Buddies, and thats just something that i really appreciate. [ theme ] bill hey, good morning everybody. Welcome to the full court press on this tuesday january 29. So good to see you today. Thank you for joining us for our little roundup of all the news of the day. Whether its happening here in our Nations Capital thats where we are, capitol hill. Washington, d. C. Whats happening around the country or around the globe. Well bring it all to you and give you a chance to sound off by giving us a call on our toll free number at 186655press and how about it. The big news, eight senators, four democrats four republicans, unveiling a bold, new, comprehensive Immigration Reform package yesterday including a path to citizenship which is good news. We need it. We should have done it a long time ago. The bad news is were only doing it today because republicans lost their shirt in the last election. Question, should we be doing Immigration Reform only to help republicans . Nah, i dont think so. All right, into that and a whole mess of other issues but first here we get the latest, todays current news update, Lisa Ferguson standing by in our studios in los angeles. Good morning lisa. Hey bill, good morning everyone. Today, president obama unveils his own new plan for Immigration Reform hes speaking in las vegas at 11 55 this morning and were expecting this to be a more liberal plan than the blueprint the senate laid out yesterday. As bill mentioned a group of eight bipartisan senators have been work behind closed doors and finally released their new plan yesterday on capitol hill. Some three basic bullet points from that plan, it would provide a path to probationary legal status for most of the countrys 11 million Illegal Immigrants provided they do not have a criminal background. It would also call for a way to its allow lowskilled immigrants like farm workers to enter the country but only when the economy is good and the details on how it would exactly go about that are still a bit fuzzy. It would call for a mandatory system to check whether employees are authorized to work in the United States. Something like this already exists but its not widely used. President obama plans on praising all of those proposals today. But he wills go a step further. Now, what hes looking for is a more straightforward path to citizenship and what i mentioned earlier with the senates plan, theirs would be more of a probationary method. Todays announcement is the kickoff for the administrations push on Immigration Reform. Were back after the break. Stay with us. I want the people who watch our show, to be able to come away armed with the facts, and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. I want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. 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I think a high of 70 on thursday. Then on thursday, a high of 70 then it drops down to 43 on friday or Something Like that. A quick 12 hour warm front blowing through. Thats supposed to happen. A 30degree difference day to day. Bill one day its supposed to be Like Northern minnesota and the next day it is supposed to be like miami. That seems totally normal. Bill normal weather. God. Bill phil backert has the phones by the way. Cyprian bolds he came to work today . He did. Believe it or not. Bill videographer is actually here today. Its true. Bill do you realize what today is . Today is cyprians birthday. Heres your birthday song, it doesnt last too long hey bill who knew that john boehner was such a good friend of cyprians. Happy birthday, cyprian we still wont let him talk though. Bill what time is the cake arriving . I ordered it. Did you . With the little person inside of it thats going to pop out . Bill dont give away any secrets. Im sorry. Bill big celebration not a birthday but a big celebration at the white house yesterday. President obama doing one of the things he loves doing welcoming the champs, the nba champs, the miami heat to the east room of the white house. He said, you know, you guys, you have plea me to thank. Obama a few of them were here a couple of years ago for a pickup game on my birthday. Im not trying to take all the credit, coach but i think its clear that going up against me prepared them [ laughter ] to take on durand westbrook. It sharpened their skills. It gave them the Competitive Edge that they needed. And i think part of the reason they came back today is they want another shot at the old guy. [ laughter ] bill another shot at the old guy. In fact, dwyane wade says how about joining us here . All i got to say is we got a contract left. Pick my man up. You guys could use a shooter. A point guard. Thank you. You guys could use a shooter. [ laughter ] bill thats funny. This is obamas final term as president. Once hes done, he could get back out on the court. Bill yeah, he could. Get him out on the court. Bill hey we have a great lineup for you today including two top United States senators. Senator dick durbin from illinois and senator jeff merkley rising star from what am i saying . Oregon. I knew it started with an o and igor volsky will be here from the center for american progress. Thinkprogress here as he is every Tuesday Morning. The boy scouts may be coming out of their tent. You wont believe it. But first this is the full court press. Other headlines making news on this tuesday barbara walters, she fell and hurt herself over inauguration weekend and ended up in the hospital. Turns out it was something bigger. Abc reports it is a case of delayed childhood. The 83yearold view cohost has the chickenpox. She never had it as a child. One in 10,000 adults go et it reach year. Shes off work for several weeks and is not allowed visitors because shes still contagious. Bill it is scary when you get chickenpox as an older person, as a senior. How old is she . 