orth korea last call, brian, northeastern washington, line for independents, go ahead. caller: thank you for getting me "washington journal." congressman, i have two questions, i'll make them quick. was the individual andate originally a republican referendum on the put together the affordable care act and two, do you know who alled for the meeting before the new congress' first day of business when you had the sunday to do away with committee?ethics host: congressman, did you get the question? of t: i got the last part it, i have no idea who called to do away eeting with house ethics committee. i served on the house ethics it's a very cog in the deliberation of business on the floor of the house of conduct atives and the f its members and the other question, i didn't understand. host: i didn't get the question, either. ethics committee, we had the chair, congresswoman on this efore you came morning. the house ethics committee get charges of d in the sexual harassment on capitol hill? the ave obviously heard hearing yesterday, where congresswoman jackie speier about two

that the designation is suddenly going to put a new layer of sanctions on because we already have orth korea so heavily sanctioned with the u.n. resolutions. a few re will close additional loopholes. >> you talked about we know about the assassination at the airport. an you give us another example of another assassination on foreign soil? >> i don't have anything that i specifically. you >> there seems to be more sanctions u.s. against new york on the -- north korea. getting given up on [inaudible] china? >> we have not given up. china we continue to talk with them. first to eventually sure they re fully committed to implementing the u.n. sanctions and though assured us they are. he last round imposed a restriction on finished products. petroleum and jet fuel. -- suggested you feeds the pipeline that their refine richmond you can do that on your own to increase the pressure. doing that or e not we don't know and it is very difficult for us to know whether actions to ing curtail all supplies to them. thatrlier today trump said the treasury department will be announcing additional sanctions to

now, north korea. .orth korea launched missiles after that, we traced them. we were able to graph and trace where they were going. missile defense is something where it is based on cooperation between japan and the united states. his cooperation between the two intercepting and shooting down. if is is necessary, we will do that. necessary, but in doing so, the u.s. and japan will closely coordinate our actions. thank you. with this, we will into the joint press conference by the two leaders of japan and the united states. thank you very much. that was u.s. president donald trump speaking in a news conference in tokyo with japan's prime minister shinzo abe. a lot about their friendship, their deep relationship, dear friends, unshakable ties. trump talking about the close relationship and enduring bond. not so much about economics, law on security. manus: early in the conversation, we saw trump talking about the maximum level of pressure. now is not the time for dialogue on north korea. some people criticize them for his rhetoric. in terms of it being too stron

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orth korea last call, brian, northeastern washington, line for independents, go ahead. thank you for getting me "washington journal." congressman, i have two questions, i'll make them quick. was the individual andate originally a republican referendum on the put together the affordable care act and two, do you know who alled for the meeting before the new congress' first day of business when you had the sunday to do away with committee?ethics host: congressman, did you get the question? of t: i got the last part it, i have no idea who called to do away eeting with house ethics committee. i served on the house ethics it's a very cog in the deliberation of business on the floor of the house of conduct atives and the f its members and the other question, i didn't understand. host: i didn't get the question, either. ethics committee, we had the chair, congresswoman on this efore you came morning. the house ethics committee get charges of d in the sexual harassment on capitol hill? the ave obviously heard hearing yesterday, where congresswoman jackie speier about two current

we've never sought war with orth korea and still today where he do not seek it.f war does do it will be because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed yesterday. and if war comes, make no mistake, the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed. host: we'll hear next from illinois, democrats line. hi. coil good morning. guess i'd like to first start commenting on the last republican call they're was a fanatic republican no matter what they're voting on just by your party. i think that's mainly what is wrong with today's politics is everybody is voting upon party lines. and that might be what is sticking us up. i think what happens best for the country happens when both parties get together and settle on something in the middle. and my opinion on the tax is i've got my own views on it. i think maybe they've got something with simplifying it and getting rid of all the loopholes, having a straight tax, $15%, $20%, whatever they decide on, and have the corporations pay their $20% with no loopholes so they're going to actually be paying more than what the

soldiers have kidnapped foreigners and forced them to work as language tutors for orth korean spies. in the part of korea that was a stronghold for christianity before the war, christians and other people of faith who are found praying or holding a religious book of any kind are now detained, tortured, and in many cases, even executed. north korean women are forced to abort babies that are considered ethnically inferior. and if these babies are born, the newborns are murdered. one woman's baby born to a chinese father was taken away in a bucket. the guards said it did not deserve to live because it was impure. so why would china feel an obligation to help north korea? the horror of life in north korea is so complete that citizens pay bribes to government officials to have themselves exported aboard as laves. they would rather be slaves than live in north korea. to attempt to flee is a crime punishable by death. one person who escaped remarked, "when i think about it now, i was not a human being. i was more like an animal. only after leaving north korea did i realize what life was supposed to be." and so,