joined by keith law to break down the major league baseball draft.pected strasburg to go number one. even with scott boras and the crazy numbers that are being thrown out there, you think at the end of the day, the nationals will be forced to sign him. >> right. i think it will probably happen on august 17th, the deadline probably at 11:55 the night, the norm the last couple of years. as they get to the deadline and everyone says we're not going to sign our guys. we get to 11:50, 11:5 and i get a bunch of phone calls saying we got our guy done. i expect that pattern to hold, not just with stratburg, probably with ackley and tate and handful of other guys we've seen taken in the first round. the issue with strasburg is people talk about the nationals have to sign him, the team is so bad, they need a p.r. boost after a tough off season on the public relations front, but there is a leverage issue for boras and for strasburg, and what's your alternative to signing? if the nationals offer you $20 million, are you going to turn that down and potentially go

insider keith law has been falling it closely and we know that stephen strasburg's the no-brainer ofhe draft. why were gms drooling over this guy. >> you don't see a package like that in a college or high school starter like that very frequently. i saw him touch 99 twice. ing in under 94. with an outpitch breaking ball. locates both pitches extremely well. he is in great say. went undrafted. got to san diego state, got in shape, and velocity started to creep up. after his freshman year touched 97 and hasn't stopped since then. if way was to sign quickly could pitch in the major leagues this year. he is represent bid scott boras and those negotiations are likely to drag out. >> how do you propose for them to get a deal done here? >> well, my strategy -- and i don't know if they would use it -- put a big offer on the table, 25 million, take the offer today, 25 million, you're in mini-camp on monday and we get you out to the big leagues by some specified day. every day you don't sign it goes down by a half million dollars but you can only use that strategy if you're actually willing to

they'll hear from keith hall the bureau of statistics. live coverage on c-span2. >> the consumer index experienced a small uptick and the european central bank held rates steady yesterday. signaling expectations that the global economy may just had bottomed out. i'm encouraged by the marginal improvements like consumer confidence but even this good sign is accompanied by a sobering counterpoint increased consumer spending that yet to translate by actual spending of consumers of businesses or businesses rather, families are saving and i don't blame them. they see that more than 1 in 4 unemployed workers has been unemployed for over six months. and that the median duration of unemployment is now 14.9 weeks, a record high since the series started in 1967. the cumulative effects of the recession seven conservative months of loss totaling 6 million jobs have left these ordinary, very hard-working americans in on precarious footing. when the person is laid off the person experiences, quote, income shock. this is a vast understatement. now unemp

nobody better to tell me about it than keith hernandez because he certainly knew a lot about the swing. that's one thing he's really cut down the amount of home runs. early on, he had trouble really getting that short, quick, powerful swing to the paul that he's had in the past to put up 30 plus home runs almost every season he's been a regular. the problem now is he's getting back on track again especially as of june. he's hitting over .500 in this month. he's really starting to feel it again. it won't be too long before he starts putting up those big power numbers again. >> one home run in his last 33 games. maybe it's citi field. citi field is not a home run- hitting haven. mets in a brand new ballpark this year playing their home games. here is the orioles lineup. birds trying to make it three straight wins. brian roberts in that leadoff spot. 5-6 with four rbi's over the past two games. brian has been red-hot on this home stand. in fact, he's hit in all six games on the home stand. adam jones back in the lineup. markakis, huff and mora with scott dhing. reimold in lpd left field,

. >> andy rich forward of the police in front of keith friendships, principal door keeper have the house of lords. and proceeding sir 43 di vigars, kcb, not just black robed, but also sergeant-at-arms of the house of lords. they have a job share, have since 1971 in the house of lords. he has powers of arrest, anywhere in the house of lords and they are making their way now through central lobby towards the house of commons where as the door will be slammed in black -- face. as the queen isn't present, but there is a royal commission -- is wearing semi-state uniforms this evening. >> no frills? >> no frills, just a plane white bo tie by the look of things and he hasn't got any lays cuffs or lays jabot. no medals, of course, he doesn't where any medals. >> he approaches the door of the >> he approaches the door of the house of commons. >> sounds like he's trying to break it down. he enters the house of commons. accompanied by the accompanied by the sergeant-at-arms. >> authorized by virtue of her majesty's commission to declare royal approbation to election of the speaker requires the imme

