this will be a bigger issue for bonds and clemens four, five years from now.sammy sosa, three, four, five years from now. we'll see if the landscape has changed at all. the thing that also weighs for me, i'm certainly not condoning anybody cheating, but we know there are players during hank aaron's era that took amphetamines. we know there were players part of the cocaine problems with baseball in the '80s and they're in the hall of fame. this is a problem for baseball. it was never addressed by baseball in 2004. and iing just think we're a little late to the party to come back and start saying now we're going to hand out judgments that baseball is not willing to hand down. >> what impact do you think your meet willing have with voters nationally? >> well, i think the one thing that was really positive about this is we got a dialog going and although we didn't come to any kind of great conclusion, we did decide that, let's try and raise this as an issue when all of the baseball writers will meet before the all-star game in st. louis next month. and we'd like t

just to take maybe a couple of seconds, cluj clemens mentioned aides to former governor siegelman caught up in this. and ultimately, all charges even after the second trial were dismissed against those aides who were just caught up in the net. and when you think about the obligation to respond to a response that's 100 pages and a ruinous effort on a family who does not have the income on this, it's very important to think of what the consequences are when people are indicted and found either innocent or guilty. and our next speaker is charles "champ" walker. former congressional candidate in georgia. he's also the son of charge w. walker sr. who i mentioned at the beginning was a state senator from georgia, actually the first african-american state senator majority leader in the united states history. and as you'll hear a little bit more, he's currently serving a ten-year sentence in georgia on corruption charges. and champ, who is a businessman involved in technology. he was independent of this just last week, speaking at the white house and his businesses and as a leader in his own rig

help guide him on what he should know about the administration of justice in the country and judge clemens stepped forward to offer his views after 30 years on the bench. he had been invited to speak to the judiciary committee, but he felt that as a judge, he should not do it. he is now in private practice in birmingham. i am just thrilled by this opportunity to present nearly three decades of top-level judicial experience for this audience here and thanks to c- span nationwide. please, help me welcome judge uw clemmon. [applause] >> i'm going to take a drink of water. it's my privilege to be here this morning. since i made a change of career, i don't have to drive all night to get to washington and i am taking full opportunity full exercise of my newly found first amendment rights, and actually, i wasn't invited by the judiciary committee to come. i invited thoem to subpoena me but without them doing that i couldn't come without violating some of the ethical constraints. earlier on in my life i was an eyewitness to the sometimes tragic results of unwarranted prosecuti prosecutions. then t

. >> rob: roger clemens. >> bob: no. >> rob: bill hughs?>> bob: you're getting warmer. >> rob: ian ken can i? >> bob: you're getting colder. former expo. >> rob: he gave up mark mack wire's 69th and 70th home runs. carl pavano, from my alma mater. sorry, we've still got two world champions from that high school. >> bob: that ball out to center. it will drop in front of willie harris and a base hit for michel hernandez. now the nats get anybody out here -- can't get anybody out here in the 6th inning. reid brignac will be next. >> rob: all there's power hitters in the middle of this tampa bay line-up. two biggest boppers, evan longoria hits a little flair out to the outfield. then your number four guy bunts for a base hit. then the bottom of the order just crushes a couple of home runs. >> bob: i think those last two columns gave you a reason for colome's problems here in tampa. tampa bay, at least. willie harris will catch this one, off the bat of brignac. jesus colome, a 10-7 strikeout to walk ratio. in his years here. tonight's copyrighte

that is a judge clemen, former chief judge of the northern district of alabama that served from 1981 until this year. he served with great distinction. i am not going to steal his thunder, except by way of introductions. he was the first african american judge from the deep south. he graduated from columbia university in 1960. it is very rare, but it is not that rare now for a federal judge to suggest to the u.s. justice department that they are doing things wrong. in fact, and number of chief federal judges wrote eric colder that they had serious concerns -- eric holder that they had serious concerns about the with the prosecutions were going. it is not him alone, it is other challenges. there are also views from congress that will be here shortly. we have use of independent legal experts. we have views of victims who are distinguished public officials who spoke on a video created by the very noted film maker, john mctiernen

