april? bp will test a new and tighter cap on the gusher in the gulf that's where we start now, i'm bill hemmer, morning, martha. martha: good morning, bill, good good morning, everybody. fingers are comes dollars -- crossed along the gulf coast this morning, it could take 48 hours to key if the eighth attempt to plug the well is working, this time a.150000-pound cap. bill: as you see there is still oil coming out of that gusher but that could soon change with the robots shutting off the valves and one by one choking off the well. jonathan serrie. wait so long -- waiting so long for this day l. it happen. >> reporter: they certainly hope it's going to work. they're going to be performing tests to deform how much of that oil pressure the new cap can contain. best case scenario, they'll be able to shut off the cap and stop the leak temp early, if any of the ships need to leave the surface in the event inclement weather and turn it back on but they're hoping at the very least from the cap will be able to fully contain the spill and channel it to those ships on the surface. they're saying it could take anywhere between 6-48 hours before they know for sure just how well this cap is working, bill. bill: just to be clear they're not going to shut it off entirely, just that they would capture and contain the oil and maybe in late august they could actually plug up the hole once and for all. what has been the reaction so far from people where you are? >> reporter: we've been talking with local residents and they're trying not to get their hopes up too much because after all they have been disappointed many times in the past. obviously they hope this works. we got a sampling of conditions this morning. listen to this: >> we're tkaurbous -- cacheoesly optimistic. i mean, so many things have tried and failed, so it's hard for us to get we'll confident and say jump for joy that this has done it, but we certainly hope that it works. >> reporter: even if tourpbs out that the -- turns out that the cap is working perfectly not too many on the gulf coast are going to be jumping up and down for joy because they realize that already more than 170 million gallons it's estimated may have leaked into the gulf of mexico, so in the upcoming months and potentially years, you're still going to see tar balls and oil washing on beaches like this and the crews that see behind me, the khraopb-up crews off in the distance likely to be a common sight in the foreseeable future after the spill is capped. phillip thank you for watching this. one by one, hour by hour, we were waiting to see if the cap has been fitted. it's been fitted in place, just about, but we'll see whether it works ultimately. march we have much more on this. if we can stop the flow of oil f. it's done yesterday, or today or tomorrow, it's not done by a long shot, which is what jonathan is saying, 170 million barrels that have washed ashore and will continue to, in this massive cleanup evident underway. we're going to hear from people on the gulf coast and get reaction to the picture you're seeing and how that may change. bill: in the meantime there's this, the white house announce ago deep water drilling freeze, reoperation -- replacing the one tossed out by a federal judge, sure to test the emotions of those along the gulf, like this man who talked yesterday before a commission on the oil disaster. roll this out of new orleans. >> we definitely need other solution, going green, whatever it takes, but to just cut all of our people out of work right now and then also, we don't have any fisheries, we just -- we got nothing, we don't want to be a fellrary state. bill: so the new freeze applies to all deep water floating regulars are blow out preventes like the one with bp, the oil industry groups say they freeze no less arbitrary than the one the judge struck down. we'll see whether or not thatenz up in the courts too. martha: that's the other big story today, why the uganda terror attack is really hitting home now. word this morning that the somali terror group that carried the deadly sweupb bombings in uganda may have been planning a third attack. according to police there, investigators found an unexploded skwaoeud vest loaded with ball bearings. the al shah babb terror group, note that name, you're going to be hearing more about this group, they have ties to al-qaeda, they say they are responsible for this attack on sunday that killed more than 70 people, including one american. they were there to watch the world cup final. four people are in custody in connection with the suicide vest i mentioned that was found today. bill: unimaginable heartache with this story, the family of nate henn, the american who died in the attacks, his brother kyle was in the hospital today after a single engine plane he was rideing in crashed on landing yesterday. kyle was on his way to join his family to mourn his older brother's death, and that brain crashed on its approach to the run way, killing one person and leaving another in critical condition, 25-year-old nate henn, he was in uganda working for the aid group known as invisible children and we remember him this week. martha: we got big news on president obama's push for wall street reform, senate democrats locking in that 60th vote needed to pass this bill, olympia snowe joining fellow maine republican collins and scott brown of massachusetts in this reform so, what is in this 2000 page bill and will it really help america on the road to recovery and help to prevent the kind of debacle we saw in the financial markets over the last 18 months? stuart varney of varney & company joins us now to shed light on this. that is the first question, would it prevent a future economic meltdown, stuart. >> that is one of the goals of this new proposal. or let's list the goals, number one, protect the small investor, number two, break up big banks before they pose too much of a risk to the system, number three, make sure that they're not taking a lot of risk with their money, our money, and number four, just do something, make sure another big panic recession doesn't come along again. those are the goals of this very, very complicated piece of legislation, martha. martha: you know, i'll always very wary of these kind of things because what you see over the course of history on wall street and you know this as well as anybody is that wall street finds a way. i mean, there's always a way around these regulations, there's always a way to come up with a creative investment that gets bundled and -- bundled and gets risky. should we feel confident in tp* this reform goes through? >> you never know what form the next crisis is going to take. who would have thought a couple hundred lousy mortgages would have set off this worldwide panic a few years ago? by the way, fanny, freddie, the housing market generally, plus the insurers, the rating agencies, they are not part at all of this new financial regulation bill, not part of it at awe. then you have to ask, who's getting all the blame for the panic? well, by accepting this legislation, essentially, all of the blame is going on to the banks and going on to wall street. politicians not taking any part of the blame for the panic of '08. then you've got to sk-rbgs well, will the banks turn around and start lending more money now that they're more firmly regulated. answer, probably not. they're going to be hit with a whole bunch you new taxes, new regulation and probably lawsuits as well. and don't forget martha, here's what you're alluding to, this is a 2000 page bill, and within it, there are 357 what are called rule makings, in other words, 357 areas where the rules of the game still have to be defined. we're nowhere near that yet. it will be years before you really find out precisely what is in this bill and how it's going to work. it's a bit like health care. martha: and you can bet that the financial institutions have teams of people who are going through that, and figuring out exactly what they can do and what they can't do and it's a huge point they want to reiterate that you made, stuart, that tpr*pl -- fannie mae, freddie mac, the government taking no sporpbt in this financial reform bill for any part in that meltdown and a lot of people have raised eyebrows over this. >> one more point, the stock price of the big banks is up this morning. this may well favor the very big banks, but not the smaller and regional banks, those prices are up. martha: stuart, good to know, thank you as alleges. stuart varney. bill: juan williams is up next, americans are sounding off against the president and hising in and newt gingrich, what he's saying now. martha: and nas kwrarbgs after the controversial comments, what the white house says about nasa administrator reaching out to muslims. bill: mel gibson's later verbal assault raising new and serious questions about his own mental health. >> you need medication. you need medication. >> i need a woman! i need a woman. i don't need medication. you need a bat in the side of the head. all right, how about that? bill: and it went from there. in a moment, dr. keith ablow, our fox news medical contributor with some analysis. martha: the white house is sort of walking back on controversial comment the made by nasa administrator charles pwo*lden. we reported this last week, pwo*lden was giving an interview to al jazeera television when he said that the president told him that one of the priorities was to reach out and engage in muslim countries, he wanted me to find out about muslim world to help them feel good about their hissic contributions to science and engineering. press secretary robert gibbs was asked about pwo*lden made that comment and here's what he said. >> that's an excellent question, and i don't think -- that was not his task and not the task of naves -- of nasa. martha: he goes on to say he has no idea why boled -- bolden made such a statement. bill: more politics, president obama, the democratic party facing the electorate, the leading numbers show 43 percent say they have confidence the commander in chief will make the right decision, 57 percent say they have some confidence or no confidence at all. juan williams, npr analyst and fox contributor, good morning, juan. >> good morning, bill. bill: 51 percent would rather have republicans run congress