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Votes because we want there to be competition between republicans and democrats for the women's 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 battle in attacking hillary clinton's record? >> it's kind of a strange battle to wage. carly fiorina,...

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 we've 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 don't turn off people in the middle who are really disturbed watching these videos. the question for republicans ...

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 we've 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 couldn't 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 don't end up turning off a lot of people in the middle, as peter said, who really do and are disturbed ...

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 doesn't want to specifically lobby his fellow members against it. we'll 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 he's not going on television this weekend speaking out against the deal. that is significant. it seems he's going to allow his fellow democrats to vote on this as a conscience vote. all that being said it's a numbers game. what ea...

Want to bring in piers ackerman, national columnist with "the daily telegraph" he joins me live via skype from canaberra. as we explained, australia's 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 hasn't had a parliamentary meeting on thisser to for a number of years. it was defeated three years ago. under the labor govern...