he remembers his mother ann dunham living in hawaii and pregnant and remembers celebrating the birth with his friends the obamas. >> his mom and dad went to school with me here, and with other folks here in hawaii, and of course we had no idea at the time that the future president of the united states was that little boy, that little baby, and we were very very happy of course that that took place. >> reporter: the former director of the hawaii health department talked to us because she felt it was her duty for the truth to come out. does it anger you this has become a controversy and taking attention away from issues that are important to you? >> no, i find it a bit amusing, and in the sense it keeps resurfacing, over and over again, despite whatever i say and really tells us that the whole conspiracy notion out there that if there is an issue that needs to have a following, it will find one. >> i would like to ask people who have this political orientation towards the president, respect us here in hawaii. respect his mother and father. respect the people that i loved, and the peopl