to act as a check on obama's policy. what's going on here, where you seeing these numbers? >> i think it's a tremendous antiincumbent mood sweeping the country and the same abc poll, it's like 62 percent of americans say they don't want to reelect anybody who's an incumbent at the moment. so you're seeing a lot of anger at the washington establishment, failure to act, especially on the economy. that remains the number one item, jobs, for all americans. bill: so you think this is all about money, you think it's all about the economy, if the economy were better, the numbers would be different? >> oh yeah, i don't think there's much doubt about it. there's some disenchantment in general with the kind of lack of bipartisanship, lack of getting things done, anger, in that sense, but if you were really to boil it down to specifics, democrats hold control of the house, the senate, and of course, the white house, and what you're seeing in these numbers is people are saying right now they'd rather have republicans in congress, in control, than have democrats. bill: over the past 20 years, to that point, you can look at different polling and you can find that americans prefer divided government. they don't like it when one party is in control of both the house of congress and the white house. but i think these numbers go a lot deeper than that. you look at gallup from the other day, juan, the independent voters are support -- who supported president obama is at 56 percent, only 12 months ago. so today, that number is at 38 percent. that's a new low. >> right. bill: those are the independents who determine election, juan. >> let me just tell you, and inside these numbers, bill, the abc numbers from this morning, what you see is we now have more people who identified themselves as independents than ever. i think they said it was like in the history of the gap up poll. right now you have about 40 percent of americans saying they are independents. i think that's an indication of the disaffection people feel towards both democrats and republicans. but again, the heart and soul of this is anger at incumbents. bill: well, to your point, jimmy carter, 40 percent. ron add reagan, 42 percent. bill clinton, 43 percent. so in that sense, historically, 38 percent would be the lowest according to the gallup polling number. i want to play you what newt gingrich had to say in iowa. and this is about his own political future. we'll react to this in a military here. roll this from yesterday: >> i'll probably make a decision in february or march. and you can imagine, if it's a positive decision, i will be among the first -- iowa will be among the first places to know it. bill ill he said i've never been this serious. is he going to run? >> i don't know. you know, i know newt, like him, i just think that at this point, what he's doing is stirring and testing the base. i don't think that he -- i mean, i hate to contradict or get off his message but i don't think this is about newt gingrich saying he's running for president, he may be out there looking and seeing. remember, he did this before, he's got a new book out in which he thinks obama and this administration is very socialist, compares them even to statin and hitler. i don't know that he really thinks that that -- stalin and hitler. i don't know that he thinks it could turn into big money and translate into winnowo to actually allow him to claim the white house. bill: reflecting on the numbers we discussed, give me a good reason why he should not run after the poll numbers. >> i think people would be attracted to his intellect. he's quite a fascinating american and he's the one that came up with the contract with america, that reclaimed the role for people in the midst of the clinton years but people are saying i'm seeing myself as more of an independent. newt gingrich is a we strong and clear republican and antagonist to the democrats and i don't think that quite fits the kind of thinking right now where people are upset with everybody and looking for something new and different. bill: we have breaking news, but newt gingrich is a guy who has new ideas every time he opens his mouth. >> he's a terrific guy. bill: he might be the number one candidate right now, or at least the first candidate on this growing list that we'll see in the coming months and years. juan, thank you. >> you're welcome, have a good day. bill: you got it. martha: we are on a breaking news story from the sports world, a larger than life baseball other than reportedly suffering a massive heart attack, and is in extremely critical condition, according to these local reports. we're going to tell you as we continue to get more information on that story. we'll bring it right to you. then there is this story we've followed for quite some time about the barefoot bandit, will he show up today with shoes on when we see him make his first appearance in court? the suspected bandit, colt on harris moore going before a judge in the bahamases. details of his wild week we're learning about now. bill: also a very popular guy, holding a hearing on whether or not it's safe, what the makers of this drug allegedly knew and hid from the public and what the fda has to decide today. we'll get to that with our medical a team in a moment. bill: fox news alert this, is what we're learning out of florida, word out of tamper kwrarg long time yankees owner george stein bren, suffered a heart attack sometime late monday night, now listed in serious condition. it was just on the fourth of july he celebrated his 80th birthday, making his home for the -- his home in the tampa area, telling the a.p. last week that he was, quote, feeling good after spending a couple of hours in his office at the yankees spring training complex in tampa. the word we have now, george stein steinbrenner, the long time owner of the yankees has suffered a massive heart attack. when we get more word we'll pass it along to you. details here in "america's newsroom" when we get them first. martha: in the meantime, the fda is opening up a hearing today following a very disturbing report about the popular diabetes drug avandia. this report claims the drug company, glaxosmithkline, has known for ten years that avandia was riskier to the heart than other medicines but despite knowing that medicine, the report claims that the drug company hid that information from their own data, from federal drug regulators and from the public. dr. marc siegl from the medical a team is here, dr. marc, good to have you here. >> good morning, martha. martha: this is durb, they does tk* this study, they compared it to actos, did the study 11 years ago and during that study found out it was risky to the heart an there's an e-mail from a dr. marketten fried that says these data should not see the light of day. >> very shocking. this is an accumulating problem with this particular manufacturer, and this drug. over a ten-year period, involving at least six clinical trials, actos, you mentioned, i want to give the background on this, there's a class of drugs, there are three drugs in the class, one was removed from the market ten years ago, resyly -- reslyn for causing liver problems. these have been under scrutiny ever since. these drugs are great, they allow a diabetic to get rid of excess sugar. diabetes triples your risk of heart disease, stroke so you can imagine we want to drug but over the past ten years we have more drugs we can use and this drug is under fire, it's very disturb, a, the drug companies conduct their own trials, that's a problem, b, that they may actually suppress information. the fda is looking at idea that a study called the record trial in 2007, that gsk, glaxosmithkline said the drug is safe, we're not find ago prorbgs at the same time, dr. nissan found a report in the new england journ, 43 percent increase in a risk for heart attack. now it looks like there were a dozen cases of people in terrible trouble on this drug that wasn't reported. martha: you make a great point, why is the company doing a test on their own drugs. they are going through a tough time, didn't have a successful drug, a lot of pressure on them to have a successful drug. if seems if there's a role for the government, it seems like this may be a pretty good place to start. they also said they were legally obligated to post it on their website and let the federal regulators know. >> agreed. there's a division within the fda on how to handle these things. dr. jenkins is part ever a group that is still saying this drug may be safe. dr. sharp, deputy commissioner, is taking a hard look at this, my prediction, this drug is going to go off the market this week. one of the reasons for confuse, this is observational, in other words, we can't prove that avandia caused these heart problems but it's very suspicious that actos, a similar drug, doesn't seem to have these problems and thousands and thousands of people statistically, much more likely you're going to have a heart attack or stroke or problem with your bones with this drug. most endocrinologists have stopped prescribing it. i would not give to this -- this to one of my patients. ac to. s is more commonly used. martha: what's going to happen to this company as a result? they robbed patients and doctors, if this is true, of the ability to sit down and talk to each other and say here's the iraq of this, here's the other drug that you could take that might be a little less risky. they robbed them of the information that they should have had to make the good decision. sue: that is a great point and many lawsuits have already started against this manufacturer. you're talking about exactly what the practice of medicine is. it's sitting in front of my patient and saying here's one drug, here's another drug, here's why i want to use this drug rather than the other one, they say the drug rep is in the waiting room, i say no, but this drug is safer, i need all the information i can have and it's really doing a sis service to doctors and patients to keep that information back. martha: we'll see what happens to them as a result of all of this. thank you very much. so you would tell people, if they're taking t. talk to their doctor. >> about switching. and i predict over the next two days, the fda will remove this drug. martha: you heard it here, thank you very much, dr. marc siegl. bill he says it and we listen. in a moment, more on the breaking news of george steinbrenner and his fate in tampa. a valuable clue is found, what it says about a new wave of al-qaeda terror that could have its sights on u.s. targets. lawrence taylor playing defense like he's never had to before. what the football hall of famer can expect this morning when he goes before the judge. bill: right about 9:30 new york, top story, a mile beneath the surface of the gulf of mexico, bp now testing the valves in the new and tighter cap on the gushing wefplt that's why you see gushing oil still coming out of that pipe. it might be another 48 hours before we go if the latest attempt to plug the busted well works or not. reports this morning that yank he's owner george steinbrenner is in the hospital after suffering a massive heart attack, steinbrenner listed in critical condition, just celebrating his 80th birthday on the fourth of july. opening bell on wall street, went down a moment a.98 points to the upside for the dow 30 so far based on better than expected reports on corporate earnings, so the companies are making more money. we'll see whether or not that translates to investor, whether or not that helps boost your 401(k). 