this is not the todd akin problem, it's the todd akin party. when local news outlets in states like pennsylvania covered the controversy look how they covered it. >> ryan like romney distanced himself from akin's remarks but in congress he joined him in opposing abortions even when a woman is raped. >> should abortions be available to women who have been raped? >> i'm proud of my record. >> in congress, paul ryan joined todd akin. this attempt to paint akin has the isolated in the party has not gone according to plain in the last few days. because a, the press has done its job, and b, the republican parties position is the todd akin position. the platform adopts for the entire party the todd akin policy of no exceptions, no empathy for rape or incest victims. mitt romney and because he was all over the platform process, does this mean they're running the presidential ticket on todd akin's abortion policy? >> as far as our platform is concerned, this is the platform of the republican party. it's not the platform of mitt romney. >> oh. the republi

this is not the todd akin problem, it's the todd akin party. when local news covered it, listen to how they covered it. >> ryan like romney distanced himself from akin's remarks but in congress he joined him in opposing abortions even when a woman is rained. >> should they be available to a woman who is rained. >> i'm proud of my record. >> in congress, paul ryan joined todd akin. >> this has not gone according to plan in the last few days and that's because a., the press has done it's job, and b, the republican parties position is the todd akin position. they adopt the todd akin policy of no exceptions or emp think for rain and invest victims. since they're about to nominate mitt romney and because he was all over the platform process, does this mean they're running the presidential ticket on todd akin's presidential policy. >> this is the platform of the republican party, not the platform of mitt romney. >> oh, the republican party platform has known to do with the presidential nominee. rnc communications director, sean spicer, tried it as wel

todd akin and paul ryan. when you think todd akin, think paul ryan.an could have said the very same thing. that todd akin said on sunday. it is just that paul ryan wasn't dumb enough to say it. he believes it. he wasn't dumb enough to say it. let's go to denver, colorado. hi greg. thanks for joining us. >> caller: how you doing bill? >> bill: i'm doing good. thanks. >> caller: what is next for these guys? they don't like children born out of wedlock so maybe they're going to go for the victim of a rape should also have to marry her attacker just so that they can have a family unit. these people are disgusting. i can't believe they get elected each election year. here in colorado, we had senator -- candidate republican candidate senator buck who not only had this young lady where he said she was not raped but they had an amendment on there and he has the same position as the rest of the republican party and then they wonder why this guy didn't win? i hope we get to run against this year. i really do. >> bill: you're right greg. there is another example

that human life amendment has been endorsed by paul ryan, todd akin and mitt romney. hypocracy here? they say todd, you are embarrassing. come on. now people know what we really believe. jesus, you let the cat out of the bag. get out of the race because you cause us to not get the senate. at the same time they are sxwras sxwrasingembracing his platform as the republican party. it didn't just start now. let's talk about this. we know now who they are 866-557-7377. the "new york times" today front page, front page article says that this is the same agenda republicans in the house have been pushing for the last two years and more with the support of john boehner, with the support of eric cantor led by todd akin and paul ryan. ten different pieces of legislation that will strip women's rights away from them 10 different ways of denying women the right to control their own bodies and limiting cases where there could be an abortion and trying to redefine rape and all of this stuff. 10 different pieces of legislation, co-sponsored by todd akin and paul ryan in the united stat

. >> todd akin throws the missouri senate race into chaos. >> the republican party now has a todd akin problem. >> with incendiary comments about rape and abortion. >> so-called legitimate rain. >> legitimate rape. >> if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut this thing down. >> this caveman view of the sexes. >> his views expressed were offensive. rape is rape. >> this created a huge problem for the romney campaign. >> paul ryan is being forced to defend his own record. >> there is no daylight between paul ryan's views and todd akin's views. >> last year paul ryan -- >> this personhood amendment. >> no taxpayer funding for abortion act. >> paul ryan was a cosponsor of that. >> he joined with mr. akin. >> their ticket suffers from pathological hypocrisy. >> i believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. >> do i believe the supreme court should overturn roe v. wade? >> yes. what they believe is women don't have a right to their own bodies. >> my presidency will be a pro-life presidency. >> i'm not for federal funding of abortions. >> planned parentho

