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This gulf situation, and it's 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 this very issue. rather than run away from it, he was very eager to answer my question about it, and...

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. that's what our country is about. and i think it's very important that, you know, as difficult as some of the issues are, we stay focused on who we are as a people and what our values are all about. >>...