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Campaign. miss richards, great to have you with us tonight. what does -- what did we find out about mitt romney last night with this exchange? >> well, it seems that what we found out is that he can't even answer a straight question. i thought that young woman, she was very clear what she wanted to know, which is, where was he on equal pay. and this is not a surprise question and the fact that he could not answer it is indicative of what he's trying to do on every women's issue, which is to muddy the waters and never give a direct answer. and i think, again, as you've repeated, it's clear he's...

Well, the sun came up and today gle gillespie is telling a different story. "i was wrong when i said last night governor romney opposed the lily ledbetter act. he never weighed in on it. as president, he would not seek to repeal it." let's turn to cecile richards, president of planned parenthood action fund, who is joining us tonight on behalf of the obama campaign. miss richards, great to have you with us tonight. what does -- what did we find out about mitt romney last night with this exchange? >> well, it seems that what we found out is that he can't even answer a straight question. i thoug...

He was opposed to it at the time. he would not repeal it. well, the sun came up and today gillespie is telling a different story. "i was wrong when i said last night governor romney opposed the lily ledbetter act. he never weighed in on it. as president, he would not seek to repeal it." let's turn to cecile richards, president of planned parenthood action fund, who is joining us tonight on behalf of the obama campaign. miss richards, great to have you with us tonight. what does -- what did we find out about mitt romney last night with this exchange? >> well, it seems that what we found out is ...

Bad ones like privatizes social security, all the stuff in his hocus-pocus, his economists that developed his 12 million new jobs plans now 10 million are bogus. so he's running a hocus-pocus campaign here. but he has to be called on it and then pivot to say what you would do. >> i want to talk about the town hall debate style format. it's happened before. we might get a surprise question that could really change things. >> you could. depends on exactly how the format does. real town meetings is where you you get up and say anything you want. the real problem is when people ask questions. and ...

Fehrnstrom told me, he just essentially said i've got to bide by the supreme court but he had this long, convoluted answer saying well, this wasn't, you know -- we called it a penalty in massachusetts, the supreme court wasn't talking about our law and trying to sort of have it both ways there. i think it's a struggle and i think it's a reminder why we won't hear a lot about health care but why so many conservatives from the get-go about mitt romney and we hear it this morning in "the wall street journal" editorial page why they were so much hand wringing about him because on the issue that th...