the los angeles lakers are not a great defensive team. if you make them chase the basketball, you will get good lookses. the orlando magic moved the ball from right to left. different people touching it. every time somebody penetrated the kickout pass went to the guy with the open look. it helps when you shoot the ball with confidence. they didn't do that if l.a. the change of venue was great for rafer alston and pietrus. if you make the lakers chase it they have a better chance. >> i like the magic didn't get caught up in shooting 3-pointers. they took advantage of their assets. rafer alston can utilize his dribbling ability. and hedo turkoglu can take guys off the dribble. they were doing that. remember all of the missed layups in games 1 and 2 in this time they made 15 of the 18 shots inside the paint. they are making smots from everywhere in this game. being patient. >> orlando with 5 different player that is scored 18 points or more in game 3. what does game 4 hold? we will find out on thursday. 8:30 p.m. eastern on abc with the coun

>> i'm taking the los angeles lakers. kobe bryant becomes a facilitator. >> robert, you took the orlando magic. i got it down here on paper. do you still like them for the series? who do you like in game two? >> i like orlando magic. they've shaken out the jitters from game one. they'll go out and make shots. they missed a lot of easy shots. that's not like orlando. this game they'll knock down easy shots and win game two. >> los angeles lakers looking for their 15th franchise championship, just three wins away from that. a look at the staples center and downtown los angeles. opening tip just a few hours away. it all starts at 7:30 p.m. eastern time on abc with "nba countdown." >> an ethereal weekend for the dodgers. we break down this rematch. and roger federer is french open champion at last. the historic highlights ahead. since 1873, coors banquet has been brewed in one place... and one place only: golden, colorado. it's followed one tradition: use the best high-country barley... and only rocky mountain water. and it's

rafer has to get used to playing his role. >> imposing stat in favor of the los angeles lakers. phil jackson-coached teams a combined 43-0 when winning game one of a seven-game series, all time. >> lamar odom -- he had a double-double in game one. kobe bryant put up big numbers. andrew bynum came up big and pau gasol had 16 and eight. l.a. leading the series 1-0. game two on sunday. >> after every nba finals game is over on abc, turn over to espnews for the post-game news conferences. >> coming up on espnews. more baseball. when we last saw carlos zambrano, he was using a bat to smash a water cooler. friday he used a bat to smash something else. >> no smashing involved when it comes to zack greinke this year -- at times unhittable, major league leader in e.r.a. coming for some reason greinke forgot to take his best stuff to toronto with him resulting in his worst outing of the year. plus, who would have ever thought it would end this way. we'll tell you what has tom glavine feeling betrayed and still wanting to pitch. and with rafa nadal out at the french open, the road to histo

the mayor of los angeles is a honcho. host: could you respond? the stress in an emotional chord with our viewers. guest: yes, clearly the country is a country of immigration but it needs to be legal and reasonable and orderly. we have the technology to create such a system. unfortunately, it has not happened. part of it is enforcing the law. regardless of your feelings on illegal immigration, everyone must agree you cannot have a country that is premised on the rule of law and then have large segments of society openly flaunting it, ignoring it, or turning the other way. it is extremely corrosive. host: another tweak from a viewer who says he has listened to you want to spend many times. he thinks that you be a great candidate for president in 2012. guest: well, i have 19 months left of my term here in minnesota. i will finish that with diligence. we have a lot of challenges here in my state, but i will try to lend a voice to what i think the republican party needs to do to improve. in forward. i don't think the answer is to have the government t

the mayor of los angeles saying he will not run for governor. the decision may help jerry brown more than gavin newsom, who is the mayor of san francisco. he served as the governor of california in the 1970's and is now the attorney general. also, a story that has been getting a lot of attention in south carolina. it says sanford awol, who is in charge? the south carolina staff saying the governor is hiking, ending four days in which officials say they had not heard from him. neither his office nor the state law enforcement staff had been able to reach him since he left thursday in a black suburban s tv -- a black suburban suv. that is according to one staff official. he would not reveal whether he was hiking alone. his last known location was near a lanham late last week. -- he was near atlanta late last week. more details on available from the state newspaper. scott is on the phone from long island. are there mixed signals in the economy? if so, where are we heading? caller: i don't know where we are heading. thanks for c-span. i am baffled so

