Impact on our election. And how Rudy Giuliani had access to that information when he did. I think the comey letter was dispositive. Should we have had more fortified to be able to with stand the hit, thats part of the after action review evaluation. We could just see it in the numbers. We thought we were like at 20 and trying to go for more. Hillary was like this in those districts. She went like that in those districts. Im talking from the stand point of what the numbers i have seen in our races. In terms of hillarys race, i think the minute he came without he came out with that letter, that was totally wrong. Thats a twopart i think everybody has to be vetted in terms of giuliani. Hopefully theyll have a vetting. As you may know, yesterday, in our previous question on the floor, we were saying, dont vote for this, let us bring up a bill that says, no lobbyist should be on the transition team. No funds in this act following the legislation thats already there, but codifying that they shouldnt be on the transition team. Certainly the vetting process that everybody goes through, no matter who wins the election, will reveal what his exposure is. [inaudible] reporter is that against nepotism rules . That is a third question. Youre next. Reporter congressman tim ryan, considering a challenge against you, we talked to him on the way into the caucus meeting. He said that we have the lowest number of in our caucus, since 1929, and we lost over 60 seats since 2010. He said that, speaking about you, he said, the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and keep getting the same results. I wonder if you could respond to that. Ms. Pelosi i dont want to respond to that. I will say the following. And that is, in 2005 and 2006, i orchestrated the takeback of the house of representatives. Im very, very proud of that. And as i said, we see that as an opportunity now. President bush was president , the democrats took the house. When president obama was president , the republicans took the house. So we have an opportunity. Doesnt mean any guarantees but means we will do hard work. I am very proud to have the opportunity and i know how to do it to get it done, but im not responding. Reporter Jesse Jackson asking for president obama to pardon Hillary Clinton. What are your thoughts on that. Ms. Pelosi i dont know i have the faintest idea what you are talking about. I just dont know. Pardon her for what . Im sorry. That doesnt make any sense to me. Reporter on appropriations whats your reaction to chairman rogers to have a c. R. Through the end of march . And supplementals will House Democrats be pushing for in terms of judgmental funding . Ms. Pelosi a supplemental bill . He just said that about the c. R. Reporter are you going to attach supplemental appropriations . I know there is a war supplemental. Ms. Pelosi a supplemental bill is a separate bill. The c. R. Is how we go forward. I would have hoped woe would have achieved an omnibus. Democrats and republicans on the Appropriations Committee and im from that culture and we were able to try to Work Together and they had been making Good Progress until this morning on finishing up the appropriations bill. Now this freezes it because they are talking about until march. I think it would be to give the American People certainty and whether its a person getting a Social Security check or all the way across the board, you want some certainty. And to go to march is really not certain. But i would say this, i think they are making a big mistake for themselves. They are going to have a kettle of fish in march that they cant even imagine and too bad we couldnt have gone to next september. Reporter do you think that democrats have forgotten White Working Class voters . Ms. Pelosi no. Reporter what do you say to critics that you may not be the right person to able to speak to the voters . Ms. Pelosi i take great pride in the city i represent of San Francisco and i take great pride in the fact that the whole state of california has been the source of so many ideas, intellectual resources, political resources, Financial Resources that helped us win the congress in 2006. When people bring up numbers saying we have fewer democrats than before. The fact is we got our high numbers. When we had a higher number, in terms of a functioning majority, if you want to talk numbers, you have to talk reality of that. To answer your question, the encouragement that i have from my colleagues is that i enabled them to do what they do. Its not about me, its about them. And they have an opportunity to make this contrast between soontobe President Trump and what we stand for. Look, as far as we are concerned, the problem is more with the communication than it was with our policy. Facing republican resistance bailed out the auto industry. Congressional democrats and president obama at the time when mitt romney is in an op ed but when he wrote an op ed that we were interfering with the free market by bailing out the auto industry. And we did that. What does that affect . Millions of jobs in ohio, michigan and pennsylvania, indiana, iowa. We didnt message it. I would say to people, you may think you are messaging, but if your spouse doesnt think you are messaging, we arent communicating. We had to get that message out there. Our work here for our friends in labor and collective bargaining and nlrb and osha is a fight we fight for them, a fight to increase the minimum wage. The whole country should be behind increasing the minimum wage after they heard the cry for help from this campaign to increase paychecks. Our lives are dedicated to those people who didnt communicate it on the successes we had and quite frankly. The election of the Republican Congress interfered with the next steps in what we were doing to increase