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Ig nation in a booth room near the white house. they tarnished president johnson because he was associated with them because they had done something not political and outside the norms. >> melissa: in some ways it seems it may be a tactic of this president in particular to put something out there to be a object of attack while he is off doing something else. not just steve bannon, but also the idea that we seem to sort of have the nonsense issue of the day. the dog chasing their tail in the medi...

Be the issue with not being able to break beyond a certain level. so if you have 100% name recognition in a place like new hampshire, everyones kind of done the analysis and made their evaluation, you know, there may be something there that doesnt allow you to get beyond a certain ceiling. >> i want to ask you about faith and the mormon faith. youre a mormon, so is romney. this was a poll that quinnipiac took in may that indicated, if you look at the numbers, more than a third think theyre uncom...

Be the issue with not being able to break beyond a certain level. so if you have 100% name recognition in a place like new hampshire, everyones kind of done the analysis and made their evaluation, you know, there may be something there that doesnt allow you to get beyond a certain ceiling. >> i want to ask you about faith and the mormon faith. youre a mormon, so is romney. this was a poll that quinnipiac took in may that indicated, if you look at the numbers, more than a third think theyre uncom...

Could very well prove that point. but i think its a nonsense issue. i completely think its a nonsense issue. there is no bandwidth left in our political discussion to focus any of our effort or time on religion when weve got jobs, when weve got an economy thats broken. when this country has hit the wall. i dont think people are spending a whole lot of time evaluating ones religion. they may have in years past, but i think were beyond that point this election cycle. >> you talk about other candid...

Angela you said no one was questioning where she was born? why do they believe he was born outside the u.s.? >> because he treats people with errogance. he has shown a certificate of loif birth. what more is he supposed to do? >> i think it is a nonsense issue. i think he was born in -- well, ken qlaw. it was in hawaii. it has been true. half of the people 9/11 was bonn by mission plashed. -- accomplished. i have a new theory that obama was killed in tower seven. >> but that theory he was 10 yea...

Simply false. they believe they know something that is simply factually false. the right wing media feed these lies to people to try to delegitimize his presidency. 57% of republicans think this president is a muslim. hes not. hes a christian. 24% say he might be the anti-christ. not only theological but the anti-christ cant be a muslim. its in the book of revelation. so they have crazy views about our president and its a shame. >> paul points out its pushed by certain parts of the right wing me...

Mccain was born on the panama canal. people questioning his citizenship, so i think its a nonsense issue. i dont think the republican party and any serious -- i know there are elected officials that have questioned this. but, really, its not a republican party issue. theres actually no legitimacy to this at all. its one of those questions that a certain segment of the population continue to bring up and have to be dealt with in the media but not in a conventional way. >> certain number of people...