cecile richards coming up with a big announcement. >> that's right. >> stephanie: all right.ple don't want to just survive. we want everybody to thrive. [ applause ] >> obama: we want folks to have a chance at the top. so who's policies are more likely to lead us to where we want to go. >> elizabeth hasselbeck was just sitting there seething. >> i hate you people! >> stephanie: robert gibbs. >> mitt romney has anned a van tenure because he has been through 20 of these debates in the primaries over last year. he bragged that he was declared the winner 16 of those debates, so i think having been through this much more recently than president obama. i think he comes in with the advantage. >> he was debating, herman cain 999, and rick santorum oops. >> low bar. >> stephanie: if mitt romney has to drop out -- [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: -- because of what does peggy noonan call it, a rolling calamity. this guy may step in. robert san felipeo had a son, he struggled however, not so good apparently with the baseball -- >> i feel his pain. i was not an athletic boy

we also had cecile richards.nk overall, the way that the issue of choice and trusting women has been framed as just that. as he mentioned, some have called it abortion palooza. i find that both offensive and completely inaccurate. i don't even know that cecile richards mentioned abortion a single time. i think it's been much more a message of empowering women, trusting women to make their own decisions, and to me, that's a message that plays very well across the country. but i wanted to hear, steve, what you thought of it. >> well, a couple things. oh, steve. i'm sorry. >> i'll just say something quick. i think you're right, krystal, but i think there's clearly an effort there by the democrats to ratchet up support as what they see as key demographic groups here. women, particularly single women, particularly college educated women are a big part of that. the point howard made at the beginning, you can drive home with an example from not-so-distant past. that's the last democrat to run for re-election, bill clint

we have cecile richards speaking tonight. we had the leader of nral last night. emily's list.s one by one by one, each of them sort of a checklist in spite of the fact that abortion on any open list of volunteered most important issues is never higher than tenth. never mentioned by more than 3% of voters. yet, it has dominated the discussion in the first night. >> there's one thing that sort of mystified me, though. it's a convention, maybe like the republicans of people with safe seats. you would never know from watching the first day and a half that they lost 63 seats two years ago or a year and a half ago. the election of 2010 was a devastating setback. we're sort of abstracted from all that as if it never happened. >> woodruff: and the conversation about comparing this convention to previous conventions, most people i talk to say this is a much more uunited looking, acting, democratic party than we've seen in the past for all the different interest groups. >> i think it's a more homogenous party, no question about it. and there is less open discord, and less discord. i thi

. >> that was cecile richards, the president of the planned parenthood federation of america.e waging of war on women. now whether you agree with it or not, the numbers show a double digit gender gap between president obama and mitt romney, tonight, sandra fluke is here as well, as you remember, she was called a slut during one comment. >> during this campaign, we have heard about two profoundly different futures that could wait for women in this country. and how one of those futures looks like an offensive, obsolete relic of our past. they are not imagined, that future could become real. in that, america, your new president could be a man who stands by when a public figure tries to silence a private citizen, with hateful slurs. a man who won't stand up to those slurs, or to any of the extreme, bigoted voices in his own party. it would be an america in which you have a new vice president who co-sponsored a bill that would allow pregnant women to die preventible deaths in our emergency rooms. an america in which states humiliate women by forcing us to endure invasive ultrasound

. >> well the cheering went on for another 45 seconds before clearly choked up cecile richards spoke.e poor george can't help it, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. this wraps up this hour of "jansing and company." thomas roberts is up next. >> good morning. the agenda next hour, 48 minutes that's it of classic bill clinton. could it help president obama gain four more years as president. reverend sharpton, ed rendell, they are all here to grade the evening and discuss how president obama can seal the deal in his speech. sandra fluke flays mitt romney over women's right. she will also be here to discuss her big dnc moment and what is next in her future. and the always funny, unfiltered wanda sykes and the embracement of marriage equality. ches your . the delightful discovery, the mid-sweetening realization that you have the house all to yourself. well, almost. the sweet reward, making a delicious choice that's also a smart choice. splenda no-calorie sweetener. with the original sugar-like taste you love and trust. splenda makes the moment yours. olaf's pizza palace gets the

