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United States Patent Greenberg et al.
[4 1 Mar. 12, 1974 EDUCATION APPARATUS lnventors: Lawrence J. Greenberg, 64
Mountain Ave., Larchmont, NY. 10538; Gregory E. Hyman, l9 Secard Ave., New Rochelle, NY.
Filed: Feb. 21, 1973 Appl. No.: 334,474
US. Cl. 35/9 B, 84/47() Int. Cl. G09b 7/00 Field of Search 35/9 B, 9 C, 9 D, 31 C;
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 10/1916 Siegel 84/478 x 3,115,803 12/1963 Pedicano 84/470 3,376,778 4/1968 Musser 3,486,245 12/1969 Nelson 3,579,857 5/1971 Lamberson... 3,699,668 10/1972 Tesar 35/9 D Primary Examiner-Wm. H. Grieb Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Henry Sternberg, Esq.
[5 7] ABSTRACT An instructional device or educational toy having a question and answer format cooperating with a tone generator for generating a series of tones resulting in a recognizable melody in response to the user correctly answering a series of problems arranged in a predetermined sequence.
10 Claims, 9 Drawing Figures BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an instructional device or educational toy having a question and answer format cooperating with a tone generator for generating a series of tones.
It is highly desirable for an instructional device or educational toy to be capable of a great variety of educational possibilities while still being simple enough for even young children to operate. It is also highly desirable for an instructional device or educational toy to be capable of rewarding the child when the lesson is properly learned and to provide a check on the correctness of the responses given by the child. According to one prior art device, for example that shown in US. Pat. No. 3,699,668, a buzzer sounds and/or a light lights in response to the student correctly answering a given problem.
As is common with known devices of this type, one question at a time is posed. The same monotonous response is always provided by the instrument if an answer is correctly given, namely, a buzzer buzzes or a light lights. Not only, therefore, is there no incentive for a speedy response, but the check for a correct answer is the same in all cases; There is lacking any semblance of a reward for correctly answering an entire series of problems, since, in such known devices, the questions and checks are handled on an individual problem by problem basis only.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, it is a principal object of the present invention to provide an instructional method and apparatus which provides an incentive to the student not only for giving correct answers to each of an entire series of problems but for giving each of these answers more or less within predetermined time intervals which may be chosen by the manufacturer of the apparatus relative to the degree of difficulty of the corresponding question.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an instructional device or educational toy which is adaptable to and useful in the teaching of many different and varied subjects, for example, spelling, arithmetic, spacial relations, languages, etc., by the presentation of a series of problems and a group of corresponding multiple choice answers.
A further object of the present invention is to provide an instructional device or educational toy of the foregoing type that is portable, battery operated, inexpensive, simple to operate, and yet applicable to a wide range of educational subjects.
A concomitant object of the present invention is to provide a compact instrument of the foregoing type which is capable of providing not only a check on, but also a reward for, the strudent who correctly answers an entire series of presented problems.
In accordance with this invention there is provided a compact, easily operable instructional device or educational toy having a keyboard with a plurality of manually actuable keys, a preferably battery operated tone generator for producing a desired tone in response to actuation of a corresponding key, a series of interchangeable problem cards each carrying thereon a series of different problems in the form of symbolic representations, and a plurality of interchangeable keyboard cards each carrying symbolic representations identifying the various keys of the instrument. The arrangement of the symbols, i.e., their sequence on each problem card being such that in cooperation with an associated keyboard card, the proper solution of each individual problem on the problem card by actuation of the key corresponding to the correct answer symbol on the keyboard card, in the sequence shown on the problem card, will result in the instrument producing a recognizable melody.
BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE DRAWINGS The present invention will now be more fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of an educational apparatus (when taken together with the instruction card illustrated in FIG. 6) constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic of the electric circuit for the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the series of layers comprising the keyboard and switch arrangement of the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the keyboard of the apparatus of FIG. 1 showing the keyboard card, also in cross-section, in overlying relation with said keyboard;
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the keyboard of FIG. 4 showing one of the switches being actuated by finger pressure;
FIG. 6 is a top view of one of a group of interchangeable instruction cards used with the apparatus of FIG.
FIG. 7 is a top view of an interchangeable keyboard card used in conjunction with the instruction card illustrated in FIG. 6;
FIG. 8 is a top view of another one of the group of interchangeable instruction cards, and
. FIG. 9 is a top view of the interchangeable keyboard card used in association with the instruction card illustrated in FIG. 8.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring now to FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawings, the educational apparatus comprises a console unit 10 and a pair of associated question and answer cards 50a and 40a, respectively.
The console is housed in a housing 10' preferably fabricated of plastic material, which houses a tone generating means 30 (FIG. 2) capable of generating a plurality of individual tones, and a keyboard 20 for actuating the tone generating means 30 to produce the desired tones.
Keyboard 20 is preferably flat and has a top surface 20' divided into an imaginary grid of squares 20a, 20b, etc. Beneath each of these squares is an electrical switch 32a, 32b, etc.
Tone generating means 30 includes a series of resistors 31a, 31b, etc., each in circuit with a respective one of said switches 32, an oscillator 33, which may include an amplifier (not shown), and a loudspeaker 34, all in circuit with a source 35 of electric energy, preferably a battery. The circuit arrangement is such that upon closing any of the normally open switches 32, by pressing on the corresponding square a, 20b, etc. of the keyboard 20, a predetermined tone will be produced by the tone generator and will sound for as long as the switch remains closed. As is known in the art, such a circuit may be adjustable so that the frequencies of the individual tones will correspond to those produced by an ordinary piano.
The keyboard 20 provide the means for actuating the tuning circuit of tone generator 30 to produce a tone of given frequency. The pitch of the tone produced is of course determined by the value of the particular resistor 31a, 31b etc. The particular circuit configuration for the tone generator 30 is not critical to the invention and a different circuit configuration for example, one having a series of capacitors rather than resistors could also be used. Alternate means, both electrical and/or mechanical for producing such tones are also well known.
