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Okay, so there is wiggle room in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. Ya, i consider you jewtalian. Okay, whatever you want. Who plays kafka . Who saw kafka . Who ever saw kafka . laughter . Asking the tough questions. Chris brown, i mean you wouldnt let one of your daughters go out with him. Absolutely not. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me . Absolutely singing i take lipitor, thats it. Are you improving your lips . laughter . When shes talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. It looks like Anthony Wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. His what in the ring . His hat. Always outspoken, joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Only on current tv. Bill president obama says my favorite food, my favorite food of all the things i eat my favorite is broccoli. Broccoli . Anybody believe that . Hey, good morning everybody. What do you say . Come on, mr. President. 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Theyll tell you on your Cable Provider what number your channel is. Great to see you today. And weve got a lot to cover. Lots going on despite the fact that, you know, you know it is a slow news day when you pick up the New York Times and the lead article in the New York Times is you ready for this headline . I think im ready. Bill cypress controls increase worry on euro system. Oh my god. So we thought we would spend the next three hours on the euro crisis. And cypress and take your calls at 186655press. [ laughter ] bill hope you know more about it than i do. Peter ogborn and dan henning team press in place this morning with alicia cruz with the phones covered. And with cyprian still out monty has the cameras covered. So you can see us here on current tv. Well, you know, it had to happen once in awhile, right . You know it had to happen. I had to finally find something i could agree with Rush Limbaugh on. Oh, wow bill he had a caller on a couple of days ago and his advice to this caller ive given this advice to many of our callers, advice was stop watching fox news. Somewhere on fox . Caller thats right. You know, you need to stop watching these people because theyre not gonna change. Your blood pressures going to suffer if you keep watching these people. Theyre designed to get you ticked off. Theyre designed to make you question your sanity. Bill yeah, see . Okay. Bill ive been saying that for a long time, right . Yeah. Bill stop watching fox news. All they do is try to stir you up and get you upset and the best thing to do is walk away. Well, you know, that Rush Limbaugh must have gotten the call from roger ailes saying what the hell are you saying . Dont watch fox news . So yesterday, he backtracked and explained, he just didnt hear the guy correctly of course i love fox news. Heres how it came down. Talking very rapidly which made it difficult for me to understand every word he was saying. He started spouting names of people. And i didnt recognize many of the names. It turns out that he was watching the fox business channel and he was ticked off at listening to all of the liberals there. [ laughter ] bill come on, rush. Nobody believes that first of all name me one liberal who is on the fox business channel. Right . Neil cavuto . Stuart . I cant think of any. Bill i know them both. Theyre both friends of mine but theyre not liberals. Rush was spouting off. People see fox as the bastian of conservative. A little embarrassing moment there for rushbo. Weve got a great lineup for you today. Congresswoman barbara lee one of our favorites was at the meeting yesterday with the Congressional Black Caucus and president obama. She will be here to tell us all about it. Reid wilson will join us from the hotline, National Journal hotline. Clinton yates who is the new columnist well, hes got another job at the Washington Post now. Not just a local blogger. One of our favorite guests, too will be here in studio with us. And democrats particularly harry reid are facing a big decision. Is now finally the time that theyre going to do something about the filibuster . Lets hope so. But first. Announcer this is the full court press. Other headlines make news on this wednesday the views lone conservative voice is leaving the daytime abc chat fest for a stage shes likely more welcome on. Elisabeth hasselbeck is headed over to fox news to be the new cohost on fox and friends morning starting in september. Shell sit alongside steve ducey and Brian Kilmeade replacing gretchen carlson. She will host a new daytime show on her own according to that network. Hasselbecks last day on the view is today. Shes been there for ten years. Wow, ten years . 2003 is when she started on the view. Bill shes obviously the outsider on the view. Not bad. Not bad to have one conservative. Shes held the conservative point of view pretty well. Shes a little nutty but shes likable, i think. I think she does a good job in that role. I think she will be a very good fit for fox and friends. Bill she looks like she was made for fox news. Lots of buzz over the latest issue of espns magazine. They just put out their Fourth Annual body issue which features completely naked athletes, most notably this year, they feature olympic athlete Kerri Walsh Jennings before and after giving birth to her baby. Others baring is all is collin copper knick and gary player quite a bit older than everyone else. John wahl of the washington wizards. 17 players overall. Private parts strategically covered. Bill which magazine is this . Espn the magazine. 17 naked athletes for you. They do this every year. If you want to feel really, really horrible about yourself, go take a look at these professional athletes who look like theyve been carved out of rock with their clothes off. Its amazing. Bill i think i wont look at it then. Youre going to the gym. Next year, buddy. When they do the stars of political talk. It was a state lunch at the white house yesterday. For kids. President and mrs. Obama hosting the 54 winners of a recipe contest to promote healthy eating. One of the 8 to 12yearolds came from every state territory and district of columbia. Usa today reports that some of the winning recipes were prepared by the white house kitchen including alaskan seviche with mango zucchini pancakes and Passion Fruit banana smoothies. Kids like seviche. What 8yearold can make seviche . Bill it is not hard to make. Thats not something kids eat though. It is not hard to make. Bill yeah. Take your 8yearold out your kid probably would. My kid likes seafood. This is seviche for gods sake. It is sort of an adult version of food. Good for the kids, i guess. Bill maybe go to alaska. Were coming up with a big showdown. It looks like tomorrow in the senate, something weve been talking about a long time