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Progressives cant match all the money going into the system right now." so how do you possibly compete and win against all that dark money piled up against you? lets ask somebody who knows. joining us now is iowa congressman, targeted by those ground zero mosque attack ads, bruce braley. congressman braley, thanks for joining us. >> welcome home, rachel. great to have you back in washington, d.c.. >> did i get the facts right about what that race was like in 2010? >> you nailed it. it was one of...

Groups with tv ads. progressives cant match all the money going into the system right now." so how do you possibly compete and win against all that dark money piled up against you? lets ask somebody who knows. joining us now is iowa congressman, targeted by those ground zero mosque attack ads, bruce braley. congressman braley, thanks for joining us. >> welcome home, rachel. great to have you back in washington, d.c.. >> did i get the facts right about what that race was like in 2010? >> you nail...

Congressman braley campaigning for re-election all the way out in iowa was being bombarded with tv ads like that on that entirely made-up issue, as if it was a real issue and as if he had anything to do with it, which he did not. it is the kind of thing a candidate might want to fight back against if he had any idea who it was who was fighting him that way. as you can see at the bottom of the screen there, the ads were being paid for by something called the american future fund. and this group, ...

Tv ads like that on that entirely made-up issue, as if it was a real issue and as if he had anything to do with it, which he did not. it is the kind of thing a candidate might want to fight back against if he had any idea who it was who was fighting him that way. as you can see at the bottom of the screen there, the ads were being paid for by something called the american future fund. and this group, the american future fund, didnt just run the ground zero mosque ad against bruce braley, they ra...

The same year, i lost two twitter followers. rough year. >> you guys have a new years resolution for 2012 or things youre looking forward to? particularly because it has been a rough year. things youre looking forward to in 2012? >> on a serious note, one thing is this whole controversy with tlcs all-american muslim and lowes pulling their ads. the back lash being, over 32 congressmen wrote a letter saying, dont pull your ads. christians and jewish stood with the muslim saying, its -- >> when yo...

>> president truman was the first president to pardon a turkey. >> president truman was the first president to pardon a turkey. is this true or false? false. there is no record of truman ever pardoning a turkey. so where did this thanksgiving tradition come from? >> this white house tradition dates back to abraham lincoln. >> false again. and president george w. bush should know better! because the tradition of actually pardoning a turkey for thanksgiving began with his father, george herbert wa...

Turkey. >> president truman was the first president to pardon a turkey. is this true or false? false. there is no record of truman ever pardoning a turkey. so where did this thanksgiving tradition come from? >> this white house tradition dates back to abraham lincoln. >> false again. and president george w. bush should know better! because the tradition of actually pardoning a turkey for thanksgiving began with his father, george herbert walker bush, 22 years ago. next up, noted islamphobe pamel...

What happened with the ground zero -- the quote ground zero mosque. >> it wasnt even a mosque. >> right. >> or at ground zero. >> the community center. we want muslim americans to continue 20 integrate in this country as they have for years. >> good. >> the question is, how do we figure out what britain has done wrong and what were doing right and how we continue to make sure that we dont -- we dont -- because as you know, history always moves forward. at some point we may have a problem with th...

Will not look into your internal affairs and we need to look at that, a policy of the united states which is not so good. >>dave: thank you both for being here bright and early on a saturday. coming up only on the job a few weeks but the new leader of the ground zero mosque leaving. is this a sign the whole project will be soon kaput? where to go for a quiet get away. [ male announcer ] thanks to therbitz matrix display, you can make more knowledgeable decisions when bookg vacation packages. exc...

Money comes from sources that arent friendly to the united states, does that mean the mosque itself or the community center itself would be used, you know, for purposes to harm this country? it doesnt. see, thats where we cant make that last jump. >> no, we cant. >> bill: all we can say in fairness is rauf hid this association with khan. no question he did. we asked him today to explain it and he wont. he hid it. he didnt want people to know about it now its out there, all right? khan is a loon....