is being forced to defend his own record. >> there is no daylight between paul ryan's views and todd akin's views. >> last year paul ryan -- >> this personhood amendment. >> no taxpayer funding for abortion act. >> paul ryan was a cosponsor of that. >> he joined with mr. akin. >> their ticket suffers from pathological hypocrisy. >> i believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. >> do i believe the supreme court should overturn roe v. wade? >> yes. what they believe is women don't have a right to their own bodies. >> my presidency will be a pro-life presidency. >> i'm not for federal funding of abortions. >> planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. >> it's not just paul ryan and it's not just todd akin. >> we had the debate about birth control and the transvaginal probe debate. rush limbaugh's comments about sandra fluke. >> women have a right to equality. >> women -- >> women -- >> women -- >> women know what's going on. >>> with 78 days to go until the presidential election, a crazy republican congressman, no, not the one who's on the ticket with mitt romney,

from todd akin to paul ryan. >> this is consistent for paul ryan. is is a long-time alliance that ryan has had. >> we also have paul ryan not only joining with akin on redefining rape, but the personhood amendment. >> good to see both of you. good morning. >> good morning. >> this morning, donald trump condemns akin. i don't know, will he have to cave to pressure and drop out? what's going to happen here? >> you have seen this party bring down the full force of the establishment and pulling funding and calling him to drop out. mitch mcconnell did the same thing. nor is it clear that the republicans haven't already done. we have the 5:00 p.m. deadline. gop leaders are eyeing that. after that, it gets more complicated. you have to get a court involved. so far, he does not sound like a candidate to bow to pressure from the establishment. you wonder if he can embrace the idea he is the anti-establishment candidate and rally the far right in missouri. >> that's part of the he indication here and you cover congress now tied apparently in the race for senat

. >> today, todd akin, will he dropped out at missouri's senate race? we will speak with michelle goldberg are his views that different from republican vice- presidential candidate paul ryan? michelle goldberg is with newsweek and the daily beast. last year, todd akin and brian co-sponsor the no taxpayer funding for abortion act that attempted to redefine rape. >> rape is rape. the idea that we should be qualifying and slicing what types of rape we're talking about, does not make sense to the american people. it certainly does not make sense to me. >> then, "the invisible wounds of war: coming home from iraq and afghanistan." marguerite guzmÁn bouvard and the record number of soldiers committing suicide. >> this issue, suicide, is perhaps the most frustrating challenge that i have come across since becoming secretary of defense last year. >> we will go to south africa where police shot dead 34 striking mineworkers at a mine owned by lonmin, the world's third largest platinum producer. >> the history i read about the massacre was a history and never thou

karl rove, the mastermind of the money, withdrew all his money from todd akin. the -- mitt romney, soon to be nominated, said the same thing. paul ryan called, although paul ryan apparently stopped short of demanding his soul mate, akin, get out of the race. four republican former senators in missouri said the same thing, but the problem they've got is that todd akin is six terms in the house. he's got his own independent base. he's a very hard-line right to lifer. straight down the line, as hard as you can get. you remember how paul ryan said nobody is more pro life than me? well, the other guy who is no more -- you can't be more pro life than is todd akin. he's got that national support, and i have to say, i was pretty impressed with the way he stood up to them all, but he lived in a different universe from them, ezra. a different world, and it's a world within the republican party that the republican party created over a couple generations. i followed this personhood movement, wrote about it in my book. that started as a fringe theory. it's now absolutely cent

the only difference between paul ryan's position and todd akin's position is todd akin is willing to use fake science to act like fake rapes and invest don't exist. paul ryan has not baultherred to feed you the fake science. he by apparently this disagreement statement they put out, he presumably knows that rape victims and incest victims do sometimes get pregnant and he knows what he wants the government to do, force those women to bear those pregnancies against their will until term. which one is worse? saying you want to force a woman who has just conceived against her will to also give birth against her will by order of the government? or telling yourself a fake science fairy tale so you can pretend the women don't exist and you would never want the kind of government that would do so so barbaric to a woman for nine months after the barbarism that was done to her in the incident afforded? which is worse, the person with the fairy tale or the person without one? because they both want the same policy either way. it's just that in the newfangled republican mike huckabee way of just

