on at second base with two down now is baker.your difference, buck, with the national league game. if anyone gets on ahead of the pitcher, instant sacrifice situation. >> buck: you just don't want him swing away with the risk of hitting into a double play. i don't care where it is, how many outs there are, you're going to bunt it more often than not it here is -- >> jim: here is chris coghlan who got it going in the first inning drawing a leadoff walk. he's now walked 24 times on the year. berken misses low. coghlan last year was in double- a ball. he made an impression in spring training and now getting a chance to play. as buck mentioned, they even switched his position to get his bat in the lineup. this is low again. ball two. this is only berken's second start away from oriole park this year just a coincidence of the schedule. baker, the catcher, leads from second base. four starts at home, and his e.r.a. at home, 4.30. it's one start on the road. he'd rather forget. nine earned runs in just 3 1/3 innings at oakland. this is

. -- kevin baker is saying. you talk about politicians and the belt way and how everything is being manipulated and the lobbyists. that is true. but there is a huge factor that obama mobilized during the campaign, but he is not mobilizing right now. it is supposed to be the dnc that is mobilizing us, getting us to get out there. it wasn't personalities that got obama elected. it helped every now and then to get an endorsement, but it was organization and education. i am doing phone banking for the health clear path -- plan. i add things that the dnc did not tell us to. i looked up my representatives and senators stands and i tell them and they are shocked. for all of this going back and forth about who is on and who is off, they just don't know. guest: that is a very good point. apart from obama or the dnc, we have to be mobilizing our self. i don't think the american people -- our passivity is frightening. we have to be out there fighting about their representatives are saying and doing and holding their feet t

baker had to wait. that ball bounced by him for a single. and then baker continued to second base, so there is another pinch hit for ross gload. he now has eight. >> buck: aubrey huff may have had a chance for this ball, but he reads it as being too far away from him. it was kind of in between he and brian roberts. roberts had no chance to make a play. aubrey might have had a chance to knock it down if he goes another step or two to his right. >> jim: so now the lineup turns over. back oh the top. here is chris coghlan. baez falls behind 1-0. so andrew miller goes seven innings. one run on one hit. four base runners off miller. two walks, a hit and an error. >> buck: the first and only hit was to the first batter he faced. nothing after that. >> jim: there is a strike. >> buck: what is more impressive is he is a left- hander and the orioles faced three left-handers in philadelphia and handled them off, including cole hamels on sunday. >> jim: the lead runner is baker the, the catcher, and gload is the trail runner at first. another one in th

he was behind home plate with baker and he was squatting down along with baker almost as if he was the umpire because he wanted to look at the mechanics of the throws. it was interesting to watch. baker is looking very hard at it under the mid-afternoon heat. high fly ball to center field. jones has a play. back pedaling now. he has it for the out and the inning ends. so, hendrickson comes on and gets the final two outs as the sun sets in florida. the marlins had a run -- add a run. (announcer) you do have health insurance don't you? if you don't, now you're in luck. carefirst bluecross blueshield can cover you for as little as $75 a month. depending on the plan you choose. just call us at the number on your screen for the plan that's right for you. carefirst bluecross blueshield lets you customize coverage so you have an individual plan that suits you best. select a ppo or an hmo, add vision or dental-- you can design a plan that fits your budget and protects you even as your life changes. call us at the number on your screen and get this free information kit. when it comes to protect

john baker. easily as cody ross who has only three steals on the year. the marlins have 38 steals as a club. there is a strike. baker grounded out to second his first at-bat. aubrey huff holding the bag. none down. fouled back out of play. uggla has hit 90 home runs over the last three years, and now has 14 this year what a weapon, a second baseman that hits for that kind of power. >> buck: it really turned around, i guess you can say it started with joe morgan and carried on to jeff kent and ryne sandberg and morgan and sandberg, of course rhall of famers, but second base has become a pretty good, an important power position. >> jim: and that is a little low. >> buck: certainly aaron hill in front is one of those run producers when you think about what he can do toffly, but add in the power and the pop he has hitting as a second baseman. >> jim: uehara steps off. the infield is looking for a ground ball to turn two. and that splitter is low and he lays off, does baker, 2-2. >> buck: now the marlins are a little more patient with uehara the second time t

