workers not to work in the area, rosaleen tallon, whose brother died on 9/11. and bruce feiler. let me start off with you, fareed. it does sound like he s saying it sounds like there are talks or they are open to the idea of moving this if they can find some sort of, basically, face-saving gesture. did you read that? i did read it that way. and i think what he was trying to say, what the imam was trying to say is that he is trying to be sensitive to the issue of how this will play. and i think it is true, if you read the press around the world, not just in the muslim world, by the way, but around the world it is being seen as a test of america s freedom of religion on one hand and, you know, the sensitivity of people who don t want mosques, and it is part of a larger debate about islam in america. do you think it is a national security issue now, as he says it is? i think there s certainly a
you did a great job. i ll reserve judgment on the cute because i don t want to offend your husband. soledad, thank you very much, fareed as well. miss tallon, thank you and for bringing the picture of your husband, as well. andy, thanks for being with us. david, stick around. national outcry not just about this islamic center at ground zero, but other mosques in the united states. we ll also talk to cnn s new voices, kathleen parker and eliot spitzer, parker spitzer. [ male announcer ] not one person climbing everest has ever stopped at the drive-thru window for breakfast on the way to the top. new quaker hearty medleys. a whole new oatmeal loaded with delicious fruit, nuts, and four hearty whole grains, working together to make you amazing. does your breakfast make you amazing?
have been read into it. are there some radicals in this country? of course. this past week in florida. the pastor in florida. but when you get 67% to 71% of people in polls that say they have a real problem with this, you have to have some sensitivity to what the american public wants. i thought soledad did a tremendous job and after now you re just trying to butter her up. after two months of being away, this is his best shot at coming back and like really pushing his agenda, i think he failed miserably. rosaleen? it s tremendous, but this is what it was all about. it is the sensitivity of what happened there nine years ago. soledad, your thought on the interview? i think that it s going to be very interesting what happens next. to me, what happened tonight was he opened the door for what s the other way that we can have a win/win? right now they re not in a position of a win that makes the 9/11 families who are opposed to
don t believe he s a moderate. did anything he say tonight change your mind? he has done more good for my movement tonight than 100 demonstrations have done. how so? he shot himself in the foot so badly, you ll not be able to chisel the smile off my face. how so? the whole national security thing. that s a veiled threat. he s saying you make me move and guess what, the whole muslim, radical muslim world is coming after us. that s what i read. and when i was in the green room with rosaleen, we both came to the same conclusion. i actually wrote it down on a piece of paper and i showed it to her. andy, if i may, for a second, i think what he was saying was not the way he said it is we ve got to be careful how we resolve this. we ve got to be sensitive to the fact that we want this to end up producing peace, not more conflict. that was at least the way in which he was approaching it. and i think, you know, in any of these negotiations is one of the reasons why most newspapers
have a real problem with this, you have to have some sensitivity to what the american public wants. i thought soledad did a tremendous job and after now you re just trying to butter her up. well, she s cute. after two months of being away, this is his best shot at coming back and like really pushing his agenda, i think he failed miserably. rosaleen? i would just like to say it s tremendous, but this is what it was all about. it is the sensitivity of what happened there nine years ago. soledad, your thought on the interview? i think that it s going to be very interesting what happens next. to me, what happened tonight was he opened the door for what s the other way that we can have a win/win? right now they re not in a position of a win that makes the 9/11 families who are opposed to this islamic center feel like their sensitivity issues have been heard, a win that makes people who support the mosque to feel like their sensitivities haven t been trampled on either. what