the potential compromise of the security of the cia director. martha: we may once again see eric holder brought before congressional hearings. dianne feinstein would like to talk to him and ask him those same questions. we ll see how far that goes and how far up it goes. john bolton always good to talk to you. bill: who is jill kelly. this is what we know. 37 years old there from a lebanese family immigrated in president late 70s. her and her husband, a well-known surgeon moved to tampa two years ago. she works as an unpaid socially aeu son at an air force base in tam path. the two have hosted gatherings for military officers, some bases in the area and apparently they have been friends with general petraeus and his wife holly for five years. she told a friend that she started receiving harassing emails from paula broadwell this past may. and that s when we are told the f.b.i. started its own
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we ll bring that to you as soon as that gets underway. so, it is time to get this party started. shall we? we ve been here for a couple of days and things are really getting underway now in tampa. brand-new hour starting for america s newsroom coming to you live from the republican national convention. good morning, everybody, i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. finally. we re calling it day two only because yesterday lasted only a few minutes. the convention will kickoff at 2:00 eastern time. governor romney touching down a bit later in tam path. we wil tampa. we will watch that plane touchdown and is wife is expected to speak tonight which will be one of the highlights. martha: one roberts joins us with a preview. he is live in the convention center for us this morning with a look at what we can expect today. reporter: we ve just been
in florida, voting by absentee ballot. it could play a key role. phil keating is live in miami. he has a butterfly ballot. reporter: those are long gone. there is a lot of energy among florida republicans this year, as evidence the record number of absentee ballot requests. tallahassee has sent out more than 400,000 of them and more than 50,000 have already been filled out and returned, so as of right now florida voters are already voting in the january 31st primary. the campaigns we sreutse visited tam path. we stopped by the romney calm paper campaign, saw their offices. we stopped by the paul campaign, the gingrich campaign. they ve organized in most of
for the police department. here is a clue at how important that department is to the community of tam path. they have the largest reward ever in florida for the death of a police officer manhunt, $95,000. it could go above the one hundred k mark as reward money to help catch dontae morris. very motivated to get this guy. the third thing i want to tell you about is the fact that they have let go the woman who was driving the car that was pulled over in the routine traffic alternate tkpwaeugs, or rather transaction altercation or rather transabs that started this early thursday morning. cortnee nicole brantly was set free without being charged last night. at the very beginning of this news conference moments ago the police chief was peppered with questions about why would you have let the woman you see on your screen go when you know she was driving the car that was pulled over for not having a visible license plate, and that the guy who is suspected of killing two police officers was