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To silence birthers, Cruz rejects Canadian citizenship

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In an effort to quell conspiracy theories about his U.S. citizenship, Texas Senator Ted Cruz released his birth certificate and rejected his Canadian citizenship. MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Business Insider’s Josh Barro join NOW to discuss how this skepticism around Cruz could quell similar questions about the president’s birth certificate.