jered weaver is pitching the best he's pitched all year. when they needed someone to step up with all the injuries to their rotation, jered weaver took the bull by the horns and said, this is my staff, i'll lead you, and he has. >> 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

then there's the weaver family. i spent a lot of time with randy weaver and his -- one of his daughters, rachel. and i re-tell the ruby ridge story in what i believe is a more accurate way. i think it was spun. i think it benefited everybody to spin the story as white supremacists pretty much getting what they deserved, and ok, the government made a mistake, but they were white supremacists, so it was basically ok. so i've re-told that story in a more, i think, humanist way. who else did i see in the states? c-span: about the bohemian grove. >> guest: oh, yeah! you see, this is... (laughter) >> guest: how could i forget that? this is -- this is a group -- again, all the conspiracy theorists said that not only is this -- is there this shadowy cabal, but once a year they go to a clearing in a forest in northern california and undertake an owl-burning ceremony, where men like henry kissinger attend this berobed torchlight procession which culminates in a human effigy being thrown into the fiery belly of a giant owl. so

as you know the weaver for wisconsin senior care program is scheduled december 31st this year. currently this program provides over 100,000 seniors in my state with high quality cost-effective prescription drug coverage as i presume you are aware. according to the cbo it does so achieving ongoing savings for the federal government at the same time. by understand governor jim doyle, who i know you are very familiar with, has applied a waiver to extant senior care through 2012 which would allow this successful program to continue. can you tell me the status of the waiver application and whether or not we can hope to achieve that weaver? >> senator as you know that 1115 program is the only one left in the country where the state only drug program is being conducted and i know it is wildly popular and it's been enormously successful treat you will be pleased to hear not only did my good friend, jim leal apply for the waiver continuation before i got to the office but was in my office three days ago and will fly in the request to make sure i did not forget and as you might be aware

.: my biorhythms was earl weaver. that was the ups and downs. mickey rooney. put you out there every fourth day. >> jim h.: bases loaded, 3-2, one down. roberts skies it to left. not that deep. willingham setting up, mora will tag. here comes mora. here comes the throw. it is off the plate and mora scores. there's a sac fly rbi and a big insurance run for the orioles as roberts drives in mora. >> jim p.: not only an rbi but a moral victory. boy, is it great when they get a runner to third with less than two outs and you get the job done. really difficult for mcdougal, especially when the count goes to 3-2. >> rob: well, josh willingham had time to surround that ball. he does catch it flat-footed. not a lot on the throw into the catcher. we talked about with adam jones, addie said when bob was in here, the hardest part of the catch is better the catch. you have to surround it. try oh get some momentum coming home. he had enough time. not that that really would have saved the game, but -- >> jim p.: melvin mora took a look at juan sam well, the -- samuel, the or

. >> jim: when i pitched for earl weaver with a two-run lead, he would make it very clear. >> gary: perhapsyou'd like to use the language. 3-2 delivery. he rifles that one no the seats. >> jim: at the end of the day, jimmy johnson, his sinker is his best pitch. if you're going to have to trick gary sheffield with a two- run lead, you're going to have some problems. i don't mean throw it down the middle. let it sink, get a ground ball, anticipating sheffield is going to pull the ball. >> gary: he goes right up the middle and has a base hit off the end of the bat. so gary sheffield gets on to lead off the 8th and the mets who have hung with it tonight, they've never had the lead in the ballgame, but they have come back to tie this game up repeatedly. now they've got the potential tying run at the plate in murphy with nobody out. >> jim: if you're a sinker baller, you don't want to hang around the belt. that's where this ball ends up. so is there a better, i know there's not a better 40-year- old high ball hitter, but he got on top of this ball. it's almost like he's always chopping wood. >> g

we're also publishing the awaken her the long awaited a memoir by hellman weaver it is about her life with jack kerouac and greenwich village in the fifties and is also involved in the publishing scene in the '50s so it is more than focusing just on jack kerouac but a bigger and literary life in new york and with it which it continues always to be of interest. we are excited about that one. the latest book that just came out is called the people diaries and what he is talking about is at one time everybody was interested in pop culture because they are fascinated by celebrities but he coined the term peep culture that the focus has gone from celebrities to the focus on yourself that you actually can be the celebrity and you can do that by blogs, websites and youtube and videos so it is a commentary what that change and technology has created for a social and cultural life in the u.s. and it is very entertaining and the inserts himself and a lot of scenarios, the blogs all the time he was twittering people's secrets people were asked if they wanted to get a copy today they had to tell

