it will say dear marine corps family on behalf of the department of the navy and marine corps, please accept my sincere condolences on the loss of your loved one. this is all it's about, bringing the team together. it's time the marine corps be recognized as part of the fighting team. i will ask god to please bless our men and women in afghanistan and iraq and ask god plees with his loving arms to hold the families of those who gave their life in afghanistan and iraq, and i ask three times, god please, god please, god please continue to bless america and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: ms. kaptur of ohio. mr. burton of indiana. mr. moran of kansas. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from virginia, mr. wolf, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. wolf: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to speak about an issue of great importance to our country. shortly after i returned from a trip to algeria in 1998 where thousands had been killed by terror attacks and in the wake of two u.s. embass

we favor the seven-month deployments. a marine unit is gone for seven months and it's been home, until recently, for about seven months a one to one deployment to dwell, if you will, before heading back. based on the growth experience and what we think will be reduced numbers required in afghanistan we see that getting fairly dramatically better. hopefully, by the middle of 2010, even to the point where we're able to achieve one to two, seven month december ployed 14rk months home. that's going to be helpful, we think, for families. we think that young marines who maybe haven't had a chance to meet someone are going to be afforded that opportunity. we're going to take some of it back. we're going to have to accomplish some training we have not been accomplishing with our specific focus on counterinsurgency but we think we'll be able to do that and we think the 1-2 is our sustainment factor and those indicators i spoke to you about are going to stay strong or get better when we see those kinds of deployment to dwell. our families,

madam speaker, the marines who are fighting today deserve this recognition. in closing i would like to show the change. madam speaker, on this first poster is actually a letter that was sent by the secretary of the navy to a marine wife whose husband was killed. i certainly have taken out the name of the marine corps wife's name and i want to read this part to you and to those on the floor. on behalf of the department of the navy, accept the condolences in the loss of your husband, captain so and so marine. madam speaker, the important part of reading this is this, if this bill becomes law, this fighting team will recognize this marine family in this way, the secretary of the navy and marine corps, dear marine corps family, on behalf of the department of navy and marine corps. madam speaker, that's all that it does, but it's very important that the marine corps receive this recognition. and before closing, madam speaker, as i do frequently, i ask god to please bless our men and women in uniform, i ask god to bless the families of our men and women in uniform a

i'm talking now beyond just the marine corps' area of operations. ours for the most part in the south is high dedsert. there are some mountain ranges that start to appear in the northern portions of our sector in the south of afghanistan. the terrain up in r.c. east is incredible. there's nothing in our country you can compare it to. we flew over the rocky mountains from a recent trip to california. it may start to get close, but it does not equate to sheer granite mountains that rise up at 90 degrees to the surface of the earth. and go to 12,000 or 13,000 feet. so it's incredibly rough the rain up there. that's causing us to adapt our tactics and recovery, our medevac capability, those types to have things, as you might anticipate. i think that's probably the first thing. the second thing, i think, is probably just the cultural itself. different language, different tribal affiliations, if you will. the tribes in iraq, i believe, had more centralized kinds of structure, decision making resting in the hands of a few sheikhs than what we're experiencin

one of the most brilliant examples was the marine division. they save the day for the division, 7 chinese divisions, the opposite of the strategic bombing results. they leveled every big city in north korea. was the effect? we lost a bunch of bombers? resupply to the korean and chinese armies were unimpeded, the north koreans were not at all forced to go to the peace table which is another thing you will see over and over again. at the same time, you saw from the budget charts that there is a huge spike in spending particularly for the air force, the air force diverted all that money, spend none of it on korea and diverted it into nuclear bombers, couldn't possibly be used, took the money and ran for their own hobbies. they cut our fighters to a thousand. antiquated fighters were unsuited for the mission. they got decimated. we kept feeding from our inventory. when we ran out of them, we force the f 4 down the secretary's for wrote. quickly converted to a strategic bomber, lost 445 of those, so we had a thousand airplanes doing strategic bombin

