angels are in arlington for a series with the rangers. at stake, first place in the american league west. >> and the mets trying to put a weekend sweep at the hands of the yankees behind them. their reward, a date with the first place brewers and we have plenty more from wimbledon. the williams sisters have their sights on another family final. highlights from their matches straight ahead. and now that blake griffin is officially a west >> he was the number one overall pick by the clippers and on monday blake griffin was introduced to a nun of his newest admirers and fans. only the third number one pick in franchise history, he'll be called on early and often. >> i'm not nervous, i'm excited about it. >> with that comes responsibility, and it's something that i embrace, it will make me work harder and even more focused, so it's something that i welcome and i'm really looking forward to it. >> the past two weeks have been crazy. it's been a whirlwind but it's part of the process. it's a lot of fun and it's something i'll never get to exper

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they have been making cars and trucks in arlington, texas are over 50 years. i've got dealers all over my district about a dozen of which have received closure or termination or failure to renew notices. and i met yesterday with the president of gm north america and also the president of chrysler. and i see the management side of this, the manufacturing of the business side of it. it's a different era and we have to make tough decisions to keep u.s. nameplate manufacturing cars and trucks in america. i understand that. in but there is another side -- there is a human side. a dealer side and we are going to hear from mr. frank that is from a water taxi, texas. he is a fourth generation gm dealer and i think a second generation the jeep dealer. his grandfather started selling chevrolet in texas in 1926. he made it to the great depression, he made it his family -- his family minute through world war ii when you have quotas, they made it to the boom years of the '50s, they made it through the gas rationing of the '70s. boom or bust and there has been blank and tac

today under the morning sky at arlington cemetery, myself and other members of congress, rob witman from virginia, jo bonner from alabama and senator sessions from alabama, joined several other hundred members of family and friends as a 21-gun salute and "taps" was played for the united states air force lieutenant clon, mark e. straten ii. the somber silence of the gravesites were broken with this tribute. colonel straten was trained as a navigator on an air force k.c. 135. in his honor, one of thighs massive aircraft flew low and slow over arlington cemetery, over the flag-draped coffin of one of air force's finest. i gave his life helping the afghan people to know dignity of a life lived in freedom. he was assigned to the joint staff at the pentagon here in washington, d.c., and he served as the commander of the pan share provincial reconstruction team in afghanistan. on may 26, 2009, mark died at bagram air field of wounds that he sustained from an improvised explosive device, what we call an i.e.d. mark had strong texas ties. he graduated from texas a&m university in december of 1991

host: arlington, virginia on the phone. go ahead.caller: the size of ahmadinejad's victory, probably means -- unless it's a whole sale froud, that he won a substantial victory. the problem is that the reporters kind of go up into north taran, which is a more up scale part of the city. it's a hotbed of the area. there weren't too many reports from around the country, which is a little disturbing in it self. if we see these large numbers of people turning out, we think maybe the option really does have the majority. maybe they don't. it might be because we have focused on one small part of the country. we'll see. it would have been nicer if the united states had been a little more forth coming in the election in kenya where there was a lot of evidence of fraud. it happened to benefit somebody we liked but we didn't do too much about it. hopefully, the people will begin to see the honesty of the elections as something worthwhile in it self and the just if i indications of any government and the size of the victory if it is seen as not h

our first call from arlington, virginia. caller: thank you very much. i wanted to just say, number one, that i was delighted that you were playing president sarkozy live. i lived in france. i'm just sorry for the americans listening to this that there was no translation because it was extremely touching to pay tribute. >> tell us about what he said. >> he talked about. he went through a tribute to the canadians and what they had done. he said for the canadians there was no need for them, their land wasn't in danger. there was no need to be taken overtaken fwi germans. but he also spoke about the fear that these young 20-year-old soldiers must have imagined when they were coming to shore and to see the huge guns facing down. he said they realized that they either had to fight to kill or to be killed. and he said imagine what these young sons of farmers and the young sons of factory workers must have felt in a situation like that when they were just 20 years old. and he talked about the broad expanse of the beaches. and he said at that time it was impossi

sending it to a black unit in washington i noted that, and these people are all involved with the arlington cemetery funding. that action taken 400,000 out of an account and laundered it back and forth of accounts that we were working on. we finally end up closing the museum. then we come to even more contemporary things where we had a hearing by the senate judiciary committee a few days ago and we had an fbi agents that was testifying. he was anonymously testifying with a screen to make sure we did not know we was he had people with him who were experts. of the three people, one of them was jeffrey, the director of the center for terrorism law. but because of my investigative pageant, i noticed that he was on the corporate papers for one of these groups that were suing me. he was one of the board members suing me and sarah mclendon. when you listen to his testimony, he knows about the museum. he knows about the hidden agendas. he thinks it is enhanced interrogation, and it is fine with him. it appeared to me that the enhanced to judicial proceedings were also okay with him this is somethin

