came to passing a bill that was going to defund planned parenthood, dismantle maternity care, birth control coverage. the list goes on and on. when i say they re not going to forget, emily s list has already had 10,000 women cactus about running for office across the country up and down the ballot. a lot of those women are going to run for congress in november 2018, and this is going to be a driving factor. stephanie, talk first about why you think it s important that maternity care is covered, is mandated coverage here. i think to start with, this is a basic part of family life. i think about some of the incredible women i ve met over the years who before obama care could not afford to pay for a maternity rider on their health care and would get pregnant and all of a sudden had a special or had a preexisting condition called pregnancy. i mean, that s just absurd. i mean, it it doesn t make any sense for health care not to
move the health care system forward and talking to democrats and republicans, i think they would tell you the same. vaughn, we talk and talk about the health care bill and what happened yesterday, but ultimately it s those people that are really going to be affected by what takes place and what changes are made. thank you for bringing that to us. nbc s vaughn hilliard. women s health care advocates are many advocacy groups slammed the bill that would have stripped federal funding from planned parenthood and eliminated essential health benefits that require plans to cover pregnancy, maternity, and newborn care. joining me now, stephanie brsh she s the president of emily s list, an organization that supports pro-choi democra women running for office. thanks for joining me. i join millions of women across this country with a big sigh of relief yesterday, but i will tell you this. those women, all of under the circumstances, we re not going to forget what happened yesterday and how
insure that there s better and more health care in this country and not what they tried to do with that bill yesterday, which is take health care away from 24 million americans and strip away things like maternity care. i mean, we do need to continue advancing health care in this country. you heard it just in the earlier segment from the folks in kansas. that s what we need to be doing. we don t need to be looking at opportunities to pull it away. we need to be extending and expanding health care, including planned parenthood. i feel like we need to play that song come together because that s kind of the theme of the show. these last couple of hours. i think that we probably have to pay for that, and that s a lot of money. stephanie, thank you. thank you. all right, days after the terror attack in london authorities are still trying to piece it all together. what led khalid massoud, a man who grew up in london, to become a killer. new details after the break.
support defunding planned parenthood. i mean, the republicans right now are pushing the wrong issue, and they re wrong on that issue. i don t know what they re thinking, but i ll tell you what, it s going to motivate women every single day to go to town halls, call their members of congress, and it s going to motivate them to run, and we re seeing that at emery s list, and that s exactly what we re going to do. hold these republicans accountable during the election at the ballot box. stephanie, earlier today president trump, he tweeted obama care will explode. do not worry. how do you think republicans could affect women s health care going forward? well, i would like them to come to the table. it has covered so many more people in this country. we are so grateful for what it has done. we recognize that we have some places that we need to fix it. well, let s come together and