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Certificate. let's bring in robert costa with the national review and kelly gough a contribute be editor on the dotcom. thanks for watching what has been a busy morning so far. robert, start with you. does this mean now he will be responding to everybody that might be perceived from the fringe when they ask a question? another question from donald trump is about his education? >> a great point. i wonder why the president weighed in like he did. the matter was supposedly settled. now, in politics, everyone tries to punch up. by doing this, president obama will be constantly asked to react to di...

Certificate of live birth. pete, what's behind all that? what might this mean going forward? >> reporter: as a legal matter, it's the certificate of live birth that the state of hawaii considers the legal document. the long form that the white house released today, although it has great political significance, legally was not the official document for the purposes of the state of hawaii. what gave rise to this all, of course, is the question of what a natural born citizen is. that's the provision in the constitution that spells out what the requirements are to run for president. you have to be...

>> right. >> reporter: of the birth certificate. the shorter form, some people regarded as an annotated form released 2 1/2 years ago by the obama campaign. the president needed to write himself and do that. that was accomplished, and the director of health wrote back, supplying that document, which was retrieved by a -- outside personal counsel for the president in hawaii, flown back to the white house. it arrived here between 4:00 and 5:00 yesterday afternoon and a letter accompanying this, the director of health says, these inquiries have been disruptive to staff operations and have straine...

One candidate who certainly was not born on u.s. soil, and that was one john mccain. >> reporter: born in the panama canal zone. >> most legal scholars thought sufficient to establishment an american born citizen. this issue never litigated to the supreme court. thanks to pete. let's turn to david gregory once again. david, i just would love to gather your thoughts as we survey the terrain on a morning that started with this natural security appointments and instead we're talking about the president's place of birth. the very thing he raled against this morning. >> reporter: let me focus on ...