9:32 now in new york. martha. martha: all right, thank you bill. we now can tell you that four arrests have been made after the twin terror attacks in uganda that killed more than 70 people including an american aid worker. police officials say they have a significant lead after a suicide vest filled with ball bearings was found in a nightclub in the country's capitol but this latest attack is underscoring for many terror watchers a growing global threat. the small terror group that has claimed responsibility for all of this shows how far al-qaeda's reach now is. this group is called al-shabaab. neil livingstone is chairman of the executive action and joins me now. neil, welcome, good to have you here. >> thank you martha. martha: werblg al-shabaab, is -- well, al-shabaab, it translates to mean the youth, and this is a growing threat, this organization, they're said to have had thousands of members and very strong ties to al-qaeda. >> yeah, this is a somali-based group that is extreme, even by al-qaeda standards. they declared, for example, at one point gold and silver fillings in your teeth unislamic so they sent thugs into the street to pull everyone's teeth out with plyars, they stoned a 13-year-old girl who was gang-ra*eurp dollars as they it was her fault. this is an extreme group and now they're looking at carrying out actions or attacks outside of somalia. this is the first attack they've carried out beyond their own borders. martha: one of the fascinating, frightening things tony is abu monsour al ariki, someone we've been aware of for a long time, we have pictures of him playing for his soccer team in alabama as a young boy, he is one of the leaders of this al-shabaab group, correct? >> that's correct. but he's only one of what we think is maybe one of two dozen americans from somali ascent, that joined the al shah babb organization. these are people that speak english, they carry american passports and therefore they've probably got the ability to move around the globe without attracting too much attention. that concerns us a lot. martha: we're looking at a picture side by aid of al alabriki, and as a form student in alabama. it's pretty shocking. you've got this other case, and the reason we bring this up, this is a young group, vibrant and actively recruiting americans as evidenced by this, then you've got the new jersey cases, mahmoud ale is. s and carlos el monte, there is a picture of the two of them, they were on their way of joining al-shabaab and let's but up this quote of what alessa said, the only fear you have, when you have a gun and when you start killing them, and when you take your head and go like this, behead it on camera, he goes on, we'll start killing here, if i can't do it over there, and that's my next question, neil, when do we start to see al-shabaab suctioning further outsaid than uganda. >> well, we have a lot of vulnerabilities in africa. we have a lot of allies there. probably their first attacks will be in places like africa and other capitals, maybe possibly in the middle east, but ultimately we've got to be concerned about them recruiting these americans and sending them back to the united states to carry out attacks here, and this is a group that it really is feeling its oats today, they want to surpass even al-qaeda the parent organization that has hunkered down in afghanistan and pakistan, and show that they're really the future right now. so we've got a lot of concerns about this o*rgs and this is the opening salvo, if you will. martha: we've got to go but what can you do about them? >> we've got to try to stabilize somalia so it will not ab pirate haven, in other words, are groups like this can flourish. we are supporting the government there, other african countries are, but we've really got to do something about this country that really hasn't had a central government in over two decades right now. martha: all right, neil livingstone, important information, and i thank you for being with us this morning, we'll talk to you soon. >> thank you. bill: fox news alert, want to get to this story that is now rippling from tampa, here to new york city, george steinbrenner, long time other than of the new york yankees apparently has suffered a massive heart attack, according to various media reports, including one from wabc television in new york, however, the yankees p.r. department when contacted by fox news moments ago, the media relations department in new york says they have no information about george stein better than's heart attack, as has been reported. steinbrenner has celebrated his 80th birthday last week on the fourth of july. this man was instrumental in change the game of baseball forever, a man who grew nup rocky river, ohio, east side of cleveland, made a lot of money but the shipping industry that his family ran, then later came to new york city and changed the way that salaries were structured, changed the way the game was managed literally by owners, in the owner's box. now stein better than leaving his mark on baseball for a you have long time and now we're trying to figure out reports from the hospital as to what his condition is or is not. george steinbrenner, age 80 right now, we're waiting for more news on his condition out of tampa, florida. meanwhile, hall of fame linebacker lawrence taylor faces arraignment today for third degree rape and other charges, prosecutors saying that taylor paid a 16-year-old girl $300 for sex. if convicted, the 10-time pro bowler could get four years behind bars. david lee miller outside the courthouse in new city, new york. what is he up against, david lee? >> reporter: well, bill, good morning. just a few moments ago the arraignment began. for the most part this is largely going to be a procedural matter today in the courthouse. taylor as part of this arraignment is going to have the opportunity to plea, we expect he's going to plead not guilty. he faces six charges today, bill. there is always the outside chance there could already be a plea bargain in the works and that he could plead guilty to some of the charges. that is highly unlikely but it is possible. as he entered the courthouse, one of the reporters here shouted out to him did you do it and he sort of muttered under his breath, and he said new york city and he said grow up, and he entered the courtroom. in a few moments' time he's going to leave this building, then possibly he will speak to us at greater length. bill: have you talked to his attorney, is there any talk about what the defense could stph-b. >> we have tried to reach out to his attorney and he said that later todaysy going to be speaking to the media, but right now, no elaboration about the possibility of some type of a plea deal. again, it's possible but i think at this point, at this stage, it is still highly remote. bill. bill: david lee, thanks, the hall of famer in court today, we'll watch it from here, in new city, new york. martha, what's coming up? martha: i'll tell you, bill! order a pizza, become a tsa screener. coming up, the creative new way the transportation safety administration is recruiting new workers. after this. bill: how about a large pepperoni at the airport, martha? the tsa, the folks that keep us safe at airport, looking for a few good men and women, the ads are at dulles and reagan national airport, right on top, it says a career where x-ray vision comes standard. if you'll recall, the tsa and others under recent fire since a would-be bomber got through security on christmas day with enough explosion to bring down a plane. that was outside of detroit. martha: boy oh boy, we've heard pretty explosive new audiotape that has come out from actor mel gibson berating the mother of his eight month old daughter, on this recording you are about to hear skwro*bg sana grigorieva bring -- oksana grigorieva bring up the fight where mel gibson broke her teeth. >> you are hitting a woman with a child in her hands, what kind of a man is that, holding a woman when there's a child in her hands, breaking her teeth, twice in the face, what kind of man is that? >> you're all angry now. >> you know what, you're going to answer, one day, boy, you're going to answer. >> what? you know what? >> nothing, nothing. i'll not the one to threaten. >> i'll threaten you, i'll put you in the -- do you understand that, i'm capable of it. martha: okay, there you have it. well, these tapes could prove to be crucial evidence in a domestic violence investigation that has now been launched a criminal investigation now for mel gibson by the los angeles county sheriff's department. dr. keith ablow joins me, he said that gibson's repeated rants would be -- could be a sign of a serious psychological condition. dr. keith, welcome. >> thanks martha. martha: in some ways, i think it doesn't take a psychiatrist to take a listen to this man's voice and ascertain that in the sound bite that we played previous to this, it sounds like he's on the verge of a breakdown. >> well, look, we know that he's had substance abuse problems in the past. i'm a