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>> reporter: el-gamal did have help from a man house the gairchter to of the $35 million loan. >> where did you raise the money? where does all the money come from. sharif el-gamal, why are you running? we have legitimate questions for you, why went you answer any of them. megyn: our thanks to charles leaf for that report. earlier today family members of september 11 victims, religious leaders and civil rights groups met near ground zero in support of freedom and diversity in connection with this mosque debate. fox news alert we are awaiting the results of the blockbuster senate primary in ala...

Our fox affiliate wnyw in new york. >> reporter: while he ma'am rauwhile imam raufhas dominatedf el-gamal is the developer behind the mosque. five years ago he was waiting tables in a new york restaurant. we wanted to meet. harris: . meet with the man. we left him multiple voice messages and he never returned of any our calls. we even went to his office and talked to some of his colleagues but we were turned away. so we were left with no choice but to go find him. >> reporter: i'm charles leaf from fox 5 news. i would like to ask you a couple

On them now? that there's a mosque right around the corner? this sounds like a uh-oh we're not going to build this mosque anymore. >> we heard so many different things, somebody said it was a strip club and inefficient. that's what prompted the head of soho properties, and this imam, as we know, rauf but the real man with the money, he is on long island. he's from rosalynn, new york, and he was resisting sitting down with charles leaf of fox 5 here in new york. he finally did sit down with him. dare we say a breakthrough. listen. >> is this project still very much open -- open ended? >> i woul...

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