joined by tim and a.j., we talk about the los angeles lakers and kobe bryant.ly he is making the shots in the fourth quarter especially, averaging about 33 points a game coming into that game. what happened down the stretch? >> part of it could be the fatigue factor. 30 is not the new 20. not when you played 173 career playoff games as kobe bryant has. especially a grueling playoff this year. seven-game series with houston, one day's rest and every owe day with did he ever. -- denver. you saw him with a five day rest, he had the best game. in game two overtime and a cross-country flight you saw him get tired. and phil jackson doesn't play for the immediate games he is keeping games five, six and potential seven in mind. and i think he will have him resting to keep him for the final games of the series. >> and one thing is making kobe bryant work at the other end and pietrus with an aggressive game. and kobe wants to gamble and you turn your head i will make you play. you take away the open flee and pietrus 7-8 on everything else, that is transition, post-up, an

joined by tim and a.j., we talk about the los angeles lakers and kobe bryant.ly he is making the shots in the fourth quarter especially, averaging about 33 points a game coming into that game. what happened down the stretch? >> part of it could be the fatigue factor. i'm sorry, 30 sw not the new 20. not when you played 173 career playoff games as kobe bryant has. especially a grueling playoff this year. seven-game series with houston, having to come back on one day's rest and go every other day with everybody in. and he had five days off before the final the best performance ever. and then coming off 48.5 minutes in game two overtime and a cross-country flight you saw him get tired in the second half. and phil jackson doesn't play for the immediate games he is keeping games five, six and potential seven in mind. you won't see him use kobe that much. and i think you will see him resting to keep him fresh for the later games of the series. >> and one thing is making kobe bryant work at the other end and pietrus had the most aggressive game so far. and he made kob

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. >> we will begin with the "los angeles times" >> your home state is one of those states that has been exceptionally hard hit. michigan has 12.9%. what is the administration doing in particular for those states that are hard hit when it comes to the long-term unemployed and the underemployed in those areas? >> in the recovery program that the president signed in february, there were different types of funding made available to the states. many of the stage you outlander benefiting from the extension of unemployment benefits. first of all, that went out and gave a $25 increase for anyone who is drawn down unemployment insurance. some states have gone as far as to change and modify their laws so they could receive what we call funding under the ui modernization act will now be able to get money to cover part- time workers. in many cases, women and people who have had to move on because the spouse has moved to another location, or they were a victim of domestic violence. this is an additional source of funding, and i would say to you that in two weeks i will be able to announce the money

the autrey national center of the american west in los angeles hosted the event. it's about an hour. >> today we are very excited to welcome back for a special talk and book signing, deann stillman, who spent time here at the institute doing research. deann is a widely published, critically acclaimed writer. her latest book "mustang, the saga of the wild horse in the american west" was named a best book in 2008 by the los angeles times. won a california book award silver medal for nonfiction and has received excellent reviews in the atlantic monthly, the economist, orion and p.r.'s on point, the seattle times, albuquerque journal and elsewhere. her previous books, "29 palms," a story of murder, marines and the mojave, was recently published in a new updated edition. it was a los angeles times best book if 2001, and hunter thompson calls it a strange and brilliant story by an important american writer. deann also writes for the rolling stone, slate, the huffington post and many other publications and her work is widely produced. ♪ ♪ >> for a long time, the american

joe son the phone from los angeles -- is on the phone from los angeles. good morning.caller: there's always been a historical allegiance between the christians -- the israelis back up the christians in the civil war. are the christians comfortable dealing with the muslims? where do the christians side? do they see israel as an alli or more of a problem -- an ally or more of a problem? to the israelis think the christians in lebanon could possibly help them out in case there's a war with syria? or, you know with any other arab country? s what -- what's the politics of the christians as it relates to israel's national security? guest: that's a really interesting question. we go back, certainly the civil war wasn't merely christian-muslim divide but it was largely the extent of that. there were people who were taking sides on this in the interinternational community. but the fascinating thing about the 1975 civil war in lebanon, which is the major civil war, was that actually the syrians intervened on behalf of the christians divided by then a christian president so it wa

