challenged the president s birthplace after which president obama produced the birth certificate, and trump said that the president doesn t know what he is doing, end quote, and charged that the world has lost respect for america because we are not tough enough, and he said that he could end the gas problems with a single call to saudi arabia, but none of that is to be. gloria borger is standing by, our political analyst in washington. here is a question for you, did anybody in the race consider trump to be a factor, or like so many people i have been hearing from on twitter think it was a publicity stunt? well, i think they thought it was a real publicity stunt, but when they saw him going up in the polls before the whole birther thing was denounced by barack obama, before barack obama put out the birth certificate, they actually started to take him a little more seriously. i was talking to a senior republican strategist today who said this whole trump episode is what he c
downtown. i m in my apartment in manira, which is across from basically the four seasons hotel and the embassy district where the american and british embassies are. right now we re hearing sporadic gunfire coming from what sounds like downtown. t is not clear to us again from this vantage point, whether that dpunfire is being fired at people or just in to the air to d disperse them. there was a curfew. when 4:00 rolled around there were still large numbers of people downtown on the streets. we heard that people are basically trying to storm the ministry of the interior downtown and the police and military units down there have reacted by shooting rounds, live rounds. i know that you sent us some ireports yesterdayp. what do you see in terms of a difference in the crowd or the anger or the trust rags, maybe even the level of violence from one day to the next?