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The jam cam. at this hour of the morning i don't really care. let's look and see through our magic romper room mirror who is in new york. i see mike barnicle. he's there. in washington, d.c., we've got pat buchanan. and soon stumbling into the studio in chicago we'll be talking to mark halperin. we have an awful lot to talk about. why don't we start right now, mika, with news where the president is, and then we'll get into the mosque, and the political ramifications, and all the gunk that is unfortunately politics in 2010. >> i think that talk show hosts and comedians on this issue kind of nee...

Brk says building a mosque at ground zero is about tolerance. he's wrong. it's about truth. the truth, muslim fanatics murdered thousands of innocent americans on 9/11. just yards from the proposed mosque. the truth, the leader of the ground zero mosque refuses to admit that muslim extremists used terror tactics. the truth, the fight against terrorism isn't over. mr. president, ground zero is the wrong place for a mosque. >> yikes. >> okay. >> seriously. >> i'm -- >> chris, i think we're going to go to -- so he's running for governor in florida. >> oh, that's good for him. >> good for him. so ...

>> boom, religious freedom. boom, there you go. you can't be any more clear than that. this was the principle guy that people -- i'm sorry, there's more? okay. >> i was not commenting, and i will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there. >> well, that's walking it back a little bit there. kind of reminds me a little bit of his campaign slogan. yes, we can. but should we? you know. >> you think that's funny. that's making me tired. >> look at that beautiful shot of new york city, mika. the upper west side. it just slightly glows. the jackie o. reservoir. it's beautif...

Rhetoric wouldn't help him in the least. >> i think mika, most americans want the mosque built away from ground zero. that doesn't mean, though, they're going to compare the building of this mosque to slapping a swastika on the holocaust museum. >> but just look at the environment we're in politically, and on the internet. you know that as a republican conservative, having said what you just said, you're going to get slammed. no matter how fairly you lay out exactly what it is you have to say. okay. and you've got people like newt gingrich playing ugly, right into the opening that's going to g...

Republicans for 2012, if you look at every poll. i think that's even more disturbing, with the comments that he's making. but, newt gingrich has compared a muslim center to putting a swastika up on the holocaust museum. thereby equating all mosques to nazi imagery. i -- where do we begin? mike, where do we begin? >> joe, there's nowhere to begin with this. i mean, here you have a formerly semirespected politician, former speaker of the house, engaging in, we've said it a couple of times, political pyromania here. i mean he's trying to ignite an even larger fire over something that has begun, a...