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Questions about whether or not he was a republican, democrat, independent or none of the above. again, if you are just joining us, it is 2:30 here in washington, d.c. just a couple minutes before the top of the hour, senator john mccain released a statement saying that he would vote no for the graham/cassidy health care bill. let me read you a portion of his statement once again. i cannot in good conscience vote for the graham/cassidy proposal. i believe we could do better working together, repu...

A republican texas elector, one of the people whose members of the archaic structure called the electoral college is resigning. his statement reads in part, "since i cant in good conscience vote for donald trump and made a pledge that i would, the best option is to resign as my position as an elector. the people will get their vote, their skittles for dinner. i will sleep well at night knowing i neither gave in to their demands nor caved to my convictions and mourn the loss of our republic." hea...

Conscience vote for donald trump and made a pledge that i would, the best option is to resign as my position as an elector. the people will get their vote, their skittles for dinner. i will sleep well at night knowing i neither gave in to their demands nor caved to my convictions and mourn the loss of our republic." heavy stuff. as hillary clintons lead in a popular vote continues to mount, the electoral college put in part is now ratifying the will of a minority of voters and it is just one of ...

Excruciating position. because there is no good way to turn. the threat of hillary clinton as president of the united states is real and present. and so were going to have to extend grace and respect and courtesy to evangelicals who in the sanctity of the voting booth will simply say im not going to vote for donald trump, but im going to vote against hillary clinton. and others, and i count myself in that group, will be unable to vote for either of the major party nominees. i will vote, but i am...

To this type of obscene behavior, and it is unbecoming of anybody seeking high office." in light of these comments, donald trump should step aside and allow our party to replace him with mike pence or another appropriate nominee from the pulp party. i cannot in good conscience vote for donald trump and would never vote for hillary clinton. c she is from virginia, a battleground state. brian stelzer from "reliable sources" weighed in on the fallout from donald trumps remarks. >> hey there. of al...

Votes because we want there to be competition between republicans and democrats for the womens vote. unfortunately where we are right now is republicans are making themselves into a party that women absolutely cannot in good conscience vote for. >> as i alluded to in the uctiintrod, carly fiorina sort of deflected questions about her tenure at hewlett-packard by going on this tirade on planned parenthood and also going after hillary clinton and her accomplishments. did fiorina pick the wrong bat...

Come. this will continue to steam. the question is how far do they want to take snit. >> we did see a couple of democrats on the first vote, the only vote weve seen in the wake of these videos in the senate. they had to get past this procedural vote. they needed 60 votes to get to the first pass at defending. they had two democrats that went with them. kimberly, do you think the numbers will grow? >> the question for democrats who are so easy to do this war on women theme, if they dont turn off ...

And the question is how far do they want to take it? >> well, we did see a couple of democrats on the first vote, the only vote weve seen in the wake of these videos in the senate, they had to get past this procedural vote. they needed 60 votes to get to the first pass. they couldnt do it but they did have two democrats who went with them. kimberly, do you think that number is potentially going to grow? >> the question for democrats who are so eager to do this war on women theme is if they dont ...

Stands, especially with the fact that schumer could start to lobby and get support for people to vote against it. >> so schumer said that this is a vote of conscience. he doesnt want to specifically lobby his fellow members against it. well take him at his word for that. the most dangerous place to be is between chuck schumer and a tv camera. for everything we know hes not going on television this weekend speaking out against the deal. that is significant. it seems hes going to allow his fellow ...

Want to bring in piers ackerman, national columnist with "the daily telegraph" he joins me live via skype from canaberra. as we explained, australias opposition leader, bill shorten, introduced the bill into parliament monday. aiming to legalize same-sex marriage and pressure tony abbt to allow a conscience vote on the issue. why not let that go ahead? seems fairly straight forward? >> well there are a couple things. basic politics, rosemary. the coalition government hasnt had a parliamentary me...