and i m eight feet tall. i m slouching right now. what is going on here? and i learned that if you want to bribe a massachusetts legislator, all you have to do is give them a free fish dinner. it s cheap up there. i mean, all the stories i heard about boston and politics, i mean, if you can t drink their water and eat their fish sandwiches and still vote against them, then you re not man enough to be in the massachusetts state legislature in the first place. that must be the beginning of the term there s something fishy here. look over there. who do we have next snm he is brimming with excitement. loaded for bear. fused with crack, dillon ratigan. crack on thursday. all right. it s way too early. what time is it? it s morning joe, a man fused with passion, dillon ratigan at the morning meeting. and good morning to you. welcome to the morning meeting. i am dillon ratigan. topping our agenda this morning, saying good-bye to the lion of the senate, the nation p
this morning, storm watch. hurricane bill speeds along the east coast, dumping rain, closing beaches and churning up dangerous currents. we ll have a live report. holiday headache. president obama heads to a beach vacation with his family, amidst hurricane warnings there. and health care warnings everywhere else. how he plans to weather the brewing political storm. divine intervention. two churches merge to save money and bridge the racial gap. but will their congregations and their choirs follow? we re there for their first services this morning. and guitar hero. air guitar, taking the world by storm. from the international championships, to your bathroom mirror. why everyone is rocking to their mirror. why everyone is rocking to their own beat. captions paid for by abc, inc. that s really good. jimmy paige. you broke a string. good morning, america. good morning. it is sunday, august 23rd. yes. despite big rains, pounding surf. looks like we dodged a bullet, new
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. glor: and good evening. we begin our broadcast this evening with a scathing letter sent by f.b.i. director robert mueller to officials in scotland. two days after scotland s justice minister released a libyan agent convicted of bombing pan am flight 103 in 1988, an act of terrorism that took 270 lives. at the same time tonight, britain find itself denying the bomber s release was the price of doing business. sheila macvicar has our story. reporter: this was how the libyan leader ghaddafi greeted abdel basset al megrahi. he could have welcoming a prodigal son, rather than a convicted terrorist. in an unprecedented move, the director of the f.b.i. weighed in today two decades ago as a prosecutor, he investigated the bombing of pan am 103. in an uncompromising letter he blasted the scottish minister responsible for releasing megrahi. now there are growing accusations from family members and others tha