thank you. >> ifill: cecile richards whose mother is, of course, ann richards.y in 2006 and gave one of the most remembered speeches at any democratic national convention. mark? >> she sure did. one of great lines was ginger rogers did everything that fred astaire did and the only difference was she did it backwards and in high heels. a marvelous phrase maker and mr., mayor, if i'm not mistaken the last democrat to win stayedwide office in the lone star state. >> ifill: let me reintroduce san antonio mayor juliaaÁn cast. >> that's right, mark. in preparing the keynote address i had an opportunity to going go back and look at her remarks in 1988. she was the last texan to deliver the keynote address and the original one was congresswoman barbara jordan. >> ifill: those were some footsteps to follow. >> and i knew i couldn't. >> will texas have a democrat -- the demographics seem to be in your favor. we've been hearing for a long time about texas becoming blue. >> that day is coming. i believe it's sooner rather than later. three quick reasons. first, the growth o

here's cecile richards. >> good evening.f the millions of mothers, daughters, wives, sisters, and friends. republicans and democrats who have counted on planned parenthood for health care and in honor of the thousands of doctors and staff at planned parenthood health centers all across america, i am proud tonight to support the re-election of president barack obama. two years ago, when paul ryan and john boehner and todd akin and the tea party took over the house of representatives, they promised us they were going to create jobs and jump start the economy, but instead, on day one, they came after women's health and they haven't let up since. right? so first, they voted to end cancer screenings and well women visits for 5 million women. they voted to end funding for birth control at planned parenthood. and for good measure, they even tried to redefine rape. and now, mitt romney is campaigning to get rid of planned parenthood and overturn roe v. wade. and we won't let him. this past year, women learned that when we aren't at

-- also on the program, massachusetts senate candidate elizabeth warren, planned parenthood's cecile richards. one more point about bill clinton's speech, anybody who thinks that this is going to be anything other than a full-fledged endorsement of president obama's policies has spent too much time reading the "washington post." democrats top republicans on their first night because it was simply a better run tv show. did ann romney and chris christie -- as question said then, taken together it was discourse that -- miopportunity rising from humble backgrounds and the convention audience seem to be more i emotionally and more passionately dominated the hall, a stark contrast to night one at the rnc, thumb and simply structure. the first lady mixed the personal and the professional. it was a speech designed to address her husband's biggest vulnerability right now which is disillusioned democrats. >> change is hard, and change is slow and it never happens all at once. but eventually, we get there. >> with president's likability polls shrink over mitt romney, michelle tried to get democrats to f

other speakers today include los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa, cecile richards who is the president of planned her head, and sandra fluke, the recent graduate of georgetown university law center who came under attack after inge speak -- after speaking out about insurance coverage for contraception. the convention opened on tuesday, exactly nine weeks before the general election. on opening night, democrats touted president, and his achievements on issues ranging from health care and women's rights to immigration and ending the war in iraq. about two dozen democratic congress women and candidates took the stage together to criticize the republicans on a number of issues including healthcare, equal pay, and domestic violence. illinois congressional candidate tammy duckworth, who lost her legs serving in iraq, criticized republican nominee mitt romney for ignoring the war in afghanistan. other speakers included lilly ledbetter, for whom the lilly ledbetter fair pay act was named, and san antonio mayor julian castro. will your act serbs from their speeches in a moment. the evening culmi