escorted and followed by armed forces of the philippine marines. so we take this trip in the true heart of darkness philippine jungle. as we leave, visible elements of civilization and get into less opulent villages and isolated realms, young kids are running out, waving and applauding and jumping up and down and hollering in their native tongue what i'm told this "is good to see you." with their mothers and fathers nodding approvingly. i saw this with my own eyes. i thought this was wonderful, terrific. ambassador said that two years ago, the mother and father would have pulled the kids back and stayed well away from the street. have there been any demonstration, it would have been unfavorable. i saw with my own eyes enthusiastic support from the citizens who had been previously terrorists are violent extremists. i believe we have made significant progress. it is a tough match. but to her question -- we have the guys there that we have now here we are going to keep them there for the foreseeable future. it is a situation we analyze constantly. we a

corps by providing the necessary equipment for the young marines to carry out the tasks that our nation requests of them. in all, this bill authorizes $38 billion for navy and marine corps procurement, $19.6 billion for navy and marine corps reserve -- research and development efforts, $3.2 billion for navy and marine corps overseas contingency operations and $401.9 million for maintaining robust fleet. i believe that the balance between quality, capability and affordability is met head on with the bill before the house tonight. the bill provides authorization for the correct number of ships, planes and ground vehicles with the right capability to meet the threat, but with the recognition that unless equipment can be procured affordably, we will never be able to build our fleet or our air wings. that's why working in a bipartisan manner, the subcommittee recommended in the -- and the full committee adopted for the construction of the programs. the world's best destroyer. and multi-year procurement authority to realize significant cost savings in the procurement of f-18 strike

the orioles beating the mariners 3-0 and then the big score of the day, the red sox at fenway park upyankees. big papi in the lineup and producing a two-run home run, his third of the year. quickly keith law, if you were in charge of the red sox, would big papi have been in your lineup tonight? >> they were reaching the point where they had to think about benching him. i guess it worked out for one night. >> this might buy him a little more time as he's under .200. >> major league baseball draft as expected, steve strasburg the number-one pick of the washington nationals. the product out of san diego state above average fastball, great breaking ball, superb control this year, and his strikeout-to-walk ratio was something legends are made of. i guess he's a bit of a, at least some of the scouts speak of him in that tone. joined by keith law to break down the major league baseball draft. everyone expected 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. >> r

as it turns out they did, and the marine unit responded to back them up, and the events in the fall from there. you are talking about the allegation as to whether or not the taliban force people into their homes? i'm going to let them speak to that when they ultimately released the findings of this investigation. >> what were the total civilian casualties? >> again i am going to let them speak to the final numbers but they were greatly outnumbered by the talib k

no brainer the mariners take ackley? >> absolutely. it's the one chance any team has the take an impact position player. center field, above average glove, average or better arm as he continues to recover from elbow surgery. he's going to hit for a lot of average. big question, is he an okay power guy or above average power as he continues to fill out physically. love the swing, love the bat speed. a positive glove in center field. >> the mariners taking your time. you think it's a no-brainer? >> absolutely. >> when that pick happen, we'll bring it live to you right here. just a reminder, a "sportscenter" special tonight, from 9:00 until 10:00 on espn. karl ravech and his crew break down the key picks of the draft and tell you which guys are most likely to make an impact at the major league level. once again, that's 9:00 on espn. still to come, phil mickelson making a surprising stop today on his way to memphis for the st. jude classicment we'll tell you where that stop was coming you where that stop was coming up. i asked for blueberri

it will be game one of a three- game series against the mariners. burgess on will be on the mound against hernandez. coverage begins at 6:30. jim hunter saying so long for the oakland coliseum, this has been a masn presentation. tom davis and rick dempsey and o's xtra. >> the e's complete a three game sweep, and rick, before we get into the orioles we have to talk about vin mazzaro. he hasn't given up a run in two professional games in the major leagues. >> he was 15 and 6 comes into the game and he doesn't strike out a lot of people but he doesn't give up very many runs either and that tells you something about the movement on his fastball and today he shows it. if you were watching the ballgame, you saw a lot of ground ball outs but that movement on the fastball and mixing in the slider and the curveball, he showed me a little something. in fact all of the oakland a aspishers showed me something, all young guys and very up and coming guys that are scary rights now. >> as we look at the recap. this is a one-inning recap when you get down to it for t

