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Julie, start with you. >> you hear all the lamenting about this, turning this in to a political issue. too late. its a political issue. someone needs to step up. we heard obama parsing middle distance on this over the weekend and this weekend saying no regrets but not going any further than that. this is a terrible issue for the democrats. someone needs to step up and clarify where the party stands on this. meanwhile, republicans are fighting with each other, too. pat buchanan said newt gingrich...

The statement was out of malice or sheer lunacy. being the general soul i am, i go with lunacy. after all, the implication that debra burlingame, sister of one of the pilots who died on 9/11 would have to be secretly paid to express her anguish over the establishment of a monument to islam in a place where 3,000 were massacred in the name of islam is obscene. looking in to the financing of the mosque is logical. we know there is history in the country of fake charities funneling money to terrori...

Administration and lay the groundwork for primary challenge to president obama a year from now. you heard it here. dont you think dean would love to primary obama? in any case, he will be anti-afghanistan, anti-the war and antithe mosque. best of all worlds. when obama said no regrets today, funny thing to say. its the kind of thing you say when you lost. its finished. its over. no regrets. i wont sing it here for you, disappointing to the viewers. wonderful song, though. but i do think deep dow...

>> nancy pelosi to suggest there is going to been b an investigation of these people, is absolutely outrageous, disgraceful, and the speaker was really out of line on this. >> bret: house speaker nancy pelosi weighing in for the first time on the mosque controversy. she later thought to clarify her first public comments, saying that she thinks the funding for actual mosque project should be looked in to as well. now we have the president weighing in, saying he has no regrets about his statements...

Residents found themselves united. it was a beautiful thing, says brentwood resident myles berkowitz, commiserating with his neighbors on montana avenue. young, old, black, white, everyone was p.o..ed." the top story at the bottom of the hour. house speaker nancy pelosi is trying to clarify earlier remarks calling for an investigation in opponents of a planned mosque near ground zero. pelosi issued a statement saying she wants transparency about who was funding the effort to build the mosque and...

Never get off the drawing board. will proposed mosque ignite controversy, struck to rebuild the only house of worship destroyed by the terror attack, received little attention. something that could soon change. >> i believe that people around the country are asking themselves the question. why all this talk about a mosque being built near ground zero? what about the church destroyed on 9/11? >> reporter: negotiation between church leaders and government officials to rebuild the church took place...

>> reporter: shortly after that, pelosis aides said she wasnt calling for special investigation to probe mosque critics and issued a formal statement, acknowledging for the first time that there is also a, "need for transparency about who is funding the effort to build this islamic center." >> this mosque, its wrong. its so wrong. >> reporter: that opposition to the mosque is growing more organized and better funded. and many wounds from 9/11 have been reopened is evident from a new ad featuring...

Were back with the panel. julie, start with you. >> you hear all the lamenting about this, turning this in to a political issue. too late. its a political issue. someone needs to step up. we heard obama parsing middle distance on this over the weekend and this weekend saying no regrets but not going any further than that. this is a terrible issue for the democrats. someone needs to step up and clarify where the party stands on this. meanwhile, republicans are fighting with each other, too. pat b...

See your authorized dealer for exceptiol offers through mercedes-benz financial. >> bret: now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. senate majority leader harry reid is catching flak from nevada muslim supporters who arent happy with how he has handled his opposition to the proposed mosque near ground zero. "las vegas review journal" reports even though the director of the islamic society of nevada does not support the ground zero mosque either, he says reids opposition was based on ...

Mosque being funded? >> nancy pelosi to suggest there is going to been b an investigation of these people, is absolutely outrageous, disgraceful, and the speaker was really out of line on this. >> bret: house speaker nancy pelosi weighing in for the first time on the mosque controversy. she later thought to clarify her first public comments, saying that she thinks the funding for actual mosque project should be looked in to as well. now we have the president weighing in, saying he has no regrets...