President obama is back in town barely for a couple of days then he scoots off to Marthas Vineyard for his own vacation. But to the extent there is any news, well tell you about it and give you a chance to comment on it at 186655press. Join us on twitter at bpshow and on facebook at facebook. Com billpressshow. He goes up to Marthas Vineyard for vacation with his family, one person the president will not be playing golf with is Vladimir Putin. In fact, yesterday, the white house announced that the president was canceling his scheduled summit with Vladimir Putin before the g20 meeting in st. Petersburg because the president is pissed that Vladimir Putin gave a oneyear asylum to Edward Snowden. For that, Everything Else goes on the rocks. And rick scott in florida says hes going to try once again to prevent latinos and blacks from voting. Wow on current tv. Tell you all about it. 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Bill all right. There were two winners of the powerball in new jersey and one in minnesota. I am not one of them. Good morning, everybody. Hey, youre not either. Great to see you this morning. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the full court press on a thursday morning, august 8th. Here we are, middle of summer. Were still at it. House and the senate out of town. Were still here. Ready to bring you update you on all of the news of the day and give you a chance to talk about it and tell us what it all means to you. Looking forward to hearing from you by phone, of course, at 186655press. Want to hear your comments, get your comments on twitter at bpshow and at facebook. Com billpressshow. How about it. For the sake of bringing full resources of the show to bear, weve got the team in place here. Peter ogborn and dan henning. Hey, hey, hey. Good morning. Bill alichia cruz has the phones covered. Cyprian bowlding here as always on the video cam. Were coming to you on your local progressive talk Radio Station and on current tv. So one way or the other, good to have you with us today. I gotta tell you, i had a big day yesterday. A big Foreign Policy day yesterday. Very, very pleased. You met Edward Snowden . Bill i met with secretary state john kerry. A very, very good friend of mine from los angeles, john emerson, he and i have been involved in politics for a long time together. Great guy. Great family. He is the new ambassador to germany. He was sworn in yesterday by secretary of state john kerry at the state department. Carol and i went to that ceremony in the Benjamin Franklin room. Very beautiful room up on the 8th floor of the state department building. I tweeted out a couple of photos. Thats another reason to follow us on twitter. Never know whats going to pop up there at bpshow. And then last night, good friend of his gave a party for him in nearby potomac, maryland. Lynda carter. Yes, one and the same. You mean bill wonder woman wonder woman . Bill yes, wonder womans house and also tweeted out a photo of wonder woman. A big day and congratulations, john goes back to los angeles today. A week from now, he and his family will be heading to berlin and be our new ambassador there. Cant wait to visit him at the german embassy. Dan, you have to tell your brother he can go by and say hello to our new ambassador. Go up to berlin. Bill john also speaks fluent german. He studied as a student. I would imagen if youre going to be the ambassador, you would need to speak german. Bill thats not always the case. You would think you would have to know that. Bill you would think so. I got my lottery tickets and the big news is that the three winners last night, im not one of them but i did win i got the powerball number on one of my tickets. Thats great that sounds exciting. Im sure you got a massive monster payoff for that. Bill i learned from cyprian this morning, i got 4. Oh, okay. Not bad. A cup of coffee. Bill i lost just 2 instead of 6. It will keep me playing again. I tell you. All right. In fact, the head of the lottery whatever last night, multistate lottery, sue dooley made the announcement. For tonights 448. 4 million, there were three jackpot Winning Tickets out there sold. We had two from the state of new jersey and one from the state of minnesota. Bill 448 million divided by three ways, i would still be happy. Wouldnt you . Yeah. Bill David Jackson joining us from the white house, usa today. Good friend and Joe Cirincione from the Ploughshares Fund will be in studio with us later. Well be talking to reporters from politico and not this news. Im sorry, now this news. How about it . President obama tells Vladimir Putin, you can stick your stinkin summit. But first. Announcer this is the full court press. Other headlines making news on this thursday. Tiger woods prevented a potential stampede yesterday. According to usa today, he walked up to a group of fans leaning against a barricade while he was playing a practice round at the pga championship and he went up to sign autographs but they surged as he approached and the railing started to give way. He did an immediate aboutface and laughed as he walked away. This was another instance of him getting more personable and looser in recent times. Last week, he hoisted his son in the air after winning the bridgestone invitational, something hes never done before. Bill god, a human side to tiger woods . They programmed him to show emotion. Bill he has come across in the past as pretty cold and aloof. Theres nothing like an embarrassing public fall from grace that will humble you. Bruce willis has been replaced by Harrison Ford in the upcoming expendables 3 movie and no one is happier than costar sylvester stallone. He tweeted yesterday willis out, ford in, great news, been waiting years for this. Then went on to call bruce willis greedy and lazy. No response from willis yet. Arnold schwarzenegger and Jason Statham star in the film along with victor ortiz. They all stayed silent. Bill i didnt realize they had that you know who else bill sounds like be putin and obama. Our friend we had in studio. With two major newspapers recently getting sold, the publisher the nations top newspaper sent a memo to all employees to kill any rumors they were selling as well. Arthur saltzberger jr. Telling New York Times employees his family is not selling the franchise. He will continue to work hard to lead the times forward into the global and Digital Future and no one should worry about anything. Bill you know, i was thinking about yesterday, you guys dont have to comment on this. I just want to you know that so jeff bezos boss, the Washington Post for 250 million, al jazeera bought current tv for 500 million. Oh, wow. Bill think about that. Is current tv really worth quite as much as the Washington Post . Good question. Bill just asking. Get out there. Here we go. Well, see ya later, everyone this has been fun. Have a good weekend. Starting early this weekend. Bill great knowing you here we go. Hey, listen, you probably heard the news. President obama telling Vladimir Putin yesterday uhhuh. I dont want to sit down with you. The summit is off. The plan was he is going to the g20 meeting in st. Petersburg. The fifth