[applause] >> dr keith crain will now explain the vulnerabilities in the iranian economy. >> i'm going to turn to talk little about longer-term issues. the fundamental message is that time is on the united states side, not on the supreme leaders were the islamic republic side in terms of changes in iran. i will talk about that, but also turned to talk about some of the social changes as well. first, we will focus on energy. we talk about social changes and what happened with the employment pressures and then we will finally look at the vulnerability is facing the leadership. to start off, first and foremost, iran -- periodically, we have heard statements that they will run into some severe production problems regarding oil and the islamic republic has seen a sharp decline in output. in the past two or three decades, texas -- technological expertise in the oil industry has spread far and wide. we have seen russian companies that are much better able to get technology. they have been able to maintain output. output in 2008 is still higher than the energy information agency had expected f

following retirements, many of our local leaders left office, including bill jentee, scott gifford, keith hunt, dick hyde, cindy irwin, kathryn bartlett, rita mullins, tim perry, sal and john. their longstanding service embodies what leadership is about. our mayors often serve as the voice of our local communities and is the closest contact for people on government issues. i thank them for their dealings with my office on federal issues. i've enjoyed working with each and every one of them and wish them the best of success. they assisted our office in betting serving our communities and all illinois families. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the recordhis list of past presidents and mayors. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. bean: and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. moran: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. moran: thank you, m

talk to keith hernandez about it, that's what the book is becoming on wright, at least for the moment. see where johnson goes. back inside but missed with it. and a two-ball, two-strike count. >> jim: at 98. jim johnson, most tall pitchers, he's about 6'5", they shorten their stride. last year he lengthened it. but it's difficult to pitch in. the one thing about koji uehara, we know about the splitter in our scouting report, but he commanded his fastball very well tonight. jimmy johnson relying more on the sink. >> gary: he went around on it. an unhappy david wright heads off. good job by jim johnson. wright retired and there are two down in the inning. the orioles have announced a series of baseball camps designed for boys and girls 7 to 16. the instructional program, player appearances, current player, former oral yole. -- form oriole. click on fan forum to register. reimold there. church retired. good job by johnson who gets it done in a hurry.  - oh, it's on. - it's on. - it's on. - ( music playing throughout ) - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - total

that's what keith hernandez said.d it always looks long if you're chasing balls. especially with the power arms that the mets have shown in te couple of games. >> gary: andino is hardly off the bag. jones hitting .362 with runnes in scoring position. markakis .324, and reports .302. and that's the pitch he's been chasing that he needs to stay away from. and he gets ahead on the count. >> jim: we saw it off bobby parnell who throws from 93 to 97. he went 1-0, swung at a balp and in. if he takes the pitch 2-0, he's not throwing them a slider. >> gary: he's got that 2-0 cot he wants. and there it is again, outside. first base is open here, but u got nick markakis waiting on deck. hernandez, left-hander .278 off him, and right-handers .313. 6 home runs with an one hit by markakis, 6 by lefties, five y right-handers. so not a significant differene in any of those departments, right or left handed against hernandez. 3-0 counts. see if he has a green light. he takes it, it is there

keith. caller: i do not think that the iranian administration has put the obama administration in any kind of problem. the iranian government is the one that is in trouble with its people. i think that obama is a pragmatist. he needs to do like george bush, obama will deal with them the way that they are. it is funny how the state of israel quickly jumped up and made a statement that they were basically glad that the election had turned out this way because they want an enemy, because they want to do what they want to do, which is bomb them. they were quick to bump -- jump on the situation. iran threw a monkey wrench in the plans, they should have had a fair election. host: this is from "the washington times." the world reacts cautiously to the ahmadinejad election. "it world weary of iran's nuclear program reacted cautiously saturday to hard-line leader mahmoud ahmadinejad's hotly disputed re-election. some expressed hope that the islamic republic's president will soften his defiance and wa

keith hernandez, he won a bunch of them. gold glovers all over the place. >> gary: all over the place. reimold down to third base, business hop david wright. he's got a big arm, over to murphy. reimold retired. the man who caught the ball, the first home run, has given it back to matt wieters. and his name is sam mayfield.  >> right before the pitch, i looked to the guy next to m i said matt wieters is going to hit his first home run. next thing i know, ball's in the air, it's coming right at me, hits a hand, drops in front of me, pick it up and everybody went nuts. >> gary: and he did bring it back down. there's the, he's got the dark jersey on there. he'll bend over to pick the ball up right there. matt wieters first home run. then they brought him down to the clubhouse area. >> jim: so he can predict home runs. >> gary: i wanted to get some numbers out of him. by the looks of the guy to the right, he did in fact call that. the guy was unapole jet he cannily completely stunned. >> jim: is he swinging away here? >>

what did keith hernandez say, he said this is one of the toughest pitches to hit. that ball just dives down and away. martinez, only 20. you've got to take advantage of him. one of those guys you pencil in. >> gary: two of the game's best hitters back-to-back in the line-up with beltran in right, two down here. beltran standing in with that big cut. he took it 0 for 5 in the ballgame last night. right now he's fourth in the national league at .336, fourth in on-base percentage, fourth in doubles. 1-1 delivery. the bobblehead man is back, he'll get a play in the first. he's got it. jones makes the catch. ♪ ♪ (tucci) count on the nation's fastest 3g network. at&t times may be tough today, but the things we all look forward to haven't changed. like owning a home. watching our children grow. and retiring with confidence. so whatever you're looking forward to, m&t bank is here to help you get there. m&t bank. understanding what's important. >> gary: as the fans coming tonight to see these two teams and interleague play go at it again. here's the starting line-up for

