caller: he was a ranger. and i don't know if people remember this but the rangers had a battalion wiped out by the germans and after that they disbanded the regiment and they sprinkled the rangers back in and they were the scouts or the forward guys of each rifle company. and so my uncle went through with a push to st. lieu and was wounded at d plus 12 just outside of st. lieu. my uncle served at heart break ridge in korea. and then i served in the marine corps in vietnam. my older brothers served in the army rangers. his wife also was in the mountain division. my younger brother served in the navy for ten years and his daughter stacy was nominated twice as military photographer for the year in iraq. so we do have a history with this. and i would like to say to all the people out there, honor the veterans. because if it wasn't for them, they wouldn't be able to enjoy the benefits that they have today. host: thank you very much for your call. our next call comes from new york city, as we look at prime minister

so, absolutely, you look at the rangers, can they win this division? yes. >> buster olney, we're out of time. see you on "baseball tonight" on espn at 7:00 pacific and 9:00 pacific. we want to give love to the west coasters. >> east to west, it's a play you cannot see enough. >> absolutely not. >> how easily can castillo and bathroom more than ever? all: you're not alone. waking up a lot at night to go? stopping and starting? feeling that urgency? all: you're not alone. announcer: lots of guys get urinary symptoms due to bph...also called an enlarged prostate. and for many of these guys, prescription flomax reduces their urinary symptoms due to bph in one week. only your doctor can tell if you have bph, not a more serious condition like prostate cancer. avoid driving or hazardous tasks for 12 hours after your first dose or increase in dose, a sudden drop in blood pressure may occur, rarely resulting in fainting. if considering cataract surgery, tell your eye surgeon you've taken flomax. common side effects are runny nose, dizziness and decrease in seme

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the rangers scaled the cliffs. by the end of the day, against all odds, the ground on which we stand was free once more. the sheer in probability of this victory is part of what makes d-day so memorable. it arises from the clarity of purpose from which this war was waged. we live in a world of competing beliefs and claims about what is true. it is a world of buried religions and cultures and forms of government being buried in religions. it is all too rare for a struggle to reverse that speaks to something universal about humanity. the second world war did that. no man who shed blood or lost a brother would say that war is good, but all know that this war was essential. what we faced in nazi totalitarianism was not just a battle of competing interests. it was a competing vision of humanity. that is the ideology that sought to subjugate, humiliating, and exterminate. perpetrated murder on a massive scale, filled by hatred for those who were deemed a different and therefore inferior. it was evil. the nations that joi

the rangers at least a share of first place since may 6th the. latest they have been in the situation since 1999. the year prince sang about. 21 runs and 28 hits and five homers. on this day, doing all the damage is the double to left and resulting in the score. and going up 1-0. adding to the r.b.i. total here. and ripping another double down the line and scoring two. and three r.b.i.s and they win it 7-3. just the second road win in the last eight road games and the fouri fourth win. and a career high of four strikeouts in the game. >> keeping you update around baseball, rockies and a's at this point. and seth smith a solo shot in the fourth inning. the second home run in the last three games. and barmes also a solo shot. the dodgers and mariners, the difference is the r.b.i. double in the second making it 1-0. >> golf, michelle wie four back. and struggling today, and misses that par putt. on four, another par putt. she will miss that one as well. she bogeyed four of the first six holes. and lewis rolling, rolling, knocks down the birdie putt

. >> rangers go for the season sweep of the astros.e the game the rangers honoring former president george bush with his own suite. he used to own the rangers. 3-3 game, hunter pence with a home run, stros win 5-3 and avoid the season sweep. >> mets and o's concluding their series at camden yards. drama in the bottom of the ninth, o's down 4-3, francisco rodriguez walks adam jones. felix pie -- come on in. k-rod entered the game with a .56 e.r.a. ends up blowing the save. aubrey huff, second straight game, deciding hit, o's end up winning it 5-4. >> still to come, mother nature washes out the open's first round. what this means for tiger and the rest of the field. the rest of the field. stay current with espnews. - ( cheerful tune playing ) - learned how to change my own oil. think i did something wrong! but you know how pricey these german cars are to maintain. right? max: actually, volkswagen has no-charge scheduled carefree maintenance. even the cc. ( chuckles ) ...no charge. even on the cc. bus: you know what they say about the bes