he was a number one pick by jays back in '97 out of bowie high school, arlington, texas. pretty good career. >> rob: there's a little history. >> bob: these two have a history. don't they? >> rob: yeah, 7-16 with a home run. >> bob: wells helps by swinging at ball two. >> rob: watch how that pitch inside on the northrop grumman. watch this. that was all setup by the inside pitch. >> bob: when you can read his jersey during the swing -- >> rob: yeah. >> bob: 2-2 here. dangerous hitter. >> rob: vernon has litup the nationals well. >> bob: i think i remember him wearing our guys out in those two series in toronto. '06 and '07. count 2 2-7b -- 2-2 with the bases empty and two outs. frick and frack. they don't do much when toronto is batting, do they? 2-2. got him on a hard sinker down and away! wells slamming his bat and helmet into the dirt. seventh inning stretchtime at nationals park in our nation's capital. these guys are supposed to be impartial. and lower both your numbers. but how close are you to your goals? there may be more you can do. only caduet combines two prove

arlington little league, centro neosho, center city schools, children's cancer foundation, d.c. rbi, the everybody wins program, hispanic scholarship funds, living classrooms foundation, the diabetes center, rebuilding together programs, and the tyler elementary school partnership fund. that is just a partial list of the grants that are foundation had given out in the last year or two. in addition, the steps we do with our players and with their coaches and managers in the neighborhood is extremely important. this year alone we will give out between 50,060 thousand tickets to d.c. kids. we will hold six free clinics, baseball and softball at our ballparks. we had six different drives for different things. every month we choose another cause to get behind. this is jim. we are working with the american cancer society. i can go on and on. we originally went through hundreds of programs. my favorite is a new one. we tried to kick it off on a small base. we've been able to grant it up. this is the d.c. high school initiative. it is one of the few things have been able to get the mayo

host: here is bob on the independent line from arlington.aller: yes, i think we definitely need a public auction. i would prefer single-payer. i do not know what value insurance companies add to health care. we know that medicare which is currently a public auction for our retirees, the administrative costs to administer health care, about 3% per year. the administrative cost for private companies range anywhere from 20% up to 30%. gee, why do we need to spend that much administratively? when we can do it at 3%? we are already over-pain because we know that our international competitors spend much less for health care and get better results. our health-care system is so dysfunctional it is probably the biggest waste in tax and a job destroyer in our economy. i think the president is right on track. hopefully, this will be a way to get the single-payer. thank you. host: thank you, our next call is from richard on the republican line from new york. caller: i was just wondering, there were saying, the people in congress do not come under this n

and sojourner truth went with the officer she was working with in arlington heights.o they went in -- or tried to get in on two different occasions and douglass made a fuss and the congressman saw him and went over and prevailed upon the guards and lincoln, by the way, to let him in. with sojourner and the officer, he said if she can't go in, i can't go in. and so he turned on his heels with her and left. so it was racism because apparently the rule was that no people of color were ever to be allowed at washington receptions. so dougass got in because he was confrontational and there was someone in the inauguration reception and saw him and recognized him and prevailed upon lincoln. >> was her first language dutch? >> yes. >> she had a belief to celebrate a particular day of the week as a holy day was, quite frankly, nonsense. that everyday ought to be a holy day. and that there was no reason to have sunday, a day in which people would set aside. and it's a long story about this. but that's basically how it began. >> please come to the microphone. >> i just wondered a

what has gone wrong in arlington? >> we didn't know if their pitching would last. when they started getting hot, you didn't know how their pitching would, but we thought their offense would. that to me is their biggest problem. they don't get on base like they have. they're 25th in on-base percentage, 28th in strikeouts, 27th in walks in all of baseball. so what they had last year with josh hamilton, milton bradley, guys who would work counts, guys who would make pitchers go deep, now they're just up there swinging. you wouldn't see the best hitting coach in baseball would have a team that is just a bunch of free swingers without any concept or any idea of how the approach an at-bat. but right now that's what they are. they need to go back to the basics and start taking pitch, working counts, getting into hitter's counts and walking a little bit and then hitting the home run. >> you know it because you lived it. it is so hard to determine and weigh in, in this long season that is a baseball season of finding out if an issue is serious or not. then we have the yanke