the marines went for this boat. the army loved the boat. orders were placed. higgins expanded from a little almost ma-and-pa kind of a factory into an assembly plant. he had four different ones in new orleans, some of them under canvas, 30,000 employees, and he turned out 20,000 of these landing craft in the course of the war. he was just a genius at design and a genius at production. he was a lousy businessman, and he went bust after the war. but he's the man who won the war for us. c-span: now, you're doing something at the ... >> guest: we're building a museum in new orleans, the national d-day museum, on the site where higgins built some of these boats and tested them. it's bigger than just honoring higgins' industry. it's going to honor all of american industry because you've got similar figures. we had no landing craft at all -- none -- in 1940. we had 30,000 in 1944. we virtually didn't have an air force in 1940. by 1944 we were building 8,000 planes a month. some of these were big four-engine bombers. so we want to honor american industry for what it d

i may, in relation to the last topic, so far as president obama not releasing photos, i was in the marine corps, the president is the head guy, the head of the military, he has a responsibility to the troops, and in terms of the cost, one american soldier's life, don't release the photos. there is a responsibility, as i understand about coming clean, make us feel good and all this, but it will cost one american soldier his life, don't release the photos. the problem in the middle east is the israeli/palestinian question. once we take care of that, you cannot deny the right to exist. we have to have a solution. somehow the palestinian woman, the mother of a family can send her family out and not hassled at all in going about their lives, where she can feed her family. >> host: first, the release of photos, to block that, then we will come to the question. >> guest: thanks for your service in the marine corps. there was an allegation that guards at guantanamo, it took 2 we to go through all the data to determine that there was no record of that happening, there were records of detainee's tr

following his career in the marines, the director went on to earn his law degree from the university of virginia law school, he served as a litigator, the u.s. attorney, and acting deputy attorney general for the department of justice. he will speak to us today about a very important topic in the economy generally and to this city in particular, financial crime. director mueller, you have the floor, they give. [applause] [applause] >> thank you all in good afternoon, it is a pleasure to be with you here today. a few months ago the economist magazine and announced plans to build an entertainment venue that in their words which continue the magic of a theme park with the excitement of the macroeconomics. [laughter] among the planned rise or the currency high roller or one could fly like a butterfly with the hero or sink like a stone with a pound. the chamber of horrors where one could travel with your in the face of distressed debt to and leslie my favorite, the fiscal fantasy land where one could

. >> and the birds will be back home tuesday against the mariners. tches the 2-2 and rick, what do you look forward to for bergesen. >> i hope he continued to pitch the way he did in seattle. 7 inning and giving up two earned runs. and other than that, he would have won that ballgame. he'll be up against vargas who pitched a good ballgame at the same time. only went 5 and a third but only gave up two earned runs. so a good matchup to see which one of these guys deserves to win this game. a pitch-off. >> the orioles will be back at camden yards. masn has a brand new reporter and this one absolutely is kind of a unique reporter. he in fact wears an orioles uniform. let's check in with dennis sar funny. >> this is dennis sar font and today we'll be the fashion police on hair-dos. >> i'm standing here by t bone's locker and we have a question, we brought some pictures back from when you played and we were just wondering if there is a possibility of you bringing this hair style back. >> i could bring it back. >> maybe a throwback day. >> he has a nice afro

following his career in the marines, he went on to earn his law degree from new va law school -- the university of virginia law school. he will speak to us today about an important topic in the economy generally and in the city, in particular. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. good afternoon. it is a pleasure. there was a proposed entertainment venue that would combine the fun of a theme park with the excitement of macro economics. one could float like a butterfly with the euro arsenic is still with the pound. one could trouble with the years in the face of distressed deaths, and my favorite, in fiscal fantasy land where one could watch the economy shrank to nothing before their very eyes. it took only a moment to realize this was only an april fool's joke. unfortunately, the chamber of horrors and fiscal fantasylands are not so far from the truth. this is not the first instance of bad business judgment or a metal traded agreed. -- or greed. in an address, the president warned against unscrupulous behavior. he stated that when conditions are such that we can act without supervision