83. How do you go 83 years and never have chickenpox . Bill did she ever have kids . I dont think she did. Thats a good point. Bill because we know we get all of our diseases from our kids. We had the chickenpox, i had it when i was a kid. Bill so did i but some people do not. A majority of professional Football Players do not like the guy who runs their league. Even though the nfl is the most lucrative and popular sport in the nation. 61 of players disapprove the job that Roger Goodell is doing in a new usa today poll. Many respondents indicate hes much more about money than he is about player safety. Bill i see stories im about how unpopular he is. They hate him. Speaking of people, the people hate, Casey Anthony has filed for bankruptcy. And shes looking for a job. The 27yearold who was acquitted of murdering her daughter in 2011 has over 800,000 in legal bills and because she hasnt worked in four years she cant afford to pay them. But her attorney tells abc she wants to get a job. Its just virtually impossible because of who she is and her background story. She apparently wants to become a paralegal. She became so familiar with the legal system during her trial that she now wants to work in it. Bill you know, she and the octomom, they ought to be the first two people on mars or something. Out of sight. Dan, thank you. Yes, indeed. It was like a nuclear bomb cropped yesterday. Nobody saw this coming. Suddenly the boy scouts, the boy scouts who have been this homophobic organization their entire existence the boy scouts who took their pledge and their opposition to allowing gay scouts or gay scout leaders all the way to the Supreme Court in the year 2001, the right to discriminate the Supreme Court upheld the right to discriminate, the boy scouts who as recently as last july, reaffirmed their policy, no way no how any gays or lesbians some troops allow girls. But no gays. As recently as last july. Reaffirmed that policy. Yesterday, they announced they were considering changing course. They havent done it yet. But the National Board is going to meet next week and on their agenda is changing their policy to accept gay scouts and gay scout leaders. Now, its not as good as it sounds because first of all it hasnt happened yet. Number one. Thicked vote the other way they could vote the other way. The fact that theyre even considering changing the policy again after taking it all the way to the Supreme Court is stunning. And also they would not put out that theyre considering changing it if they didnt think probably thats going to happen. But the other thing thats not so good about this is the way theyre planning on doing it is to say okay, at a national level, we accept now were willing to accept, we will open the boy scouts up to gay scout leaders and boy scouts. But every troop every region, every council every troop every troop sponsor can decide what their policy is going to be in that particular region or city or church or troop. So in other words its up to the locals to decide. You dont have to go along with the National Policy but if you do go along with the National Policy its okay. Or if you dont its okay. What do you think about this . 186655press. Some reaction came in yesterday right away. Zack walz is head of a group hes a former eagle scout. Hes head of a group called scouts for equality. Likes the policy. It is fundraising with this proposed policy, i think it is going to be good not just for scouting but for the entire country. Bill good for scouting, good for the entire country. He does point out it had hurt their fundraising because a lot of organizations and commercial sponsors dropped out of supporting the boy scouts because they dont allow because of their antigay policy. A lot of parents have dropped out, too. And members right have dropped out. Im one of them. I made it to a star in high school. I was a star scout. When i learned more about i was becoming a young man at that point and really learning about their policies and that they were excluding gays and i said see ya later. I quit. We did a similar thing with our 7yearold last year. He was in the boy scouts and we said no more. Bill the fact is the policy the policys wrong and it teaches kids to discriminate. It teaches kids it is okay to discriminate. But what i dont like about it, first of all some of the reaction. In fact, this is what i dont like about it. This guy Albert Moeller is the head of the Southern Baptist theo logic seminary. Get ready for some unbiased opinions here. Bill apparently Southern Baptist church has sponsored more boy scout troops than anybody else, right . They think this is terrible because their faith tells them that