You can send us a tweet at cspan or go to journal cspan. Org. Host here is Peter Sullivan to discuss the first vote. When will it take place and how will it go . Guest it will take place later in the afternoon. It is a procedural vote to actually start a debate on the bill to defund planned parenthood, cut off at 500 million, as you mentioned. The vote is likely to fail because it needs a 60 vote threshold. Hardly any democrats, if any will vote for it. There probably are not the vote. It will be a procedural vote to move forward. Host some republicans are saying their leadership should continue to fight on this. In the fall and september guest in the fall and september, we will see how this comes back when congress returns. A have to figure out how to fund the government by august 1 september 1. Many republicans say we should be Defunding Planned Parenthood in the spending bill and they will not vote for anything that includes funding for planned parenthood. In theory, that could lead to a Government Shutdown if they cant agree on it. That is something that has been fired up by these controversial videos and could definitely come back in the fall. Host what is the Republican Leadership saying about the prospects of shutdown over the controversial videos and funding for planned parenthood . To they think it is worth shutting down the government . Guest they say they do not want to shut down the government. When mitch mcconnell, the majority leader, won the majority in november, he said a would not be shutting down the government. He has not changed from that. Leadership does not want to shut down the government. They have also said they want to defund planned parenthood. We will see how strongly they push planned parenthood. The leadership has been more cautious. They have not held to any votes to defund planned parenthood yet , which has annoyed some of their rank and file members to some degree. It seems more rank and file driven, this heading towards the shutdown. I does not think leadership want to shut down. Host what is the white house saying . Guest they are defending planned parenthood. They say they will veto any spending bill that the funds the funds defunds planned parenthood. That raises the stakes. They will not back down. They want funding for planned parenthood. I am sure they will be there with her argument that republicans are yet again shutting down the government over cutting off access to Womens Health. They are getting their side ready for the fight. Host Peter Sullivan with the hill. Thank you for your time. Lets turn to all of you this morning. What do you think . Tell washington what you think on this. Should they be Defunding Planned Parenthood . Rand paul is a cosponsor of the legislation which would take the money, the . 5 billion from planned parenthood, and direct it toward Community Centers. He had this to say on cnns state of the union. I think people do want to defund this. What you find is we have 9000 Community Health centers that do everything that planned parenthood does, but they do not get into abortions. It would be less emotional for everyone if we just funded Community Health centers and not planned parenthood. You support funding for Community Health centers, even though it has doubled or tripled since obamacare . I support a role in government Health Centers. The specific bill including it in obamacare i cannot support that particular bill. Supporting funding for Community Health centers i think is reasonable. There are people who need help. Planned parenthood is a front for doing abortions. I say they do not use federal money. How can you take money from the group and say none of it is somehow benefiting the production and execution of abortions . Really, i think if you look honestly and objectively, we have Government Funds going to a lot of Government Funds 5 billion, going to Community Health centers. If you look at it objectively, why would the government get involved with selling organs . I think the country should wake up and we get out of this funding. Host rand paul on the state of the Union Yesterday talking about a vote that will take place this evening at around 5 00 p. M. You can tune into cspan2. It is a procedural vote. They need 60 votes to defund planned parenthood. Do you think washington should be doing this . Take a look at what the minority leader in the senate set on twitter. He said republicans who are trying to defund planned parenthood, good luck with that. Republicans plan to fair democrats plan to filibuster. Senator murray says this then there is this from Richard Blumenthal another democrat who would not support this. And then senator rand paul tweeting out this he believes a handful of votes will decide the fate of my bill to defund planned parenthood. He also said on twitter that democrats will pay a political price for not defunding it. Planned parenthood in a statement recently said federal funding for planned parenthood helps preventive medicine, Birth Control, sti testing and treatment women exams. Lyle in plainfield illinois, republican caller. You are up first. What do you make of this . Should they go forward with the funding the group . Caller i think if a Republican Organization was doing this, the president would be all over this inspecting the situation. Here, he is not even talking about having the attorney general look into this. To me, morley, morally we should defund them. We do not have enough money now. This is one place where we could shave money off of the budget. Host you do not think they should move the money to Community Health centers . The cosponsor of the measure said this. It would move the money to entities such as Community Health centers, many of which serve low income patients, while planned parenthood run 700 centers nationwide. Community Health Centers serve at 9100 locations, 13 times the number of planned parenthood. Caller you have to stop and think. We are borrowing . 