not make exceptions. the position is the same position roughly that mitt romney has advocated, who has advocated for exceptions. talking about this, of course, because of the comments of todd akin this week and the underlying belief system underneath the incredibly wrong headed offensive biology in that statement. but you had a question for kristen, katha. >> i have a couple of questions. the language of forcible rape in the no taxpayer funding for abortion, bill, that many, many people in congress voted for, including members of democrats for life, kathy dalmeyer, for example, voted for the original ryan and akin sponsored bill, that narrowed rape to forcible rape. that excludes statutory rape, excludes rape by threat or coercion. that doesn't involve, you know, real physical force. it is really behind where the law -- the law has advanced beyond that, so i'd like to have your thoughts on why this compassion for some of your member members did not extend to the full range of rape victims, but only the ak

. >> the party of no exceptions is scrambling over forcible rape. tonight, we'll show you why the presidential ticket can run, but they can't hide from their radical positions. todd akin says to mind your own business. michael steele and bob shrum on the explosion of republican hypocrisy before the tampa convention. >> today's seniors, if you will, my plan presents no change. >> "the new york times" exposes another mitt romney lie on medicare. we will correct the whiteboard again tonight. and the president is sacking mitt romney on his education plan. >> governor romney says we've got enough teachers. we don't need anymore. >> tonight, super bowl champion warren sap on the president, republicans, and how public education helped make him an nfl legend. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. congressman paul ryan was supposed to bolster the romney campaign's standing with social conservatives, but with congressman todd akin, todd akin in the news, suddenly paul ryan is running away from his core beliefs. here's the vice pres

they didn't go into exceptions last time. they're not going into exceptions this time. although the republican presidential candidate, mitt romney is on record saying he does support exceptions for incest, rape and the life of the mother. until now, until he became the vice presidential running mate paul ryan only supported for life of the mother, not for incest or rape but he says because he's on the ticket he goes along with the position that mitt romney lays out and he will adhere to that. >> we political nerds will be in tampa next week. i can't wait to see you. >> when do you get into town? >> oh, wow. i get into town sunday. you going to hang out with me. >> i get in on saturday. i'm looking forward to seeing you at the cnn grill. >> i will be there every day. i'll see you then. very excited to be in tampa. see you then. >>> a large spike in the number of cases in deaths from the west nile virus. we'll look at how this epidemic has reached nearly every state in the u.s. great shot. how did the nba become the hottest league on the planet? by building on the cisco i

but that aside, this belief there should be no exceptions in cases of rape and incest, no exceptions really except to save the life of the mother, has gone in a really short amount of time from being a fringe position in the republican party to being the normative position in the republican party. mitt romney was the only one of the presidential contenders or of the republican contenders for the nomination who believed there should be exceptions. his vice presidential candidate like mccain's vice presidential candidate believes there should be no exceptions in cases of rape and incest. the platform says there should be no exceptions. many of the major speakers at the convention believe there should be no exceptions. this is the republican party position. what is fascinating is that people like me who pay close attention to this, who have been writing about it for a while, talking about it for a while, this has awoken many other people. you mentioned bob mcdonnell. >> the governor of virginia. >> something similar happened with the transvaginal ultrasounds. all of a sudden, somehow, i

>> they don't talk about the exceptions. romney talks about the exceptions.arty has been very clear those exceptions do not appear in it platform. some people have said, this is the rnc's platform, not romney's platform. these a big disconnect between what romney espouses and what his party espouses. the platform has been consistent over several cycles. they often call for these human life amendments. it's only because of todd akin that people are now paying attention to the extremism of the gop on abortion. >> let me ask you, congresswoman, we've got a new poll from gallup, maybe it conforms to your thinking there should be exceptions for rape and incest. 67% of your party in the gallup poll, which is a respected poll, say they'd like to see an exception for those two situations. and the platform does not make an exception. >> the platform is silent on exceptions. and i'm one of those members of congress that supports having those and allowing those exceptions. we send it pack to the states, chris. bear in mind that the platform is a visionary document. it i

