in our san francisco commissioners including joe marshall, michelle davis, and susan christian from her human rights commission. who you later here this evening, and also of course, again, don to zia and jennifer to peter for their great work. one of the highlights i have in my own personal history is that moment where i was serving as the director of the human rights commission, and i went to mayor willie brown at the time. it again i indicated to him that, yes, i've had many years of advocacy on behalf of people but i really wanted to do something more direct. so he asked me what was that. i want to get into the real business of the city where people get hired, contracts get awarded, the real business of the city. he said, why do you want to do that could i said because i believe we'll civil rights movement is an economic justice. and i felt women-owned and minority owned businesses could be key to that and that as i grew in these positions there was something else that i wanted to do. something that i had learned from the civil rights movement. something that ms. obama says consulate

if he had made a movie that was critical of christians or atheists, susan sarandon would be championingim, would be at the prison cell now. it speaks to the cowardess of the hollywood renegade. there was nobody showed up because he was guilty of not being cool. he expressed criticism of an intolerant movement, so he became the target. if the film was about american back lash towards muslims, he would be winning awards at sundance. >> the reason the so-called moderate muslims won't speak up, clerics are afraid to speak up on a friday sermon because they're worried they'll get a fatwa on them. looks to me 10% of the culture is controlling the rest of them by fear. >> that's assuming only 10% believe radical -- >> whatever it is. it is a minority. >> you make a great point, bob. the muslim clerics are considered worse if they speak out, it will be perceived they're turning on the muslim faith. what i find to be the worst part about this, people aren't going to want to make any videos or educate anybody about the dangers of islam now because they're afraid they'll be thrown in jail or they'

susan collins of maine called the move shocking and unacceptable. mr.issa promise to expand his investigation to include mr. kerry's decision. we told you about this yesterday what's happening in egypt, attacks on christiansthe churches in egypt have stepped up from islamist. this is a story in the "new york times" this morning. the opinion section of the "washington journal" this morning have differing views about what to do. john bolton writes the u.s. should back the army. next to that elliott abram, handle middle east affairs from 2001 to 2009 says, cutting off aid honors american values and law. maxine in ohio, democratic caller. what's on your mind this morning? caller: well, i have to voice my opinion. i really have watched tv and national geographic is like education for me. the republican party is a no party. the republican party is also power -- our party we won. we're for the people. i never heard of them for the people. they've taken away so much of our privileges. whenever we get rid of the republican communist, klu klux klan party, then go back to the traditional republican party and may be we'll come to some common sense. host: we'll take one last phone call. craig in tucson, arizona, indep