but it cannot be in ten years. these are the exact words that i said. the man said that s fine. i said now he has agreed to move the mosque away from the ground zero area. yes, he has. that s what i was told. do i feel tricked? yes. yes, of course. i don t feel tricked. i was lied to. that s why at this time i m not prepared to believe that. i m not prepared to make that accusation. i want to just wait and see and i m right now believing his word. i find it very hard to believe that he would lie to me. that was followed by jones associate pastor coming out to reporters this evening and suggesting they might return to being just as for burning korans as they are currently against burning korans if the new york city islamic center does not move. we have not canceled the burning on saturday. we ve suspended it until we get a confirmation on the information we were given today in a meeting full of different
announcement about not burning korans. do you think at this point you spent a couple of days with him privately. do you think he will go ahead and burn korans? i don t think so. i think he got the message from secretary gates, from david petraeus, from many christian leaders who have called on him to call it quits to that event. i think he is trying right now to put pressure on me and twist my arm and the arm of the imam in new york to try to achieve something beyond what we have agreed on. right. he s basically trying to save face is what you re saying. what does it say about him, about this pastor that if what you re saying is accurate, that he would stretch the truth or lie about something like this, try to insert himself into something that he hasn t been involved with at all and, after spending two days with you, not even know your name.
york to talk to imam rauf to talk about the prospect of doing and that perhaps to advocate for that as a gesture of good will as the stopping of the burning of korans would be. is that the way you thought it was when you left that meeting? precisely. i repeated that three or four times inside the building. yes. then, let me ask you ask you one question about that that equates essentially the burning of the korans and building of this islamic community center in new york at some distance from ground zero, these two things have somehow become equated or perhaps conflated. why n your opinion, as a leader of your faith, are these things even remotely connected and why shouldn t there be an islamic center exactly where they have it planned at 51 park place in manhattan? i did not think they were connected at all.
david letterman and i play deity for a possible 2012 gop presidential candidate. it could be another bush. we haven t had enough of them. that s his campaign slogan. i ll reveal what it is so somebody call jeb up and tell him to watch. all of the news and commentary now on countdown. good evening from new york. this just in from kerry sanders in florida. we re a little back to square one he now quotes pastor terry jones of the dove church in that state. i m praying, he tells sanders, to decide what to do next. two days before the ninth anniversary of 9/11, 48 hours before the planned burning of korans by a small florida church and our fifth story on the countdown tonight. the koran burning has been suspended. the pastor of the church said the burning was canceled. the muslim mediator credited for the breakthrough joins us presently.
korans. i think in trying to get out of the box he was in, he tried to shift and do bait and switch and switch to the mosque issue and so i think that s a little bit of at least a strategy of jones trying to put the onus back on and say this is issue he has to deal with when pastor jones was hijacking the nation with ridiculous kron buoran burning . great. thanks for being with us on such short notice. whether the florida pastor goes through with his pledge or not, the cliche of fahrenheit 451 has sparked protests most notably in afghanistan and an attempt by insurgents to