it didn't make exceptions for rape and incest. no more exceptions. it reads, quote, faithful to the self-evident truths in the declaration of independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and afirm the unborn child has a fundamental right to life that can't be infringed. the 14th amendment's protections apply to unborn children. the 14th amendment says no person is denied life, liberty, and full access to the law and equal protection of the laws. why are they going into the personhood stuff in this platform that's ratified on monday? why are they getting into this in the midst of all this trouble? >> chris, as you know, the platforms are a nod to a ideological component of the party on either side. traditionally these things are generally sort of written in and quickly ignored because the leadership or the nominee takes a different position as is the case this time. the problem with the akin situation is the incident itself, but compounding the problem in a big way is the timing. look what we're talking about. we were all talking about paul ryan

his stance has never been an exception for any case. he's saying because mitt romney believes they can make an exception in a case of rape, he good go and defer to mitt romney being at the top of the ticket. >> what i'm saying is that the majority of people who are pro-life understand it's an incrementalist movement. as you get further into the issue and try to remove exemptions for abortion policy you're going to lose a lot of people. so people are willing to xrol on this sort of thing. >> nia malika out with a new ad in which she is mentioning todd akin. take a look at this. >> have you heard this? a republican running for u.s. senate in missouri actually said a woman who is raped won't get pregnant. listen. >> if it's a legitimate rape the female body has a way to shoot that down. >> this can't be happening in 2012 right? >> do you think this issue is going to go viral, keep spreading to republicans in state races across the country where, you know like clair mccaskill it wasn't going to be so easy, now things are tighter. >> of cour

platform is clear: no abortion, no exception. but the g.o.p.date disagrees. >> there should be exceptions in the case of rape and insist and when the life of the mother is at stake. >> but how would the delegates who ratify this platform reconcile the difference. >> i do believe the platform is correct that life begins with conception but w no exceptions. >> but mitt romney would allow for exceptions. >> correct. >> so that's okay for you? >> if that's the choice he makes, that's his choice. >> he is aay how willed to choose. this man is not a robot. >> and maybe it's not that big a deal anyway. >> i know the percentage is so small. so small of a person becoming pregnant from a rape that it's... i just don't even know if that's in equation because they say that percentage is just like... almost impossible. not impossible but close. and there have been some cases. >> yeah, about... probably about 32,000 a year. >> is it 32? >> thousand. 32,000. (cheers and applause) >> so why isn't mitt romney accepting the platform? he is the nominee. >> well,

exceptions to the government's decisions based on you supposedly being raped, those are bs exceptions. because any woman who says she wants an abortion because her pregnancy is a result of a rape, by definition, she's lying about the rape thing. that's the reasoning here, right? that's why you need to come up with the cockamamy fake science theory if you want to talk about that as a policy. quietly over the last few years as the republican party has slipped its moorings post bush and cheney, as the party apparatus has largely fallen apart and the conservative movement has stepped in and taken over in the party's place, as that has happened over the last few years, rape and incest exemptions have sort of fallen out of favor. for have already been people in republican politics who thought rape victims had it too easy and we should stop coddling the rape victims, the lying rape victims who secretly wanted it. those folks were always around in anti-abortion politics and republican politics, but now, in this republican party, they have taken over. pa it was sarah palin's position in 2008 a

now, interesting here they're all two-termers except for polk, but polk really is the exception that proves the rule if there is such a thing as an exception that proves the rule, because he's the only president that ever ran on a one-term promise. as soon as he got the nomination, he told the people, if i'm elected, i will only serve one term, and he kept that promise. and no one else has done that. so all eight who sought re-election got reelected, and all but two of those were succeeded by their own party which, as i say, i believe is the highest electoral assessment. the exceptions being wilson and truman. so history and the electorate are in sync here. now, let's look at those judged by history to be presidential failures. and there's a pretty strong consensus there too at the bottom. buchanan -- my least favorite president, i think he was a man of very low character -- pierce, drank too much -- [laughter] and was not much better than buchanan. andrew johnson, as i say, he lost control of the government. you can't govern if you can't control the government for whatever reason. f