>> well, it was a really touching moment when cecile richards was talking about her mother.think if we just make sure that women in this country, no matter what their political party is, have the information that if we tell them that mr. romney vetoed a bill in massachusetts that would have guaranteed a rape survivor access to emergency contraception when they went to the hospital, if we explain these positions to them, then the facts make our case for us. so that's what we have to keep doing. we have to keep talking about these policies. >> certainly over the last year you had to grow a very thick skin at being front and center on a very controversial type of conversation. you made quite an impression last night. a lot of people wondering would you ever consider running for office down the road? is all of this ground work for something like that in your future? >> i would absolutely not call it ground work. i am doing what i am doing because i believe in this president. and because i believe in these issues. and that all of us have to be standing up and fighting right now b

. >> that was planned parenthood president cecile richards.night democrats came to the convention with a clear message. the republican party will turn back the rights of women from equal pay to reproductive health. they painted a dark picture of what a romney administration would do. and a fiery speech, sandra fluke, the woman shut out of a congressional hearing on contraception, told the audience that the choice is clear. >> during this campaign, we've heard about two profoundly different futures that could await women in this country. and how one of those futures looks like an offensive, obsolete relic of our past. warnings of that future are not distractions. they are not imagined. that future could become real. >> joining the panel now is new york city council speaker christine quinn. >> thank you. >> great to have you on set. >> thanks. >> so let's jump off of sandra fluke's comments about obsolete relics. the democrats are pushing a narrative that they're the party of the future and the republicans are the party of the past. i want to kn

. >> nancy, i just want to point out, cecile richards of planned parenthood and sandra fluke will alsospeaking. what does it mean to you that such powerful voices for female reproductive rights are encapsulated in the dnc? >> well, i think that one, the democratic platform talks about women's reproductive rights front and center. number two, women are going to make the difference in this election for barack obama. and i believe that my colleagues with cecile and sandra, that we have been the face of this movement and will continue to stand and tell women there is a contrast between a mitt romney as president and a barack obama and we have to re-elect barack obama. >> nancy keenan, thanks for your time today. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> a programming note, sandra fluke will be joining us tomorrow. we will talk to her about the speech she's giving at the dnc and that will wrap things up for me today. i appreciate your time. see you back here tomorrow. we will talk, as i said, with sandra fluke, also meghan mccain, mark morial and bill adair. until then, follow me on twitter. don't

. >> ann marie, i want to play a clip for you from cecil richards.e a listen. >> two years ago, when paul ryan and john boehner and todd aiken and the tea party took over the house of representatives, they promised they were going to create jobs and jump start the economy, but instead on day one they came after women's health, and they haven't let up since. >> anna marie, how well do you think democrats have tied aiken to romney/ryan. >> i think they've done a very good job. i have some data to inject on this discussion to talk about how much this affects the typical swing voter. i'm not sure how typical this is, but in the swing states where romney needs to be competitive, he is losing women pretty badly. those happen to be the states -- iowa, pennsylvania, and virginia -- where republicans have stepped over a line with women's rights and reproductive rights. people notice these things. as long as it stays in the realm of polite discussion and the realm of what people can imagine the government doing, voters don't pay attention. but once you start m

to put the issue in primetime with your speech and a lot of other references and speeches with cecile richardsood, by a patient speaking about her experience there. by putting it on tv in their big 72-hour infomercial this week, do you think there were decisions on how to pitch it? essentially how to make a decision on how to vote for barack obama? was it a hard decision? >> not at all because women are going to make the difference in the election. let's take a look at '08 when the issue wasn't quite primetime, and we saw in the 2010 elections and these guys ran on jobs, jobs, jobs, and then actually started attacking reproductive rights at the state level, at the federal level, so it's come back into the consciousinous of people in the country to say this is at riv. then we saw the debate on birth control. people said, oh, no, really, birth control? we saw the next generation of young women say what's at stake here and what's at stake in this election? it's not surprising to me at all. i think we understand the role that women are going to play in this election for barack obama. >> we have se

we have cecile richards speaking tonight. we had the leader of nral last night. emily's list.e by one by one, each of them sort of a checklist in spite of the fact that abortion on any open list of volunteered most important issues is never higher than tenth. never mentioned by more than 3% of voters. yet, it has dominated the discussion in the first night. >> there's one thing that sort of mystified me, though. it's a convention, maybe like the republicans of people with safe seats. you would never know from watching the first day and a half that they lost 63 seats two years ago or a year and a half ago. the election of 2010 was a devastating setback. we're sort of abstracted from all that as if it never happened. >> woodruff: and the conversation about comparing this convention to previous conventions, most people i talk to say this is a much more uunited looking, acting, democratic party than we've seen in the past for all the different interest groups. >> i think it's a more homogenous party, no question about it. and there is less open discord, and less discord. i think t

