[ music ] entrails hey, good morning hey good morning, everybody. Off we go with the fullcourt press on current tv coming to you live across this great land of ours on our studio in washington, d. C. , and what about this . Here is some good news you wont hear anywhere else. The market is red hot. Yes, the dow closed yesterday at 13,954, almost 14,000. Thats a level we havent seen since october, 2007. And, of course, the republicans are always quick to blame president obama when the market goes down. Do you think they are going to give president obama credit . Do you think they are going to thank him when the market goes up, up, up . Of course not. We will tell you why. We will talk about that and awhole lot more, with the latest, todays current news update in los angeles, here is Lisa Ferguson. Good morning, lisa. Hey bill. Good morning, everyone. Here is whats on the president s schedule today. First up, he is having lunch with Hillary Clinton in the private dining room at the whitehouse at 12 30. Yesterday, the Senate Confirmed senator john kerry to replace clinton as secretary of state in an overwhelming vote of 94 to 3. Clinton was having an interactive online interview. As she heads out the door, she is leading leaving a legacy the most traveled secretary of state in history. More 950,000 miles, visited 112 countries and held 1700 meetings with world leaders. Next up for the president today. He is talking Immigration Reform at 3 55 and 4 15. Yesterday, obama unveiled his new immigration proposal for the country and urged congress to act quickly on Immigration Reforming the nations laws. The president said his biggest failure in his first term was not accomplishing comprehensive Immigration Reform. This will term, he wants to see a quick path to citizenship for many of the countrys 11 million illegal immigrants. Lawmakers will have the senates plan to consider which a Bipartisan Group released on monday. In many aspects, they were similar. The senates would call for tougher Border Control before granting citizenship to immigrants already in the country. More bill press is up after the break. Stay with us. Iq will go way up. vo current tv gets the converstion started weekdays at 9am eastern. Im a slutty bob hope. You are. The troops love me. vo tv and radio talk show host Stephanie Miller rounds out currents morning news block. Youre welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. Just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. The sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. vo only on current tv. [ music ] broadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv this is the bill press show. Bill president obama challenges the congress if you dont act on Immigration Reform and do it fast i am going to send my own plan up to capitol hill. What do you say . 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More and more of you though do so, follow us and send us your comments on dewitter every day at bp show facebook. Com billpressshow. However you do it, join the fun. Join the conversation. Keep the town hall alive here every morning with team press, peter ogburn and dan henning leading it up. Hey, hey, hey. Good morning bill middle of the week. Peter hump day. Cyprian boulding has a hang over. Big birthday yesterday. You know. Right. He looks a little rough this morning. Bill you are only 45 once in your life. Right . Appear quadruple amputee from iraq, brandon morocco, doing great with four art limbs. I saw the video of him. The doctors yesterday performed the very first transplant. When i heard he got two new arms, i thought two new pieces of metal. Thats amazing what they can do with those. No. No. No. No. These are two actually human arms donated by a donor that they not not just one. Both of them sixteenhour surgery, and they attached both and this happened in december. So, like six weeks ago yesterday, he appeared in front of the cameras at johns hopkins. Appeared and was moving his arms. Scratching his nose. Its like we are living in the future. They put human arms on somebody. Bill absolutely. Incredible. Bill he does say, you know, he still doesnt have Like Movement in his fingers yet, but its coming. Currently, i dont really have feeling or movement in the hands yet. But we will get there. Bill well get there. And they kept asking him, whats it feel like . The guy, you could understand just at a loss of words. It feels amazing. Its something that i was waiting for, for a long time. Bill yeah. And the spirit of this kid, you know. I call him a kid. He looks like i dont know how would . 19 or 20 . He is just determined and its his spirit matched with the spirit and determination of those doctors up there thats just an incredible incredible story. Its going to take him almost two years, they said, to get full movement because just, by the way, think about that surgery. Right . Its not just putting, like, flesh to flesh. Youve got the bone to connect. Yeah. The muscles. You have the muscles. Muscles nerves. Youve got the nerves and youve got the blood vessels. All of that has to be, you know doctor individually connected bill each one, right. Wow. I heard the doctors say it takes the in terms, like they grow an inch a month. No kidding bill the nerves will gradually come back. You have to get from all the way up here, right . All the way down here. Twentyfour inches or so bill unbelievable. Yeah. That was one of those great feelgood stories yesterday. Is. Eliot spitzer will join us as he does every wednesday and dan stone from the national geographic, whats happening with all of these