it gives rural communities and farmers the opportunity to participate in clemens solution and generate new income. it will protect consumers so that in a decade, the price of the average will be a poster stamp a day. it has already attracted a remarkable coalition of consumer and informant told groups, democrats and republicans. i want to thank every member of congress who put all of this aside. now i call on every american, you cannot be afraid of the future. don't believe the misinformation that suggest that there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth per it's not true. even -- we have been talking about energy for decades. there is no longer a disagreement on whether are dependent for foreign or out is in danger are country. it is. there is no longer a question about whether the jobs and industries of the 21st century will be centered around clean, renewable energy. the question is, which countries will bring these jobs? i want that answer to beat the united states. i believe in the american people, the men and women they sent to congress t

sanchez, and he hasn't thrown a pass in an nfl game yet and clemens with a passer rating below 60. >>nd tuesday, ed reported that the vikings gave brett farve a head line to report this week if he wanted to play this season. and yesterday, they said unless his wife wants it out of the house, he says the team did not set a deadline. >> was there a deadline or not on brett farve to report to practice? >> absolutely not. maybe by deanna or something like that, but certainly not for me. not even close. don't know where they would have dropped out of the sky from. >> would it be safe to say there will be a later date where this will resume in a more serious manner? >> i don't know. i am not into predicting the future. we'll just have to see what is around the corner tomorrow. he was a great player. he had a setback last year, playing very well early, and if in fact he had that surgery, i'm anxious to see just exactly what he has left in that cannon. he had a pretty good arm as we know. >> the vikings depth chart, jackson led them to the playoffs, but 2-3 as a starter last season. and they

. >> i thought it was clemens -- >> the opposite, adamle was prime minister and bevin laws -- [inaudible] >> clement was winston churchill's's both successor and predecessor because churchill came back again in the early 50's. i just wanted that one point. >> i've always been curious about george marshall. he threatened to resign, and then he didn't resign. and he's such a large name in american history. do we know anything about his thinking? was the anti-semitic? what were his -- what were his thoughts why he opposed so much? >> some people felt he didn't have very strong feelings before he became secretary of state, but he was very influenced by the state department once he did become secretary of state, and kind of adopted their attitude towards the middle east and partition in israel. >> also, he had a long talk right before the leaders of the jewish agency going to vote in palestine whether to proclaim a jewish state. he had a long talk and he came to see him in his office and the text is available. and he gave him and allergies between his experience trying to negotiate between th

finally, for fun i want to read the rockets that fell to earth, the new book about roger clemens andow he sort of rose and tank as to the drug controversy has somewhat fall and. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our web site at booktv.org. outside magazine correspondent steven rinella on recounts the history of the american buffalo from its centrality to the lives of native americans to the sizable reduction of its population from about 40,000,002 of the few hundred by the late 19th century and its usage as a symbol of america. this event hosted by tidal wave books in anchorage alaska is 40 minutes. >> thank you all for coming out tonight. i am going to read, i want to read a little bit of my book and then i'm going to show some slides and discuss them. when i showed the slides and discuss them i realize the need someone to hit the button, the forward button. i need a volunteer to handle that for me. i am going to read from the beginning of the book. [ist a couple of pages.

help guide him on what he should know about the administration of justice in the country, and judge clemenstepped forward to offer his views after 30 years on the bench. he had been invited to speak to the judiciary committee, but he felt that, as a judge, he should not do it. he's now in private practice in birmingham, and

of the players who did steroids specifically should mark mcgwire, barry bonds, sammy sosa, roger clemens and a lot be kept out of the hall-of-fame? >> that is a question i can address all of you today because it is the writers who decide who goes into the hall-of-fame. can we get opinions? i have strong opinions if any of you would like to hear them someday i would be happy to share but that is all of your responsibility and i await a responsible answer. [laughter] >> why don't you share your opinion with us now? >> i'm waiting for you guys. >> okay. the nats nerve emerged from the steroid scandal unscathed. what's your secret? >> i don't want to make jokes about steroids because it is not a funny subject and it never has been. forget its impact on the game. it has such a far-reaching impact on society particularly kids, so we don't have any secret. we don't know that we haven't been touched. i do know the most telling thing about the mitchell report was senator mitchell's declaration that i don't represent at all the names in this report are all of the names in baseball. i'm not telling