Country over saturdays verdict in the Trayvon Martin case of course justice was not done now it is up to the department of justice to determine if they are going to file a civil rights case against George Zimmerman. Today or tomorrow could be the day that democrats actually pull the trigger, if you will and change the rules on the filibuster and get rid of the filibuster for president ial nominations to the executive branch as they have promised to do. In that vote coming in the United States senate. And on friday the Justice Department issued new rules for dealing with the media in any future leak investigations and also, Edward Snowden told us on friday that he is now considering seeking asylum in russia until he can figure out how to get to some latin america country. All of that well be talking about with our guests and taking your calls and comments on twitter, and joining our friends on facebook at facebook billpressshow right here on current tv. 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Hey, good morning, everybody. Here we go. Monday july 15th. Great to see you today. Welcome, welcome welcome to the full court press on a big monday morning. Hope you had a great weekend. All rested up, relaxed and ready to go to tackle the big stories of the day, and its a big news day here in our nations capitol. A lot happening over the weekend that we want to tell you about, and you will want to comment about. You know how to do it pick up the phone, give us a call at 86655press. Go on twitter, its not too early to get on twitter this morning at i just want to make sure my phone is off. There you go. At bp show and on facebook at facebook billpressshow. Were standing by to take your calls and comments on the social media. Thats the the job here of the whole team. Peter ogburn and dan henning. Hey hey, hey. Good morning, bill. Bill yep. And alicia cruz on the lot s lot hot lines. And siprion is still on vacation . Vacation is a loose word we use around here. And monty is here. Hardworking man. If siprion isnt careful, monty may be here a little bit longer. Bill taking care of the cameras on current tv. Hope you had a great weekend. Peter you saw a big show friday night . I did i saw Paul Mccartney at the nations ballpark. Bill you were out there in center field, too. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah. I blew the Kids College Fund on seats. Sorry, kids. Bill yeah that was your big treat. Mine was seeing the book of mormon yesterday. I have wanted to site for two years its a the hottest ticket in town. Im jealous. Bill it is. It is at the kennedy center. It is still appearing on broadway, of course. It is the funniest show i think i have ever seen and also the raunchiest, and foulest language, and body gestures i have ever seen. That sounds like my kind of show. Bill yeah, and its all about the mormon church. Its nice they have a sense of humor. Oh, i dont think they like this show. [ laughter ] bill but its very funny. Cool. Bill indeed. And one of the most embarrassing moments in Television Ever had to be maybe you have heard about this. Out in oakland ktvu which is a dynamite station. It rivals the San Francisco stations for news. But they dont always get it right, and they had been really breaking news on the Airline Crash at sfo, and they were in such a rush to beat the competition on every little tidbit of competition that somebody leaked to them the names of the pilots in the cockpit. They felt they had it first, and they rushed to get it on the air. Maybe they should have thought twice about it. Here is the anchor on ktvu. We have new information also on the plane crash, ktvu has just learned the names of the four pilots, they are captain, some ting long we too low, ho defuk and [ inaudible ], we are working to determine exactly what roles each of them played during the landing. Bill maybe when the first name is something wong you might think something is wrong with this report, but the time you get to we too low you can stop right there, right . We see these every so often you see these mishaps on local news all the time. This might be the worst one i have ever seen. She delivered it in such a way that she absolutely thought those were the names. Bill and their defense was we checked with the ntsb and they confirmed it. And they did. We have been told the names of the pilots were and they got a summer intern it was later explained, who didnt know crap right, and didnt want to admit that they didnt know, so they said oh, yeah thats it. Unbelievable. I know when you are anchoring you are in the zone and just reading off of the teleprompter but you would have thought the anchor would have stopped halfway through. Bill yeah. When i was at kubc tv one morning, there was a woman, i think her name was angela davis probably not, but anyhow. Who used to read the new every morning. And she was late for work and so they grabbed fred anderson, who is a reporter and said fred you have got to do the news. So fred sits in the desk and he reads the news and he said thats the news at 7 25, and im angela davis. Sometimes you have to think, you know, you dont just read. Anyhow. Senator byron dorgan is going to be in studio with us. Bob cusack and reid wilson from the hot line to start off this monday morning and yes, justice not done in florida. But first announcer this is the full court press. In sports in tim lincecum had a great weekend. He pushed aside the lackluster season that he is having and threw a nohitter saturday thanks to a diving catch by hunter pence to grab a fly ball in the 9th inning. The threw 148 pitches. Its the most he has ever thrown in a game in his career. He struck out 13 walked 4 batters, and hit one. He got up into the hundreds by like the 7th inning. Bill oh, really. Thats a lot of pitches. And what are you going to do if you are a manager . Bill yeah. He is 59. Yeah this is his first win since june 4th. Bill the Washington Post has the numbers comparing the 2012 nats with the 2013 nats. Its painful to read. Hey, they won yesterday. I liked the national easementalty after just a few weeks ago, it was were going to the world series. And now its one day at a time. President obama invited hosts of espn to play south of dc. No word on how anyone played. But it was quite the day for cornhiezer, it was his 65th birthday. And in hollywood a couple of celebrity marriages, jimmy kimmel married his longtime girlfriend who is a writer for his abc late night broadcast. Quite the guest list howard stern, Ellen Degeneres in california, and hally berry tied the