mike huckabee was holding todd akin by the hand right there in that interview. huckabee introduced the words forceable rape and akin went right along with him. forcible rape was the language republicans put into a house bill trying to define the term rape in order to end federal health care funding for any abortions. a member of the united states conference of catholic bishops told congress that the term forcible rape was an effort on the part of the sponsors to prevent the opening of a very broad loophole for federally funded abortions. two of the sponsors of the bill were todd akin and vice presidential candidate paul ryan. nbc news confirmed paul ryan, the candidate called todd akin today. but he wasn't calling him to agree with him despite their agreements in the past. in a campaign statement, the romney camp wrote, governor romney and congressman ryan disagree with mr. akin's statement and a romney/ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape. mitt romney delivered his own harsh criticism of todd akin later today. >> his comments about

todd akin was way ahead.en we look at some of the seats that are being targeted, you have been in this game a long time. nebraska, north dakota, montana, wisconsin, virginia, missouri. do you think with this todd akin controversy that mccaskill can hold on to her seat, do you think the democrats will hold on to the senate? >> frankly, i never gave up on claire. anyone who knows her knows she's a fighter and she is the mainstream candidate and he is the extreme candidate. but here's why i think you're right to look at a broader look at the country. when people look at todd akin, they will shocked but then when they look beyond that to see what mitt romney has said about women's health and what paul ryan has said and done and what legislation he has co-sponsored that really go after women, i think we'll see a bigger gender gap across the country. i really do. i have been in this a long time and one of the things that's been frustrating to me is i've been going around saying there's a war on women and it isn't j

eastern standard time deadline for todd akin to easily exit the senate race, leaving that race now willequire the complexity of a court order. as the deadline approached, mitt romney released a statement reading in part, "i think akin should exit the senate race." earlier today, todd akin released a new television ad that will air in missouri. >> rape is an evil act. i used the wrong words in the wrong way, and for that i apologize. as the father of two daughters, i want tough justice for predators. i have a compassionate heart for the victims of sexual assault and i pray for them. the fact is, rape can lead to pregnancy. the truth is rape has many victims. the mistake i made was in the words i said, not in the heart i hold. i ask for your forgiveness. >> a just-released nbc news poll shows that paul ryan provided no bump to the romney/ryan ticket. among registered voters nationally, the obama/biden ticket leads the romney/ryan ticket by four points, 48 to 44%. before the addition of paul ryan to that ticket, president obama led mitt romney by six points, 49 to 43%. joining me now, msnb

mitt romney cannot stop todd akin. paul ryan cannot stop todd akin.nn coulter cannot stop todd akin. karl rove cannot stop todd akin. the only people, only people who can stop todd akin from going to the united states senate now are the voters of missouri and their senator, claire mccaskill. joining me now, msnbc's joy reid and richard wolffe and michelle goldberg of "newsweek" and "the daily beast." let's listen to what rush limbaugh had to say today, advising republicans how to handle this issue. >> for any and all of you republicans, when you are asked why you don't have a rape exception in the party platform on abortion, don't answer it. don't get into the substance. don't answer the question, republicans. don't go anywhere near it. it's a setup, it's a trap. you turn it right back around on them, and you ask the reporter if they've asked the democrats about the extreme aspects of their position. >> joy reid, yet another example of why rush limbaugh could never spend a day as a political candidate himself. of course, there is nothing extreme in th

other than claire mccaskill, the people happiest about the todd akin story are a bunch of republican freshman who have been overshadowed by the akin foolishness, if you will. worse than foolishness. the biggest news story last summer was house republicans taking the country to the brian withing of default, as we covered on this show, by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. by the time they ended that, it caused standard & poor's to lower america's credit rating. you think that would leave house members chasing the republican surprise, but a trip to israel funded days later were not taken that hard. politico reports that on august 18th, six congressmen on the trip took an alcohol-fueled post dinner dip in the sea of galilee, including one congressman that swam in the need. this coming on the same weekend on the akin comments is another black eye for republicans. i don't know what to make this, mark, i'm slow to jump on this, the other story was horrendous, this guy's attitude about women and their rights was beyond cave man. but this, they go swimming at night. they go over to learn abo

nbc news confirmed paul ryan, the candidate called todd akin today. but he wasn't calling him to agree with him despite their agreements in the past. in a campaign statement, the romney camp wrote, governor romney and congressman ryan disagree with mr. akin's statement and a romney/ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape. mitt romney delivered his own harsh criticism of todd akin later today. >> his comments about rape were deeply offensive. and i can't defend what he said. i can't defend him. >> mitt romney did not defend todd akin. but he will defend paul ryan, who sponsored the same forceable rape legislation as the congressman from missouri. furthermore, will romney defend himself? because back in 2007, romney called a bill to ban all abortions terrific, and said he would be delighted to sign it. the same year, romney told abc news he supports human life amendment to the constitution. this amendment would outlaw abortions even in the case of rape or incest. if romney can't defend todd akin, he can't defend his own record.