the paycheck to stop every Job Initiative that president obama put forth. Reporter this is an intel question. Not heavily noticed, but the head of the n. S. A. , Michael Rogers said in public that a foreign entity had specifically intervened in order to change the outcome of the election and he wants people to understand that. The community had already Homeland Security made that assessment. Ms. Pelosi thats the one that director comey talked about. Reporter a lot of people heard that from rogers. And from where you sit, the head of the n. S. A. Speak publicly in that way, how do you interpret the Intelligence Communitys to communities desire now to have congress amp up this issue and take it seriously . Whether to hold hearings or empower them. When you heard hear messages like that . Ms. Pelosi i said it the first day of the convention that the russians were hacking our system. I didnt know it from official stats. I knew it because we had to spend money to figure out who was hacking our system and it was the russians. It took a while for the Intelligence Community to make that statement. I dont know why you tell me, why the media didnt say, isnt there something wrong with this picture when somebody hacked our system and releasing emails that are only on the democratic side . Wasnt that a clue they wanted us to look bad . We know its the russians and they are leaking it and only democratic leaks. So, ok, thats one thing, but for comey then to go to the place where he went with not signing it, because the consensus because it was too close to the election, he then is notd this other thing too close to the election. Reporter im interested in going forward. Ms. Pelosi the American People need to know that a foreign power interfered in our election. And not to be sour grapes. We all take responsibility for our role and how we got to where we are in the election, but the fact is no matter how the election turned out, even if Hillary Clinton had won, the fact is the American People have to believe in the integrity of the system and it has been a custom and practice of the russians to disrupt elections, not just in the United States, but in other countries for their own purpose. And in the u. S. , the main purpose is to undermine democracy and to have people who is skeptical about the sacredness of the vote. I thinwe should have and know that there is a request for an Inspector General report by Elijah Cummings on what happened at the f. B. I. , who, what, when and why you have to talk to him about the particulars of it. And im saying there has to be something biggerhan that even. I have to go now. Reporter on earmarks, has something changed and whether they should be in the legislative process . Legislative process. Legislative process . Ms. Pelosi ive never been an opponent of legislatively directed resources and dont give it to the administration to make those decisions. There has been talk about relaxing that for state and local government, earmarks and i hope they go down that path that they would include native american sovereignty as well as one of those categories that would be part of any change in gislativelydirected sources. Thk you all very much. At his weekly briefing, pa ryan said he is ready to move forward on Donald Trumps agenda. He also took questions from reporters about minorities for his party. This is 10 minutes. Good morning. Week Congress Gave final approval to legislation that will help terans. Hr 5392 requires the v8 respond to calls to its crisis hotlines in a timely manner. This is one of those bills that should not becessary but sadly its. Rlier weearned that more than one out of three calls to the mvarisisutne the the a crisis hotneas going unanswered. This bill authored byur coeae ruis to be a mak improvements to apart of our better waygenda we e rking toward a truly 21st century v. A. , is initiative is good news time to be grateful foall of the men and women who have fought. Second, rlr this week, House Republican senats sent a letter to the am ministration asking if thedo no advance any new regulations before leaving office. Rember, this is not unusual. Incoming Administration Made a similar request. There is a traditioof bipartisan opposition to gulations imposed at the end of aoutgoing administration. We have en just how the impact of just one rule can hurt entire industries and livelihoods. The last thing we need tsee today and or in the next week are unelected bureaucrats pushing to regulations at the 11th hour. We look forward to tackleto tackling reform. House republicans met with me pence. Sounds good. He gave our members and update on the transition and priorities for this new administration. One thing that is visit phasized is that if we are committed to hing a unified we brokenovnment unie republican goveren if we are going to go b, we he t to hit the ground running. The American People voted for chan, and a rdy to get to work. I willeeng with thVice President later to discusmo thin. Your understanding, do you believe that kushner shld be able to take aob at the white house . he was an ryan tegral part of the campaign. Hes brilliant part of the campaign that donald trump trts. He played a very Important Role in this campaign. That shod respected. I dont have a deep undetanding of how they work. I know theres a lot [inaudible] care . Areor health you concerned there are two rces the public is like why haven you passed all of the stuff . You want to do it rht so it is going to take someim. How do youalce tho two things. Senar paul that is what we are doing with the team right w. Wmoved fairly qck here in a house buthe senate is a another story. We will delir on ts agenda. That takes time becae at is how the legislature works. We will be making sure that he will understand how the progress