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west nile virus consuming much of the united states right now. the death toll already topping 40 people and the number of cases has more than doubled to over 1,000. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." first, the headache that won't seem to go away for republicans. just days before what should be a shining moment for mitt romney, the campaign continues to contend with a controversy over the embattled republican senate candidate todd akin. the republican missouri congressman is refusing all calls to get out of the race despite the backlash over his now infamous "legitim...

>> junket to the holy land congressman on a junket over there and they go down and taking a look at the sea of galilee and this guy, congressman yoder, decides he's going to take off all of his clothes, all of his clothes, he put the junk in junket. so what we did, this trip to switch and we said hey, let's put together a segment about politicians who have misbehaved in the past. >> congressman kevin yoder, congressman anthony weiner, congressman lee, congressman eric massa. >> they're saying i groped a male staffer. yeah, i did, i tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys ...

♪ >> whoa is the gop hemming and hawing. dodging and deflecting with hot button social issues in the spotlight. dragged before voters to face their own retrogad policies. this afternoon, paul ryan venturing to the press section of the back of his campaign plane and trying to answer for his link to embattled missouri congressman todd cane. >> co-sponsored of the legislation. >> that bill passed by 251 votes. it was bipartisan. i think hr 3 you are talking about. 251 votes, 16 democrats. >> okay. hr 3, that's the that passed without the original forcible rape language that akin and r...

to dictate who runs as opposed to the election process. >> akin is going rogue, even telling the party's presidential candidate to back off. >> if you were in romney's position, don't you think that he may have bit this thing up and made a bigger deal about it than he needed to? why couldn't he run his race and i run mine? >> even if akin is downgraded in the coming days to nothing more than a low pressure anomaly, he spawned other storm systems by bringing the republican stance on abortion to the forefront of the debate. the obama campaign is liking paul ryan to todd akin, based on ...

>> todd akin is really inconvenient. >> he is thumbing his nose. >> the timing couldn't be worse for this. >> republican party leaders are calling for his ouster. >> i'm tired of us being stupid! >> there's just one issue for the gop. >> mainstream is really extreme. >> this problem goes all the way to the heart of their party. >> that platform has been a pro-life platform. >> this is the platform of the republican party. >> with no exceptions for rape or incest. >> this is the platform of the republican party. >> is there a war on women? >> women. >> women. >> women. >> absolutely. ...