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I have no reason not to believe him on this issue. again he called me cold. he heard me on a radio show earlier that morning talking about his proposal and we had a very friendly conversation and he specifically told me that the meeting would be held in the next several days. jenna: in the next several days. so it is your understanding that would be maybe by the end of this week? >> yeah. it was clear to me it was going to be by the end of the week. he called me yesterday which is tuesday. my cl...

The whole mosque issue. ines ferre is reading your comments and she is here to share your thoughts. >> we received so many of them. lets get started with one coming from facebook. saying congress should act quickly and make the ten-block area surrounding ground zero a memorial. alicia said i do think building the mosque is in poor taste and insensitive but i value religious freedom more. then youve got on cnn.com/.com, either we believe in freedom of religion or we dont. if we dont, what is the ...

Embrace of hugo chavez. the first ladys sort of spanish fiesta this summer. the american people are saying i dont think that this president represents me. he represents more of the sort of leonard bernstein, black panther, radical sheik element of the party. >> its hard to even respond to that. a lot of that is just a bunch of baloney. in the real world, the american people are divided on the mosque issue. >> they arent. >> yes, they are. lets not pretend that the american people are against the...

Pressure on 1600 pennsylvania avenue, on the white house to step up and say, mr. president, wont your guide an. we want your leadership. we want your viewpoint as to whether or not the placement of this mosque on hollowed ground near the 9/11 cemetery, as it were, is appropriate. or not appropriate. is it wise? >> exactly. meanwhile, sarah palin was on the greta van susteren program last night. here she is, former governor weighing in on the mosque issue. >> he just doesnt get it. if the purpose...

Coming from arianna huffington which foretells some of whats going to be in her book. mark, when youve got these folks who have been supportive of the president slamming him primarily over this mosque issue, you got something to deal with. >> well, i dont know that theyre being unsupportive. theyre pointing out that he took a very clear stand on principle, saying theres an absolute constitutional right to build a mosque or an islamic cultural center anywhere that theyre zoned to do it and thats ...

Thats why hes doing this 8,000 mile trek around the country to remind people not to, you know, to leave him, to stay hopeful and not to be dragged down by fear but i dont think the american people are like that. theyre very rationale and very sensible and going to go to the polls in droves on november and going to eject from power a political party thats completely rejected the will of the american public. >> one of the things that may be on the voters minds now because the president made sure i...

Districts. >> democrats who kind of are afraid to be who they are or who are pushing back on the leaders, i think theyre crazy. >> okay. a little play on the jetblue passenger story. >> yeah. the traffic was horrible here yesterday, wasnt it? >> it was terrible. >> as the president came in, and they -- >> must have been the motorcade. >> l.a. traffic is bad enough as it is. >> it was hard to get from point "a" to point "b." >> it was next to impossible. >> with us now from just over the accept u...

His administration, just 44%. that is a 20-point drop from may of last year when 64% of americans approved of the way the president was handling his job. and the white house, joe, can say that they dont look at those numbers, and that those numbers dont matter. but they look at those numbers. >> well, of course, they do. >> and they matter. >> every white house has to look at the numbers. and pat buchanan, daily tracking with the gallup down to 42%. i suppose that this mosque issue is probably g...

Not change the fact that you may be upside down on your house, may not have a job, your hours may have been cut back. one pasht is now not working and other one is charged with having to carry the whole load. that is a point that is directly sold and it is very much different from the mosque issue. the mosque issue would be gone in three months well be able to talk about the mosque. politics move so quickly. but it will always be there until the economy turns around. and i think that is the cruc...

Prepare this country to meet the challenges of a global economy. this mosque issue does nothing to take away our national debt. it is a classic switch issue here that the president shouldnt be engaged it, because quite frankly we shouldnt have this conversation. we should talk about real issues confronting this country. >> ed you live in new york. cornell has a point. the people on the right have made a big issue of this, however, they wouldnt have as much to work with if the president didnt giv...