Carly Fiorina: Planned Parenthood video no one else has seen 'absolutely does exist'

Carly Fiorina isn't backing off of her lurid claims about the horrors to be seen on a mysterious anti-Planned Parenthood video that apparently no one but Fiorina has seen. Pressed by Chuck Todd on the issue Sunday:

“Not at all. That scene absolutely does exist, and that voice saying what I said they were saying — “We’re gonna keep it alive to harvest its brain — exists as well,” Fiorina said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

But it's top secret and even though you keep talking about how important it is for people to see that this is going on, somehow she just can't show people anything but a fake video created by her campaign that still doesn't show what she claims. Steven Benen rounds up the growing list of times Fiorina has stuck by this story:

Fiorina made a very specific claim in the most recent GOP debate and that claim wasn’t true. Since then, she and her aides have repeated the lie, over and over again, pretending fiction is fact. ABC offered Fiorina a chance to clarify, but she refused, sticking to the falsehood. Then Fox News pressed the Republican to acknowledge reality, and Fiorina refused again.

Now add Chuck Todd to the pile, and it's clear: Fiorina thinks she has more to gain from having Republican primary voters see her as an anti-Planned Parenthood crusader than she has to lose from gaining a reputation as a liar. But the thing is, once you have a reputation as a liar—a reputation Fiorina could also get from her interesting descriptions of her time as Hewlett-Packard CEO—practically everything you say can be viewed with doubt, tainting an entire campaign. Which would be well-deserved in this case, so keep lying, Carly!