nice block there by wieters on the pitch in the dirt to baker. after the orioles scored two to get back in it, hendrickson hoping to keep the marlins off the bird, but three straight hits. hermida was tagged out and now two in scoring position with two down. ball two. >> mark: now you -- >> buck: now you see matt albers loosening up. there are a lot of wheels spinning in both dugouts now. the pitcher is the scheduled batter on deck. you have a base open. you're trying to protect a one- run lead and you're behind now two balls and no strikes. you don't have to give into this hitter even though it's left yes own lefty. >> jim: hendrickson stays from the stretch. time called at the plate by the home plate umpire chad fairchild. >> buck: what happens here is baker reads -- he will be pinch- hit for. >> jim: that's low, ball three. hendrickson got cantu for the first out. since then, hermida doubled, uggla singled with hermida being gunned down at the plate and another double by cody ross on a ball hit to the deepest part of the ballpark. there's a st

the catcher is left-handed hitting john baker.he infield has committed 32 errors when you factor in three behind the plate for baker. >> jim: there is fredi gonzalez, the skipper of the florida marlins doing a fine job down here as the marlins with a win tonight would get back to .500. they're at 35-36. to give you an idea of the differences, a.l. east versus n.l. east, the marlins are a game below .500 and they're only three games it of first place. >> buck: it is going to be a real log jam in the national east as there are no real clear cut favorites. even the reigning world champs are struggling there. >> jim: the fastball is in for a strike and we're underway in miami. brian's bat has come alive, especially over the weekend in philadelphia. he looks at a fastball wide to the plate. 1-1 the count. >> buck: he did a heck of a job. he had a career high tying four rbi's on saturday including the two-run game-winning home run in the ninth inning. >> jim: base hit down the left- field line and pass the dive of emilio boniface where

back to a full count now on the catcher john baker. this is a huge batter because the pitcher is on deck. if berken can get baker, nolasco would come up and infield could move back to normal depth. 3-2, called strike three! fastball on the outside corner. >> buck: you can't let that happen if you're a hitter. you have got to protect the strike zone. the infield is drawn in, and baker just couldn't pull the trigger. i don't know what he was looking for. you can see on the pitch track, that catches the outside corner. moving fastball away. that's exactly the pitch you want in that situation. something away from you that you can drive to the outfield. >> jim: now ross at third with two down. here is the pitcher nolasco. he swings through it, 0-1. nolasco laid down a sacrifice bunt his last at-bat. >> jim: he went too far on that check swing. 0-2. josh smith. >> buck: pitcher can't check his swing. as you can see, he went well beyond the plane of that plate. offered at the pitch. >> jim: just outside. 1-2. florida is playing some pretty go

host: our guest is kevin baker from harper's magazine. you can send us your tweaked yourtweet. virginia, go ahead. caller: i read everything you sat down. thank you very much for your wonderful riding. --writing. i was listening to my congressman, and he was complaining about where are we going to get money from when it comes to education? this baffles me because these are the same guys we are spending billions of dollars in iraq. where are we going to get the money to spend in iraq? at the end of this war, we are going to pay over two trillion dollars. no one seems to have any concern for that. when it comes to the american people, we have to think about where we are going to spend money. host: response? guest: i agree with that very much. i was interested in mr. davis's response, work harder and good luck. people unable to get health- care. it seems to be the solution of the republicans in general. there is a ridiculous contradictory thing going on. the consequences of the policies of the last eight years were horrendously expensive. we need to avoid from them. we are also no

baker, 10-53 this year. and that's another by product of a young pitching staff. >> rob: in elijah's case, too, he's work on stuff. he was an excellent base steal her in his day when i played against him. you have to separate the game from work on stuff and trying to pickup certain things off a pitcher and there's marquis grissom. sometimes you're thinking a little too much. he's got to get out there and just execute, let it happen. elijah is way too good of an athlete to be 2-9 in stolen bases. >> bob: elijah is very fast once he gets going. part of the stealing bases art is getting that jump and exploding towards second base. >> rob: i wouldn't mind bringing ricky henderson in here. work with the outfielders, the base stealers. >> bob: two balls, two strikes to wil nieves. anybody on our ball club have a relationship with him? >> rob: i'll call him. ricky, you working? you want to do something? he's a good man. he was working with the mets for a little bit. >> bob: wil nieves jacks one way foul. don't ever

the the report that was issued by former colleague and former leaders bob dole, tom daschle, howard baker, george mitchell until he became special envoy, called really crossing the divide, i believe. and many of our recommendations you'll see follows their outline promoting high quality and high value. i'll refer to that later on in the debate. but i think everybody would really like to read how we could get to solutions on a bipartisan basis and there is a fairly agreed upon consensus in the area of quality. but let me move on now to the hard work of the day. the first thing i'd like to do is offer two technical amendments and i seek unanimous consent to adopt the mikulski technical amendment and the dodd technical amendment. my understanding, it's been reviewed by the staff. these incorporate technical -- limited technical clarifications to title 1, they don't affect substantive policy. they are like editing typos. there is noticeable clarification, includes includes corrections to the definitions of a patient-centered medical home. it includes senator dodd's clarification regarding evi

