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Each made the mistake of trying to explain an increasingly common position by republican office holders, including paul ryan. it's not unusual for gop politicians to oppose rape exceptions, but they haven't had to defend that, at least not on a big stage. when forced to explain themselves, it's not their words that alienate voters, but the idea of forcing women to carry to term a pregnancy that began in rape. as long as opposition to rape exceptions remains a mainstream exception, the gop abortion position for republican office holders, the gop abortion problem is here to stay. you know, i jus...

Very hard core position that they present to their most conservative voters, say i oppose abortion in all instances, not even in the case of rape, but that wasn't really something that people on the other side, i guess, had focused on. i was surprised that everyone was surprised to hear the comments of akin and mourdock. i'm not sure what the an acceptable reason for opposing -- >> tell me why you think this gets to women voters in a political sense, not having this exception which is so way out there. >> in this particular case particularly if you're a woman it is kind of shocking to think th...

I made, church, you've got to be a churchgoer in order for this to go, the tip of the hat for conservatives in iowa to try to keep them in the tent. >> this is completely unrealistic, he wants to create a new selective service board, he said, to determine whether you've gone to church, whether you've had that job for 6 of the 12 years you've been here or 5 of the 12 years. are they allowed to appeal it to court? we've never had second class citizens before in the united states. and this sounds humane. >> but what i want to say what is equally unrealistic is the notion we'll ship 10 million, 15...

gone. the protesters have not gone anywhere. a tense situation right now on the streets of portland. we have reporters there. we'll check in with. we're also following the twitter feeds of the reporters, getting a lot of details there. also the twitter feeds of portland police. we do have reports of at least one police officer that has been injured. again, this is live, happening right now on the streets of portland. we'll if back in just a -- we'll go back in just a moment. also this morning, we've all done this -- sent that unintended e-mail. hit "reply all," and it went to an un...

Well, i think that we should do it faster, but i think that the core position, which is it can be done safely, it can be done in an environmentally sensitive way, it will help america economically by having jobs here at home, it will help america by keeping the cost of energy down and it will help america by taking us away from depe dependence on venezuela or saudi arabia. i think that's a win-win. >> interesting, newt gingrich on the offshore drilling plan. tina brown is with us. rand paul is with us. thanks for joining us. you're doing quite well in the polls against your challenger. we'll t...