Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121018:

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121018:03:30:00

very first bill he signed, the lily ledbetter fair pay act, which gives women the ability to sue over pay inequity. mitt romney ignored the question, and instead discussed appointing women to top jobs while he was governor of massachusetts. >> and i went to my staff, and i said, how come all the people for these jobs are all men? and they said, well, these are the people that have qualifications. and i said, gosh, well, can't we find some women that are also qualified? >> well, in 2002, mitt romney was 55 years old and he had been a leader in the business world for decades. why didn't he know any qualified women to appoint? >> and so we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. i went to a number of women's groups and said, can you help us find folks, and they brought us whole binders full of women. >> that response prompted a huge response on social media. but governor romney's story doesn't quite add up. as "the huffington post" reports, the bipartisan women's coalition mass gap approached

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