Page 22 - Isnt Doing News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

To that. i also think in some ways this is a bit of a troel. the more that they believe that alt right conservatives -- the more that the left talks about things like transgender issues, who uses the bathroom, these are issues that by and large do not exact the majority of the population. they don't want democrats focused on the majority of the population because once they honey in on a message that actually motivates them because the trump white house isn't doing, republicans in congress aren't doing anything, the condition of this country isn't improving, they need these fringe issues to try...

House, the uncertainty as to exactly what the american policies are and then, the apparent infatuation with president trump and the russian and putin. keeping in mind that the most recent effort by the u.n. to ratchet up, to increase the sanctions, was vetoed by the russian government. so this lack of clarity, this uncertainty is what has really got everybody concerned throughout the entire pacific region. leland: but connect these dots for me. is it that people in the pacific, i assume you mean our allies, south korea, japan, the australians, they're worried that the united states isn't doing...

Happy with it and that democrats would be rewarded by being re-elected and winning more seats than they had to begin with. it didn't pan out that way. republicans are acutely aware of that, which is why this has been at times a difficult process for them because they don't have -- they're not under any illusin that the voters are going to rush out and embrace them for this, especially if heading into the 2018 midterm elections, their primary, immediate concern, the health care system which does need to be fixed isn't doing better than before they passed about the bill. >> it's interesting that...

John, you said that north korea had, china has not done enough, we have not seen enough from china. what is it that you want to see that you this i this administration isn't doing to stop the economic support that we're seeing for north korea from china. >> i think the report just earlier speaks to that. and you look at some of the parts that are being utilized for these weapons, et cetera, they come from china. and china has historically used north korea as a buffer. so that it does not want the united states involvement for example with the north china seas, et cetera. we've got to have some...

Chaffetz -- is that a conflict? >> speaker ryan: i'm not spoken to jason about that. he has not told me that. i'm not spoken with the chairman about that. >> reporter: people are saying he should step aside. >> speaker ryan: i will find out what he is or isn't doing. i won't comment on something. i would rather hear from them myself. as far as the oversight committee, they've made document requests. that's the oversight committee's responsibility. that's what they do, that's why it's called the oversight committee. it's appropriate that they make these document requests. as i said, with respon...