enthusiastic for graphic novels, and they have sort of gandy cultural and critical legitimacy allyson beck becktell's book was a finalist, will persepolis -- people are reading them. >> that certainly is true. >> this book is only $23. you people in the front, took a look. a seriously that seems unbelievable reasonable to me. we have got to open this up for questions, and they are meant to be questions, not first comic book you ever read. you asked to any questions. i'm telling you, you sat up there five minutes last time. [laughter] i'm sorry? to the microphone. i appreciate you, you were great last time that you can't monopolize the microphone. >> i was hoping one or all of you would comment on the difference between the way that the book like this book portrays nonfiction verses the way that perhaps the culture is becoming abscessed with reality through reality television. >> that is a wonderful question. >> this is a more honorable and respectable way -- >> it's not reality and the cold reality television -- when these people go on these ridiculous races around the world, what does tha

beck am. >> rob: he held out for a year.nows the that year he took off hurt his development of becoming a super star. >> johnny: adam dunn with a chance to get guzman home from 3 3rd. harang has lost the strike zone. ball one. a lot of talk too about strasburg and how much long term negotiating will go on the client and the guy that represents him. i'm assuming he wants to play as much as the young guy that signed today does. >> rob: i think aaron crow was in the same position last year. it's not so much the ages i worry about. it's the way the game has progressed to where you think you need to pay someone $10 million and they've never been on a professional field. i think it's hard to say what you can do with the $10 million next year. he spent 110 innings in college. how does that compare with the minor league? i wouldn't want to pay that much. for the future of the organization, you're going to have to pay money to get him in here. >> johnny: gonzalez back. the nationals lead two on the bases. do not get a run across. 2-0

like sean hannity, rush limbaugh, bill o'reilly, laura ingraham, mark levin, william bennett, glen beck, hugh hewitt, dennis frayinger, dennis miller, dick morris, ann coulter, michael steele, karl rove, newt gingrich, thomas so, victor davis hansen, shelby steel, charles kroutheimer, michele malkin, fred barnes and so many others. let's give thanks to them for not giving up and staying the course to bring an end to this false prophet, obama. that's what i said pretty much this morning. and now i have the honor, you know, the honor to be with you and to introduce such such a wonderful array of great people who i'm so honored to be, you know, able to introduce to you tonight. since 1976, orrin hatch has served the people of utah with distinction and honor. in the senate, we can -- and by the way, i met orrin hatch, and isn't he -- i mean, you know i'm in the movies and sometimes people see me they say gee, you're taller that inthought you were or you know, whatever it is. or you're not as old as i thought. i say that. but really, they never say that. but when i saw orrin hatch because i'

he is a commentator, like plan backed -- glenn beck says that he was. i would suggest you turn to c- span. i think rupert murdoch should know. host: thank you for calling. this is a picture of william jefferson. they are entering district court on tuesday. the federal bribery trial opens. they say he used his office to carry out bribery schemes. one of the most powerful officials, a member of the u.s. house was using his public office for private gain. the assistant u.s. attorney told jurors that mr. jefferson is facing 16 criminal cases of racketeering, bribery, and obstruction of justice for receiving bribes. he has pleaded not guilty. you can see the write up in "the wall street journal." caller: i always like your disposition. the callers are not paying attention. it will be private health care paid for with public money. i happen to be a marine corps veteran. we have socialized medicine in the marine corps. it seems to work well. it's still private health care. i'm calling about iran. you can watch democrac ynow.org. you may want to look in your ow