In its preferred form the instructional apparatus of the present invention utilizes a series of instruction, or problem, means in the form of cards 50a, 50b, etc., each of which has printed thereon a series of symbolic representations 51 such as, for example, a series of arithmetic problems, 51a, 51b, 51c, etc., (FIG. 8), or a series of spelled-out names of animate or inanimate objects 51a, 51b, 510' (FIG. 6). The symbolic representations 51a, 51b, etc. on the instruction card 50a are such that a series of these symbolic representations are printed sequentially in a line or lines on each instruction card 50a, 50b, and, as will be explained, represent the sequence required (when used in conjunction with the keyboard, the tone generator circit and the keyboard card associated with the respective problem card) for playing a recognizable melody. Each of the symbolic representations 51 on the card 50a represents a complete problem and is of given species (in the illustrated example, the species is a spelled-out word). A different species, for example the pictorial representations of animate or inanimate objects 41a, 41b, 41c, etc., (FIG. 7) appear on the keyboard card 40a which is used in conjunction with the problem, or instruction, card 50a. The student may be asked to find the pictorial representation corresponding in each case to the spelled-out word. Thus, for each occurrence of the word CAT, the student must find the symbol 41 which best corresponds thereto, namely, the picture 41a of a cat, FIG. 7. Cards 400' and 50a thus form a pair of associated cards. Similarly, instruction card 50 a forms with keyboard card 400 another pair of associated cards. The keyboard card40a, it will be noted, has some but not all, of the same symbolic representation as appears on the card 40a and these are located in the same relative positions on each of the respective cards. a
In a different field of endeavor, namely arithmetic, problem card 50b forms an associated pair with keyboard card 40b which carries multiple choice solutions for each of the problems on card 50b. As used herein the term symbolic representation is intended to mean a symbol representing one complete problem, such as 2 2 in the case of arithmetic problems, or CAT in the case of spelling problems.
As seen in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, keyboard 20 preferably comprises a cover 21 of rubber or any other similarly flexible dielectric material; a flexible conductive layer 22 which may be a separate sheet but is preferably in the form of a conductive metalwhich may be vapor deposited directly on the undersurface of cover 21; a printed circuit board 24 located underneath the layer 22 and having exposed contacts 24a, 241), etc. etched thereon, facing the conductive layer 22. The contacts 24a, 24b, etc. correspond to the keys, i.e., squares, on the keyboard 20 with each key having its corresponding contact located directly beneath it. The contacts 24a, 24b, etc. are each suitably connected in circuit with their corresponding resistor 31a, 31b, etc. as seen in FIG. 2. Separating the board 24 and the conductive layer 22 is an intermediate sheet 23 of dielectric material. This intermediate sheet 23 is provided with a plurality of openings 23a, 23b, etc. in registry with corresponding ones of the contacts 24a, 24b, etc. Thus contacts 24a, 24b, etc., are normally spaced from the overlying portions of the conductive layer 22 by a distance substantially equal to the thickness of intermediate sheet 23, preferably l-2mm. The switches 32, formed by the contacts 24a, 24b, etc. and the conductive layer 22, are therefore all normally in open position. Ground pins 25 are provided at the corners of the circuit board. These ground pins extend upwardly through corresponding openings in the layer 23 into contact with conductive layer 22.
In operation, when finger pressure is applied to a key i.e., one of the areas 20a, 20b, etc, on the sheet 21 (FIG. 5) the portion of the flexible conductive layer 22 which is located directly under the depressed key is itself depressed, through the corresponding hole in sheet 23, into engagement with the contact directly beneath that hole. Ground pins 25 are always contacting conductive metal surface 22, thus' creating a complete path for current to flow between the ground pins 25 and that one of the contacts 24a, 24b, etc. which is engaged by the conductive metal surface 22. The intermediate sheet 23 insures that only one contact on the printed circuit board 24 will be touched at a time when the rubber sheet 21 is depressed, so that adjacent switches will not be closed simultaneously.
Thus, in operation, the depression of key 20a closes switch 32a by touching the contact 24a with the conductive layer 22 through holes 23a. This completes the circuit through resistor 31a. Each resistor will cause the oscillator to produce a different frequency. These frequencies are preset and, in the preferred embodiment, their relationship to the keys is as follows:
CHART I CHART II Frequency in HZ KEY Frequency in H2 KEY (with key 209 depressed) 200 233.08 20a 466.1'6 20b 246.94 201: 493.88 20: 26 l .63 206 523.25 20d 277.18 20d 554.37 20e 293.66 200: 587.33 20f 31 L13 20f 622.25 20g 329.63 20g 659.26 20h 349.23 20h 698.46 20i 369.99 20i 739.99 20j 392.00 20j 783.99 20k 415.30 20k 830.61 201 440.00 201 880.00 20m 466.16 20m 932.33 20n 493.88 20n 987.77 200 523.25 200 I 1046.50
The 16th key i.e., key 20p actuates a resistor circuit (not shown) which shifts the entire keyboard range up in frequency by one octave, (Chart II), i.e., to the second harmonic of each of the original keys frequencies.
According to the present invention each key of the keyboard is designated by a different symbolic representation. This key designating means is preferably in the form of a keyboard card such as, for example, card 40a (FIG. 1) of flexible material, which may be inserted in overlying relation with the keyboard 20 by sliding the card 40a in the dished out portion 11 of housing along and between the grooves 12 thereof. The card 40a is approximately the same size and shape as the keyboard so as to be substantially coextensive with the latter.
As noted above, each of the interchangeable series of instruction cards 50, only one of which is illustrated in FIG. 6, has at least one keyboard card 40a and/or 40a associated therewith. The relationship between an instruction card and the keyboard card associated therewith and, in turn, between the inserted keyboard card and the keys of the keyboard is such that a correct answer to a given one of the problems on the instruction card will provide the desired note produced by the tone generator if the correct answer symbol on the inserted keyboard card is pressed. Thus, the symbolic representations on the instruction card, i.e., the series of prob lems appearing on the instruction card, are arranged thereon in such a sequence that if these problems are answered correctly in the sequence in which they appear on the instruction card, by sequentially depressing the correct squares on the keyboard card and thereby closing, in proper sequence, the corresponding switches underlying the same, a predetermined recognizable melody will be produced by the instrument. The illustrated pair of cards 40a and 50a illustrate the sequencing of symbols on the instruction card and the positioning of related but different symbols on the keyboard card for producing the melody of the song Happy Birthday" in conjunction with the frequency values and the keyboard arrangement described above. It will further be seen that by varying the positions of the symbolic representations on the keyboard card and/or varying the sequencing of the symbolic representations on the instruction card, different melodies may be produced. it will also be seen that by varying the symbolic representations different subject matter may be taught. An example of this is the instructionkeyboard card set shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, respectively, which combine to teach arithmetic. The cards of FIGS. 8 and 9 are illustrative only and not intended to result in any particular melody.
