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This congressman says that he misspoke. yet in the sound bite, he talked about doctors that he has had conversations with. does this speak to the heart and soul of the fundamental problems that the republican party has with women or did he misspeak? >> i don't actually think he was misspeaking at the time. i would love to know who those doctors are. i would like to have their names. i would like to have permission to have a conversation with those doctors and find out what kind of science background they have to make this outrageous claim. i think what you were saying earlier, ed, is exactly r...

And also ari berman, contributor writer for the nation magazine and author of the book "herding donkeys." great to have both of you with us. ari, you have been on the story from the start but i want to start with nina tonight. nina, is there a racial component here? i have to ask that question. they did cut the hours in all 88 counties, but when you look at the hours that they are shortening, it goes right to working families and right to people who are of low income, maybe working two jobs. your thoughts on this. >> that's right, ed. this is as much about race as it is about class. the maelst...

That has since admitted it was wrong. the newspaper admitted they were wrong. romney still on the wrong side of that. and keep in mind, this is romney's third untruthful ad about president obama's welfare policy. now, on friday, what we did was we added up the lies for the week. it was 11. well, we're off to a pretty good start this week. three more, that's 14 lies documented and even the president of the united states is at the podium today saying, you know what, they are lying over there. let's bring in msnbc political analyst richard wolffe. richard, great to have you with us tonight. >> th...

To the larger point, you know, this is opening up a real divide within the republican ranks, and i think you and joan hit the point really on the head, which is that people look at this debate from a distance and say, well, they're not really condemning necessarily the policy that he's espousing. they're condemning the dumbness of the language. i think that more than anything else has a chance to turn off voters or at least drive them towards mccaskill in the fall. >> sam, you were in that room today. did you think that the president was going to address this issue? >> well, i wasn't in the ro...

A fund-raising e-mail about 15 minutes ago saying he's in this to the end. i think he's going to call karl rove's bluff and say, i'm going to stick in this. if i'm three points down, you're going to support my candidacy with more money because the senate means more to you than the issue of forcible or legitimate rape. >> legitimate rape. the president was right when he used the word offensive today, joan. i want to bring up that obviously the president is leading in double digits when it comes to polling of women who are going to support him. do you think the gap is going to widen because of t...