Luke Russert: GOP Conducting Show Vote, No Taxpayer Funds Pay for Abortion

ANCHOR: "Msnbc's Luke russert is covering things on Capitol Hill. Bring us up to speed on what happened last night and what happened a short time ago as well. 
RUSSERT: "Well, Craig, the GOP leadership was originally going to move a bill through the house they expected to pass which would have outlawed abortion after 20 weeks. They put a thing in there that said except in the case of rape or incest. However, they had a stipulation that rape or incest would have to be reported to authorities. That upset a bunch of Republican women within the conference, saying that to have the language in there they have have to report to authorities was a step too far. It also was upsetting to some moderates within the conference that said, hey, look, we just took back the Senate. We have all this power. Why is one of the first things out of the gate trying to move on the abortion front, which is something that has been a liability for us in elections past? So you sort of saw this emergence of Republican women and some of the more moderate voices in the conference say, we don't want to do this, this is a bridge too far, can we pull this back? And leadership actually did. Now, the question remains, Craig, whether or not the leadership had the votes to pass the bill. They claim they did. Other members I spoke to speculate they did not. Nevertheless, this is not the end of this bill in particular, the 20-week bill. They plan on trying to move it again at some point, perhaps when they have accumulated more time here. What they moved today was a bill they moved forward in the last Congress, which is essentially no taxpayer funding for abortion. We should do some housekeeping. Since the Hyde amendment introduced a few decades ago, there's no taxpayer funding for abortion. This is more to make that permanent and strengthen it in the eyes of a pro-life community. Hence why a lot of Democrats voted against it, saying it was repetitive. Nonetheless, you had a group of Republican women who stood up and said, this is not the terrain we want to play on right now. This is going to be harmful for us in terms of getting the female vote and the millennial vote."