Obama's New Envoy to the Muslim World

President Obama will name Rashad Hussain, currently deputy associate counsel in the White House Counsel's office, the new special envoy to the Muslim world.

President names envoy to Muslim world.

Sources say the special envoy will be Rashad Hussain, who currently serves as deputy associate counsel to President Obama in the White House Counsel's office.

A former trial attorney at the Justice Department and clerk to Damon J. Keith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Hussain is a devout Muslim and helped inform the speech President Obama gave in Cairo -- particularly with the speech's references to the history of Islam and the Koran, and its general tone.

Hussain will shift over to the State Department for his new role.

And I was so hoping for Jackie Mason.