i just -- irwin daniel.re are certain things in sports that you can't translate literally, so you have to adapt it and use the same terminology that's used in english because after all, you know, it's american pastime, so we have to use it, and then kind of explain to the fans what we're talking about. >> are you as angry that the rest of us that juan went to the dodgers? >> yeah, yeah. he is the reason why i'm going to get a fifth ring, so, obviously, for me it would have been okay if he goes to another team, but the dodgers? come on. >> well, we're going to cheer him on his first at-bat, and after that he is going to get nothing but boos from us. >> we're going to talk to all these judges, both as soon as they are done with their eating -- they're going to let them eat right now. we're back after these messages and talk about how to make this at home, another family tradition for the holidays. >>> this is a year for our annual tomale tasting contest. is he from parsley, rosemary, and thyme. >> catoring fir

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our group was actually started many years ago by professor john irwin, who was at a san francisco stateversity for 30 years. john recently passed away. john, even after he retired in 1995, for nearly 15 years helps me to organize the convicts criminology group. there is now 30 of us. we are all ex cons, ph.d., and professors at different universities. because i'm a convicted felon, i should say i went to federal prison for nine years. >> [inaudible] i came to a public forum, which included a lot of attorneys, to try to rectify these matters. >> [inaudible] >> i am here. i will be outside for five minutes with this information. [inaudible] >> thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. >> continue, dr. richard s. -- dr. richards. >> [inaudible] >> we love the excitement. this is all intentional. >> i'm happy to be in san francisco, and that kind f

welcome if you just joined us my name is kevin irwin here in moscow tonight without top story for you at eleven pm the white house is confident the u.s. senate won't adjourn for christmas until the nuclear cuts treaty with russia is ratified democrats believe they will manage to get the nine republican votes necessary to win the majority results he's got a chance you can reports next with a vote expected on wednesday it seems some must still trying to stall the deal. in terms of substance there is nothing that can stop the new start from being routed fight key questions concerns whatever senators had during the course of the past eight months of hearings were all addressed i do think that we have as i mentioned done our homework with regard to the new start treaty and that it is. in a good situation to ratify it in the slam duck session it has the unanimous support of the country's military many top officials former and present have testified in favor of the treaty now several.

irwin from "the washington post critic tom >> he seems pretty -- "the washington post." >> he seems pretty confident. that is the right policy and it will help the economy. there is a fair sense that this economy is going out of the woods. the jobs report friday was one sign of weakness. things are picking up a little bit, but probably not enough to have a robust jobs market like everyone would like. >> he is clearly not happy with the jobs report. it was much worse than expected. it was disappointing. the fed emphasizes that it does not base policy decisions on one meeting. with their decision to buy $600 billion in treasuries, in part to protect against the downside risk to the economy and to deflationary, if we see more numbers like we saw in this particular report, you could start seeing people start talking about whether the fed will have to buy even more treasury's. >> our guest, mr. bullard, talked about a longer-term view from congress. let's talk about the coming months, with a new congress employs, we know the commission has been struggling to achieve its 14 votes. >> fed officia

tonight it's now half past midnight moscow time it's kevin irwin here with a headline update for you and first world cup countries opening to host football's flagship tournament make a final push the day before the winner is announced russia is among the favorites but it does face tough competition or a deal tomorrow. protests sweeping across europe against the need to bail out failing economies italy is among the next at risk it seems following the fates of greece and ireland. and president of calls on the leading players in european security to push aside the stereotypes of the past and work together for the sake of future stability. he is the former bosnian serb leader accused of war crimes by un court next in our special report coming up r.t. reveals the other side of. belgrade the couple of serbia in two thousand and two doctor drug and which a specialist in alternative medicine settled here nobody knew where he was from or what his occupation had been before. one instant popularity in the medical community he gave lectures i'm cured people of diseases we see him as someone who

our guest has been neil irwin and scott lanman. thank you both of you. >> both of you. >> thank you. >> coming up, portions of this week's hearings on capitol hill dealing with repeal of don't ask, don't tell in the military. first, defense secretary gates. and later, heads of the military branches testify to the senate armed services committee. after that, a look at the final meetings of the president's commission on the bp deepwater horizon oil spill in the gulf of mexico. today on c-span 2's indepth, join our live creation with the say tanic verse us author salman rush di. weigh in on george bush's author. followed at 4:00 by a live roundtable discussion. and later on afterwards former president jimmy carter looks back at his presidency. find information on line at booktv.org. >> this week on prime minister's questions, prime minister david cameron talks about the state of the british economy, the economic forecast and unemployment figures recently outlined in the office of budget responsibilities report. prime minister's questi