And so, i enjoy the present very much because i sincerely believe that i dont know whats going to happen tomorrow. People often live in the future, think of the future. I think of today. Today is the most important day of my life. [ theme ] bill good morning my fellow americans and welcome to the full court press here on current tv this Tuesday Morning february 12. Oh boy. Lot going on today. And we are going to tell you whats happening all around the country, here in our Nations Capital, around the globe as well and take your calls at 186655press. Good have you with us today and it is a big day because president obama is poised to give his state of the Union Address tonight. He will say hes expected to put forth an aggressive, Progressive Agenda. He will tell us the state of the union is strong. Which it is. Meanwhile, catholics still cant believe that Pope Benedict xvi is actually resigning after all that hasnt happened in 600 years. Joe biden says yeah, im thinking about it. Well see how that goes. All of that and a lot more. First, lets get the latest, todays current news update from Lisa Ferguson standing by at our studios in los angeles. Hi lisa, good morning. Hey bill. Thats right. Were all awaiting the president s big state of the Union Address today taking place from the u. S. Capitol at 9 00 eastern tonight. Were expecting to focus on quite a few issues including immigration, gun safety, samesex Marriage Equality and of course, the economy. Gun violence though is the big question here. Not whether or not hell address it because of course, he will. But which aspects he will choose to talk about and how much the issue will dominate the night. We know about 30 House Democrats are bringing victims of gun violence as their guests tonight. And so are other members of the administration. All in all, we can expect 120 of tonights attendees to have a pass by gun violence. Gabby giffords and her husband mark kelly, will be in the audience. One other thing to watch for tonight is the obama rubio dynamic. Rubio is slated to give the g. O. P. Response to president obamas state of the union so this is really rubios time to shine. He is the fastestrising republican star for the party in years and tonight is his chance to impress millions of voters who have not yet formed an opinion on him. But theres also the immigration issue to consider. Both rubio and the president are pushing immigration agendas so tonight it should be interesting to see how much acknowledgement the president decides to give rubio. Were back with more bill press after the break. Stay with us. Billy zane stars in barabbas. Coming in march to reelz. To find reelz in your area, go to reelz. Com announcer broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. Bill the state of the union is strong yeah, expect president obama to say that tonight. And he is right. Good morning everybody. What do you say . Hello, hello hello. Welcome. Welcome to the full court press this Tuesday Morning february 12th. Great to see you today. And theres a lot going on. Were coming to you live all the way across this great land of ours on current tv, all three hours on your local progressive talk Radio Station for the next three hours. And on sirius x. M. For this hour only. There it is. Front page of the New York Times today. Pope resigns with church at a crossroads, we told you that this time exactly yesterday morning. Thats when the news broke here on the full court press and theres still a lot of reaction to that. Which we will talk about and look forward to tonights state of the Union Address as well. And some of the unwelcome guests who might show up or might have been invited. Lots to cover. Lots youre going to want to talk about. You can do so by giving us a call at 186655press. Remember, it is a twoway street here. Town hall meeting. You get to talk. 186655press. You also get to send us your comments on twitter at bpshow at bpshow. Well follow you on twitter and on facebook. Facebookfacebook. Com billpressshow. Again, lots to cover this morning. Well get into it with our team here. Peter ogborn and dan henning as always. Good morning, guys. Welcome. Happy tuesday. You all have your fleeces on this morning. I didnt wear mine this morning. Its a sweater. Bill thats a fleece, isnt it, dan . I like the look. Im not saying it critically. Ive been wearing my fleece a lot lately. I decided to wear a sweater. It is about 14 degrees in this control room because of all of the equipment in here so the airconditioner blasts down. Even during the winter. Even during the winter. It is cold in here. Bill phil backert has the phones and cyprian on the job with the video cam as always. Lot of reaction to the pope resigning. The cardinal is pretty upset about it. It was a delayed reaction to his announcement because he made his announcement in latin. Even the cardinals most of them did not get it right away, what he was saying. They were waiting for the translation. And there was one journalist who works at the vatican who does know latin. He got the scoop on his fellow journalists. Who says latten is a dead language . Bill that guy was rewarded for knowing his latin. The president even put out a statement congratulating the pope and saying