$186 million is provided above the president's request for light weight builds in mississippi for the marineps. in additional funding is not requested to in the future years defense plan nor was it on the 2,009 our 2010 marine corps unfunded , in other words, the marine corps a dozen needed, the department of defense's it is not needed but we are going to spend behind $86 million additionally offer those built in the state of mississippi. $150 million is included for air force aircraft wing kids and installations. davis air force bases in arizona and additional wing kids would be welcome, the additional funds will not request by the administration and i oppose this on her $50 million. it runs in the process by prohibiting the secretary of defense by caring and 2005 decision to discontinue the armed forces institute of pathology. i was very disappointed that the house democrats succeeded in their efforts to strip and the supplemental spending bill the detainee quota provision offered by senators lieberman and gramm. this provision was with the president's efforts to bar the release of photos

escorted and followed by armed forces of the philippines and the marines. so we took this trip into the jungle and as we leave visible elements of civilization, electrical power wires, tv antennas and get into a little bit less opulent villages and isolated developments, young kids, 2, 3, 4, 5 years old running out and waving and applauding and jumping up and down and hollering in their native tongue what i'm told, it's good to see you. this kind of support -- with their moms and dads back nodding approvingly. i saw this with my own eyes and i thought this is wonderful. this is terrific. ambassador kinney said two years ago, mom and dad would have pulled the kids back and they would have stayed well away from the street and if there had been any demonstration it would have been unfavorable. so i saw with my own eyes enthusiastic support from the citizens who had been previously terrorized by violent extremists. i believe we have made significant progress. it's a tough metric back to her question. we've got the guys there that we have there now, tom, we'll ke

number two pick of the seattle mariners. ting comes around to score. carolina up 1-0. acklee says he models his game after pete rose. >> i'll take that a. >> charlie hustle. >> spoken like a mariners fan. he hit .421 with 22 homers, 73 rbis during the regular season. came close to those numbers in this game alone. 5 for 6. three runs batted in. carolina eliminates southern miss 11-4. final game in the coaching career of eagles long time coach, palmer. well, texas and arizona state won their opening round game in the college world series. texas trailed 6-0. in the fourth inning, that's cameron roth. cutting the lead in half. later in the inning, texas down 6-4, belting one through the right side of the infield. pair of runs come around. longhorns tied up at 6. same score in the 7th. ruff, second of the game. 10 unanswered runs for texas in this game. but we also know that this isn't about that. it's about a company that's most of the about a company looking for an undisclosed take ten years ago to deny coverage for a brain tum

speaker, i'm happy to yield at this time to a young man who joined the marine core the day after 9/11, served two tours in iraq and one in afghanistan, the gentleman from california, who is a member of the armed services committee now, one minute. mr. hunter. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. hunter: i thank the ranking member and i'd like to associate i myself with the chairman's remarks on this issue. i think i'm the only one on the floor here who's actually served in afghanistan. i served twice in iraq as a united states marine and i would have to respectfully oppose this amendment. and the reason is this. the best exit strategy is to actually win. that's the best exit strategy. to go in there, win the fight, kill out al qaeda, kill taliban, have the state department work with the local afghan people, then we can leave after we have success over there. that's how we won in iraq. we won in iraq once we stopped worrying about losing. we had the surge, and now we're successful in iraq. that's what we need in afghanistan. the way that we're going to lose afghan

effort on behalf of the united states marines. we have to do our very best to protect america, american vessels, americans that are sailing the ships and particularly the government cargo that's on them. so i applaud mr. cummings for making this substantial step in the right direction in combating tie pi rahcy. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: mr. chairman, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from maryland. mr. cummings: may i inquire how much time we have? the chair: the gentleman from maryland has 15 seconds remaining, the gentleman from california has three minutes remaining. mr. couple k -- mr. cummings: i urge the adoption of this amendment. this is an appropriate way to address this, it is a reasonable way. with that, yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: i yield back. the chair: the question son the amendment offered by the gentleman from maryland.

the individual soldiers and marines, and the navy seals have developed skills that are invaluable, they have proven to be more valuable to the department of defense, in understanding what we are up against, what has been learned out there on the battlefield has been very helpful in terms of preparing us on all of these issues and we know that you take a strong leadership role. we know that there will be battles over funding, but you do a great job with what we provide and i believe that congress recognizes the importance of this role and we recognize what you need to fight the fight. with that i will turn it over to the ranking member. >> i also have a statement for the record, i would like to welcome the admiral, thank you for the hospitality, i had a wonderful chance to visit with you, and we thank you so much for hosting us and we look forward to your testimony. >> atmel? >> good afternoon. thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before the committee to highlight the posture of the special forces command. i would like to thank you for the strong support of this body and we

