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Then a few seconds derailed his entire campaign. congressman akin is here with me on this set in a moment. first, trace gallagher has the back story. trace. >> megyn, then-congressman todd akin first made the rape comments to our local fox affiliate in st. louis. watch this. >> first of all, from what i understand from doctors, that's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> within hours it was clear the local interview would have national implications. akin's opponent, claire mccaskill denounced his comments and minutes after th...

Then a few seconds derailed his entire campaign. congressman akin is here with me on this set in a moment. first, trace gallagher has the back story. trace. >> megyn, then-congressman todd akin first made the rape comments to our local fox affiliate in st. louis. watch this. >> first of all, from what i understand from doctors, that's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> within hours it was clear the local interview would have national implications. akin's opponent, claire mccaskill denounced his comments and minutes after th...

speaker john boehner accuses the senate of kicking the can down the road and says he's holding out for a full year extension. the house takes up the senate bill tomorrow. a major snowstorm is brewing in the southwest. travel will become dangerous if not impossible across much of the region tomorrow. texas and oklahoma are expecting up to 15 inches of snow. so we begin our political hour with some key endorsements for republican presidential candidate mitt romney. the latest comes from former gop presidential nominee bob dole. dole announced his choice in an advertisement in today...

Bill, you go first. >> well, look, having worked in the health care thing last year, there are enormous waste of money in medicare the way it's delivered, the duplication of docs, the duplication of procedur procedures. >> do it, we talk about we don't do it, and built into the health care law is this panel that republicans want to get rid of, if they see too much overbilling, they can move in on a metropolitan or doc and do it. >> here's what i would do. i was with ronald reagan. they put together the social security commission. i didn't like the results of it, but clearly you had to give som...