was the only ranger with a hit. red sox end up winning it 8-1. lester, now, 19-4 at fenway park during his career. the best home win percentage among active pitchers with at least 15 career home starts. >> mets -- they couldn't get out of their own way vs. the nats. top four, 3-1, emil brown at the plate against castillo, elijah duke can't catch it. he thought duke made the catch. castillo at second -- total confusion on the basepaths -- woop, woop, woop -- which way did he go? which way did he go? brown passes castillo coming back. he's out. mets lose 7-1. >> that was ugly. u.s. and honduras in the first world cup qualifier ever played at soldier field -- the americans change four starters after being embarrassed by costa rica. early on, clint dempsey working for the u.s. midfield, the horrible turnover here, honduras on the break and carlos copley scores. u.s. down 1-0 quickly. u.s. tied it at 1-1 on a donovan penalty kick. then in the second half, great chip pass, dempsey wide open -- he blows it. another costly mistake. 68th minute, donovan t

and the rangers had at least a share of first place since may 6th.t they have been in the position since 1999. yes, the year that prince once sang about. padres scoring the least and up wouldn't know it today leading 7-3 in the top of the ninth. and eckstein with an r.b.i. double. and again a single in the sixth. and davis with the second home run in the last three games. >> and the best interleague performer this season, trying to keep it going against the d-backs. davis 1-5 at tomorrow. and the angels down 1-0. and aybar drops it down and it looks pretty routine and they throw it away. aybar heads to second and the double is nice. and aybar safe. and the throw, that sails out of town and aybar scores easily. and the second most errors in the majors. and the angels 13-4 in interleague play. and going 3-4 and .500 in the last seven games. >>> updating you on the giants and brewers now tied at 6-6 in the bottom of the ninth. the giants are doing their best to give the game away. brian wilson on the mound, the bottom of the ninth. prince fielder coming

here, we've got maybe 300 rangers all told" -- no, not that many -- 100 rangers all told. they read one, "god, this guy is great. where do i find him?" we'll give them his name and his address and telephone number, and the network will go out and do an interview with him. and it's just great for these guys. i mean, they just love it, being able to go on national television and tell their stories. as i say, it's just immensely satisfying to us. but it's for 13 years that we've been collecting these in obscurity, looking forward to the 50th anniversary. and it's not just the television, it's the newspapers and it's book writers and scholars of all kinds, and they're all coming to new orleans because we have the most accounts from eyewitness sources -- "i was there" -- of any single battle in history. c-span: what are some of your favorites? >> guest: oh, there are so many. those higgins boats may have won the war for us, but every man who went in on one hated them. they were flat-bottomed, they did this in the waves, the gunnels were only 6 feet high, the waves were washing

the rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades and the american rangers began to climb. >> 50 years ago the first allied soldiers to land here in norm day came not from the sea but from the sky. they were called path finders. the first paratroopers to make the jump. deep in the darkness they descended on these fields to light beacons for the airborne assault that would soon follow. now, near the dawn of a new centu century, the job of lighting those beacons falls to our ha s hands. to you who brought us here i promi promise, we will be the new path finders, for we are the children of your sacrifice. >> with us today are americans who first saw this place at a distan distance. in the half light of of a tuesday morning long ago. time and providence have brought them back to see once more the beaches and cliffs, the crosses and the stars of david. generations to come will know what happened here, but these men heard the guns. visitors will always pay respects at this cemetery, but these veterans come looking for a name and r

he spent three hours in freezing water and was one of only 90 rangers to survive out of the 225 who were sent to scale the cliffs. as the story written by summoning no longer with us, by carlton baret. he was only supposed to serve for a guide for the first infantry decision, but became one of its heroes. after wading ashore in deep water, he returned to the water again and again to save his drowning, rents. under the heaviest possible enemy fire, he carried them to safety. he carried them in his own arms. this is the story of the allied victory. it is the legend of units like easy company and the all american 82nd. it is the tale of the british people whose courage during the blitz forced hitler to call off the invasion of england, the canadians who came even though they were never attacked, the russians to sustain some of the worst casualties on the eastern front. and all those french men and women who would have rather died resisting tyranney than live within its grasp. it is the memories that have been passed on to some of us about the service for sacrifice of a friend or relative. f

