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democrats, 155 for the republicans john roberts is following super tuesday by the presidential candidates. he is live now from atlanta to. reporter: good morning pick up marco rubio expected to speak in 90 minutes at the intercontinental in buckhead. donald trump is on the defense today after former ku klux klan leader david duke said trump is the best of the lot when it comes to republican candidates and while he doesn t outright endorsing he does support his candidacy. trump was asked about that in a satellite interview over the weekend and said he didn t know anything about david duke even though in the past he has sought to distance himself from him. trumpclimbed to clean all that up claiming about your piece for not more clearly disavowing duke . i m sitting in a house in florida with a bad earpiece they gave me and you could hardly hear what he was saying but what i was hearing his various groups and i don tmind disavowing anybody and i disavowed david duke and ....
this week. he promised to make what he describes as a major announcement. that announcement, we believe, expected to address the fire storm that he has reignited in a new interview with the washington post published just last night when he refused to admit that president obama was born in america. the campaign issued a statement late last night saying, quote, mr. trump believes president obama was born in the united states. the statement also claiming trump did, kwoequote, a great service to the country and in 2011 by compelling president obama to release his birth certificate. after falsely accusing hillary clinton s 2008 campaign, first raising the birther issue. secretary clinton fired back just within the last hour. it happened in washington just blocks away. she was speaking at the black women s agenda symposium. take a listen to the former secretary of state. for five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president. his campaig ....
she s back in the campaign trail. she delivered remarks in washington. there she criticized donald trump over refusal in an interview that happened yesterday afternoon to admit that he believed president obama was, indeed, born in the united states. that s where we are today right now, awaiting to donald trump. i m jenna lee. i m here for john scott, all as we wait for donald trump, he has promised to address this issue. he told fox business networks, maria bartiromo just this morning that he is, indeed, going to make a big announcement about whether he still believes the president was born outside of the united states and what he claims hillary clinton did to fuel that controversy. jenna: jetta griffin is in washington where she s covering every move. fill us in on what happened today. well, jenna, she just finished here at the black women s agenda. donald trump was invite today speak to the prominent black women s group. he declined. he is about half mile of where ....
arguably donald trump inarguably, donald j. trump is a closer. let s clarify, hillary clinton herself did not start this. supporters of hers in 2008 talked about it but there is zero evidence she accepted the falsehood or perpetuated it at all. it was perpetuated and championed by donald trump. while we are going to wait for donald trump to take the stage, let s first, got a lot of people to talk about it. let s bring in chief political correspondent dana bash, who is watching this. brianna keilar is here with us as well. dana, your thoughts this morning? what we know, where we stand as we watch general michael flynn warm up the crowd. what we know is after the campaign released that statement last night and despite the fact the campaign is insisting still that jason miller, his spokesman, speaks for donald trump, they understand quietly and privately that this is something that is bigger than his campaign spokesman, that this is a conspiracy theory that he has been ....