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Sure looks like a coup to me. Good morning everybody. What do you say . Hello, hello hello happy tuesday. Tuesday, july 9. Here we go. Congress is back in town. Watch out. Whatever it is, well let you know. Were right here on top of it all in our studio on capitol hill, just down the street from the United States capitol building. Where weve got our eye on whats happening in the house and the senate and around the country, around the globe. Well tell you all about it. Not only that, most importantly well give you a chance to sound off about it. What it means to you and to your family. You tell us at 186655press. You tell us on twitter at bpshow. You tell us on facebook at facebook. Com billpressshow. Good to have you with us today. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for being part of the program. Say hello with me to our team here, peter ogborn and dan henning. Good morning guys. Good morning, bill. Bill everything good . Yes sir. Bill damn right. Im so excited to be back for a full week. None of this threeday crap like we had last week. Lets do a full work week. Bill we have to do five days . It felt like a friday when i got up. Alichia cruz is here on the phones. Cyprian bowlding, he is still unaccounted for. Weve been trying to track him down. Monty is here keeping us looking good on current tv. Good to see you all. I was on the war room last night with Michael Shure. Michael does a good job. Everybody is asking where is Jennifer Granholm. I dont know. Im pretty sure shes still in the San Francisco bay area. Shes teaching at berkeley. I do miss her as well. Well Pat Robertson, he cant help stepping in it, you know what i mean . Certainly Public Attitudes regarding lgbt, our good friends in the lgbt community. Public attitudes regarding particularly we know Marriage Equality and samesex marriage have changed with the latest Supreme Court decision. Reflecting where the American People are on this issue. But Pat Robertson he sure hasnt changed. He got a question yesterday on the 700 club. You go on facebook and is there a gay couple there, if ump to click on like, you like what that gay couple is doing does that mean you would be condoning sin . Pat robertson has a pretty strong reaction to that. When we like things on facebook it is something that goes against what is written in the bible such as pictures of samesex couples. Is that considered condoning the behavior . How do you explain this to new christians or youth . Well, im not one who switches on likes in facebook. It is hard to say but what youre saying is yes, i like this kind of thing. Got a couple of same sex guys kissing, you like that. That makes me want to throw up. But to me, i would vomit push vomit, not like. They dont give you that option on facebook. Bill he sees somebody gay he punches vomit. I get sick to my stomach. Bill im surprised he even knows what facebook is. Yeah, right. Bill oh, my gosh. By the way, you can like our Facebook Page at facebook. Com billpressshow. You cannot vomit on our Facebook Page. I want a vomit button on facebook. Im with Pat Robertson. It would be great to have a vomit button that you could hit on things that made you sick on facebook. People who post i would agree with that. Im all for a vomit button. Bill depends on what you use it for. Not for what Pat Robertson said. Coming up, igor, it is tuesday. Tuesdays with igor volsky from center for american progress. Think progress as he is every tuesday. Joe cirincione is back in town to give us his take on egypt later and then well jump down to dallas and talk to the one and only wayne slater about what the hell did rick perry say yesterday and what did he mean but first announcer this is the full court press. Well, other headlines making news on this tuesday a new poll finds most americans are getting their news from tv. Over any other media source. Gallup yesterday saying 55 of americans say they turn to the television for news about current events. 21 turn to the internet. 9 to print. And 6 turn to radio. Of those tv watchers, 26 not specific about what they watch. 8 say they watch fox. 7 watching cnn and 4 watching local news ahead of other cable networks. Bill i guess whats so surprising about that is i would have thought that the internet would be higher. This isnt a specific age range, right . There are still a lot of people who dont get their news from anywhere. Bill tv is way way ahead but i would thought it would have moved up faster. A diehard Cleveland Browns fan passed away this week and had one final request of the nfl team that he stuck with for the 55 years of his life. According to cbs store scott singer of ohio first wanted people to wear browns jerseys to his funeral and on top of that, he requested the actual team show up to be his pallbearers so they could let him down one last time. [ laughter ] thats great bill i like that. Thats really good. May he rest in peace. The new lone ranger movie was a huge flop at the box office over the weekend. So bad that disney is looking at taking a 150 million loss on the project. The film based in the 1930s radio show and the 1950s tv series stars johnny depp and proud by Jerry Bruckheimer so it is surprising it took in just 48 million in its first five days in theatres. Bill if you can jay leno had something to say about that last night. This is how bad this is how bad the lone ranger movie was. Heres jay leno. Major turmoil in egypt. The military has taken over. The Muslim Brotherhood is out of power and president morsi is under house arrest and listen to this, hes being forced to watch the lone ranger. It took terrible. Bill punishment worse than death. It looks so bad. Bill lets start there actually on egypt. I gotta tell you it is chaos in egypt. Its got a lot of us scratching our heads saying what should the United States be doing about it. By the way as if theres anything we could do about it. So yesterday, the latest, the supporters of president morsi members of the Muslim Brotherhood and whatever you think about that organization, they did adapt to the new circumstances. They got their political stuff together, lets say. They moved into the first preelections held in egypt. They organized. They registered people to vote. They ran morsi as their candidate and they won the election. So now they find that the results of all of that organizing, all of that political activity, the democratic process was taken away from them. The rug pulled out from under them. I understand their legitimate complaint. Thats not the way democracy is supposed to work. We won this fair and square and they did. So what you do in a democracy right, is you wait four years or two years until you have a chance to if you dont like that person, dont like what happened, to get that person out of office at the ballot box instead of going out in the streets and getting the