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Republican primary. you know the populous wing of the republican party generally does not nominate people. republicans actually do usually nominate the more moderate person running. and this year could be an exception. i think jeb bush is the favorite for a lot of reasons. in my view i prefer a bush/clinton race because they would be harder to beat jeb bush but i think it would be safer for the country. this year is the year i think the usual routine could be upended. there s a lot of ferment among conservatives in the republican party. if they unify behind a candidate, they could take out jeb bush. all right. let s get to the controversy surrounding indiana s religious freedom law because yesterday, as you know governor mike pence said he would consider language that would clarify the intent of the law, which has come to be perceived as discriminatory against gays and lesbians. let s take a listen to how he responded when asked yes or no if the bill discriminates ....
The romney campaign is distancing itself today from richard mourdock s statement the indiana republican running for the senate about women who get pregnant after being raped. though the romney campaign is not asking that the endorsement advertisement from romney of mourdock which just went up on monday be taken down, the timing for the romney republicans couldn t be worse. here what is mourdock just had to say at a news conference in indiana. are you trying to suggest that somehow i think god ordained or preordained rape? i don t believe that. anyone who would suggest that that s a sick and twisted that s not close to what i said. joining me now is michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee. michael, thank you very much for being with us. good to be with you. the romney campaign is not asking to take down that advertisement so that s still playing in indiana. right. just saying that they disagree with what he said about rape and abortion. is th ....
Abortion and had to clean it up. i bet you that s a sophisticated ed board, i bet the obama people keyed off that to some extent to say if we can get away with not being fully accessible let s try it. minimize the chance something could go wrong. and, of course, that key endorsement will come saturday from that paper. now indiana, richard mourdock, we made reference to this in the open, richard mourdock is the candidate who defeated dick lugar in the republican primary and here in this very important state, this very important senate race, did he say anything last night that will antagonize women voters? chris cizilla, is this more of an issue? we re told the romney campaign disagrees with what he said but not stepping away from him from the point of asking him to take down that ad, an ad that only went up on monday. and still says they support him broadly but don t obviously support his comments. look andrea, i always think that ....
Particularly when it s already playing to type, it s already about that race, it s about is richard mourdock too conservative for the state of indiana? mark, there in chicago, you re picking up a lot of optimism and we re hearing we ve got the momentum from mitt romney in iowa. where do you think the truth lies? do both sides think they ve got momentum? because clearly from your reporting, we ve been exchanging e-mails, you think that chicago thinks that they can win this. nbc news analysis is, you re going to need the women and the hispanics and you need hispanics in colorado and in florida if you don t win ohio. where do you think it stands? i agree with what chris has been suggesting. it s a one state election. hard to see the winner losing ohio. it s mathematically possible but hard to do. i talked to senior officials in the campaign and they laid out for me their case. i m not a stenographer, i m not ....
My colleague tamron hall has a look at what s next. hi, tamron. it s 13 days to go. romney camp trying to put out a fire over a candidate and the comments over rape. this time it is richard mourdoch out of indiana. governor romney says he won t take back an endorsement. we ll look at this one. plus, congressman paul ryan as andrea mentioned will be giving a big speech within the hour in cleveland. his fist major policy speech addressing the american dream and poverty. our panel will weigh in on the timing of this speech and how his budget, paul ryan s budget factors in. plus, an off the record interview with the president is released and he s made some very candid comments on immigration and the importance of the latino vote. we ll have details on what the president said and what state paper this interview was conducted with. ....