. >> and now a house hearing on the fiscal year 2010 budget, such as navy seals and are the rangers. adam smith chairs the subcommittee on terrorism and unconventional threats. the hearing is about one hour. >> i have an opening statement that i have written. i will submit it for the record. i just briefly want to say how important the special operations command is to our nation's national security, and how much we respect the job that you and all the people under you have done in protecting our national security. i think of a holistic approach that the command has brought in a winning the fight is invaluable. without question, you are the best in the world at finding and disrupting terrorist networks. that skill will continue to have an important role in our national security. you know how important it is to work with our partners throughout the world, to give them the training and the help that they need. just the broader message issues, how do we communicate? both your command and as impressively, the individual soldiers, marines, airmen, navy seals have developed skills in those

kevin millwood gets career win number 150 for the rangers. >> a.l. central-leading tigers putting their seven-game win streak on the line against the astros. top nine, tigers down 5-4. latroy hawkins gets the ground out. astros hang on to win 5-4, and s detroit's seven-game win streak is over. >> nhl draft.ft, the islanders took center john to tavares with the first pick tavares tavares led the o ontario hocke. league with 54 goals. he's the isles first overall fo pick.vrall four of the top five picks were centers. rounding out the top 10, three defensemen and two wingers. >> the flyers have acquireduire defenseman chris pronger from the ducks. pronger was the league mvp in the 1999-2000 season with the blues. in 2007, he won a stanley cup as a member of the ducks. >> straight ahead on espnews,pn, she's got the last name, butnam, what about t bhe game?e. tiger woods' niece trying toingt make the cut in her lpga tour debut. taking the weekend off, roger federer will face aps continar opponent as he continues his quest for h ♪ (guy) you know, the beer

angels are in arlington for a series with the rangers. at stake, first place in the american league west. >> and the mets trying to put a weekend sweep at the hands of the yankees behind them. their reward, a date with the first place brewers and we have plenty more from wimbledon. the williams sisters have their sights on another family final. highlights from their matches straight ahead. and now that blake griffin is officially a west >> he was the number one overall pick by the clippers and on monday blake griffin was introduced to a nun of his newest admirers and fans. only the third number one pick in franchise history, he'll be called on early and often. >> i'm not nervous, i'm excited about it. >> with that comes responsibility, and it's something that i embrace, it will make me work harder and even more focused, so it's something that i welcome and i'm really looking forward to it. >> the past two weeks have been crazy. it's been a whirlwind but it's part of the process. it's a lot of fun and it's something i'll never get to exper

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. >> the rangers had their eyes on a second straight win over boston.ester had his eyes a perfect game. ian kinsler goes down. so does michael young. andruw jones as well. lester, perfect through four innings. he had 11 k's. bottom of the sixth. red sox up 4-0. david ortiz, high, deep, gone -- second of the year, his first home run since may 20. red sox go up 5-0. top seven, lester still pitching a perfect game but michael young hits one into the gap. the perfect game is broken up. young was the only ranger with a hit. red sox win it 8-1. lester is now 19-4 at fenway. the best home win percentage among active pitchers with at least 15 career home starts. still to come, a routine play becomes anything but for the mets. how it became an adventure. >> who was the m.v.p. last -- he was the m.v.p. last year. but what kobe bryant is saying about his game might surprise (announcer) introducing tuscani pasta pairs from pizza hut. pick any 2 of our 4 restaurant quality recipes. that's three pounds of delicious pastas starting at $13.99 with breadsticks. tuscani

