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I have no reason not to believe him on this issue. again he called me cold. he heard me on a radio show earlier that morning talking about his proposal and we had a very friendly conversation and he specifically told me that the meeting would be held in the next several days. jenna: in the next several days. so it is your understanding that would be maybe by the end of this week? >> yeah. it was clear to me it was going to be by the end of the week. he called me yesterday which is tuesday. my clear impression it was going to be wednesday or thursday. jenna: all right. we're going to continue t...

The whole mosque issue. ines ferre is reading your comments and she is here to share your thoughts. >> we received so many of them. let's get started with one coming from facebook. saying congress should act quickly and make the ten-block area surrounding ground zero a memorial. alicia said i do think building the mosque is in poor taste and insensitive but i value religious freedom more. then you've got on cnn.com/.com, either we believe in freedom of religion or we don't. if we don't, what is the difference between us and the religious fanatics responsible for the attack in the first place. ...

Embrace of hugo chavez. the first lady's sort of spanish fiesta this summer. the american people are saying i don't think that this president represents me. he represents more of the sort of leonard bernstein, black panther, radical sheik element of the party. >> it's hard to even respond to that. a lot of that is just a bunch of baloney. in the real world, the american people are divided on the mosque issue. >> they aren't. >> yes, they are. let's not pretend that the american people are against the freedom of religion. it starts with the mosque. >> i agree, they're not against it. >> we find...

Pressure on 1600 pennsylvania avenue, on the white house to step up and say, mr. president, won't your guide an. we want your leadership. we want your viewpoint as to whether or not the placement of this mosque on hollowed ground near the 9/11 cemetery, as it were, is appropriate. or not appropriate. is it wise? >> exactly. meanwhile, sarah palin was on the greta van susteren program last night. here she is, former governor weighing in on the mosque issue. >> he just doesn't get it. if the purpose of this mosque as we are led to believe is to create this tolerant environment to avoid anything ...

Coming from arianna huffington which foretells some of what's going to be in her book. mark, when you've got these folks who have been supportive of the president slamming him primarily over this mosque issue, you got something to deal with. >> well, i don't know that they're being unsupportive. they're pointing out that he took a very clear stand on principle, saying there's an absolute constitutional right to build a mosque or an islamic cultural center anywhere that they're zoned to do it and that's exactly what the president said, if you can build a church there, you can build a mosque the...