the president has asked his counsel to travel to that would i that would i toy get a copy. he s done so. and this morning senior officials showed to white house reporters. we can show you a copy of this long form of the birth certificate. it shows the president to have been born in honolulu, hawaii, on august 4th, 1961. signed by the local registrar as well as the president s mother. we want to head to new hampshire where donald trump, a would-be presidential candidate who has been getting a lot of traction by reviving this birth certificate issue is actually expected to attend several events in new hampshire. he s expected to lafrnd anymore. and i know he ll have a news conference. i wonder what he ll say about this development. reporter: yes, obviously that will be the first question. i don t know whether it will put
questions, and that s the context into which we should be setting this question, not is this birthers versus the president, how does it effect the 2012 elections. i think we ve been missing the larger point by asking should obama do this or that. obama didn t start this problem. well, michael, that s an interesting point. you did an interview with donald trump. how does the media deal with this? on the one hand you have this firestorm that the guy starts. on the other hand, it s ugly, right? and to ask the president of his papers, that puts the president in a position where he s got to give the papers to the public. how do you deal with it? frankly, it is a tough issue. i remember when this first came up a few weeks ago, when trump started fanning it and which frankly is the only reason we ve been talking about it. if it hadn t been for donald trump, we wouldn t be talking about the birth certificate issue. this was marginalized to the extent it wasn t getting
footprint down. as to close to $4 a gallon. the gas prices help. a quick check of severe weather from texas to ohio. i mean it s been day after day of fires, floods, tornadoes. we re going to tell you what s happening in northwest arkansas with jacqui jeras after the break. donald trump is not backing down from this birth certificate issue. he tells our anderson cooper, the birth certificate is missing. we ll it tell you what we learned.
donald trump. i don t know if he s the man, but somebody like that with his experience. have you ever voted for a democrat for president? no, i ve never voted for a democrat for president. i have voted here in north carolina on the state level for democrats. we ve got some wonderful people in this state. and maybe a good democrat will come down the road, who can lead this nation out of the problems we re in. i certainly would vote for him or her if they had that ability to lead us once again to a nation of prosperity. okay, but in a lifetime of voting, there s never been a democrat you voted for. i want to go to something you said on abc yesterday that has attracted all the attention in this news cycle and why you re here tonight. let s listen to what you said on abc yesterday. well, the president, i know, has some issues to deal with here. he can solve this whole birth certificate issue pretty quickly. i don t i was born in a
experience. have you ever voted for a democrat for president? no, i ve never voted for a democrat for president. i have voted here in north carolina on the state level for democrats. we ve got some wonderful people in this state. and maybe a good democrat will come down the road, who can lead this nation out of the problems we re in. i certainly would vote for him or her if they had that ability to lead us once again to a nation of prosperity. okay, but in a lifetime of voting, there s never been a democrat you voted for. i want to go to something you said on abc yesterday that has attracted all the attention in this news cycle and why you re here tonight. let s listen to what you said on abc yesterday. well, the president, i know, has some issues to deal with here. he can solve this whole birth certificate issue pretty quickly. i don t i was born in a hospital in nashville, north carolina, and i know that my records are there.