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>> derogatory comments that make fun of one group or pit one against the other, don't do anything to further our political discourse and for that, rahm apologized, and we're looking to move forward. >> reporter: it's the section time in a year that the white house apologized to shriver. last march it was after the president joked on the "tonight" show. >> i bowled 129. like special olympics or something. >> reporter: shriver and those who want to remove the word retarded from every day speech says -- analysts say the apology should be enough. >> it was said in a private meeting. a crude phrase...

Co-host of "the daily rundown." he's not lying, i'm just moving on from it. good morning. >> oh, you just woke me up. i just fell asleep. i don't work at the white house, but my hours aren't that great either, to be honest. >> let's talk about rahm emanuel. >> yep. >> we've talked about it briefly. rahm is in a bit of trouble. what did he say that got him in trouble. and if you could say the exact quote, that would be great. >> thanks, always trying to get me in trouble. he used a term somewhat disparaging. he called liberals at a meeting last summer i think retarded. and modified it with expl...

A policy from rahm emanuel to tim shriver, head of the special o olympics. it was only recently reported. famously blunt chief of staff called liberal democrats expletive deleted retarded. it was another example of rahm being rahm. >> tomorrow is mother's day. a tough holiday for rahm emanuel, because he's not used to saying the word day after mother. >> reporter: but sarah palin, mother of a down syndrome child, rejected to the use of retarded. now widely used as derogatory and called for him to be fired, writing on facebook, rahm's slur on all god's children with cognitive and developmental ...

Word, quote, retarded, during a meeting. emanuel used the word to describe liberal activists that took place on health care reform. sarah palin called for him to resign. yesterday he met with the chairman of the special olympics and disabilities advocates to apologize. the arc of the united states, civil rights and service organization. he was there at the meeting with tim shriver and rahm emanuel. thank you for being here. >> pleasure to be with you. >> tell me about this, what happened. >> we had two people with disabilities and the mother of a 13-year-old with disabilities. the start of the...

good morning. it's great to be here. we have a lot to talk about today. rahm emanuel got an apology. >> that was pretty delicious. at the hour that we are here and the hour she had a party for us, arriana huffington, looking fabulous. how does she do that? that's not right. >> while i was in here drooling and she was talking policy. who were you talking to? >> mr. mike barnicle. >> i am feeling way too elderly right now, mike. >> larry is an unbelievable new york yankee fan. we get into huge spatz whenevs we're in the same room together. >> he was wonderful. maybe he should come to a...