abortions and there's no exceptions, that doesn't mean there's no exceptions. want to try that again? when paul ryan was grilled on the fact that his policy on portion is the exact same as todd akin, here was his answer. >> mitt romney is the top of the ticket, and mitt romney will be president, and he will set the policy of the romney administration. >> so the republican party's response so far to the allegation that the romney-ryan ticket embodiys the same views of todd akin, their response has been don't worry that paul ryan shares those views, he has no chance at being president, so elect him vice president. and the platform has nothing to do with the republican party's nominee, and just because the platform has no mention of rape exemptions in it doesn't mean there are not rape exemptions in it. they're now refusing to comment on reports that the anti-abortion doctor, from whom akin got his view has met with mitt romney and paul ryan in recent months. todd akin sited this guy by name as the source of his believes, and the romney campaign has been happy to

he is really the exception to the rule. he is the only president ever ran on one term promise that since he got the nomination. he told the american people if i'm elected, i will only serve one term and he kept that promise. no one else has done that. all soppy election, got reelected, and all but two of those were succeeded by their own party, as i believe is the highest electoral assessment. the exceptions being wilson and truman. the history and the electorate are insane. now let's look at what is judged to be presidential failures. there is a pretty strong consensus to the bottom. there is buchanan, my least favorite president, i think he was a man of very low character. president hears drink too much. [laughter] and he was not much better than buchanan. andrew johnson, as i say, he lost control of the government. you can govern if you can't control the government for whatever reason. president fillmore, i'm not sure i would think too much about him. and orangey harding and of course, since his departure from the white

and doesn't -- doesn't list out any -- >> bill: exceptions at all. >> exceptions at all. be in the republican platform. so you know, this is something that has -- essentially is the mainstream view of the republican party. >> bill: that's an excellent point. again, thank you for that. because so we hear all of this outrage now from all of these republicans like john cornyn and mitch mcconnell and everything. the rubber hits the road a week from now when they get to tampa and they adopt their platform and no matter all of the cries about race or akin, we'll see how they vote on that platform when they get to tampa which in its present form will basically embrace and endorse everything that todd akin has said. you hear that music. we're out of time. it always goes too fast. >> too fast. >> bill: thank you so much for coming in. we'll see you again next week. great work as always. think progress. thinkprogress.org. check it out. we do many times a day. >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv, this is the "bill press show." (vo) cenk uygur is many things

let's listen to what he had to say then, about the health exception for abortion. >> the health exceptions a loophole wide enough to drive a mac truck through it. the health exception would render this ban virtually meaningless. >> michelle goldberg, that kind of talk has been on the house floor for many years. i don't think mitt romney understood, when he chose paul ryan, that he would be bringing it right into this presidential campaign. >> and to be fair, he probably couldn't have predicted it, because this talk has been so prevalent, it's been in the platform, you know, year after year, or cycle after cycle. and usually people don't pay that much attention. i mean, that was in certain ways the favor that todd akin did all of us, was by really highlighting what it is that the modern republican party stands for. you know, the party has gotten used to being able to speak with two voices, or it's gotten used to being able to kind of play this double game, where it says one thing to its base and says another thing to the general public, and it kind of hopes that people won't listening to e

no exceptions policy.y are trying to roll back progress with women's rights, voting rights, and gay rights. this is the gop platform. this is your republican product. joining me now is alicia menendez, hufling ton post live host -- huffington post live. you this for bog the show tonight. >> thanks. >> what do you think about chris kobach and the gop platform? >> at least now we know who is leading the gop. there was a lot of talk about whether or not the anti-immigrant amendments were actually going to make it in even some members of the gop saying that they were too extreme, too far to the right, and yet, most of them did, most notably in my opinion, the -- embracing of arizona-style laws important the nation. and then also, this -- this specific plank in the platform that says that any university that offers in-state tuition to undocumented students would then not be able to receive federal funding. it is spiteful and wrong and can parade as many latinos as then want out gop convention. if they keep push

except for one.ressman yoder removed all his clothes, the only person to do so, according to multiple sources." some of those present took photographs of the group right after the late-night swim, sources said. dude, everybody threw you under the bus for being naked. today, congressman yoder went on a local radio show to explain the naked in the sea of galilee thing. >> members decided at the sea of galilee, they wanted to take a spontaneous dive into the sea and at some point, i decided to join them and made the real mistake of going in without clothing, and it's a regrettable incident. we were, you know, having wine with dinner, but alcohol really played no role in the decision to go in. >> judgment was unimpaired when you took all of your clothes off and jumped into a body water that is closely associated with not one, but two miracles of jesus. forha

