conversation is going to make its way to the stump here anytime soon, but they may be forced to because of the climate out there right now to answer from time to time. headlines and what s at stake. thank you very much. let me bring in our panel for today. nationally syndicated radio talk show host michael smerconish it, jonathan coledgeio, american crossroads and nia henderson washington post. jonathan, your super pac linked to karl rove. it was monday, i believe, that joe scarborough said listen, karl rove and the other heavyweights of this party will have to get out front and show this man they re not backing him. american crossroads, the president released a statement stephen law saying representative akin faces a simple choice, will he help democrats hold the mccaskill and potentially the senate majority by staying in the race. here we are now, he is still in the race and not backing down. what are your feelings? first of all, todd akin s candidacy is dead, whether he
whole tea party movement, the gads zen flags and so for the, not a whiff of conversation about social issues. regardless of what happens with acondition kin and his individual candidacy, that would not be the situation. take a look no further ahead than monday in what would have been a sleeper when the gop convention adopts its platform, rest assured we ll be having this conversation on monday and beyond regardless of akin. the republicans would like to talk about the economy and obviously, the issues facing there as if democrats don t want to talk about that or even independents. set that aside here. this is not one individual, these comments with representative akin. i want to play what steve king, the congressman everyone i ll wa just said recently when asked about akin, he s defending him and goes on to give his thoughts on the notion that somehow, pregnancy is blocked in the event of a violent attack and rape. let me play this. i just haven t heard of that being a circumstance
and charlie summers. as a husband and a father, i found representative akin s comments shockingly offensive. he should resign effective immediately. and the party apparatus came crashing down on akin s head. first karl rove s group. they had a new round of ads scheduled to start wednesday. they announced they re pulling the buy for good. senator john kor anyone announced that nrsc would also pull their support. over the next 24 hours congressman akin should consider what is best for him, his family, the republican party and the values that he has fought for throughout his career. then he went on the best known station in missouri, kmox to make it crystal clear the gop wants akin out. we have victory centers and volunteers that do work around
focus less on exactly what the statement was which is very problematic and look more at the record of representative akin and also at the records of representative ryan and former governor romney because this is not an isolated statement. we know that representative akin as well as ryan co-sponsored a bill that would have limited which cases of rape qualified for federal abortion funding and that they put forward and voted for bills that would eliminate the right to abortion in all cases. so this is not out of line with their entire record you re referring of course to this controversy bill, hr-3, no taxpayer funding for abortion co-sponsored by the vice presidential candidate ryan in this and the original language, sandra, in that act used the term, quote, forcible rape. it was later changed to rape. the president touched on this, this notion that there are
the number one, 100% of the time, there s no that would be silly, and, frankly, that s not what i think governor romney looked for both in terms of paul ryan and the people that surround themselves in an administration. will he surround himself with people who are serious about tackling the problems that the country faces, will bring a variety of solutions to the table, and want to get the job done. so i think that s what you are going to hear us focussing on, and we look forward to a great convention starting next week in tampa. it s certainly not the attention that the ticket wants right now. my team has just found out that representative akin is not going to be on a broadcast today with kmox in st. louis. a radio station in st. louis. they booked him on friday for an interview today, and he has decided not to go through with that. this controversy, sean, surrounding akin is coming as politico is reporting the house republicans took a dip in the sea of galilee, one in the nude. r