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the rangers climbed the cliffs under heavy, brutal german fire. the sand was stained red with the blood of young american warriors and that of our friends, our allies. felix brenham went ashore at the second wave of omaha -- omaha beach as a demolition man he joined the national guard in 1938. he said of his landing, the water was so would have the guys were getting seasick. i saw water spilling up over the sides of our landing crafts. the sea water was splashing in on us from shells bursting and rifles hitting our bolts. i never raised up and looked over to the side of that boat. none of us did. when we got off the landing craft, the water was up to my knees. of course the tide was rising a foot every 10 minutes and we had to get in quick because high tide would cover up obstacles and the water we used for cover and we would be blown out of the water. they were firing at us from everywhere. when we got to the beach, there were rangers separated from their units filing -- piling in with us at the same time. my team was the first to go over the sea

including navy sales and army rangers. this is about an hour. >> it's right at 1:00. we certainly expect other members to come terroristing in as we proceed -- drifting in as we proceed, but want to be respectful of the admiral's time and get started on time and welcome you, as always, before our subcommittee, admiral olson. certainly we appreciate the work you do for our country in leading the special operations command. i have an opening statement that i have written that i will submit for the record. just briefly i want to say how important the special operations command is to our nation's national security. and how much we really appreciate and respect the job that you and all of the people under you have done in protecting our national security. all over the world in many, many places some of which are well known like iraq and afghanistan others of which many people are not aware of but in many ways are just as important certainly for the future of broader conflict, and i think the holistic approach that the special operations command has brought to winning that

many of the first rangers in the west were rough riders who served with him. he wanted to militarize areas because he was able about poaching, people stealing petrified wood. he was doing law enforcement and saying we were going to protect our heirlooms. he would call these places like wind cave or yosemite or mesa verde national club which he created. they're training people how to be conservationists in west virginia. >> if you look around and all of these banners hanging in this room have locations that he was involved in. >> he saved these. >> again, at the time do you think, he left when he was 51 years old and he was president, he didn't live beyond 60. do you think at the time they would be that important that all these years later this kind of thing would be basically celebrated in history? >> he would be pleased. but remember, because of our time limits, i can't get into it in a microwave a specialist, but there is -- >> you might want to buy the book then? >> well, people talk about the bull moose in theodore roosevelt, the bull moose party in americ

about our rangers and d. day. peat wilson, the former governor of california. there was a stiplation. one with mrs. reagan that ended it up quickly. i had been working on rose velt. this is such an important thing to do. you were living in new orleans? >> yes. i was professor at tulane. i named my study center. the theodore roosevelt study center. >> at rice university nourks i teach a class on theodore roosevelt and conservation. meaning, i have been informing myself lady bird johnson. up until the present time viewing in the warming. i wanted to see all that. when did dot reagan diaries? >> what we have doing this year is bringing out the complete diary in a boxed set. i was working on this book for a long time. i picked one. when you go there. on my field-o notes you are the expert. help me. in the main office, we have the clippings. at that time when i'm writing it, it becomes chronological. in 1988, he wrote this whole book. i can't write about 80 of them >> before i forget it, your wife ann and your three kids. what are their names? >> so nice of you to a

his sense of grand your for example many of our rangers from the west were rough riders he was doingw enforcement saying we are going to protect our heir looms. mmp e search a verdea we are going to police them. we are training people how to be conservation any of thes all those years later they would be celebrating. nine years ago, he leaves the white house. his last week he put the monday ue meant he saved it as the last minute while he was in africa.,ú half fired over alaska lands argument he started and fired pincho. roosevelt gets in daring to turn back even a portion of the legacy.

