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His followers, i mean. as moody mentioned here many republicans and trump supporters that believe this lie that obama is a muslim. i think everybody is looking to see if this will be the turning point or tipping point for donald trump so far we ve been wrong at every turn. i think this is just kind of a reversion to the old donald trump that we knew from 2011. i think it would be surprising if he did say something in that form. i don t think it was surprising at all that he let it go. i think we ll have to see what he says on sunday on state of the union. it is surprising that he isn t saying anything more at this point that he hasn t taken to twitter at least so far and maybe we ll see that in the coming surprised, michael, this poll that we have just a couple weeks ago, we asked the question do you happen to know what religion barack obama is? is he catholic muslim overall 39% thought christian but 29% overall thought he was muslim among republicans only. ....
Correct that little issue. all right. thanks very very much. let s dig deeper on this. joining us are chief political correspondent dana bash and joining us senior political reporter mallika henderson and chris moody and the host of c nrksn cnnn s show what did you make of the response of hillary clinton? appropriately strong and what shes attempting to do and democrats are trying to do is make trump synonymous with gop if and when he fades, there is an indelible inprint and the data 43% of republicans believe that the president is a muslim. so there is traction there for that. one observation, i had a telephone caller that stands out in my mind this week. robert from memphis and he said ....
Asked hillary clinton about the latest trump controversy. what did she say to you? i asked her specifically about the trump supporter s comments about muslims being a problem in the country and the president being a muslim and not american and finally the training occurring to train to kill folks and the final question when can we get rid of them? trump s response saying this is the first question we need this question while hillary clinton saying that we should not respond that way and also of course chastising having this opportunity to chastise donald trump. well i was appalled and, as you may know you know quickly put out a tweet expressing the great disappointment with that kind of rhetoric and calling on him and anybody else who is seeking the highest office of the land to start behaving like a president, to show respect and ....
Times over the years that donald trump has spoken of the president of the united states maybe being a muslim. i want to play that for our viewers. viewers. people have birth certificates. he doesn t have a birth certificate. he may have one but may be religion, maybe says he s a muslim. i don t know. maybe he doesn t want that or he may not have one. on bill o reilly s show, he said maybe he doesn t want to release it because it might say he s a muslim. i didn t say that. i said there may be something on it and asked me what? perhaps because he s a muslim perhaps something. who knows what s on it. i don t know. he didn t want to release it because if they had it why is he spend thing money in legal fees when all he has to do is say release my birth certificate. i released mine a month ago. you don t know how much he s spending on issue anderson he s fighting all ....
You may know, quickly put out a tweet expressing the great disappointment with that kind of rhetoric and calling on him and anybody else who is seeking the highest office of the land to start behaving like a president, to show respect and to stand up for the truth. there we have former secretary of state and presidential candidate hillary clinton speaking this hour, reacting to what happened at donald trump s town hall meeting last night when a person in the audience there to support him called the president a muslim. trump is taking heat from all sides for not correcting the man and his assertion. president obama is a christian and has been very openly talked about his faith and also about his birth certificate. joining me from new hampshire where hillary clinton has been speaking with reporters, taking questions, our own andrea mitchell. we know in the last hour, that interview with lindsey graham, it was very compelling, what he ....