forensic psychiatrist as part of my specialty training and i can tell you that these threats that he's making presumably against this woman's life suggest that he really needs to be seen as potentially dangerous. he says listen, i'm capable of it, and in my experience when people say that, it's because they may well be capable of doing great harm to others. >> you know what, we're looking at pictures of him directing here. this is a man who has done some pretty extraordinary things in his career and i think people look at him, we have a before and after photo that i'm going to show you as well, when you look at him as a young man, this handsome, holy wood actor and even the more recent picture we have of him doesn't do him justice, because -- i don't know if we can get a shot of this, but he looks like he's in his 70s, in my opinion, dr. keith, and the man is 54. >> he's worn himself thin. listen, these are liabilities in some ways, you know. when you're that talented, when you're that wealthy, and when you're that handsome, you can get further down the road into trouble than someone might who doesn't have those assets, and so i think this has been a long time in coming, tpaerpbl -- apparently, and what's needed here perhaps is that confluence of law and psychiatry where whatever charges are brought f. they stick, could include drug monitoring, alcohol test fog a long, long time to make sure the guy sober. martha: that's what i was going to ask you, how does he fix this problem at this point? would going to jail actually help him, would that be a helpful move for him? >> well, you know, jail as to the punishment aspect and the corrective possibilities there, sometimes it turns people around. what i find is that very often, the synergy between the judicial system and the psychiatric system, where you say look, if you're going to do six month necessary jail, that's not it, there's another ten years that's going to come during which we'll be watching you, you'll o'clock randomly drug tested, you'll be in counseling and you'll have to show up because if you don't, we'll send you back to jail. that can be very effective, that teamwork between psychiatry and the legal system. that's a prime candidate. martha: he was married for 30 years, he has many children with his wife, and one of these tapes, he claims they and his wife had a spiritual connection, which was obviously they had some kind of connection, they had i think ten children, i believe. you know, any sense of how long ago this behavior started and is it alcohol-driven, do you think, or is that there's a psychological problem that is trying to be fixed by the alcohol? chicken and egg i guess is my question. >> my guess is that there's a deep psychological problem is my guess. i don't have the man on my couch, that he then tried to treat with alcohol, tried to treat it with fame, tried to treat it with wealth. guess what, the truth always wins, martha. you -- you can't outdistance the past. ca try to run but you can never run far enough and the bottom line here is he has to reach deep now inside and find out, it's probably true, you probably did never have a spiritual connection with your wife of 30 years, maybe never with another human being. and maybe it's time now to have one with yourself. martha: all right, dr. keith ablow, thank you very much. tough story all around. >> all right martha, take care. martha: you too. bill: fox news alert, still waiting word on george stein steinbrenner, long time other than of the new york yankees and his current condition, the reports that he suffered a heart attack late last night, was brought to a hospital in tampa. we're in touch with a lot of our folks to discover his fate and condition at the motel. he celebrated his 80th -- at the hospital. he celebrated his 80th birthday on the fourth of july. we are awaiting his condition, this on a day when the sports gathers for its analgym with the all stars in california. martha: while you were talking we have an a.p. report now that a person close to george steinbrenner says the yankee owner died tuesday morning, and this is just crossing the a.p. there have been reports going back and forth on this, but this is the strongest report yet, that george steinbrenner died on tuesday morning. we know that on the fourth of july he celebrated his 80th birthday, he is a virtual legend in the game of baseball, long-time yankees owner, and very famous in the new york area for his colorful commentary and arguments back and forth with players and fans and detractors alike. he was a huge new york figure in terms of growing up in this area, you saw george steinbrenner on the news and the cover of the paper all the time for the sometimes outrageous discussions back and forth that he would have over the game of baseball. but loved, loved the game of baseball. nobody could ever dispute that. and built an amazing team in the new york yankees. bill: bought the team in 1973, for $10 million. that team today is worth billions. polit really -- lit raeflt and so many world championships. adam housely, with a baseball background himself, played college baseball, was a pitcher, and i know you know the sport better than most, adam. you're at the all-star game this morning, reaction shortly before 7:00 out there. >> good morning, bill. it was already going to be an emotional night for yankee fans because derek jeter, the famous short stop for the yankees for so many years was going to be announced on the tape by bob sheppard, the long time announcer who passed away this year but with the news of steinbrenner passing that's going to change things for the all-star game. when you're on the field, talking about players, they know about the ownership of the teams and steinbrenner is the most known of all. eleven pennants, seven world championships under his series, he had control of the team until 2008, his sons took over at that point. on stein philadelphia, the interaction he had with billy martin, and of course the interaction with reggie jackson who after the yankees signed a contract to come to anaheim. reggie jackson was here for the home run hitting contest. he is expected to be here today. so you can get you'll have comments from jackson, jetter, andy pettitte, a long time yankee that came through the system a as well is here, robinson canoe, and others that have played in the career, hall of famers, bud selig from major league baseball is here, we expect the comments soon, because some of the big wigs for lack of a better term are already starting to arrive here in about an hour or so west coast time. even though the game is tonight. the players won't come in until probably noon or 1:00. so it will be sometime before the players actually arrive here at the stadium but they are staying nearby. we'll have a chance to talk with him throughout the day bill and as we get those comments and reactions, and you will bet there will be a lot of heart felt reaction for the boss as he's affect atly known will be here live on fox. bill: the a.p. is saying a person close to george steinbrenner telling the associated press the yankees owner died tuesday morning, the person spoke on condition of the anonimity because the team had not made the announcement. regarding the team, we contacted them within the past hour and the media relations department in new york would not confirm as to whether or not george steinbrenner was in new york or down in tamper kwrarbgs florida, where you know adam he has spent most of his life for the pastum -- first couple of years in the florida weather and sunshine. he has not been in great health lately. >> no, he hasn't. >> we had document that's for quite some time. this is a man who changed the game. he changed the way that people got paid and the twhaeu teams are built, essentially. >> absolutely. a lot of public relations people are here, too, for the all-star game. you mentioned he changed the game. as a minor leaguer when you play for other teams in the minor league system and you play the yankees, they always have some of the best facilities. they did travel at the major league level and at the minor league level, they were very much a class aorbgs when you play against the yankedes and that's one reason why the players when they play the yankees maybe play harder but at the same time, who doesn't want to play for the new york yankees. that's why you see to many players go there. a lot of the all stars will be talking this throughout the day today, and a lot of long-time yankees are here, as well as hall of famers. i saw dave wynnfield, had a chance to talk tom, a long-time yankee is here and he's expected to be at the game tonight. with guys like dave wynnfield and r*epblie jackson and current stars like robinson canoe and derek jeter and andy pet -- pettitte, we'll definitely have comments from them and as you mentioned, a lot of the public relations staffs for the teams are here for the all-star game so we'll have comments from them as well. martha: ad him, we were just looking at pictures of george steinbrenner over the years while you were talking and even for people outside the world of baseball, he epitomized the face of baseball ownership in the country, we saw him with president clinton and hillary clinton with him in that picture as well, mayor jewel giannoo giuliani, rupert murdoch, the chairman of newscorp. he was a larger than life, you know, tough kind of grandpa sort of guy that, you know, love him, hate him, kind of relationship, but i think he was such a quintessential new yorker. >> he was. you know, martha, the west coast boy, growing up loving baseball, he was the head of that organization that you liked to hate. i mean, i don't care if you're from los angeles or san francisco or wherever, when you played the yankees you thought about the players but you also thought about the boss and the players that he brought in to beat your team, and i think that there's two reasons why a lot of americans besides baseball would know about him, number one, you have the situation where he really changed in the way that sports sells itself, as franchises do, with the whole situation with the yankees broadcasting their own games and the second reason is because of seinfeld. in the '90s, there were a number of episodes where george dealt with the boss, you