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Ago, senator mcconnell says hes sure the apology is sincere but not sufficient. he wants to akin to step aside. >> theyre going to put pressure on him until the 5:00 deadline central time comes along to get him to change his mind. my sense is hes not going to do this. congressman akin has to make the decision if hes going, hes going alone. it doesnt look like the national senate committee will fund money. its a tough, tough campaign. krits, on the other other side is smiling and giggling -- >> n...

From mitch mcconnell are of concern for a reason. will this hurt your party in november? >> i think what were doing is talking about it today and not talking about unemployment number or jobs, were talking about rape. though its a terrible thing to talk about it its like one of the most -- i cant imagine anything worse for a woman than rape, thats what were talking about and were 80-something days away from the campaign. this doesnt help us as we go into our conventions next week. >> chris, i wa...

In this regard. he hasnt mirrored the words of the outrageous statement by congressman akin, but on the issue that youve identified, there are similarities and they have to live with that. one observation when mike huckabees on the radioing talking about extraordinary people who have been born by virtue of a rape, that also tells you that the far right of the republican party is not going to wave the white flag on this exception being carved out for rape or incest. thats an issue thats going to ...

Quite some time in front of the white house press poll, all of a sudden pops in to talk about this subject among other things obviously, but, yeah, this was taking advantage of the political opportunity thats being handed to the campaign. >> joining me now, obama campaign national press secretary, ben la boat. thank you for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> your response to michael steele saying this was political theat, the president talked about syria, of course, this issue on congressman...

Believes in strongly. who is obviously on the presidential ticket as well. and romneys on record saying theyre on the same page on almost every issue that would come up through the course of the campaign. i dont think its a stretch to say that even though what paul akin said was beyond the pale as far as what romney or other, you know, establishment republicans think that a national political figure should be saying out loud, but it reflects what the political party does believe from a policy pe...

People know that we didnt mean anybody or to take in any way rape, anything less than very, very seriously. but following that, ive had a chance now to have run through a primary and the party people said when you win the primary, well be with you. they were with us, but then i said one word and one sentence, one day, and everything changed. so, now were kind of back to where we were in the primary. ive been so encouraged by good friends who are closer than brothers and realized theres a lot of ...

Tampa, media will be there looking for a story, and it puts mitt romney and paul ryan in a very awkward position, if the party adopts a platform that is at odds with what theyre saying on that issue and it becomes an embarrassment. last thought is this, every day were talking about social issues, is a bad day for the romney/ryan ticket a good day for the president, i say. >> maybe this is a good day for women, maybe its not the economy, but certainly something important to women and honestly, sh...

Start trying to do what hes doing, apologize, move on from there. not sure going on talk radio and talking about what is false rape, not sure what that is, but just stop digging. hes not taking that advice. hes digging deeper and deeper and bringing a lot of people if hes the captain of the "titanic" owe wants to bring the whole ship down. establishment leaders say you could hurt the party. hes thumbing his nose, thinking he could perhaps become a member of the u.s. senate. >> well, hes done. is...

Thats why were talking about this today, not that there are some people opposed to abortion. >> thats the distinction. this is not about abortion. but when you start making distinctions about right rape and wrong rape, this is not a -- this is not a discussion that i think any sensible or sane person can be having and want to represent a state. he would become -- >> not just as a senator, some say remind you hes a member of congress currently. >> correct. >> these not a guy off the street. >> we...

>> how many dealt with rape? what were talking about is the issue of rape that has come out because of the careless and awful words from congressman akin, nonetheless -- >> exactly. talking about congressman akin and youre trying to attach it to congressman wrien. define for me forcible rape. >> ask congressman ryan what he thinks about that, hell say rape is a horrible thing. you know thats not tying him to congressman akin. i know what the democrats are trying to do. that dogs not going to h...