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And the years for his yearslong friction with Harrison Ford. Soda gone flat. Controversy bubbling up over a new Kendall Jenner pepsi ad seeking to capitalize on political protest movements. Could buying sugary soft drinks bring an end to racial tension . But first the nightline 5. You know your heart loves mega red omega threes. Did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too . Introducing mega red advance four in one. Just one soft gel delivers the omega 3 power of two regular fish oil pills. So give your body mega support. With mega red advance 4 in 1. Number one in just 60 seconds. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. First daughter ivanka trump vowed that paid family leave would be a cornerstone of her fathers president ial agenda. And youre about to meet some expecting parents who believe policies like this cant come soon enough. Actually going as far as crowd funding their maternity and pa tearty leave. Heres abcs chief Business Technology and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis. And we have the crib here, blankets, a couple of things we got from the registry reporter lisa taylor parese is well prepared to become a mom. Just over a week left of her pregnancy. The boppy reporter the new nursery in her florida home is already filled with items from her baby registry. But at the top of that list, a unique request. Extended Maternity Leave. Lisa and her husband josh are asking friends and family to crowd fund their time off with the new baby. We have a twoincome home, my husband and i work fulltime. Im going to be out of work. Thats going to be a big chunk of our combined income. Reporter lisa is a manufacturing engineer. And plans to take 12 weeks off, most of which will be unpaid. Im entitled to six weeks of shortterm disability. Four of those weeks being at 60 of my salary. Reporter the couple started saving money to help bridge the gap. But when they saw the cash fund option on the registry site baby list, they set a goal of 3,000. So far, theyve raised nearly 500. But say every little bit helps. If you dont want to do it, no pressure. Dont feel the need to. But its something that i would be appreciative of and ill really need. I didnt anticipate getting it all. Reporter thousands of parents like lisa and josh are turning to crowd funding sites like baby list, plum fund, go fund me, seeking financial help to subsidize parental leave. Families ask for between 500 and 10,000. On average people are asking for 2,000 to 3,000. Reporter the United States is the only advanced country where paid leave isnt governmentsponsored. Under the current federal law, new mothers can take off 12 weeks. But only 13 of them will get any compensation. Nationwide, women are having to get more creative about how to fund this really special time in their life. When you think about it as a special time, it really becomes an experience and something that friends and family can give. Reporter taylor and ross likendiper wanted bonding time and started saving early before they got the news their son aidan would be born nine weeks early. I left work, going to a doctors appointment, and didnt come back for three months. Reporter taylor had developed preeclampsia and had to be induced. Doctors were immediately concerned about her platelet count and blood pressure. Reporter aidan stayed in intensive care for more than six weeks and taylor wanted more time with her newborn son once he finally got home. They turned to go fund me, the Popular Crowd funding site where friends, family members, and even strangers started pitching in. How did you make the decision to crowd fund the Maternity Leave . You know, nobody gets pregnant thinking that theyre going to have a sick baby. Nobody gets pregnant thinking that theyre going to be sick. We went into the whole pregnancy saving money. We body had good jobs. We did it all the right way. But clearly that wasnt the plan. Reporter taylor had just started a new job as a construction administrator. Although her company was supportive of her taking time off, she didnt yet qualify for any paid leave. So once aidan was in the hospital, we realized that it was not going to be financially feasible for me to stay home for very long. Because of the medical bills . Because of the medical bills and because of just our daytoday living. We only thought i was going to be out of work for maybe four to six weeks. The go fund me had been a thought but ross was a little hesitant about it. Ross, what were your biggest reservations . We had a health crisis, we had a baby, these are intimate days of our lives we were sort of putting out there for family, friends, public consumption. So i was hesitant about that. As i kept thinking it, it occurred to me that my pride, our privacy, dont outweigh taylor and aidan getting the chance they need to spend time together at this most crucial part of our lives. Reporter the critical bonding time between parents and their babies has become a hotbutton top nick the workplace. Big companies luring talent by boosting parental benefits. Last year etsy began offering all parents 26 weeks fully paid. And in 2015, netflix began offering a whole year of leave at full pay. On a national scale, the white house is taking on family leave. A charge started on the campaign trail by first daughter ivanka trump. The administrations most vocal advocate for working women. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide new mothers with paid Maternity Leave. Reporter in february, she held a private meeting with republican lawmakers at the white house to discuss paid family leave. But in a fraught Political Climate, there is little consensus how to bring about real change. My administration wants to work with members of both parties to make child care accessible and affordable, to help ensure new parents that they have paid family leave. Reporter a white house aide tells abc news that brumps Maternity Leave policy will be part of a larger tax reform package. But democrats like new york senator kirsten jillen brand say his plan is problematic. I was grateful that he did call for a National Paid leave plan but his plan wasnt that great. It was just for women. We do have to fix this. Reporter she werently introduced the family act, a bill that would help fund leave through insurance. The reason why we need a National Paid leave plan, a National Insurance plan, is so that all businesses can afford it. Today, only the most profitable businesses can afford it. Law firms, accounting firms, google, facebook, companies that are doing exceedingly well. If youre a mom and pop shop with four employees you couldnt possibly afford paid leave. Reporter on a local level only three states california, new jersey, and rhode island currently offer paid leave programs. If you were in charge, fix the system what do you do . Universal paid parental leave supported by the government. And that means financed by the government. Which obviously in the current Political Climate as nonstarter. But since im in charge of this scenario thats how i would go about doing it. Reporter taylor and ross go fund me ultimately raised more than 6,000 out of their 8,300 goal. It enabled taylor to take 11 weeks off with aidan. Time she says is better than any gift on any registry. The point is to be able to spend those couple of precious weeks with them when theyre brandnew. And we were blessed that we got to do that. Reporter for nightline, im Rebecca Jarvis in redmond, washington. Next, why alec baldwins famous snl impression makes him uncomfortable. 