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is the only sixth time he's done it since taking office which is quite frankly a better track record than i've had in the past year, but certainly the white house says this is not a reflicks of the president's spirituality, he consults with a group of spiritual advisers and he's a fan of the chapel at camp david. bill: many presidents have declared a church while in office. has he or his family done that 1234. >> he hasn't, and to be truthful it has caused him a great deal of problems. in fact i'm sure you've seen recent polling showing almost one in five americans think this president is a muslim. making they're forgetng the controversy over his former pastor, jeremiah wright, but clearly this should help, if he goes more, this should help maybe turn the tide in that polling a little bit. bill: sam young, thank you. he works for the hill, he's live on capitol hill with us now. thank you sam. three minutes past. martha. martha: well, time for texas tea, perhaps? tea party supporters,
filling the fort worth convention center, rallying enthusiasm after a string of successful challenges to establishment candidates that we have seen all across this country. the message of this rally, the lone star state will play a key role in changing the direction of the federal government, according to them. >> texas is going to be a center of the conservative resurgencey, to move the country back to the right, and reduce the size of government and cut spending in washington, d.c. martha: the keynote speaker at the e, conservative columnist and pundit ann coulter. we're going to hear from joe barton, whom we saw there. bill: tea party-backed candidate christine o'donnell is now responding to controversial comments from her past, real time host bill maher releasing video from his show in 1999 on hbo that shows a younger o'donnell who says she, create, dabbled in witchcraft, a senate inform knee responding to that comment sunday afternoon. >> that witchcraft comment
and high school and here's how she reacted to it. on sunday. >> the witchcraft comments on bill maher, i was in high school. how many of you didn't hang out with questionable folks in high school? but, no, it -- there has been no witchcraft since, if there was, karl rove would be a supporter now! [laughter]. bill: that was the latest comments, and, there could be more today, and if and when there is we'll pass it to our viewers, how do you think she's doing on this topic over the past 48 hours? >> i think we ridiculing it she's doing fairly well. you know, what is worse than witchcraft a guy trying to aim for relevancy while wearing a mullet and releasing a tape of a high school girl as a way to tear done the conservative candidate. that is what i think is worse than witchcraft, as long as he ridicules it because it should be ridiculed. if any one of us were to go on things from 14 years ago, none
to bail them out? good morning to you, steve. what are we going to do in this mess? >> probably bail them out. i hate to say that, bill. but what do we do any time we get into financial distress with banks or insurance companies or auto companies? we bail them out. and my prediction, bill, is that the peng funds, especially state and local pension funds, is going to be the next big federal bailout. bill: so you think taxpayers are going to be on the hook for this? >> i do. bill: for what was negotiated years ago and guaranteed a return of 8 percent? it's good money if you can get it, right? >> let's clarify this, bill. we're talking about two different types of pensions. there's the private pension and those are guaranteed by something called the pension benefit guarantee corporation. that's one. the pension company -- the companies pay premiums into that program. but the other big pension bomb is state and local governments. you mentioned california, you mentioned new york.
>> reporter: yes, you know, we got pounded. no question about that. i'm with a veteran crew, producer andrew, who you knew well and the photographer, paul, and these guys we have all been through dozens of storms over the past 20 years and none of us ever remembered a category one that strong. violent, violent waves, gusts certainly topping 90 miles per hour and right on the southern coast and we were getting direct hits from igor, it was a rough night, sounded like freight train, the glass was rattling and we were all wondering how bad it might have been had it kept the category 3-4 strengths, bill. bill: on scene there in bermuda, best to you and your crew, rick, 25 minutes past the hour, says a lot when he talks about a category one being the strongest they have felt. martha: when you watch it from 3 to 2 to 1, you think it is no big deal but it is still a big deal and even tropical storm force winds can be damaging and,
her chanel purse and right en front of a police officer, and she said it was not hers, but earlier in the summer she tweeted a picture of the bag and said, love the new chanel percent i bought today and after the guilty plea, if she's arrested for anything besides a minor traffic violation she'll spend a year in jail and her lawyer says despite being on probation hilton is not required to check in or report to anybody and back out here live, hilton is now banned from the wynn and encore resorts and her boyfriend ways partner for one of the nightclubs there and is dismissed as well. and, yeah, back again, she pleaded guilty, and, she will be on probation for a year, $2,000 fine and 200 hours of community service. bill: thank you for that. really appreciate. kvvu on the story, paris hilton emerging from the courtroom, moments ago. lauren, thank you. martha: driving out there in the white blouse, looking proud, actually.
information, police went searching for this woman and found her body saturday night in a storage unit in southeast charlotte. charlotte mecklenberg police are looking for a 34-year-old sex offender with a long rap sheet, michael neil harvey. at this point, they're not formally calling him a suspect, but a person of interest. they really want to talk to him. he's originally from upstate new york but according to court records he's been in charlotte for approximately six years. bill. bill: jonathan serrie in atlanta, thank you. more on that as we move throughout the morning, it's a developing story. jonathan, thanks. nine minutes past the hour now. martha. martha: here's a story for you on this monday, a massachusetts woman wanted to catch a gator, it was a big goal of her -- hers, to bag a 13-foot half ton beast ten times her size. look how little she is. she'll tell us how she tackled and tagged that
bill, those are pensions that were made 20 or 30 years ago, but the good news is that most private companies are moving towards private defined contribution plans. the problem is, the public sector is not, and that's where the real time bomb is. bill: this was fine during the 1990s and everybody was running like a bull. but the last decade, things have changed. you were about to say something. go ahead. >> first of all on your point, you're exactly right y. are the private and public pensions going bankrupt? because of the stock market collapse. they were thinking they would get 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent in returns and we've lost 25 percent in the stock market. but i wanted to give a salute to the governor of new jersey, chris christie, who as you know, bill, has been one of the heroic governors saying look, we've got to take this issue on or we're not going to have money left for schools, parks, highways, anything, all of our tax dollars are going to go to pay pensions. so that's one governor who's finally taking this on. i don't know if schwarzenegger is doing it in california.
martha: new york is under tight security this morning as presidents and prime ministers and controversial leaders from around the world gather in the big apple to start off the united nations summit. iran is also there, always good for a shoeubging statement or two. we have that live this morning. bill: first, though, president obama, the first time we go into church over the weekend, publicly for the first time in months, spwaoug the st. john's episcopal church, about a block away from the white house. sam young is on the hill. what is the white house saying about this? >> saying look, this really is not that unusual for a president who's very spiritual, he just tends to not want to disrupt services. of course, santa john's, across the park from the white house, is famous for hosting presidents. bill: how often has he chose tone attend public worship since being in the white house some 20 months ago? >> if i'm not mistaken this
arguing that the democrats benefit from it and benefit from sarah paulin endorsing these an candidates. we'll see what everybody says at home about that hot topic, and how about this, a hot topic as this gets unfolded, the pension crisis may be worse than we thought, folks. the bad bets by some of america's biggest pension funds that could make unexpected shortfalls look even worse. bill: also, there are tens of thousands without power this morning. a pourful hurricane, igor, still on the move. where that monster storm is headed next.