The terms symbol or symbolic representation are intended to include numerals and words, as well as pictures of animate or inanimate objects. By different species there is meant, for example, the difference in species between the numeral 7" and the spelled-out word seven. Thus, the problem symbol 4 4 is of a different species than the answer symbol 8. As used herein, a symbol in the form of a problem of addition of two numerals, for example, is of a difi'erent species than a symbolic representation of the numeric answer form of that problem and vice versa. Each problem symbol, e.g., 51a, 51b, 51c etc., is ofa difierent species than that one of the keyboard symbols with which it is most closely related. That characteristic which more closely relates the problem symbol 3 3 with the keyboard symbol 6 than with any other of the 6 keyboard symbols is the fact that the latter keyboard symbol represents the correct answer to the problem posed by the problem symbol (yet these symbols are of a different species, i.e., the problem symbol include a pair of numerals separated by a plus sign while the answer symbol includes only a single numeral).
While, according to the preferred embodiment of this invention, there is contemplated an interchangeable keyboard card of plastic sheet material which is sufficiently flexible to be depressed as shown in FIG. 5, but sufficiently rigid to retain its shape while being slid into place overlying the keyboard 20, as shown in FIG. 1, it will be understood that keyboard cards of more rigid material, but provided with openings through which push buttons may project, may be used in conjunction with keyboards having typewriter-type push button. In the latter instance the symbolic representations will be positioned on the keyboard card adjacent to the openings through which the push buttons project. Also, by providing on each key, a plurality of symbolic representations from different fields of study and by printing these symbols directly on the keyboard cover 21, it is possible to increase the versatility of the instrument without the use of interchangeable keyboard cards. In the latter instance the sheet 21 would itself become the keyboard designating means. By providing, on each key, different symbols representing different fields of study, the console 10 may still be used with interchangeable instruction cards covering a plurality of subjects. Thus, for example, in addition to being numbered, each key could also have printed thereon a pictorial representation of an animate or inanimate subject which would permit the keyboard to be used, with appropriate instruction cards, not only for spelling instruction and foreign language instruction but also for arithmetic instruction. It will be seen from the foregoing that the instructional apparatus according to the present invention may be used to teach a variety of topics, which need not be music related topics; That, for example, such subjects as spacial relations, mathmatics, spelling, foreign languages, etc. may all be taught; that the instrument provides not only a check on the correctness of the answer to each individual problem but also a reward for correctly answering a whole series of problems. In addition, in accordance with the present invention the student will have an incentive to work at a desired pace, since the melody can, to some extent, be chosen by the manufacturer to have a rhythm which is suited for the particular subject matter to be taught. In other words the time intervals for arriving at a correct answer, i.e., before the next note need be sounded to make the tune recognizable, can be adapted to the degree of complexity of the individual problems involved, with the more complex problems appearing in the sequence at such positions as to afford more time for response.
While we have disclosed several embodiments of the present invention it is to be understood that these embodiments are given by way of example only and not in a limiting sense, the scope of the present invention being determined by the objects and the appended claims.
What we claim is:
1. An educational apparatus comprising in combination:
tone generating means for generating a plurality of selected tones,
a plurality of switch means associated with said tone generating means for actuating the latter to produce a selected tone in response to operator actuation of the corresponding one of said switch means,
switch designating means including a plurality of symbolic representations each different from the remaining ones and each associated with a corresponding one of said switch means,
instruction means comprising a series of symbolic representations in predetermined sequence, each of the symbolic representations of said instruction means having at least one characteristic which relates it more closely to one of the symbolic representations of said switch designating means than to any of the other of said symbolic representation of said switch designating means but being of a different species than said related one of said symbolic representation of said switch designating means, and
said predetermined sequence of the symbolic representations on said instruction means being such that when the user correctly correlates each of the symbols on the instruction means with the related symbol on the switch designating means and actuates the switch means in the sequence shown by the instruction means a recognizable melody is produced by the apparatus.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a plurality of interchangeable instruction means, each of which is in the form of a card member having symbolic representations printed thereon.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said switch means are substantially located in a given plane, said apparatus comprising a plurality of interchangeable switch designation means each of which is in the form of a card member having symbolic representations printed thereon and each of which card members is adapted to be positioned in overlying relationship with the given plane of said switch means.
4. The apparatus of claim 3 comprising a housing for said tone generating means, said housing having alignment means for interchangeably receiving a selected one of said switch designation cards in a position in which the symbols on the received card will be in registry with corresponding ones of said switch means.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein each said switch into contact with one another by relatively light pres sure of the users finger.
6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein said switch designating card member is comprised of flexible material adapted to overlie said switch means so that finger pressure applied to a selected symbol on the overlying flexible switch designating card member will be transmitted therethrough to that one of the switch means located directly beneath such symbol.
7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said switch means are arranged in a grid pattern and the symbols on said card member are arranged in the same grid pattern.
8. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said switch means comprises a sheet of rubber or rubber-like material, a layer of electrically conductive material on the back face of said sheet, a plurality of contacts arranged in a grid pattern in a given plane underlying said conductive layer, and a thin spacer sheet interposed between said given plane and said conductive layer and having cutouts in registry with the respective ones of said contacts whereby an electrical circuit is completed by depressing a portion of the rubber material in registry with a cutout, through the corresponding cutout, into engagement with the corresponding contact.
9. The apparatus of claim 1 comrising a plurality of interchangeable instruction means in the form of instruction card members and a plurality of interchangeable switch designation means in the form of keyboard card members, each of said keyboard card members being associated with at least one of said instruction card members to form together therewith a pair of card members cooperable with one another and with said tone generating means for producing a recognizable tune in response to the student giving the correct responses to each one of the series of questions on the associted instruction card.
10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein different pairs of associated cards carry symbolic representations from different fields of endeavor for teaching different subjects.
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putin considering our own history? bernie goldberg on that. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. how to handle putin. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. taking a page out of the hitler playbook. russian has invaded ukraine saying that russian nationals are in danger in that country. you may remember back in 1938 the nazi leader did the exact same thing in check evacuation i can't, sending in forces to, quote, protect germans who the furor said were at risk it was a reuse. there is no question that putin's invasion of the crimea is a clear international violation.
