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Whether it's voter anger. but the financial advantage that democrats have is something that the president can help increase. >> chuck, let me ask you, pat here, let me ask you, does the white house expect other democrats to take the harry reid profile in courage road on the mosque and to bail on the mosque where it's going? or are they giving them all a pass? what is their feeling about what is coming, if rahm is making all those phone calls? >> well, look, i don't think the white house -- look the white house understands any democrat is going to do what any democrat has to do. i think when yo...

>> well, good morning, mika. you and joe and chuck are certainly up early this morning. i think that -- >> yes. >> i think that, the white house's strategy on this, i think, is pretty simple. if you look at what the president said at the ramadan dinner it's very clear, is that when you have these arpg up thes being whipped up by people, you know, who seek to divide in this country, that a president has to step forward, and call on the country to repudiate the intolerance that frankly is fueling this fight right now. and you know, there's a local issue here. which is about the mosque. and there...

Islamist, suggesting that he's a terrorist somehow connected to 9/11 attacks is newt gingrich. who, again, has compared building of a mosque in america, on private property, mika, to putting a swastika on the holocausts museum. it's deplorable. it is sick politics. and i pray to god, sincerely, that some republican on the national stage, some elected leader, will have the courage to call newt gingrich out. because until the party stands up to this type of extremism, this is a party that will find itself further and further marginalized by these voices of hate and anger, and anybody who believe...

For another week, take another step back, and then say, well, yeah, sure i'd like it to be build in midtown or the upper west side? >> i think, joe, the issue has metastasized now. it's gone national. it's even gone global. we saw the very helpful hand of hamas yesterday, which said it's got to be built, and it's got to be built right there. i think this is going global. and i think we're going to have ourselves a real cultural war over this. and my belief is in the end, that mosque will not be built two blocks from ground zero. i think the president ought to -- i mean, that's where he should ...

Politician speaking out against plans to build an islamic center and mosque two blocks away from the site of the world trade centers. marry snowe takes us on a tour of the area. >> reporter: and wolf, you know, many have dubbed it the ground zero mosque, but the site sparking controversy is not just a mosque, ain't's not adjacent to ground stooer roe. as the debate over the islamic center spreads far beyond new york, we take you to lower manhattan to give you a sense of where it will be and what's there now. you can see behind me, behind these gates is where the construction site of ground zer...