excuse me, one-out base hit for john baker. now, the pinch-hitter, wes helms, will step in.  >> jim: the second pinc used tonight by fredi gonzalez. it's the veteran wes helms. pitch in the dirt scooped by wieters. 1-0. >> buck: wes helms has been a good good pinch-hitter for fredi gonzalez. 7-20 as a pinch-hitter. >> jim: helms 33 years old. he and ross gload each 33. they're the elder statesmen of the position players on this team. both sfeans season veterans. they come off the bench. helms is in his 11th season and it's his second stint as a marlin. he came up with the braves. went to milwaukee. came to florida. then he wept to the phillies for a year and then came back to florida. >> buck: ease paille played third base. he's played first base. kind of a pretty consistent, productive bat off the bench. >> jim: slowly hit towards shortstop. andino has one play to first. he gets it there to get wes helms. two men down. runners advance. ross to third and baker to second. that will turn the lineup over again. a

that was a 70 miles an hour frisbee. >> johnny: dusty baker back to the mound again. the reds skipper. and daniel ray herrera has some struggles and can't get the job done. nats with golden opportunity. ú

manny acta and dusty baker meeting at home plate.re going to play baseball momentarily after this long rain delay. today was a great day in baseball history because stephen strasburg was the first pick by the washington nationals. earlier our own debbie taylor had a chance to catch up with acting general manager mike rucinsky oh. >> thank you johnny. how thrilled are you, mike, to have stephen strasburg on your team. >> we're excited to be able to draft a guy like stephen strasburg, a great physical sized pitcher who has great credentials and we're happy to have him. >> you also add the premier college closer in drew store storen. >> i love his get after it, and the package to pitch at the bag end of a ball game. >> what impact can these two players have on the organization and how soon? >> they are both quick to the beg leagues guys, as we phrase it, there is a lot of things thatting into it, developmental time, but they are college pitchers from great college programs and both throw strikes with good stuff so we expect them on a fa

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the ball knocked down by john baker. brian, 1-2, and he has also walked. here is andino at third and salazar at first and still nobody on. >> buck: brian has hit two bleats leer tonight. he lined out right at the left fielder in the second inning and he walked in the sixth. >> jim: inside, ball two. brian roberts has a tremendous batting eye, even when he is down in the count, buck. he rarely chases. if you're going to try to make him chase, you're making a terrible mistake. the confidence, even went down in the count. >> buck: we saw that on display saturday night when he hit a two strike, two out two-run home run against ryan madson to give the orioles that win. >> jim: 2-2 on him. ground ball foul down the third- base line. >> buck: one thing that is different about this team and i know it is a mini five-game win streak, but there is no give-up in their approach. hey, you win two games against the phillies, that is a nice series and that wasn't the case sunday against cole hamels. it would have been very easy to mail in your effort and say, hey, we just

and the worst of them, the biggest racist there, houston baker, is a black professor, carl holloway is another one, houston baker even sent an e-mail to the mother of one of these students after he was exonerated, attacking her as the mother of a farm animal. houston baker was making undoubtedly -- well, i know he was making six figure income, probably $200,000, $300,000, went on to a better job at vanderbilt as a private university, the board of regents is controlled by conservatives. the conservative regents at duke protected, protected the accuser and protected the lynching. they supported it. why? because of duke's good name. you get rid of the white racist. there's -- conservatives have efor must leverage over these universities, because they are the biggest contributors, because there are whole legislatures, which are run by republicans. but that's what i said earlier. there is no academic reform movement, there are few isolated groups. most of which take a distance from me, because i've been so attacked. but you know, they're good people, and i'm sorry, we can't mention them now

so, john baker threw to try to get the trail runner and he did. pie even not being held did not get a very good jump. >> buck: i don't think he saw brian brake. brian has a hesitation and then took off a second time. watch pie at first base. in fact, did he brake on time. he just didn't get a very good jump. he he tries to avoid the tag of ramirez, but he is gunned down at second base. brian roberts does not get a steal as they throw out pie at second base. >> jim: so, roberts is at third with one counsel down. last night in this situation, roberts got to third with none down. markakis drove him in with a sac fly. marlins are playing back. they'll give up the run for an out. there's a pitch at the knees for a strike. 2-1 on nick markakis. pie caught trying to steal. may have taken them out on what could have been a big inning. 2-1 on markakis. that's a bouncer foul down the right-field line. >> buck: you certainly need to take advantage of this opportunity with a third base runner less than two outs. nick markakis, head's up night last night outsi

