i hope that is good for you. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good morning to you. this morning the vice president, mike pence, is on the road to pitch the republicans' plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act. he's looking to shore up support as opposition within the party could derail one of the president's biggest campaign promises. >> this morning, vice president pence addressing business leaders in kentucky. he will appear with matt bevin, a man who's not fully behind the plan himself. ahead, sticking points and efforts to keep the bill on track. plus, the white house is saying that president trump had no idea when he chose his first national security adviser that general michael flynn had been a paid lobbyist for turkish concerns at the height of the campaign and through election day. we'll examine these new revelations. a panel of correspondents and political experts standing by to break all of this down for us this morning. we want to start with ryan nobles, in washington. ryan, good morning. what are you hearing? >> reporter: let's talk first about the health care plan and the battle that the white house is under way on two fronts. first they have democrats that are firmly opposed to any effort that would dismantle the affordable care act which president obama worked so hard to put into place. and then they're dealing with conservative republicans who believe the house gop plan to fix obamacare doesn't go far enough. many of these republicans calling it obamacare lite. the trump administration seems committed to sticking with this plan and pushing it through as soon as possible. this week the president himself saying that there is an urgent need to fix the problem as soon as possible. take a listen. >> we must act to save americans from the imploding obamacare disaster. premiums have skyrocketed by double digits and triple digits in some cases. '17 would be a disaster for obamacare, the year it was meant to explode because obama won't be here. >> reporter: explode is the word that the president used to describe what could happen with obamacare in 2017. that's why he believes the fix needs to be put in place as soon as possible. some of these republicans are begging the white house to slow down. arkansas senator tom cotton and, of course, kentucky senator rand paul, opposed to the house republican plan. that's where vice president mike pence will be today, in kentucky, with the state's governor, matt bevin, of course a big trump supporter. he's a politician in the style of donald trump. bevin said yesterday that he is also concerned about the republican plan. and here we see the vice president, mike pence, leaving from joint base andrews. he's on his way to kentucky now for the event this morning with business leaders. this event in kentucky really highlights the divide that has cropped up because of the health care issue and the challenge that the white house has in front of them. bevin said that he's been in contact with the white house. he has confidence that the trump administration can come up with a final plan that will solve all the problems that many have raised about this current issue and obamacare as it currently exists. obviously mike pence has a lot of work to do today as he heads to kentucky to make the pitch on behalf of the trump administration. >> interesting to see how it's received. as you said, kentucky's quite a dichotomy, about 440,000 people, one-third of the people covered are covered by medicaid thanks to that expansion. ryan nobles, appreciate it. thank you. let's continue with political commentator and political reporter eric lewis, political reporter for the "washington post," phillip bump, and commentator jack kingston as we watch here the vice president who is going to soon board a plane to head to louisville to begin this event with the governor there. good morning to you, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> let me start with you, phillip. why are we watching the vice president this morning instead of the president going to sell this plan? >> it's a very good question. my guess is that they're hoping that vice president mike pence will be able to make better inroads with the establishment republicans in kentucky than donald trump might. donald trump is good at the big, splashy rallies. i think help s probably better at the -- i think mike pence is probably better at the subtle armtwisting. the point that was made about kentucky's expansion of coverage is critical. a drop of 38% of the state being insured to 13%. that's 25%, a quarter of the state gained insurance under obamacare. that's a large part of the reason why kentucky politicians are balking. i'm not sure whether it makes a difference who goes there. it's a big hurdle to overcome. >> as we talk about medicaid expansion, the reporting from cnn is that the white house is -- and by the white house we mean the president -- is open to potentially moving up the sunset of the medication expansion which in the bill is 2020 to potentially 2017. house gop leaders are saying the president is making it harder to pass this. is that accurate that it's making it tougher to get this passed? >> i think that's the practical political effect of trying to phase out the medicaid expansion. you've got a lot of poor states, kentucky is one of them, that have conservative republican governors who have a slightly different interest than the members of the house freedom caucus or even members of the u.s. senate. congressional republicans have all or many of them have campaigned to repeal and replace obamacare. down on the ground where you actually have to help people, the problem looks a little bit different. in fact, i think that is part of the education of matt bevin, the kentucky governor, who ran as a tea party conservative, bashing obamacare every chance he got. very much has -- very much as phil mentioned, he's seen hundreds of thousands of needy residents of his state are being helped. it's not going to be good politics or -- or easy for him to undo that. >> let's actually listen to the governor, matt bevin, as he gave these comments yesterday. let's watch. >> senator paul has ideas of things he thinks that needs to be a lot stronger. he's