and here in new york, irin carmon is a contributing writer at "the washington post." her piece is headlined "women , shouldn't t trust the memen wo call themselves allies." she is also the author of the new york times bestseller, "notorious rbg: the life and times of ruth bader ginsberg." we welcome you all to democracy now! tomi-ann roberts, louise godbold, irin carmon. tomi-ann roberts, let's begin with you. let's begin with what happened to you more than 30 years ago in 1984. how did you comeme in contact wh harvey weinstein? >> well, the stories are beginning to sound monotonous, right? chillingly familiar. i was waiting tables. i was a student at smith college and several friends and i had decided to spend the summer in new york city pursuing our dream. so we sublet an apartment. i was waiting tables at a restaurant, and that is where i met both top and harvey weinstein. they were relative newcomers o n the scene. explained to me their new company miramax. and pretty soon, i was given to believe that i might be someone who could audition for a movie they were goi

joining me now, director of progressive programming, irin carmon, and anusha hels ann. and get reactions. it's not exactly a surprise. marco rubio, back in 12, introduced a bill to do exactly what donald trump is doing now, saying that women can't get abortions -- not abortion, but birth control covered in their health plans. >> essentially you saw around 2010, a push by state legislatures, republicans pushing back against women's health care. i say health care because birth control is health care. and also they conflate abortion and birth control as if those two things are the same thing. many of them use words like abort efficient, like. >> -- when talking about iuds or the morning after pill. so we're basing all of this on pseudo science and the idea that women should not be able to che choose what they did with their own bodies and reproduction. we have to push back very hard. we had the women's march in january, but what are we going to do now because they're coming for our birth control. without birth control, you can't determine anything in your life. you need to