. >> i disagree with your views on rape and incest but not a deal breaker. (laughter) well, if romney wasn't willing to throw mourdock under the bus the same couldn't be said for your friends at morning joe. >> it is remarkable what republican candidates have said this year. >> i know. >> regarding abortion, regarding rape. >> jon: finally, republican admits fellow republicans is renug-- repugnant. please, continue with the moral stand you take. >> i'm a pro-life guy. but they are driving away so many swing voters. >> jon: no, that's not the problem. that's not the problem. no, no, no. the problem is the beliefing of the things, not that he-- the problem isn't that he violated the first law of the fetus club which is don't talk about fetus club, like that's not-- because it's the idea. i mean where does mourdock get his crazy fringe ideas about rape and abortion anyway? i done know, maybe from mitt romney's running mate, paul ryan who cosponsored a sanctity of human life act so severe it not only could outlaw all abortions but also could effectively ban in-v

do you have to prove you were a victim of incest? how long does that take?y that point isn't it too late? the logical extension of these positions leads you to an i will illogical conclusion, one so extreme that this nation would not want to find itself in that place. >> eliot: it is extreme. it is crazy. the map that we see so often these days, the red and the blue map on electoral votes if roe v. wade is overturned it would soon be impossible for a woman to get an abortion. that is going to fundamentally change civil rights. mitt romney wants to pretend no such thing will happen. this event will shatter the edifice that he's trying to create over the past week or two of the moderate mitt romney. i hate to say if it will help anybody because this is so crazy and abhor abhorrent but this is the outcome. governor jennifer g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry univers

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and if you assume abortions are only legal in the case of rape or incest or the life of the mother, howtablish rape panels?work? if you carry it out, right? it doesn't seem to -- >> we have some guidelines because right now we have the hyde amendment, which will only fund abortion for women on medicaid in the case of rape incest or if they their lives are danger. you can imagine the way that rape survivors are treated in this culture, they are already retraumatized in the criminal justice system so the idea of a rape board is pretty horrible. >> jennifer: we can assume that if mitt romney is elected he would i will up to his promise to appoint supreme court justices that would overturn roe v. wade. thank you for much for joinings. clint eastwood is back on the campaign trial. that story right after this. (vo) cenk uygur is many things. >>oh really? >>"if you ever raise taxes on >>the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true! nah, he's probably got... [ dennis' voice ] allstate. they can bundle all your policies together. lot of paperwork. actually... [ dennis' voice ] an all

in 2010, it was five republican senate candidates who wanted to force rape and incest victims to carry those pregnancies to term against their will, because the government was going to force them to do it. this year, it's even more than that. it's richard mourdock in indiana, rick berg in north dakota. it's michael baumgartner in washington state. it's pete hoekstra in michigan. it's tom smith. it's todd akin in missouri. it's josh mandell in ohio. seven senate candidates in these high-profile states hold that same position. seven. here's how josh mandell of ohio reacted today when he was confronted with richard mourdock's feelings about god's will and rape victims. >> he said that, i think, even when life begins in the horrible situation of rape, that this is something that god intended. is that something that you would denounce or -- >> i think i would want to see his comments -- is there a video of it? >> it was in a debate last night. >> yeah, i think i would want to see the video or see the debate before commenting on that. >> but it's true that you do not have an exception when i

fact, he thinks abortion should be an optn in cases of rape, incest, or to save a mother's life.his issue's important to me, but i'm more concerned about the debt our children will be left with. i voted for president obama last time, but we just can't afford four more years. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> we have started to see some the sunshine you were talking about. >> in parts of virginia, closer to fredericksburg. it will be pleasant but cloudy saturday, pleasant and sunday on sunday. have a great president obama: i'm barack obama and i approve... this message. anncr: victims. dependent. that's what mitttt romney calld forty-seven percent... of americans. including pele on medire. but what about his plan for you? romnmney would replace guaranted benets with a voucher system. seniors could pay six thousand dollars more a year. a plan aarp says would undererme medicare. yore no victim...you earned your benefits. don't let mitt romney take them away. athat's what the plan georged allen supports... would cost our economy. newspapers called it "economic

