Politics. On Point.

Trump, the President, Protesters, and More While the President was making about 2,500 attendees to this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner laugh while he took pot shots at his nemesis Donald Trump, protesters were on the outside demonstrating their dislike of Trump and his challenge for the president to reveal his birth certificate. Trump with wife Malania.  Photo/CD Brown. Suffice it to say, Trump sitting iron-clad at a table with wife Malania, had egg all over his face the entire evening. Before the dinner began Trump, and others, walked the red carpet where the likes of Gayle King (no, no Oprah), New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg , NBA star Carmelo Anthony , actress Tyne Daley , Morgan Fairchild , Will.I.Am , John Legend , and others were all too happy to engage the group of red carpet photographers. After Trump posed very briefly with his wife, they began leaving the red carpet area, much to the dislike of photographers wanting some form of...

In what may prove to be a stunner for some, and an 'I told you so' for others, the White House has officially addressed the President's birth certificate issue (again). Live in the James Brady press room earlier this morning before departing for Chicago to do a taping for the Oprah Winfrey Show , President Obama made a statement surrounding the authenticity of his birth, saying "we don't have time to focus on the silliness of this issue." And so I just want to make a larger point here. We've got some enormous challenges out there. There are a lot of folks out there who are still looking for work. Everybody is still suffering under high gas prices. We're going to have to make a series of very difficult decisions about how we invest in our future but also get a hold of our deficit and our debt -- how do we do that in a balanced way. And this is going to generate huge and serious debates, important debates. And there are going to be some fierce disagr...