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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said that concerns within his party about President Obama's birthplace don't worry him, because he has more important things to worry about.

Priebus, who won the chairman's job in January, dismissed conspiracy theories that Obama wasn't born in the United States, explaining that he has "no reason not to believe the president wasn't born in Hawaii."

"It doesn't worry me," Priebus said at Tuesday breakfast with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. "But the reality is that I'm chairman of the RNC ... In regard to this birther issue, I've got better things to worry about."

Real estate mogul Donald Trump, who's considering running for president next year, has been a vocal proponent of the 'birther' theory, which questions Obama's birth place.

The Obama campaign released the president's birth certificate during the 2008 election, showing Obama was born in Hawaii. His ! birth certificate is on file with the state's Department of Health.