unbelievable temperature changes we are seeing all across the country including tornados in winter and cindy borin from the Washington Post talking about some of the big stories in sports. Alex rodriguez back again, accused of taking illegal substances. Did he, or didnt he . What about the president s comments on football . But first. This is the full court press. On this wednesday, other head likes lines making news, a new investigation into steroid use in baseball has linked three of the biggest says alex rodriguez, gio and nelson cruz have a connection to a clinic in south florida where a doctor is under investigation for providing peds for players. Gonzalez said he never met that the doctor nor had any connection with that clinic whatsoever bill i refuse to believe anybody from the Washington Nationals was involved. Now, arod. Entirely possible. I hope i hope that he is right because the nationals are a pretty squeakyclean Organization Bill its the last thing the nationals want. A new caucus the congressional peanut caucus. Write that down. Dran democrat sanford jimmy carter. Sanford bishop of florida and republican martha robly chair the caucus that represents 17 peanut producing states. They will ensure peanut interests have a voice on the hill, especially in all for agricultural litigation. There is something fitting about a peanut caucus. They could name the entire house the peanut caucus. Cats are killers bill i refuse to believe it. A study in Nature Communications find cats are killing billions of birds and other an nails in woo woo animals, 15 of the total bird population. No. If this trend continues t could have greater ecological effects. The easiest solution keep your cats inside. Do we have a problem where there arent enough birds . If it were to blow up year after year, it could become a problem bill cats have been eating birds for a long time. Thats what i am saying bill a long time. Now they are finding out just how many they are doing. 15 of the bird population is a lot. Thats a lot peter its called the natural psyche em. I dont understand why this is cause for alarm. Bill the bad thing about it i love cats. Oh, man, here we go. All right. I dont know whether we want to go down this slope or not. But i do love cats. Me, too. I take care of one right now. Its not ours. Its the neighbors cat, but i am the best friend. You break into your neighbors house to take care of the hat. He follows me home. But they do, they do kill birds and thats the bad thing about them but they kill myself and rats. Yeah, and gophers. Not so many gophers. If tough gophers. Right. So, you know. I am team cat bill i am too. I am team cat bill i am going to stay on team cat. If you bell your cat they are not going to get the bird. I never heard that. Thats good. Bill we used to do that in california. A bell on he will owe eloise. She is a killer. Cats, the silent killer. Bill yes, speaking about violence uhhuh president obama stepped in a little bit here i love to give your take on this. He did so, stirred up a whole lot of controversy. He has stirred up a whole lot of con controversy. I am not talking about Immigration Reform and i am not talking about his latest proposals on gun violence or i am not talking about his latest comments on, we have to include samesex couples in the Immigration Reform either. No president obama stirred up a little dust up here with what he said about football. He gave an interview the other day to the new republic. The new republic by the way is under new ownership, ironed franklin forr back and they got a one on one interview with president obama, actually, it was two on one, two of their guys with president obama in the oval office and among other things, they asked him about the nfl and the violence in professional football and college football, and was he concerned about that. You know, the president is a huge sports fan. He is a huge football fan and he told the new republic, quote, i am a big football fan, but i have to tell you, if i had a son, i would have to think long and hard before i let him plays football. He continued, and i think those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to reduce some of the violence. Well, if i had a son, he said i would have to think long and hard about letting him play football. That stirred up a lot of reaction in the game. Ed reed, the safety for the ravens on the super bowl said, hey, damn straight. The president obviously has a bunch of feelings about it. I mean i am sure he is a sports man, he watch sports, you know, and honestly, i agree with him. Yeah, i agree. I agree with president obama until they fix the system. Intel two coaches, brothers, brothers har harbaugh on sunday, jim and john disagree with the president. First, jim from the 49ers. A 4 month old soon to be 5month old, Jack Harbaugh and it president obama feels that way, it will be a little less competition for Jack Harbaugh when he gets older. A funny way of putting it and his brother, zon, of course coach for the ravens says yeah. Brother is right on the this one. I dont agree with that but i like jims comments, you know jim said little jack is going to be playing football. Right . One less kid to compete against. I like that comment. Ball is a great game. And anybody thats played the game knows what a great game is and what it provides for young people, what it provided for people like me, you know an opportunity to grow as a person. Tell us john, how great is ball really . Basically, you know, you have an opportunity to make your first tackle or make your first block or do something in football