the 5th and 6th of september. The plan was to go to moscow first to have a sitdown with Vladimir Putin. The president canceled that meeting yesterday mainly because, no doubt about it, they do admit it, because the president is pissed off that he asked Vladimir Putin not to give Edward Snowden asylum and putin did so anyway. Gave him a oneyear asylum. So on the 4th of september, instead of going to moscow, the president s going to go to sweden. Sweden is the consolation prize. Okay, sure. Bill sweden is happy. They get the president of the United States there. Jen yesterday from the state Department Says you know, we just didnt see that this was going to work out and members of the administration all agreed. There was unanimous support for the decision not to, within the National Security council, not to hold the summit. Bill and she added that they didnt think they could this is the spin now were hearing from the administration. Of course, they just didnt think they could there was enough progress had been made on enough issues to make a summit worthwhile. We were not at the point in our progress on a number of these issues where a summit at the president ial level was the most constructive step. Bill and the administration pointed out that they insisted it wasnt just Edward Snowden. There was other stuff going on that necessitated or that argued for not having a summit with Vladimir Putin. That there wasnt as indicated there, they didnt see sufficient progress like arms control or they didnt see sufficient progress on syria and then, of course, comes along snowden so they decided to scrub the whole thing. The question i have and the question for you and i think the question we all ought to be asking is this the right move . 186655press. Or are we overreacting to Edward Snowden . The president immediately got a lot of praise from democrats and republicans in congress to the extent that theyre still around. And commenting on any of the stuff at all. And for being praised for being tough, for standing up to putin, for showing him like whos really in charge and for showing him you cant do Something Like this snowden thing and expect to get away with it. The president s right in saying were just going to take this prize of a summit away from you. Is that the right thing to do . 186655press. I gotta tell you, i dont think so. Ive got real questions about this move. To me, it comes across as looking rather petty, look rather silly. Making too much of a big deal about Edward Snowden. I mean look what else is on the table, okay . How about syria, how about the fact that right now, russia is still the only major country supporting president alfazed. The United States supporting the rebels. Certainly, thats worth talking about to see if we cant get russia to stop sending arms to the syrian government. And at least maybe get the sides together to have a ceasefire. What about the fact of all of the trade issues . In fact, the president had made remember, the president had said one of his priorities was to reset the phrase he used at the white house to reset the relationship between the United States and russia. Trade is one of the big issues in resetting that relationship and normalizing our trade. Human rights issues. Here, weve got russian government that just passed some draconian legislation where you cant show any display of homosexuality in russia. It is a federal crime to do so. Theyre going the other way on human rights. Thats certainly something that would be worth talking about with Vladimir Putin. And then especially, the issue of arms reduction. As the New York Times reports on the front page this morning, it says the first paragraph is that this canceling the summit could doom president obamas aspirations for further nuclear arms cuts before he leaves office. So i think it is important to understand that what were throwing away is the opportunity to make any progress on human rights, on trade, missile defense, thats another thing that is a point of dispute between the two nations. So throwing away the opportunity to make any progress on human rights, trade, missile defense, arms control or syria because were pissed off about Edward Snowden. I mean, arent we dont you think, maybe, were overreacting to the snowden revelations, overreacting to russias actions on behalf of snowden. And putting too much at risk because of our vexation over not being able to get snowed and bring him back here and put him on trial. 186655press. I think its always better when both sides are talking. If were still unhappy about snowden, i think it is better to sit down with putin and have it out with him on all of these issues. I think these other factors are much, much too important to just let slide because were angry about Edward Snowden. Silly move if you ask me. 186655press. Lets talk about it here on the full court press this thursday morning. Get social with bill press, like us at facebook. Com billpressshow. This is the bill press show. That viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. 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Occupy we will have class warfare. vo true stories, current perspective. Documentaries. On current tv. Announcer live on free speech tv beginning september 3rd. Visit freespeech. Org to learn more. This is the bill press show. Bill hey, here we are. 25 minutes after the hour on the full court press. President obama yesterday says i know i was hoping to sign another arms control arms reduction treaty before i leave the white house. Im willing to throw that away. Im so pissed off about not getting Edward Snowden back to put him on trial. Really . Really . Thats your priority . I dont know. Tim is calling peter, im sorry. On twitter at bpshow, at bpshow, women endure made a point this might not have to do with snowden. This has a lot to do with gay rights because of all of the gay rights issues that russia has been confronting. Bill well, again, i wish if the president had said that, im really angry that russia is not giving lgbt people the same rights as us. That would be a great statement. But he didnt say that. And even if there was a difference there, then go talk about it. Thats something somebody pointed out, isnt the whole point of having a summit to iron out your issues. Bill you dont go to a summit necessarily with somebody on which you agree with everything. Bit way, i was reminded by look at some of the research i did last night on this point, president obama last i think it was last september, refused to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu when he was in washington. And wanted a meeting at the white house. The president said this is sort of maybe a little pattern on obamas part here. Dont give me everything i want . So much for no drama obama. Bill screw you. Hi, tim. Caller i agree with you, bill, absolutely, canceling the wrong thing to do and it shows you the tremendous influence that National Security and military establishment has. Not just over the president but the entire congress and what passes for our state today. Bill amen, amen. Absolutely. Thats a priority here. More important to make a point about Edward S