go beyond that. that s the that s the only controversy. megyn: i don t understand why waxman would be trying to persuade stupak to come on board and vote for this bill by saying because stupak is saying i don t like it because i think money goes towards abortion. i know you disagree. but that s what he s saying. and waxman responds to him, congressman weiner, by saying but we think it should, this is a quote, but we want to pay for abortion. megyn, i got to tell you, you ve asked me five ways to comment on waxman s conversation with stupak. isn t it much easier that we talk about what s in the bill and not? megyn: it s not going to happen. waxman can say whatever he wants, people don t need to worry about that in. you can have a conversation about a waxman-staw waxman-stupak conversation i did not hear. megyn: you heard it. no, i did not hear the conversation. i can tell you what s in the bill. maybe that would be helpful. what s in the bill is the preservation of the hyde
chairs one of the three committees responsible for the bill in the house, and perhaps others, do want to change the current law, do want taxpayer dollars going to fund abortion. we are awaiting reaction from congressman waxman s office, we have reached out to them,by will bring that to you the moment we get it and i will ask congressman anthony weiner when he joins me in just a bit. another twist coming in washington, this time, a new threat to a top agenda item for the president. south carolina senator lindsey graham met at the white house on immigration reform last night. he is hoping to get fellow republicans to support a new bill when it comes to immigration reform, but senator graham now says that if democrats use reconciliation, meaning 51 votes instead of 60, to pass health care in the senate, you can kiss goodbye any hope of immigration reform. major garrett live the a the white house for us. major, how did this exactly happen, and what does it mean? it happens like this, m
against the bill. a trillion dollar overhaul, a bill we can t afford. megyn: is this going to happen? they announced that the votes will take place next week. the president has said he will postpone his try to asia, and he will postpone his trip to asia. right now the speaker does not have the votes. they will go about the next several days trying to convince their members to vote on a bill the american people rejected. megyn: congress bart stupak came out and said that henry waxman came to him and said that we democrats want the taxpayer dollars to fund abortion. stupak, too bad own. he said we want taxpayer dollars to fund abortion. congressman weiner says it doesn t matter what congressman waxman says, these bills don t fund abortion. any thoughts on that? the truth is the u.s.
a no vote. reporter: . right now speaker pelosi is 5 short of passage but a lot can happen in a week. megyn: we assume that s why the president has postponed his overseas trip to get this through. drama. reporter: right. megyn: bret, thanks so much. we would love to hear all of you weigh in on this. the emails have gone crazy on this abortion thing. some people believing the democrats do want to fund abortion with taxpayer dollars. you tell me what you think. kelly@foxnews.com. or go to our webpage foxnews.com/america live and you can vote in our informal you decide poll. there is a question, how would passage of healthcare reform affect your vote in the mid-term
rights to include abortion. in fact, that s not right. here s the way the bill is structured now. we are going to create an exchange so every consumer can shop for the different services that they want and compare prices. that s the good thing. what congressman stupak is saying is simply because an insurance policy is in that exchange, somehow it s getting federal dollars. that s not the case. the fact is each individual person will be told that if they want to get an aboss, they re not going to be an abortion, they re not going to be able to use any subsidy, any plan that s provided by the federal government to do that. that s already going to be the law. congressman stupak wants to go far beyond that and say that anyone who offers insurance that is going to be in this exchange, to even offer the service, it can t even be in there, even though it gets zero federal dollars, that s going too far. megyn: he says he likes the hyde amendment, which right now provides that no taxpayer d