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joining me now is congresswoman carolyn maloney, democrat from new york and strong advocate for women'sh and maria teresa kumar, an msnbc contributor. thanks for your time. >> congresswoman, let me start with you. in your estimation s. romney/ryan making headway with women voters? zabs lawsuitly not. and the way to cure romnesia, which the president pointed out so clearly, is to re-elect him. and i believe in the closing days where women will be studying the differences between the democrats and republicans, and there are stark differences but on women's issues they are oceans apart. the way to cure it is to come out in droves and vote for our president. the president who trusts women, we trust him, and we have to get out of the vote and re-elect him. >> maria, as i'm traveling around, i'm really trying to focus on the people, however they vote, that this election is more than just a partisan fight. there will be one, maybe more, supreme court justices. >> absolutely. >> that will be picked by whoever is president in january and meaning that this will not be just about the next four yea

joining me now is new york democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney. you made headlines this year at a conference about birth control. let's replay that moment. >> what i want to know is, where are the women? when i look at this panel, i don't see one single woman representing the tens of millions of women across the country. >> now, turning back to romney's comments about binders full of women, "the washington post" headline calling it the new big bird. when you look at that, how do you answer those who say this is a campaign distraction? >> i don't think it's a campaign distraction at all. i think that there are many contrasts in this race, but a very big contrast is the differences between president obama and governor romney on women's issues. they are literally oceans apart. >> those who call it a big bird comment, are they really lowering the significance of what that might mean to some? >> no, the main point is that president obama doesn't need a binder to tell him about qualified women. some of his closest friends, his colleagues are women. his

the credit card industry earlier this year, as did his colleague in the house, congresswoman carolyn maloney. >> we can stop these abusive practices. it had gotten to the point that i couldn't even go to the floor of congress without hearing stories about credit card abuses, and it was really getting out of hand. we need to protect our consumers, not... >> bergman: times were different now. many americans were demanding change. >> the obama administration had done its own polling and seen that there was deep anger and hostility out in the country towards credit cards. and the administration knew that this would be an easy political target. >> bergman: people are angry out there, right? >> yeah, justifiably angry. i mean, the system failed them. >> bergman: timothy geithner is the secretary of the treasury. >> you know, we can't tell the american people that we're going to forget the damage caused by this and leave this system basically as it was. we're not going to do that. >> bergman: but even with the new political realities, it would still be a big battle to get the legislation passed. >>