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reporter: dr. chiyome fukino is the former director of the hawaii department of health and a devoted republican. until now she had not talked on camera about this topic. as a republican member of the last republican governor of hawaii, linda lingle s cabinet, do you have any doubt that barack obama was born in the united states? absolutely not. i have no doubt. reporter: dr. fukino says she was asked last year by the governor s press secretary to make a statement about the birth certificate controversy. under state law a public official can look at someone else s certificate if there is a direct and tangible interest. she indeed felt she had that interest because of the statement she had to make. so she found the original obama birth certificate, stored in a vault in the department of health building. and what did it tell you? was it authentic? was he born here in the state of hawaii? it was absolutely authentic. he was absolutely born here in the state of hawaii. reporte ....
Issue his birth certificate. it would be so easy to do if in fact he has one. and a birth certificate is not a certificate of live birth, which is a much, much lower standard, as you know. but i mean, to the investigation, there s not that many people in hawaii who have knowledge of this birth certificate. we ve interviewed the former director of the hawaii department of health, a republican, one of two state officials who s actually seen the original birth certificate that you re talking about in the department of health vault. she says she hasn t been contacted by your people. i mean, isn t that somebody they should talk to if they re there? i ve been told very recently, anderson, that the birth certificate is missing. i ve been told that it s not there and it doesn t exist. and if that s who told you that? that s a big problem. i just heard that two days ago from somebody. from your investigators or i don t want to say who. but i ve been told that the birth certifica ....
Allowed to unless they have the approval of the subject. i ll give you an example. when this came up, i had to get my birth certificate. okay? so i called the hospital. i then had the department of health call. and they it s totally private. they said i m sorry, sir, it s totally private. but you can give the approval to make it public. i said i so give the approval. and within 24 hours and a $38 check because i have to pay $38, it s a fee, they made it public. and it was all over the place. he can do the same thing. i agree but why should he be held if obama wanted to release it he can do that. why should he be held, though, to a different standard as any other standard he s not held to a different standard. it says you re supposed to show your birth certificate. not a weak paper known as a certificate of live birth. now, the only so if someone comes to work for you, mr. trump with the meaning is very different because a birth certificate is a much higher stand ....
no. he was born in america, not in mombasa. do you know where he was born? i thought he was born in kenya. i was going to go by and see where he was born. yes. she said he was born in hawaii. hawaii. so i mean it s through a translator. i mean it s no, but the first time it was kenya. then all of a sudden it s hawaii many, many seconds later. and the room was oloaded one hi minions. so anderson, look, cases could be made both ways. the way you solve it is let him produce the birth certificate, which i hear doesn t exist. this is a document, though, that the state of hawaii no longer even recognizes as a legal document. they don t use the document you re talking about. they anderson, a birth issue a certificate of live birth which is the document the passport office uses. ....
I have no doubt. reporter: dr. fukino says she was asked last year by the governor s press secretary to make a statement about the birth certificate controversy. under state law a public official can look at someone else s certificate if there is a direct and tangible interest. she indeed felt she had that interest because of the statement she had to make. so she found the original obama birth certificate, stored in a vault in the department of health building. and what did it tell you? was it authentic? was he born here in the state of hawaii? it was absolutely authentic. he was absolutely born here in the state of hawaii. reporter: but dr. fukino says even if she hadn t seen the original certificate this document, the president s computer-generated certificate, which was made public three years ago, had already proven he was born in hawaii. there s quite a bit of irony over this original birth certificate debate. and that is the original documents are no longer even certified ....