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Know. >> he was on text on friday. >> and then kind of veered somehow. here's the thing. i understand what the president was trying to say, which is as the president i'm not going to get into a local -- a local issue, but i am going to weigh in on an issue when we're talking about the sfconstitutio when we're talking about religious tolerance in this country. i think that was appropriate. it probably could have been set up a little better to better clarify from the very beginning what he was trying to articulate, but i think the point is the right one. i don't think we want the president weigh...

Dinner friday night, a ramadan dinner, thissi iftar dinner and they didn't take on this issue they felt that would be inappropriate, it runs counter to everything the president believes about himself in the sense that when there are tough issues he feels we take them on, we talk about them, put them out in the forefront. i think where this really became a problem for them is being torn apart so viciously by jon stewart, which is this notion of then backtracking the next day. again, i think the white house would try to argue that there's nothing inconsistent between the friday night statement a...