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This gulf situation, and its the mosque situation. >> reporter: yeah, there were controversy about if he would get in the water, and is he here enough? they will be here 27 hours on the ground. and all of that seems like a distant memory now, and not a big deal after the controversy on friday evening when the president at a white house event said he would back the project to build the mosque near ground zero. yesterday i had a chance to catch up with the president one-on-one and pressed him on t...

The mosque? >> well, my intention was to simply let people know what i thought. which was that in this country we treat everybody equally in u accordance with the law regardless of race and religion. i was not commenting and i will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there, and i was commenting specifically on the right that people have that dates back to our founding. thats what our country is about. and i think its very important that, you know, as difficult as some ...