baker, dole and daschle. serious problems deserve serious efforts by serious legislators to develop serious solutions. it's time to get serious about fixing our health care. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time be reserved. under the previous order, there will now be a period of morning business for one hour with the senators permitted to speak up to ten minutes each, with the time equally divided and controlled between two leaders or their designees, with the majority controlling the first half, the republicans controlling the second and the final half. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. menendez: madam president, this february congress passed, and the president signed, a historic recovery package setting the stage for the creation of 3.5 million jobs and making critical investments to strengthen the 21st century economy. now, we all agree that that legislation hasn't ended the most serious economic crisis since the great depres

you " richard baker, former member of the house. in that analogy, of the fried chicken analogies -- those also fall under government regulations in terms of food standards. so, what is his point? guest: essentially, anyone as a hedge fund manager says, look, we did not necessarily cause this. but mr. baker is saying is the hedge funds have largely survived or even thrive. their fear is that having all the information available will essentially cut off business. hedge funds operate on a scientific methodology. the ability for all others to see their secrets they think will severely restrict their ability to make money. host: is the accountability of regulator is really important, doesn't this imply full disclosure? what did the regulator know and when? guest: absolutely. in terms of hedge funds you will likely see them find their way into the legislation passed by the end of the year -- at least some form of registration. there will probably have to give information to a particular rate good. intermission that would never become publ

this is bush number one and james baker. it had been thought up until a couple months ago that bush and baker promised not to expand nato to the eastern european former soviet satellites but there was the first careful study of the original documents came out by mark kramer, a cold war historian. he believes that he's refuting charges of u.s. duplicity but, in fact, what he shows is that it's much more cynical than what had been assumed. itfn turns out that bush and r promised gorbachev that nato wouldn't even fully extend to east germany. i quote them, they told gorbachev no nato forces would ever be deployed on the territory of the former german g.d.r., east germany. nato forces would not move eastward. they also assured gorbachev that nato would be transforming itself into a more political organization. well, there's no need to comment on that promise. but what follows tell us a lot more about the cold war and its aftermath. right after that clinton came into office and one of the first be expansion of nato to the east

dusty baker making some decisions and switches. putting pitchers in to get matchups and we were better than they were today. again it was a matter of great pitching by john lannan. how about the way he pitches. it is so tough to go out there every day. he did the same thing last year when it seemed in his last outing he had the least run support of anybody in the game of baseball and still not getting much run support. he pitched a great game. tavarez comes in and two great innings. pitching has righted itself. get the offense rolling. defense was pretty solid. >> byron: we will head out to rob dibble in the booth who called the game. rob, the bullpen has certainly done a great job and they come through in the clutch. >> rob: the whole team has been playing very well. i was listening to what you said after last night's game about these are some very well played games. it will come down to these one-run contests and the bullpen has picked it up. julian tavarez has not pitched a lot lately. wonderful today going after the reds in the

kevin baker, contributing editor for "harpers magazine" discusses his cover story about barack obama. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> up next, president obama's remarks at the radio and television correspondents dinner. then, former president bill clinton and steny hoyer at a business dinner. after that, another chance to see it the conversation with columnist george will. >> this week on "newsmakers," congressman pete stark discusses legislation working its way through congress. he talks about one proposal that would establish a public health insurance plan to compete with private plans. >> at the end of the day, if you choose to have competition and you choose to have a plan that is dependable and affordable, you cannot do it without having a public plan there. that creates the competition for the private plan. so yes, there will be a public plan in the bill. will the people vote for? i don't know who wants to go home in next year's primary and say i voted against the plan that is going to provide 30,000 people in my district, most of whom are nonwhite, most of

right now former leaders are off talking, tom daschle, bob dole, howard baker. if they can talk together and work together and find that common ground and sensible solutions, so can we. so for 50 and 60 years, we have been struggling on how to do it. we do believe in capitalism. we do believe in our government. but let's come together now and be able to find that way. you don't like this, then don't try to jet it. let's come in with it. let's say goodbye to the invasion of the body snatchers, thank you. xxxxxx this should send a message to the people of pakistan that the people of the united states has made a long-term commitment to stand by their side in the region and their home against insurgents and extremists. however the conference report also contains billions of dollars in unrequested spending that is largely unjustified and certainly nonemergency. president obama's message to the congress was to keep funding focus on the needs of our troops and not to use the supplemental to pursue unnecessary spending and to keep earmarks and other extraneous spe

