stern. >> i am honored to be standing here with the greatest champion of them all, bill russell, afterophy is named. and the -- and lebron james averaged 28.6 points, 10.2 rebounds, 7.4 assists and is the unanimous choice for the mvp, the bill russell most valuable play ee eer trophy of the 2012 finals. >> the chants say it all. lebron james, mvp of the funls. given everything you've been through, when the clock hit triple zeros, what is the first thing that ran through your mind? >> it's about damn time. it's about damn time. >> going back to last year's finals, the way it ended, the way you struggled, the ton of criticism that came your way in so many different ways, what's the one thing that was said or written that bothered you the most? >> that i was selfish. that's the only thing that bothered me that, you know, a lot of people said i was selfish. and, you know, i strive on being a team player, doing whatever it takes to help this team win. but at the same time, i use it as motivation. and, i'm happy i was able to make enough plays to put ourselves in a position to win this champ

stern. >> i am honored to be standing here with the greatest champion of them all, bill russell, afterophy is named. and the -- and lebron james averaged 28.6 points, 10.2 rebounds, 7.4 assists and is the unanimous choice for the mvp, the bill russell most valuable play ee eer trophy of the 2012 finals. >> the chants say it all. lebron james, mvp of the funls. given everything you've been through, when the clock hit triple zeros, what is the first thing that ran through your mind? >> it's about damn time. it's about damn time. >> going back to last year's finals, the way it ended, the way you struggled, the ton of criticism that came your way in so many different ways, what's the one thing that was said or written that bothered you the most? >> that i was selfish. that's the only thing that bothered me that, you know, a lot of people said i was selfish. and, you know, i strive on being a team player, doing whatever it takes to help this team win. but at the same time, i use it as motivation. and, i'm happy i was able to make enough plays to put ourselves in a position to win this champ

when bill russell was made a player coach, oh, my god. this was a huge thing. there was a sort of unwritten quota back in the mta -- nba. i do not think there was a great conspiracy, but there was the old expression that coaches would say with a wink. you start 3 at home, and for you are on the road, and you play five when you are behind. -- and four when you are on the road, and you play five when you are behind. we hear all the time about black athletes, the great ones, did not get endorsements, whereas lesser white players did. all of that was blown out of the water by a o.j. simpson. it changes with who got more. there has been an extraordinary change, and i also think this has had an effect beyond sports. if you are a white kid growing up, and you see a black player, and he has got the name of your college or yorktown across his chest, that means something -- your college or yorktown -- your town across his chest, that means something. i am not saying that leads to the election of a black president, but that is what sports has provided. tavis: those arenas

oscar robertson, he's a great player, jerry west, nate thurman, bill russell. all the people in the hall of fame are good players. will are just more good basketball players right now and the all-stars are super. >> i'll tell you what, let's not forget this guy once averaged 20 and 20. 20 points, 20 rebounds in a season. there's no centers in the league e might get 30-30. it would be unbelievable. but you are talking about athleticism. let's go live to the podium right now. a disappointed kevin durant is talking with the media. >> john from usa today. fellows, in the end did it come down to defense for miami? is that why they are champion? >> they just found a way to win, man. i don't think our guys came out and didn't want to defend. but, you know, just unfortunate for us and you know how hard these guys work on this team and to get better, how much family watched to try to stop them. i don't know what it came down to but they were just the better team. >> kevin? >> their defense is really good, you know. those guys are really good over there. i didn't want to

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bill russell went to second overall to the celtics in 1956. the chicago cardinals was third overall. so he will go into the top five in easily the highest draft pick from the usf baseball program. rushed news, dribble crown contenders nearly involved in a bad accident at belmont when a horse got loose. of course nearly collided with someone jogging along the rail. it could have possibly ended the horse's life. >> i thought that i would have to have my brown pants on after the horse dumped the writer and got loose. and gramm, just barely missing. that was a little stressful. but, once we got that, everything went very well. >> it weekend half way since belmont. not since 1978 has a horse won the triple crown. >> i think it is a great name for a horse. and i hope that it winds. who won? which was run? >> the secretariat, from 1978? >> yes.

that earned him the most valuable player trophy, the mvp delivered by legendary player, bill russell.or miami after last year's disappointing loss in the finals there. >> as much as i love having you on the desk with me tonight, i wish rob was here so i could rub it in. i picked miami. i didn't really want to. he picked the thunder to win. and i couldn't pick the thunder. i picked miami. but i won. >> good for you. good for you. lebron, people love to hate this guy after the whole leaving cleveland thing. but you got to hand it to him. he carried that team. and he's a winner now. can't take it away from him. >> so is dwayne wade. and bosh. >> yes. great team all around. oklahoma, what an awesome team. >> second youngest starting five in the nba finals history. >> going to be around a while. coming up, a power play for the women of capitol hill, not about politics. >> and what an outpouring of love and support for a 68-year-old bus monitor brought to tears by school bullies. you've got to see the story, coming up on "world news now." ♪ some day i'll be living in a big old city ♪ ♪ and