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so, if you were still in the 116 116th infantry in a rifle company at s tft lo you were rey lucky. you were a fugitive from the law of averages. host: our next call is john in philadelphia. john is world war ii vet. where did you serve and what unit were you with? caller: i would like to thank your guest for mentioning the 82nd. 82nd airborne when i jumped into normandy. i eventually made the holland jump. my fought in the bulge and crossed the rhine near cologne. helped liberate a nazi concentration camp and ended up on the elbe river. the cascariest part bawas when got over the continent and that plane started to sway back and forth and up and down and all the noise and we could hear the flack hitting the skin of the plane. all we wanted to do is get the hell out of that plane. when that green light came on and they said go out the door we were running to get out that door. and when i hit the silk, it was dark, of course, and early morning hours and i saw all them tracers. i thought every german in the german army was shooting at me. fortunately, i got through it all and i landed

in los angeles. the controversial case drew local and eventually national attention as mattachine this summer and fall in the trial organized membership which ballooned. mattachine my discussion groups immediately sprang up in long beach, laguna beach and fresno. by early 1953 groups that form as far away as san diego, san francisco, oakland, berkeley and chicago. emboldened by the triumph men and women of the mattachine brought the days of fear, silence and secrecy to an end. thank you. >> thanks, todd. again that is from "pre-gay l.a.: a social history of the movement for homosexual rights". i have a million questions, a million. i'm only going to have time for a couple of them and as you were both reading one of the things that struck me was the question of or the craziness of the senate invasion of private lives thinking about it now even in the construction of your two books of like to ask you both the same question and that is obviously you are doing research, you are wanted to talk to some of

[applause] >> ross donaldson teaches medicine at ucla and works at a trauma center in los angeles. for more information on dr. donaldson and his book, "the lassa ward," visit rossdonaldson.com. >> today on in depth, bill ayers joins book tv for a live three-hour interview at the litfest. we'll take your calls at noon eastern. ♪ >> this summer, book tv is asking, what are you reading? >> congressman culberson, what are you reading this summer? >> i always have two or three books going at the same time. one person who i always read on a regular basis is my hero, thomas jefferson's writings. frankly, a day doesn't go by that i don't read something that he's written. i'll continue to work my way through his letters in particular. mr. jefferson wrote so much that although i've probably spent the last -- my gosh, almost 30 years reading through his works i've only made it maybe about halfway through. so i'll continue to work on reading thomas jefferson's letters. i've always had a particular fascination with history so i'll continue to read works by a number of different authors, one i'm

many of the people started one came from the midwest and rural america and when i went to los angeles part of their mission was to talk to those people that are still back in rural americans and the sioux have this amazing thing going on out here and you're not as low as you thank you are. allot of it was out region that is why one magazine was born to talk to those people and say you are not alone. many of these people though, these men and women as they became elderly started to rethink this. they knew how vulnerable they were in the began to get scared especially hearing stories about the matthew shepard beating, they're moving back to their homes in louisiana and colorado. it is one thing to be out an active as an activist and los angeles, but when you are a boy in louisiana is different. many of them said to heck with it, i am an activist and will not turn my back on my past and we're glad i was using their real names to tell their story but one individual which was one pseudonym i call antonio sanchez. when i first contacted tony probably three or four years ago now, he was very

this has caused water shortage to spread to los angeles and even to san diego. the democrat congress is directly responsible. you were warned, you failed to act and now this congress must accept the responsibility for their actions. a government that cannot provide water is a government that has failed. throughout history dictators like zimbabwe's mugabe have used water as a weapon to starve their enemies of water. but what we've never seen in history is the democracy starving its own people of water. mr. speaker, my constituents are not enemies of the state. quite honestly, offering this amendment today is the worst of all options. but because of the actions of this democrat majority, i have in -- i had no other choice. they have refused to allow debate on this issue or even a vote on a bill that would end this crisis for good. this amendment is a small step in a long process that must be made to build a case that this congress has failed its constitutional duties to provide for the general welfare of its citizens. and, mr. speaker, unfortunately this is a bipa

this bill a you los adult smokers to do so. is one way congress is going to try to get children not to pick up the habit. host: how does congress' own experience come into play? guest: there's discussion of whether congressmen still smoke or not. it is yet to be known. host: on the line for california. caller: it seems like they want