knot with french actor. That is hallys third marriage. His first. Bill thank you dan. Yes, indeed, sometimes justice is blind and sometimes justice is wrong. Justice was both blind and wrong in sanford florida on saturday. The verdict read by the head of the jury or the clerk in the court, handed to her by the head of the jury. Here we go. State of florida versus George Zimmerman, verdict, we the jury find George Zimmerman, not guilty. Bill not guilty shock in the courtroom. Afterward the defense attorney defending Trayvon Martin said were not happy but we accept the jurys verdict. I am disappointed but we accept it. We live in a great country that has a great criminal justice system. Bill i dont know about you but when i heard they was really disgusted with that verdict. No great surprise but a great disappointment for sure. We knew it was an uphill battle we knew it would be very very difficult to prove Second Degree murder, because there were no witnesses, only George Zimmerman, the prosecution has to prove malicious intent. They had to prove hatred George Zimmerman hating Trayvon Martin all of those factors, which they just had no evidence to really prove, but what i dont understand is how the jury could not find George Zimmerman guilty of manslaughter. To me there was so much evidence that this did not have to happen. George zimmerman had no business care rig a gun when Neighborhood Watch rules said you should not carry a gun. They said if you belong to our organization and you are working as a neighbor watch person, you should not be armed. He was told to stay in his car by the Police Dispatcher. He violated that. He confronted Trayvon Martin when he didnt have to. Martin had committed no crime, had done nothing wrong, was not a threat to anybody. We know this in that project. He was walking home from 7eleven for gods sake. And in terms of selfdefense. Clearly Trayvon Martin started this fight and if indeed as may have happened and i would say did happen, he found himself on the losingen of that fight that he started. You know what tough apples. When you go in a bar and invite somebody outside, to fight, and the guy beats the hell out of you, you dont shoot and kill him in selfdefense right, and then get away with it. He started the fight, and Trayvon Martin unarmed and the idea that the jury bought this that the sidewalk was Trayvon Martins weapon. Is unbelievable. I saw a lot of comments like this on twitter, especially on saturday night. Its amazing that a 17yearold black child went on trial for his own murder. I mean they they Trayvon Martin smoked marijuana, and he had bruising on his knuckles from where he was hitting George Zimmerman. Bill yeah, and he may have had sex with that girlfriend of his. Yeah. Bill race was clearly an element in this whole thing, and there is no doubt in my mind and you know it is true if this had been the reverse, if Trayvon Martin had the gun, if Trayvon Martin had accosted and confronted George Zimmerman, if Trayvon Martin had jumped on a white man and then shot and killed him and said i did it in selfdefense, people would have laughed him out of the courtroom, and he would be on death row today. And what really burned me was when the defense attorney said no, no, no you got it wrong, here is what would have happened if it had been a black man charged with the crime. I think things would have been different if George Zimmerman was black for this reason. He never would have been charged with a crime. Bill are you kidding . He never would have made it to the courtroom, because he probably would have been i wont say it. At any rate i think this is a total travesty of justice. It may not be over. The department of justice is considering now the criminal case is over. But the department of justice is considering filing a civil rights violation, George Zimmerman violating Trayvon Martins civil rights. The naacp has a petition to do that. We have a link on our website to that. Secondly, like in the oj case he may get off on the criminal charges, but there could be a civil case filed against George Zimmerman. No word on that but that was successful in the oj case and it hope it happens here. What do you think about what happened . 86655press. Im disgusted with the verdict and with people who say, we dont like it but we should accept the verdict. No, no, no. This proves our system of justice doesnt always work. It didnt work with oj simpson, and Casey Anthony and it didnt work in this case with Trayvon Martin. 86655press, lets talk about it on the full court press. Announcer this is the bill press show. For true stories. 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Is the bottom line then that no white person should ever, ever, ever use the n word . Yes only on current tv. Announcer heard around the country and seen on current tv. This is the bill press show. Bill hey, 26 minutes now after the hour, just following through on the verdict in the Trayvon Martin trey case down in florida. Not guilty on Second Degree murder, not guilty on manslaughter. Peter . Were at bb show karen says wouldnt it be nice if we lived in a world where George Zimmerman had asked if Trayvon Martin needed a ride home in the rain rather than shooting him. Bill right. Clearly he got out of that call with a chip on his shoulder. He said to the dispatchers these fing punks also get away with it. With what . With walking home with a bag of skittles. He had that attitude and it was Trayvon Martin who was trying to defend himself from a bigger guy armed. Kim is calling out in med december toe, california. Caller good morning to the most intelligent man on the planet. I think she is talking to you. Caller yeah. Yeah. I cant believe this not only do illegals only come from mexico, i guess stand your ground means if you have a gun, you can protect yourself and if you dont have a gun, you are automatically guilty did you check marco [ inaudible ] when we walked into the courtroom with like an 80pound block of cement . Bill yeah. Caller if he walked in there with that, why did George Zimmerman have to shoot him. Bill yeah there was the idea that he could pick up the sidewalk and used to it bang George Zimmerman . It is just crazy, unbelievable. Announcer this is the bill press show. 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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Were talking about the very disappointing and wrong verdict, if you ask me in the George Zimmerman case not guilty of second murder, not guilty of manslaughter. What the hell kind of evidence did th