weaver brought here to discuss to -- brought here to discuss testing. your letter of last year concerned pricing problems in the pay as you go textile market, which involves a 1% of verizon customers received. let me respond directly to the underlying issue. verizon did not collude with its competitors on setting prices for text messages. i believe the evidence shows any suggestion like that to be baseless. the evidence confirms the u.s. wireless industry is competitive in all its aspects. that meager through this with more detail. the tiny nature of this market makes any suggestion of collusion impossible. customers in this category send or receive only 21 texts per month. the other 99% are covered by a package bundles. in contrast, text users in bundles average almost 1000 texts per month. because of this increased usage the overall price has dropped. in december 2006 the average price was 3 cents per message. since then we have cut the average price to cent per message. i have provided some charts with my testimony, and they show there is a wide vari

we're also publishing the way kenner, it is long awaited by helen weaver. she is also involved in the publishing scheme in the fifties it really presents a bigger picture of literary life in new york in the '50s in greenwich village which continues to always seem to be of interest and we are excited about that one. the latest book that just came out is called the peep diaries. what howard talks about is at one time everyone was interested in pop culture because everybody is fascinated by celebrities but he coined the term that the focus has gone from celebrities to the focus on yourself that you can be the celebrity and you can do that by blogs, websites, youtube videos, it is a commentary on how that change in technology has created for a so-called -- social and cultural life is very entertaining and insert himself and lots of scenarios. he was at be a today twittering people's secrets. people were asked if they wanted to get a book today they have to tell us a secret and he went on the twitter account and treated as those the sigrid's. and some of the new

weaver going to have to make some tough decisions, and take concrete actions if we are going to deal with -- we are going to have to make some tough decisions and take concrete actions if we are going to deal with a cataclysmic disaster. we are seeing progress in congress around energy legislation that would set up for the first time in the united states a cap and trade system. that process is moving forward in ways that i think if you would have asked political experts two or three months ago, would have seemed impossible. so i'm actually more optimistic than i was about america being able to take leadership on this issue, joining europe which over the last several years has been ahead of us on this issue. as i told chancellor merkel, unless the united states and europe with our large carbon footprints are willing to take some decisive steps it will be very difficult for us to persuade countries that on a per cap fa basis are -- per capita basis, anyway, are still much less wealthy, to take the steps they need to take to control carbon emissions. so we are committed to working toget

earl weaver used to always say, just go through the execution. but don made a very good point this morning, they came out and worked on his throwing yesterday, as don, he walks with the best of them, on-base percentage, takes the walk, he said there's a tendency, it's kind of like when youowe getting hit as a pitcher, you stop throwing strikes. y rom rs are better, everything is better athis level. base runners are ju go ahead, s >> rob: i talked to gregzaun erday about wieters, he was telling me, he said, he's most impressed by how he's handled everything else. i mean the top er and k, 's e.r.a. before i woy about the guys stealing bases, because a lot of times you steal bases off the pitchers. % your pitchers aren'g the ball to home plate in under 1.2 seconds then wieters has no chance, neither would if i sit there yesterday where we did the throwing stopwatch, he hurries. i don't want him to hurry. i want him to work on being a little bit quicker with his release, but not to do it consca again, the when we talk about matt wieters, he's got a

if manny acta and earl weaver was his manager instead of manny, he said, hey, can't get beat until you get somebody on. of course or they can't tie it up until you get somebody on. real negative-positive things. >> jim h.: there's that batting average. >> jim p.: and i know he's an orioles and i know we're doing both games, but have you seen a loft young, he just identifies that breaking ball and that's a pretty good breaking ball. >> rob: he does a fantastic job. you talk about batters eyes. this kid as good as any of them. >> jim p.: i guess on friday down at the cage, i was talking to nolan, i said, were you always like that way. hitting instructor said, well, most guys will learn how to hit for power once they get to the big leagues, he's already figured that out. watch him get back on his right foot. and that little toe tap. that's the smoo.thness of the swing. reimold down on strikes. >> rob: that last one was a 96- mile an hour moving fastball. hitters will let you know how you're throwing. that ball just runs away and down. you can't hit a two run homer with nobody on base. >>

