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Rep. Todd Akin isn’t making any new friends following the controversial comments he made Sunday night debating the legitimacy of rape.

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Akin was supposed to appear on CNN’s Piers Morgan, but was a no-show, forcing the anchor to interview an empty chair!

Morgan blasted Akin as a ‘gutless little twerp’ as he pretended to interview the Missouri Congressman on Monday night. 

Morgan told viewers that one of Rep. Akin’s aides claimed the Congressman planned to appear live on his show Monday night, however, “at the last possible moment” Akin canceled the appearance on CNN, “leaving us and you looking at an empty chair.” 

During an interview over the weekend in St. Louis, Akin was asked why he doesn’t support the legalization of abortion in cases where a woman gets pregnant as a result of rape.

The Congressman said: 

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy from rape) is really rare…If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Rep. Akin later apologized for his words and said he misspoke. Take a look at Morgan interviewing an empty chair in the above video.