later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this wednesday, july 27th. there s a lot going on today, including another bit of discouraging news out of affe afghanistan earlier this morning. plus a mystery celebrity caller helps us celebrate our birthday. will it be brad and an gelee na. star of thety silver screen, ron jeremy perhaps or will it be former president harry s. truman. you ll find out a bit later in the show. first let s get to the news live here at 5: 30 a.m. at rocker feller in new york city. john boehner is now redoing if you want to put it that way his plan to redo the debt limit. the speaker s plan would fall short of the $1.2 trillion in spending costs it proposes, and the specific cuts would be $300 billion less than thought. this comes as the front page of today s wall street journal reads boehner plans faces rebellion. the journal and other papers reporting the speaker is facing backlash from conservatives in his party about t
versus republican, sharon angle, who won with strong backing from the tea party. and in arkansas, the democratic senator won the right to seek a third term. arkansas senator, blanche lincoln, has had support of presidents obama and clinton. and a vote of confidence from her home state. the veteran democrat s opponent, bill halter, was backed by liberals and organized labor. washington needs to work for us. for us. reporter: in south carolina, allegations of adultery did not seriously hurt republican nikki haley in the governor s race. but haley will be on a runoff ballot later this month, because she didn t get the votes needed to advance. we said no to the dark side of politics. reporter: tea party supporters in nevada pushed sharon angle in the gop race for senate. and she won the majority of the republican vote. sharon angle, in particular, is taking positions of wanting to get rid of the department of education. wanting to get rid of the department of energy.
and mexico 9:30 eastern on june bases are empty. the orioles need the big hit 11. from their catcher right here. shocking development in cleveland. 9 minutes to go, and boston up big. waters to third. lopez and the orioles pass by a scoring chance. ryan langerhans a former brave, eric byrnes got released when he took his bicycle and almost ran over the manager trying to get out of ballpark. byrnes was not hitting and now he s not playing. langerhans was called up to take his place. jim: he was up last year. he was traded to oakland and top plays is brought to you then washington, with the by: nationals in 2008 and last year anish, kevin here with you on espnews. kevin, ready for top plays? 101 at-bats for the mariners. let s go. he can play the out field. number 3, roger federer takes that serve, defensive return, it s a winner. he s a big guy. he s that good. never a lot of power numbers. some call it a block. you play for bobby cox and federer wins 6-2, 7-6
berken would big up the victory. he is now on our wired wednesday. jason is going to join us live from the dug-out as back to work goes tillman and the pitch will be taken outside. first of all, jason, congratulations on a real gutty effort in the ballgame last night. what do you think about when, you know, you re 4-0 in the first and by the third it is 5- 0. what do you do to keep yourself focused the way you want to be in the game? our offense is capable of scoring a lot of runs and something we have done all year. i was just trying to stay focused and keep us where we re at. i just knew our offense would come around and give us a chance to win the game. jim: i was talking to matt wieters and he said after the third inning it was like a different pitcher was out there. can you kind of share what the feeling was when you really got into the great rhythm? i think around the third inning i started throwing my changeup a little more and i started feeling myself really get
the pittsburgh pirates. oh, my. morgan slams one into the seats. and evidently he hit a seat and that s okay. christian guzman has a base hit and he s next. right at the 8:00 hour here in our nation s capital. and morgan take as fastball high. it is nationals baseball on masn two tonight. debbi taylor, rob dibble, i m bob carpenter and our outstanding crew, good to be back home with them. morgan bumps one foul and the count stays 2-2. the rockies now have a 3-0 lead at philadelphia. and morgan strikes out on the pitch away. two k s by johnson on morgan and four in the game. next up, christian guzman. rob: josh johnson not messing around with nyjer morgan. 98 miles per hour. we talk about this, when you throw off speed, you help some of these guys and nyjer, couple of and he doesn t normally strike out against anyone. i don t attack the hitters you don t think can hit home runs and then you stay away from the ones that you know can. ozzie smith. that guy drove me crazy. bo