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>> i wouldn't have said slut. >> i wouldn't have said slut. it's a figure leaf that they hope will, you know, fool these mythical i think largely, independents that are so easily fooled. i don't think people are so easily fooled. i don't think they're fooling republicans, democrats, independents, or anybody. it's a desperate attempt to put this back on the back on the eve of the republican convention. >> where the fight is going to happen. they haven't finalized their platform. bob mcdonnell is in charge. they need to have that fight right now. todd akin has to make his decision by tomorrow. w...

Government chose to break new ground here by establishing a religious exemption so narrow that practically no one qualifies for it. the exemption is for institutions that serve and hire mainly their own coreligionists. that would of course exclude all the organizations, practically all of the organizations who for religious reasons feel obliged to serve everyone on basis of faith, not of creed. jenna: some critics suggest that the administration, critics of your point of view say the administration offered that figure leaf and that should be a sign that the administration is open to negotiatio...

prospects in 2016. how could she best position herself now for a possible presidential bid then? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." s. a turning point in the race for the white house. the obama campaign is now going directly on the attack against the republican presidential candidates. they are naming names, and fighting back after months of largely turning the other cheek. but it's not the president taking on his gov challengers. that task is now falling to the vice president joe biden. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us now. jessica, t...

Jon: republicans are slamming the president's compromise on birth control coverage requirements for religious employers. president obama proposes to shift the burden to insurance providers, a move the head of the house budget committee dismisses as an accounting gimmick. >> to paraphrase the bishop's letter, this thing is a distins twout a difference, it's an accounting gimmick or a figure leaf. it's not a compromise. the president has doubled down. it's a real teachable moment for america in two ways, number one they are treating our constitutional first amendment rights as revocable privileg...

Now they have a figure leaf 2458d make eve blush as a result of this issue. >> you mean a minuscule -- i get the metaphor. let's start with the republican party, how it's coming apart. this is a strange republican party. it is a party run by a majority of tea party freshmen, redhots, if you will. they don't like government, don't like washington, don't like takeses, it's the no-deal party. then led by the old bulls like boehner, upstop and people like that, hanging on their jobs as holdovers, leftovers from an earlier era. will this fight break that alliance and force, the tea party wins from ...