"tomorrow, bill russell chadic look at the political reaction to the supreme court decision on the affordables usa director and the american enterprise destitute discuss the implications and efforts to repeal it. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> this is the conversation we need to have in this country that nobody is willing to have. what role should the government play in housing finance? >> in "reckless endangerment," gretchen morgensen the tells they subprime financial collapse. >> if you want to subsidize housing in this country and we want to talk about it and the populace agrees that it is something we should subsidize, then put it on the balance sheet and make it clear and make it evident and make everybody aware of how much it is costing. but when you deliver it through these third party enterprises, fannie mae and freddie mark, when you deliver the subsidies to a public company through private shareholders and the executives can extract the private subsidies for the -- the public subsidies for themselves, that is not the way for subsidizing home ownership. i think

and protest peacefully or pay a fortune russell ball makers pass a bill that sparks some of the most. even debate. new argument. from our studios in central moscow you're watching archie with me and you so now it's good to have you with us eleven pm here in the russian capital but we begin in europe where the zone's debt crisis is getting dangerously close to the monetary union's powerhouse germany moody's has cut the ratings of several german banks including the country's second biggest lender austria is also affected here's our europe correspondent tess are cilia granted there's a lot of skepticism surrounding the moves or the motivations of ratings agencies what has just happened does confirm already existing skepticism on the health of the whole banking economy the whole economy at large of the euro zone and nations the fragility and the vulnerability of certain countries even economic powerhouses such as germany to what happens in the so-called periphery countries the losses countries like spain or portugal greece would be taking in now this a downgrade happens on the back of som

three well-known writers, and--because this is about books, i want to bring it up--russell kirk, barry goldwater and bill buckley. and you say those three men had a big impact on him. why those three? >> guest: russell kirk, more than anybody. in fact, one of the questions i always ask people when i'm writing about somebody who i can't talk to is, 'what do they read?' and the only book i ever heard anybody talk about the coorses reading was russell kirk's "the conservative mind"--which came out in '52 or something. and russell kirk's book "the conservative mind" was the first articulation of an american conservative ideology. and it's a--it's a remarkable book, and--and it really foretells the reagan revolution and the gingrich revolution beautifully. i mean, this is... c-span: who was he, by the way? >> guest: he was an instructor at michigan state, i believe, an obscure guy. and when he wrote that, the national review hadn't yet appeared. the national review doesn't appear till 1955, but this was--this was the--and there were--there were conservative books; there was one in england and--but there was n

bill. the house has passed multiple pieces of legislation. let's get together and hammer out any differences and move legislation forward. >> russell burman of "the hill." >> we've got a couple more deadline's coming up at the end of june, the student loan rates that are going to double if there is no congressional agreement and the highway bill funding expires. there has been a conference committee and negotiations have apparently broken down or are not going that well at the moment. what is your level of confidence that there's going to be in agreement on these two issues before the end of june? more broadly, do you have confidence that there can be any agreements between now and the election? or are we just inextricably in a campaign season? >> i hope not. i hope there can be agreements. it's important to appreciate the president has in narrative out there that congress cannot get anything done and that's why he needs to be reelected. if you think about it, if congress get something done that requires the president to help, it harms his narrative. what we see is a president that seems to be urging a democratic senate not to be positive an

bill. >>> turn to sports the heat and thunder battled into the fourth quarter again last night. game four of the nba finals with russell on a show in miami. thunder led by 17 points at one point in the first half. but the game tightened quickly. this is the fourth quarter. westbrook leaves the defense flat-footed and pulls his team within one. the heat answer, dwyane wade puts up a three that gave miami a seven-point lead with 7:30 to play. wade hat 25 points in the game. westbrook comes back, pullup jumper over bosh. thunder within two. under seven minutes to play. his parents loving it. westbrook 13 straight points for the thunder in the fourth, finished with 43 points on 20 of 32 shooting. score tied at 90 here in the fourth quarter with under six to go. lebron james goes down hard, loses the ball. derek fisher with a chance to tie it, he's blocked by wade. heat gives the ball back to james who gets to give miami the lead. james after the fall in obvious pain had to exit the game, help people from the miami bench. missed about minute and a half of action. durant, the pullup jumper over shane battier puts the thunder