the search. most importantly mired marine william nevin has documented the likely location of many of the unaccounted for remains. they have used ground penetrating radar to find remains. unfortunately d.o.d. has no plans to do research. i would like to commend a vietnam marine for this issue. the chair: without objection. mr. lipinski: i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from california has seven minutes remaining. and the gentleman from new jersey has 4 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. mckeyon: -- mr. mckeon: we have no further speakers. mr. andrews: it's my pleasure to yield one minute who is the gentlelady of the chair of the water resources subcommittee, the gentlelady from texas, ms. johnson. the chair: the gentlewoman texas is recognized for one minute. ms. johnson: let me thank the leadership of the committee for this fine bill. i have an amendment that requires the department of defense to report on the need for and availability of mental health care services for service members and their families that are stationed overseas. many face depression and post dramatic stress syndrome and are suicid

the marines corps doesn't need it. the department of defense says it's not needed but we are going to spend $186 million additionally for howitzers build in the state of miss. $150 million is included for aircraft wing kits and installations. the air force base in my state of arizona and additional wing kits would be welcomed. the additional funds were not requested by the administration and i oppose this $150 million. it end runs the defense base realignment brac process by prohibiting the secretary of defense from carrying out a 2005 decision to discontinue the armed forces institution of pathology. i was very disappointed that the house democrats succeeded in their efforts to strip from the supplemental spending bill the detainee photo provision offered by senators lieberman and graham. this provision would support the president's efforts to bar the release of past defeign lo tableee abuse and protect the troops from inevitable recrimination the photos insight. releasing the photographs does not supply new informati

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personnel, which i appreciate as a 31-year army national guard veteran representing paris island, the marine corps air station at beaufort, the beaufort naval office in jackson. i want to talk about the department of defense disability veteran and veterans' administration disability pay to a small number of people discharged from the services with less than 20 years service because of injuries sustained while in the service. this section, which is but a ghost of the proposal submitted by president obama, is a small but important step in expanding the population eligible for full concurrent receipt. i am glad some progress is being made. what troubles and disappoints me most, however, is that this bill, which will be attached to the national defense authorization act for 2010, could have done so much more had the democratic leadership of the house made elimination of concurrent receipt and elimination of the widow's tax, a priority from the beginning of congress. instead, we are unable to even debate my amendment at the full committee markup of the defense authorization dealing with concurren

excuse me, of the game, his eighth of the year, the mariners win it 4-1. you see ichiro 1 for 3, ichiro has a personal 14-game hitting streak against the baltimore orioles. more on this game a little later in the show. >> the sacramento kings hired paul westfall as the new coach for two years plus a team option for a third season. the kings offered the job to kurt rambus hours before game three of the nba finals, but rambus passed. westphal has compiled a record. he led the suns to the 1993 nba finals in his first season as a coach in the association, westphal coached five seasons at pepperdine. as a player he played with boston, seat, and the. >> nick:s. >> the orlando magic may just be back. coming up shelly smith a report on the lakers and rachel nichols who is with the magic. phil mickelson makes an emotional return to the pga tour. >> and let's cluster score as we like to say. national league, pirates with a two-run lead over the braves, the pirates three losses in a row, top of the ninth, four outs away from the win. reds-nats in a rain delay, the red

their success in that mission helped the marines capture iwo jima. it contributed to the american victory and it

and the marines responded to back them up and the events evolved from there. you are talking about the allegations that the taliban forced people into their homes. i will let them release that. >> what were the total civilian casualties? >> i will let them speak to those numbers, but they were greatly outnumbered by the taliban. >> after the briefing, did the secretary comment on tightening the ttp's or looking at that? >> again, it ran rather long. and he had to head to another meeting. i think that general mcchrystal who is taking over and spoke at length about this in his confirmation hearing last week. talked about his desire to make sure that we get a better hold of the civilian casualty problem in afghanistan. and i think that the secretary has every confidence that general mcchrystal is precisely the guy to put this in a better place. we have taken a number of measures as you know, to greatly restrict our use of closed-air support as it is. and general mcchrystal is interested in finding a way to further reduce the number of civilian casualties. and i c

to our caller's point, save for your service in the marine corps and the air force. it goes back to how we want -- 2 points. when you are fighting an insurgency, very few of them come about through military victory. this notion that you can throw more troops or tanks or airplanes or ships is a false notion. we are dealing with an adversary that does hide in the shadows, by day runs the tailor shop and by night is planting bombs by the roadside. it is not one where you can just go and force your way through the problem. it has to be on a much more sophisticated approach and some of what general david petraeus and others brought to the surge was not so much the additional troops, we had surges of strokes at the same levels, this is not about proof for this. world war ii or even vietnam, which was a combination of the two because it became a conventional conflict or the first gulf war which was forced on force, more conventional warfare. it is more subtle. the other point i would make is the rules of the engagement our troops operated under was in afghanistan and iraq.

