Interview: Baseball
>> baseball commissioner bud selig says he’ll investigate allegations that barry bonds used steroids since 1998. one person doesn’t think that selig is doing enough. we’re joined by mike out of our atlanta newsroom. mike, explain.
>> well, fay vincent is the one person. former baseball commissioner fay vincent is giving advice to bud seilig, and his advice is being as transparent as possible. he’ll investigate, but don’t be the guy doing the investigation. back in the 1980’s, he hired an attorney to look into pete rose’s betting allegations in an effort to be as transparent as possible. perhaps mario cuomo, marvin miller, who formed the player’s union. fans will want the most impartial investigation into this as possible. and bud selig can’t be impartial.
>> how do book sales look so far?
>> the barry bonds whole saga has created quite an influx of interest in the book coming out. detailing the allegations, and initially they expected about 50,000. they have already quadrupled that and ordered 197,000 sales, the published date of march 27 has already been pushed up four days to march 23. most definitely there is serious interest in this book.
>> and grid iron gridlock ended this week when nfl owners voted to aprove a new collective far gaining aprovement it ensures labor peace for another four years, but not all owners agree they made the right decision. what’s the issue here, mike?
>> well, was a 30-2 vote there are two owners right now that say the deal isn’t the best deal they could possibly get. they needed just 24 vose to get it. clearly, there was enough to pass the deal. ralph wilson with the buffalo bills and mike brown of the cincinnati bengals are the two owners saying this isn’t the financial deal we want. this isn’t the best deal possible. in the end they agreed the deal was done, fans will benefit from this, league will benefit from this, but they felt a little bit bullied and as small market teams with low revenue, they wanted a little bit more, they say the deal right now still favors high- revenue teams in the big market . they didn’t have enough time to look over the deal. it was rushed, they wanted more time.
>> now that commissioner paul tagliabo helped broker this agreement, there’s reports he might step down. why?
>> this came about pretty quickly after this deal was reached, everybody said this was great for paul ttagliabue. it could be six years, but he said i may have had enough. according to some reports, he’s been on the job 17 years. he has a clause in his contract that would allow him to remain in the nfl in a senior executive position, his pay would be pretty significant in that position, so there’s people lining up that might take his spot, but he hasn’t made a formal announcement as of yet.
>> thursday is national hockey league trade daddyline saw a record number of players switch teams. most of the high-priced players stayed put what impact did the new labor agreement have?
>> that was the biggest impact leading up to this. everybody said you might not see a record number of trades. in fact, we did we saw 25 teams making trades with about 40 players changing teams. those were the big high-priced marquis guys that we saw in the past. one vane a lot of the performance bonuses of high-priced players under the new collective bargaining aagreement pays the end of the year bonuses, they count towards the salary cap. the nhl salary cap made a lot of deals hard to do.
>> mike, appreciate it.
>> thank you, lori. thank you to mike butoe from atlanta. the impact of the dubai ports deal felt in a number of areas. the president is having to mend fences and it’s getting in the way of a trade agreement with the united arab emirates. we’ll talk that with carlos gutierrez, next.
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>> welcome back. knight ridder shares rose for a fourth consecutive day. they were up 3.73%. after bids to buy the publisher. the 32 daily papers include the “philadelphia enquirer” and the miami herald.” they face much competition, some people see the auction as a litmus test. the bids put the publisher’s value at had 4.7 billion or about $70 per share. the two groups that submitted bids are mcclatchy and a group of buyout firms including thomas h. lee partner. some believe mcclatchy would be a better fit.
>> making a statement that there is value in the newspaper business, i think it’s very positive move overall for the group, for the time being.
>> knight ridder put itself up for sale in november after getting pressure from three of its largest shareholders. as for the president, he is suggesting congress erred in rushing to judgment on the ports deal. the but the collapse of the plan is another setback for the president. here is bloomberg’s lindsay arent with the latest.
>> it’s a rough three weeks for the president politically speaking. he has taken multiple hits, in many cases directly from his own party. a day after the collapse of the dubai ports world manage operations at six u.s. ports, the president told a meeting of newspaper executives today he will continue to pursue close ties with the united arab emirates.
>> u.a. sevment a valued and strategic partner. i’m committed to strengthening the relationship with the a. -- u.a.e. and explain why it’s important to congress and the american people.
>> the company announced it would sell or spin off its u.s. holdings to an american company yesterday. meanwhile, the president today said he was worried that the public political brawl might harm diplomatic and commercial ties to other middle eastern nations.
>> i’m concerned about a broader message this issue could send to friends and allies around the world. particularly in the middle east.
>> one very serious problem for the president is the damage the controversy has done to his plitt al prestige. lawmakers are focused on november mid-term locations, the political fallout has a lot of potential there. in the last three weeks, the president has found himself pretty much abandoned by members of his own party. now, in response to the ports battle, some republican lawmakers are drafting proposals that would ban foreign ownership of, infratuck sture, including ports. today, treasury secretary john snow tried to allay those fears.
>> the united states remains open for investment from abroad. we benefit from investment from abroad, we continue to welcome and encourage investment from abroad.
>> all told, a very uncomfortable situation for the white house. last few weeks, now the president has lost ground on one of his strongest issues narblinge security it will be