. >> that was cecile richard, president of the planned parenthood of america.t of talk about republicans waging a war on women. whether you agree with that or not, the numbers show a double-digit gender gap between romney and the president. tonight's program included several female speakers including sandra fluke. if her name sounds familiar, remember rush limbaugh called her a slut after giving a speech to house democrats on contrac t contracepti contraceptives. >> during this campaign we've heard about two profoundly different futures that could await women in this country, and how one of those futures looks like an offensive obsolete relic of our past. warnings of that future are not distractions, they are not imagined, that future could become real. in that america, your new president could be a man who stands by when a public figure tries to silence a private citizen with hateful slurs. a man who won't stand up to those slurs or any voices in his own party. it would be an america in which you have a new vice president who co-sponsored a bill that would all

among those invited to speech, former georgetown university law student sandra fluke and cecil richards of planned parenthood and the head of naral. governor, welcome. it does not appear they are getting ready to abandon that argument even though the pollsters tell us it's not necessarily resonating with women, but the democrats seem to feel differently. they will put out this group of women who will say republicans don't believe in protecting women's reproductive rights. you see sandra fluke -- she wants birth control to be free. and you have got the pro-choice advocates who will say republicans don't want womb convenient to decisions about their own bodies. >> it's so insulting because that's not the case. we all know someone who has lost a case and we felt our wallets get tighter and we watched the debt our children are going have to pay rise. gas prices have doubles, median incomes lower. women care about a lot of issues. i know pro-choice women in the republican party. i know pro life women in the democratic party. if this is all the democrats have, they are in trouble. megyn: they

cecil richards reminds us that texas has a long history with the democratic party.>> 24 years ago my mother, former texas governor ann richards, spoke to this convention. yeah, i mean, just say ann richards name gets a cheer because ann richard uses with the last democratic governor of texas. the last democrat to win a statewide seat as attorney general in 1994 and since then there's been a bit of a dry spell, but with stars like julian castro the guy may be the limit because texas democrats showed up pretty big in charlotte. meanwhile in tampa, the republicans didn't even have the last nationally elected texan. you know, former president george w. bush speak at their convention. it may have been since 1976 the last time we had a democratic presidential candidate win the state of texas in the form of jimmy carter, but one has to ask, is it possible for the rising stars and the expanding aeticily diverse population that the lone star state can once ago go from red to blue. the first person i have to ask that question of, leslie, is you. you're a texan and i think you

. >> they had cecile richards from planned parenthood and sandra fluke, who has become a cultural iconit. there was a kind of clear messaging that was substantive, not just i love women. >> michelle obama was a huge star. when you get inside the data, we always want to say it is economy, economy, economy. the truth of the matter is, the economy takes a back seat when women think their health care violations, the economy is trumped. >> reproductive rights are economic issues for women. you cannot manage your household if you cannot manage your body. we are out of time on this. as we go, i do just want to remind our viewers that we do, in fact, have a secretary of state in this country, in kansas, who is working actively to take the name of the current president of the united states off of the ballot. in all the voter suppression efforts, this one is for me among the most appalling. i promise you, we will continue to ask, what's the matter with kansas as we move forward? thanks, steve spaulding and thank you for all the work that the organization is doing >>> up next, tensions high in th

