this is mike coffman. mike coffman is a republican congressman from the great state of colorado. he at one point was flirting with the whole birtherism thing. mike coffman told a group of donors in colorado in may that he was not sure where barack obama was born, but that mr. obama, he said quote, is just not an american. now, a great reporter from the local nbc affiliate in denver decided to ask mike coffman about that. right? the questions that the reporter asks were totally reasonable. questions, they are question about mike coffman and something mr. coffman had done in public, but his answers in public earned him a proud place. watch. >> after your comments about the president, do you feel that voters are owed a better explanation than just i misspoke? >> i think that as i stand by my statement. that i misspoke and i apologize. >> okay, and who are you apologizing to? >> i stand by my statement that i misspoke and i apologize. >> we talk to you all the time. you're a very forthcoming guy. who is telling you not to talk? >> i stand by my statement that you have and i misspoke

really interesting one of our producers actually took some time to reach out to her congressman mike coffman from the sixth district of colorado she said that you know she's from littleton colorado and she wanted to discuss the unemployment issue here and asked them simply what he and his fellow members of congress have been doing to address this issue. asking what steps have been taken in both the immediate future and the long term to bring these unemployment numbers down i was wondering if anything will actually be resolved congress of course on vacation right now for the next four or five weeks we haven't heard back she hasn't heard back from her congressman but we're going to keep our viewers posted but i guess that's my final question we're almost out of time but having it will this pattern change. it's a lot of laughs something else changes. one of the things we know is that this is one of the oldest and most widespread features or political process you can look at any level government you can look at any theory american history and they're all those you know working class people at th

a spokesman for republican congressman mike coffman he doesn't take positions on any state and localllot initiatives. same for corey gardner's office. as a federal legislator, he will not be taking positions on state initiatives. even joe coors said he's refusing to endorse personhood 3.0 in colorado. the same joe coors donated $1,000 to the personhood campaign just two years ago. this year as a candidate, person what, person who? leave me out of it. another one of the personhood measures was on the ballot in mississippi last fall. if it can pass anywhere, right? in october of last year, mike huckabee was one of the political celebrities trying to pass the personhood in mississippi, trying to criminalize abortion and birth control. mike huckabee asked mitt romney if he would have supported personhood in massachusetts. >> would you have supported the constitutional amendment that would have established the definition of life at concession? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. that was mitt romney, october of last year, signing on to a policy that would ban all abortions with no exceptions fo

republican party, elected officials from steve king to gene schmidt, newt gingrich, mike huckabee, mike coffmanve challenged president obama's birth certificate or college records. thesis are elected officials, who should be held to the same standard that old mccarthyite, harry reid, should be. and that isn't happening. >> that tells you two things. in this modern environment, you don't even have to be a black president to be challenged. you can be any kind of president. if mitt romney can't handle people asking questions about his financial records and his business records, then he's not ready to be a presidential candidate, let alone president. that's just number one on the fact that we do have an exhaustive process. but number two, i think, is perhaps the most interesting political point here. which is this clearly scares them. there's a reason why they are just hitting the panic button. and that is because the hope was that they could run this out, ro rope-a-dope through the summer and move on, because it is true, the press will eventually get tired of this story if it is old. and what they