my pleasure. bill: breaking news out of london right now, the wickileaks founder julian assange, screen right, inside the courtroom, screen left. he has told a london court you will fight extradition to sweden, this for allegations of sex charges in sweden, 39-year-old australian assange appeared before the magistrate s court there, moments ago, asked whether or not he understood that he would consent to be extradited to sweden, assange said he did understand but would not consent. so now we wonder when that bail is set, if he makes bail, then he s released and will continue to fight his extradition while living in london one would assume based on the charges before him now. this is a story that broke three hours ago. if you re just waking up, julian assange, surrendered to police in london, agreed to meet before the judge, which is happening right now, and we ll see whether or not these charges in sweden stick to him today and whether or not he can evade them. martha: talking about
that have gotten elected if they get to the real bone and get past the cheatoes, they re only going to be around a couple of years. mary katharine hamm, bernard whitman, thank you guys. bill: his senate bill failed, but outgoing governor charlie crist, trying to make his mark in rock and roll history, he is trying to open the door to pardon jim morrison. that s the door s front man, screen right, he will be par donned for indecent exposure, steming from a 1969 concert in miami, florida, as the gov says, what the heck? i am considering it. gary has been encouraging me to consider it for quite some time, and you know, i think we want to get a sense of the other cabinet members, what their feeling might be, but i m certainly willing to consider it. why not? martha: he wants to get a sense of what the other cabinet members are feeling? is anybody thinking about this or caring about this? bill: they re going to break on through to the other side. martha: you know what?
legal challenge? ben ginsburg. remember, from 2000, tallahassee, george bush, his lead attorney in florida. bill, back to you. bill: ben knows a thing or two about recounts, dan springer in ang anchorage, martha. martha: the mail bomb terror plot was one of several recent attempts to terrorize americans and now, republican congressman peter king set to continue as the chairman of the homeland security committee. he got a wake-up call, took a nap after the leck and guess who called and woke him up, president obama, they had not spoken in a while and he joins us to tell us what they talked about. bill: and republican leaders getting ready for a show down, mitch mcconnell, screen right, john boehner screen left, both eyeing a repeal of insurance reform, and mcconnell makes a major speech this hour and the biggest hurdle they face, and can they clear it? after the break. this is a 2600 page monstrosity, the worst piece of legislation that has been passed in my time in the senate. our g
harm doesn t come their way and, indiana, michigan, ohio, numerous warnings, into kentucky, even, millions affected by this storm, and more in touch with our folks in the weather center to be sure you have the information you need, and if you are in one of the red watch boxes, screen right, kentucky, indiana, ohio, heed the warnings. because, this storm is. martha: look at those clouds, whew! all right, a very interesting story for you, this is a race that could change the face of the republican party. in colorado. three candidates, vying for governor there. third-party candidate tom tancredo blowing the republican, out of the water in the poll numbers. look at the latest real clear average polls for colorado governor, tancredo of the american constitution party, the name, he was a republican and decided to run on the acp party and is now, just 6 points behind john hickenlooper, and,
bill: 10:00 in new york, good morning, everybody, freedom of expression could put every american in the american military serving overseas at risk. that is from general david petraeus, screen right, a florida pastor, getting ready for an organized koran-burning, the man in the middle of the screen, dr. terry jones, planning to send the islamic holy book up in smoke on september 11th. brand new hour of america s newsroom, this is a developing story, good morning to you, i m bill hemmer. how are you doing over there, huddy. juliet: i m doing well, i m in for martha, she ll be back, sorry to talk over you. bill: manana, she ll be back. juliet: dr. jones, leader of the dove world outreach center in gainesville, florida is an out spoken activist against radical islam. and listen to this: we realize the action would probably offend the muslims,