john baker, the catcher, leading off. de aza on deck and then back to the top of the lineup with chris coghlan. >> buck: brian bass, just like the rest of his relief corps has been on a roll. he has been an excellent long middle guy for dave trembley. you can go back to his performance in oakland coming into the first inning in relief of rich hill and pitching fur and 2/3 innings, his longest stint of the season. >> jim: he hasn't been in a game since last wednesday against the mets at camden yards. 2-1 is the count on baker. he plants and he throws and he got him. one down. nicely done by brian roberts on the high chopper. >> buck: he had a little extra time with the catcher running, so he had time to plant the foot and make the strong throw. it is all part of the process here. he knows he has potential running. he takes a little extra time to plant, fire a strike to aubrey huff. >> jim: there is alejandro de aza batting for the first time. we saw him peek down to third base there to see where mora was and he showed bunt

tom daschle, bob dole, howard baker. if they can talk together and work together and find that common ground and sensible solution so can we. so for 50 and 60 years we've been struggling with how to do it. we are not going to go the u.k. way. we are the usa. we do believe in capitalism. we do believe in the government, but let's be able to come together now and be able to find that way. if you don't like this, then don't try to judge, let's come in with it and let's say goodbye to the invasion of the body snatchers. thank you. >> senator burr. >> awesome. [laughter] thank you, mr. chairman. >> chris, listen to this, i'm about to compliment you. chris? >> yes, sir, i'm sorry. >> i'm about to compliment you. [laughter] >> take your time. [laughter] use as much time as you would like. [laughter] >> you know i have deep respect for you, and for all the colleagues on this committee. and i personally feel that you have been stuck with something that if you had control over we wouldn't be here right now. we would probably still

former leaders that have produced a paper themselves and senator daschle and senator dole, senator bakerand senator mitchell. demise said at a breakfast meeting for members to meet with them to have a discussion about their various ids which could be helpful and do that maybe in the middle of next week and see how things are moving along and chat with mike enzi in terms of timing. but let me turn to senator mikulski and thank her immensely for the job that tom harkin and jeff bingaman and patty murray have done all along with others in developing these ideas and quality prevention coverage as well as workforce issues. i'm going to ask senator mikulski to lead the debate on this and we recognize her. >> thank you very much senator dodd and good morning to all of my colleagues here this morning we are taking up title to, the quality section. and after that i believe senator dodd it wants to proceed and prevention. these two titles go hand-in-hand and even interface with each other. once you hear the conversation we've had over the last several days has been related to the cost of health ca

baker, 28 years old.ted originally by the athletics and was traded over here just before opening day in 2007. there is an off-speed pitch for a strike and it is 0-2. it is amazing how 2 marlins, buck, can continue to turn over their roster and yet remain competitive. obviously a lot of it is financially driven, but they keep coming up with players. there is a ball swept to second base. roberts to his right has it. and the ground out for the first out here in the third inning. >> buck: koji uehara is in a groove right now and it all starts with his fastball. he has great command and he throws the four-seam fastball that's the one he throws so many strikes with. he also has a combination of breaking pitches, the split- finger grip. you can see he get as little bit of the seam on that, and that will break down. the thing about koji is he has such a wide assortment of pitches. we mentioned his split-finger pitch. that's the curve ball again with that middle finger along the long seam of the ball to impart tha

mark most recently has been playing a key role in the development of the bill baker daschle plan and an important bipartisan agreement on health care reform and he will describe some of the multi care initiatives that he's involved in that concern as a model for health-care reform. >> thank you. it is great to be here this morning with all of you. how are we doing on the slides coming up fykes okay. this is a very distinguished panel and i'm glad someone had taken time to be here and we're seeing some discussion at around payment from an improving how it works. i'm going to talk about that as nancy mentioned focusing on things like accountable care and multi stakeholder approaches to doing this. but it is very refreshing to see how much of an emphasis there is on getting these kinds of ideas into legislation. this is something that can be bipartisan. a lot of congressional staff are working hard to turn these concept and the legislation that improves benefits and care and is paid for. that is really hard. nancy mention the efforts that we have been providing technical support for at

with can baker's crew do? plenty.takes the pitch over the left center field for a triple. and phillips easily wins this one by final of 8-1. brandon phillips was in a two for 19 slump heading into the game. three hits, three rbis and three runs scored on this, his 28th birthday. huff losing for the first time in his last four starts. >> here is what is happening around the majors this afternoon. the top of the ninth and two-run shot. the difference in this game and the game with the astros. there you saw the score. royals and pirates back on. it was raining for a period of time. the rockies keep trucking, up 2-0 and won 19 of the last 22. >> coming up, full highlights and reaction from south africa. one of the most memorable soccer games in u.s. history. we'll show it to you. >> and the heat is on in atlanta and tommy hanson battling the flu. will the rookie have the energy to deal with the red sox? (announcer) what does greatness taste like? miller lite. (announcer on call) off the glass, centered in front... oh what

