says, "i am andrew shepard and i am the president." >> and not born in kenya. i think the president is saying, you know what, the birth certificate thing is not going the paradigm for the kinds of fights we have here. we're to the going to fight about whether the new black panther party stole the election in pennsylvania. we're not going to fight about this stuff that so animated the right. we're going to focus on, we're going to put that stuff aside. he's essentially challenging the republican party to have an adult debate. i see that dynamic at work, at large, and specifically on this susan rice issue. do you think that's happening? >> absolutely. i think the president wants to have grown-up conversations about big issues that affect the country. and i think if you look at how he took this issue on, he said, let's talk about the facts and let's take a hard look at what happened here. but getting distracted by all this nonsense, which john mccain has gotten himself distracted on since the 2008 presidential election and before, is not something he's going to en

his name was andrew shepard, and in michael douglas' capable hands, in the film "the american presidentepard, and i am the president. >> especially to left-leaning aaron sorkin fans who loved shepard because of what he said and how he said it. >> is the view pretty good from the cheap seats, a.j.? >> reporter: and for the fans who have been yearning for years for obama to give his inner shephe shepherd, he did that yesterday. >> if senator mccain and others want to go after someone, they should go after me. >> our friends at pbs said they sent the first episode on dvd, because like most fans, she can't wait. the difference is if you don't live at the white house or don't get invited over to watch, you'll just have to. 70% of venice flooded this week, and about 1% of the people there thought that a lifetime of eye infections would be a good idea. we've had way too much water out east the past few weeks or so, and amazing stories are still suffering. like this jacket found busted up in highland' new jersey. west pointers will recognize it as a cadet jacket, this one from the class of 1933