people up into islamophobia fits the network unveiled an investigation which alleges that the congressional muslim staff association has sought to bring the who's who of jihad as sympathizers to its weekly friday prayer meetings for more than a decade now let me give you a little bit of a back story here and the mid ninety's so helicon then a hill staffer approached then speaker newt gingrich asking for a room in which to hold friday prayers for the muslim staffers gingrich granted the request and over the years those numbers grew eventually leading to the creation of the see and say around two thousand and seven fox reveals that a number of well known terrorists including u.s. born cleric anwar locky have appeared at these weekly prayer sessions so in response the american center for law and justice have demanded that the d.o.j. launch an investigation so is this a serious concern to national security like the claims or is this an attempt at anti muslim bigotry joining me to discuss that are people from both sides of the debate so helicon former bush administration official and serving member on

that terrorists have participated in muslim prayer sessions and that they were invited by the congressional muslim staffers association but some out there are saying of this is just an example of some good old fashioned bigotry so we're going to host a debate on the topic and i cannot believe that i'm even saying this but it is possible that sarah palin could run for president in two thousand and twelve is becoming more and more of a reality and now sarah herself is starting to flex their muscles we're going to speak about the was still a wingnut with david pac-man at the end of tonight's show but now let's move on to the top story. this saturday while covering a mass protest at fort benning georgia which houses the formerly known school of americas to our two journalists were arrested along with more than two dozen others . where i wasn't doing anything. i moved i moved i'm a member democrats republicans i'm a member of the price i'm sorry ok i'm sorry i'm i'm i'm sorry. i'm at. right i'm sorry i'm a member of that but i i was now despite repeating that they were members of the press not proteste

they've invited special muslim preachers in who were talking about the congressional muslim staff association and every friday during friday prayers, they would invite in different preeshz or attendees and you look at some of them and you realize does anybody does a background check? some of these guys have ties to terror. for instance, anwar al-awalah. the only american on the capture kill list and he's had all sorts of connections through terror. >> you might ask how is it possible? how do they have official status? there are two congress members that are serving in congress now, they granted official status in 2006, the congressmen are representative key elements and a democrat from minneapolis and i don't know if he's from minneapolis. the second is muslim congressman representative andre carson, democrat from indiana. so they granted them official status back in 2007. >> what is happening down there, we know he was interviewed after 9/11 and pretended to be upset by and we did not know he was one of the most wanted men in the world. one of the guys confessed to training over in pakistan.

. >> reporter: the congressional muslim staff association has been holding the press services on capitol hill every friday for the past 12 years. for a longtime they were informal gatherings. back in 2006 they got official status. fox news.com did some great digging on this and found really a long list of bad actors who have been a part of these services, including anwar al-awlaki. he of course is the radical al-qaida cleric who has ties to the 9/11 hijackers, to the christmas day bomber: the fort hood shooter, even recently the mail bombs he may have ties to those as well. he conducted a prayer service shortly after 9/11 at the capitol. randal royer also a part of those services, a former communications associate with cair, the council of islamic relations. he confessed to receiving jihad training in pakistan. he's now serving 20 years in prison. the former president of a group called tieba international which has funneled money to terrorist organizations, they themselves have been listed as a terror organization. they found many more. the list goes on and on. what they don't have, shan

the sessions are sponsored by the congressional muslim staff association.s b.i.g. >> no, different notorious. >> an online social media so bright test lets you set the hours you feel more likely to type a drunken post or tweet aly. no, you have to pass one of five tests and if you can pass the tests, you can post. if you fail, it sends all of your facebook friends or followers a message. and that's interesting thing. because people, midnight to 6 a.m. >> online so bright test, let's go out to maria for how our weather is looking around the country. >> it's looking a little snowy in minnesota and a low pressure system there that is prompting some concerns where we actually also have winter storm warnings and now taking a look at the map, we have another band of rain that does extend basically from wisconsin all the way down into parts of southeastern texas. now, as we head into southeast extexas that's where we have a couple of showers and the steadier rain across western parts of kentucky and also tennessee now, zooming into the map. we are going to take a

muslim bakery." devaughndre broussard has already been convicted and is expected to testify against bey and mackey. >>> the race in the 11th congressional district still close to call. this morning it heads to martinez. right now jerry mcnerney has 421-vote leaved republican challenger david harmer. republicans supporting harmer prompted today's superior court hearing. they have concerns about the signature verification process on vote-by-mail envelopes in contra costa county. it is one of four counties with voters in the 11th district. >>> all right. time now 5:05. another check of weather and traffic. >> and tracy is in the weather center. >> hey, good morning. yeah, today our forecast, we are expecting things to start to dry out a little bit today. mostly clear conditions inland as well as for the bay and the coastline and chilly in spots. take a look at the temperatures. 39 to 50 degrees? yeah, the 30s well inland. that's chilly. 47 and 53 around the bay and 50 to 55 along the coast. this afternoon mostly sunny and cool and we'll need it after yesterday. today's highs up to the lower 60s well below average. sunshine, cool and breezy