this is the voice that we are trying to get out, which is to say that but why at ground zero? why at ground zero? let me just try to answer what i think a lot of us are fighting for. but you re not answering, why at ground zero? the conversation that we re having is what new york is about and what this country is about and what and it is about a situation where we have to say there is another voice in this country that is not the extremist. that if the extremists who flew those planes into those buildings are responsible i agree. it is that voice i harbor no ill will against the wonderful muslim people that had no part of 9/11, but i am just saying why at ground zero? we have mosques all over new york and i m so proud of them. rosaleen, we have to take a quick break. bruce, i want you to be able to respond to that and then we have to take a quick break. there is a community down there that he has and they re trying to find a location. i do not believe and have n
back now. fascinating discussion with soledad o brien, bruce feiler, andy sullivan, rosaleen tallon. also with us, david gergen. when he made the point that this is not ground zero proper, it s blocks away and a street that has strip clubs and porno places and that it s not sacred this block is not sacred ground. well, i imagine there s so many things you could speak about. the building had part of the plane came down into the building and i know human remains were all scattered around there in the days and weeks after 9/11. it was never checked. it was never checked. yeah. so, in that way, it was ground
back with soledad o brien, andy sullivan, rosaleen tallon. soledad, andy interpreted something as basically a threat. i wanted to play what he said about how he feels the imam says is a risk to national security. there is a certain anger here, no doubt. but if we don t do this right, anger will explode in the muslim world. if this is not handled correctly, this crisis could could become much bigger than the danish cartoon crisis, which resulted in attacks on danish embassies in various parts of the muslim world. we have a much larger footprint in the muslim world. if we don t handle this crisis correctly, it could become something which could really become very, very, very dangerous. soledad, you were sitting across from him. how did you read that when he
father was involved in a fair amount of peaceful work, he has been working on a state department mission, speaking in the middle east, working, as he said tonight, to bridge the gap between the muslim world and the others. and he has repeatedly denounced the killings in the name of islam. andererson? tom, appreciate it. we re back now with andy sullivan, rosaleen tallon, soledad o brien, bruce feiler and david gergen. soledad, you did the interview. i want to play something he said that andy brought up that andy interpreted as basically ri to national security. there is a certain anger
rosaleen tallon, whose brother died at ground zero. 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