julie, start with you. you hear all the lamenting about this, turning this in to a political issue. too late. it s a political issue. someone needs to step up. we heard obama parsing middle distance on this over the weekend and this weekend saying no regrets but not going any further than that. this is a terrible issue for the democrats. someone needs to step up and clarify where the party stands on this. meanwhile, republicans are fighting with each other, too. pat buchanan said newt gingrich went too far on the issue. now we have gone in a parallel universe. bret: bill? still getting my head around the parallel universe. howard dean says building the mosque, where it is going to be built with the intention behind is it a real afront to people who lost their lives on 9/11. i am happy to agree with howard dean. bret: agreed with senator reid and howard dean. i m a bipartisan kind of guy. [ inaudible ] i like that. howard dean becoming an neokahn. he is happy to take a little
the statement was out of malice or sheer lunacy. being the general soul i am, i go with lunacy. after all, the implication that debra burlingame, sister of one of the pilots who died on 9/11 would have to be secretly paid to express her anguish over the establishment of a monument to islam in a place where 3,000 were massacred in the name of islam is obscene. looking in to the financing of the mosque is logical. we know there is history in the country of fake charities funneling money to terrorists organizations. they ve been investigated. we ve had this is a real issue. it s not hypothetical. not a can-be. but the idea that those who support the mosque some kind of conspiracy or funding ought to be looked at is absurd. look, i oppose the mosque.
administration and lay the groundwork for primary challenge to president obama a year from now. you heard it here. don t you think dean would love to primary obama? in any case, he will be anti-afghanistan, anti-the war and antithe mosque. best of all worlds. when obama said no regrets today, funny thing to say. it s the kind of thing you say when you lost. it s finished. it s over. no regrets. i won t sing it here for you, disappointing to the viewers. wonderful song, though. but i do think deep down the democrats know this is over. and i would suspect they re going to put private pressure now on the imam and developer. over the next week or so i should say. bret: charles? i spent the afternoon wrapping my mind around pelosi s remark about looking into the finances of those who oppose the motion. i want to join with others. it d like to know who the others are. any of them non-institutionalized? then i m trying to decide if
nancy pelosi to suggest there is going to been b an investigation of these people, is absolutely outrageous, disgraceful, and the speaker was really out of line on this. bret: house speaker nancy pelosi weighing in for the first time on the mosque controversy. she later thought to clarify her first public comments, saying that she thinks the funding for actual mosque project should be looked in to as well. now we have the president weighing in, saying he has no regrets about his statements after being asked in ohio. and this just in this afternoon, former vermont governor and former presidential candidate howard dean weighed in as well. telling wabc radio, this is something we ought to be able to work out with people in good faith. will i think another i think another site would be a better idea. i would look to do that with the cooperation of people who are trying to build the mosque. saying another site may be better. so what about all of this and the politics, the policy?
residents found themselves united. it was a beautiful thing, says brentwood resident myles berkowitz, commiserating with his neighbors on montana avenue. young, old, black, white, everyone was p.o..ed. the top story at the bottom of the hour. house speaker nancy pelosi is trying to clarify earlier remarks calling for an investigation in opponents of a planned mosque near ground zero. pelosi issued a statement saying she wants transparency about who was funding the effort to build the mosque and the effort to oppose it. correspondent david lee miller has the story of another house of worship lost in the political shuffle. reporter: it once stood in the shad deof the world trade center. but when the south tower collapsed nine years ago on 9/11, st. nicholas greek orthodox church was crushed. now plans to rebuild the church have also collapsed. these artist renderings will