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putin is punishing ukraine for wanting to move into the european union because their economy is so bad. the tyrant opposes that the incident is a huge embarrassment to the obama administration which some believe to be soft on international danger. secretary of state kerry reacted this way to putin. he is not going to be able to gain by. this he may have troops some period of time in crimea unless he resolves. this the fact is he is going to lose on the international stage. he that may find himself with asset freezes russian business. american business may call back there may be a further tumble of the ruble. there is a huge price to pay. >> but the only way russia will lose is if president obama moves quickly to punish that nation. the way to do that is to move against russian banks. last september, senator richard blumenthal of connecticut urged president
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obama to slap sanctions on russian banks because they were propping up the assad regime in syria. the president did not do that and assad is still killing innocent people today. but now mr. obama to do it. because that's the only way putin will pull back. the u.s.a. has to power, has the power to crush the russian currency the ruble which is already in trouble. freezing russian assets and boycotting russian banks would badly damage the russian currency. that's the play. also, russia should immediately be suspended from the g 8 partisanship. partnership. that's the group that works together for economic benefit. tomorrow russia should be out unless they pull out you of ukraine. there are a number of other smaller things that can be deny. but, belief me, the bank deal would hurt putin deeply because the russian economy is awful. long past time to deal with this thug. he is a menace to the world, a killer who could not care less about international law
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or human rights. we can't fight them militarily but we can damage russia economically finally a couple of inintended consequences. number one, there will be no military budget cuts, president obama has to know that now. number two, the keystone pipeline must be approved. why? because rush ha is blackmailing europe over energy. supplies a third of oil and natural gas to the eu. the more oil and natural gas the u.s.a. and canada can produce and distribute, the weaker russia becomes on the world stage i fervently hope president obama understands that finally, there is barack obama's legacy. hear's a satirical picture posted on fox nation showing the contrasting styles of putin and obama. obviously the russian leader sees himself as macho man. the president sees himself as a renaissance man who wants to accommodate. but there is no
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accommodating putin. and if the u.s.a. looks weak on this one, believe me, we'll pay a heavy price. as will the president's historical reputation. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight reaction joining us from boston fox news military analyst colonel david hunt and -- am i making mistakes here, mr. whiten? >> no, i don't think so. i would add a few other things to the list. you know, we can be specific with building -- helping central europe get free of russian energy. it's russian energy that's been used against ukraine but also against our allies and poland and czech
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the shutting off the bank you can't do tomorrow. >> you can start it gnome. talk about going to do it. >> he can't throw the switch to stop the banking it takes too much other cooperation. hungary, czechoslovakia and ukraine we have done nothing. i don't see us doing anything with this that will push this man out of the crime i can't. >> we can destroy the ruble, you two you mentioned did it internally. the president of the united states being able to flip a switch and stop western banking. you can't be able to do it
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all. >> britain would certainly follow us, england would certainly follow us and france i believe would follow us. germany, they are wishy, washy, but i think you can put pressure on them. that's the way to go. now, mr. whiton, you were involved with the georgia thing, all right? where in august 2008 only three months before president bush left office putin tried the same play, all right, in georgia. but the georgians shot at the russian troops there was excuse-maker there and eventually putin pulled out most of his troops there do you think that's what's going to happen in ukraine. >> i don't know. no one really know ifs russia is going to take the next step of invationd eastern ukraine. georgia, that's a problem that we keep looking at these things in isolation. it's a problem the bush administration did make before hillary and obama reset relations with russia. essentially condoleezza rice did it too. you get things like the invasion of georgia
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annexation of territory. going back to your earlier point, there are steps we can take right now. if we label certain russian banks as primary money laundering concerns, the treasury department tomorrow can start making putin feel economic pain. >> i know that to be true. now, colonel hunt, you sound a little dubbish here. you sound like almost a little rand paulish. stay out of it. let putin do what he wants. you are a tough macho man. you are more macho than putin, colonel. if you took your shirt off, you would shame him. i don't know if you have got a horse but we will rent one for you. >> i appreciate that. >> the shirt is probably not going to come off. thanks for the offer. the issue is what is reality. this is no spin zone. realistically what can we do? my issue is i don't think we have a dog in this fight. >> sure we he have a dog in it fight which the president says to putin don't do it and two days later he does it? you don't think that's a stick in the eye. >> he was moving naval
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infantry during the olympics. this was -- he has war gamed this. he understands we're not going to do anything. my point is, what we can do will not force putin to pull out of crimea. and, we have got nothing to say about him going to kiev. >> that might be right. if we destroy their currency, their currency is makey anyway. nobody wants rubles, nobody. i want to pay my staff in rubles, they all quit. they are not taking rubles. all right? they don't want it and you make it worse than it is now all their prices go up. that's how we squeeze iran to the table. exact same thing. >> because even doing iran took us years to get the cooperation to do what we finally worked in iran. >> now, the big boys are going to cooperate with us. if one of them doesn't, i would resign from nato. i'm going to give you the last word, mr. whiton. when you have personality like putin, and the one thing the colonel is right about, this is one okay bray
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that doesn't really care. doesn't care what the world thinks. doesn't think -- care what anybody anies. destabilize the economy so the russian people turn on him. that's the only way, right? >> that's right. you have to do real things. sending john kerry who in many ways still sounds like senator who thinks that rhetoric is an article product and putting him against putin doesn't work. real steps another one that you didn't mention but should be on our list is expelling russia from the world trade organization. g 8 aren't meant to be reform tors. you are supposed to behave well to get into them. when you don't, you should be thrown out. the reason we have a stake in it this, if we are not there lean toward russia. imperil our interest. >> not only that colonel hunt knows. this we have you on later this week, colonel. china is watching us. china wants to fear of influence take the japanese islands. they are watching to see what happens here. this is dangerous. next on the rundown, brit hume on president obama's
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personal stake in the ukraine invasion. bob costas on how nbc and he himself actually dealt with putin face to face. the factor is coming right back.
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hume zone tonight. personal stake in invasion. speaking today with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, president obama said this. >> over time, this will be a costly proposition for russia. and new is the time for them to consider whether they can serve their interests in a way that resorts to diplomacy as opposed to force. >> joining us now from boca rotan florida brit hume. i think this is a crossroads for the president right now, am i wrong? >> no, i don't think so, bill. i think you are right.