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Yes, this is real life, this is really happening. His iconic portrayal of President Trump on snl is alec baldwin at his most piercing. No, no refugees. America first, australia stuck sucks, your reef is failing, prepare to go to war. Where do you find your inner trump . To me i wanted to do this caricature. The goal was to make trump something very simple and very clear. Right away trump walks out and hes vulgar, hes kind of ugly, hes unhappy. The trump that i see never smiles. Take me to your leader its him its stressful to play him . Its stressful because its not somebody who i am in with. I dont mean to bash him constantly but trump is not someone i admire or supported him in any wayn you do him, it to do someone, to kind of get into that zone of someone whos very caustic, very unpleasant. Reporter President Trump hasnt been pleased either tweeting, the baldwin impersonation just cant get any worse, sad. I think the alec baldwin situation is not good. Reporter and baldwins wildly popular run on snl is just the latest chapter in a show Business Career thats stan spanned three decades. Ive always been not interested in peoples survival stories in the business. When i was young, ive been in this business 40 years okay, great, good for you. Reporter now 59, baldwins reflecting in his new memoir nevertheless. My sense from reading the in some ways youre an accidental actor. I think i am, interesting you said that. I think i am in terms of i went into this business and i remember saying to myself, to my dad especially, i said, ill give this a year. And if i have some provocation, if i have some encouragement to go further, ill keep going so long as i have some motivation to do so. Lets talk about something important. Reporter motivation that propelled him in movies like glengary glen ross. Put that coffee down. Coffees for closer only. Reporter in a tv series he calls the best job hes ever had, 30 rock. Money cant buy happiness. It is happiness. The show was the best opportunity of my life at the same time, i kind of find of strange, even in the book itself, the publishers put the word comedian in there. You dont think its funny . I dont view myself as a comedian. What i do on 30 rock, thats acting. People who are funny write the material. Tinas funny, she writes that. There are no bad ideas, only great ideas that go horribly wrong. Im very grateful that whatever ability i had to read a line could coincide with and intersect with her writing. Reporter baldwin is blunt, candid, selfaware, reflecting back on his earliest years growing up in middle class long island, new york. You go back to your childhood. Vivid, vivid memories of your childhood. Also the pain you saw in your fathers life. I was obsessed with work and making money because of my dad. I wanted them to be happy and they were crushed by debt and m. I remember i would go, got to m dont want to be like my choice . Oh, sure. Reporter one of his first o. His son. With addiction to alcohol and h. What if you hadnt stoed it thats a good question. Stuck. And therefore, if i didnt get it then, i. I got sober when i was just about to turn years that id as daily drug daily drinker, to was really, really seasoner and his biggest movied anybody whos selfaware a luck has a lot to do with it. October, to star in a big fi for me. That was the base point . You after the hunt foren you didn it looks like i jumped off a cliff. And here comes Harrison Ford. Right, that it was my own doing, which i wanted to explain that was nothing, they had completely engineered something. Reporter baldwin writes the films producers went behind his back to cast Harrison Ford for the sequel, cutting him out of the franchise entirely. Hard to be friends with Harrison Ford after that . Yeah, i mean, in explained very vividly in the book how hes someone who was a completely different kind of career than i. Mega movie star career, no doubt, im not diminishing that. But i think he makes his choices based on an entirely different set of values. Reporter life in the public eye has been tumultuous for baldwin. I want to press charges against her. Reporter numerous runins with paparazzi. Whats changed so much in my lifetime is this not just advent but this growth of social media. Where its a very slippery slope for celebrities. Especially if you have any kind of outspoken nature. Especially if you not slip and fall but trip yourself sometimes with some of the things ive been through. And its tough to survive. Reporter his most painful public scandal, that infamous voice mail left for daughter ireland in 2007. That voice mail you say caused a permanent break in that relationship. Permanent . I think that permanent insofar as i dont think anybody ever recovers from things like that. Its thrown in your face every day. As i mention in the book, there are people who admonish me or attack me or spit on me and use that as a constant spearhead to do that. Its a scab that never heals because its being picked at all the time by other people. My daughter, thats hurt her in a permanent way. Reporter for all his stumbles along the way, today baldwin says hes living his dream life, both in his career and at home with his wife elaria and three young children. As you wrap up the book and talk about elaria and your little kids, youre about as happy as youve ever been. You talk about in the business, youve got to be lucky. I have been lucky to some degree. Im luckier in my personal life. And im glad that im luckier in my personal life. Im lucky in my famy pick that. Reporter for nightline, im George Stephanopoulos in new york. And next, soda Justice Warrior Kendall Jenners controversial pepsi commercial drawing ridicule from highprofile people. Does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment . 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