not as impressed with what currently has been offered as some who have currently offered it. truth be told, i'm not either. i'm with him. i think there are things that need to be done. >> let me get to your response to what you heard from the governor, jack. >> i think errol's right. governors have a different mindset than members of congress, the freedom caucus particularly. to them, there's a lot of free money that came with obamacare. it allowed them to expand their medicaid, and it allowed them to do it without costing their state money. they do have opposition to it because it's not in their particular political interest. but i do think when we listen to what speaker ryan and kevin brady are saying, look, the first thing we're going to do is the reconciliation fix. then we're going to have hhs, health and human services, do some of the executive orders and repeal stuff. thirdly, we'll let legislation pass. so if rand paul and others who do not like this package like the freedom caucus or the democrats want to do something, they're going to have plenty of opportunities in the months ahead. >> jack, you know that's the plan. speaker ryan knows that's the plan. the white house knows that's the plan. so why is the president after he gave his full-throated support to this bill now open to expressing potential openness to rolling up or moving forward this sunset of the medicaid expansion? >> because i think, you know, he sees what -- what it takes to get something through the u.s. senate and u.s. house. i think it's going to be extremely difficult to do. you have lots of personalities. you have people running for other offices. you have people who are angling for particular positions. the democrats, by the way, aren't doing anything which is, i think, strange behavior because obamacare is their baby. and you wouldn't stand by and watch your baby be murdered or dismantled. so to me, there is going to be a time when they'll want to get involved and save parts of obamacare. i don't think that's too much to ask. to me, you can't sit back and watch it. i also think you are going to have members of the republican party who have had eight years of vote purity because all they had to do was vote no on anything barack obama was for, and then they could placate interest groups back home. now they're in the world of governing. it's more difficult. you've got to vote for things that you don't agree with except on 51% of the issue. and that's difficult. >> i don't know if the analogy is appropriate as we talk about ending obamacare. phillip, let me come to you. is this president going to be able to negotiate -- i mean, essentially what we saw from gop leadership is a slap on the hand on don't touch what we've put together. we're not going to move this sunset. is it going to be able to do or make these deals that he says that he's so great at? >> i mean, it's a great question. so far i think what we've seen is that he's running into a lot of very, very predictable roadblocks. he showed the clip at the top of the show in which he said no one expected health care to be so complicated. everything was complicated. that's the problem in terms of reforming any health care system. it's the problem that obamacare ran into. there are a lot of roadblocks. i think people are underestimating the extent to which the idea of millions of people losing health insurance is a huge, huge roadblock. it's exactly why the people who put the bill together didn't want to have the medicaid sun set happen before the elections. donald trump is a ceo, used to saying, you go do this. now he's dealing with 435 people in the house, 100 people in the senate, all of whom have constituencies to whom they are responsible, and all of whom risk having people lose their medical coverage and then having attack ads run against them in the next election campaign. it's a huge, huge issue. i'm not sure the republicans have a plan to get them past the hurdle. >> errol, as we look at the past five days that the plan has been out or the president supported publicly, are there any indications of what the future fights will look like? the fight to pass this infrastructure bill that could be coming down the pike, for the wall, the other plans that we're expecting from the white house? >> it's interesting. i don't think anything's going to be as complicated or as fraught as health care. you raise a good point. a lot of the fights will break down along the same paths which is how do you pay for it, what do state and executive positions, what do the holders of those petitions say this about -- those positions say about this as opposed to national republicans. one overriding factor we have to keep in mind is that when you talk about paul ryan, his control of the house rests on about 23, 24 seats. if he loses that majority, a lot of the plans of the republican party in general get thrown off. he's going to be playing a delicate game trying to make sure he's protecting his safe seats. and -- between him and the republican governors, we'll have quite a lot of discussion within the republican party about how to move forward on all of these high-cost issues like the wall. >> all right. errol, phillip, jack, thanks for being with us. we'll continue the conversation as we're a couple of hours away from this event there in louisville, kentucky. >> thanks. breaking news out of western germany now i want to tell you about. we're learning hundreds, yes, hundreds of police are converging now on one of the country's largest shopping malls. this is located in the town of essen. they've been alerted by "concrete indications of a potential terror plot" and that the attack may be planned for today. and because of that, as i said, there are hundreds of police now stationed at this mall. we're going to bring you the latest from germany as we continue to watch the situation there this morning. the questions -- what did the trump transition team and the administration know and when did they know it? 