welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. we'll discuss a new term from republicans on the health care bill. is it obamacare 2.0? that's an interesting way to describe it. how will it work in the senate? fierce pushback, meanwhile, though, by the president against former acting attorney general sally yates testifying to a senate committee. yates made it clear the justice department was seriously concerned about then-national security adviser michael flynn. yates said she told the white house that flynn's talks with the russian ambassador and his lies to the vice president about those talks made flynn vulnerable to blackmail. >> she said she gave those warnings in meetings with the president's lawyer expecting some action, but nothing happened. >> we felt like it was critical that we get this information to the white house, because -- in part because the vice president was knowingly making false