he's been very consistent arizona governor romney, they believe in an exception for rape and incest. >> no, unless he's saying something privately to you than he's saying in public. >> this is small ball. this election is so big. >> can i say as a woman -- >> no, no, i'm not going to interrupt you. i was talking. this election is about the economy. this election is about how many folks are in poverty, how many folks are on food stamps. >> i don't deny that. this is the story that has evolved. >> if the democrats want to focus on contraception and abortion rather than the direction of this country, i think it's a mistake. >> ron, it's your candidate in indiana who has blown this story wide open nationally. actually forcing candidates to respond to it. do you stand with mourdock? >> no, absolutely not. >> i'm talking about the candidates. >> i'm not going to interrupt if you don't hog the mike. let me say this, as a woman, i take issue when i hear another man say it's small ball to talk about reproductive rights and reproductive women's health and access to those things. that's not sma

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romney says, i have got an exception for rape and incest.n and richard mourdock find ways to justify it. these are not slip-ups by todd akin and richard mourdock. this is what they actually mean. they can only contain the monster for some time. then finally they just say it. why do they say it? it's because their policy is hideous. my god if you get raped they're going to have this rapist--you got to have his kid! can you imagine? just sit back for a second and imagine how hideous that is. do you know in over half the states that that guy gets visitation rights? then you have to see him for the rest of your life as that kid grows up. that is their policy. wait a minute, that's not fair to mitt romney because mitt romney says there should be an exception for rape an incest. no, that's not how it works. mitt romney is not going to to back legislation. mitt romney is going to pick a supreme court nominee. then the supreme court nominee will likely switch the vote to 5-4 against roe versus wade. then the supreme court decides. if the supreme cou

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"we disagree on the policy regarding the exceptions for rape and insteft but still support -- incest but still support him." the republican chair says it is the right move by romney to stand by murdock but not for this issue. >> i think it's absolutely fine for him to disagree with the candidate he endorses on one issue, and i'm the chairman of the republican party, and i don't agree with candidates who we endorse on every issue. >> reporter: president obama's campaign said "murdock's statements are outrageous and demeaning to women." and they said it was a reminder of the gop's views on women's health. both campaigns have issue the statements byou not the -- issued statement, but not the candidates. both want to keep a distance from murdock. >>> some polls indicate that governor brown's prop 30 tax plan is barely hanging on. so he is asking voters to make a choice: approval a temporary tax hike or accept deep cuts. >> what i can tell you is our options are very few, if any. >> reporter: what would the triggers mean? the biggest hit will be to k-12 education which is expected to take

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he was against abortion even in the case of rape and incest.at senate seat because of this. these issues are all over the state of colorado right now. you know, the polling is not instantaneous, and i think you're going to see a real shift in these polls once women in particular start to realize it's not an isolated example with, for example, representative akin saying this. it's a pervasive view throughout the republican party, and don't forget, paul ryan has voted for her proposals in congress that say exactly this. >> congresswoman, thank you so much for your time. you've been busy, and perhaps not as busy as the president but hanging in there yesterday in colorado. thank you very much. greatly appreciate your time. >> you're welcome. >>> the "news nation" gut check was up next. it was a big deal with when colin powell broke rank to endorse president obama four years ago. will his endorsement this time around have the same effect? it's our gut check. it's swanson flavor boost. concentrated broth to add delicious flavor to your skillet dish i

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rape, incest and the life of a mother. in the case of mourdock, he explained why he doesn't think there should be an exception for rape. mitt romney does think there should be an exception for all three of those things. so that's -- >> is that good enough, dana, to put out a statement from one of your staffers? or does he need to take the bull by the horns and say -- and like you said before, almost throw him under the bus, somewhat, in order to make sure you protect -- let's put the gallup poll up of how women -- you mentioned, he's desperate to get the women's vote. where do women fall on their importance of agenda. and it's at the top, dana, 39%. it's the top issue for women. and this was gallup -- this was conducted between october 5th and 11th so fairly recent. but it's pretty significant when you see it trumps jobs. >> that is why democrats pounced on this. and the ad you just played was from the democratic national committee. it's just a web ad, but clearly they want this to go viral. and they were playing the telev