earl weaver, he'd just run out and say, will you please relax? by the way, get somebody out. >> bob: 3-2 to dunn who has walked 58 times this year. >> jim p.: i think the one thing with brian bass, he drops his elbows so the ball doesn't sink. when he gets on top, he's got the good sinker. >> bob: adam dunn will take another walk. nationals have the lead-off man aboard. for our national fans, it's never been easier to take in a ballgame. back here tomorrow. on to florida for three on masn 2, then a short three-game home stand commences with the braves coming in for the fourth of july weekend. that's a fastball inside to josh willingham. >> jim p.: of course brian bass, somebody walked up to him the other day, they said, do you think bass who has been very good when he's come in in games behind, do you think he pitches better when he's behind than when he has leads? i said, the numbers indicate that he is more relaxed when he's behind than when he's ahead, that's when he's struggled lately. but that's the one thing you have to battle as a reliever

this goes back to we're either with the democrats or the opposition wins -- on the bankruptcy bella weaver out the door the next day with senators who voted against the cramdown provision regardless of the fact they were democrats, that was an issue that affected all americans and we sent away videos two their states to let the consensus on how they voted. it will continue to report to our members in the states about the rep. voting records and finally we need to elevate the voices of all americans in the process. one of the most successful actions we've done all year is when banking ceo's wife before the house financial oversight committee to defend their expenditure of millions of dollars on taxpayer money bonuses and corporate junkets. we were able to get -- we said to remember if you want to ask a question of them before congress, send them to us and we will get them to the representatives on the committee. 38,000 people responded, 30,000 people responded and we handed those to the members of congress who were questioning the bank ceo's. two things happened -- the main thing that happe

we are already publishing in the awakening, a long-awaited memoir by helen weaver, about her life with jack kerouac, lenny bruce, allen ginsberg, greenwich village in the '60s, also involved in the publishing scene in the '50s so it is more than just focusing on kerouac, it really presents a bigger picture of literature life in new york in the '50s in greenwich village which continues to voice seemed to be of interest. we are excited about that one. and that our land is put that just came out as, like learning to love watching ourselves and our neighbors. and what he is talking about is at one time everyone was interested in pop culture because everyone is fascinated by celebrities but he has coined the term people culture and that's the focus is gone from celebrities to the focus on yourself that you actually can be the celebrity and you can do that by blogs and web sites and youtube videos. if seven is a commentary on what that change in technology has created for social and cultural life in the u.s.. is very entertaining in he actually inserts himself and loss of scenarios. he blogs

a couple of examples within the program 20 years after the initiative was launched weaver introducing important new tools and vaccines for introduced in 2005 after six months development process things to our friends who took it on with 50 million disorder, probably smallest ever and decided to help us do this and then similarly lab procedures were implemented in 2006 that a cut in half the time needed to eradicate polio. a feeling that the application of these tools on the left-hand side we see the maps in indiana -- india -- to the one area of india that have never stopped polio. this area -- over here is in the area of the country which every other virus that we found sins of the year 2000 is genetically linked said that has been a key reservoir three never stopped polio. we developed the vaccines and put in place tactical shifts and as you can see the beginning of 2008 by then we had gone a full 12 months without polio in that area. but it got real infected and are still trying to clear out but the research generated the solutions to it very late in the game is often the problem.

host: tom from weaver, alabama. good morning. caller: if for instance you just said that 50% of your revenues go to education, why can't you just fake whatever percentage of previous -- take whatever percentage of previous appropriations of the revenues that come in and make those for each individual budget item and spend exactly what you take in rather than spending surplus? >> well, i think if i understand the question correctly, i think the fact is that what california needs to do is we basically need to roll back our spending to the levels that we had back about three, four years ago. and that would create a balanced budget for us. we've greatly increased our spending over the last number of years. and so we scrust need to go back a few years, adopt those numbers, and adopt those levels of services. and we will get through this just fine. host: another question from a tweet to us saying, why does california use the props to leat? -- legislate? guest: i've offered a number of initiatives that andly tell you what my response ha