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what i don't understand is nobody rewinds this to the original plea agreement. randi talked about the original plea agreement he got for the original was no jail time, absolutely none. why aren't people protesting and ask the prosecutor resign with the judge. if the activity of raping and understand what this judge said was, well, it wasn't forcible. you know, blah, blah, blah, she had this chronological age, all of that is non-sense when you're below the age of consent. but the fact remains, the original plea bargain by the prosecutor was no jail time, zip initially only because this guy violated the plea agreement got terminated from the program did the judge end up giving him 30 days to begin with. >> how does that happen? how does that plea agreement get -- i mean, how do prosecutors think that's a good idea? is it not getting it? >> no, i think what happens here
mike huckabee, the runner-up for the republican presidential candidate in 2008 is the de facto architect of the keep todd akin on the ballot in missouri fund, which brings us back to todd akin's quote/unquote mistake. akin confirmed that he had meant to use a term, not legitimate rape, but forcible rape. now, forcible rape was the language, the specific two words adopted by the house republicans, incoming todd akin and vice presidential candidate paul ryan, for hr-3, the no taxpayer fundings for abortions act. forcible rape would mean, for instance, that a 13-year-old girl who is impregnated by a 40-year-old man, a situation which no one believes there could be real consent, it would mean that the girl cannot get federal help in that bill if she needed an abortion, because the rape wasn't forcible, the exception didn't cover her. much like the personhood bills, the designation of forcible rape would narrow the exceptions to any laws banning abortions. now, due to an uproar by civil rights, they agreed to drop the forcible rape language from the legislation.
40-year-old man, a situation which no one believes there could be real consent, it would mean that the girl cannot get federal help in that bill if she needed an abortion, because the rape wasn't forcible, the exception didn't cover her. much like the personhood bills, the designation of forcible rape would narrow the exceptions to any laws banning abortions. now, due to an groups, they agreed to drop the forcible rape language, but the intentions behind the provision still stood. governor bob mcdonnell of virginia knows about a mistake like this one. the outcry over the transvaginal ultrasound law prompted them to drop it. so surely, they sympathize with him, but maybe he's angry add him, too. mcdonnell led the committee as they adopted the party planks. just as in 2008, they adopted support for a human life amendment which would overturn roe v. wade and ban abortions under the protections of the 14th amendment. without the todd akin flap, this event would have been as
weekend, went to the museum of modern art. all of this as of the new york city case falls apart. >> let's talk about that because i've had a number of people come up to me, women in particular, and talking about the chilling impact this will have on women who make rape accusations. is the district attorney's office saying that this didn't happen or are they saying that frankly she has these major credibility problems that makes prosecuting it virtually impossible? >> option number two. they're not saying it didn't happen. they're saying we may never know what happened in that room because-- >> there was some sexual -- >> there was a sexual encounter. dominique strauss-kahn admits that. he's just saying it wasn't forcible. prosecutors aren't saying it didn't happen. there's no way it happened. what they're saying is we cannot put this witness on the stand because of her lies about what she did just after the attack and also about her past. so once there is a lie or a couple of lies, they know if they put her on the stand, that in a situation like this in an attempted rape case, you need a very credible witness to take the stand. she'll get killed on
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happened in that hotel in manhattan over the weekend, that perhaps it was consensual, that it wasn't forcible. his attorney hinted at that during court yesterday saying we have the evidence and we will prove it wasn't a forcible situation. >> wasn't there initially some reports, they were looking under her fingernails. >> yeah. they did. >> things to show she fought him. >> and they have plenty of dna from the scene, including we are told by law enforcement bodily fluid, dna, checking under the fingernails for a struggle. there were reports of them finding blood. and he has willingly after court order submitted to medical examination himself. so they have taken dna from him, from the scene, it is at the lab. and this case may end up turning on the dna. >> and it is interesting because in the united states it may be different than in france about some of his past potential indiscretions. >> it can come back. >> whether or not that would be allowed in a court in the united states. >> in the court of public opinion, a lot of people are
and i really think that spouses know very much the politics, they know their partners. they know the campaign, they are intricately involved with it. we are probably some of the best representatives of our partners running to be representatives, so i would advise if people feel they are up to it, then get out there, don't worry what people say. >> elizabeth, thank you very much. >> let me know what you think about political wives. hit me up at twitter on jansing and co. a new poll this morning, two out of three americans say gas costing around 4 bucks a gallon is causing a financial hardship. 21% say it is causing severe problems. there are some predictions that gas prices could drop by 25 cents a gallon by memorial day, but this poll puts a lot of skepticism out there.
it, what does a republican have to do to both barack obama. >> focus on the economy, unemployment, deficit situation, on 7 million people that haven't got jobs back since the economic collapse. those are the vulnerabilities that the incumbent president has and those are the opportunities that the challenger party has to focus on. >> we have a graphic that says 57% of people disapprove of obama's handling of the economy, so mark, what does he do conversely because i think most people would agree that's his biggest vulnerability. >> if you look at whose on the opposite side of the field, his job is not to win it, but not to lose it. he can't have any major foreign policy or domestic blun ders. the economy will improve, we will see steady job creation, and as long as he does, there is no way that they can beat him. it is impossible. >> tony, let me ask you about
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