that is simply not right and not good for our country. >> because of the exceptions only a fraction of women will be eligible for free services right now, but by this time next year, almost all those exceptions will be lifted. to see a detailed break down of numbers go to abc7news.com. >>> three bay area hospitals are part of a national effort involving more than 600 hospitals that will promote breastfeeding in newborn babies. it's called baby friendly hospitals. michael bloomberg is launching an initiative in his city as part of that plan. 27 hospitals in new york will no longer hand out promotional formula unless for medical reasons or at mother's request. breastfeeding is healthier option for those babies. >> anything that will improve your health. life expectancy in new york city three years more on the average than it is in the united states. >> cheryl: critics say the government should not feirnt with the mother's choice. the mayor says formulas are an acceptable solution because they can't breast-feed. >> go to our website for more at abc7news.com. >>> meteorologist mike nicco i

the recommendation on page 5 of the report, except for the exceptions to the interim budget, which include the hiring of 162 new positions as of july 1, 2012, positions that i stated we will analyze and make recommendations on in the next two weeks, we recommend that you do approve the ordinance, the 12-13-14 annual salary ordinance and 12-13-14 honoraria authority budget, and that you amend the business of the tax regulations code to include the annual tax allocation to the annual aquarium, which would be consistent with previous border supervisors policy. supervisor chu: thank you very much to the budget office. is there any item that you would like to speak to? >> good morning, supervisors. in the mayor's budget director. i will be presenting to you in a few moments and more thorough overview of what is in the mayor's proposed budget and how we appreciate the work of mr. rose's office. his approach at this time is appropriate. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you very much. let's open these items up for public comment. are there members of the public that wish to speak on items one, too

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and you must give these kinds of exceptions at a minimum.i'm pro-choice and i know you're pro-life, but there's some middle ground here where we can work together. don't let these bills pass. and i vetoed them. >> buddy, that middle ground is exactly the ground on which the personhood amendment was defeated in mississippi, right? because mississippi, as you and i both know, it is not some kind of pro-choice area, quite the opposite. but that personhood amendment was for more reason thinking mississippians a step too far. in many ways the birther comment is similarly a step too far for reasonable thinking americans who are like, okay, i don't support the president, i don't support his policies, maybe i even think bad things about him, but really, the idea that he's not an american citizen. >> you're out of the primary. you don't need it anymore. >> pivot! pivot! >> to me, this really reveals what they say about us when we are not in the room. that they are on such a feedback loop that he doesn't know that this is now out of step with the aver

'06 quake went through the quake just fine except one that had a lot of damage.t's interesting, the structural steel institute did a survey of san francisco after the '06 earthquake, that happened was the only building they omitted in their report. >> the williams building which actually had -- >> a lot of damage. all the other buildings went through fine. >> the steel frame is comprised of a number of different parts. >> there is a square box column here. and underneath this box column is fire proofing. it is not asbestos fire proofing. you don't have to worry about the asbestos. this is a nonasbestos fire proofing. it's got this much fire proof coating, so that for four hours, you could have a fire here, and the steel column would be protected. and the code regulates, that this is four hours, the girders that frame into this are three hours. the beams that frame into the girders are two hours, and the floors must be two hours. and that tells you how much, how long a fire can burn before there can be a problem. >> right. so this is sprayed on, onto this field. u

no more exceptions. reads, quote, faithful to the self-evident truths in trying to declaration of independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm opportunity born child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed and support a human life amendment to the constitution and endorse legislation to make clear the 14th amendment's protection through unborn children. mark, this is exactly in line with the personhood approach because that -- 14th amendment says no person shall be denied life, liberty and other full access to the law. and equal -- protection of the laws. why are they going into the personhood stuff in this platform that will be ratified monday? why are they getting into this in the midst of all this trouble? >> well, chris, as you know, platforms are usually a nod that's ideological components of the party on either side. traditionally, the things are generally sort of written in and quickly ignored because leadership or the nominee often takes a different p