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And also ari berman, contributor writer for the nation magazine and author of the book "herding donkeys." great to have both of you with us. ari, you have been on the story from the start but i want to start with nina tonight. nina, is there a racial component here? i have to ask that question. they did cut the hours in all 88 counties, but when you look at the hours that they are shortening, it goes right to working families and right to people who are of low income, maybe working two jobs. you...

Writer for the nation magazine and author of the book "herding donkeys." great to have both of you with us. i want to start with nina. nina, is there a racial component here? i have to ask that question. they did cut the hours in all 88 counties, but when you look at the hours that they are shortening, it goes right to working families and right to people who are of low income, maybe working two jobs. your thoughts on this. >> thats right, ed. this is as much about race as it is about class. the...

Of a candidate ever, seriously. how big a problem is this for the republicans, do you think? >> its huge. i mean, i dont think i have ever said these four words, but sean hannity is right. the way he described the stakes here, ed, it really is dire for the republicans. but youve done a great job already of showing theres not a whole lot of daylight between todd akin and the rest of his party. this notion that he just misspoke, he gave us a window onto the way they think and talk about women and ...

Of a candidate ever, seriously. how big a problem is this for the republicans, you think in. >> its huge. i mean, i dont think i have ever said these four words, but sean hannity is right. the way he described the stakes here, ed, it really is dire for the republicans. but youve done a great job already of showing theres not a whole lot of daylight between todd akin and the rest of his party. the notion that he just misspoke, he gave us a window onto the way they think and talk about women and p...

Until the end. hes going to call karl roves bluff. hes saying im going to stick in this. if im three points down, youre going to support me because the senate means more to you than the issue of forceable or legitmal rape. >> legitimate rape. the president was right when he used the word offensive today, joan. i want to bring up that obvio obviousobviou obviously the president is leading in double digits when it comes to polling in women who are going to support him. do you think the gap is goin...

Within the republican ranks, and i think you and joan hit the point really on the head, which is that people look at this debate from a distance and say, well, theyre not really condemning necessarily the policy that hes espousing. theyre condemning the dumbness of the language. that more than anything else has a chance to turn off voters or drive them towards mccaskill in the fall. >> sam, you were in that room today. did you think that the president was going to address this issue? >> well, i ...

The newspaper admitted they were wrong. romney still on the wrong side of that. and keep in mind, this is romneys third untruthful ad about president obamas welfare policy. now, on friday, what we did was we added up the lies for the week. it was 11. well, were off to a pretty good start this week. three more, thats 14 lies documented and even the president of the united states is at the podium today saying, you know what, they are lying over there. lets bring in msnbc political analyst richard ...

To the larger point, you know, this is opening up a real divide within the republican ranks, and i think you and joan hit the point really on the head, which is that people look at this debate from a distance and say, well, theyre not really condemning necessarily the policy that hes espousing. theyre condemning the dumbness of the language. i think that more than anything else has a chance to turn off voters or at least drive them towards mccaskill in the fall. >> sam, you were in that room tod...

Voting now. they were for early voting in 2004 and 2008. theyre only against it now because its something that democrats used so successfully. obama used early voting to help mobilize his base and maximize turnout in the 2008 election, and thats why early voting has been cut, not just in ohio, but also in battleground states like florida in the 2012 election. >> well, we know what theyre doing in pennsylvania. and were going to continue to cover that, but nina, in your state, what do you do to m...

>> i dont actually think he was misspeaking at the time. i would love to know who those doctors are. i would like to have their names. i would like to have permission to have a conversation with those doctors and find out what kind of science background they have to make this outrageous claim. i think what you were saying earlier, ed, is exactly right. you have to separate out the justification from the policy. so what todd akin was peddling was a justification for not allowing any rape exceptio...