Denounce the Conspiracy Theory. Ill answer that question at the right time, i dont want to answer it yet. The reason i will talk about it everybody will be talking about it instead of jobs, the military, the vets and security. Falsely blaming Hillary Clinton for starting the birther speculation and credding trump with forcing the president to release proof of where he was born. Mr. Trump did a Great Service to the president and the country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton and her team first raised. Inarguably johnled j. Trump is a closer. Having successfully obtained president obamas birth certificate when others could not, mr. Trump believes that president obama was born in the United States. Hillary clinton denouncing trump. Ask one more time, where was president obama born . And he still wouldnt say hawaii. He still wouldnt say america. This man wants to be our next president. When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry . We need to stand up and repudiate this divisive rhetoric. Reporter once again overshaller shove overshadowing policy. Laying out an ambitious economic plan on thursday that promises to create 25 million jobs and increase Economic Growth by 4 annually. Hello. Reporter meantime, clinton back on the trail after days battling pneumonia. Hitting trump over releasing a doctors note about his health on a talk show. Ill never be the showman my opponent is and thats okay with me. Reporter trump gaining momentum in the polls during her absence this week. Clinton only has a twopoint advantage in cnns poll of polls, which is an average of the last five national polls. While trump is opening up a lead in several key swing states, but clinton says the race isnt over yet. Ive been called a lot of things. Ive never been called a quitter. Reporter this birther conversation coming to the spotlight as donald trump is making a play for africanamerican voters or many people see it, making a play for voters with uncomfortable and key democratic voting bloc. Clinton has been very quick to seize on trumps missteps with this constituency. The birther comments particular particularly. Thanks for starting us off on this friday. Is this a wind no to who donald trump really is . Lets discuss with political anchor of Time Warner Cable news errol lewis, cnn politics executive editor mark preston and dana bash. Great interview with kasich, by the way. Thanks for bringing it to us. You say you have reporting, what do you know . We have Donald Trumps campaign right now trying to ensure that he doesnt step on his message. What has he done . Hes stepped on his message. Yesterday he releases his most detailed plan yet on the economy. Right. We have Hillary Clinton sliding in every battleground state poll right now. What does donald trump do . He goes out and steps on his message and brings up the birther issue and refuses to say. He refuses to ask about it. He was asked about it and could have cleared it up very quickly. But his Campaign Manager and one of his top surrogates, Rudy Giuliani said that he believed that barack obama was born in the United States. Yet, when asked by Washington Post he chooses not to say that. And leaves, leaves a little bit of road for us to interpret what he means by it. He does worse than that. He says ill answer it at the right time. Like an event or Something Like that. Right. So, dana, what is going on inside the campaign that we hear Kellyanne Conway and giuliani, yeah, yeah, he believes president obama was born here, but he wont say it. Well have to see. He is allegedly having a press conference or at least will have a moment with the press later today here in d. C. And that is, obviously, going to be the key question. Whether we are going to hear it from Donald Trumps own lips. And, obviously, what mark just described is dead on. The campaign, which has been trying to turn the trump sort of juggernaut into something more traditional, this is one of their last efforts to change donald trump from the way he was to somebody who is more palatable to not just the main stream, but, more importantly, as brianna was talking about, that this made it very difficult to kind of go that extra step. The campaign believes that people who he now is trusting to run his world, that this is something that is really hurting him. And, frankly, i dont think there is any other way to say it. They are trying to box him in. I was told last night that trump doesnt allow his campaign to put out any statements under his ledderhead, unless hes approved it. Well have to hear it from him. Heres what the campaign is putting out. In 2011 mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion. What their spin is, he actually ended this. He did the country a favor. He brought closure. He is the ultimate closer. Thats what theyre saying. Errol, what we can say full throatedly, thats a lot of bunk. He started this to bring attention. It was always malintended. Never intended to do something good for barack obama. Fair point . Of course. It was not something that he did as a service to the country at all. Something he did as a service to donald trump. It got him the prominence that he sought and it continues to give him prominence in certain segments. This is where the whole deplorables comment comes out. Many people, i would put myself in this category who dont really care about what comes out of his mouth on this particular issue. I think he made it clear over a number of years exactly how he feels about it. What is more important, the followers who actually believe this stuff. It is picked up in the polls, so its widely believed enough this Conspiracy Theory that it actually has some meaning. So, what i would like to hear. What i think would actually sort of move the issue in an important way is for him to say not just what he believes, but what he wants the country to believe. What he want his followers to do and believe and he wants them to put it behind us so we can talk about in the final weeks of the campaign to talk about what everyone is talking about. Hes taken a different narrative. Lets remind our viewers what donald trump has said about president obamas birth place. Why doesnt he show his birth certificate . You know what, i wish he would. I think its a terrible pail thats hanging over him. Perhaps its going to say hawaii. Perhaps its going to say scken. Last week somebody came out with a very strong statement saying that he stated himself that he was born in kenya and raised in indonesia. Now, i didnt make that statement. That was made by, i assume, either the publisher or the president himself and thats a statement. Thats a pretty hard statement to refute. Do you know who questioned his birth certificate . One of the first. Hillary clinton. Not true. Hillary clinton is not the person who ever questioned president obamas birth certificate. Some of her supporters in an email said things and it was never linked to Hillary Clinton and she did not say it. Let me stay this from a strategicical standpoint. Whether you like his politics or not, hes well respected. Okay. You have the campaign measure for donald trump come out and say donald trump doesnt believe in the birther. Then you have donald trump release or rather tell the Washington Post basically cuts the feet out, the knees out from his Campaign Manager and says she can say whatever she wants. But, basically, leaving oout the idea that he doesnt believe in himself. Then the