>>> yo der is in damage control mode after embarrassing revelations he swam naked in the sea of galilee. it took place during a congressional trip last year and other gop lawmakers and staff also apparently jumped into the water and kept their clothes on. yo der issued a statement apologizing to his constituents and has stayed out of the public eye today failing to attend a scheduled event in wichita. it comes at a bad time as you can imagine for the gop . let me bring in senior political editor mark murray . may not be a bad time for yo der. obviously everyone is talking about akin and what happened there.
>> that's right. saves grace for congressman yoder is the fact that everyone is paying attention to congressman akin and his controversial comments about rape. the political vultures are all circling over todd akin 's head and allowed congressman yo der breathing room and romney being asked he questions about akin and not yo der. when you take them together it is a black eye for house republicans. already with congress' low approval rating and when americans are tuning in to hear news about that particular story what happened in the sea of galilee a year ago or reading about it, they have to say there is congress again.
>> it is interesting, mark. so far we have heard senator mitch mcconnell , corning well in the last hour coming out, basically saying that akin needs to take time to his family and all indicating they're nudging him out of the race here. mitt romney is not saying that. is there a need to have a stronger or the strongest wording come from the gop presidential candidate on this? we know mitt romney conducted a new interview and we read an excerpt from it and it is not going to air until later today and it does not include language that akin needs to step down.
>> you're right. so far we heard from mitt romney who has did he plord the language that congressman akin used and hasn't reached the level we have seen from senate republicans on the campaign committee, certainly trying to nudge him out of the race. as we reported, american cross roads , that karl rove super pac said they won't be running any more advertisements in missouri. there is a divide right now between a lot of the establishment political types like the nrsc, like american crossroads, even like mitch mcconnell verses the social conservatives . we have actually seen the family research council come to congressman akin's defense. you have this divide and the question is for congressman akin which is more influential to him, social conservatives or these establishment republicans?
>> does it also put a divide with romney and ryan in that ryan co-sponsored a bill with akin regarding the personhood amendment and also a woman carrying out a pregnancy even in the case of rape?
>> tamron, this puts everyone in a box including mitt romney , including paul ryan . this is the last thing they want to be able to talk about heading into their convention. it starts a week from now. one reason why you might not see romney going as strongly as mcconnell is because there are social conservatives defending congressman akin.
>> thank you very much, mark
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