not going to put them in and the house democrats and leadership decided they re not going to put the stupak language in, as it s known and it appears as congressman stupak is not on board. democrats feel, nancy pelosi and the leadership feel they have enough votes without this coalition of staunch pro-lifers or that the coalition has fallen apart and it s just congressman stupak and a few others. they re getting close. we ve heard that they are thinking they have possibly enough votes of the undecideds to do this and felt they didn t have to make tighter abortion funding restrictions, neil. neil: so he was going to raise all of these concerns at his presser. who is to say it s not the opposite of what you re saying? not that i d ever doubt you, rich. but they re trying to wiggle out just that, a deal so he can come to reporters maybe an hour later, two hours later and say well, i ve got a deal. i refuse to rule out anything on capitol hill. especially in negotiations when we are th
you might remember, stupak is the man who was raising serious concerns about the abortion language in this bill. he was saying that it was not strict enough, and, you know, they re trying to make sure that the house leadership at least can get stupak and maybe about six or eight others who are of a similar mind, pro-life mind on this, to get their support. the problem with that is that whatever concessions you make to that group, then you tick off the pro-choice group and back and forth we go. interestingly enough, we re learning right now that stupak s 11:00 a.m. press conference scheduled, like i say, 20, 25 minutes from now, is now off for the time being. our rich edson is following this. rich, what is going on? reporter: we re hearing the latest that the stupak language, that congressman stupak wanted to include in this, he wanted tighter abortion funding restrictions and it appears congress is
hours or so. that very well could be a possibility. the last that we had heard from the house rules committee they re meeting right now to make the final tweaks to this, to prepare whether or not they ll use the slaughter rule. that is something you talked about in the last segment. the final changes they are making to the healthcare overhaul we heard last from the rules committee they were not going to include any changes to the abortion funding restrictions. neil: all right. rich, fascinating developments. if you re right and they think they can go along with this, without the stupak-led anti-abortion crowd, that in itself is a very significant development. all right, rich, we ll be going back to you later. thank you in the meantime, my friend. now to what is happening on capitol hill, you have seen and heard a lot from tea partiers, they re descending on the capitol like locusts. thousands of them we re told. we were getting reports that a lot of them were stuck in traffic, all