this is "nightline." >> tonight, labor pains. what every expecting parent is talking about. how to pay for their maternity or paternity leave. some parents to be now resorting to crowd funding. >> we realized that it was not going to be financially feasible for me to stay home for very long. >> raising thousands of dollars, but some say the government should pick up the tab. the debate raging at the highest offices. plus smart aleck. >> who here loves trump? >> the beloved baldwin spilling secrets about his famous "snl" impression. >> it's stressful to play him because it's not somebody i'm in love with. >> the part of his dark past that he's never talked about before. >> i describe overdosing on drugs, which i've kept very private for years and years. >> and the years for his

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good evening. thank you for joining us. first daughter ivanka trump vowed that paid family leave would be a cornerstone of her father's presidential agenda. and you're about to meet some expecting parents who believe policies like this can't come soon enough. actually going as far as crowd funding their maternity and pa tearty leave. here's abc's 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 two-income home, my husband and i work full-time. i'm going to be out of work. that's 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. >> i'm entitled to six weeks of short-term 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, they've raised nearly $500. but say every little bit helps. >> if you don't want to do it, no pressure. don't feel the need to. but it's something that i would be appreciative of and i'll really need. i didn't 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 isn't government-sponsored. 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 doctor's appointment, and didn't 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 they're going to have a sick baby. nobody gets pregnant thinking that they're 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 wasn't 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 didn't 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 day-to-day 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, don't 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 hot-button 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 administration's 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 brump's 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 wasn't that great. it was just for women. >> we do have to fix this. >> reporter: she weren'tly 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 you're a mom and pop shop with four employees you couldn't 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 i'm in charge of this scenario that's 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 they're brand-new. and we were blessed that we got to do that. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm rebecca jarvis in redmond, washington. next, why alec baldwin's famous "snl" impression makes him uncomfortable. and later, conservatives and liberals finally come together over their contempt for new politically charged pepsi ad. this this this this is my body of proof. proof of less joint pain and clearer skin. this is my body of proof that i can take on psoriatic arthritis with humira. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific

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alec baldwin's impression of president trump is so iconic that an international newspaper once mistakenly used a photo of him dressed in his "snl" wardrobe for a cover story about the actual president. alec explains why that impression is in fact quite discomforting for him and opens up about the darker moments in his career. here's abc's george stephanopoulos. >> thank you for coming. i'd like to start by answering the question on everyone's mind. 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 he's vulgar, he's kind of ugly, he's unhappy. the trump that i see never smiles. >> take me to your leader! >> it's him! >> it's stressful to play him? >> it's stressful because it's not somebody who i am in love with. i don't mean to bash him constantly but trump is not someone i admire or supported him in any way in terms of his politics. so when you do him, it's tough to do someone, to kind of get into that zone of someone who's very caustic, very unpleasant. >> reporter: president trump hasn't been pleased either tweeting, the baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse, sad. >> i think the alec baldwin situation is not good. >> reporter: and baldwin's wildly popular run on "snl" is just the latest chapter in a show business career that's stan

spanned three decades. >> i've always been not interested in people's survival stories in the business. when i was young, i've been in this business 40 years! okay, great, good for you. >> reporter: now 59, baldwin's reflecting in his new memoir "nevertheless." >> my sense from reading the book, correct me if i'm wrong, in some ways you're 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, i'll give this a year. and if i have some provocation, if i have some encouragement to go further, i'll keep going so long as i have some motivation to do so. >> let's talk about something important. >> reporter: motivation that propelled him in movies like "glengary glen ross." >> put that coffee down. coffee's for closer only. >> reporter: in a tv series he calls the best job he's ever had, "30 rock." >> money can't 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 don't think it's funny? >> i don't view myself as a comedian. what i do on "30 rock," that's acting. people who are funny write the material. tina's funny, she writes that. >> there are no bad ideas, only great ideas that go horribly wrong. >> i'm very grateful that whatever ability i had to read a line could coincide with and intersect with her writing. >> reporter: baldwin is blunt, candid, self-aware, 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 father's 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 money. that really drove me nuts. i remember i would go, got to

make money, got to make money, don't want to be like my dad. >> any money choices you regret? >> oh, sure. >> reporter: one of his first big role in the 1980s was on "knots landing." >> i'm his son. his son. >> reporter: that role coincided with addiction to alcohol and cocaine that he says nearly killed him. what if you hadn't stopped drinking on february 23rd, 1985? >> that's a good question. i was one of the people who was lucky that it stuck. and therefore, if i didn't get it then, i would have gotten it eventually. i got sober when i was just about to turn 27. and those two years that i lived in that white hot period as a daily drug abuser, as a daily drinker, to my misery, boy, that was a tough time. it was really, really a lot of pain in there. >> reporter: baldwin got seasoner and his biggest movie yet in 1990. >> he intends to defect. >> anybody who's self-aware and has had success in life knows luck has a lot to do with it.

what was your break? >> "hunt for red october," to star in a big film, that changed everything for me. >> that was the base point? boy, you confront what happened after "the hunt for red october" when you didn't get the sequel. >> it looks like i kind of 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 film's 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 terms of i explained very vividly in the book how he's someone who was a completely different kind of career than i. mega movie star career, no doubt, i'm 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 run-ins

with paparazzi. >> what's changed so much in my lifetime is this not just advent but this growth of social media. where it's 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 i've been through. and it's 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 don't think anybody ever recovers from things like that. it's 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. it's a scab that never heals because it's being picked at all the time by other people. my daughter, that's hurt her in a permanent way.

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♪ we are the movement >> reporter: disarming tensions between police and protesters with help of a sugary beverage. the similarity with this iconic image offended some activists who accuse pepsi of trivializing the black lives matter movement. the daughter of dr. martin luther king jr., shot dead in memphis 49 years ago this week, tweeted, if only daddy would have known about the power of pepsi. this afternoon, pepsi apologized to dr. king's daughter and pulled the spot. ♪ i'd like to buy the world a home ♪ >> reporter: coke famously keyed in on political turmoil in the 1970s with its hilltop ad. a madison avenue moment so successful, it served as the series finale for "mad men." ♪ i'd like to buy the world a home ♪ >> reporter: but pepsi hasn't had don draper's touch. a few years back the company pulled this mountain dew web ad featuring a rambunctious goat -- >> better not snitch on a

player! >> reporter: in a police lineup with black men. pepsi does have regrets. the company notes commitment to diversity. 42% of the company's senior executives are people of color. ♪ this generation >> reporter: the company says its new ad was trying to project a global message of unity, peace, and understanding, adding, clearly we missed the mark. i'm david wright for "nightline" in new york. >> thank you for watching abc news. and as always, we're online at abcnews.com and our "nightline" facebook page. thanks for the company, america. good nig