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it does remind one of the yet union's invasion of afghanistan and the profession of astonishment from them president jimmy carter. this president hasn't said he was astonished but he does seem to think that this was -- he didn't seem to fully see this coming the question now is whether he can rally other nations to his leadership as he seeks to do some of the things that you and your previous gests outlined. there isn't really a lot the president can do economically by itself diplomatically. but with the other nations on our side on, this russia could be kicked out of the g 8. it could even be kicked out of world trade organization. that would matter to russia. >> i can't imagine any nation not going along at this juncture. you know great britain will. >> oh, bill. oh, bill. >> waited, wait, wait. you know great britain will. france has been hardliners on this. germany, now, there you might have a problem merkel
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is in a very difficult position if she doesn't back obama up on this, go ahead. >> look, this isn't the era when the american president was the preeminent president in the world. those days have gone away. all the reason why a nation like germany depends in part dealing a lot of european nations do supplies flow to and from russia is going to be too aggressive here. >> russia needs their currency. russia needs the german money. it's back and forth this is a crucial matter is. remember how this started. this started because kiev
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and the ukrainians were about to make a move in the direction of western europe with an economic partnership. putin didn't want that. he ponied up with a big bailout package for ukraine to try to dissuade ukraine. when the ukrainian leadership went against that for putin. the people rebelled in the streets and that government was overthrown. >> right. that obviously along putin and he sent in the troops. will it be enough for him to have them in the crimea for a while in the belief that the government in kiev would shy away from making that alliance with western europe? it's not clear. >> all right. but what has to happen is that putin has to be punished in my opinion. he has to be punished. and you have got to attack him. and if the other members of nato aren't going to come along, we should pull out of nato. now, in the united states, people don't know, this but your gasoline prices are up 14 cents a gallon in two weeks. all right. and the stock market is
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wobbling. this is all going to come back to hurt every single american because turbulence in the world does that these days. i don't think americans are really locked. in everyone is going to get hurt because of this turbulence in the world and energy markets in particular is common during a crisis of this kind. when the crisis when and if the crisis passes. energy prices tend to subside. the same thing is true in the stock market. warren buffet was saying shows you that he thinks it's all going if this doesn't pass no, ma'am question about that. >> i am convinced that barack obama understands history and doesn't want to go down in it jimmy carter, are you convinced of that? >> no. i think president obama misunderstands the world. he proved as oscar goodman
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said to be a very slow lerner. >> brit hume, everyone. directly ahead. a factor exclusive. bob costas back from the olympics how he dealt with russians. controversial statement about putin bernie goldberg on whether the left will start blaming america for the ukrainian crisis. those stories after these those stories after these behind every centrum multivitamin are over one million hours of research. those stories after these inside are specific vitamins and minerals to help support your heart, brain and eyes. centrum silver. for the most amazing parts of you. inuses are acting up and i've got this runny nose. i better take something. truth is, sudafed pe pressure and pain won't treat all of your symptoms. really? alka seltzer plus severe sinus fights your tough sinus symptoms plus your runny nose. oh what a relief it is
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nbc sports anchor bob costas. there was controversial over his comments about putin during the olympic coverage. >> just in the past year, putin brokered a deal to allow syria to avoid a u.s. military strike by giving up its chemical weapons. and help bring iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear intentions. and he has repeatedly showcased his confidence to
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take over the west particularly the united states. >> that was on february 6th. two weeks later, mr. costas said this. >> while in many significant ways russian stain citizens have better lives than soviet citizens of a generation ago, theirs is still a government which imprisons dissidents, hostile to gay rights, sponsors and supports a vicious regime in syria, and that's just a partial list. no amount of olympic glory can mask those relates. >> here now is bob costas. >> hey, bill. >> so you don't think the initial putin coverage to you, you get attacked on talk radio on some cable. >> only in certain precincts prove predict tabbably. >> everybody gets it if you are as big as you are. but you don't think that was fair? >> no. because it was entirely out of context. i was reluctant to come on. i come on out of respect to you. you have always been fair to me. i ran the risk of amplifying nonissue. this is a controversial only for those looking for the
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most flimsy pretext for a controversy and a kind of cut and paste thing that isn't even journalism. that was not a profile of putin. it was a set up to a conversation in which putin was would immediately be called autocrat and his desire to expand the former soviet empire, now the russian empire, his desire to make his nation more and more influential and consequential on the international stage, that was the whole thing. not an hour later. not after a commercial. contiguous to it. all right. so there was not -- there was nothing. >> why get involved with politics at all. you guys were over there to cover the games. why even boyer. >> in fact, on behalf of my colleagues at nbc and mark lazarus who runs nbc sports now. we did exactly what we said we were going to do. we would frame the back drop against which these issues, against which these olympics took place. each of the first two nights in the first minute, in a broad sense, i laid it out. then we brought on david rim nic, whether people thinks
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he leans left or not. is he an expert on russian politics. we talked about these being putin's games. the 1984 olympics weren't ronald reagan's games. they were peter. the 1996 olympics billy clinton's. the 2002 olympics were mitt romney's not george bush's. these were putin's games. as i said in the last piece which you showed but only a portion of, if in fact they were successful, which briefly before what's going on in ukraine they appeared to be on their way to being successful. it would burnish the image of a man in a regime whose him image does not deserve to burnished. >> let me back that up with a clip. what you are say suggest were critical of putin. >> repeatedly. >> each while discussing his influence on the games. roll the tape we have. >> i don't know of any american, david, no matter where they may fall on the political spectrum, who views vladimir putin as some sort of peace maker or a benign figure. >> okay. once you got that out, were
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there any retractions? anybody say look, we are sorry, we portrayed costas as a left wing guy or all of that. >> no. as a matter of fact, all of that and much much more is on nbc olympics.com. was immediately. so far as i know is still there. >> you got hosed by these guys. >> i am talking about repeatedly and straightforwardly either in questions to guests including tomas balk the head of the ic. talked about corruption as initem indim mick in russia including as part of these games. i talked about the jailing of dissidents. i talked it about their horrible human rights record. i said to bach are you comfortable having the olympic flame burning over vladimir putin's russia where they have such a horrible human rights record? >> what did he say? >> he said we don't want to get into politics, blah blah blah. and i asked him about two of the last four olympics being in problematic regimes like china and russia. i also talked about their
