we did reach out to steinbrenners sons, hal and hank, who now run the yankees, but a representative for them say they have no comment. mary snow, cnn, new york. the miami heat are moving on in the nba playoffs after finishing off boston in five games. lebron james scored a bunch. james had the heat s last ten points as miami closed the game on a 16-0 run. the heat will play the winner of the chicago/atlanta series. the oklahoma city thunder s russel westbrook steals the ball against memphis, and boy, does he go in for the slam. the thunder beat the grizzlies by 27 points to take a 3-2 series lead in the western conference playoffs. kansas city royals, first road trip, and why not? 15 family members and friends were at yankee stadium to see him hit a home run last night. he also got the winning rbi as
his major party challenger is a young man from arkansas. there s also this other guy with the big ears and it s the other guy with the big ears who wins the first debate. the day after, victory for perot. clinton hold his own. trouble for the president. there s no one scorecard for determining who won and who lost last night, but a consensus does seem to be emerging. ross perot, the star of the night because no one knew what to expect. bill clinton just good enough. and president bush, he ll have to do much better. by morning, what had been last night s analysis had become conventional wisdom. in the headlines. on the today show. clinton did what he had to do and bush did not. and in instant polls. those polls show the president finishing third among people who watched the first debate. the bush people are getting very, very tired of hearing that the president did not hit a home run last night.
the bush people are getting very, very tired of hearing that the president did not hit a home run last night. so at this point as a nation, in our entire history as a country, we have had four national attempts of a challenger making his television debate debut against the sitting president of the united states. and after doing this four times as a nation, the record for incumbent presidents facing these challengers is 0-4. okay. so now 1996, incumbent president is that now not as young man from arkansas, bill clinton, and his challenger that year is bob dole. did bob dole really beat incumbent bill clinton in their first debate? actually, no. this is the exception. bill clinton won that first debate. here s what the headlines looked like the next day. president proves unflappable facing dole barbs. so the fifth time that we did this as a country, new result. the incumbent president did clearly defeat his challenger in
neither probably leno, but i don t watch here, sorry. mr. cain, deep dish or thin trust? deep dish. deep dish, it is. that was an easy one for him as former ceo of godfather s pizza. you knew he would probably know his answer like this. i thought it was a risk. he tried to break it up a little. by i thought that was cool: and newt gingrich just seeing him, he s so competent. i ll tell you what i ll do next as opposed to what happened with his history. if he smiled more and was a little happier, i think he would have hit a home run last night. we will play the other this or that from the other candidates up on the stage last night. in the meantime president obama heads to puerto rico today. many on both side of the isle are saying this is a very smart