both your command and as impressively the individual soldiers, marines, airmen, and navy seals out there have developed skills that are invaluable not just the special operations command, but have proven to be valuable in the broader department of defence in truly understanding what we're up against and also how to build on alliances out there. what has been learned on the battlefield has been helpful in terms of preparing on all of those issues, and we know special operate command takes a strong leadership role, and our subcommittee is very interested in being supportive and helpful. we know there are inevitable battles over funds, but you always seem to do a very, very good job with what we provide, and i do believe congress has also recognized the importance of this role and has done our best to provide what you need to fight that fight. so we appreciate what you're doing, look forward to hearing your testimony, and with that i will turn it over to the ranking member, mr. miller, for any opening statement he may have. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i would like to say welcome,

we have had service chief level talks with the marine corps and the chief of staff of the army, we are talking about what the challenges are and looking for ways to resolve these challenges. we understand that whether this is a small force for a large force, there needs to be someone to control the air space, and provide the support, to do all the rest of it that it takes, to look after the force that is there, we're helping them to help us by doing the detailed analysis, what we think will have to be left behind by the forces that drawdown, to sustain the activity. we are talking about that with the services. >> can you tell us with the typical rotation cycle is, for the personnel? and how this may be affecting what you feel like you can do, with regard to keeping up with the pace. i want to be concerned about how this is affecting you. >> the service components, they have evolved into the different rotations, with the type of the equipment that they use. this ranges from about 90 days, for some of the aviators, who fly many hours at night on night-vision goggles, burning up their hou

they now have dropped three in are a row after winning the first game of the series against the mariners. here is the vote. matt holliday -- how does he get the votes over dallas braden? but nonetheless, you voted for him. >> when we come back, we'll check on the possible replace. for cesar izturis who was out of the line-up, an appendectomy on the west coast. ?

orioles are trying to make it back to back series wins after dropping two out of thre from the marinersme home stands. the birds right now are 4-4. you have a winning road trip, and the orioles about to go on the road, it's a 6-game interleague road trip, 3 in philadelphia, three in florid, and no dh in the next 6 games, so the os and luke scott looking for a win. gary thorne and jim palmer will have the play by play. rick and i are back with extra post game. orioles and mets, rubber gamet 3, and coming up here, it's a beautiful night for baseball, enjoy the game, everybody, gay and jim are next. we'll see you on the post game show. 

jose lopez and the two-run home run and the mariners snapping the five-game losing streak in baltimore and d-backs. and allowing two hit so far in 4 1/3 innings and a two-run home run in the third is the ninth for the year in san francisco. and the a's are leading the twins 3-2. and cabrera with an rbi, along with suzuki. and liriano on the hill for minnesota. @@úúxx

the corpse wanted to take is oil -- the corporations wanted to take its oil. they hired a guy. a fellow marine. an officer. it overthrew him. that took place under eisenhower. go to blockbuster and rent the movie. look at the history of your country. host: thank you. cambridge, illinois, democrats line. caller: good morning. i have agreed criticism of your former guest, the congressman. i felt he overreacted to a caller. the caller made a connection between corpse and supporters of israel which i probably would not have made. a up the congressman overreacted to the caller. host: thank you. i have to let you go. we're going to the floor. i appreciate you calling. the house today takes up some appropriations actions. the also of homeland security out there this week. they passed war supplemental yesterday. it will move onto other appropriations bill. the senate is in session.

he goes to the mariners. your thoughts on ackley? >> he's a great pick, a safe pick. that's best hitter in the draft without question. squares balls up consistently to all fields. he's really developed his power this year. he's well above average runner. he's really the whole package. the only question is will his arm be healthy enough? can he really make that transition to the outfield? obviously if mariners believe he can or they wouldn't have taken him this high. a guy heading to north carolina to play a couple different sports, great athlete, he goes three. then tony sanchez, catcher from boston college, goes much higher than probably allotted by the scouts. why does he go number four to the pirates? >> that one is the real eyebrow raiser. it's clearly a financially motivated pick. tony sanchez is a good talent, a second or third-round talent according to the general consensus in the northeast this year. he's probably a solid everyday big leaguer in the kelly shoppach mode. good defender, power in his bat, but he can't really hit breaking balls real well. i think h

