[inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. So delighted to have such a great crowd on a middle of august summer evening. My names lissa muscatine, im one of the coowners of politics prose. On behalf of our staff and on behalf of my husband and coowner, brad graham, we really are excited to have all of you here. I do want to just mention a couple of things for those of you who dont know. We are also now running book operations in three of the six busboys and poets in washington with plans to be in all of them before not too long. So if you happen to be at 14th and v or in tata coma and or in tacoma, youll find our books there. We also are going to be the bookseller for the National Book test value over the saturday of labor day weekend. There are going to be more than a hundred authors there with its a tremendous literary event here in d. C. , so we hope well see some of you there as well. Before we get started, a couple of housekeeping
agreed to cooperate with baseball s investigators. pamela brown has more on this developing story. she s live for us this morning at yankee stadium. good morning. reporter: good morning to you, christine. we are talking about the highest paid player in baseball history as well as one of the league s most valuable players at the center of this widening steroid scandal. now, if this happens, this could be one of the largest scandals in american sports. a record breaker that no player wants to be a part of. espn is reporting that major league baseball is preparing for an unprecedented wave of player suspensions. that include yankees star alex rodriguez and the brewers ryan braun. rodriguez, braun and some 18 other players are allegedly links to a miami area clinic at the center of an ongoing performance enhancing drug scandal. on tuesday night ryan braun refused to talk about it after his game. i m not answering any further questions regarding the whole situation, you know.
0 they re believed to be dangerously faulty. we re going to tell you why the company is saying absolutely not. remember this? an artist drop kicks a woman in the audience while performing at the billboard music awards. lands awkwardly, to say the least. it seems she may not be doing so well. her attorney reporting she could have a neurological head injury. go ahead morning, everyone. i m john berman. i m christine romans. it s wednesday, june 5th. welcome to starting point. this morning we begin with major league baseball s new cheating scandal. it may be the biggest one ever. reportedly involves two former mvps. the yankees alex rodriguez and ryan braun of the milwaukee brewers. according to espn they re among 20 major leaguers facing suspension for alleged involvement with a miami area clinic that was dispensing performance enhancing drugs. the report says the clinic s founder, tony bosch, has now agreed to cooperate with baseball s investigators. pamela brown has more on this