. >> rob: sometimes we refer to the catcher as a beck stop. that man is definitely a backstop right there. >> bob: zimmerman is going to be called out on strikes on a breaking ball that caught the outside corner according to brian gorman. now they could walk adam dunn. >> rob: no, this is a filthyslider right here. hayhurst just breaks that right off over the plate. too close to not swing at. >> bob: yeah, that was 12:00, 6:00 there. >> rob: our guys have to start swinging when they've got two strikes on them not looking for walks especially the three, four, five guys. >> bob: and they have to walk adam dunn now. >> rob: yeah, and now you setup the double play to force because adam is not a speedy base runner. elijah dukes is going to do -- going to have to do some damage here. >> bob: it will be dukes 0-3. here is a freeze cam from coors light the world's most refreshing beer. it's frost brewed. >> rob: cristian guzman, nothing but hustle right here that gets them a base hit beating hayhurst to the bag. let's freeze it there for the coors lig

like sean hannity, rush limbaugh, bill o'reilly, laura ingraham, mark levin, william bennett, glen beckgh hewitt, dennis frayinger, dennis miller, dick morris, ann coulter, michael steele, karl rove, newt gingrich, thomas so, victor davis hansen, shelby steel, charles kroutheimer, michele malkin, fred barnes and so many others. let's give thanks to them for not giving up and staying the course to bring an end to this false prophet, obama. that's what i said pretty much this morning.@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ to introduce such a wonderful group of great people, who i am excited to be able to introduce to you tonight. since 1976, orrin hatch has served utah with honor. in the senate -- isn't he -- i am in the movies. people say i am taller than they thought. or you are not as old as i thought you were. they never said that. when i saw orrin hatch, i'd only shown him on shows. n him on shows you know where his face is on television and he's usually addressing very serious subjects so he's very, you know, has a very serious demeanor. but i found out wonderful things about orrin hatch. when i ask peo

i know during the beck we have the 4th of july, i've canceled practically everything on my schedule just to working on going through this record and prepare for this hearing. i'd recommend other senators do the same. we'll have a fir and open hearing -- we'll have a fair and open hearing. the current presiding officer is a distinguished member of the judiciary committee and i know he will ask fair and firm questions. but when that is over, vote for or against her. forget the things beneath the dignity of the united states senate that certainly besmirches the reputation of someone like judge sonia sotomayor. we have heard the charges against her, mr. president. i'm glad you and other members of the committee will be there next month when we will hear if her. and that's what's going to count. mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call:

it features the music of the foo fighters, beck. it is rocking. and then we will give two awards. those recipients are secret. they do not know until we announce them. we will continue on with as special reports. and then we will move on. i note they have been working on their speech now for well over a week. and finally we will hear from the most expert of experts. the daily shows president comedian. and he will be here to present a lecture. secret world government. be has also had experience with that personal computers. and then we will continuum. >> you mentioned that president obama will be here. how difficult is it to get the president to come to a dinner? >> i think it is a very -- is an honor to have the president come to your dinner. the amount of invitations and work that we have to do. i can tell you, it is not easy to get the president here. many letters, phone calls, invitations. there is also a lot of a crossing your fingers. so when i heard that he was coming, we are thrilled to have in your. >> rescheduled a couple times. was that in part to get that -- >> yes. the

[applause] and i would just like to point out that finding a lunchable in trie beck ca is, i don't know, trying to find a jew at the vatican. it's impossible. [laughter] okay. now you know the prizes are good. >> i don't know what a lunchable is. so first of all i just want to confess that as much as i love you and your book that i will not be buying it because i live in park slope and my wife lives in rim which means this is a documentary to us. >> excellent. but you still have to buy it, come on, dude, and don't say it on c-span. >> so look, the question is to what degree do you think that sort of the intensity, the professionalization, i would say of parenting and particularly motherhood is about all these chicks like you and me, we're middle class, upper middle class, we went to good schools, we got degrees, and at some point a lot of women decided they would rather stay home and raise children, and i feel like the intensity that people are bringing that is sort of the intensity of what you didn't do with your harvard degree, that you just have to be the best and most competitive at

