CNN’s Dana Bash: Donald Trump ‘Played Us’

BASH: "Trump has done several questioning whether or not Barack Obama was born in the United States. I think just looking at this going forward, what was the goal of this from the Trump campaign? The goal was to try to put a button on it, be able to talk about other issues and move on. Not going to happen. It's just not. Not with this kind of statement where, first of all, it was just, you know, two sentences, raising some more questions than answers, but more importantly, that -- traditionally, at least in the past yea and a half or so, Donald Trump has been immune to what is the normalcy of political campaigning, what is expected. But with something like this, you've got to stand there and take the questions, the questions about why did you come to this conclusion, what about the 2014 interview that you gave or the 2012 interview that you gave, why now, do you apologize. If he went through all that, maybe they would achieve the goal of being able to focus on jobs and immigration and veterans. Instead, what they did was tease us that he was going to say something, then as John said, played us by making sure that everybody who has an ability to show Donald Trump actually took 20 minutes or got 20 minutes of very important decorated veterans praising somebody who they think should be the next commander-in- chief, which would not have been live on cable news otherwise. So I definitely think it's a goal and we know it's a goal to try to put an end to this. Is not going to happen, and it will keep this discussion going at least in the near future instead of ending it."