Reporting from Washington — House Speaker John A. Boehner said Sunday that he believed President Obama was a U.S. citizen and a Christian, but that it was not up to him to convince people who were skeptical of the president’s birthplace and religion.
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“As speaker of the House, as a leader, do you not think it’s your responsibility to speak out against that kind of ignorance?” asked the host, David Gregory.
“It’s not my job to tell the American people what to think,” Boehner said. “The American people have the right to think what they want to think.”
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