it's a memoir, a graphic memoir by allison beck telewho is famous in a couple of different subcultures because she had an online comic strip called dikes to watch out for and she is a funny, feisty, irreverent, insurgent artist, and she spent many years working on a memoir, and it's her true story of growing up and coming out as a lesbian, and her parents were enrich teachers so it's a very literary -- the lenses through which some refracts her worker literary lenses, and as she is coming ought as an adolescent she realize her father is a repressed homo sexual and as she makes that discovery he kills himself. so it's a powerful, poignant, funny, incredibly moving book. so allison bechtel is one of my current favorite writers and authors. another book is persepolis about the iranian revolution, and she is an iranian french woman and it's a very different style but of coming of age at a time of repression and autocracyie in a the traitic nightmare in her country and it has all the adolescent tropes of falling in love and discovering your body and it's again the backdrop of this historic

take your various breaks and bring your lunch is beck and we are going to have dr. brzezinski on hopefully by 12:20. that is the ambition, no later than 12:20, try to get back in the room to reconvene for our final session. thank you all. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> the head of the congressional panel overseeing the treasury department 700 billion-dollar troubled asset relief program, elizabeth warren, will talk about her panel cost in report. live coverage starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. also tomorrow, treasury secretary tim geithner and irs commissioner douglas shulman testified before a senate appropriations subcommittee about the budgets for next year. live coverage it 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> now a house hearing on the use of the state secrets privilege. it allows the government to withhold national security related information during a trial. jerrold nadler of new york chairs the subcommittee on the constitution. he is the coates author of legislation that would make it harder to use the state secrets privilege. this is an hour,

field. 1.6 home runs per game there compared to 3.4 at the newared t yankee stadium.th new second beck josh beckett. we know how good a pitcher he is, but beckett against the graves the last 40 innings, he'a allowed two earned runs. that's domination of the highest order. and finally we'll watch the rays against the marlins. keep in mind, both of these teams are in contention again. the marlins have won five in a row only one game out of firstle place. hanley ramirez has really got it going. goi he had 13 r.b.i.s in his last series including two grand slams in one series.ra the last national league playere to hit two grand slams in the same series was robin ventura in 1999. he hit slams in both games of a doubleheader. >> we'll have all the highlights for you on the next "baseball tonight," 10:00 eastern on espn. >> thanks, fellas. the chicago baseball writers who hold hall of fame votes met today to discuss what to do about players tied to performance-enhancing drugs. six of the eight most prestigious sluggers in the steroid era have been directly tied to p.e.d.s -- bonds, mcgwire, so

with the rest of his body and it wasn't until after world war i that his heart was actually stent beck to poland and berry together with the rest of his remains. that said, thank you very much. [applause] >> alex storozynski is the executive editor and president of the kosciuszko foundation. >> was formerly a contributing editor to "the new york sun" and was an editorial board member at the new york daily news. for more information visit kosciuszko foundations.org. >> kirstin downey, former staff writer for "the washington post" recalls the life of frances perkins, fdr's secretary of labor and the first female cabinet secretary. during her tenure frances perkins was responsible for promoting public works and employment projects which included a mandating of the 40 hour work week. the creation of social security and child labor laws. the event hosted by the library of congress in washington d.c. is just under an hour. >> i am so pleased to be here today. i love the library of congress. i have spent many, many hours here doing research and have made some very fun and amazing find here. o

it's a graphic memoir by allison beck tell who is famous in a couple of different subcultures because she has had an online comic strip for years called dikes to watch out for. and she's a funny, feisty, irreverent, insurgent kind of artist. and she spent many years working on a memoir, and it's her true story of growing up and coming out as a lesbian, and her participants were english teachers, so it's a -- parents were english teachers so the lenses through which she refracts her works are very literary lenses. she realizes that her father is a repressed homosexual, and as she makes that discovery, he kills himself. so it's a powerful, poignant, funny, incredibly moving book. so allison bechtel is one of my favorite current writers, authors, artists. and the other book that you may have heard of is called persepolis which is a graphic memoir of the iranian revolution. she's an iranian-french woman, and it's an extraordinary book and a very different style than bechtel, but of coming of age at a time of repression and autocracy and kind of a theological, a theocratic kind of nightmar