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julianne malveaux and laura bassett of politics reporter for the huffington post. both for joining me tonight. how devastating can this be politically for the republicans? >> it can be extremely devastating. this makes no sense at all. no sense for them to limit contraception. as president of a women's college, i can't tell you how critical it is that young women have options. contraception is simply a form of health care. there's nothing controversial about contraception unless you want to make it so. most republican women support the availability of contraception. so this just seems to get them headlines as opposed to being any kind of practical measure. now when you look at what rush limbaugh continuing his attack on sandra fluke today, testified at the hearing on contraceptions. let me show you what he said, laura, today. >> if we're going to have to pay for this, then we want something in return, ms. fluke. and that would be the videos of all this sex posted online so we can see what we are getting for our money. >> i mean, can you believe he is saying this an

joining me now is laura bassett, reporter for the "huffington post."he's writing today about romney's latest attack o parent. and jess mcintosh, spokesperson for emily's list, which helps elect democratic pro-choice women to office. great to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> laura, let me start with you. how devastating for romney could these comments be for him? >> it's a really bad idea for romney to bring up planned parenthooded ed at all. it just reminds people back in 2002, not only did he seek planned parenthood's endorsement, he attended planned parenthood fund-raisers, he said on a survey that he supports state-sponsored abortions wit s and this is a pretty wild flip-flop. words that he chose, let's just get rid of planned parenthood. it was so flippant and a lot of people rely on planned parenthood for basic health care. so i think this is going to be an issue for him politically. >> laura, that's critical, a lot of women depend on planned parenthood for health issues that have nothing to do with abortion or anything connected to t

i'm joining by laura bassett. thank you for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> how are these remarks seen in the context of this recent g.o.p. pressure on women's rights particularly reproductive rights. we all thought the susan g koman disaster was the low point of that. does this look like it will replace that. >> this is a new low point in terms of rhetoric. i think the problem is that the argument that he's trying to make about, you know, women want men to pay them to have sex is just so absurd. it's beyond what the republicans are saying. it's beyond what the democrats are saying. this is about women's healthcare and i think the democrats have been sort of if a natcally trying to get that point across. even fluke's testimony was not about having sex and but it was about her classmate who had a golf ball-sized cyst on her ovary and needed healthcare for that reason. rush but says that what a lot of republican men think is that women go out and try to pay men to. prompromiscuous. >> is it hintcracy or ignor