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alliances with syria and with iran. i talked to president obama about whether or not he can possibly work with this truculent character. obama had said he wanted to re-set the relationship with russia. >> it's clearly not working. >> no it's not working. even things to tweet the u.s. not allows u.s. couples to adopt russian orphans. vladimir putin is as most people here in this building believe, this is not a left, right, or center thing. vladimir putin is a former kgb operative. >> is he a villain. >> he is a villain. adversary, period. >> did you meet him. >> did i not meet him. we asked for an interview with him. he neither me, brian williams. he wouldn't do it. >> did they give you arrested ha time. >> no he they did not. >> you could do what you wanted. >> part of the time just circumstantially i was confined to my hotel because i had that eye problem. >> no one wanted to be near you. >> no one wanted to be near me including kremlin operatives didn't want to be near me. >> i thought you had lep
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seas. >> for a while. father damion over to ha heal you. i have got to hold you over again. i don't want to but i have got some more questions about how nbc and russia dealt with this thing and whether -- whether we should have the olympics there anyway. i will hold costas over. then goldberg who costas knows, actually dined with him. it's amazing. >> i have dined with you as well. >> no you haven't. >> really? i have proof. >> i picked -- i picked up the tab. all right. okay. there i blew my cover. so goldberg is going to talk about how the far left is going to spin the uk crisis. costas, goldberg and we will be right back. ♪ they lived
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now with all the trouble do you think the olympic committee made a mistake in going to russia in the first place? they could have gone to austria. >> i asked tomorrow mass bach the olympics should have as part of its charter minimum add heerns to basic human rights and maybe even require that it be held in democratic states. his arguments with a that by putting it in various places we push these states to be. >> positive directions. >> to be more civilized. >> i don't see evidence of that in beijing or in moscow. i have seen no evidence of that. >> when you were dealing with the chinese as opposed to the russians. who is more difficult to deal with in the chinese or the russians? >> again, my experience, just to be honest in russia was limited because of my own circumstances. the security was very, very
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tight. as it had to be. the olympics the ioc chose to put this, terrorism is always an issue ever since 72 in munich. they put it in a place where the terrorists are indigenous. ring of steel that extended out like 30 miles. other than having to go through the security where everyone was extremely plight. >> they didn't tell you we don't want you messing with this and that. >> did they have minders following you around. >> i don't know if my phone was tapped or room was bugged. i don't know that for sure. >> all the tweets were being monitored. and you couldn't shower, right? nobody could shower up or what? >> i think many people showered in the dark. >> why couldn't the showers work? what was that deal. >> no, in our hotel, the hotel that the embassy people were in. everything was fine. we were treated well. the people were friendly. there was no problem in that respect. but, what i tried to do, judiciously. because i think that some of these things are important. just as in '96 when china came in in the parade of
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nations, i said they have been readmitted to the olympics. if any nation can duplicate what the old eastern block and with sports machine they can. there have been charges of doping systematically. they could have gotten the 2000 games but for human rights violations. nobody on the right was upset by that it was relevant. they just liked it they weren't upset when i said in london that the ioc should have being a knowledged the 40 year anniversary of the moon nirk massacre. the right wasn't bothered by that because they liked it i wasn't politicizing the games. what i said was pertinent. what i said about putin during these games in russia was pertinent it was judicious. it didn't get in the way of the competition. and selecting this one thing out of context completely misstates. >> i said that night. i want you to react to this. i said that night i know you and you are not some raving lunatic leftist. >> no i'm not. >> you are a baseball guy. when you were a kid you were collecting baseball cards you weren't studying hubert hoover like i was. >> just because i have
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mickey mantle's. >> that was not rehearsed. >> hey, doesn't mean that i didn't know that herbert hoar. >> you are not smart enough to be idealogue. >> wind up idealogue and tell me how smart some of these clowns are. >> i said he is not idealogue. >> you are right about that. >> but if i were doing the narration i would have rewritten it. i would have not have said that about putin, last word? >> in retrospect, i wish that i had said what i said to realm mick five seconds later which is no one views him as a statesman but i knew that was going to happen contiguously. all we were trying to say is that he was influential and formidable figure. when "time" magazine named crews chef the man of the year in a 7. nobody thought -- was a communist. >> i did. >> man of year in '83. no one thought they were equally admirable characters that was the sole purpose of this. it's all on nbc olympics.com.
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by the way, this is going to be the last word. >> last one. >> john mccain, who like most americans i respect and admire and with whom i have had a very cordial relationship. john mccain was improperly briefed about what i had said. he has rightly worked up over what is going on in syria and what's about to happen in ukraine. he said some things about me that were ill-considered. i called his office to set the record straight. when he called me back, other than hello, before i could say one word other than hello, he said, bob, i apologize. i have seen what you said in full context. >> he is like that. >> he then tweeted a link to some of the things i have said, increased my respect for him. i am not holding my breath, despite the fact that there is a mountain tab of evidence like this just to nbc olympics.com. i'm not holding my breath waiting for some others to say, you know what? we got this one not a little wrong, we got it completely wrong. >> all right. bob costas, everybody. there he is when we come right back, goldberg on how the left is going to spin ukraine and juan and mary katharine on what they would
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to get the job done. thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly in the weekdays with bernie segment tonight. didn't take lock for the left wing to weigh in on the ukraine crisis. >> what leverage do we have?
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>> economic leverage, diplomatic leverage, but i don't think in any way the united states or europe has any interest in making this military. the united states also does not have the leverage it wants in historical terms, invading countries is something the united states knows about from really raw experience. >> what a bunch of crap. joining us now from miami the purveyor of bernard goldberg.com. bernard goldberg. this drives me crazy. he is the guy costas was referring to remnick. russian expert he has been there many times. he has been a very very avowed left winger who makes the moral equivalency that the united states has invaded some country dries to wit putin is doing when it isn't even close. and you say? >> before i get agreeing with you, let me just say what rim nic is saying, i think, is that the united states is going to have going too lose some leverage
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with putin and lose the ability to lecture him about ininvestigating other countries because we have also invaded other countries putin remnick said, putin uses this on a daily basis on government controlled television to build himself up at the expense of the united states here is where i stop you there. >> here is where i do agree with. >> you i don't want to you agree with me yet. >> what remnick should do if he is a honest man and he is not. look, this putin is such a liar that he makes the equivalent of the united states deposing saddam to him going into crimea for no reason at all, none l rlt in democratic country no, reason for the russians to be there you don't make the equivalency there and give it any validity. yet remnick gives it validity on "the today show." that's what tees me off.