military to take over again. At any rate, supporters of president morsi who refused to roll over, walked out in the streets yesterday. The military opened up fire on the Muslim Brotherhood killing 51 murdering 51 of. They putting another 435 in the hospital, all of whom most of whom at any rate, with gunshot wounds which just proves whos in charge in egypt. Look, they picked the new president. They refuse to let the president pick his own Prime Minister. Hes now been named interim Vice President which is a less powerful position. And they opened fire on protestors yesterday. So its total chaos there. What is the United States supposed to do about it . What can we do about it . Of course, hot head, john mccain, for some reason, the media still goes to him when he comments on the Foreign Policy at all. Even though he is not the head of the Republican Party anymore even though he failed so miserably in 2008 as a president ial candidate. John mccain says oh, right away its clear what we have to do. We have to cut off aid to egypt. I believe that we have to suspend aid until such time as there is a new constitution and a free and fair election. Morsi was a terrible president. Their economy is in terrible shape thanks to their policies but the fact is, the United States should not be supporting this coup and it is a tough call. Bill heres mccain again. Hot head john mccain. Nobody ought to be listening to in my opinion. If we were listening to john mccain, if john mccain were in the white house, we would still be at war in iraq. We would not be winding down the war in afghanistan. We would also be at war in iran. We would have war in syria. We would have troops in syria. And now, we would have another war. We have a fifth war in egypt. Thank you for nothing, john mccain. On the other hand, what is the white house going to do or what should it do about this . I have to tell you, i went to the briefing yesterday and i say this with all due respect and support and love for president obama. I dont think the white house has a freaking clue what to do. And i dont say that too critically because i dont know if i do either. I would love to know if you do. 186655press. But it is confusing as hell. The situation on the ground now. The first thing jay carney did tell us yesterday is were not going to cut off aid to egypt. It is 1. 5 billion a year we give them. Jay carney says we dont think it would be wise to pull the plug. It is our view it would not be wise to abruptly change our assistance program. Bill but jay carney did call on at the same time called on the military to stop the violence. We call on the military to use maximum restraint responding to protestors, just as we urge all those demonstrating to do so peacefully. We also condemn the explicit calls to violence made by the Muslim Brotherhood. Bill so i wrote down yesterday, while i was there at the briefing, here are the things that jay carney said all at the same time. Okay . All at the same time. About the situation in egypt. See if you can follow this. One, we support the democratic process in egypt. Two, the president is deeply concerned about the way morsi was removed from power. At the same time, were not calling for morsi to be returned to power. And we recognize there were Serious Problems with his presidency and serious reasons for people to be not to be happy with it. It is up to the people of egypt to decide what happens next and we are calling for a return to the democratic governance. Return to democratic governance in egypt but again not calling for morsis return to power. On the question of whether this is a coup or not, the white house says we dont know. It is too early to say. Were going to take the time to assess whats going on and try to figure out whether its a military coup or not. So, in other words what is that . Six or seven things, some of them totally contradictory that the white house is all saying, all same. What does that mean . Where does that go . Nobody knows. The last thing we could do, the last thing we should do is say heres who we think should be the next leader of egypt or heres what we think the egyptian people should do. If we do that, thats deadly. The last thing they need is for mother america telling them what to do. Ill tell you one thing. A coup is a coup is a coup. The military stepped in. The military forced morsi out they have a deadline, remember . They forced him out of office. They fired on protestors yesterday. This is a military coup. Now, the president can say im not going to take the money away but still dont deny its a coup. So is it a coup . What do you think . Should we remove and cut off our aid the american aid to egypt . If not what else should we do . 186655press. Maybe we can give the white house some direction here on the full court press this Tuesday Morning. Announcer this is the bill press show. Has the time finally come for real Immigration Reform . With a distinctly satirical point of view. If you believe in states rights but still believe in the drug war you must be high. Only on current tv. Cenk off air alright in 15 minutes were going to do the young turks i think the number 1 thing than viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know im going to be the first one to call them out. 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I dont know but i think one thing, lets just admit this is a military coup. Morsi would still be in power but the generals decided they were going to side with the protestors. Remember, they flew the helicopters over the crowd in Tahrir Square with the egyptian flag. They gave morsi 48 hours. To agree to protestors demands or youre out of office, dude. Guess what. He is. They moved through and put in their own guy as the new interim president and then they opened up fire on protestors yesterday. If thats not a military coup, what is . Thats the question we put out on twitter at bpshow at bpshow. Kev grueing says is it really a coup when 22 Million People wanted morsi out and the military intervention was the only way . Bill yes. Yes i agree. Bill if it that happened in this country can you imagine . Oh, geez were sorry we elected barack obama. We dont like obamacare lets have the generals come in, throw him out put somebody else in and then say is it really a coup . Youre damn right it is. Jim irwin says regarding john mccain one quote fits all with him. Get off my lawn. Get off my lawn. Bill totally. Lets go out to aurora, illinois. Donald, whats up . Good morning. I support what the egyptians did. I think they did the right thing. The guy was no good, bringing the country down. But to let you take it from there, who is the Muslim Brotherhood . You take it from there. Bill the Muslim Brotherhood is an islamic political organization, at one time classified as a terrorist organization. No longer. Sort of like the plo they decided the way to get things done finally came