my daughter is 28 years old and if she moved to los angeles, she wouldn't buy the "los angeles times", it wouldn't occur to her. she would go online and do it that way. the collapse of this advertising is an enormous part of the industry. host: newspapers and television, and the internet is dynamic. and your columns probably get comments being posted around the country. do you read the comments? guest: if they are called to my attention, but i would do nothing else if i followed those out there on the internet. host: when you read them, do they cast nuances? guest: sure and i respond to them. host: we have one more caller, reed. caller: good morning george, i am trying to get more understanding of the economic downturn problems and try to get to the accountability on wall street but get us accountability on the i.m.f. procedures and who is our world financial broker? and who are we really indebted to and who have we had to pay back, that i feel like the first bush tarp stuff is about. thank you. guest: the caller has a good point, it's a problem of transparency. and there are a lot of

i have no idea what the people in los angeles are doing. one simple thing, we cannot do anything but restrict our freedom of expression. i'm not quite sure whether that freedom of expression can be limited when american citizens decide to address issues in the country of origin or country of special interest. there wili don't think our freef speech could be subject of negotiation with a foreign government unless there is absolutely clear evidence that it is not freedom of expression that is involved but advocacy of some sort of violence, in which case there may be legitimate foreign objections. i imagine that someone or broadcasting to the united states from a country from which we had diplomatic relations urging let's say muslim americans to start engaging in suicide terrorism, that we would have legitimate grounds for going to their government and saying, you guys better get this under control. all right. in the back, all the way? >> the stimson center. i wanted to ask about the role of third parties in helping persuade the iranians that

well, it was a finalist for the national book critic award it notes that it was a finalist for the "los angeles times" book prize, i'm happy to report to you that as of 9:30 last night it is the winner. [applause] >> paula also holds the elizabeth woodson chair and is the editor of the academic journal. she's a journalist who has been published in the "washington post" and among other publications. at the far end of the panel robert roper, we're here today, obviously, to take about biography and related topics. but, in fact, most of robert's published books are novels or story collections. he's written for magazines such as national geographic, outside and men's journal, for newspapers including the "new york times," "chicago tribune," "san francisco chronicle" and happily the "los angeles times." he's alsok# been publishing ess in the american scholar and he teaches writing and -- teaches in the writing and the film departments at johns hopkins. he's, i'm told, at work -- just written a new novel and a work on a second and in search of another biographical book. finally, richard reeve

my daughter is 28 years old and if she moved to los angeles, she wouldn't buy the "los angeles times", it wouldn't occur to her. she would go online and do it that way. the collapse of this advertising is an enormous part of the industry. host: newspapers and television, and the internet is dynamic. and your columns probably get comments being posted around the country. do you read the comments? guest: if they are called to my attention, but i would do nothing else if i followed those out there on

there would have been thousands of degrees in downtown los angeles but for the interrogation of those toy yosts. lincoln suspended habeas corpus, arrested americans for speaking out in favor of the confederacy's right to succeed and spendded habeas corp pause nationwide to do all sorts of things that caused outrage during the war and nobody questioned it. so i always have a particular interest in constitutional history and the war between the states, i'm finishing up this book, and i recommend james mcpherson to anyone. i always keep several books going. the whole second area i work on continuously are die riz of texans during the war between the states, and in particular i found this one -- i can't remember this one highly enough. it's hard to find but it's a soldier's letter to charming nellie. a wonderful writer. he does a great job of writing. wonderful personal anecdotes of texans in the war. you can see on the cover the lone star, which mean as great deal to me personally. i am a passionate everran/libertarian and believe passionately in individual's rights. want the government

he went to los angeles and t said angeles andoo big. want -- he said to los angeles, angeles,nd saudid don't get too. it was done with grandiosity parity said if you don't like a strong president, don't look at the roosevelt. "i so declare it a federal reservation. also declared a national monument." locals were how outraged wondering how he could just grab their land. he believed in the power of the federal government. if you want the federal government to protect the land for future generations. >> do you like that? >> i agree. he was right on. they're going to take the railroad wants to cut through the middle of yellowstone, building up as a commercial center and allow people to build, island sites in the middle of yellowstone. roosevelt with the boone and crockett club went to congress and fought to preserve the integrity of yellowstone. 90% of americans would say that's a good thing. >> do you like the idea that he would declare that is going to be a wilderness. >> i do. >> how would you like it someone did that at your home? >> th