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go. >> right. so what remnick should have said is that when we invade a country it's to free people and not build an american empire. >> that's right. >> when putin invades a country, it is never to free people and it may well be to build a new russian empire. i think what remnick was saying not that we should not criticize putin but that it becomes harder because putin will just laugh it off because of our own history. >> it becomes hard with her a guy like remnick puts that out without any context. if he said what you said i wouldn't have my problem with it? >> exactly. >> let me give you one example. john kerry, secretary of state john kerry yesterday on face the nation said that russia can't invade a country. it's totally wrong for them to invade a country on trumped up pretext it. his words, on trumped up
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pretext. you know that putin is saying, and i think this was rennick's point. trumped up pretext that's what you guys do. i think what remnick was really doing in the real world of geo politics if it becomes to deal with putin. he was never saying putin is a good guy not here and not in sochi did he say that what he is saying it's harder to deal with him if putin is claiming you don't have clean hands either. >> okay. but i'm telling you and i know this to be a fact because i know the man's background and i know where he works. he believes the united states is a flawed country. all right? he doesn't see that big a difference between us and putin like you and i do. all right? he doesn't this is what you will see more and more on the left and libertarian precincts too. we can't do anything because we have done our own x, y
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and z. that just steams me. it's insult to the military it makes me angry. last word. >> it should, but i have trouble believing and i don't know david remnick. i have trouble believing that david remnikk it's laughable is no better than putin's russia. >> you read what he is has written and you get a definite anti-american theme from it. there is no doubt. bernie, thank you. here are results to the bill o'reilly.com poll question. we asked you off everything that happened last week about the kids, are they better off today or 50 years ago? 88% say auto years ago. just 12% say the opposite. about 16,000 of you voted and we thank you all. juan and mary katharine on deck. what would they personally do to putin. factor tip of the day. pithy comments about the academy awards last [ male announcer ] this is karen and jeremiah.
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back of the book segment tonight, how tough does barack obama need to be in the ukraine deal? joining us from los angeles, mary katharineham from washington juan williams both fox news analyst. first of all, juan, what would you do to putin if you were president, god help us. what would you do? >> well, right off the bat, the first thing i would do is i would freeze all the assets of russians have in international banks. i would make it painful for the ruling class in russia and secondly, i might ban travel for all russians who want to come to the united states, get out. and third, bill, i think i would right off othe bat say that we have money. and we can get together some funds from the international community that would help the ukrainian government as it stands now. give them an alternative economic package and help for their military. >> before -- we already
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pledged them money. get them loans and of course they won't pay them back. you can't freeze them in international banks you can freeze them in united states banks. you could put the arm on travel. you could banks, you could put the arm on travel. you could limit travel, i don't think i would do that right away, i could limit their currency. >> but if you make it difficult right away -- >> there will be economic chaos over there, how about you, mary katherine, what would you do? >> well, in the nirs place, if i were president, which i don't believe i would be, but -- >> you have to deal with reality. >> we're talking about a fantasy where i'm the president. that is one thing i would do. the second thing i would do if i was in the situation, dug myself a hole as the president has by
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not being credible on these things. your best bet will push europe on the g8. and push germany on that, and economic pressures, those are pressures that can be brought to bear. the problem is, realistically, do i believe that barack obama will lead on those fronts? do you guys think so? >> he has to. h he has to do something, because if he doesn't he is going to be damned as the same category as jimmy carter, james buchanan, he will be put in the category that history thinks he caused too much trouble. but look, mary katherine raised a question about past weakness. a commentator today said, that once the president said to syria you crossed the red line and you're going to get whacked, and
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then when they crossed them, that was it. then the putins, and the chinese, and the mullahs, we can do what we can, do you think that is fair, juan? >> yes, i think the united states, the congress didn't want barack obama fire the missiles at syria and barack obama didn't have the strength to do it unilaterally on his own and take the heat from the domestic and international groups. there are questions now where they say the united states is so war-weary, they will not act, but let me just say -- >> president putin is counting on it. whenever you fight a war as a historian, i know this. you look for the weakness of your opponent, he is not going to be able to reason. >> that is the art of war. >> wait, wait, wait, you can react to what i say, but i want mary katherine to react first,
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germany, i'm not so sure. merkel is in a very tight spot. but the weakness of russia, their economy, the weakness is the ruble, and the united states can lay a heavy, heavy low, mary katherine, and that is where i go, and go quickly. >> yeah, i think that is true, there are many options between the boots on the ground, and barack obama framing it as a false choice. frankly if you took your talking points you could plug it in for cohesive existence. there is skepticism to bring other countries along, who think it would hurt them to do so. >> what i think we have to do is build an international alliance to go after the assets, freeze the assets, you can do it after american banks, we need to
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isolate and de-stabilize putin. don't forget that george bush had much the same response when putin went into georgia, and you guys -- >> he only had three months in office. >> the point of toughness is to be tough, and missing -- >> we have a live shocks if i don't go, the computer blows us up. factor tip of the day i have a ♪ [ male announcer ] she won't remember this, being carried in your arms. but after a day spent in the caribbean exploring mayan ruins and playing pirates with you in secret coves, she won't exactly be short on memories. princess cruises. come back new. [ female announcer ] plan your seven-day cruise from just $549. call your travel agent or 1-800-princess.
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that, to say that is the problem is obvious. there is now a deep couple tough of cynicism in some kids, that needs to be addressed because parents will not do it. and bill, thank you for exposing the evil our kids are exposed to. well, you're welcome, wish i could do more. and mr. o, even saying that geraldo's beard makes him look like a cartel member is racist, you know what? i'll live with it. and now i have $3200 coming to me. excellent, ron, please make sure you give some of that money to charity. it is karma, and when will you and miller come to this state? i hear miller is in the gym, no problem, take on the lefties in missoula. and last night there were three excellent examples of movie
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WASHINGTON—A former trainer for retired baseball star Roger Clemens told a jury Monday that in 1998 the pitcher asked him for a "booty shot"—an injection of steroids in his buttocks that was allegedly the first of many.