baker. [applause] >> thank you very much.inguished members of both parties who are here. nancy, ladies and gentlemen, nancy i know that i speak for everyone here when i say thank you. thank you for your magnificent service as our nation's first lady. most of all for the love and the support that you gave our 40th president. because you created that secure space from which he ventures forth to change america and to change the world. and so as this ceremony honors him, nancy, it also honors you. [applause] now ladies and gentlemen, there are many people who deserve recognition for this beautiful statue of president reagan, including all of the members of congress who honor him with their presence here today. two other individuals played especially important roles. first of all, john rodgers. we are here today because of his financial generosity as the patron for this magnificent bronze. john, you served president reagan with great distinction in and out of office. now you have served his memory and his legacy. and second, the c

in chicago, dusty baker was the manager, and they wait add few years for him to come around and he never did. >> bob: that ball is just foul down the right-field line. we talked about anderson hernandez, alberto gonzalez when he went back and came back. short chopping swings, put the ball in play. anderson hernandez has been fantastic tonight. tried to slap a hit by the pitcher. knowing what your role is will definitely help this organization move forward. >> bob: corey put all those things together for baltimore back in 06 when he hit .276 and it 45 stolen bases. and he still hit 16 home runs. jason isringhausen totally lost the handle on that ball and he's hurt himself. he just told them in the dugout to come and get him and i don't know what happened, maybe with his hand there. but something is very wrong. >> rob: i think it's his elbow. >> bob: he is right off the mound here with the count of 1- 2. now the rays will have to warm up somebody, and this could take a while. >> rob: you're going to watch the ball take a right turn here when it leaves his hand. means it's the arm. immediat

baker will discuss his recent cover story, brocarck ack hoover obama. ♪ host: a live view of the u.s.up -- u.s. capitol, this sunday morning. june 21, father's day. closely monitoring the developments in iran this weekend, clashes between protesters and police. for republicans, 202-737-0001. for democrats, 202-737-0002. for independents, 202-628-0205. time magazine, iran verses iran. that is the cover story. from the washington times, violence erupted in protest. from "the new york times," this story and photograph that has been getting a lot of attention over the last 24 hours. "mir hossein mousavi called for a general strike. if arrested, he said that he would be ready for bardem. opposition protesters swore to continue pressing claims of a stolen election. this has been called iran's worst crisis since 1979." from "the washington post," their focus on the media coverage and conflicting accounts coming out. suggesting that mr. mir hossein mousavi was taking a confrontational stance. waiting to hear from you on what is next from iran, the first person is joe on the republican line. m

harang is the catcher for dusty baker. willingham certainly excite to be back in the lineup. .280 hit with 6 doubles and 2 home runs. the nine homers will come up big if he can connect again tonight. guzman in the top spot, short stop. zimmermann at 3rd batting 3 3rd. dunn batting cleanup in left. willingham right fielder. bard will call the game for the pitcher batting 9th. we look at that time reds and nationals as they try to get things going in this series. trying to add a punch to the lineup with willingham in the lineup. >> no doubt. he deserves to play. he has hit the ball extremely well. i believe he needs an opportunity to go out there and play two or three weeks and see what he can do. it's the toughest thing in the world to try to play part time. the second toughest thing is not knowing if you're going play. you've got to do it bat after bat. he's worked real hard. he deserves a shot to play. >>> the schedule takes a turn after this series. inner league ball clubs next. tampa bay rays are the defending champs on

host: it is interesting, henry kissinger, jim baker, both real politicians. they have been criticized within their party and by the other party for that. the idea that the liberal democratic party would be relying on henry kissinger's approach to politics? the argument against the real politicians by liberals and conservatives has been that they failed to measure the concerts -- the power of the people in diplomacy. there are moments when that applies. a lot of the time, real politics makes sense. it may be a time when you do not want to be too cold recalculating in public. guest: there was similar language from the president yesterday afternoon. some saw it much more than hard work much more opposed, but what can you really physically do? guest: is not a pervert comparison, but when reagan spoke, we have talked to people who work in cited the time and their hope was kept alive, even as reagan successfully negotiated. guest: i agree. it does it symbolically give hope to people in the streets, they think that maybe now is the time. some of the folks i have spo

