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Foundation battling cancer was this a public relations nightmare for the susan g. komen? >> it was quite confusing for the cancer community and the result now is that more and more women will get the services that they need. from our organizations standpoint that is what matters most, women in need are served regardless of who is providing that critical crucial service to them. >> i want to read to our audience and the panel the statement from nancy brinker. we want to apologize to the american ...

And discouraging news. >> really awful, should be ashamed of themselves. >> thousands of angry posts. shame, shame, shame on you selling out. shredding any pink ribbons ive got. i will never donate again. komen ceo nancy brinker struggled to contain the damage. first on msnbc. >> its not true. >> thousands. >> that is not true. >> an explosion of anger among your long time supporters. >> there is a tremendous amount, lisa, of emotion, whenever youre dealing with issues of vulnerable populations,...

Komen does now. so, you know, you have to think that what -- what miss brinker has actually done has been really to lead this organization right off a cliff. >> all right. now last summer, republicans held the government pretty much hostage over planned parenthood funding. the outrage over this, you know, it seems to be bigger. what is the difference? >> you know, honestly, i think that the difference that it is one thing for politicians to take aim at planned parenthood. planned parenthood save...

Now when they bring in this women and concurrently suddenly defund one organization. >> i want to play some of the response from nancy brinker. shes the founder of the susan g. komen foundation. lets take a listen. >> its a miss kacharacterizati. this was decided at the board level and also by our mission. many of the grants we were doing with plant parenthood do not meet new standards of criteria for how we can measure our results and effective in in communities. >> so, joy, weve heard two reas...

So these went hand in hand and it seems a seems a shame that out of nowhere, while most of us think it was because of this new vice president that started over at the foundation, the komen foundation, who is very, of course, anti-planned parenthood, and vowed when she ran for the governorship of georgia, of course she lost, saying that she would shut -- that she would stop all funding, all of these types of grants to planned parenthood if she were in office. >> well, one thing i think the men ou...

Research there. tonight, at least one top official has reportedly quit in protest. and there are new concerns regarding what role komens new vp of public policy karen handle played in the decision-making process. handle is a conservative activist. she ran for governor in the state of georgia in 2010 advocating to defund planned parenthood. komen ceo nancy brinker says handle had nothing to do with it. >> karen did not have anything to do with this decision. this was decided at the board level an...

That strictly has a political anti-womens health agenda like komen does now. so, you know, you have to think that what -- what miss brinker has actually done has been really to lead this organization right off a cliff. >> all right. now last summer, republicans held the government pretty much hostage over planned parenthood funding. the outrage over this, you know, it seems to be bigger. what is the difference? >> you know, honestly, i think that the difference that it is one thing for politicia...

Very poor. yesterday, during the national prayer breakfast, though it is not political, president obama referred to the very poor, he says that he believes he should be his brothers keeper. it was the presidents most explicit account yet of how his personal religious believes play in his decision making on big national problems. lin? >> brian, thanks so much. the nations largest breast cancer charity, susan g. komen is facing backlash to cut money to planned parenthood. michael bloomberg will ...

We want to go back to developing news. susan g. komen foundation now apologizing for pulling funds from planned parenthood and will restore full funding. the groups ceo nancy brinker was concerned. some 6,000 people have given $400,000 in small donations in just a matter of 24 hours. again, we are just minutes away, though, from president obama and his remarks in arlington, virginia. hes going to be announcing another new initiative to get vets back to work. our mike viqueira is standing by for ...

>> superstitious dude. >> we begin this northemorning iran. defense secretary leon panetta says there is a growing likelihood, quote, that israel will attack iran this spring and try to destroy its suspected nuclear program. israeli defense minister ehud barak said this, quoek, iran must be prevent fred becoming nuclear and no option should be taken off the table. lets get right to barbara starr this morning at the pentagon. good morning, barbara. >> good morning, soledad. a lot of cha...