the major league players and the players union to begin talks. while that s happening, one big league pitcher has called it a career. three-time world series champion jon lester has announced his retirement after 16 seasons. the 38-year-old lefty broke into the majors with the boston red sox back in 2006 and after his first big league season was cut short due to a battle with cancer, he returned to the majors in july of 2007 and helped the sox to a championship and was the ace of the team who helped them again in 2013. he joined the chicago cubs a year later and helped lead them in 2016 to the team s first championship since 1908. certainly red sox fans will always think very fondly of jon lester. congratulations on a great career. let s go to the nhl and a fifth contact rear hat trick for brad marchand including two goals 15 seconds apart in the first period that helped the
neil: senator, thank you very much for joining us. jim dimint in washington. in the meantime, is a-rod about to get a-ream. i want you to meet a former big league pitcher who says what s the big deal about plug there are performance-enhancing drugs. don t ban them, promote them. forget about banning alex rodriguez and is it legal? these ladies are ready to play ball and answer that after this. weigh you down?
credible allegations of nazi w!ñ crimes. if this one is found to be credible, trying mr. karkoc in court could be a long process. what they will try to do is try to strip him of his united states citizenship and then deport him. reporte9: so what would have to happen, he would have to be denaturalized as a u.s. citizen, deporte , and then tried eventually in either germany or poland. all of that could take a long time. at over 90 years old, it s not clear he would make it it t$rough that entire process. back to you guys. still quite a set of revelations. d8much. still coming up on new day, a big league pitcher carried off the field after being struck in the head by a vicious line drive. is it time for baseball to think more about safety. also an amazing recovery in there we ll tell you about. and a beauty queen has a brain cramp. the morning miss utah would like to forget. ahead on new day. to make their money do more.
ironically, from the chase department in charge of mitigated risk. my colleague, christine romans watching this hearing from her post in new york. the department that s supposed to mitigate risks made these risky trades and now he is having to answer questions. it s obvious why congress wants to know why these stupid trades were made. yeah. he says, you know what? i m not going to defend it, because it violates common sense. it shouldn t have happened. what was, maybe should have been a legitimate, bona fide macroeconomic hedge, morphed into something else, he says, and he did not defend it. talk about, you say a grilling. a civil discussion. in part because he is so contrite here. the conversation just now turning into something more about what do you think about dodd-frank and the volcker rule and new regulations he has been vocal against. but as far as that trade, he says, no, you re right. it shouldn t have happen and we re sorry for that. in particular, let me tell you
i was a bit overcome. i don t even know how to explain it. how to caps liez your childhood, you know, in one room. i was a little overwhelmed. . another supporter of same sex marriage. joe biden was asked his stance on sunday. and boy did it set off a wave of comments on facebook and twitter. men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women, all entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights and civil liberties. this morning, arnie duncan went further ena and expressed his support during an appearance on msnbc s morning joe. have a look. do you believe that same sex men and women should be able to legally get married in the united states? oh, come on. you re going to start there? yes, i do. turns out, it was a good place to start, whoever was making that comment. jessica yellen joins me now from the white house. the obama campaign is saying no, it s not the official fogs. the president s position is evoling. what this is,