here. Yours and mine, a favorite kind of topic and a favorite target which is to get rid of the filibuster because we know what a club, an antidemocratic club this is and has been used as such by republicans in the United States senate. The history of the filibuster, i forget who it was our guest pointed out to us that it didnt used to be. The filibuster used to be something that was used only rarely and only for very, very important battles and very important issues. A classic one was of course, Strom Thurmond and his almost a daylong filibuster on the civil rights act. But for those kind of occasions the whole time that Lyndon Johnson was Senate Majority leader, the filibuster was used only once. Republicans have made it an every day occurrence. They use the filibuster meaning you need 60 votes. Used to be 75. They changed it years ago down to 60. Republicans use it not just for votes on issues but for procedural matters of course. Whether or not they are going to allow a vote on any issue and they use it to block appointments, the president s appointments. It was what peter Something Like 300 400 times they used it last year. It was over 300 times last year. Bill over 300 times. Now once in all the time i think it was 12 years that Lyndon Johnson was majority leader. Once. Over 300 times. Republicans used it last year. So there is a big clam clamor. Remember this. Six months ago. Little more. In january, the beginning of this term, the senate can, at the beginning of each term, the senate can change the rules of the senate and all you require are a 1 votes are 51 votes. Remember this big movement. We had several people in here who were pushing for it. Senator tom udall from new mexico. Senator jeff merkley from oregon. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse from rhode island leading the pack saying nows the time. Lets change the filibuster. We can get 51 votes, we can get 51 democrats. Lets do it. We thought it was going to happen. Instead, even tom daschle former Senate Majority leader, wrote an oped in the Washington Post saying at least if were not going to get rid of the filibuster, then lets make them filibuster. Lets have a real filibuster. Make them stand up there and actually talk and talk and talk until they have to run out to the bathroom or something and everybody has to lay out their cots and people have to stay there and listen. But instead, harry reid made a deal. He made a deal with Mitch Mcconnell and Mitch Mcconnell promised okay, if you dont change the filibuster rules, we agree we will not abuse the filibuster. We will only use it for those occasions where you and i both agree this is a big deal. Okay. Guess what . Republicans lied. Totally lied. Nothing has changed. They still use it to block votes. They still use it on procedural matters as to whether or not theres going to be a vote and they still use it to block the president s appointments. Especially three of them. Their appointments to the National LaborRelations Board the judicial appointments but there are three appointments, two of them to the president s cabinet for the head of the e. P. A. Gina mccarthy. For labor secretary tom perez and for head of the Consumer FinanceProtection Bureau which has been around for two years Richard Cordray the acting head of it and cant get a vote. Cant even get a hearing or a vote rather as to whether or not he will be confirmed. Harry reid has warned republicans all right, weve had it. Were tired of this, youre playing games with this. This time, we really mean it. This time, you act on the president ial nominations. You allow a vote. Drop the filibuster, allow a vote. By the end of this week or were going to change the filibuster rules. That is the issue facing Senate Democrats. Theyll meet tomorrow to decide whether or not to go through with that. What do you think . 186655press. I gotta tell you man, they should have done this in january. They should have done it years ago. They should have done it in january and they didnt. They wimped out in january. It is vitally vitally important, i think just to preserve any semblance of democracy and majority rule in this government to amend the filibuster, reform the filibuster if we dont get rid of it altogether and this time, democrats have to do it. Do you think, do you think that theyll have the guts, the balls to do it this time around . They wimped out in january. Will this week see the end of the filibuster as we know it and as we want to see it . 186655press is our toll free number. Maybe theyve got to hear from us that this is what we want. Lets talk about it on the full court press. Announcer like politics . Then like the bill press show on facebook. 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Joy behar say anything. Is the bottom line then that no white person should ever, ever, ever use the n word . Yes only on current tv. Belle 25 minutes after the hour here. The full court press here on wednesday, july 10. This may be the time. Maybe democrats have finally realized theyre getting screwed over and over by republicans and maybe theyre finally going to do what they should have done in january. Is reform the filibuster. Peter, whats up . Remember one the best ways to communicate with the show is on twitter at bpshow. Were checking your comments all the time there. It is at bpshow on twitter. Nra hater says the senate must change filibuster rules. Reid is a wimp and will allow the republicans to push him around and throw him out. Thats one way to look at it. Dw17176 says if only 51 lazy democrats would show up, the g. O. P. Has to actually filibuster. There are some comments there from twitter. Were at bpshow. Bill yeah, remember they should have learned their lesson. Made this deal in january. Republicans promise theyre going to behave. Remember the background checks . They had the votes to pass the background checks. Republicans filibustered it and never got to a vote. So i mean how many times it is like lucy and the football. How many times are we going to believe them . This time, i hope not. Robert in plainfield, illinois. What do you say . Good morning. Caller good morning, bill. First of all, proud member of 1185 carpenters in chicago. Bill hey great my union brother. Thank you. Caller i feel like the filibuster needs to be changed to where you have to stand up and talk until you lose your voice, you know. Bill right. Or have to take a pee. Caller National Labor relation board the appointees not being put on. Thats a big threat to labor in general. Whether youre a union member or not. Theres no oversight and thats a big problem for us. I feel like labor has been being attacked for the last few years and i personally dont feel like Union Members are aware of it. I think we need to wake up. Bill excellent point robert. Absolutely. The Labor Relations b