. >> buck: and if you look at the pitching, but since may 24th the mariners and athletics have the bestmerican league. so they've got the two pitching staffs with a hard time. and the athletics, since may 24th, pitching to a .310 starter e.r.a. seattle is better than that at .231. >> jim: 1-0 on reimold. a high pop up down the rightfield line. a long run for cust. still coming on, and he won't get there. but its foul. good hussle by jack cust. that ball hung up. so reimold will come back with a count of 1-1. mazzaro making his second big league start. and look at that, since may the 24th, the starters only second to seattle. >> buck: and that third team, that's the team that got the whole slump starts sh the detroit tigers with verlander and edwin jackson finishing up the home stand. so they've run into some hot pitching staffs. >> jim: camden fouled it off. the orioles on this trip in the five games have scored only ten runs and four of those came in the loss last night. >> buck: you just can't compete in the american league when you score that few runs. i don't care who you are, you h

lopez's second home run of the game, his eighth of the year, and the mariners win it by a score of 4-1. lopez's third home run in the last three games. the ms have suddenly won five of their last seven, ichiro with a personal 14-game hitting streak against the baltimore orioles. royals and indians in cleveland, gil meche, 4-9 in his career against the tribe, but meche looking good, shin-soo choo, nope, next batter, mark derosa. nope. he's looking. meche 11 ks in seven innings of work. alberto callaspo bases loaded off carl pavano, that is his third of the season, his first since may 5th, and first career grand slam, guillen 2 for 3, he also had a home run as well for meche the 11 ks set a career high. let's check in on the tampa bay rays over the angels, 9-5, pena solo shot, his 18th home run of the year, aybar has added an rbi single and a home run of his own as well. >> meanwhile the phillies and the mets, they're in the bottom of the eighth, and still tied at four. cole hamels trying to get his fifth straight decision, fifth straight win, he gave up four runs and 11 hits, plus the

. >> dodgers lead the mariners 4-1. they're in the bottom of the fourth. l.a. began the game in danger of losing three straight for the first time this season. casey blake hit his 11th home run. he's 2 for 2. blake entering play .342 hitter since manny ramirez was suspended. ichiro 1 for 2 reaching base safely in 53 of his last 54 games. >> angels and d'backs, angels put up an eight-spot in the second inning, most runs they've scored in any inning this season. now lead arizona 9-3. billy buckner gave up eight earned and 7 hits in 1 2/3 innings. the angels right now in good shape, up 9-3 in the fifth inning. torii hunter a two-run home run for the angels. >> start of a nine-game home stand for the rangers. the padres in town for three. bottom four, rangers up 9-1. hank blalock, get outta here. his 14th of the season. texas goes on to win 12-3. padres have lost 13 of their last 15 interleague road games. >>> nhl draft, the islanders took center john tavares with the first pick friday. tavares led the ontario hockey league with 58 goals this season. he also broke

the son when he deploys. yesterday andy's father, retired marine daris long read the following letter to his son. he had these ideas in mind to give to his son and put them down in writing. the letter was placed in the casket yesterday at the funeral. this is the letter that he wrote to his son. dear andy, let me start by telling you how proud your mother and i are of you in your choice to serve this conterrorism the profession of arms is not an easy job. it's not 9 to 5. you won't often get a choice to do what you want when, you want to do something, or voice your opinions. you took an oath to support the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same. that means a lot in my mind it means whatever your personal feelings are, you may have to put them aside because you don't get to decide who you are going to protect. you protect the rights of all. a war of 1812 naval hero once toasted the country with this. my country right or wrong, first my contry. that statement was often quoted out of context by my generation at the en

and then i served in the marine corps in vietnam. my older brothers served in the army rangers. his wife also was in the mountain division. my younger brother served in the navy for ten years and his daughter stacy was nominated twice as military photographer for the year in iraq. so we do have a history with this. and i would like to say to all the people out there, honor the veterans. because if it wasn't for them, they wouldn't be able to enjoy the benefits that they have today. host: thank you very much for your call. our next call comes from new york city, as we look at prime minister harper from canada. he is also speaking french. we are going to continue to take calls in english. caller: i enlisted in the navy because i didn't want to go to the army because i didn't want to go to europe because i had relatives over in germany. i know i didn't have no relatives in japan but i would have went wherever they sent me but they sent me to the pacific and i put three years in there. it's a very emotional day for me. host: joseph, thank you very much for your call. we are going to