paul ryan, of course, doesn't think they should be able to have an abortion in the case of rape or incest either. >> i want to show some tape. back to you, alex, because you are so good at this. let me ask you this. we have had people flip-flop, but he flips within hours. this week he said i'm not going to go do anything. i'm going back to mitt romney here. on this sort of strange bedfellows ticket. he's out there saying, i'm not going to do anything on abortion rights, and then andrea saul immediately corrected it and said, oh, yes, he is. she called "the national review" a conservative magazine to make the point. so what is the policy? what the assistant says afterwards or what he says when most people are watching? it's one of those 47% things. the bigger the audience, the less likely he is to tell you the truth. >> i mean, we have likened mitt romney's positions to a carousel. one day it's that color horse, the next day another color horse it just spins round and round. what we do know -- to be honest, chris, grover norquist has said we just need someone sitting in the executive offic

i think he supports it in incest, rape and massachusetts elections. it's a serious issue but he looks like a joke where he has held five different positions. >> let's listen to joe biden in ohio today talking about another president who raised taxes. >> ronald reagan did not do this. i served with ronald reagan. ronald reagan had a massive tax cut and it did not work he ended up raising taxes 11 times. ronald reagan did not do this. ronald reagan couldn't even be the standard bearer this time based on what he did. >> it is so true that ronald reagan could not possibly win the nomination this year among republicans since he actually raised taxes as governor and president. >> and would be hard even with his reputation now as the ultimate cold warrior. he could never have gone out there saying, as mitt romney did, well they kept the drones and we should go in there and bomb the place or invade. that was mitt romney's position in the primaries. ronald reagan never took those positions. well, there was grenada. there was such a wide gap over these many dec

also, exceptions for the life of the mother and rape and incest and so on.oved way off his extreme position, which just shows that joe biden is on the winning side of the argument. >> isn't this state by state thinking begging the question, whatever state you happen to live in outlaw abortion? everybody makes the same vote. it just takes time to get it done. if they were all anti-abortion t will be anti-abortion nationwide eventually. >> of course. the thing i thought was really interesting about these two different answers was listening to that answer biden just gave, which was an answer to the middle of the country. i don't personally like abortion, but i'm not going to impose my views. what did we hear paul ryan saying? we believe unelected judges, we don't think they should impose their will on the people. his answer was really focused on the republican base, on pro-life voters. biden is talking to everybody. he's talking to people who are ambivalent about abortion but think they want to have -- >> one other thing is go back and look at paul ryan's answe

i favor one that would have an exception for incest and rain, and he doesn't. we thought it was only for the life of the mother. i agree with him on that. yes my position has evolved. i would like to see the american who faced with 15 million abortions isn't rethinking his or her decision. i will say i support the president's decision and comfortably from a moral standpoint. >> so you believe it is akin to murder? >> i support the president's position. >> fine. congresswoman, what are your views with respect to the separation of commoich and state and do you believe it was right for the archbishop of philadelphia have those letters read and urge the voters to fight abortion with their votes? >> let me say first of all, i believe very, very much in separation of church and state. if you go back to the 1600's and people came here, the reason they came here to this country was to escape religious persecution. that's the same reason why people are coming here today in the 1940's to escape naziism and now to escape communism so they can come here and practice their

can we deal with the two million who aren't a result of rape and incest and just have that exception there? is that such a big problem? and when you're running for office, stop talking philosophically. >> the latest poll, "usa today" /gallup says abortion at 39% is the number one issue for women in 12 swing states. you surprised by that? >> i'm suspicious of that. i understand from pollsters that a very dangerous way to take a poll is to give people a multiple choice answer because respondents feel like they're taking an iq test and will check off the one they think is the correct answer. there is no correct answer. the way they should really ask polls like that is to have a fill in the blank question which is why insane things like campaign finance reform would show up very high on polls. >> would you like romney if he wins to overturn roe versus wade as he has threatened to in the past? >> well, i don't think it's much of a threat. it seems to me from much of the public dialogue, people seem not to realize that even if roe is overturned, abortion up until the last minute and even t