i've had seven rangers who have been through the benning jump school write to me and tell me they read that book, and after they graduated from jump school they went straight up to toccoa to see if they could run up or not with a full pack. now, that's pretty satisfying. c-span: with all the exposure over the last month, is your recognition factor going up when you travel? >> guest: yes, it is, and i don't like this taste of celebrityhood. c-span: why? >> guest: i like being a writer, and i was a pretty well-known writer before this last month, but nobody knew my face. i wish it were back to that way, and it will be as soon as we get past june 6. c-span: can i ask you a question about the haldemann diaries? >> guest: sure. c-span: i know that's not the book, but this came out in the middle of all this. we'll show the audience what it looks like if they haven't seen it. jo haldeman, the wife of the late bob haldeman, says that bob haldeman wouldn't agree with some of your conclusions. what are those? >> guest: number one, my conclusion is that he was guilty. jo will not accept that, and

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. >> angels and rangers, juan rivera, big stories here. crunching this, padilla pitch, right down the middle of the fair way, 13th homer of the year. morales, also right down the middle of the fair way. this is his 13th home run as well. look at the sparkies collide. angels win 5-2. >> next show, jonathan and mark, who is that garth brooks married to? i'm draw inging a blank. >> trisha yearwood. >> i was thinking all kinds of strange names. those are the top stories, manny all night long, wimbledon, yao ming, all the baseball highlights. lincec ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy.

. >> bob: last time a team pitched that well in new york against the yankees was the rangers at the end of june last year. they gave up three earned runs in a series winning one -- one run in each game and the nationals did just as well and took 2-3. no runs last night. two runs on wednesday. i think the nats also gave up two unearned runs in game one the night before. this ball will be out of play to the right side. alex rios, 0-3 tonight.  >> bob: that's a go low strike. the count is even #-2 with one out. >> rob: just at the knees from josh bard. sometimes when you put the -- pull the ball back up, the umpires won't call the strike because you moved your glove too much. >> bob: 19 runners stranded in a 1-1 game. first team to breakthrough and gate two-out hit is going to win this thing. we'll see now if cito gaston starts scott rolen who i mentioned earlier is a very good base runner. >> rob: backdoor slider right here by villone a little too far outside the box. rios hitting .232 on the road this year and .324 at home. one home run on the

he did have 18 homers for the tigers in 99 and 17 for the 01 rangers. often injured, out of baseball for a year. detwiler walks him on 4. we mentioned corey patterson's fourth start today. byron kerr with more. >> reporter: i talked to patterson before the game. he's going to work hard to play well for the nats. >> definitely. all the guys run pretty much. you never know when they'll take the extra base. you've got to be in the game at all times. >> reporter: he says there's a lot of good guys trying to make pit up here to play for washington. >> bob: he means willingham left yesterday to go to alabama to be with his family after the tragic death of his younger brother friday. navarro the catcher. tough weekend for manny. he was visibly shaken when he told us in his briefing about the willingham family yesterday. a double play by willie harris and johnson. detwiler is out of the 2nd inning.  >>> today's telecast celebrating the birthday of u.s. army on masn. we serve today for a safe tomorrow. panasonic computers. navy federa

. >> bob: third in homers behind the yankees and rangers. they hit 80. >> rob: they don't have a 200 million dollar payroll either. >> bob: big lead by the runner. upton takes one that misses low and inside, 2-1. >> rob: the yankees' third baseman has a 280 million- dollar extension, the first baseman gets 180 million-dollar to come there and play. that would be pretty satisfying to see what the rays did last year, 66 million and won 97. >> bob: i think everybody was hoping that it would inspire other, quote, have-nots in major league base dual to do it like these guys did. minnesota has not been in the world series lately but they do it often. the runner had a walking lead and joel hanrahan did nothing to stop him. >> rob: this is the type of situation where you have to worry about the runner. tie game, no out. you have to make the runner stop. now they can bunt him to third. they're not going to bunt with two strikes but a ground ball would move him over. getting back to minnesota, they tied for the division. they had a one-game playoff wi

run, starting the day third in the american league behind the 99 of the yankees and the 90 of the rangersen zobrist, the second baseman. and the count's even 1-1. very late swing again, deflecting off catcher -- nieves. >> rob: carlos one of the first strikeouts of the night. he struck out the side in the first inning after an error, then a walk. struck out longoria, pena and zobrist to get out of the first inning. >> bob: carl crawford walked after upton stole second, then j. zimmermann really went to work. >> rob: you saw the first ball that he fouled down the right- field line, knew he better get the bat head out early. got to get that bat going early, when a guy's throwing 95. >> bob: that ball well out of play. byron kerr, bring us up to date on what josh willingham and his family have been through for the last 20 hours or so. >> byron: john willingham, the younger brother of josh, 27, died in owe know a car accident in alabama yesterday. manny acta said josh has left the team early this morning. they're giving willingham full support. he said it puts the game and life in perspective