campaign has to put a statement out themselves under the letterhead he no longer believes it and voters all across the nation still cant believe where donald trump is on that. Where do we look at donald trump and say if you cant listen to your top advisors and if you cant be on the same page as your advisors, where are you . This isnt the economy. This isnt a major Foreign Policy issue. This is a moral issue. Just to be clear with this with Hillary Clinton. It is a little bit messy. It said there were supporters of hers. You can go to factcheck. Org and they have it all laid out what is true, what isnt. Hillary clinton did not start the birther movement. It was never connected to her. It was never connected to her campaign. Did one of her advisors put out a memo about it how this aspect of obama could be played to advantage . Yes. It was dismissed by the campaign and put them on the outs with them. Trump picked up this ball and ran like someone was chasing him to the promise land with this and it didnt pan out. And you can look at politifact and factcheck. Org. If you did not originate with Hillary Clinton. Nothing else is a meaningful suggestion on it. It helps donald trump muddy the water. The bigger question is, why do we care . The president was born in the United States, he has a birth certificate. V voters could say this is trump being trump. Except it is a window intahow he will deal with situations that may be bad for him and in the best interest of everybody else, he has to come clean. We know in the room, in his office, the campaign people, his family are saying to him, youve got to own this. And do it the right way and hes kicking his family out of the office and hes saying, im not going to do it. How big a deal is this . Not only are they saying youve got to own it, youve got to separate yourself from it. You have to move on from it. You have to say this is not who you are. But i think you really hit the nail on the head there, chris. Why do we care . I can tell you just according to my inbox the people in his campaign are insisting we are the only ones that care and democrats. But i frankly dont buy that and when i say we, i mean the media. I dont buy that because for people who are not sure who theyre going to vote for yet and theyre trying to figure out if they dont really love either of these two major candidates and they dont know who theyre going to pull the lever for and they are reminded that donald trump pushed a false narrative, as you said, running with the ball like he was being chased, that might make them think twice. Thats what democrats are banking on. That it is a core fundamental question of who is this guy and why was it so important for him when he was a private citizen to make such a big deal out of questioning where the first black president was born. That is what the campaign fundamentally understands and theyre trying to move on from. Well see if he says it. Because its beyond africanamerican voters. Its all voters wanting to know if theyll have a conspiracy the theirrist in the white house. Is it limited to africanamerican voters . Where africanamerican voters relate to trump has been a question that goes beyond just the black electorate. So, weve been talking for weeks now about how he makes these gestures. He goes to detroit and acts as if hes talking to black voters and hes talking past or talking about black voters in order to get a certain segment about white voters, especially younger ones who dont like the idea of being associated with this. The birther is just a metaphor for a bigotry, a notion that we couldnt have really elected the first black president and there must have been a trick and must have conspiracy. When youre president of the United States, youre going to make mistakes and youre going to own them. 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President obama created 9. 7 million. Christine . Bill clinton did create about 25 million jobs, 24 million jobs. He wants to do what bill clinton did and create 24 million jobs. This gives you some perspective. We lost 7 million in the recession and slowly brought those back. From the very bottom to the top, 14 million jobs created in the past eight years. You know, donald trump, if he wants to build a wall, he wants to potentially have a trade war with china. If he wants to start slapping tariffs on goods coming in from mexico, hell have a hard time creating a whole bunch of jobs because so many of his other policies are so disruptive. It is a doable number. It happened before. Lets talk about the growth that is happening. Promises gdp under him. Lets look at the context. You can see back in the 90s much higher. Around 4 . Donald trump is saying that we can get back there. But the growth rate has been much lower in recent years. About 2 . To double the growth rate at a time when hes talking about also cutting taxes, not telling us how hes going to cut spending, the math really doesnt add up. If you think about, his growth plan is a Dynamic Growth plan. Hes saying that tax cuts will help create some of that growth, but under bill clinton you had taxes going up. Theres not a lot of evidence in the last 20 years that tax cuts actually create growth. Lets talk about his plan to cut taxes. Heres what he suggested, christine. He wants to cut taxes, as well as grow the military and make the deficit neutral. How can he do that . How can you cut taxes and grow the military and not touch entitlements . I mean, hes talking about unleashing with his other proposals like regulation and trade deals and unleash all this Economic Activity that has been held hostage by the obama administration. Cutting 1 out of the federal budget every year, hes just talking about this bottom line here. The nondiscretionary spending. So, what you have there is hes attacking part of the budget that is least necessary to attack, essentially. The least bang from your buck comes from cutting there. He also revised his numbers a little bit, rana. He said his tax cut plan would cost 3. 4 trillion and then he now says it will cost only 2. 6 trillion. Yeah. We have to, its important to say, you have to kacaveat all these economic projections. Theyre black box calculations. I wouldnt put too much into the particulars of what the cuts will add up to be. Going from 2 growth to 4 Growth Without some kind of massive change in the economy, pretty unlikely right now. Back in the 90s all that growth in the 90s that was the internet. Exactly. Personal computer revolution. Imagine before then you didnt have email to talk to your colleagues and you couldnt call your colleagues in india or europe and send over information. That was a really remarkable revolution. To get 25 million jobs to get 4 gdp and not explode the deficit, i mean, you would have to have some kind of a revolution like that. He thinks its the donald trump revolution that will unleash all this activity. We need a new baby boom. Speaking of baby boom, lets talk about child care, which were representing by a pair of mens briefs or highcut diaper. However, you know, he talked about his child care plan. Go ahead. What do you see here, christine . Well, the child care plan is interesting. He wants to give mothers six weeks paid Maternity Leave by giving them jobless benefits. Instead of requiring companies to pay for Maternity Leave, hell tell them that people can get jobless benefits and pay for that by squeezing out fraud in the jobless benefits market.