keith fell gets his 18th save, top in the majors and the padres get their first win at dodger stadiumyear. >> biggie as small as might have said it best. "when i was dead broke, i couldn't picture this." ah, to be in college. a few months back mark sanchez was a college student playing quarterback at u.s.c. on april 25th he became an nfl player, drafted fifth overall by the new york jets. on wednesday, he became a very wealthy man. sanchez according to chris mortensen has agreed to a five-year deal worth $50 million, 28 of it guaranteed, the quarterback with a record-setting performance. in the rose bowl. >> tuesday espn's ed werder reported the vikings gave brett favre a deadline to report to off-season workouts this week if he wanted to play for minnesota this season. wednesday, coach brad childress said unless favre's wife wants him out of the house, the team did not set a deadline. >> was there a deadline or not placed on brett favre to report this week to practice? >> absolutely not. maybe by deanna or somebody like that, but certainly not from me, not even close. don't where tha

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i'm very pleased, again, to welcome commissioner keith hall of the labor and statistics for the united states department of labor. thank you very much for being with us. i yield to you, sir. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the employment and unemployment data that we released this morning. nonforeign payroll employment declined by 345,000 in may. job losses averaged 643,000 per month during the prior six months. in may, the unemployment rate rose from 8.9 to 9.4%. since the recession began in december of 2007, payroll employment has fallen by 6 million and the unemployment rate has increased by 4.5 percentage points. job losses continue to be widespread in may but the rate of decline moderated in construction and several service-providing industries. large job losses continued in the manufacturing sector with employment declines in nearly all component industries. employment fell sharply in motor vehicles and parts, machinery and fabricated metals. since the start of the recession, manufacturing employment has decreased by 1.8 million

joined once again by keith law. when you look at strasburg's numbers, he's amazing. the strikeout-to-walk ratio is something out of a video game. it is that astonishing. he's been... they say he's hit 103 on the gun. we had a chance to cover his game in the college world series and he was really hitting 94 through most of the game. it's official, he's the number-one pick of the nationals. there's a big difference between 103 and 94. a lot of guys in the minors throw 94. what's going to separate him? >> one, it's the second pitch. it's the fact he's got an out pitch breaking ball. plenty of guys can throw hard. it's a relatively easy thing to do. it's a lot harder to find a consistent curveball or slider where you get good break on it, get some deception, something to get hitters off of the fastball. 95 and straight is actually a pretty hittable pitch for a big league hitter. the other thing that separates strasburg for me is he has good command of the fastball. when he was a freshman, the summer after his freshman year, he threw hard certainly, up to 97, but his loca

i learned from keith hernandez up in new york and when he comes here i'm pumping him for information. you can never get enough information off of these veteran and older guys who were exceptional athletes. >> johnny: got the bases loaded, two down, the reds are, with a ball and two strikes to brandon phillips. both times up he has grounded to guzman at short. a base hit. past the first base bag. one run will score. and the reds have got two more in, they lead it 3-0.  gonzalez and cueto score.   just inside the fir  and it's 3-0 cincinnati >> rob: i told you about these outside pitches right here, walk a couple guys, then you get a nice pitch, a jam shot, happens to trickle down the right field line, two runs come in, all this with two outs though.  . >> johnny: walks are come back and bite you every time. >> rob: walks in the big leagues, but you're going to learn, third time through the lineup. >> johnny: phillips adds to

our head table guests and ask them to stand briefly the other names are called -- from your right keith hill of an bna, treasurer of the national press club, peter stemware, field reporter, ron of a market watch, russell goldman, fasb and a guest of our speaker, kerry, financial accounting foundation and customer speaker, skipping over myself at the podium here, angela kean, bloomberg news reporter and sherrif of the club's speakers' committee, i will skip over speaker for a moment, bob carden of cornyn communications, the speakers' committee member who range today's launch. thank you very much, bob. allen wildmon of the fasb and test of our speaker. and finally night camping gear up to planters. [applause] the financial accounting standards board is on of those because i it government agencies that sense the business rules specifically fasb as it is known developed generally accepted accounting principles that businesses must adhere to reporting their results. this is done so businesses can in theory cookbooks to make themselves and their stock prices look better than they really are.

