which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? msnbc contributor jonathan capehart, an editorial writer for the washington post and is joining me from the white house. certainly the berth certificate is going continue to make headlines as long as we sort of digest all of this. shawna thomas, i don t know if you heard, up there in new hampshire, confronted donald trump with the birth certificate but he didn t want to take a look at exactly what he was demanding be released. unbelievable, andrea. we re going to be talking about donald s reaction to being confronted with the truth, confronted by the truth. i think, you know, for a lot of americans, and i sort of insisted on doing this hit with you today from the white house, just to make it clear, just how much of a distraction this has been, not only for the administration, for the republican party, and the american people. the man who lives in this house is here legitimately.
well, debunking the birthers. cnn s gary tuckman travels to hawaii to prove that the president was born there. he shows us what it takes for someone to get documentation of their birth. reporter: we wanted to see what you get when you ask for your hawaii birth certificate. next door, birth, death, marriage. worked for us. reporter: we met 49-year-old steven vitaalick and told him we would pay for a new berth certificate for him. we re here to get a birth certificate. building up our wireless network all across america. we re adding new cell sites. increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we re covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible.
politics. mayor brown, i just love this straight talk. he uses con like the president of the united states this ivy league we know as our president some kind of street hustler. you know, you hear the lingo he uses. it s very effective with the crowd he s trying to reach. the working class white people who are buying in to this thing whatever it is. your thoughts, sir. well, donald trump is a master at marketing. we ve all known that for a long time. his credentials reflect that. the success he s had and all the things that he s tried clearly reflects it s strictly marketing. it s not substance. donald trump knows there is no substance to what happens with this berth certificate, but he ll ride the horse as long as he can so he didn t have to talk about jobs or the economy or anything that people really care about. but those are interesting issues. do you think he ll keep this property, he s at the top of some of these poll, or is he
well, hawaii gives out a birth certificate of live berth, that s what everybody gets who s born there. if you want to go for any kind of job, you have to have a birth certificate. what he shows us is what they show us. it s the standard issue birth certificate. these are people coming to washington waving their birth certificates around, if barack obama want to come to that rally, whe would wave this around. that s what s the issue? what s the issue, then? the issue is let s say they don t like being called birthers. the people who ask this question claim because the original 1961 includes the hospital he was born in you re playing their game. you re saying certificate. the record of vital statistics is not a berth certificate. no, no, no, this is enough. that s the point here. you talked about arizona in the past, the state that s it
real world, not on conspiracy island, points out it could be uncondition sti tugsal for a state to impose its own requirements on federal office. the proposed legislation is worse than a foolish waste of time, suggests arizona is a place where any crackpot whim can be enshrined in law. keeping them honest tonight, we re going to ask whether this bill or anything like it is constitutional. and we ll take a look at the 20 of the birthers and what they believe. joining us now is arizona republican state representative cecil ash, who voted for the measure. thanks for being with us. do you believe barack obama is an american, born in hawaii? all the evidence i ve seen is he born in hawaii. i saw ap berth certificate on the internet. you can t believe everything you see on the internet and i ve never personally investigated it or studied it. it sounds like you say you believe it but don t believe what you see on the internet. you do believe he s an american, though? yes, i do. as you