. >> rob: once again, i talked about the pitch count and what the rangers are doing and the way it used to be and he relayed this wisdom on it. when he used to warm up hall of famer steve carltop, every time he started a game, 120 pitches to warm up before a game. >> bob: wow! >> rob: 120. so he basically threw two games. >> bob: on to the 8th inning. nationals 3, blue jays 1. ♪ ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ (announcer) it's right here, it's easy... ♪ always feel like mebody's watching me. ♪ ...it's the money you could be saving with geico. ♪ who's watching? ♪ i always feel like (announcer) it's right here, it's easy... ♪ somebody's watching me. ...it's the money you could be saving with geico. . >> bob: it's amazing how things can change in the game of baseball from a week ago or a week and a half ago. it's amazing, i was talking to some of our bloggers, it's amazing how we are watching almost two different teams. >> rob: well, yes and no. the talent has always been there. for a while, the steps was unbelievable, getting 10 runs a game, 10 hits a game. now, when yo

but they were selected, by and large most of those guys -- matt to the rangers, jay to be turn tore theigers. mill tore the cardinals, big arms, potential impact guys, number one for two starters. the word is they were asking for big bonuses and that had a lot of teams get can skittish. but they go in the top 20, counterto what i expected. >> keith law, we present it. >> my ple . >>> and just a programming reminder at 9:00 eastern over on e.s.p.n. the sportscenter special. that makes it that much more difficult.@@úúxx . >>> welcome back everybody, national's park in washington, d.c. manny acta and dusty baker meeting at home plate. we're going to play baseball momentarily after this long rain delay. today was a great day in baseball history because stephen strasburg was the first pick by the washington nationals. earlier our own debbie taylor had a chance to catch up with acting general manager mike rucinsky oh. >> thank you johnny. how thrilled are you, mike, to have stephen strasburg on your team. >> we're excited to be able to draft a guy like stephen strasburg, a g

. $ indians are the first team to lose three straight games all in extra innings since the 2000 rangers >> bottom of the third, it's meg el cabrera. homered yesterday, homers again today. the tigers go on to win 9-5. alfredo figaro wins his major league debut. his family not able to make it from the dominican republic in time to see him pitch. he said, quote, they must have . my phone is full of messages telling me i looked good on tv. five hitters. >> albert pujols and cardinals taking on the royals. top six. 1-0 saint luis. la machina. two-run shot. his 24th jack leads the majors. the cards win it 7-1. they've won 7 of the last 10 overall. tony larussa one win shy of 2,500 wins. you know that commercial where they call pujols a machine? in his first tn games in june, he seemed like a slightly broken machine. but his last nine games, pujols is back to his unhuman-like efficiency, slugging a thousand with six homers in that span. >> the twins have thrived in interleague play. the astros can't wait to resume the nl portion of their schedule. they've dropped 6 of 7 to the a.l. second home

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david murphy last year withe rangers comes up big for the mets. >> that forces him pie pinch upping with the tieing run as they have the infield in, and you have a against k-the robbe owens -- and aubrey huff agait k-rod. reimold will pinch hit andrewa walk. and orioles go home winners wh the final of 5-4. orioles after dropping the first game in the series come back d win back to back games 5-4 the final. albers, a perfect 9th inning, no runs allowed. and rodriguez gets the loss. he's 1-2, andino, the third career home run, and orioles first win after trailing at the 8th. we will head back to the masn broadcast booth, and welcome n jim palmer. this is such an uplifting win. who knows how far the orioles can take it, but not to give up for all 27 outs. >> you know, to me, i think for this team to make that major step forward, if we look at jason berken, here's a guy they scored what, five runs in 9 first four starts. pitched very well against the tigers, went a third of the inning against oakland, but tonight he was good. the base hit,