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dawn, let's start with you. >> you know, the plan right now is a repeal. it's not a replacement. we're concerned particularly because of the medicaid expansion. in kentucky alone, nearly half a million people will be losing their health insurance with this plan. over 15 million people nationally. this is a life-or-death matter. >> let's show what we have in kentucky because it is quite a dichotomy. kentucky did vote for overall president obama in the election, but 1.3 million kentuckians are on medicaid, 440 of those, one-third, are covered thanks to the expansion, as you mentioned. and between 2013 and 2015, kentucky's rate of uninsured fell from 15% to 6.5%. we have to find out that's one of the sharpest declines nationwide of people living without insurance. but still, donald trump won kentucky. what do you make of that, rena, and how the vice president may be received when it comes to his message today? >> so i think that donald trump then -- i think it's unfortunately many people are shocked by it. as far as the aca repeal in kentucky is concerned, my husband is a physician. i actually come from a family of physicians, and as -- none of them actually support the aca repeal at all. he has -- my husband has a patient who moved from nashville, tennessee, and she's 59 years old. she never had insurance before. she now -- she had to go into the e.r. because of severe chest pains. she had -- she was reluctant to go to the e.r. because she didn't have enough money or health care to go to the e.r. then it became, you know, discomfortable for her -- uncomfortable for her, and she ended up going to the e.r. where she was told that she needed to get a procedure. she left the e.r., applied for aca. demight a pre-existing condition, she -- despite a pre-existing condition, she was granted health care. that allowed her to get the procedure done. with this aca repeal, she is now, you know, very tearful. she's very upset. you know, she is -- she was on a -- in a health track and now she may have -- she may not have that track to be on -- because of the repeal. >> well, president obama himself even conceded just this past october that the affordable care act or obamacare, it is not necessarily perfect. take a look here. >> it's true that a lot of the noise around the health care debate ever since we tried to pass this law has been nothing more than politics. but we've also always known -- and i have always said that for all the good that the affordable care act is doing right now, for as big a step forward as it was, it's still just a first step. >> don't legislators have the right or should they not be allowed to look at this plan and revamp health care to try to make it better? >> this is not a revamp. this is a repeal. >> it's not a full repeal, i mean, there are things that are going to stay in this plan that came from president obama. >> i think when you talk about millions of people losing health insurance, i don't think that that's a replacement. i don't think you can consider that a replacement. we're talking about people who have had cancer screenings, people who have gotten treatment for diabetes for the first time. we're talking about prenatal care. we're not talking about a plan that gives these people health care. we're talking about a plan that is going to be costed out of their price range which doesn't make it an option. we're talking about a plan that continues to put more money into the pockets of health insurance companies and takes money out of the pockets of consumers. >> dawn, do you believe that there's anything that is being discussed that could be revamped that would make it better? anything you would support in this -- >> i hope so. i -- you know, i hope so. i think that president obama was right that it isn't perfect. that the aca isn't perfect. considering what he had to deal with, he pushed through a pretty good plan. what i would really love to see is bipartisan support for fixing the problems with aca rather than completely throwing out the baby with the bath water. >> rena and dawn, we appreciate you both being here. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. he was a fixture on donald trump's campaign trail, but it turns out that michael flynn was also on the payroll of a foreign government. and the trump transition team knew about it. we'll break it down. also protests are turning peaceful in south korea in the wake of the president's impeachment, of course. this is one day, though, after there were deadly demonstrations as this key u.s. ally is reeling in some real political uncertainty now. various: (shouting) heigh! ho! 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"i will not at any time after the terms nation of my employment at the united states government engage in any activity on behalf of any foreign government or foreign political party which were undertake own january 20th, 2017, would require me to register under the foreign agents registration act of 1938 as amended." of course, the letter of the law says any time after the termination of my employment. but the spirit of the law is to keep people who would potentially lobby for foreign governments out of the white house. does this employment of general flynn as the national security adviser meet the spirit of the president's own executive order? >> i think it did because flynn was largely hired because of his distinguished service in the u.s. military and his knowledge of world affairs and so forth. and the idea that he did represent a businessman who was a foreign businessman, that had a tie to the term yush government. i don't think that that alone would x him out of eligibility or keep him from being eligible. but the other part -- remember this, victor, if the president says if anybody who's ever been a lobbyist or has ever had anything to do with a foreign government's not going to come in to my administration, he's going to find what other presidents found -- you lose a lot of the talent pool out there. but should it have been disclosed more thoroughly to the administration? i think it should have been. >> and there's still a lot of people who question how is it possible that the vice president, then vice president-elect, head of the transition after getting the letter from the ranking democrat of oversight on the house, elijah cummings, could not have known of the work that general flynn was doing. to clear up some things, i don't know if anybody's asked this question -- you after the election, during the transition, traveled to russia. did you have any communications with members of the russian government, either during the transition or during your time as an adviser to the campaign? >> well, i'm going to say this because you never know who you met. i would say absolutely not, victor. my trip to russia was on behalf of the law firm in which i worked. i have offices in 21 countries. we did pre and post-election summaries all over including london, australia, washington, d.c., and brussels. i would have done that whether hillary clinton or donald trump won. i was speaking to the american chamber of commerce, and it was set up by the american chamber, had absolutely nothing to do with the trump campaign. and even so as a private businessman, i did not have any meetings with anybody -- with the russian government. at least in any capacity that i -- i'm aware of. i say that because you don't know -- i don't -- there may have some mayor or county commissioner in one of those meetings. but that trip had absolutely nothing to do with the trump campaign. and i even apologized later because i realized -- there was some questions about that, and i called him and said, hey, i want you to know i did this. i never coordinated that trip with them. and i appreciate the question. >> certainly. >> i appreciate -- absolutely on the record cross my heart. >> all right. thank you very much. >> thank you. it is nighttime now in seoul, south korea. but a new political era is dawning there. and a lot of questions are following what's happening, what does this mean for south korea, for the u.s., and for north korea? we'll take you live to south korea in a moment. david beckham, revered as one of the greatest soccer players in the world, is using his fame to make an impact on children who are facing danger. go to our website, cnn.com/impact, to see more on beckham's unicef mission and how you can help. modern life deserves a modern way to pay. on your phone and online. so you don't miss his first birthday. tickets, i need to see your tickets sir. i masterpassed it. feeling like father of the year: priceless don't just buy it. masterpass it. an unlimited data plan is only as good as the network it's on. and verizon has been ranked number one for the 7th time in a row by rootmetrics. 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one woman is engaged to a robot. >> i wanted victor to say that and not me. cnn's "mostly human" with lori seigel explores everything from falling in love with robots to using bots to communicate with deceased loved ones. >> it's insane to me that something that somebody does on line would result in execution. >> this is where bits and bytes meet flesh and blood. >> do you think that team will fall in love -- that people will fall in love with robots? >> i feel that it's inevitable. >> tech is now love, war, it's life, death. ultimately tech is mostly human. >> okay. lori's with us now. so help us understand this new show, first of all. >> reporter: sure. look, i've been covering tech for something like eight years. and i've always been fascinated by the stories that we don't talk about and what they're going to mean and what are the ethical questions that we should start asking. it's funny -- if you would have asked me years ago if we'd be ordering a car via uber and getting into a stranger's car, people would have said no, no one's going to do that. fast forward these years later, there are these fringe stories happening again. you have people falling in love with robots, people using artificial intelligence to try to bring aspects of their dead friends back to life. there are all of these really interesting stories that are happen think on the fringes. part of the show is going out and exploring how technical's impacting love and war and death. and all of these -- and asking kind of these philosophical questions about what do we need to keep in mind and how far is too far which you guys saw the robot love. maybe we're going a little bit too far. what does this say? >> yeah. "computer love" was one of my favorite songs. i don't know that i thought about it in this context. let me ask you to explain what we talked about in just a few moments ago. this woman who fell so deeply in love with a robot that she and the robot are now engaged. talk about that. >> reporter: i will say one of the weirder -- one of the weirder stories in my career is attending a robot engagement party outside of paris. beautiful love story of sorts. then you go out, and you realize she's engaged to a robot. but listen, i think what was kind of interesting and fascinate being her story is she's very eloquent in how she was describing it. she said, you know, i know people judge this, i haven't had any trauma. i did ask that question. she said love is love. and then she went on to say, you know, humans are irrational. they're going to cheat, and they could lie or be alcoholics, all of these things could happen. she said, a robot is safe. and you can kind of script code. so there are these vulnerable human moments in these stories that also took me to a sex robot factory in california where they're building lifelike -- they look very, very similar to women. and they're adding artificial intelligence. so they actually get to know you. they'll know you can -- the guy who created it was talking about, you know, what's my biggest fear. and harmony, the robot, was able to kind of respond back. you know, you start asking yourself, all of these ethical questions. i said, why do people want a robot? is it because they can't get the real thing? he said, you know, you'd be surprised. and i said, to matt, the owner of the factory, i said, do you think human connection is needed for happiness? he said, you know, i don't think it is. these are fascinating moments that we really explore through the show. it takes me to all sorts of weird places like a sex robot factory and robot engagement party. i hope you guys will watch. >> it is fascinating. lori seigel, thank you very much. you can see the show on cnngo streaming starting tomorrow. >> that's it for us this hour. see you back here at 10:00. >> don't go anywhere. 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