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Against a more sane-seeming republican opponent you might not have had a chance in missouri but against todd akin, you're going to be fine. on a surface level this todd akin brouhaha looked like it was bad for the republican party. republican doing an embarrassing thing, must be bad for the party. very quickly, if you just scratch the surface, it was obvious this could turn out great for the republicans. if this could be a excuse to force him out of the race, the republicans could replace with a better candidate the guy that was the weakest candidate they had, probably the weakest candidate th...

Been done is a triage type of evaluation to determine what kind of mental health services if any he may need in the jail. so, for example, whether or not he ought to be on suicide watch, which i doubt. the competency to stand trial and insanity defense types of evaluations will become later. jenna: it hasn't been done in depth as you mention. sort of surface level as he is in custody. we heard the pastor, the family pastor, say this is really out of character. what do you make of that comment? >> i speaks more to how little we know each other. i'm not sure this person changed all that much. as...

Momentum and eventually stop herman cain in his tracks. >> wait a minute. you believe it's another candidate involved in this? >> i don't know if it's necessarily -- it doesn't necessarily mean it's another candidate. i mean, there are operatives in the gop beyond a political campaign who may have other interests and other designs in place. in fact, i know that footprint very well, because it was placed on my backside more than once. so i'm more than familiar with the handiwork here, and i've expressed that personally to herman. and i think that, you know, he needs to be mindful of the fact th...

Needs to be mindful of the fact that there are a lot of things at work here, a lot of interests that go beyond, you know, the historic nature of his campaign. >> do you think there's an ethnic aspect to this? >> no, i don't think it's so much that, chris. you know, i'm sure you can peel that onion and start to cry at some point, but i think, you know, just at the surface level, no, i don't think that that's the motivation here. a lot of folks like the idea that, you know, you have an african-american of his qualifications and caliber running for the nomination of the party. but then it gets to...

The gop well to damage the momentum and eventually stop herman cain in his tracks. >> wait a minute. you believe it's another candidate involved in this? >> i don't know if it's necessarily -- it doesn't necessarily mean it's another candidate. i mean, there are operatives in the gop beyond a political campaign who may have other interests and other designs in place. in fact, i know that footprint very well, because it was placed on my backside more than once. so i'm more than familiar with the handiwork here, and i've expressed that personally to herman. and i think that, you know, he needs t...