homosexuality is a sin. Heres mr. Moeller. I think it will be a very dangerous thing for the boy scouts of america, disastrous for the organization because it will add a very significant question mark in the minds of parents and their sons about the nature of any given boy scout troop. Bill no, no, no. What it should do is add a question about the constitution of the United States and whether were really living up to the promise of equality. Thats the question. But again mr. Moeller says why are they doing this after the Supreme Court gave them the right to discriminate . The boy scouts went all the way to the u. S. Supreme court in order to win a victory for their right to hold to those policies and now under political pressure and public pressure, they seem to be ready to give that away. Bill he says, this is, of course, here we go, the catholic bishops could not have said it better. Theyll probably put out the same statement today. This is immoral. Theyre making a moral decision. There are Many Americans including especially christian americans and especially churches that have sponsored boy scout troops who believe that homosexuality is a sin. Bill damn, it we want to discriminate as a church, we do discriminate. We want every institution they also want the government to discriminate but they want every other institution and every other organization to discriminate as well. You know what . Not the boy scouts job. Absolutely. So i commend the boy scouts for at least opening the door to this. But i think it is a big mistake to say okay, on the national level, were going to say its okay for gays, gay scouts and gay scout leaders. But on the local level, you can continue to discriminate. You can continue to close the door. You can continue to say that among boy scouts, homosexuality is a sin. You know what its like . Its like saying okay, slavery is wrong but you can still do it in mississippi if thats what you want, right . Didnt we kind of go through this kind of logic here at one time . You know . Thats why you have the Supreme Court. Thats why national policies. It is either right or its wrong. If its right then everybody ought to abide by that policy. If its wrong you shouldnt be able to do it in one state but not in another state. Thats a good point. This is not a drastic change. This is not some major change in leadership from the boy scouts. This was basically saying we dont want to ruffle too many feathers so were going to back off of it a little bit. You guys can keep on practices hate if you want to. Were totally fine with that. Bill we can have our cake and eat it, too. Exactly. We can look good by changing the policy but well let all of the other people continue to discriminate. Doesnt fool me. You know all the way all or nothing here. 186655press. No halfass boy scout change. 186655press. Just get rid of the discrimination antigay policy. Its the wrong policy for this country and for the boy scouts. Announcer heard around the country and seen on current tv, this is the bill press show. That viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. 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. You know who is coming on to me now . You know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials . Those types are coming on to me all the time now. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. Absolutely. And so would mitt romney. vo shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Announcer this is the bill press show. Bill 25 minutes after the hour now. Boy scouts shaking it up yesterday. Saying theyre considering changing their National Policy and allowing gays scout leaders and scouts to participate in the organization. But if the locals want to continue to discriminate, it is okay with them. You cant have it both ways. 186655press. What do you say . Peter, whats going on before we go to the phones . I had to get this story in because a lot of people are talking about this on twitter. It is a great story. You remember tom tancredo, republican from colorado. He ran for president. He was a member of congress. Bill as crazy as a alone. Hes certifiably insane. Bill fun guy. Sort of a friend of mine but still crazy. Hes a wildcat. He fought for Immigration Reform that was not anything that anybodys talking about now. It was way far beyond actual reform. Bill send them all back on buses. He said recently, because hes from colorado. Colorado recently voted to legalize marijuana for use. He said if it passed, he would smoke a joint for the first time in his life. He had never smoked pot. He said he would smoke pot now if it passed. Well, it passed. And somebody came back to him and said hey, we want to hold you to that bet. It is time for you to smoke pot. He said i will. I will smoke a joint. That lasted for about a day. Then the next day he had to say im going to have to step away from my bet. Im not going to be able to fulfill it. His wife got really pissed at him. She said you have grandkids now and what kind of example do you think youre setting for your grandkids so he is not going to smoke marijuana as he promised in a bet. Bill what a wimp. Totally wimped up. Bill the example you set for your grandkids is you obey the law. The law allows you to smoke pot. T