because its such a tough thing. Its a little bit of a manhood test and when you get done you can say i am a Football Player. That makes me special a little bit. I think its a huge part of our educational system in this country, and its going to be around for a long time. Guess what. I was on the debate team in high school. Makes me special. Lets not go. A little over the top. What do you think . Is the president right in the 86655press. You have to admit. Ball is a violent game. No doubt about it. Particular like watching ball. I would never pay to go to a football game. Once in a while action i watch part of the super bowl on television. I love soccer. Played soccer. But football is a violent game. I mean the n. F. L. Players union just said they are going to spend 100 million figuring out how they can make the game safer for players. So you have two kids, peter, two boys. Are you going to have them play football . I have two boys and we have actually entered the conversation bill you played football. I did and i am not the kind of dad that pushes my kids to go play sports. If they want to play sports, fine. My dad was the type of days push. You have to play football. I was a bigger kid. Youve got to go play football. I am not like that. But my oldest son is he tried soccer, wasnt very good at soccer. Tried basketball. Tried baseball. He was okay at baseball but football, he is okay at. We have thrown the football around. He likes watching football. I have no problem letting him play football. You know, if he wants to go out what about all of these injuries, head injuries. He is no the playing in the nfl. Sure, but look. Its safer now to play football than it has ever been to play football. You are padded from head to tow. They are playing in, you know peewee and then maybe high school. Wherever it goes from there. But i agrees that football is a violent sport if the this turns into a rear choice. I hope the nfl takes care of the players and they have agreed and they understand there is a problem problem, they need to address it. I mean, you are going to get hurt playing any sport. If you are the type of person that worries so much. Excuse me. Particularly football. You could get hurt playing baseball but its not a contact sport, neither is soccer the way football is. Soccer can be very violent. Next to boxing next to boxing, i think football is the most violent sport. I dont know. I have two songs neither of them. I have two sons but when they were growing up, neither one of them played football. Played soccer a little baseball. I would never say, i dont think thats the right thing for you to do it. If they want to play it bill i think the president is on to something 86655press, i agree with ed reed. 8665577. How about you . Let your kids play football . [ music ] i think the number one thing 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 . [ music ] this is the bill press show. Bill 26 minutes after the hour, fullcourt press, the full lineup here this morning, president obama stirring it up saying he is not sure he would let his sons play football. Whats going on in the social word, peter . We are on twitter houscal flash says the coaches need to address this. How can they letask their sons to do something. Both harbaugh coaches said they would let their kids play. Kay spencer said we shut fit the Football Players with the helmets nascar drivers where. And there are more violent sports, rugby, hockey thinks like that can, would you outlaw your kids . Bill i would disagree. Hockey. Rugby but you see the fights on hockey, but every play is not banging into each other. Thats one of the arguments, home players have less padding. I dont know what the rate is of injurieses injurieses. Jim call from gary indiana. As a hern who played high school fool and loves his bears, i think the president is right on this. There is too much violence in this society and how else, if we keep letting our most violent and strongest boys go, you know play football, how are we going to continue to spread war throughout the middle east and africa. Bill i would have to say there may be some other dangers to kids in high school. Cross fight or gang fight or something. You raised an interesting point though, having played football in high school. What is the extent on serious injuries to high school Football Players. I cant believe its limited to the nfl. We will google it will and take more calls about the president s comments about football. A violent sport . This is the bill press show. [ music ] 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. But its also about telling them, youre put on this planet for something more. I want this show to have an impact beyond just informing. An impact that gets people to take action themselves. As a human being, thats really important. This is not just a spectator sport. [ music ] chatting with you live at current. Com bill presscurrent. Com billpress. This is the bill press show live on your radio and current tv. Bill hey, how about it . Thirtythree minutes after the hour on the fullcourt press, on a big wednesday, january 30th, president obama stirring up a lot of conversation not a little bit of controversy when he said he is not sure if he had sons evenhe would even let them play football. A lot of coverage from players and coaches and sports fans around the country. 86655press. Back to your calls in just a second in our conversation. Just a little reminder here of something. I encourage you to look into because i have often wondered about my family. Its been kind of an obsession of my trying to figure out b