woolsey: keith, when one in every three americans under the age of 65 was uninsured at some point in 2007 and 2008, imagine every one of those people knows that they weren't being taken care of, that they needed something that was not available to them. ms. schakowsky: what's the answer? how many? mr. ellsworth: which comes closer to your -- mr. ellison: which ones comes closer to your view, 33% said no. not one person in this body who wouldn't feel pretty good about those numbers. 65% is pretty good for anything, overwhelming as you said. that leads me to a question that i want to offer to all three of you. do america cans want the change we're talking about or is this some sort of like a lefty, far out-there view point? do you have any points of view on this? . ms. hirono: i think when the public finds out what we're talking about with the public option, they'll like it, it's choice. when the american public receives accurate information instead of being scared to death, i think they know what the appropriate answers are. that's what we're doing tonight to talk about these options

try to close the state's in this event and i think that might be a little more difficult because as keith show iran is quite an owner of all to xiaoning, its oil exports and the iranians will have to think very carefully about whether to try to inhibit exports out of the straits of hormuz with the possibility they could get hit in this area as well. i should point out though that this would be something that iran it attempted it would be one of the areas where a could impose a strategic cost on the united states by internationalizing the complex, global energy markets was speak to that. after a conflict in the strait of our moves or around the persian gulf and other than that i think one would have to look for not just immediate retaliation but potentially retaliation over time that could, in the form of a proxy and tax if there are proxy is that what this into iran's request for support but also potentially terrorist attacks and other parts of the world and this is something that would necessarily happen right after a u.s. attack and could happen over time. >> it is support and diplomacy

woolsey: i thank you, keith, for your progressive hour. it's a gift to every week -- the progressive hour is a gift to every person that watches us and wants to know what we stand for. and we have two new women with us tonight. i'm going to stand here and be part of the dialogue, but i think congresswoman hirono and congresswoman schakowsky bring something new and fresh tonight. so i hand back to -- mr. ellison: who would you like to yield to? ms. woolsey: i yield to congresswoman hirono from hawaii. ms. hirono: thank you very much. we are going to be focusing on health care tonight for this hour and i just wanted to share with all of you a little bit of my background, because i know what it's like not to have health care. i came to this country as a immigrant. my mother brought me and my brothers to hawaii, lucky me, and raised us as a single parent. and we didn't have much. and she worked for many years in a job that did not have any benefits, innovation, no health care. and i remember growing up that migratest fear was that my mother wo

the straits innist -- in this event, and i think that might be a little more difficult because as keith showed, iran is quite vullinable to shutting off its oil exports. and -- vulnerable to shutting off its oil exports, and the iranians will have to, i'm sure very carefully think about whether to try to inhibit exports out of the strait of hormos with the possibility that they could get hit in this area as well. i will point out that this will be something that if iran attempted it, it would be one of the areas where it could actuallyiment pose a strategic cost -- actually impose a strategic cost on the united states by internationalizing the conflict. global energy markets would, would speak to that. after, after conflict in the straight of -- stait of hormuz or the persian gulf. other than that, one would have to look for -- it's not just immediate retaliation but potentially retaliation over time that could come in the form of proxy attacks, so-called proxy attacks. if there are, if there are -- if there are proxies who would listen to iran's request for support. but also potentiall

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the episodes of success that every policymaker can point to is the mission by it lieutenant-general keith data and to provide security of my training, and coordination for the palestinian forces under president abbas and prime minister fayad. considering we are actively training and least one faction to be properly professional and paramilitary outfit, since that is an assigned that has minority support among palestinian people and on the ground hamas mesa big deal at of the army etc. etc., in what way is the united states showing up its position as being either seen as honest broker or otherwise seen as somehow facilitating peace, as a corollary two that sense right now american legislators and policy makers are tearing themselves up over in his interrogation techniques were used in the past and here we are supporting your shame that actually uses real torture, not in his interrogation, real actual torture in what way again does this actually produce a result that is further u.s. interest in the region? >> these are all -- this is all great stuff and we'll probably talk about it for anot

need to enact this legislation to help people in new hampshire and across the country, people like keith, people like norma's son. tobacco tobacco products and marketing geared to kids need to end. we can't afford to let another generation of young people put themselves at risk by becoming addicted to tobacco products and suffering the lifelong consequences of their addiction, or even worse: dying. for decades tobacco companies have targeted women and girls. but in the last two years the industry has significantly stepped up their marketing efforts aimed at our daughters and granddaughters. we have a picture of one of the ads that r.j. reynolds uses. it's their new version of camel cigarettes targeted to girls and women. it's camel no. 9. sort of a takeoff on some descriptions we've heard. this has she can, shiny black packaging and flowery ads and the advertising light and luscious. this advertisement has appeared in "kos mow poll tan," "in style," "lucky" and marie clair magazines. women are now at increased risk for lung cancer, heart attacks, strokes, emphysema and other deadly disea