what i decided to do was to fulfill my profession before which i entered before my husband was in public life. hillary clinton had was facing those questions and she was slammed for the way she answered it. in fact, the clinton aides, the campaign aides took her outside and she immediately did a news conference with us on a street corner to try to say she was not demeaning people who worked outside the home. there you are. thank you. thank you, but you know, the mommy wars really i think have been so overblown. i think women who work outside the home, women who stay at home, they all have hard jobs and we need to make sure we respect the priorities of women, barack obama does. mitt romney does not. thank you for that perspective, debbie wasserman-schultz. thank you. and nbc news chief white house correspondent and host of the daily rundown chuck todd joins me now. i know you feel strongly that the issue, the mommy war issue
about there s actually a middle ground here called workplace flexibility, things like that. there are other parts of this conversation that it didn t spark the debate i think a lot of working mothers would like to have. how about paying women who work in the home or making sure that they get some social security benefits for the years that they put in raising children. that s been an issue for a lot of stay at home mothers for a long time. there s a lot of issues we are not debating while we re going off the track. we learned that conservatives will quickly rally around mitt romney in a way. any doubting that, watch how quickly they rallied around that. and secondly, they are nervous go about the gender gap. that gap in places like suburban colorado, suburban philadelphia and the suburbs of florida, virginia, they can t be down double digits. interesting stuff. thank you very much, my friend. chuck todd. and still ahead, lone star showdown. latest in the battle over women s
i ve always been a rodent and rabbit hunter, small varmints if you will. and i began when i was oh, 15 or so and have hunted those kinds of varmints since then, more than two times. well, i m not sure he s going to be talking about those varmints or them varmints or whatever you call a varmint. whatever those are. but clearly he, when you talk about edge issues, guns are an issue for generally republican candidates. and clearly mitt romney is going to try to fire them up. yes, and this really. no pun intended. this shows the tension and the difficult line that he s walking and it ties into the women s issue because i took a look at the gender gap between men and women on gun rights issues, and guess what, it s just what you would expect. women are much more sensitive to approving of gun restrictions than men are.