We will be able to bring immediate relief to those workers, and this is just the start. We will ask for more resolutions to deliver relief for excessive regulations. When you think about the fact that the Obama Administration has issued regulations at the rate of one every three days, this israel real change, this is job creation. Toalso continue to act repeal and replace obamacare. Yesterday, there was a committee on how to improve medicaid. Today, the committee is holding a hearing to provide four bills for relief from collapsing markets. President obama said, my gut principle is that temperature is that people do better when there is competition. Isannot agree more area that the way obamacare is sold, but it is not how it is turned out. In fact, choice and competition have gone down so much in our markets that 1 3 of all counties in our country today have only one insurer to choose from. That is not a choice. Hat is a monopoly ill top of that, another 37 of all counties in america have only two insurers to choose from. 70 of all the counties in america have a monopoly or duopoly. People are paying a whole lot more for less. That is why this law is collapsing, and we will keep our promise to repair and rprints replay or and epair and replace this law. Questions . Reporter two religion questions. Rep. Ryan are you going to wait until sunday . Reporter the president says he wants to get rid of the johnson amendment. Rep. Ryan i have always supported that. Reporter would you support a religious freedom executive order if that allowed discrimination against gays and lesbians . Rep. Ryan i am not familiar with what are you talking about. We do not want the Little Sisters for the poor to be forced to buy coverage that violates their conscience. May, first,so, if i there has been reports of a difficult call between the president and Prime Minister of australia. Now john mccain has called the australian ambassador. Do you think what mccain did is the right move, and what would you say to President Trump rep. Ryan i dont know about the veracity of those reports or the content of the call. I know Prime Minister turnbull, he was in my office a couple of months ago, a very important ally. Australia is a central ally and they will continue to be. I think it is important that Prime Ministers and heads of state are able to have candid and private conversations with one another. Reporter my second question, the president also referenced Arnold Schwarzenegger at the prayer breakfast. Rep. Ryan did he do the accent . Reporter schwarzenegger tweeted to the president that perhaps they should switch jobs, trump go to the apprentice and the president rep. Ryan i am not going to comment on this stuff. Lets talk about policy. Reporter you often mention a choice in health care. Is there a particular model you have in mind . What is the model you point to . Rep. Ryan there is a model he ran on last year that you can go to bettergop. Com and look at. You want a vibrant employer market. We want medicaid to work so the states can innovate and doctors take medicaid patients. We want medicare to be solvent, something you can depend on and that what is going to be there when you retire. What we want is choices. We dont want one choice, it is not a choice. We want to have more insurers and providers in the marketplace competing against each other for our businesses, consumers, and patience. We want patients and our doctors to be the driving force, instead of some government regulator telling you what you have to buy and where you want to buy it. We want a lot of insurers competing for our business. That is what i mean when i say choice. It is the cornerstone of the Free Enterprise system in america. The more choices you have, the more competition there is, consumers benefit, and look, as you heard me say how few choices and options there are because of obamacare. It is not coincidental then that we have doubledigit premium increases every year, that the deductibles for Obamacare Exchange plans are three times as high as the deductibles for people in large Group Insurance markets that they get the help from their jobs so clearly this law isnt working. It is collapsing and, yes, this is what we call a death spiral. Youre not getting the kind of pooling that needs to be allowed with choice and competition to get rates down, so we have to step in and replace this law before it gets too late. Before people lose their insurance. Reporter let me ask you about all this discussion about the word repair that you guys are starting to use. Speaker ryan the words. Reporter theres been some pushback on that. Nancy pelosi just said you guys are having a vocabulary change, the allegation youre intentionally rebranding this. Can you respond to this . Speaker ryan no. I will say theres miscommunication or misinterpretation of what were trying to say. Our job is to repair the American Health care system and rescue it from the collapse that its in and the best way to repair a Health Care System is to repeal and replace obamacare. Its not an either or. If you want to repair the American Health care system you have to repeal the law thats destroying it and replace it with a system thats much better. Yeah. Reporter mr. Speaker, thank you. Speaker ryan i know most of you but thank you for saying who you are. Reporter can you give us an update on the timeline for the Affordable Care act next step . I talked to chairman upton and he said he didnt know when the committee would move language. And to followup on nancys question. Do you think the business should be allowed to speaker ryan i voted for enda in 2004. Reporter is it based on religious grounds . Speaker ryan i dont believe in discrimination in the workplace, period. What was your Health Care Question . Reporter the timeline. Speaker ryan ill defer to the chairman when he wants to have the markup. We want to move it by the end of the first quarter. Reporter do you support capping conclusions for employersponsored plans . Speaker ryan i had a bill with tom coburn, devin nunes and richard burr when we were debating obamacare. My position is clear. Where Congress Goes on this is an open question. Thats one of the ways you can finance tax credits. There are other ways to financing tax credits as well. Yes. Reporter and you spoke about the muslim ban. Im wondering if youre totally comfort right comfortable right now with trumps executive order . Speaker