we will see key speeches from women like cecil rie richards a lilly ledbetter.he most recent poll shows president obama leading romney from women by 16 points. >> when it comes to a woman's right to make her own health care choices, they want to take us back to the policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century. i believe women should be in charge of their own health care decisions. we are not going backwards. we are going forwards. in november you can say that in this century, women should be trusted to make their own health care choices. >> and tonight we will see women making that appeal to women on the biggest stage in democratic politics. joining me now is senator barbara boxer, democrat from california. senator, it is nice to see you. thanks for coming on the show tonight. >> i am so excited to be here and to be on your show. >> well, senator, what do democrats have to do on the issue of women in the convention? >> we have to tell the truth. we have to tell the country that president obama has stood by our side. he's fighting for our right to choo

she was a republican staffer and decided to pay back, so she has written a book going after cecile richardsparticular because she feels that she was bullied. >> eliot: who is bullying who. >> jennifer: rallying supporters to go after the susan g. koman foundation to reinstate the funding into you won't allow us to be intolerant you're so intolerant. it doesn't make sense. you're taking away the ability of women to get birth control reproductive rights, and what happened to they're against big government. but when it comes to women they want to be right there between you and your doctor, right there in that hospital room with you. they want to make decisions for you. it's just absolute nonsense to say that planned parenthood is doing the bullying, and the republicans are in favor of small government. >> jennifer: it's going across states across the country efforts to defund planned parenthood. >> al gore: i think it's nothing short of astonishing that the republican party is now against funding for birth control in health plans. something like what are the percentages? something like 99.9% o

>> sure. >> a big speech by cecille richards, a big part of the planned parenthood fund.ntions, republican party mostly tried to hide their social issues. the democrats are standing up on their social issues now. >> let me understand what's going on. in 2004 election, young voters were 18% of the electrorate. they voted for obama by 30 points more than mccain. they had the youth vote where they have to run the margins. if they can't run those numbers, the democrats can't win. same with the african-american vote. historically it's 11% of the ele electora electorate. they've got to get these groups out. >> she's young and she's a woman, okay? >> here in the state of north carolina, we just had a university poll come out this week. it showed the young women took barack obama over the line, as well as black votes in 2008. today in north carolina, the group that's least excited about president obama are the young people. the least excited. >> they're excited about mitt romney or they're just not excited about all? >> older voters are more excited about the president than young

also, the president of planned parenthood, cecile richards, and congressman barney frank of massachusetts. eric shinseki also be speaking in that hour. in the 9:00 hour, representative chris van hollen, and sandra fluke, who gained public attention for her positions on contraceptives, and the uaw president bob king, and the governor of delaware, jack amrkell. at 10:00, elizabeth warren, and then the presidential nomination speech from former president bill clinton. there will be a vote on the presidential nomination and a roll call of states which we expect to go late into the evening. you can catch that all on c-span throughout the night and you can find out more information on our website. let's look of some of the highlights from last night's convention. we heard from the san antonio, texas, mayor julian castro, and then we heard speeches from the democratic mayor of massachusetts, devak patrick. let's start off with the julian castro, san antonio mayor. ♪ tonight is going to be a good night that tonight is going to be a good night that tonight is going to be a good, good night i have

. >> please welcome cecile richards, the president of planned parenthood.evening. good evening. on behalf of the millions of mothers, daughters, wives, sisters, and friends, republicans and democrats who counted on planned parenthood for health care and in honor of the thousands and doctors of the staff of planned parenthood all across america, i am proud tonight to support the reelection of president barack obama. [applause] two years ago, when paul ryan took over theeohner house of representatives, they promised they would create jobs. instead, on day one, they came after women's health and they have not let up since. first, they voted to end cancer screenings for 5 million women. they voted to end funding for birth control with planned parenthood, and, for good measure, they even tried to redefine rates. -- rape. audience: boo! >> mitt romney is planning to get rid of planned parenthood and overturn roe vs. wade. we will not let him. [applause] this past year, women learned that when we are at not at the table, we are on the menu. this november, women ar

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