look, i oppose the mosque. no one is offering me a penny. what am i? chopped liver? i need a new roof. >> bret: julie, you mentioned republicans split on this. is it, do you think, a powerful political issue heading 70-plus days in the mid-term? >> it almost is. but we're to the point people are overplaying their hands on the issue. it's gone a little too far. so it could have been, but now it's kind of gone crazy. and the democrats don't know what to do. the republicans are stirring it up. hard to see who gets the benefit. >> bret: last thing, prospects of actually moving this site, david paterson the governor of new york, others saying they are negotiating or trying to. bill? >> the developer who has real money decide at some point he doesn't need this. it's nice that imam rauf made a big splash here with the provocative decision to try to build a mosque near ground zero but i think he will pull the plug on it. >> bret: that is it for the panel. stay tuned for a weather report gone terribly wrong.