you said you do not understand baker's. >> i do not know and i said that. i have been accused of being a banker many times. >> i question your skepticism about them. to the care about anything else besides [unintelligible] ? >> i am not going to answer that question. [laughter] it is hard to judge motive in these things. >> are you frustrated that they have not had other interests? >> we ran an economy that relies on the market. it realized that we have a set of constraints against excessive risk-taking. those basic protections failed for many reasons. the basic checks and balances of oversight were insufficient. supervision did not do what it was supposed to do. part of that was because compensation was designed in a way that it overwhelmed those checks and balances. that is something that we have to fix. last week we announced some broad principles. we want to give the ftse more authority on -- fdic omore authority on things like say on pay. we want them to take risks in our economy but the right kind of risk. not tell little and not too much. -- not too

he was a commissioner on the carter baker commission on federal election reform and chaired the government reform policy committee for the obama for mayor presidential campaign and he served on the it obama- biden presidential transition team. spencer was an associate counsel in the office of the general counsel that shared the election assistance commission. served on the technology and government reform team. we did not have very many people in the transition, soap dispenser court took on about 12 roles. he is a former board member of the american constitution society. our last palace is senior advisor at the office of management and budget. she works on issues regarding the preparation and supervision and administration of the federal budget for executive branch agencies as well as coordination of the administration's procurement and financial management intermission and regulatory policies. before joining omb, she was a partner and head of the appellate litigation group at a firm in new york. she was the solicitor general of the state of new york, special counsel to the white house jus

so let me just cite somebody who is more authoritative than i am, professor baker of har harvard. she predicted months ago what the congressional budget office has recently concluded. she said -- or the congressional budget office said, by themselves, insurance expansions would also cause national spending on health care to increase, in part because insured people generally receive somewhat more medical care than uninsured people. the "washington post" recognizes this as well. in an editorial this morning it said, "it is quite likely that any legislation that emergers es will great a hugely -- with no guarantee of the upward spiral costs being slowed." the "post" also said given the national debt already growing out of control and the risk of health care costs won't be controlled, you may worry about taking on a new burden, $1.6 trillion over ten years. i think that's exactly right. that's what makes people anxious about what they hear coming out of washington in the name of health care reform. so, i think it's fair to say that the spend more to save more thinking is what resulted

kevin baker of harper's magazine will be here, the author of july's cover stories. barack hoover obama, the best and brightest. that is on "washington journal." we begin at 7:00 a.m. eastern. thanks for joining us. we will see you tomorrow. .. .. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national >> then remarks from senator jeff sessions, a ranking member of the senate judiciary committee and democratic senator , dick durbin. later, charles evans, the president of the chicago federal reserve on the economy. >> today on american and the courts, a few commencement addresses at this year's graduation ceremonies given by supreme court justice, anthony kennedy. and georgia supreme court justice -- that is on 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> people do not want to think as the conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside 240 million acres of wild america. now as people are talking about environmentalism and green movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day to ab

. >> the word on the street is that meredith baker who is the former head of an gia, the commerce department -- ntia. as plans conceived around, the plan is to have hurt nomination go forward. that is the plan. >> one senator talked about that neutrality. this was his answer. >> if there is a competitive market for broadband services for consumers to purchase broadband from multiple independent providers, with the discussion over net neutrality change? >> in a market of unlimited competition, it might change. the goal as i see it of the net neutrality debate is to preserve the internet as the greatest platform for innovation and small business creation that we have ever had. more competition, more consumer choice would help achieve that. that would be an excellent thing. >> but the concern is not to artificially segment off parts of the population and give them a higher cost. you see more competition and broadband services? >> competition is clearly a goal for the sec and the communications act. -- for the fcc and the communications act. >> i heard him say competition lot of times. he did ve

he and john baker, left-handed batter the platoon here. ricky nolasco career, 31-27. start. he doesn't have that many more starts, about 11 more than john lannan. he did work out of the bullpen some. zimmerman takes another breaking ball out of play. this time right side, 2-2. john lannan, 52 starts now? took him 50 to get his 15th win. that was the one at yankee stadium. ross detwiler next to him. eight career starts. and then jordan zimmermann who will pitch her wednesday, detwiler friday at home when the braves come visiting. everybody got pushed back a day when the nationals reinserted craig stammen into the rotation. right at hanley ramirez. and the nationals continue to get very little -- hit very little against ricky nolasco. fios guy! where ya headed? ah, just installed fios in the whole building. now everyone has the fastest upload speeds. and we're giving them a mini netbook. well, i'm sticking with cable. so's ted. (voice) no i'm not! he's just goofing. (voice) no i'm not! (sighing) ted has betrayed me. (announcer) switch to verizon fios tv, phone and inter