. >> and of course, todd akin. oh, is there todd akin. as ed would say, let's get to work. >>> deadlines. deadlines are exciting in politics. they are just great. polls close, budgets are due, petitions are turned in. if you're a reporter, you're waiting there for something to happen. it's a problem, my problem. deadlines mean something has to happen. it's great. but today, we had a truly exciting and unlikely deadline on our hands, one we didn't expect even a week ago. by 5:00 p.m. central time, todd akin, he of the theory that the female reproductive center has a red spuricide behind a red glass case. had to decide if he would drop out of the race for the senate seat held by claire mccaskill. as my friend rachel maddow explained last night, if akin didn't drop out today, it becomes really hard for him to drop out. he's got to get a court order. a total mess. today, we heard akin's decision which was for many republicans the least welcome big "d" decision since lebron james decided to take his talents to south beach. >> right off the bat

romney le exige que renuncie al congresista republicano que habló de violaciones legítimas pero todd akinre renunciar. >>> 8 de cada 10 personas detenidas son hispanos se denuncia discrim. >>> esto y más en el noticiero univisión , comenzamos ♪. >>> este es su noticiero univisión con jorge ramos y maría elena salinas >>> hola, ¿qué tal?, muy buenas noches, comenzamos con buenas noticias para los indocumentados en arizona, a pesar que la corte suprema de justicia decidió que la policía de arizona podía pedir los documentos a los detenidos, eso no ocurrirá por ahora ,porque otra corte en arizona no permitióq que entrara en efecto. >>> al término de la primera audiencia de la corte federal de phoenix, no hubo cambios y por ahora el poder que permite a la policía pedir papeles de residencia legal continúa en espera. >>> lo que ha dicho la corte suprema que en la evidencia que tenían no pueden bloquear la ley. >>> la ley por lo tanto ahorita todavía tiene un paro. >>> por primera vez la juez susan bolton escuchó descargos, donde hay decisiones que pueden anular la ley sb 1070. >>> es la primer

day we have been waiting for. >> thank you for having me. >> we did a long ideological analysis of todd akin and his positions and the implications for the gop but the real reason at the heart of all this back and forth between gop party elders and the akin campaign, the real reason for this outcry is because the gop wants a chance at the senate, is it not? >> yeah. look, when todd akin won the primary earlier this month, republicans were not sort of overjoyed at that prospect. john bruener and sarah steelman were the other two candidates. both of them probably matched up better with claire mccaskill but the argument was claire mccaskill is a freshman senator running in a state that barack obama is going to lose. she's been an ardent, high profile defender of barack obama, and she had a personal private plane that she acknowledged she had not paid taxes on for some time. so you think add those things up, all todd akin had to do honestly is just don't appear in public between the day he won the primary and november 6 and he likely would have won the race. now, of course, you know, todd akin m

todd akin said something that nobody has ever espoused. let's get rid of him and that will take care of our problem. it's not actually true to characterize todd akin in that way. todd akin himself has been citing somebody by name and explaining where he came up with this cockamamy theory that your body when raped can distinguish that the sperm in question is from a rapist and should be rejected as opposed to other sperm. he cited an anti-abortion doctor named john willke. think progress posted audio from a conservative talk show interview with todd akin in which he repeatedly references this dr. wilkke by name. >> you know, dr. wilke has released a statement and part of his letter, i think he really stated it clearly. >> who is dr. willke who he is citing as his source for the crazy theory that has captivated all of american politics? dr. john willke, a former romney campaign surrogate. a guy important enough to romney that they put out a stand-alone solo press release headlining his endorsement. so paul ryan doesn't know anybody who would