man: yeah, i m thinking maybe this was a bad idea. we re less than a month away from the midterm elections and brand new poll numbers out this morning giving us a clear picture of how things could be shaping up, that is how we start a new hour of america s newsroom, i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning, 28 days, if we can hang on. martha: we ll be busy. it will be fun. bill: races where candidates had enjoyed comfortable leads back in the early polling, they are now fighting for their jobs, fighting literally for their political life, martha. martha: the new polls are showing how president obama is helping or hurting, democratic candidates out there, and brit hume, fox news chief political analyst joins me now with a lot to chew over, this morning, good morning, brit, good to see you. hey there, let s start with the nevada race, because this is, we see sharon angel pulling ahead
first in nevada. what s behind it? hi bill. this is the first time in our fox news poll thank sharron angle has had more than a one point lead. this week as you were saying she has a three-point lead which is the margin of error in this poll. it seems that voters have reservations about both candidates in this race. we asked senate majority leader harry reid f. he had been in office too long, 56 percent of respondents said yes, and we asked if sharron angle s position on the issues are too extreme, that s what each side is saying, harry reid has been there too long, insiders say she s too extreme, 53 percent said yes. angle wants to eliminate the department of education and allow social security to be privatized, for example. but angle supporters are growing more confident in their votes. two weeks ago, 10 percent of her supporters said they might change their mind. this week, that number fell to 4 percent. bill: so we polled in nevada, we polled in ohio, in missouri, also
left as well. the house and the senate return this week. the senate will take up the defense authorization bill and language in that legislation on the military s don t ask, don t tell policy. go to c-span.org to find out about our coverage on those events. front page of the new york times this morning, touching off debate, missouri tells judges the cost of sentences. we want to know from you this morning do you think judges should know the cost of a sentence before they give it out? phone numbers are on your screen. when judges here sentence convicted krms, a new and unusual we want to hear from all i don t have all of you this morning. we ll get to your phone calls but a little bit more from the article. the quote here says that there is no average case. every case is an individual case and every victim has the right to have each viewed individually and every defendant has that right. that s our topic this morning for the first 45 minutes of today s washington journa
hello, everyone.ter at the welcome back. good to be back. you know what life is like on the side lines. j-e-t-s, jets, jets, jets. i do know they lost last night. can you say karma, perhaps? we re in the final step leading up to the midterm elections. the last primary will be in seven states and the district of columbia. all eyes are on three states in particular, new hampshire, delaware and here in new york. in all three states, there s tea party candidates that are charging very hard. that can spell trouble for some candidates from the republican establishment. we ll get into all that. and talk to bill o reilly in a moment. that s who is over there. and it was the home invasion that shocked a country. twoe men, who broke into a home. kidnapped the mother. taking her to a bank to withdraw money. and we re seeing surveillance pictures of jennifer pettitte going to that bank. this, as her husband, mr. william pettitte, takes the stand today. what an emotional day
what beliefs do you hold? we do not honor their lives by honoring the constitutional rights they died protecting. we honor their lives by defending those rights and the freedoms the terrorists attacked. good morning, it s wednesday, august 4th. it s the president s birthday. happy birthday, mr. president. we re in los angeles. we ve got the john ridley and in washington, norah o donnell, chief washington correspondent. with us is pat buchanan and in new york, the coked up monkey, willie geist! john ridley, of course, we re here actually for the same reason, the same reason that levi came here. there is a hunting show in hollywood and we wanted to get to it. when you think hollywood, you think hunting. there is so much to talk about. pat buchanan, we re so glad you re in here. we got some issues you may not be interested in. where do we begin? you probably won t have any opinion on the ground zero mosque or repelling the 14th amendment but a lot of things swirling o