mark calling from arlington, massachusetts. caller: thank you, c-span, for taking my call. i just had comment specifically about iraq and the press. a lot of people like myself think the best way to support the troops is to bring them back home in the deity. ron paul is the only candidate running for president used that as a promise as elected. neither afghanistan or iraq pose any threat, military or economic, to the united states. there are a lot of people who feel we should of been out there a long time ago. that being said, supporting the troops also when they come back home, to make sure that they have hospitals, therapy, all kinds of help that they need. the highest suicide rate per soldier of any war. but going back to the beginning of the war -- and i think "newsweek" was very fair, but i think the press, the fourth estate really fell asleep at the wheel. the wheat now see that these were not miscalculations on mistakes of intelligence but calculated lies to get us into the war from the bush-cheney administration. guest: well, i think that the debate over the pre-war

and arlington under the oversight of the army. then we have a v.a. cemetery in san diego under the national shrine program. excellent. but what happened when i complained about let's get rid of the weeds around the stones. they took a weed whacker and now we have dirt all around the stones. that is not the shrine program that we're talking about. mr. dicks: would the gentleman yield? i would like to thank you for bringing this issue to light and i would be happy to work with you to improve the standards of these cemeteries. i agree we must improve these cemeteries to ensure that our appreciation for our veterans' sacrifices is appropriately expressed by maintaining their final resting place to the highest standards. the national park service is taking steps towards better maintenance of the cemeteries. the national office of the park service is assembling a team with expertise in cultural resource preservation and maintainance. this team will conduct a review of these two active cemeteries and make recommendations to the national office regarding app

i was in the press club here, i saw a diamond-shaped picture of a cold, icy, windy day at arlington national cemetery, and a woman stood alone with her back to the viewer, standing at a tombstone. and there was no one else in the cemetery and the wind was blowing, her clothes were out ott side. it was the loneliest thing i'd ever seen. the title was simply "the widow." i understand that private long was not yet married but i'm sure there was someone out there who loved him, i know his parents loved him, the family has faced a loss none of us can imagine. as we salute private long, i also think it's in order to salute his family who have paid such a high price so we can stand here in this chamber and talk about freedom with. that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona yields back. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: how much time do i have left, mr. speaker? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york has 10 1/2 minutes. mr. nadler: i won't take that, but i yield myself the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is re

i think what a lot of people are asking me about when i was home in arlington and fossil and out in my district they're saying, if medicare is going broke by 2017, and we're going to just expand and add all these people into a government-run system and we can't get access to providers now, when the government runs the system, which you know is a big deal in rural areas, they're saying, how does the new government-run plan going to hold down costs? and how is it going to expand? how are we going to pay for this is the underlying issue here. the estimates they are just saying, you talked about health insurance could cost us, you know or health coverage, $4 trillion. this plan alone, i think, some estimates are that. so people at home are really struggling with the dollar amounts here. >> congressman, the plan, again, that at least the payments side that the administration has put forward not only saves dollars through medicare but helps to expand the life expectancy of the medicare trust fund and lower overall costs in the part b premium for the beneficiaries who are currently paying, as

unsolicited ads for airline tickets to the dallas-fort worth area or hotels also in my district in arlington, texas. it's obvious that people track what i do and where i go. and try to take advantage of that. fortunately, technology has come quite a ways in protecting individuals. we started looking at the spy wear problem back in the 107th congress. and thanks to the work of among others congressman mariano mac, ed towns, chairman dingle, those spy wear infections are not near the problem that they used to be. however, today companies continue to gather, maintain and use data to a variety of technological methods. some of those companies such as verizon and comcast are large companies. they're regulated in some parts of their business model. and i think they are trying to act appropriately. there are other companies, so-called isp low cadeers, that we don't -- locaters that i personally don't even know their name. then you have the in between companies, the so-called edge companies like yahoo! and google. put together, it still is a little bit of a wild west out there. and i think it's time

did he live in arlington, va.? >> guest: that's where he lived, 111 army-navy drive. that's it. he is a great man. c-span: i saw an article about him a couple of months ago, or maybe a year ago, about george marshall. >> guest: he did a four-volume "life of george marshall," which is one of the classic american biographies. forrest had exclusive interviews with marshall that stretched over a 10-year period, and that's awfully good. c-span: go back to general eisenhower. what was he like to know? >> guest: he was without any question the most impressive man i've ever met. monty once said of eisenhower, "he has but to smile at you and you trust him at once," and i certainly had that experience of eisenhower. monty said, "he has the power of drawing the hearts of men toward him as the magnet attracts the bits of metal." he was wonderfully concerned; he was marvelously concentrated. i was just a kid. i was 30 years old when i was interviewing him. i'd walk in to interview him, and his eyes would lock on mine and i would be there for three hours and they never left my eyes. and he ta