40 on the dollar. If ever the Interest Rates start going up dramatically, we will have a huge Interest Rate will that will knock Everything Else out of our budget. Somewhere, they have to start cutting back. Host thank you. Shea in florida. Democrat, what do you think . Caller we always look at what is bad. What about all of the good that planned parenthood does for these ladies . Men just have to sit back and remember we are not having kids. We do not have those problems. Planned parenthood does a lot of good. I do not believe in abortions women killing babies. I dont think anybody believes in anything like that. That is evil. [indiscernible] we dont pay for it. Look at the good that it does. [indiscernible] you cant throw out the baby with the bathwater, you know . Host Cecile Richards wrote in the Washington Post that one in five women have relied on planned parenthood for health care in the lifetimes. More than half of planned Parenthood Centers are in rural and medically underserved areas. John in brooklyn, and independent. What do you think . Caller i hope you give me as much time as you did for the republicans. This is another issue where the republicans have been after this for many years. It is not a real issue. It doesnt affect most americans. People choose to have an abortion have an abortion. People who choose not to dont. Every time election season comes around, they tried to pull the strings of americans with these emotional lies that they tell. Selling baby parts to give this image like you are buying a heart or a loung, which is not true. It is in the way they manipulate the language. I want to ask the republicans. What have they gotten in response other than to stop obama . What have they done for the average american that works and hasnt had a raise in the last 20 years . Host i think we heard your point. Michael in tucson, arizona. A democrat, you are next. Caller ever since 1979, they passed that Hyde Amendment. You notice this no abortion funding. We all know that abortions are not funded by the federal government. Only in the cases of rape and incessant. The republicans are the lying est party this nation has ever had. Every time you look up, they are whining, crying, and lying about everything they do. You look at all of these other situations. Afghanistan they are lying about , always going after Womens Health. What men do you know they can have a baby . On the democratic side, you dont german people whining and crying about this. Republicans are the biggest baby killers in this country. Thank you. Host sherry in connecticut independent. What do you think . Washington will be debating the senate, a bill to defund planned parenthood. Should it take place . Caller is your take place temporarily. I say temporarily because i think it should be investigated. I was very upset that this was a possibility that they may be selling baby parts. I think it should be investigated. I think temporarily the money should go to Community Health clinics. Community Health Clinics do also play a major role in Womens Health. It is not just plant had back in the 70s and 80s, it was very much so relevant where there werent many Community Health connect. Nowadays, there are more. We need to question ourselves whether or not it should be automatically funded. We should investigate. Host do you consider yourself prolife, prochoice . Caller i am kind of in between. If a Womens Health is at stake, she should have the right to make that decision. I dont believe in lateterm abortion or abortion on demand. I am in the middle. Host james lankford, a republican from oklahoma who cosponsor this bill rights in the opinion pages of usa that is what he says. A green there with the caller. The usa Editorial Board says this. After fumbling its initial damage control efforts to have a National Panels sort through the issues related to tissue resource research. In the meantime, as long as abortion is legal lets go to jim in buffalo independent caller. Buffalo, new york. Caller good morning. I think this whole abortion thing is getting so, what is the word im looking for . It is so barbaric the way they kill these kids. I am totally against it. I think they should defund planned parenthood and put the money towards Community Centers. Host south dakota, democrat, hi mark. Caller i was going to refer to the article that you have just read. All of these people are saying they are comparing it to not see as an comparing it to naziism. When your child is sick and they be and they are being taking care of medically, those procedures were done by some scientists somewhere with fetal tissue or whatever the case may be. It is funny to me how prolife these people are until it is time to go to war. And they are the quickest to say we have to make america strong by going to war. The last thing i have to say is congress is quick to act on one small video, but it has taken them years to decide whether or not we should have a highway fund or a jobs bill. Thank you. Host there is more than one video. The Washington