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support now the increase in the end-strength the levels for the afghan army and the police, to hire rangers that were recommended by the afghan defense and interior ministers for the army. that range was between 250,000 and 300,000, which would mean a double the current target. admiral, let me ask you first, because general mcchrystal has commented on it. i then want to ask the general the same question. do you believe that the realities on the ground in afghanistan and necessitate growing the afghan national security forces beyond the currently planned and s strengths? >> mr. chairman, my study of classic counterinsurgency doctrine, looking at everything from tea lawrence to david -- t.e. lawrence to david kilcullen, leads me to believe that we need a larger security forces. >> larger than the current and- strength? >> yes, sir. >> general, do you also believe -- in your judgment, will the afghan army need to get a significantly higher end-of strength than 134,000? >> yes, that is my belief right now. >> in terms of the pakistan situation -- and here, general, he made reference to this --

. >> the team the angels play tonight, another game against the texas rangers, who are just crumbling, just three wins in their last ten games after this great start. what has gone wrong in arlington? >> we didn't know if their pitching would last. when they started getting hot, you didn't know how their pitching would, but we thought their offense would. that to me is their biggest problem. they don't get on base like they have. they're 25th in on-base percentage, 28th in strikeouts, 27th in walks in all of baseball. so what they had last year with josh hamilton, milton bradley, guys who would work counts, guys who would make pitchers go deep, now they're just up there swinging. you wouldn't see the best hitting coach in baseball would have a team that is just a bunch of free swingers without any concept or any idea of how the approach an at-bat. but right now that's what they are. they need to go back to the basics and start taking pitch, working counts, getting into hitter's counts and walking a little bit and then hitting the home run. >> you know it because you lived it. it is so

. >> jim: a couple of augusts ago i did that 30-3 game when the rangers came in.and it was the first of a double-header as

i would go to these places, meet the local superintendent or ranger oil martin and interview them and get local documentation as well. this is the nerve center for what i would consider roosevelt's wilderness america. >> we're standing in the roosevelt room in the center. behind us is a photograph, a big photograph above the fireplace. >> if that is the roosevelt with the naturalist john meer in 1903. roosevelt became president in 1901 because mckinley was assassinated. the gets sworn in in buffalo. this isn't going to teach politics similar to a kenley company doesn't guarantee creates a could -- he said he would have politics similar to president mckinley, but he did not. he began a radical conservation project. in 1903 he wanted almost all with john boroughs. then he went to the grand canyon. and when to the north woods -- redwoods of northern california. then he went to yosemite. so the president and john spent three days in the wild, camping under redwood trees. roosevelt thought the redwoods were our great cathedrals. they slept in a snowstorm without a tent. roosevelt's, with h

the army and pakistani rangers and the police all surrounded the mosque on july 3rd and 410 days there was a standoff, occasional firing, you could hear blast across town we withstand on the roof of my house and watch the fireballs coming up off of the top and finally the government commandos pushed and they trapped gazi in the basement and it was a shootout and gazi was killed. as we mentioned earlier, it was a very awkward moment -- movement because they paraded his body and of the television and say we got him and my response watching was okay, we got him and that he had been so instrumental in interest reducing me to a whole other world my contact has died as well. he was a friend in a weird way but how do you feel guilty grieving for someone that led the taliban rebellion in the center of the city? >> host: let me tell anyone that we are talking with nicholas schmidle the offer at author of an incredibly timely and well written new book on pakistan and his of ranchers or his misadventures comment "to live or to perish forever". the remarkable thing is the heat serious human relati

