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what are we still doing taking our shoes off every time we check into a plane. it drives me crazy. think of all of the money we've spent on airport security and this guy walks across two runways into the terminal. we'll find out more about that and a whole lot more. paul ryan of course here on today's "full court press." first, let's get all of the latest. today's current news update from lisa ferguson out in los angeles. good morning. >> hi, bill. good morning everyone. president obama kicks off day two of his bus tour through iowa today. this time without new v.p. pick paul ryan. t...

you hold an olympic games in the middle of nowhere. >> reporter: after his meeting with cameron romney faced reporters outside number 10 downing street where he tried to walk back his comments. >> did you intend to criticize the way london had prepared for these games? >> i'm very delighted with the prospects of a highly successful olympic games. what i've seen shows imagination and forethought and a lot of organization. and expect the games to be highly successful. >> reporter: on the same day the torch made its way through london, it was a diplomatic flameout for romney who had com...

the ones he calls obstructionists? we report this morning, you decide. >> and note to the obama campaign, if you're going to go after private equity as being ruthless job destroyers, even vampires, maybe you should not hire a private equity manager who has fired hundreds of people him or herself. file this under oops! >> and call it a full pledge attack. one student refusing to stand for the pledge of allegiance. not because he's unpatriotic or has some religious clause that he can't, just because he was too tired! he said it was exhausting to stand. it really -- >> that's why we sit...

♪ ow." >> yeah, good morning, current tv fans. >> now with 100% less stephanie. >> stephanie seems to have forgotten we do our usual toss to current tv. >> yeah. >> but coming up this hour we have charlie pierce from esquire.com. he wants to talk about the end of ron paul's campaign and about romney's speech -- >> hello, everybody what is going on? what is happening? is it time to toss to jacki schechner? >> it was. >> i had to go potty. have we tossed yet. >> not yet. >> oh well we have charlie pierce coming on. >> and i jus...

illinois, the number two democrat in the senate, dick durbin, and here in washington the man charged with electing more republicans to the senate, senator john cornyn. thank you both for being here. let me start out, i want to play something that senator durbin said in mid-april to kind of kick off our conversation. senator, let he remind you of what you said, which was unless there is some intervening event, some external event, i think the reality is we are knotted going to take up tough issues involving spending, taxes, medicare, social security before an election. my question to ...