see the back of his head but there was the joke that built that gruff type of character that he was known for in real life and it was on television. so a lot of people that maybe have only heard his name were kind of introduced to the whole idea of george steinbrenner through the most popular show on television at the time. so he's somebody that definitely transcends baseball for sure and he's one of those iconic figure necessary baseball. he never played the game but was so much a part of the game that he's always going to be tied to major league baseball. a few years ago when the all star game was in new york, they brought him out, that emotional scene at the time, and baseball has done a very good job in recent years by bringing in of -- some of these iconic figure, players and not, on to the field to really take part with the game and a celebration with the current players and some of that's going to happen here tonight with some of the other hall of famers who are here. so again, we do plan on speaking with people like reggie jackson, andy pettitte, dave wynnfield, yankees past and present and players past and present to talk about the passing of george steinbrenner. martha: ad him, thank you. thank you very much. bill: from anaheim to tamperra -- tamper kwrarbgs florida, st. joseph's hospital, we have a camera outside the hospital where the late george steinbrenner was brought monday night, this is a guy that left his mark, 23 years, he fired 20 managers, including billy martin on five separate occasions. martha: absolutely. bill: he changed general managers 11 times in 30 years. george steinbrenner, dead at the age of # zero. it's right about four minutes before the hour. as we move away from the news about george steinbrenner we're going to move to a story in new york city that is sitting very close to home to the families of the victims of 9/11, should a mosque be built steps away from ground zero? it is controversy near ground zero, we follow thunderstorm for sometime, it's growing by the moment. many families oppose to idea. we'll talk to peter king who has serious concerns about a $100 million project, an where the money is coming from. peter king is live. martha: in chicago, the prosecution makes a big move, folks, in the rod blagojevich case. this could mean some new moves for this trial of the summer. it could be delayed a little pweufplt we're going to tell you why and who is this suspicious guest who needs secret service that his folks want to bring in? we'll talk about that, too. >> . martha: day 5 of the gulf oil disaster and it may be a day to remember. in all of this. and here's why: bp is testing a new, tighter-fitting cap in place over the gushing oil well, also, today, president obama issuing a new ban on deep water drilling that will last until november 3 30th, we're told and bp engineers will know in 48 hours if the cap withstands the pressure of the leaking oil. 8 tries, different versions, have not worked and if it works the new cap will collect more than 60,000 barrels of oil a day. the old cap funneled 15,000 gallons, 176 million gallons of oil spilled into the water since it started folks, when the deep water horizon rig exploded on april 20th. our other big story, a massacre targeting so, fans could have been bloodier, simultaneous explosions killed 75 people and believe it or not that was not the worst-case scenario, we are learning today in all of this. how we start a new hour of "america's newsroom." good to have you with us, i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning, good morning, martha. investigators found a third bomb unexploded inside of a disco in the african nation of uganda, one american dead and half a dozen others injured. this is four suspects, now in custody. martha: greg palkot joins us live in london with the latest on the probe. hello, greg. >> reporter: that is the big news, the find of the suicide vest in a disco outside of kampala and we spoke with an official a short while ago and the person told me that that vest was, in her words, active. in her word, also, ready to blast. for whatever reason, it was not detonated. it shows that, however, there was a possibility of a third target of the bombers on the deadly night, sunday night. and, it was found inside a knapsack full of ball bearings, and the bombings might not have been suicide bombings but more like ieds, as you noted four people were arrested, all described as foreigners and some described, possibly as somalis. and it is a somalia based al-shabab al qaeda linked outfit that is claiming responsibility and i'm told on the ground, right now, three fbi agents have been dispatched to uganda and more could be on the way. martha: unbelievable how many people were hit by this and they casualty number has been rising throughout the story. >> reporter: on both sides, fatalities, injureies and i'm told by an official this morning, five of the seriously injured americans are out of the country, medevaced, two in a hospital in johannesburg, south africa and three in nairobi, kenya and the remains of the one american killed in this series of blasts, nate hann, the body is to be transported to the u.s., there was another western fatality, an irish woman was killed in the blast and the word from the embassy, the americans still in uganda, keep a watchout and stay clear of crowds, but we knew that. back to you. martha: greg, thank you very much, greg palkot in london. bill: a "fox news alert," now, if you are joining us and waking up, the long time owner of the new york yankees, george steinbrenner, suffered a massive heart atake late last night at his home in tampa, florida, george steinbrenner is dead at the age of 80. eric fisher, a sports writer, good morning to you, eric, on a day when the all-star game gets underway in anaheim, california, of everything george steinbrenner did, we wonder, how he will be remembered. eric fisher is on the line, we lost his connection, there, we'll try and reestablish that and get his thoughts on what is happening, the life and times of george steinbrenner and how we remember him today and talking to adam housely, at the all-star game a moment ago in anaheim, this will be the story. all of the greats in the game get together, one day a year, and this is it. and, george steinbrenner will be the headline in california. martha: you think of the course of life and look at somebody like him and when he's no longer with you and not part to the scene, it makes you that much more aware of the end of an era, passage of time, he has been a front figure in so many of these things, we have seen with presidents over the years and most of the time they congratulated him on the world championship wins for the yankees and there he is, riding through the ticker tape parade in new york city, the place he of course loved. bill: the guy who waded into controversy and willingly, time and time again and when we bought the team for a price of $10 million in the 1970s, he used with a few other investors and a lot of the money he helped make in the family shipping business, in cleveland, ohio. brought the wealth and fortune to new york city, and, he went for decades building world championship teams and making headlines, just about every day. george steinbrenner, whether he was in the owner's box or dugout or the clubhouse with the yankees, his presence was felt, every time he walked into the ballpark. george steinbrenner dead at the age of 80. in a moment we'll get reaction from the world of sports and how we remember him, here on "america's newsroom." in the meantime, let's go to chicago. we are awaiting a big finale from prosecutors in the blagojevich corruption trial. less than 30 minutes from now the start of court proceedings in the windy city. the feds set to wrap up their case against the disgraced illinois governor, five weeks of propane ranting caught on wiretap and now, the burning question, did the feds actually prove their case? even the defense team is surprised at how fast the trial is moving along and, now, they are expected to ask for more time to get ready, get ready for what, we ask? take to mike tobin is here to answer the question, outside the courthouse. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bill -- as far as the defense team goes, they are not -- all right, pardon me, we're walking over each other, as you asked, where is the blago team? they are walking in the courthouse now, i see them off of my shoulder, where they are in terms of arguing their case, they are the not pinned down the way defendants are, the prosecution prepares to rest. particularly, in a big federal corruption trial like this. through all of the testimony, through all of the wiretap, allegations that blagojevich shook down the owners of the racetrack, the people in charge of the children's hospital, that he tried to sell the senate seat, what has never been produced is an iron-clad quid pro quo. that says you give me x and i will give you y in exchange and that puts the defense in a position to argue that it is not illegal to have a big mouth. >> the best defense for him to put out is i talk a lot, i'm a politician, i'm profane, a -- maybe a loose canon and may be an idiot but i never did anything illegal. >> reporter: now the defense is looking to delay the case by one week and that is because the government rested its case so quickly. wrapped up its case so quickly and they say they simply cannot handle the logistics of scrambling all of their witnesses and getting them here to the dirksen federal building and the list includes valerie jarrett, the white house aide, chief of staff rahm emanuel and senator harry reid. bill? bill: does he still insist he'll take the stand? will he do that in his defense. >> reporter: he insists, every day he cannot wait to get up on the stand and make his case, but can he get on the stand without getting into more trouble, he testifies all he had was the interest of the people of illinois in his sights as one of his goals, that is going to come back on him rather quickly. with all of the testimony that he was obsessed with fund-raising, with hitching his cart to president obama's wagon, only worked two hours a day in his job as governor and hid in the bathroom when his budget director came calling, wiretaps that show he didn't have