let s get the celebration started with music this evening. here is billy ray cyrus performing run rudolph, run quote. [cheers and applause] run, run rudolph santa has g around santa to a boy child what have youline longing for all i want for christmas is a rocken roll electric guitar
lodging alone and even with a discount, that is steep with the adding in food and drink and champagne, yikes. while you and i may not spend ourselves on an extravagant honeymoon, and one of the reasons i eloped, others have, brad and angelina, and j.k. rowling and others have all sunned in the islands, and they are not british royalroyalty, b they are hollywood royalty. well, that is how you roll if you are royal. well, thank you, randi kaye. well, donald trump said today, he will not be running for president. a short time ago, the donald released a statement saying that he would have won the republican nomination and beat ten president as well, but if he suggested that he would have run quote, unquote half heartedly, because he would rather remain in business and in the flood of recent interviews, trump
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