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Trace gallagher, thank you. tonight planned parenthood asking the ninth circuit to block a trump administration regulation so it wont have to choose between giving up millions of your taxpayer dollars and doing abortions my joints... they hurt. the pain and swelling. the tenderness. the psoriasis. i had to find something that worked on all of this. i found cosentyx. now, watch me. real people with active psoriatic arthritis are getting real relief with cosentyx. its a different kind of targeted ...

Planned parenthood claims burdensome change to complain -- to -- a higher priority on the ability to abortion instead of continuing to receive federal funds, kathy they do have a choice. >> unfortunately planned parenthood and the trump administration are making this about abortion and title x is not about abortion. it is actually about health care for low income women. so there are 4 million women in the country who benefit from this. and usually, they are young, they are poor and they depend o...

Abortions above keeping all those other surfaces. in place. and so that is a choice they are making. they are prioritizing abortion and abortion referrals instead of prioritizing the reproductive health services that they say that they want to provide for women who can afford to go to other places, but again planned parenthood is not the only clinic in the country that is available for women who are on medicaid, for example. there are 100,000 plus doctors in the country, private doctors who take...

Jackson a blue dot in the sea of red. i kaug tcaught the mayor after state of the union to see what he thinks is going on with the clinic. >> i greatly disagree with the way people have been harassed as they have entered into that womens health clinic and thats something that we are focused on on eradicating. >> he said something many women in my life wish more men would say. >> i cannot tell a woman what she can or cannot do. >> im trying not to hug you. [ laughter ] >> and men who love telling...

Side of it which is your business if thats true -- >> i need this for my health and this is the only place i can get it without having health insurance. so park the car, walked through these propest toers in my spacf screaming, baby killer, you need to give your baby a second >> i got three months worth of pills for $3 and walked out through the protesters. >> planned parenthood is one of the nations leading providers of health care. only 3% of their work is abortions. is rest is sti and hiv tes...

Know, its a good thing we caught it early. we need to put you on medicine and thats birth control pills and fine and dandy until i was unemployed and i was about to run out of pills and so there was a free clinic and i went there and the guy rushed in and does the blood pressure looking at my face and ears and said okay, youre good. i said well, actually, i also need these two prescriptions filled and one of them is birth control pills. he says birth control pills? we dont do that here but plann...

I do all the pro-choice whipping and helped plan parenthood. well have a really diverse and broad caucus and not as much of a majority as people think. i love jim. jim is my colleague. i worked with him for many years, i think i would be a great addition. >> i think with women, freshman members that said they wouldnt vote for her. how much potential trouble do you think nancy pelosi is in right now ahead of the floor vote or do you think she has it locked down? >> the issue is that to win in the...

Spending would take 60 votes. instead of saying we dont have 60 votes to defund things, the other side would have to fund plan parenthood. >> its an interesting way to look at it in the opposite direction. since john boehner has stepped down are you asking senator mitch mcconnell to step down? >> im trying to influence the debate in our country by saying you know what, why dont we let all spending expire and make them start over. what were doing is not working. were adding a mountain of debt to ...

Yeah. then howd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. ok. [ voice of dennis ] silence. are you in good hands? >> and if, because of the lack of clarity in my words, that they came away with an impression other than those that i stated a moment ago, that life is precious and that i abhor violence and im confident god abhors violence and rape. if they came away with an impression other than that, i truly regret ...

Republican party platform which would ban safe and legal abortion without any exceptions give full constitutional rights to fertilized eggs and repeal the birth control benefit. richard mourdock is the only senate candidate in the country with a tv ad starring mitt romney. its not enough for the romney campaign to issue a statement disagreeing with richard mourdocks appalling remarks. joining me now for an exclusive interview are planned parenthoods president cecile richards and martha plimpton....