we begin tonight with presidential politics. new numbers that underscore just how important our big debate here is tomorrow night and a new twist in the campai campaign conversation. a new cnn times poll shows a statistical dead heat this arizona. 36% for mitt romney, 32% for the surging rick santorum. add in a small santorum lead in michigan which also votes next tuesday, and what you get is a tense, volatile gop race as the final four candidates prepare for their first debate in nearly a month. in a moment how the tightness of the race is playing out among the candidates. but first a campaign commentary is stirring controversy. listen here to franklin graham, the son of the reverend billy graham, when asked on msnbc just this morning if he can say categorically that the president is not a muslim. i can t say categorically, because islam has gotten a free pass under obama. how so? well, we see the arab spring. coming out of the arab spring the islamists are taking co
junior graham had to say. i met mitt romney, no question he s a very capable person. he s proven himself. donald trump, when i saw that he was getting in, i thought it s a joke but the more you listen to him, the more you say to yourself, he might be right. he might be your candidate of choice? yeah, sure, yeah. . let s take a look at this. franklin graham with a history of saying incendiary things. listen to a few of things he s said in the past year. i said that islam, after 9/11, that islam was wicked and evil. i don t believe that mohammed can lead anybody to god. first of all, i think the president s problem is that he was born a muslim. his father was a muslim. the seed of islam is passed through the father. his was born a muslim. his father gave him a muslim name. now, it s obvious that the president has renounced the prophet mohammed and renounced islam and accepted jesus christ. that s what he says he s done. i cannot say that he hasn t.
so i just have to believe the president is what he s said. what is this seed of islam? he says islam is a joke of religion and then quoting the seed of islam. somehow you become part of a religion without any forethought. it makes me i think it makes everyone you have to be careful who you associate and say are your backers and the fact that trump and graham embracing myself makes me scared of foreign policy. almost like sarah palin not knowing where alaska and florida are. you need to be able to have someone who can have a conversation and lead and make strategic decisions and garner respect. why would he glom onto this guy? errol, why does he want franklin graham behind him? and then his wonderful father billy. a different kettle of fish. i think we all agree by now. he s trying to get legitimacy, clearly. he s looking for friends anywhere he can find them and how you run for a president. at least in the early stages, or that s one version of how you run for president. he
spends mornings thinking about how to bug me, but here is frankly graham, asked of possible presidential candidates. listen to what the reverend junior graham had to say. i met mitt romney, no question he s a very capable person. he s proven himself. donald trump, when i saw that he was getting in, i thought it s a joke but the more you listen to him, the more you say to yourself, he might be right. he might be your candidate of choice? yeah, sure, yeah. . let s take a look at this. franklin graham with a history of saying incendiary things. listen to a few of things he s said in the past year. i said that islam, after 9/11, that islam was wicked and evil. i don t believe that mohammed can lead anybody to god. first of all, i think the president s problem is that he was born a muslim. his father was a muslim. the seed of islam is passed through the father. his was born a muslim. his father gave him a muslim name. now, it s obvious that the
now, it s obvious that the president has renounced the prophet mohammed and renounced islam and accepted jesus christ. that s what he says he s done. i cannot say that he hasn t. so i just have to believe the president is what he s said. what is this seed of islam? a joke of religion and then quoting the seed of islam. somehow you become part of a religion without any forethought. it makes me i think it makes everyone you have to be careful who you associate and say are your backers and the fact that trump and graham embracing myself makes me scared of foreign policy. like sarah palin not knowing where alaska and florida are. you need someone with a garner respect. why glom on to this guy? errol, why does he want franklin graham behind him? and then his wonderful father billy. a different kettle of fish.