>> chief, and you bring interesting active because you were with the santorum campaign and we know when the words war on women came out it was mainly by men you wanted to see in the white house . let me put into the equation i have this information in now. nbc news confirmed that american crossroads, the carl rove backed super pac spending millions to defeat president obama and senate democratic candidates pulled out of missouri 's senate contest after todd akin 's controversial comments. karl rove now pulling out or at least the super pac that he formed pulling their cash out of missouri . is that an indication they believe that there is no win there?
>> probably so. peter alexander made a great comment earlier showing the relationship between the folks calling for mr. akin to get out of this race and the romney campaign that gives you a snapshot what's going on behind the scenes . the president was right. rape is rape. it was a ridiculous and insensitive statement and this is the kind of stuff that will be chasing down all day as republicans trying to explain to people this guy shouldn't be on any ticket. you know, the people of missouri put him as the nominee albeit approximate an eight-way race. however, it is the bed they'll have to lie in until they decide to change the sheets. i am not sure right now what the procedures are to change those sheets, but i would assume that quickly they will do that, move to get him off the particularet and replace him with somebody else.
>> this could get ugly. he was just on with huckabee and says he has a plan on stepping down according to information out of missouri , he is pretty much guided a lot by his wife, and according to at least one report his wife wouldn't, quote, let him step down. that is interesting for so many other reasons given that this issue that has him in the hot seat deals with women and if his wife is his major surrogate and major advisor, how could he have made those comments yesterday?
>> when i think if this is up to him, he is going to stick it out in this race and we actually just recently surveyed all of our reporters in missouri and asked them to ask leading republicans in the state what they thought, what they thought akin should do, and republicans in missouri were split about half of them want him to crop out and about half of them think he can stay and i think he is going to stick it out. what his comments say so me, it kind of shows just how far somebody is willing to go into kind of an absurd place so they don't have to address the consequences of what their politics or policy positions are. akin is somebody who has a very firm and consistent position. he is against abortion in all cases. that that means that he wants to force a woman to carry to term a child even if it was the result of a rape and that is just a horrible thing to contemplate, so in his mind starts doing tricks where he tells himself, well, it is just impossible, and there are medical reasons why this could never happen and that kind of allows him to not confront what the consequences of his political position.
>> we're waiting again to hear the latest comments from governor romney . he is expected to certainly be asked about this in this local interview that he has done. in the meantime initially the governor said he and congressman ryan disagree with mr. akin's statement and went on to say the romney ryan administration would not oppose abortions in instances of rape. we also know that congressman ryan co-sponsored this house bill last year defining human life as beginning with fertilization and granting personhood rights to embryos and we know it would outlaw abortions in all cases and may also restrict some forms of birth control. how can governor romney say that he and congressman ryan together disagree with what akin said in this, not his words in the interview but his stance on following through with a pregnancy even if the case of rape, not legitimate rape comment that he made?
>> right. well, look, obviously you know that when a vice presidential nominee is chosen, he folds underneath the policies of the presidential nominee , so whether paul ryan 's views are no potential for any abortion under any circumstances or not, it doesn't really matter in the sense that the governor romney is the head of the ticket. does this pose a problem for governor romney with some members of the base who believe that abortion is murder and shouldn't be allowed in any instance? i think it might. i think it could. ryan has no influence over that.
>> that assertion is intriguing for many reasons. i will give you the example with medicare. originally governor romney said i am my own man and have my own plan and now i am my own man and have my own ideas when it comes to this issue of rape and a woman having the choice to carry out this pregnancy or not. so why select this individual as your vp if on such substantive and solid issues that are important to women and men in this country you don't agree with the guy?
>> i am not sure if the short answer. throughout history we've had a lot of presidents who choose people we don't necessarily agree with everything that they stand for. i mean, president obama and senator biden, vice president biden now obviously had different takes on different issues as well. they thought that was a big problem, namely the war in iraq was a big issue they differed on in different ways. that's part of politics. we have a nominee. our party has to live with the fact he is carrying this majts for us whether we like it or not and whether we're enthusiastic or not and i am not saying we are or aren't. i am saying he is the one carrying it forward regardless of what paul ryan thinks. hopefully paul ryan can influence him on a few issues he pushed for in the past and push the governor to promote the things we would like him to promote. in this instance he is the nominee. he has the right to set the agenda and he set it.
>> let me quickly get you in, senator john corner and the staff have spoken to todd a kin and basically saying they are hoping he will talk with his family and discuss putting the party first here. hogan touched on this and folks at morning joe talked about the fact for republicans to win primaries they have to these days in many parts of the country be as far right as you could possibly go on some of these issues but then when it is time for a general election we have this kind of interesting dilemma and with this case of akin as stated by michael steele , there has not been a grassroots effort so far to get him out of the race, the people, meaning in missouri that largely the opposition is coming from those who are generally worried about the party like cornen in his latest statement.
>> there is a ton of pressure on him to get out. the statement that he put out is pretty blunt. it stops just short of calling him the to step down but you can read between the lines that the phone call between those two i am sure wasn't as opaque. karl rove 's crossroads pulling money out, that's a signal that if you decide to stay in, you're on your own. republicans had already put missouri in the win column when they were counting whether or not they were going to get to the senate. they had chalked this up. they think that they have the debt to rights so they're panicking and the next 24 hours will be a tough time for akin if he wants to stay in and if he does, he will have to hold firm and then he will be mostly on his own with, however, the strong grassroots support of the pro-life crowd out there.
>> thank you very much. the
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