great affection for his constituency. >> every special interest who can make my life easier and better because they want to raise tax on you and i fight and -- and when i get to that, only 13% of y'all out there think i'm doing a good job, and [bleeped], you! not to mention the fact i'm a [bleeped]... investigation, my family is in jeopardy. >> reporter: two more witnesses on the government's signed we'll wait and see how the judge rules on the motion for a delay. bill: mike tobin watching the trial in chicago, thanks. martha: we are getting a statement from the steinbrenner family, i want to read you a small portion and we'll bring in a guest to talk about this, it is a profound sadness, the family 0 george steinsteinbrennt age 80, an incredible and charitable man, first and foremost devoted to his beloved wife, joan and sisters, susan and judy and children, and all of the grandchildren, a visionary and a giant in the world of sports and it goes on, to praise george steinbrenner who today is dead at the age of 80 years old and i'm joined by the former catcher and new york yankees executive and he joins us now, rick, it is good to have you here this morning, i'm sure this is a sad day for you and everybody who is involve with the yankees franchise. >> oh, it is just shocking news. even though, you knew he was not in good health. you know, you just hoped that the day would not come and i extend my sympathies to his wife, joanne and children, hank, allen, jenny and jessica. martha: will it be the beginning of a lot of memories and a lot of laughs, i would suppose, the back and forth and we're looking at great pictures of him, and, rudy giuliani and joe torre and it is a quintessential new york picture i'm looking at now. talk to us about the man that you worked for, for all of these years, rick. >> before i took the job as his -- the yankees director of media relations in 1996, i mean, he -- 25-year track record, there were already books written, so you came in with preconceived notions but, you know, to me, he didn't follow any of them, because i always had the impression that it would be do it my way or... you know, but he always listened, he always listened to counsel and may not always agree with you but many times, you know, he was dissuaded from saying something or doing something or i gave him an idea that he liked and i just -- it was an incredible, to me, it was an absolutely incredible experience. martha: we were talking about the managers that were hired and fired and i remember that growing up in this area. >> the pr director! martha: five times for billie martin? back and forth. and, you know, just tell us, some of your recollections about that era and his reputation in that regard. >> there is so much to say. the first thing was he made the yankees relevant again. i don't think people today realize the depths to which the yankees had sunk in the late '60s and early '70s, and he brought them back and in a period of 3-4 years, the other thing when you mentioned billie martin, he was incredibly loyal person. there were many people on his staff and especially in tampa, that were people that, you know, i mean, remember once writing an obituary for someone, you know, that was in the insurance business, in tampa for the yankees, and whenbituary he was quarterback to otto brown in the cleveland browns in the 1950s and had a real loyalty to people, even those people that he fired. billie martin is this perfect example. martha: you know, rick, we continue to look at all of these great pictures of george steinbrenner and as we remember him, think about the championships and you talk about, the depths the yankees were at when he came on the scene, what a team he built. he's credited with raising the salaries of a lot of baseball players across the nation, because of what he was willing to pay to have, you know, some of the greatest players in the country, work for him. >> well, he certainly did. i mean, as i said, he had his eye on the prize and he played with in the rules and he -- you know, he didn't always have the resources. i mean, you know, this is a man that put together an ownership group of ten other owners, and, you know, bought the yankees r ffor $8.5 million. you know, he prided himself on people who said you got the yankees for ten million and he'd quickly point out i sold the parking back to the city for 1.5 and i really only paid 8.5 million and you think about that, to buy the yankees for -- less money than cbs paid for it in 1964, i mean, this was incredible businessman, and incredible owner, and... martha: great points and great to talk to you, rick, thank you so much, we'll hear more about the life of george steinbrenner, former executive for the yankees. bill: the yankees in april, he bought it for $8.5 million, $1.6 billion, 7 world championships for steinbrenner. martha: we'll be right back, stay with us. this is unlike any car you've ever seen before. this is power 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harbor island, on an island just east of eleuthera, east of nasa in the bahamas, spotted this white guy, 6'5", hanging around with a backpack and holding a pistol and gave a bit of a foot pursuit and the security guard said colton harris-moore, also known that's barefoot bandit, took off his shirt and shoes and dove into the water and started swimming away and got into a boat and climbed aboard and starts it up and fleece and he talks with other marina lessees and said can we user yacht to shays him and they do and shoot out the engines on board the stolen boat with an uzi machine gun and shotgun and according to witnesses, colton harris-moore, held his hands to his head and said, i cannot go back to jail, i cannot do it and talked him out of committing suicide. bill: wow, what is scheduled for him today, phil? >> reporter: at noon, he will begin his hearing in the courthouse, there, in nasa, will be the same courthouse, incidentally, where the paternity battle over anna nicole smith's child went down a couple years back, he can plead guilty or not guilty and if he pleads not guilty he has to wait for trial but there is a huge backlog in the bahamas, he'll be waiting in prison one or two years and if he pleads guilty he can be sentenced right then and there, and we'll see if that happens, and, his attorney, however, would like to see a deal worked out between the u.s. justice department and the bahama, you know, government to extradite him to the u.s. take a listen: >> we would hope the authorities would think about just allowing him to be extradited to the united states, and, everything consolidated in seattle and federal court and he's charged in federal court in seattle. and i think it would make a lot of sense to try to get all of the cases consolidated, in one place. >> we'll be bringing you all of what happens over in nassau, 55 miles east of here in miami and the question, will he be barefoot in court or have jail issue flip-flops, we'll let you know. bill: 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make running your business easier. wow. mm-hm. your 90-day free trial is only available when you go to freequickbooks.com. reading the polls, has gone with karl rove. what the administration is trying to do is come up with a plan and a program that does a couple of things, one, provide secure borders and, two, as you have seen over the last 2-3 weeks, the administration has been aggressive and will be aggressive in going after businesses and lawyers who hire illegal immigrants, and -- employers who hire illegal immigrants and you have to do that while you develop a path for citizenship among the 3 million illegals that are here and the law in arizona assists in no way in any of that, except to create an image of racism that probably is not true, but certainly creates that image and i don't disagree with the justice department's position on this. martha: but the justice department, racism has nothing to do with the argument they are bringing with the law. they weren't able to bring racism into this, because they say, a, the law is not in effect, yet, and, b, they went with the other argument, they thought was more solid and federal powers supersede safe powers, and let me get dick's thoughts on that and we'll go to scott. >> absolutely, that is the legal argument they made but the impression it gives to hispanic americans is they are being profiled. how you go through striking that down is one thing, it is a fact, the impression it gives, that with hard working hispanic americans, will be stopped and searched simply because of the way they look is not right. martha: we operatorsare pressed, i want to give the next minute to scott, politically, look at the polls, what should be done by the administration in the. >> they approach all along has been purely political. the attorney general and former arizona secretary governor janet napolitano admitted that he hadn't read the law before the administration was making noises about suing arizona about it. so, if president obama really wanted comprehensive immigration reform he would have supported amendments in '07 that actually killed the best chance that we have at getting comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border and had the near year enforcement, and developed the guest worker program and addressed, actually 12 million illegal immigrants that are here in the country. and people don't have much faith in president obama right now, because he's not making the right decisions, and not actually tackling these problems, that we have. martha: i apologize. we have to leave it there, we had breaking news with george steinbrenner's passing and would love to talk to you about it again in the future, good to have you here, and great to have you, and we'll talk to you soon. bill: more reaction, more on the life of george steinbrenner, harold reynolds, former baseball player joins us and brian kilmeade on the radio now, he knows sports and loved george steinbrenner. martha: we'll talk to brian as well and in the meantime this is a huge controversy in new york, proposed mosque, a huge brand new proposed mosque to be built right near ground zero and as you can imagine, that is raising a lot of... a multimillion-dollar project and the question, who is paying for the multimillion-dollar project? that