. >> just going over dusty baker's numbers as a manager. >> rob: amazing aren't they. >> johnny: the flip ball to second, gets him at second. a great play by the shortstop and the reds are out of the inning. so we go to the bottom of the sixth and the nats are trying to tie this up, they are down by two. pounds and a smidge. a smidge? y'know, there's really no need to weigh packages under 70 pounds. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service, if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. cool. you know this scale is off by a good 7, 8 pounds. maybe five. priority mail flat rate boxes only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. . >> deb: nats looking for runs as we look to the bottom of the seventh inning. another pick to tell you about. the 81st pick in the third round, trevor holder, a right- handed pitcher out of the university of georgia, 6'2", 205 pounds and the senior captain with the team so some leadership qualities goin' on there. johnny. >> johnny: debbie thank you very much. you can see the list of the major league. >> rob:

all the other regulars and john baker, a left-handed-hitting catcher killed the nats in the first weekof the season. since then, hasn't done much against anybody else. he'll be catching sean west. cristian guzman steps in. it is 7:11 in the miami area and we're under way with strike one. cloudy skies and here in the evening down to 82 degrees. very muggy tonight. it was up around 90 today in town with the sun peeking in and out, but mostly cloudy conditions. wub one ball, one strike to guzman. 0-9 still hitting .325 ninth best in the national league. from the right side, cristian at .320. over to scoop it immediately, emilio bonifacio. cristian guzman still having an 0-for for this series. tim welke, the crew chief. a 26-year veteran behind the plate. ed rapuano will have the plate tomorrow. james hoye and bill we will key around the bases. marlins -- which will cee. here is nick back in the number two spot maybe where he needs to be. he's 1-# 1 last. the top of the lineup last night had two hits the entire game. zimmerman's homer in the second and a nick johnson flare for a base hit i

. >> will there be no medical baker teeth? >> i don't know if there would be no medical bankruptcies that it is worth noting that some of those bankruptcies due to lost income due to sickness. is not clear to me that those would be prevented even if we had the most stringent requirements of affordability. >> the study says 2 of every 3 proceeds related to medical bills. this is the landmark coverage study. didn't say it was related to people losing their income. >> some portion of that total is due to people's sickness. >> did you read this study? you are saying that it has to do with 2 of every 3 bankruptcies, which the harvard study says relates to medical bills, you are saying a more correct characterization would be vetted is also related to people losing their income? >> i don't know the exact division within the study that some portion of medical bankruptcy in that study is due to sickness. i want to reiterate the 2 base in which this legislation would dramatically reduce medical bankruptcies, it would make dramatic move

of a 100 year old petrified man en benjamin franklin's fabricated report of the trial of miss polly baker. in this event hosted by bronson noble in new york city is 45 minutes. >> thank you all for coming. like most authors to sell less than john grisham, i had told, khalil of -- i had hoped more privileged, i think that word of my intention linked out because my intention is to begin this evening by reading to you what is in my opinion one of the more mundane, more predictable and less insightful paragraphs in this entire book. [laughter] so i guess i asked for a few empty seats. here is the paragraph: most journalists behave like most other people in most other occupations. they do their jobs well or better than well, they realize that others depend on them and are stimulated by the need to meet their responsibilities. they want to succeed and be rewarded for their success my gratitude, money and maybe a few plaques at a few dinners in their honor. end of paragraph. this book is not about those people. this book is about people whose journalistic behavior was adamant, not typical. in th

. >> rob: there is the central to break down i knowy, dusty baker doing a fine job with this reds teamwon three of their last 10. .500 at home in american ball park. you want to be .500 on the road and .650, .700 at home, to have an opportunity to win your division. a lot of teams struggling especial lei in our division. phillies 12-13. new york mets are the only one with a winning record at home, 17-9, but then the braves 14- 15, marlins 14-17, and -- >> johnny: he has got it, two down, gonzalez flies to left.  and as we go to t coming up here in masn, all of masn2, the reds and nats again tomorrow night beginning at 6. 30 with nats extra, and a 4:30 afternoon game on thursday. start our coverage at 4:00, then on the road at tampa on friday and saturday and sunday. that saturday game joined in progress at 7:05. >> rob: looking forward to that tampa trip. more cow bells. >> johnny: yes. >> rob: went down for the world series last year. >> johnny: great city isn't it. >> rob: 50,000 cow bells in a one-roof stadium. kind of loud, johnny, kind of loud. >> joh

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