. >> rob: he was hurt the whole year with the mariners in '07 and they let him go in october. >> johnny a called third strike on the outside part of the plate.   ryan zimmerman heads to  plate now. and, in the past, some pretty good selections here, rob, of buys that the nationals drafted leading with detwiler just two years ago, jordan zimmermann two years ago, ryan was first in '05, lannan, stammen and bergmann also draft picks by this ball game club. >> rob: now zimmerman, jordan zimmermann was the compensation pick for soriano, so that was well-done there. detwiler sixth pick overall in '07. always nice when you draft guys high and they do well. i talked to former orioles general manager ... and he said that very high draft picks pretty much 50:50, 52% make it. so it's not an exact science, it's very difficult to project young men, a lot of them high school kids, to the major leagues three, four years down the road. it's definitely a gift that these scouts have, these evaluate orszagh have. >> johnny: i think when you're talking about mike ri

galileo was and of course the only one to look at the marin. ay have been the first one to use a telescope but the book on this side of the table is from the 19th century, when telescopes' had improved a lot, and there were two scientists in england who published this book on the moon, based on their observations with the telescope. but although they could photograph the moon, they couldn't take a detailed observations with their telescope and photography, so they made a model based on their observations with the telescope and then made photographs of those observations. so this is the fault of copernicus named after the author we start with with very detailed observations that look like they are actual photographs of the moon but in fact photographs -- the book behind it is the same century as galileo. this is isaac newton's famous principia known by the third word of the title of the full title is mathematical principles of natural philosophy. and this is a book represents newtons idea of universal gratification or his three laws of motion peo

are the people on the front lines of our defense, not the army, not the navy, not the air force, the marine or the coast guard. it's the foreign service that lives always full time out in the ugly and dangerous parts of the world representing our interests, building alliances, monitoring and reporting on events that may affect our security and helping to diffuse crisis and tensions before they sometimes burst into armed conflict or war. there is a simple reason both secretary of defense gates and admiral mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, repeatedly insisted on rebuilding and strengthening the state department. it will save the lives of the people for whom they are responsible. it will allow the armed services to avoid conflict and allow them to focus on security and negotiations not governance -- focus on security, not negotiations and not governance. this is about our national security. it's about the safety of this nation and our ability to protect and advance our interests around the world. military power is essential. the united states would not be the country that it i

last game against the mariners. threw the ball great a couple of hanging sliders. again, bergesen has been good. hill from time to time has been very good for the starting staff. berken will pitch in this series. he's been good sometimes. he's a young pitcher just up to the big leagues. bottom line, you want to het help your bullpen. the bullpen has been terrific over last two weeks. if you're jeremy guthrie, thief they've got 19 runs last two games. hope you get some of those runs tonight. >> gary: up against a team that's hurting literally with a lot of injuries. maybe the right time to take on this club even though there are a couple in the lineup who are still red-hot. we'll be back. it's the mets-o's from camden next. and they're getting in the way of things i'd like to do. with the money bar, i can move my money around instantly, so when there's more bills than usual, it's no problem. and i use the wish list to put any extra money aside for anything i want. being in control of my money feels good. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high-definition, on

. >> jim: it will be interesting to see the hamstring problems, his last start against the mariners, probably not a litmus test of his abilities as a pitcher because of the rain delay. pitched very well, came back and then struggled. >> gary: that one looped to second base, roberts has got it. there's the first out of the ballgame. >> well, in koji's last start dave trembley really paid attention to his pitch count, but he said he's not going to do that tonight. instead, he's going to focus on how hard koji is work to go get batters out. he said koji is master of deception. he said when the batters are a little late, that's when he knows koji is still on his game. but when that's not happening, that's when it's time for him to come out. >> gary: and here is fernando martinez, he's playing in left field, a 1 for 4 in the ballgame last night. one of the youngsters -- youngsters on the mets getting time. uehara, age 34 a. starter for most of his career in japan, but the last two seasons was a reliever. and so he's not used to putting in the innings or throwing the number of pitches that'