is next. martha: sad news out of tampa, florida, the passing of george steinbrenner, long time owner of the new york yankees, he bought them in the early 1970s for $8.5 million, we were told by his long time pr manager and there's a picture of george steinbrenner, 80 years old, born on the fourth of july, which seems fitting, went onto help the yankees secure 7 world championships. an astonishing career for him, and he really pulled them out of the whole when he bought the team in the early 70s and the list of amazing yankee players he brought into the house, is an incredible run down and they will be mourning and talking about him, and sharing lots of his stories, about how he affected their lives, and the impact that he had on the game of baseball. he really -- was known as the boss and hired and fired a lot of folks over the course of "the new york post" over the last many years and brian kilmeade joins us, the host of "fox & friends" and a sports reporter as well, brian, your thoughts on this news we received about an hour ago. >> it is unbelievable and devastating and will not be recommend publiced and, as bill especially knows, he was hated, vilified, but, known around the world, he was extremely demanding, he was sometimes illogical but, the reason why he work with new york, and why so many people outside of new york loved to hate him, is because he would do anything it took to win. and also, he would admit mistakes and trading somebody, firing somebody, and saying, hey, i blew my top, come on back. he also would admit mistakes when he told yogi berra, you are fired after a dozen games. yogi berra and the yankee legend did not talk to him for years and wouldn't come back to old-timers day and he said, i was wrong and she'd our vulnerabilities and we understood the objective and disagreed with the way in which he implemented his goals, but, we knew who george steinbrenner was and all knew one thing, he wanted a world championship. and, he also had a soft side, especially in later years, the '80s were tough years for new york yankees fans, all they did was spend, have controversy, and fall short. then, steinbrenner gets suspended, by the time he comes back they rebuilt the organization and groomed on kids and, spent responsibly and he knew to back off and let the joe torres and the gene michaels and now the brian cashman take over and enjoyed a new push for championships, like we have never -- maybe never seen in yankee history. how long has it been since the yankees have been bad? i mean, it is -- it has been really since maybe 1992. martha: talking to a mets fan, you don't have to tell me about that! yankees have been great almost all through this amazing, and, what about his impact on the game, brian? you know, toward the later part of his life and career, baseball dealt with the whole steroid mess, and you know, what about his impact on the prayelayers. >> people talk about free agency and catfish hunter and andy messer smith, and reggie jackson, gets on over here and overpay for dhs like oscar gamble with big hair and a small hat and hit sporadically and overpaid for a lot of people and then wanted to have every superstar but the problem with him early was a lot of them played the same position and a lot of them didn't really play well for him because they got fat and happy and were were traded away and people said, i can't keep up with new york and this guy's money and there was disparate and that breeds a lot of the contempt for george steinbrenner but dare i say, i'll go to you in new jersey as a mets hemmer in cincinnati, was there a respect, for what he wanted, though you didn't like the fact that in many cases he spent too much, for far too little talent. that is the big question. martha: absolutely, there was. a lot of respect, and, will be thought throughout the day, and brian, brian kilmeade & friends, brian's radio show where we make a weekly appearance on wednesday. bill: see you tomorrow! >> sounds good. bill: get it warmed up for us. >> any time i'm talking to you two, i'm happy. martha: we feel the same way, brian, thank you. bill: all right, now, 34 minutes past the hour now calls for an investigation into funding for a mosque near ground zero. congressman peter king out of new york, chairman of the house homeland security committee, saying that he thinks the public needs to know who is paying for it. the price tag $100 million an blocks away from the hallowed ground where the twin towers once stood, congressman peter king the ranking member of the house homeland security committee and my guest here in new york. good morning to you, the mayor disagrees with you, i'll get to you in a moment here, what do you want to know, where the 100 million comes from, is that my understanding? >> yes, bill and i have written the mayor, we have an honest disagreement on the issue, to be build a mosque, you know, the shadows of ground zero, with those wounds still open, that is being funded -- done by an organization which seems to have very little cash on hand, and will cost million and millions of dollars and an imam who has connections to the flotilla in gaza and, whether or not hamas, the terrorist organization -- 9/11 families deserve an accounting as to who is getting the money, who is giving the money and who is supporting this and what the reasons for it are. bill: the mayor says it is unamerican, your position is unamerican. and here's -- and to be more specific, i'll get you to react here. mayor bloomberg says, it is so out of characterer to for what the nation stands for and the way we conduct ourselves and the government should never, never be in the business of telling people how they should pray, or where they can pray. you react to that how, sir? >> i agree fully no one should tell anyone how to pray but i disagree with the mayor byor be since 9/11 we have been at war with al qaeda, an extremist islamic organization and we have mosques and imams who do not cooperate with law informant and it is important to know the genesis and the origins of the mosque and who is behind it and where the money comes from and as people can pray anywhere they want and the fact is, we have to make sure that this is being done appropriately, especially because of the terrible harm and mental suffering this is causing the relatives of those who died in 9/11 and it cannot be looked at as an isolated incidents when you have so many mosques an imams in the area and our country who do not cooperate with law enforcement. it is important, i believe the families have the assurance that this mosque is entirely on the level and they -- there are no unsavory overseas connection, though a lot of money is coming from overseas. bill: you want to follow the money but you go a step further and you believe the moment in world history, a mosque should not be in that position in lower manhattan. i think the word you -- it's not advisable. will it ever be advisable? >> i would say, it is certainly legal assuming there is no overseas complications to have it, however it is inappropriate. remember the furor around the world when catholic nuns wanted to go to auschwitz, the uproar over that. and in vuf what happened less than ten years ago and the wounds that are still open, i think, it is inappropriate and that is not enough grounds to stop it, but i think it was really thoughtless in doing it. bill: peter king is' congressman from new york, the ranking member of the homeland security committee, thanks for coming in today. this is a story, that is getting national attention and we'll follow it and see whether or not you get your answer on the investigation, $100 million. peter king, out of new york. martha. martha: well, this is quite a story, an iranian scientist reportedly working with the cia, is now missing and wait until you hear where shamram henri turned up and why they are blaming the u.s. for that. bill: and phone conversations that rocked the country. in some circles, anyway, have you heard? >> let you play basketball with the group. bill: we hear federal prosecutors drop a bombshell in the corruption trial of rod blagojevich, what his defense team hopes they can do to help their case. our judge is on deck. here. identity theft, one of the fastest growing crimes in america. even if you think you're doing everything right, and hiding that social security number, you must still give it to your employer, your doctor, your accountant, insurance, school. the list goes on and on. and the identity thieves know who you must give it to. that's who they target. if they can get your personal information... they can turn it 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of march, before they come north to begin the season. george steinbrenner, you might have loved him, might have hated him, either way he was a winner. 