how much he enjoyed meeting him and working with him over the last four years. David letterman even brought it up last night with a little different reaction. Stunned at the news. Yeah, Pope Benedict is quitting. Boy, you think about that. Yep. Thats a tall hat to fill. [ laughter ] bill badabing. He had a press conference today. He said he wants to spend more time with his wife and kids. [ laughter ] bill were so used to that. Spend more time with my family. They all say that. David letterman did point out that there was a a physical disability that he was dealing with too. Hes got a chronic neck problem. Chronic neck problem. It just really drains him. Hes constantly fatigued. He has a chronic neck problem and apparently the chronic neck problem is for look the other way so many times. Bill ooh. [ applause ] wow. Bill okay. Weve got a lot coming up. Summer Sherrod Brown will be here in studio. Very excited to see the good senator again. Joe cirincione, our Foreign Policy guru here, head of the Ploughshares Fund to talk about president obamas expected announcement tonight. He will cut our Nuclear Arsenal drastically from 1700 down to 1,000. It is tuesday. Igor volsky will be here from think progress. But first. Announcer this is the full court press. On this tuesday, other headlines making news, solid ratings for the Grammy Awards on cbs sunday night. The broadcast saw its second highest viewership. 28 and a half Million People tuned in to watch but no match for last years show which came a day after Whitney Houstons death. Nearly 40 million tuned in to that show. This years musical broadcast beat both the American Idol finale and last countrys Country Music association awards. Bill theyre Getting Better and better. Pepsi is releasing a new beverage for mornings called kick start. It is a fruitflavored mountain dew beverage coming in orange, citrus and fruit punch flavors. It is flaved with real fruit juice, mixed with mountain dew. It has more caffeine than a regular mountain dew but far less than a starbucks. That has more caffeine than most sodas. But less caffeine than a cup of starbucks coffee. It will hit store shelves in two weeks. Bill so like this is like a can of a can of soda of orangeflavored soda basically but it is meant for morning consumption. It is an energy drink basically. I think you should follow up on the report that it contains real fruit juice. Bill ill still take my diet pepsi. Apples iphone has always had a lot of buzz and a lot of people have one but not everyone is happy with their iphone. A new User Satisfaction of 94,000 people by on Device Research places the iphone in fifth place in smart phone satisfaction. Thats behind four different android phones. Motorolas atrix hd is number one followed by the destroyed razr m. Smart phone users in the u. K. Are much happier. Ite phone ranked second over there. Bill im happy with my iphone. I love it. I wouldnt even want to try any other phone. I like it so much. I like my iphone. I think apple needs to innovate somehow, some way, pretty quickly because the competition has caught up. They have absolutely caught up. Bill yeah, youre right. But im just saying im one happy customer here. All right, apple. Check in the mail . I gotta tell you, you know, where we start every morning kind of depends on what we think is the biggest story or what really, really im upset about. Were all upset about that particular day. Today it is one that really pisses me off. That is about the state of the Union Tonight. You know, its part of the pageantry of washington. Every president does it. And people Pay Attention because we want to know the president sets forth his agenda. Some day it will be her agenda, for the coming year or for the coming years and also gives a report on how were doing. On the economy. On other issues, how much progress we make. Where we come and where were going. And its treated taken very seriously here in washington. Always a lot of buildup to it. You got the senate and the house. And also, there are always honored guests, the Supreme Court members are there. The joint chiefs of staff are there. The president s cabinet is there. Outstanding americans are invited. As either as guests of members of the president or guests of members of the house or of the senate. Ive been there and honored to be there twice as a guest of a member of congress. It started by the way then there are also celebrities who are present or people who are that the president or members of Congress Want to honor by having them present. It started with the crash of air florida flight 90. When was it . Back in ive got it right up here. When Ronald Reagan was in the white house at any rate. 1982. Bill crashed into the 14th street bridge here. There was a brave young guy named lenny scut knick, how could you forget that name, who worked for the congressional budget office, on his way to work sees the plane crash takes off his shoes and clothes and dives into the icy potomac by the way to rescue one of the passengers who was floating and in trouble there. And president reagan invited him to the state of the Union Address. He was in the box with first Lady Nancy Reagan and he recognized him and everybody gave him a round of