look at the ammo. And seven bullets in the gun. Why . Because the highcapacity magazines that give you the capacity to kill a large number of human beings in a very short period of time is nonsensical. What i think to me makes this debate different from the other gun control debates like the assault weapons ban didnt say anything about the highcapacity clips which have been used in aurora, colorado and used in newtown, connecticut, and other Mass Shootings. And this is one people have focused on and include that in the ban on assault weapons. That will be part and parcel of what the president recommends today. Lets move to that. Thats the second front. Jay carney announcing at our briefing yesterday that this morning, at 11 55 a. M. Strange time in the south court audit arm, just across that little street dividing the white house from the Old Executive Office buildingorium, just across that little street dividing the white house from the Old Executive Office building. We go there forrents in the president in the Old Executive Office buildings. The president and the Vice President will appear today they will report to the nation the steps that the administration is determined to either take by executive action or to ask the congress to act, a whole panoply of actions to reduce gun violence in this country, and they are going to present those recommendations surrounded by children who wrote letters to the president after the newtown tragedy begging him and asking him to act and asking him to lead on this topic. It should be a very powerful ceremony. Of course, i will be there a little bit later this morning. We have been told overnight, various reporters were informed by the white house leaked to them some of the things the president we havent seen the entire list yet, but its again a pretty comprehensive package. It will include, we are told definitely al background check a criminal background check on every purchase of every gun. So, no more one on one sales without a background check. No more gun show sales without a background check. No more online sales without a background check. We have heard from the Brady Campaign here on the show that that is their number 1 priority. It will include what the president is going to recommend, the renewing the ban on the assault weapons ban. Jay carney was asked yesterday, even harry reid and all of these other people are saying its going to be impossible to get that through the house. Carneys response was, we are not looking at whether or not its politically feasible or not. We are looking at whether its the right thing to do for it. We are going to push for it. We are going to fight for it even if we dont get it done which i think thats what the American People want. The president s package will also include a ban. We are not sure whether its 10 bullet did or seven or whatever on the high capacity magazines. It will include some crackdown. This probably by executive order on gun traffic trafficking in guns increasing the penalties on that. Maybe its a combination. We havent all of the recommendations. There are certain things the Justice Department can do in terms of more aggressive enforcement. We are also told that the president s list of recommendations will include 19 things that he can and will do by executive order including more research into gun violence more training, more Funds Available for training of School Counselors action for training of Mental Health advisors, and so its across the board and that looks not only at how to prevent mass killings such as aurora, colorado and newtown connecticut, but also just the daytoday gun violence we see in the cities across this country by which or which have lit me put it that way have claimed some 900 lives, people have never heard of and probablyl never will hear of 900 lives in the last month since newtown, connecticut. All of thats coming up today. What do you think . Are we finally, on the track to seeing the first time in our generation some real new tough, important, necessary but common sense restrictions on gun violence and on access to guns and will the congress have the courage to stand up to the gun manufacturers and press them 86655press. Are you hopeful this is the time we might see some action . This is the full course pretty the bill press show live on your radio and on current tv. [ music ] inauguration this monday morning at 10 eastern only on current tv. Presents special coverage of the president ial inauguration. The circumstance the inside analysis. The president ial inauguration this monday morning at 10 eastern only on current tv. 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. 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