. >> the concept behind the bill does have one big fan the guy who con received it, former arizona state russell pierce who could be the wackiest character in this movie says this could have even stopped the biggest government failure in recent memory. >> do you know how the immigration was being enforced 9-11 would have been diverted. >> let's go to chad campbell, democrat in phoenix and allesandra solar of the american civil liberties union. we are grateful. i have to ask either one of you: what did you think of the ruling when it came down? >> well, i mean i think it was a very strongly worded discretion from the supreme court that the state of arizona clearly overstepped its authority and really has no business enforcing federal immigration law and implementing its own immigration scheme. now, i mean, they basically struck down three out of the four provisions that were before them and then the unfortunate thing is one of the most dangerous provisions allows -- the one that allows police to stop and question people and try to determine their immigration status is going to be going into effec

russell three. isn't the issue not thousands of new rules and a 3000 new bill, the capital requirements of our banks, making sure they have more skin in the game? and the taxpayers are going to bear that loss, but investors in the bangs will be responsible for the losses of bad trades. >> i agree with you entirely. high capital requirements is because of all bills to anticipate everything that could happen. the good news is there's not a new miss the firm will fail or taxpayers will be in danger in any way. >> in essence we increase those ratios. and i imagine you let -- i don't have much time, but you agree with making sure that the larger banks are required to hold more capital? >> yes. >> okay, sometimes and i know you have to do this, but when you talk about what you say can be open to interpretation you do a very nice job of that. but as you're talking about taxes specifically, are you telling us if we allowed nothing to happen and we see all of these taxes increase, the bush tax cuts, obama tax cuts go away, there is going to be a direct impact on economic growth and job creation? >> i'm looki

bill clinton said last week about extending those bush tax cuts. >> love the graphics by the way. holy cow. >> love it. >> first, before we go to break, a dividend, which russellck is outperforming this year? the dividend pays off after the break. >>> just before the break, we asked which russell 2,000 stock is outperforming this year? now, the payoff, sketchers usa has risen about 67% year to date. >> all right, we want to get to the market flash desk with a update. >> thank you, the biggest driver in the dow today is boeing and it's pretty much at the highs of the day. they're targeted 1,000 orders in 2012. today they were upgrated to overperform. as you see, a good climb up that chart today, about 3.5%. >> not bad. >>> facebook doing all right today, but another social media stock getting hammered. jackie is at the nasdaq with details. >> yes, a tough day for zynga. this on the back of a report saying that facebook gaming is on a quick decline at this point. their daily active users fell 8.2% in may. the shift seems to be from social to mobile games. ann list saying it may have reached a negative inflection point. and speaking of facebook, you talked about

bill griffeth. setting the stage for the huge selloff, the s&p 500 and nasdaq hitting correction territory with both indices off about 10% from their 2012 intraday highs. russell 2000 there as well. stocks are having their worst day since november. dow jones industrial average is negative for 2012 at 12,1306789 technology is getting beaten up today as well. touching correction territory earlier today for the s&p. a loss of 2 and a third percent. >> the dow closed at the end of last year at 12,217.56. as you can see, we are currently very close to that. we are lower -- we are below that level right here and we if we finish below that day, the dow wiped out all of the gains for the year and would be negative for the year. we will monitor that level for you. we had such a good couple of months in the beginning of the year. >> first quarter was so good. may is not getting off to the start that we thought it would. >> nasdaq was around mampl, april. >> financials and technology, which led the first quarter. they were dismal in may and really reversing. >> for sure. reallocation. >> absolutely. meantime, given that june has been a bad month on average for stocks in

healthcare bill and then following the developments on the capitol on both the high wage deal and the contempt both on eric holder, which is expected toward the end of the afternoon. host: russell berman is a staff writer with "the hill" newspaper. thank you. at 10:00 a.m., c-span will continue its live coverage at the supreme court on the health care decisions. the last couple of times the supreme court could have decided health care we have them live and tracking the decision. and we will be taking your calls as well today when the supreme court doesn't decide on the health-care law. that will be on c-span 3 at 10:00 a.m., both the house and senate are in today, so we will be live on c-span 3. and one of both ways we track it is the scotus blog. here is "the washington post" this morning. that is from "the washington post" this morning. back to your phone calls. gordon is an independent from houston. caller: first-time caller. people in this country have forgotten that we are not capitalists. it is a democratic republic. when we have a national emergency like health care it is just like a hurricane. everyone is entitled. the way we go about giving the entitlement to health ca

riley to russell train have all expressed support for protecting our streams, rivers, wetlands, lakes, and other waters of the united states from pollution and from destruction. the rider in this billperpetuate the current confusing and cumbersome bureaucratic situation. i would suggest it's time to take a step forward not backward and i urge my colleagues to oppose the rider and support the amendment. yield back. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania yields back his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from washington rise? mr. dicks: i rise in opposition to the amendment and ask for -- strike the required number of words. the chair: the gentleman from washington is recognized for five minutes. mr. dicks: i received a letter from the american fisheries society, the american fly-fishing trade association, the american sport fishing association, backcountry hunters and anglers, i think these are very important groups. as a westerner i pay attention to these people. . conservation organizations representing millions of hunters, anglers nationwide, we ask you to oppose any legislation that would block the administration's very deliberate and vital actions to clarify and rest