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Welcome back. more now on the controversial comments regarding rape made by indiana republican senate candidate richard mourdock and the romney campaign continues to keep the ad up in indiana endorsing mourdock. mourdock, in fact, held a news conference in the past hour insisting the comments have been misinterpr misinterpreted. >> i spoke from my heart. i spoke with my principle. i spoke from my faith. and if others wish to try to turn those words and use them against me, again, that's what's wrong with washington today. you know, we're moving on from this. i'm confident that hoosier voters w...

Candidacy. >> let's play what mourdock said in the debate. let's play it. >> i believe that life begins at conception. the only exception i have for -- to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. i just -- i struggled with it myself a long time but a life is a gift of god and e67b in the horrible situation of rape, it is something that god intended to happen. >> keith, let me bring you in and talking more regarding the female vote but here again two senate candidates in the same election cycle having these comments and you have people who will likely ask, what is going on? an...

Why? what's did difference here? >> well, i mean, i think at this point it's so late in the game and obviously you have republicans looking at the senate hoping to change that around so that they're in the majority. and i think in some ways people might think that there is a sort of difference in terms of what todd akin sunny aid and mourdock said. as your guest said, mourdock's position is same as paul ryan's and it's also the same as the republican party's platform. if you look at voters in the state like iowa, for instance, a lot of people that turn out at the polls will be evangelicals and...

Welcome back. time now for the "news nation" gut check. the romney campaign will continue to support candidate mourdock despite the comments of pregnancy from rape is god's intention a. romney spokesperson says governor romney disagrees with the mourdock comments but will not pull down an ad endorsing him that went up just today. what does your gut tell you? will he be damaged by the mourdock comment? cast that vote and that does it for this edition of "news nation." thank you for joining me and my team. we'll be back here for you tomorrow. in fact, tomorrow president obama in florida and virg...

Good-bye. no money and no nothing and in this case the ad stays up. >> well, this is a party that's been taken over by the right wing extremists. they have to do something to themselves agreeable to the middle ground which is what romney is doing in the debates but the truthfulness of people like todd akin and richard mourdock and there are republicans in tight senate races and people just reasonable republicans standing up against this, people like kelly ayeh in new hampshire saying he's canceling a fund-raiser with mourdock and whitman telling governor romney to repudiate this guy. you have ...