applause. That started a tradition where president s will particularly will traditionally invite heros from afghanistan from iraq, cops firefighters, you know, again, members of the military. People that all americans owe a vote of thanks to. Sometimes theyll be regularred. Sometimes they wont but theyre there as guests of honor at the state of the union. Well tonight that tradition is going to be destroyed forever. Unless john boehner acts. Because in the gallery tonight as a guest of congressman Steve Stockman maybe youve heard this, is going to be rocker, loud mouth ahole, ted nugent. Yeah. Steve stockman says he is honored to have a patriot like ted nugent as his guest at the state of the union. I mean can you believe it . Ted nugent. This is a guy who has, in the last year, threatened the life of president obama called him all kinds of names. Been investigated by the secret service for threatening the life of the president. He has called Hillary Clinton a bitch. He has attacked senator Dianne Feinstein and senator Barbara Boxer among others and he is a guest of a member of congress tonight at the state of the Union Address. Unfreakin believable. Here he is, sounds a little hard but youll hear it. Here he is at a concert last year where first of all hes got a machine gun on stage. Okay. So hes a member of the nra. Who cares hes a member of the nra. Thats not the problem. Thats not the issue. Who cares hes against gun control. Thats not the issue. The issue is his language and his actions. Here he is on stage with a machine gun talking about the president of the United States. Obama. Obama is a piece of [ bleep ] clear cheer. [ cheering ] bill in case you cant quite make it up, he might want to suck on one of these a machine gun. You punk. Obama, hes nothing but a piece of crap except he didnt say crap. This is the president of the United States. Okay. Then he goes on to talk about the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton. [ indiscernible ] bill hillary you might want to ride one of these again, machine gun into the sunset, you worthless bitch. He goes on, senator Dianne Feinstein, senator boxer. [ indiscernible ] [ cheering ] bill suck on one of these again, machine gun, you worthless whore. He said the same thing about Barbara Boxer. He is a guest of honor by republican congressman Steve Stockman at the state of the Union Tonight. What i want to know is this really, really frosts me. 186655press. How about you . How dare they allow him to enter the house of representatives. What i want to know is wheres john boehner in all of this . The person who controls this event. The person whos in charge is in the house chambers is the speaker of the house of representatives. Doesnt he have any idea what disrespect that this brings to the entire congress . I mean for john boehner to allow this guy to get in there shows he has no theres no sense of dignity anymore about the congress. Theres no respect anymore given to members of congress or to the president of the United States. I mean i really think having him in there is an insult to the president , to every member of congress, and to the American People. And john boehner ought to show some balls here and step up and say you know what . We have some standards in this congress. Were not going to let a scumbag who threatens the life of the president of the United States, calls the secretary of state a bitch, and calls senators whores and asks hem to suck on a machine gun, were not going to allow him in this chamber. You have to think about what it is the president is going to be talking about. You know gun control is going to be a big part of what he talks about. And so when you have a guy there are people who like their guns and would like to have their guns then there are gun nuts. Ted nugent is a gun nut. The fact he will be there while the president is talking to victims of the sandy hook shooting that will be in attendance and ted nugent will be there is really sick. Really sick. Bill last year, remember Gabby Giffords came into the chamber. It was one of the most emotional moments. Everybody stood and applauded her. Youre going to have ted nugent giving the same respect that Gabby Giffords gets . This is sick sick sick, sick and Steve Stockman, number one and john boehner i hold responsible. Lets talk about it. Announcer heard around the country and seen on current tv. This is the bill press show. Address. Hell address gun control, Immigration Reform, and the economy. We however, promise to bring you a current perspective. Only on current tv. What we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. By 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough College Graduates to fill them. 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Lets say hello to ed from frederick, maryland. Hey, ed, what do you say . Caller hi. I was going to say i dont really think nugent will get anywhere near the respect that went to Gabrielle Giffords and on the drug bill i would hope not. But i dont even think he belongs in the chamber. Caller i would like to see him not allowed in there for the things hes said and done. But as far as the drug controversial going on, im in favor of most of the laws theyre propose but i dont