of legislation works because we tend on delivering. This is the most Productive Congress we have seen in a long time. I am confident the way the leslative process, they are gointoee were hitting the ground running. We are going to fix these prlems for the arican people. That, whatg up on are the spific legislations in the first 100 days. Rep. Ryan where in the beginning of a transition eo transition period. Where planning that transiti. That is the kind of conversations are having to make sure we plan, not just here in the house, but with our friends in the senate and the new incoming administration. Will plenty of time to talk about th later , you talked about taxuts obamacare. Rep. Ryan well have plenty of time to lk about later. Th iwhat our transition is about. None of theseecio have been made. When we haveaddecisions about the timing of legislation, you will be first to know. One thing tt na trump has talked about, the drain the swamp agenda. Term limits on members of congress. What is your view . Rep. Ryan i have been aan of term limits. I will lvet up to others to decide that. Judiciary committee. I ve been in favor of term limits since i have been here. Does trump seem to be asking y guys to do that echo rep. Ryan the new incoming government would like to have a say so on how spending is to be allocated in 2017. Where working wi the new trump. Dministration on the timing i think they would like to have a say so on how money is going to be spent going into the rest of the fiscal year. [inaudible] rep. Rn what they have asked us is to work with them on a continued resolution. We are going to do just that, because i think we have a lot of priorities that we will to see changed relative to the obama funding porities. How would your desires for unified republican government and the desire to go big be helped by a possible return of the earmark . Rep. Ryan hes what our members are concerned about. We are worried that we have seen the dilution of the separation of powers. These it if branch has been giving farc in its power and we have seen violence done to the separation of powers. Restoring the power of the purse to the leglative branch so unelected official and hold the unelected officials accountable. We decided we are going to spend a good amount of time deliberating how best to do that. We are goi to be spending the First Quarter of 2017 figuring out how we can make sure we can restore the power of the purse to the legislati branch, to the unelected branch of government. We are going to have a debate on how do our job as holding down the executive branch. Heres the concern. The one that many members talk about is the army corps of engineers which is run by unelected people that do not reflect the will and sentiment of the elected branch of government. We want to make sure that in this opportunity we have with ,nified republican government we are restoring the constitution, e separation of powers, the accountability to the federal govnment. When we say drain the swamp, that means stop giving power to unelected people to micromane our lives and restore the constiti. Can you l out your big picture thinking of the trump House Republican agenda. How do you secure the border . Increase defense spending . Increase Infrastructure Spending . Rep. Ryan you need to hold down spending in the critical areas where it is growing so fast. You need to grow the economy. Lets not forget that we have been in a ow growth economy for far too long. We are limping along. Not even close to our potential. What we want to do is get this economy growing, releasing the regulatory chokehold that is on the u. S. Economy is one of the first things we can do to help this economy. Conference of tax reform is one of the things we can do. Best Economic Growth means more gdp, more wages, more jobs, more revenue. We also have to deal with the drivers of our debt. Dont forget that omacare wrote free entitlement programs. The free entitlement programs that are the main drivers of our debt. And we replace obamacare in law, this is a law where people are getting hit consistently with doubledigit premium increases. This is a lathat is rising the deductibles so high, families dont feel like to have Health Insurance because the deductibles are so high. Ofording to kaiser, 30 famies have one choice of a plan. This law is failing. Forget the fact that this law rewrote medicaid and medicare. His law has done great damage we have got to replace this law with one that works for the American People, with one that gives American People more choices. We can lower prices and get Better Health care value for a dollar. You fix the health care problem. You are dramatically fixing the fiscal problem of this country. If we want to nurse ourselves back to physical health, Economic Growth and replacehis broken obamacare law. [inaudible] rep. Ryan well get into all of the stuff down the rd. It three years to get from the passage of the report correct how early can you for see [indiscernible] rep. Ryan it is a great question. It is one we are going to begin with all year long. It is too early to know the answer to, how fast can obamacare occur . How do we get obamacare repealed and what we replace it with so we can get that relief to the American Families as fast as possible. Thats one of the big topics of our transition. Reporter president elect trump is promising to defund planned parenthood. The rebel can house passed legislation that prohibits [inaudible] rep. Ryan we have shown what we believe. We put a bill on president obamas desk in reconciliation. Our position has not changed. Reporter thank you. Announcer a look at events surrounding the transition of president elect donald trump. Kellyanne conway spoke to reporters about mr. Mr. Trumps meeting with the japanese p