ryan you know its not a muslim ban. If it were i would be against it. We are a tolerant, pleuralistic country. We are and we will be. Its really important. The bill we passed last year, if you recall, after the paris shooting it became clear to us that one of the terrorists infiltrated the refugee population coming from syria. So we wanted to make sure that didnt happen here in this country. Thats sort of Like National security 101. And then when we inquired among our professionals at Homeland Security and the f. B. I. , can you properly vet these people to make sure that this doesnt happen in america . They said, no, we cant. Thats why we passed legislation with 289 votes, big bipartisan bill, saying lets pause this program until we can figure out how to get it right. Thats effectively what this is about. So to your point about religious persecution, president s always and often put preferences in refugee populations. I think president obama had one for Sexual Orientation. They didnt call that a Sexual Orientation test. He put a preference in for Sexual Orientation. Religious minorities are being persecuted. Theres nothing wrong preferring religious minorities from persecution. The yazidis are persecuted. Christians are being persecuted. So theres wrong with saying we are going to take into account minority religious persecution with our refugee situation. Reporter thank you, mr. Speaker. What about, though and this is the question about australia. A question with the executive order. What about the perception overseas . Do you have concerns . Speaker ryan of course i do. Reporter some people did say he did get in the grille of the australian Prime Minister. Speaker ryan i didnt read the transcripts. Reporter even if thats not true there is a perception. Speaker ryan i do think there is a perception issue. The loose rhetoric to suggest this is a muslim ban or religious test furthers that misperception. I do think people need to pause and look at the actual context that. Look at the press conference that secretary kelly had to put this in the proper perspective as to not get it misinterpreted. Reporter you had to have that press conference. Speaker ryan i said this on tuesday. I think it could have been done a lot better. Green cardholders, nobody wanted green cardholders to get caught up in this. Going forward lets not saying something that its not so we further misperceptions. Reporter regarding Rex Tillersons confirmation. Are you concerned that the Trump Administration will now try and roll back sanctions on russia . Speaker ryan well, my position on sanctions are pretty clear. I think Rex Tillerson will be a great secretary of state. I think those that havent followed him will be closely surprised. He is a capable man and hes a good model for secretary of state. I dont know what their policy will be for russia. I am a russia hawk. I think the sanctions should have been done a while ago. Reporter do you think a lot of this stuff, you talk about the rollout, this came through congress, would this be a more smooth process . Speaker ryan are you talking about the executive order . Reporter yeah. Speaker ryan they dont have a full cabinet in place yet so i think its important to get their cabinet up and running so these interagency reviews can be done well and i think Going Forward theyre going to do a better job of these things. Reporter mr. Speaker, stephanie. Donald trump tweeted this morning hes going to review the socalled dumb deal with australia. Thats the first we heard from the president directly about whats been a very confusing series of messages from the white house and the state department and australia. Is it problematic the way the diplomacy is being conducted and should australia be worried about the relationship with the new president . Speaker ryan no. I know your country well. I met with your leaders continuously over the last number of years. No, australia is an important and essential ally. It will continue to be. You may not have been to many press conferences. I dont quote or comment on the tweet of the hour. Last question. Speaker ryan sorry. Reporter do you think additional sanctions should be placed on iran . Speaker ryan i would be in favor of additional sanctions on iran. Id like to put as much toothpaste back in the tube as possible. I think the last administration appeased iran too much. I think they went too far with iran and as a result iran is far more activist than it otherwise would be. Iran, dont forget, is the largest, greatest sponsor of terrorism in the world. The biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Iran writes on their missiles in farsi, hebrew and english saying death to america and tests them. This is not a friendly country. Yeah, i think we need to have a tougher iran policy. Reporter and do you think speaker ryan i think we should stop appeasing iran. Offerser david trains iraqi translators who worked with the military and former translators will talk about their experiences. Male in the reason it is is something that i have learned. Too not like to be forced like people. I like to be led to like people through example. Change . To be a better american . That was a remarkable moment. I did not realize there were more calls after that. How powerful it was. There was something in his voice and you can hear it. It was so authentic, something that most of us will not admit , i am prejudiced sunday night, the president of the Public Policy organization was a guest on washington journal in august 2016 wayne gary called. She talks about that interaction and her followup. Partner reason is that you can remember this is august. We have had this sort of racially charged summer with donalds campaign, black lives matter, police shootings, tragic events in baton rouge, dollars. It was really a time when people felt like all they were seeing on television was bad news and here was first a white man admitting that he was prejudiced which for people of color was, we just said, finally. Sunday night on q a. Night, radio talkshow host hugh hewitt talks about his latest book, the fourth way the conservative playbook. He is interviewed by a new daily news columnist paired what did the gop do to avoid this sort of spitting on their power and not make the most of this opportunity which could be over in two years . The democrats had a long time. Did did the stimulus, they obamacare and dodd frank and all of