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Office for protesting the vietnam war. cecil richards is no stranger to controversy. as a activist of planned parentho parenthood, and she's got a new book just published about her life appropriately titled "make trouble." please welcome cecil richards in the house on "the van jones show." welcome, welcome. >> thank you. >> well, first of all i actually read the book. >> i'm so honored. >> and more importantly i audio booked it, so i actually heard you read the whole book. >> with my texas accent and everything. >> and listen, there were times i was tearing up on the airplane and everything. p...

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Experiences. she joins me now. "make trouble, standing up, speaking out and finding the courage to lead." congratulations on the book. it is great to see you here. >> good to see you, too. >> what is your mission now? as you've written in the book anned a you see yourself somewhat freed from the obligations of -- >> the day to day -- >> day to day obligations of running an organization. you're your own person in every way now. >> i've been so proud to be at planned parenthood for 12 years. we have more supporters now than ever. we've beat back the efforts of this president and the congress to ...

Million members, which is more than twice the size of the national rifle association. so i'm feeling good about that. >> this book i think will broaden people's understanding about your activist chops and your organizing chops. it makes me think that you would be -- this makes me think you're going to run for office. are you going run for office? >> don't have any plans to run for office. but i learned early on never to say never. but i am completely focused on making sure that we elect every single progressive and woman that we can in november as we're seeing record numbers of women running f...

Are leaving planned parenthood right now. will you hold on for a moment and i'll ask you those questions when we come back? >> sure. >> cecile richards is our guest. her new book is "make trouble." we'll be right back.