7 world championships, as owner of the yankees, we're also watching the hospital, st. joseph's in tampa, where we believe his body was taken earlier today. and, on our web site, fox news.com a lot more information on the man and his legacy, and, also, how the game changed. george steinbrenner, dead at the age of 80. martha: we are waiting for word now, from chicago on whether or not the federal prosecutors are ready to wrap up their case this morning, in former illinois governor rod blagojevich's corruption trial. this has clearly been the trial -- there is he and his wife coming in, file footage from that and his defense team is a little bit shocked that the prosecution says they are pretty much done. now, the defense team is filing a motion this week to delay the trial, for one week, because they claim that the government said all along, we are going to be at this until at least july an august on the prosecution side and that means that we may not be hearing as -- the tape recordings we have been playing for you every day, have been played by the federal prosecutors and here's one of those, before we get talk about this, where you can hear the governor discussing congressman jesse jackson, jr. as a possibility for the open senate seat left by president obama: martha: the guy, keeps going, yeah, right, right, right, absolutely, and judge andrew napolitano joins me, fox news judicial analyst, first i want your thoughts on the fact, the prosecution said we remember patrick fitzgerald standing there, it will make lincoln roll over in his grave when you see what i have on blagojevich and will take months to lay out the case and they are done in about 6 weeks. >> this is an old trick this government sometimes pulls when they want to catch the defense flat-footed, not ready to put they're case on, think of it, chicago, the summertime and the prosecutors told the judge, the jury and the defense counsel it will take three months. when defense counsel hears that, and subpoenas witnesses for after labor day and witnesses go on vacation and do other things, and it is summer time and suddenly with 24 hours notice they are caught with the need to find the witnesses, get them and prepare them to testify be a put them on the witness stand and it cannot be done in 24 hours and the request for more time is prudent and if the government did it intentionally, as sometimes they have, i don't know if they did that here, that would be obstruction of justice, interference with the trial in order to harm the defendant's case. martha: can you go for a mistrial based on that. >> absolutely, but first you goad for a delay and give the defense counsel time to bring the witnesses and prepare them. martha: and, the judge will probably grant that. >> i would be shocked if the judge doesn't. martha: let's talk about, you know, the defense, because they are getting their case ready, and now, they say we need another week and we weren't quite ready for this and they would like to see valerie jarrett and rahm emanuel on the stand. to basically substantiate their claim that they never offered anybody anything in exchange for anything, and they are also putting the tantalizing piece out there, there is a secret witness who needs to remain anonymous who will require secret service protection and that is another reason they need more time. >> well, they attempted to subpoena president obama and the government objected and the court sustained the objection. so, no president obama. it is theoretically possible he'd come voluntarily. but that would be highly contraindicated from all of his responsibilities and all of his political interests. so, who would require secret service protection? the chief of staff for the white house, rahm emanuel would get secret service protection and valerie jarrett, number 2, 3, 4 on the policy side in the white house, would not get secret service protection. so i don't know who this person would be. but, it is almost inconceivable that it would be a secret from the government and from the court. it may be the public doesn't know, again. the other issue is whether or not governor blagojevich takes the witness stand. which he has told the media many times he will and the media reported and the jury read that he will, so, we're almost sort of locked into putting him on the stand, because if they don't, there is a natural human perception that he cannot explain these awful things we heard him say. martha: yeah, yeah, given the case we have heard it would be interesting to watch him on the stand. i want to play a piece of sound and get a quick thought on that and i want your wrap-up of how the prosecution has done, whether or not they've proven crucial in the case. let's listen to this piece of sound: martha: talking about the president and throughout all of this, i am constantly struck by the fact there is no moment when they say, you give me the check, give me the money, i will put your guy in there. or woman in there. >> at the end of the government's case, defense counsel has an opportunity to say to the jundge, look, if we did nothing and the jury just heard the government's case it doesn't constitute a crime and here's why, if the judge agrees he can throw out all or part of the government's case, now, is the time or maybe in a few days for defense counsel to make the argument. here's what the government has to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, and to a moral certainties, that he conspired, intended to conspire and had the means to engage in some corrupt behavior. whereby he would personally become enriched in return for who would replace barack obama in the senate. so, the question is, did the jury hear that or did they just hear a foul-mouthed, venal individual who hated his job as governor and wanted to do something else with his life. martha: this is where the judge's instructions are so important to the jury in this case, because he will lay it out, and, you know, as you laid out, and that was leaving room for someone to say, yeah... >> another reason to but blagojevich on the stand or chicago politician on the stand to say this is how we all talk and bargain and none of us takes the stuff seriously. martha: and you would probably -- >> there is one chicago politician, that may -- the court said we'll leave him in the white house. martha: let's hope he goes on the stand, it will be interesting and give us a lot to talk about, judge, freedom watch, good to have you. bill: interchange at a minimum. martha: agreed, we love it. bill: we are awaiting admiral thad allen and hopefully we'll get the best news in 85 days, is today the day the oil is contained? keep it here, admiral thad allen in minutes. i'm chef michael, and my dog bailey and i love to hang out in the kitchen. you love the aroma of beef tenderloin, don't 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[ female announcer ] chef michael's canine creations. chef inspired. dog desired. bill: a missings iranian scientist who iran says was kidnapped by the cia turned up in the u.s., the scientist walked into pakistan's embassy and demanded immediate return to iran and the u.s. state department saying that he is here of his own free will and is free to leave whenever he wants, a u.s. official saying the u.s. surely is not standing in his way, and he disappeared from saudi arabia, a year ago, 2009. martha: a major development this morning in the russian spy case, the feds nabbing a 12th person in that cold war style firing and they have been investigating sim since last fall, and investigators are staying tight-lipped about the suspect. we do know, that he is -- obtained a visa in august of '09, no charges announced against him yet and officials say he's in the process of being deported, like all of the rest of the folks were. now, if you want to know more about the red-headed russian spy, remember her, anna chapman, you may get the chance, her lawyer says she could make a fortune selling her story to the british tabloid, she's banned from the story in the u.s., but, with the internet, et cetera, it is possible that he could make money and, there was a topless photo of her, and there are others interested in the star, bill, do you believe that. bill: a simple bet she'll talk again. martha: she might. haven't heard the last of her. bill: i don't think so, fox news going inside the center of a international dispute with russia, a u.s. patriot missile shield in poland, you might recall the argument now, washington says it will protect europe against an attack from iran and, russia is not happy about it, amy kellogg is streaming live in northeastern poland with more from there, amy. >> hi, bill. well, it is always a complicated issue when it comes to air defense and missile defense, and countries that used to be part of the soviet bloc, bill, now nato allies and it is touchy and we are here, 37 miles from the russian border where u.s. troops are training their polish counterparts on how to use the patriot missile batteries and this is the first long term presence of u.s. troops in poland and according to the soldiers here the first time a foreign army has been operating in poland since the end of the soviet empire and the u.s. troops here will spend a month here each quarter for two years training polish soldiers on -- it is important to point out unarmed patriot launcher and, the that, beyond the capability, the one posed by iran, hillary clinton was here last week and signed an agreement with the polish government, actually an update, to an agreement, and that one is quite controversial, called the phased approach and will not include those six long range missile interceptors that russia was so concerned about. that had really rattled russia in fact, which is eager to keep his own military capabilities current, what will happen is there will be a more flexible system, here, in about 2015 that will also be complemented by intercept tors, and that is -- sea based interceptors and that is because the threat to russia was considered to be not in the u.s. best interest but also, because intelligence reports are saying that a more flexible system might actually be best suited to deal with the iranian potential threat which is more medium-range at this point, so, bill, a lot going on, here, with this training. it i i iortant as the u.s. troops point out to keep nato allies up to speed and current on related technology, the patriot of course is more sophisticated than what air defenses the polish have and is also, bill, a bit of a thank you to poland which committed troops to iraq, troops to afghanistan, and, the empire has been a staunch ally of the u.s. bill: amy kellogg, we'll watch that story, good to have you there, reporting from poland. martha: a big day on the gulf cor coast, bp says in 48 hours they'll know if the 8th attempt to plug the well is working. moments away from a live update from admiral thad allen. we'll look for news there and bring it to you. bill: on a much different note... they have skills, people. they sure do. martha: i like this story! host: could switching to geico really save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance? host: was abe lincoln honest? mary todd: does this dress make my backside look big? abe: perhaps a... vo: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. you look beautiful tonight. allow me. it's tough to get enough servings of vegetables every day if you don't always like the taste of them. i'll be right back, ok? ok. ok. good thing v8 v-fusion juice gives you a serving of vegetables hidden by a serving of fruit. v8. what's your number? get a 1 dollar coupon for v8 v-fusion juice at tryv8.com. bill: breaking news out of france, it might be the first for any country breaking out of paris, wanted to share that with you before we get to the big