The trainer, 45-year-old Brian McNamee, is the most important witness against Mr. Clemens, who seven times won the Cy Young Award as the top pitcher in one of the two Major League Baseball leagues. Federal prosecutors accuse Mr. Clemens of lying to Congress in 2008 when he repeatedly denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
Mr. Clemens, 49 years old, denies he lied and pleaded not guilty in the trial, which is in U.S. District Court here. Members of Mr. Clemens's legal team said in court they planned to vigorously attack Mr. McNamee's credibility. Cross-examination of Mr. McNamee is set to begin later in the week.
Mr. McNamee's allegations came to light years ago when steroids investigators began scrutinizing him, and he eventually began cooperating with both criminal and congressional probes.
The criminal trial has delved into the seamy side of baseball's so-called steroids era in the 1990s and early 2000s, before investigations and public scrutiny led to tougher rules on the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
A former New York City police officer with a distinct Queens accent, Mr. McNamee testified for hours about his relationship with Mr. Clemens. He said it began in 1998 when he was a strength coach for Mr. Clemens's team at the time, the Toronto Blue Jays.
The trainer's account is critical to the government's case because another prosecution witness—New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte—has backed away from an assertion against Mr. Clemens. On the witness stand last month, Mr. Pettitte said he may have misunderstood Mr. Clemens's alleged admission to having used human growth hormone.
Earlier in the day, trial judge Reggie Walton ruled the testimony of Mr. Pettitte could remain in the case. He rejected an argument from the defense team that Mr. Pettitte's testimony should be stricken because Mr Pettitte's account of the conversation was so uncertain.
In contrast to Mr. Pettitte, Mr. McNamee provided explicit details of what he said was Mr. Clemens's use of steroids. He said he injected the pitcher about eight or 10 times in the 1998 season.
At one point that season, according to the trainer, Mr. Clemens handed him a Ziploc bag of testosterone in single-dose glass ampoules. Mr. McNamee said he never asked where Mr. Clemens got the drug.
"Don't ask, don't tell," the trainer testified. "I didn't want to know."
The first time he injected the pitcher with steroids, Mr. McNamee said, came shortly after the pitcher had asked for "a booty shot," which the trainer said he understood to mean an injection of steroids.
Mr. McNamee then visited Mr. Clemens in a hotel suite the player used at the Toronto Skydome, where the Blue Jays played.
"Roger had laid out the steroids, the needle, the alcohol, the gauze pad in his bathroom," said Mr. McNamee. "…He bent his leg and started to flex his butt…and then relaxed and said 'I'm ready.' "
The trainer said he wasn't familiar with steroids at the time of the initial Skydome encounter and wasn't sure how to inject them.
"I didn't feel good about what I was doing, but on the flip side, I was just trying to help," said Mr. McNamee. "I knew what I was doing was illegal," he added. "I did what I was asked and I shouldn't have…I made a mistake and I wish to God I hadn't."
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Published: October 1, 2003
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30— The Justice Department said on Tuesday that it had begun a full investigation into whether Bush administration officials illegally disclosed the name of an undercover C.I.A. officer to journalists, and the White House directed its staff to cooperate.
The Justice Department instructed the White House to preserve all records relating to the case, including any involving contacts with three journalists: Robert D. Novak, the syndicated columnist who first reported the name of the intelligence officer in July and attributed the information about her to two ''senior administration officials''; and two reporters for Newsday, Timothy M. Phelps, the Washington bureau chief of the newspaper, and Knut Royce.
Mr. Phelps and Mr. Royce were co-authors of an article in July that said that ''intelligence officials'' had confirmed and expanded on Mr. Novak's account. Their article went beyond Mr. Novak's in stating that the operative, Valerie Plame, worked in ''an undercover capacity.''
President Bush said he was ''absolutely confident that the Justice Department will do a very good job'' of investigating the case, signaling that he sees no need for an outside special counsel to take over the inquiry from the Justice Department. Speaking to reporters after meeting business executives in Chicago, Mr. Bush said there were ''just too many leaks'' in Washington from the executive and legislative branches.
''And if there is a leak out of my administration,'' he added, ''I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of.''
The Justice Department told the White House of its decision to move ahead on Monday evening. Mr. Bush was informed early Tuesday morning by the White House counsel, Alberto R. Gonzales, who then informed the president's senior staff at its regular 7:30 meeting.
''The president has directed full cooperation with this investigation,'' Mr. Gonzales said in a memorandum distributed to White House staff members on Tuesday morning.
After receiving a letter from the Justice Department on Tuesday night with specific requests, Mr. Gonzales distributed a second memorandum with details of the information that investigators would seek, including records relating to contacts with the three journalists and those related to the C.I.A. officer's husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former diplomat who has been critical of the administration's use of intelligence to justify the Iraq war.
Mr. Wilson has said the disclosure about Ms. Plame, which could have endangered her, appeared to be intended to discourage other critics of the administration from coming forward or to punish him for his criticism.
The case began when Mr. Wilson, in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on July 6, recounted a mission that he undertook for the C.I.A. in early 2002 to investigate whether President Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire uranium for the Iraqi nuclear weapons program from Niger in western Africa. Mr. Wilson wrote that the administration had twisted evidence about Iraqi weapons ''to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.''
Mr. Novak's column identifying Ms. Plame appeared eight days later.
The developments on Tuesday pushed into high gear the legal and political maneuvering that was common here in the Clinton years, but that Mr. Bush has largely escaped. The fast-paced developments also promised to renew attention on the underlying issues of whether the administration had exaggerated the Iraq threat before the war and sought to discredit critics of its foreign policy.
Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters that the Justice Department received a request from the intelligence agency last week to look into whether officials had broken a law that prohibits the naming of covert intelligence operatives.
''And after a prompt review of this request,'' Mr. Ashcroft said, ''the criminal division of the Department of Justice, with the assistance of the F.B.I. as the lead investigative agency, opened a full investigation, and that was last Friday.''
He refused to take questions about Democrats' calls to turn over the case to an independent special counsel. The department said later it would consider that option, despite the White House insistence that the Justice Department should handle the case.
''Looking forward, no options are closed,'' a spokesman for the department, Mark Corallo, said. ''We are not closing any doors.''
Mr. Ashcroft defended his department's ability to handle the case, saying, ''The prosecutors and agents who are and will be handling this investigation are career professionals with extensive experience in handling matters involving sensitive national security information and with experience relating to investigations of unauthorized disclosures of such information.''
Officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said they planned to begin interviewing and collecting documents from the C.I.A. and the White House on the status of Ms. Plame. They will also explore who had access to classified information about her and how that information may have been passed on.


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