. >> and still to come the rangers appear to be heating up after a recent offense of drought.y were unable to put up any more eye-popping numbers. but cheyenne woods following her famous uncle and went into the family business. how she compared to tiger and how she compared to tiger and what they ar would you like to see our new menu? look at this! (laughing) persons who are working with, they are coming down and the next problem is what it they cheat? and, you know a lot of our people thought that some of the people with chique like this. and what gragan decided was he needed to have star wars, and that is one of the main reasons why he had star wars. what he wanted to do was he could make the so powerful and so strong so that nobody could try and come in to the united states, and what he said all along, and by the way that is exactly what obama is saying now. he is not saying let's get rid of all nuclear weapons. nobody wants to do that but what they want to do is get you to reduce the number of weapons you have so you are not going to kill us all but "you were doing it be v

.: he came up a shortstop, and gary pettis was in town with the rangers. he said he could play shortstop, but they had signed betancourt, so watch this. you're right about hitting the cut-off man. >> rob: and he did a nice job surrounding the ball. he went back on it. some guys will catch it flat- footed -- flat-footed and get nothing behind it. he hit the cut-off man. >> bob: i had some conversations with and di van slyke. he always told me the harder you work before the ball gets there, the easier it is once you have it in your hands. he was a big proponent of charging hard on base hits and fly balls, and not all guys do that. >> rob: when and di van slyke who was a gold glover would throw the ball, he would fall forward and almost do a summer salt. he would put so much behind the throw. you got to have momentum coming forward as an outfielder. >> bob: he also told me, he whistled at barry bonds and tried oh get him to move in two steps just before the cabrera hit that put the braves in the world series. bonds might have been able to get that runner at h

so at that point, the park ranger heard what i was sailing, he was very upset, he walked up to me and he said, cause me, sir, -- excuse me, sir, that's not going to happen any time soon. that is the superintendent of the national parks, he's in charge of every park west of the mississippi river. what can you do? i waited for mr. orange t-shirt to get off. ultimately he stepped around, he was out of shot, out of sight and in an eighth of a second, i had the shot. i'll always remember that superintendent and i'm sure he'll remember me too. other shots that i take are ordinary, and i would say that's, i specialize in photographing ordinary america on an ordinary day. this is is where joe shmo comes in of because it's through the lens, which is frequently a bird's eye lens, i look for the daily things that shout out, here is america. my lens might focus on this homeless man in beverly hills that i got, where in beverly hills, you're not homeless for too long. if you are, you move to santa monica. but basically, i found a homeless man sleeping underneath a beverly hills bank. so i have lai

. >> the text x rangers trade alex rodriguez. and he goes to tyankees and they go to the playoffs.his drawing pow tore the ball club now. i'm not saying trade brian roberts at all. i don 't want to see him go. i love watching him play. he is one of my favorite players. but if somebody comes through with a blockbuster deal that would put the orioles in pennant contention immediately, i would say make the deal. it is all about winning. it is not about one player at all. it is not about eddie murray or cal ripken or guys that were all part of the nucleus of our ball club back then. it is about the team winning and making the kind of deals it took hank peters took to bring the winners back here to the orioles. that's the only thing i look for. i don't want to see brian roberts go for nothing. in order to get brian roberts, to trade him somewhere else, we have to almost guarantee ourselves a win. [ you can read all about it on masn sports.com. we're going to take a look at some of the red sox-washington nationals highlights. 2-1 boston. brad penny throws a wild pitch allowing ryan zimme

about your veracity, but, let us use this as a points of departure, aim establishing bona fide rangerments to take these assertions as the truth and that then gets us into a discussion of what is still feasible in that regard. in fact halting uranium enrichment is now pretty much overdue because i have advanced so far and the opportunities to negotiate with them have been wasted, perhaps that issue could be addressed earlier. when their enrichment program was at the very, very early stage. they are not going to dismantle what they have achieved. they a are not going to abandon what they have been doing in the regard. but, perhaps the -- there may be ways of halting that process, and, in any case of subjecting it to much more extensive inspections, by the iaea those inspections in keeping with inspections that are plied to other npt participants because it is doubtful the iranians will accept additional regimen for themselves alone and will fly in the face of their notion of sovereignty and will make them an exceptional case internationally, and for obvious reasons that would be difficult f