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Subject because, you know, the incidents of rape and -- resulting in pregnancy are very low. >> indeed. joining me now a leading voice against the legislation, senator barbara boxer. i know it's not going to pass the senate, it won't be signed by the president even if it did. what are they anything what do you think other women who -- women and men should say about some of the medical claims by these republican congress members? >> i think what they're doing is just continuing this war on women that they said they never waged because if you really look at the cases at about that stage of pregn...

A crowd very well. the way this was all put together, you have this incredible setting, this incredible back drop and you have the distracting glass. you could see that the president himself wasn't feeding off the crowd. it was hot. those folks were out there for 2 1/2 hours. trust me, i was out there with them. it can sap your energy a little bit. i wonder if that addeds a little bit to this. it was a serious speech, serious in tone. if you were going to talk about the optics, you can't help but wonder even if it was just 25,000 people, maybe they would have taken all the rid did i calling th...

Particularly with germans, particularly with the germans that lived on the east side when it comes to surveillance. so -- yet what i really hear is, you know what, the germans knew full well what the u.s. has been doing. had is not as contentious as maybe the coverage particularly here in germany would lead you to believe but it goes to the sort of classic case in any democracy, all politics is local. this is about local politics for merkel. >> we shouldn't forget that angela merkel grew up on the east side. she grew up in what was then east germany. the appearance five years ago, which i cove...

It was like somebody had arrived from venus and handed him that paper. we were witness to that. one of the really touching and emotional moments for me came much later after that. i was in a meeting with president bush 41 with mikhail gorbachev and helmud cole and said to gorbachev, you didn't send the tanks and you didn't send the troops and to president bush he said, you stood with us for a unified germany. there was a lot of resistance to a unified germany led by margaret thatcher. those were two moments as a journalist and citizen of the 21st century that i felt privileged to be part of. >...

>> the body language is a lot better than it was with vladimir putin. >> reporter: quickly. this is a very close personal relationship. you know, she was a little skeptical of him going in when he first became president. personally she got along with bush very well despite the awkward back rub moment. she didn't get along with him ideologically but personally she did. this is a very, very tight bond between the two. they both needed each other at different times and they both helped each other out. >> thank you very much. chuck todd, we'll be following your reports and safe travels. come on ho...