we begin with ann marie buerkle. buerkle: thank you. we just heard dan fac support not to look back. the lady doesn't hold himself accountable, whether it's the affordable care act, cap-and-trade can a stimulus bill, dodd-frank is to create an distorted distress and this is a national can be and he goes right along with the democratic party. i spent 16 years as a volunteer. i understand domestic violence. i understand that things and how they suffer. i am a mother of four daughters and four granddaughters and i would not do anything to weaken the rate statues. dmsa knows that. they were deceptive, distorted in my two women and worse yet he's good behind kurds of those big guns of rape and that's reprehensible as a woman. >> moderator: ursala rozum, the way this has been handled in the public television ads. rozum: it's an issue focused on in tv advertising because it's a very emotional issue and for the record, i am pro-choice and i think anything related to abortion or how to deal with rape is a woman's personal decision. i think we ne

ann marie buerkle? uerkle: dan said don't look back and he does not hold themselves accountable whether cap and trade, a stimulus bill, dodd/frank, affordable care act, to distort and distract. it is with the democratic party nationally. i spent 16 years as a volunteer. i anders and domestic violence and the victors -- victims and how they suffer. i have four granddaughters i would not do anything, anything to weaken the statue. his ads word deceptive, a distorted and he lied to stand behind the skirts of those victims of rape and that is reprehensible. >>moderator: your response to this being a primary issue the way it has been handled with public television advertising? >> an issue of focus because it is a very emotional record. i am pro-choice for the record for i think how to deal with rape is a woman's personal decision. we need to focus on issues like real solutions and a focus has been an attempt to discuss real solutions to the economic crisis how to get people back to work for avoiding topics of

ann marie buerkle, do you think there's such a thing as global warming? buerkle: i think there is climate change. i've said that over and over again but what i don't agree with is that there has been a consensus on whether not and contributed global warming. what i do know is about to pass cap-and-trade, to pass, to vote for cap-and-trade as dan maffei did that would actually paralyze our businesses and increase their costs and decrease the availability of energy. it's the wrong way to go. there are reasonable approaches to develop energy in this country. we have to do it as a just mention in a reasonable manner or it doesn't hinder to either extreme but to find that ground in the middle that will make this country energy independent, giving all that's going on in the middle east we should be doing everything in our power to become energy independent. we can do that while we protect our environment, what we do what's right for the american people transcend so you believe there's climate change. you're not sure it's because of man's interference with the cl

we begin with ann marie buerkle. buerkle: we just heard dan maffei say it is important not to look back. one way he doesn't look back and hold himself accountable the affordable care act, cap and trade, stimulus bill, to create and distort. this is a national campaign democrats are running, i spent 16 years, i understand domestic violence and the victims of domestic violence. i am a mother of four daughters and have four granddaughters, i would not do anything to weaken the statutes. dan maffei's ads were distorted and lied to women and worse yet, he stood behind the skirts of those victims of rape and that is reprehensible as a woman. >> moderator: ursula rozum, your response to this issue being a primary issue in this race in terms of the way it has been handled in the public television advertising? rozum: it is an issue that has been focused on in tv advertising because it is a very emotional issue and for the record i am pro-choice. anything related to abortion or how to deal with rape is a woman's personal decisi

it's just too extreme, like ann marie buerkle. would redefine rape for only forceable rape, women that were drugged or minors of statutory rape would not be classified rape victims. >> what happens in missouri isn't staying in missouri. todd akin is everywhere and he's every republican's problem. joining me now is reporter sat salon.com and laura bassi, a journalist who covers women's issues for "the huffington post." thank you both for your time tonight. erin, how bad is the todd akin problem for republicans? >> this was the race that wasn't even supposed to be competitive and now they are saying, well, he can probably still win due to hatred of president obama in that state. >> when you say probably, and he wasn't even supposed to be competitive, he was supposed to win? >> he was supposed to win, yeah. this is a state that has become more conservative. president obama really isn't fighting there. the biggest problem is that he made it about more than abortion, he made it about rape victims. so now we've created this opportunity

there are some things you have to draw a line as just too extreme, like ann marie burkle and what actually constitutes rape. buerkleponsored a bill with congressman todd akin that would redefine rape to mean only forcible rape. >> i'm joined by anna palmer, who's just written about this new strategy. anna, good morning. >> good morning. >> one of the things we talked about when akin first made these remarks is whether they would have legs. it is interesting to me that we're seeing them now. is there any indication that it's working? >> right now we're really just starting to see kind of the tip of the iceberg in a lot of other states it's starting to come out. and even when akin isn't mentioned by name, it's really given democrats an edge to bring up rape or members, kind of votes on some controversial women's issues. and so far, i don't think we've quite seen whether or not it's actually going to play out in their favor, but it's definitely a tactic that they see a as a winni winning one. >> are you hearing anything that this might expand and we'll see this with other congressional races? >> sure, some of the stat