constitution to interrogate these killers and find out what they're up to and save lives particularly in los angeles. there would have in thousands of deaths in downtown los angeles but for the interrogation of those terrorists. lincoln suspended habeas corpus, 13,000 americans simply for speaking out in favor of the confederacy's right to succeed, suspended habeas corpus nationwide, use his powers as commander-in-chief to do all sorts of things that caused outrage during the war and nobody questioned the. i always have a particular interest in constitutional history and the war between the states. i am finishing this book, i highly recommend james mcpherson to anyone. i always keep several books going at the same time. a whole secondary i work on continuously are diaries of texans during the war between the states. in particular i found this one. i can't recommend this one highly enough, it is hard to find, but it is a soldier's letter to charming nellie, he does a great job writing in technicolor, a wonderful personal anecdote of texans in the war. you can see on the cover the lone star wh

she went by the los angeles times. it would not occur to her -- she would go on to craigslist or on-line and do it that way. the collapse of classified advertising is an enormous part of the problem of the industry. >> host: old communications, newspapers and television or one recommendation, the internet is dynamic and your call in and get less commentary after posted in newspaper web sites around the country. do you read the comments? hazmat when they are called to my attention, but i do nothing else if i tried to follow all the reverberations and ricochets that are out there on the internet. >> host: when you read them to the cast nuances? my short, and i respond to a bunch of them. >> host: next call from north carolina for george will on independent line. >> caller: good morning, george. i am trying to get a little more understanding of our economic downturn problem and i know is get to the accountability problem with wall street but i don't ever seem to addressing the accountability of the ims procedures and actu

that is the first phase will be between los angeles and san francisco, points in between. i also want to point out the private sector has to be leveraged into this too. in california we're working with the private sector so you take the $13 billion, you add the $9 billion from my state, hopefully billions from other states, and hopefully billions from the private sector that you can get involved in it. and it starts to look like something on the scale not quite what governor rendell wants, i don't think. because i think he even has a bigger plan, but i think you start to leverage and you start to see some real things happening. and i wanted to just point out that our studies, and if i am saying something that's been disproven, let me know, show that our high-speed rail in california save 12.7 million barrels a year by 2030 and reduce co-2 emissions by 12 billion pounds per year. supposed to be 160,000 construction jobs and literally they're saying california hundreds of thousands of permanent jobs by 2035. so i think as we look at a lot of the problems facing us, this grea

and miss wittney horton from los angeles, california. welcome all of you. thank you for coming. it's the policy of the subcommittee to take all testimony under oath. please be advised that you have a right under the rules of the house to be advised by counsel during your testimony. do you wish to be represent the by counsel during your testimony? you're all shaking your heads no? so -- okay. i'm going to ask you to please rise and raise your right hand to take the oath. miss beaton, if you want to sit there, that's okay. do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the matter pending before this committee? let the record reflect the witnesses replied in the affirmative. they are now under oath. we will hear a five-minute opening statement from each of you. miss beaton, would you like to start first with an opening? you'd like to be last? miss horton, would you mind being first? would you pull that mike forward and turn on the green button there. it doesn't pick up as well as it should. >> can you hear m

[applause] >> for more information on the los angeles times vessel of books and visit l.a. times.com/extras/festival books. >> annelise and martin anderson used formerly classified documents to contended that ronald reagan believed the destruction of nuclear weapons was tantamount in achieving his goal to bring an end to the soviet union the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california hosted this event. it is 25 minutes. >> [applause] >> hello, i was just thinking in has now been about 34 years finally when i first met ronald reagan and we always like it when we first met him and we still like him. and as has been said, we have known him for quite a long time. in 1988i wrote one book explaining what reagan was like and when he had done and i thought i really knew about it turned up one pepo left for talking about how he was silly and didn't know what he was doing and was monday. all kinds of things that they called him names and the thing they could not understand was how in god's name to the get all that work done, how is he able to do it? and that idea h