Times says this. Today, a federal judge in San Francisco will weigh whether to oppose a longterm ban on the centers release of undercover footage from the National Abortion federations closed meetings. The bill that the senate will vote on will take place today cspan2 for coverage of that. They need 60 votes. As we have learned from Peter Sullivan earlier, they are unlikely to get that. Democrats plan to filibuster this. Today, a judge will weigh in on those ideals and whether or not more can be released. Emily in wisconsin, an independent. Caller i want to thank you for allowing me to call. Why i am calling is because when this earth was formed with all of the life i got put on it there was a clause in their that said we are not allowed we can have control over the whole land, all of the trees flowers whatever. We did not have the right to have control over another human being. When a baby is in the mothers womb, it is a baby, and they should not abort that baby. Even though it is womens rights, it is still a baby. I am so much hoping that the government will defund this. I sat and cried all day when i saw that video of the babies. Now i understand on the fourth one which they will not allowed to be shown that an entire baby was born. Host we had to senators on last time. Here is what one of them had to say when he was asked about this vote today. The transition would be devastating to Womens Health. Planned parenthood does a very good job. I would keep the money right where it is and make sure that they can continue doing the kind of very effective Womens Health measures. The one thing people ought to realize. A lot of what is driving this is the issue around abortion. When people need to realize Birth Control makes it so that you do not have to go into an abortion situation. Host senator from new mexico on her show last week talking about the upcoming vote today. We also had a republican from north dakota on the show. Here is what he had to say. We are making sure that the roughly 500 million a year going to planned parenthood will instead go to Community Health centers and be available for Womens Health. We are making sure that that is covered, that this is not an issue about Womens Health. It is making sure that that are of not go to planned parenthood when they are providing abortions. The Hyde Amendment requires that federal funding not be used for abortion. That has been one of the big concerns with those of us who do not feel it there should be federal dollars going to planned parenthood. We are making sure that that doesnt happen that federal funding does not go to planned parenthood. We are addressing Womens Health and making sure it that 500 million a year goes to Community Health centers for Womens Health. Host he will give a yes vote today when the senate takes up the issue of whether or not to defund planned parenthood. Dan, an independent from nashville, tennessee. Caller thank you for taking my call. Planned parenthood should be defunded. Criminal investigations need to ensue. The reason for that is in the first video, the doctor clearly explains in detail Technical Knowledge of how they are using ultrasound to see were the video is the baby is to crush the likes first the legs first so that they can maintain the viability of the baby. Host you think that is a crime right there . Caller it is a violation of federal law to change the way the abortion is done. We do not want to be torturing children. That is what they are doing. They are prolonging abortion. Based on what they are saying, i am sure it is about 30 minutes. That is totally unexcelled will. Host michelle in new jersey. Your thoughts on this . Caller do not defund planned parenthood. It is a valuable service for women. We do not have national healthcare. We already have women making less money. It is like republicans will do everything at all, mentioning some stupidity about money going to Community Health centers for Womens Health. Planned parenthood has been doing valuable service for over 80 years. Do not defunded. Host do you ever give money . Do you ever donate money to planned parenthood . To support their efforts . Caller of course. I am totally prochoice. It is a womans right to choose. Never mind what you think, it is a womans right to choose. It is not your baby. As long as the pregnancy reside in a woman, it is her right to choose. Never mind what you think about any of these videos that come out from god knows where, it is a womans right to choose. How many times do i need to say at . At . Host a republican, jerry, good morning. Caller what this last woman just said it is a womans right to kill her baby. That is what it is. This is incredible. What these videos are doing is putting a light to the theory that this is a massive bunch of cells and the womb. This is a baby. If they cut the funding for planned parenthood and they cannot do abortions anymore what the result will be his tens of thousands of babies born every year. The woman isnt sick, she is having a baby. I just had my first great grandchild a little over a year ago. It wasnt a mass of cells and my granddaughters womb, it was a baby. Host no federal funding, very strict as to how that money can be used that they get from the government. It cannot be used for abortions. This is the Washington Post on sunday. If you are among those who view abortion is tantamount to murder, i respect your view. What are your thoughts on this this morning . The senate will vote on this today. But washin