under the system that existed back then there was no avenue for people to submit information that way. so how did the information get in the paper? information came directly from the state department of health. reporter: we confirmed that fact with the health department too. all birth announcements printed in the paper came directly from the birth records of the hospital. so why won t president obama just release a copy of his original birth certificate? well, there are some who say he won t do it because the word muslim is on it. but we ve taken a look at the original vault birth certificate of another man, and while there are extra spaces on it for hospital and for ages of the parents and for occupation of the father, there is no space whatsoever for religion. and the former director of the health department, who has seen barack obama s original birth certificate, confirms there is no mention whatsoever of religion. the white house says in part no matter what barack obama say
room. it was like bedlam for 51 seconds. that story you re talking about originated with a doctored transcript of a trans-atlantic phone call made by a pastor connected to a birther loyal. the lawyer. this guy filed an edited transcript of the call anderson, why did it take 51 seconds for her i ve got the tape. let me play what you re talking about so our viewers now. this is part of a court case this birther guy was trying to make. it got thrown out of federal court, denied on appeal. the caller was saying obama was born in kenya. the grandmother actually corrects him and says no, no that s not right. she acknowledged it and then awful a sudden 51 seconds later she changed her mind. well, let me just play this well, it doesn t let s talk about was she present when he was born in kenya? were you present when he was born? yes, she says yes, she was. she was present when obama was born. whereabouts was he born? i thought he was born in kenya.
either way they re no longer supposed to be used for official purposes. only the computer-generated ones will do. we wanted to see what you get when you ask for your hawaii birth certificate. next door. birth, death, marriage. birth for us. reporter: we met 49-year-old stick vitalic and told him we d pay $7 for a new birth certificate for him. i m gary tuchman with cnn. we re here to get a birth certificate for stig. reporter: we asked stig because we also saw his birth announcement in the honolulu newspaper. in the same article, four names down, another newborn, born 13 hours earlier. barack obama. do you give him his original certificate or an electronic copy? it s a computerized version. reporter: this is stig s certificate of live birth. it s the same form barack obama has. the very same form every hawaiian now gets when they request their birth certificate. has his name on, it his birth da date, august 5th, 1961, the day after the president. says it was filed august
it was like bedlam for 51 seconds. that story you re talking about originated with a doctored transcript of a trans-atlantic phone call made by a pastor connected to a birther loyal. the lawyer. this guy filed an edited transcript of the call anderson, why did it take 51 seconds for her i ve got the tape. let me play what you re talking about so our viewers now. this is part of a court case this birther guy was trying to make. it got thrown out of federal court, denied on appeal. the caller was saying obama was born in kenya. the grandmother actually corrects him and says no, no that s not right. she acknowledged it and then awful a sudden 51 seconds later she changed her mind. well, let me just play this well, it doesn t let s talk about was she present when he was born in kenya? were you present when he was born? yes, she says yes, she was. she was present when obama was born. whereabouts was he born? i thought he was born in kenya. no.
certificate is actually missing from the vault in the hawaii department of health building. you ve been there. you ve talked to all those people. is that what s your take on that? my take is he s likely telling a tall tale. we have talked to the former director, a republican, of the health department. the health department is in charge of the birth certificate. she says she s seen it from the vault. we talked to the health department today. the health department says it is in the vault. when donald trump was talking to you, he was very casual and very ambiguous about this allegation. it doesn t add up. gary, he s also said on numerous occasions that the certificate of live sbirth a much lower standard for proof of birth than the long form birth certificate. he s completely wrong about that. and he s completely wrong about the titles on these documents. the short form that barack obama has is called a certification of live birth. the original vault birth certificate is the certi