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Why couldn't he run his race and i run mine? >> the interview came moments before a 6:00 p.m. eastern standard time deadline for todd akin to easily exit the senate race, leaving that race now will require the complexity of a court order. as the deadline approached, mitt romney released a statement reading in part, "i think akin should exit the senate race." earlier today, todd akin released a new television ad that will air in missouri. >> rape is an evil act. i used the wrong words in the wrong way, and for that i apologize. as the father of two daughters, i want tough justice for predators....

Mr. akin was defiant. accusing the republican presidential candidate of making a bigger deal than is necessary over the comments. >> if you were in romney's position, don't you think that he may have bid this thing up and made a bigger deal about it than he needed to? why couldn't he run his race and i run mine? >> can you name one person, one member of the united states senate, you know, lot of conservatives ran, paul, jim demint, marco rubio, mike lee, any current member of the senate that has called you and asked you to stay in? >> no. our polling data says we're still up a point. >> akin a...

>> my message was one of standing on principle, not politics, and also on the principles that made america such a great nation. in spite of the fact that we were outspent by an extreme margin, the people of the state of missouri elected me, so this was a decision made by the citizens of our state and not by party bosses. >> of course, we saw that he went on talk radio, he was on with sean hannity and he explained to sean hannity, sean hannity was trying to explain to him, you know, you've got mitt romney, paul ryan called him as we reported on monday night, all of the missouri former senators ...

We're dismissive. he's apologetic. the only thing i found funny, anyone hear jay carney, when asked what the capital of israel s he couldn't answer. the reporter was like what do you consider the capital? he couldn't answer. tel aviv or jerusalem and he still couldn't answer. >> that's a great debate in the middle east. >> why couldn't he -- >> he should have been able to -- let's go back to romney. first of all it's interesting to see when you look at the history in salt lake, romney was the 6th choice to take that job. huntsman was in front of him. he did a good job. >> you act like he was s...

We're dismissive. he's apologetic. the only thing i found funny, anyone hear jay carney, when asked what the capital of israel s he couldn't answer. the reporter was like what do you consider the capital? he couldn't answer. tel aviv or jerusalem and he still couldn't answer. >> that's a great debate in the middle east. >> why couldn't he -- >> he should have been able to -- let's go back to romney. first of all it's interesting to see when you look at the history in salt lake, romney was the 6th choice to take that job. huntsman was in front of him. he did a good job. >> you act like he was s...