i tend to make these flying vista los angeles and never got a chance to go to the museum, today is myt day year so after i get talking to you guys assigning some book, you might feel they are valuable and they are to sign. [laughter] but i'm going to spend some time and i've got a five year-old, if it has wheels it rules. so i've got to go down, i have been out on book tour for three weeks so i can't come home empty-handed so i have to do some shopping here today two. anyway, it is i am afraid in the last time to say how shall we put it, sayonara to the american car. american automobile companies, ford, gm and chrysler will live on in some form, it kind of marley's ghost dragging their chains at taxpayers' expense. [laughter] you know, the fools and the corner offices of detroit and a full official said detroit unions are going to retire to their vacation homes in palm beach and st. petersburg respectively. and the server -- and they don't deserve our sympathy more than double levels of the capitol dome in washington to, but pity the poor american car when congress and the white house

which will go to san francisco to los angeles. this will eventually connect three major western metropolitan megaregions. each project meeting the criteria set out by our commission and the g.a.o. for being corridors of being 500 miles or less. this strigs is one that takes leadership and courage to get it done. it can be done and it should be done. i know having grown up in sioux falls, south dakota, it would have been nice too take a trip to minneapolis for a vikings game. but i was at home stuck in a blizzard because we had to travel by car. yes, these systems will be costly to design, fund and construct, but we can do this. this is the united states of america. mr. chairman, i have three policy changes for this committee to consider in the new authorization. first, we must agree upon a bold new vision and make the cultural shift in the h in the way we do transportation. a vision they can invest in and believe in, connecting america much like the eisenhower highway system did. we must do today what our parents and our grandpare

you are up early from los angeles. political news out of l.a., we will get to that in a moment. but one of our tweets -- things feel like they are getting better, but are they really getting better or have i got used to last, and is that so bad? the story inside the politics section of "the washington times." top money, one of the key components by president bush and obama to help salvage some of the troubled financial institutions. this story pointing out a quote from senator blanche lincoln, a democrat from arkansas, who said tarp was never meant to be permanent but an emergency initiatives it designed to stabilize the financial markets and bring greater confidence to investors and business. senator lincoln saying it is only appropriate that program to be phased out as expeditiously as possible. the first paragraph pointing out the detail that the bipartisan trio of senators say they will introduce legislation to make sure that wall street bailout money repaid to the federal government cannot be recycled to keep the program continue perpetually. next, on the phone from illinoi

i think there's a great deal of merit to the editor in the los angeles times on february 8th calling for an end to the judge wars, and to move beyond parties in battle over nominations to the federal courts. the los angeles times observed that if president obama wants to deliver on the bipartisanship he promised he should focus on the process for selecting federal judges. i was nominated in march 1987 in the partisan fight in the senate over my nomination lasted six months and ended in a political compromise that allowed my nomination to be brought to a floor vote just before the senate recessed in november 1987. but that six-month fight over me pails in comparison to what occurs now. two years or even four years and other lengthy political battles over judges are no longer unusual. it hasn't mattered which party controls the white house or the senate. the paybacks and the bickering have been thoroughly bipartisan. republicans are still seething about the way judge bork and justice thomas were treated. democrats are still seething about the way the republican-controlled senate blocke

but the wealthier areas, areas around the coast of san francisco, san diego and los angeles have adjusted maybe 20% declines but haven't seen their full decline because they haven't had this for closure. but it doesn't mean they won't adjust. they had the largest appreciation, the neighborhoods had the biggest percentage increase. they saw 500% appreciation the last 15 years, so the

. >> you have to lo the dinner. a really unique moment. and seeing the funny side of mccain was something that maybe would have helped him if people had seen it more often. frustrations with the kind of attention and performance that obama was doing. but i just think it's so healthy that people can laugh at themselves and poke fun as well. >> election day in chicago, walk us through the events that led to his speech at grand park. >> being inspired by teddy white's book, i really wanted to capture that last 36 hours of the campaign, which is the opening of the book. and it was an extraordinary time of change for this individual, where he transitions from being a semi-normal person to this institutional figure of a president. he spent it up in this hotel room, the top of the high yat hotel. and things move very, very quickly on the night. he -- his chief strategist, he called up early on in the evening to say things look pretty good. and he didn't want to say congratulations mr. president as bob strom had said in 2004 because they were all