Heading to their caucus sites for the 2020 president ial campaign but never too early to get a sense of what iowa voters are thinking. Good morning to you on a sunday im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. Good to be with you here. Battle over Health Care Coverage is now center stage again in washington thanks to a texas judges ruling striking down the Affordable Care oact. Democrats controlling the house and republicans have a stronger grip on the senate. The president says a fix will happen but some are skeptical. We are getting new reporting on the time and reasoning behind interior secretary ryan zinkes exit from the trump team as House Democrats continue to investigate him whether hes in office or not. We begin this morning with health care. The president and the former president offer dueling messages in the wake of the texas judges ruling. Cnn White House ReporterSarah Westwood joins us live this morning. Sarah. Reporter President Trump is continuing to take a victory lap after the judges ruling on friday night. The president has claimed president for predicting the demise of obamacare and calling on congress to come up with a replacement plan for obamacare and there is perhaps a recognition from the president that there is no path forward for a republican only Health Care Plan and hell need democrats to help replace, repeal, whatever they are going to do with obamacare in the wake of this ruling if it stands. The president , last night at a Congressional Ball at the white house, calls on lawmakers to come together and work on that plan. Take a listen. I believe we will get Exciting Health care. Exciting things happened over the last 4 hours. If everybody is smart, we have a lot of democrats here tonight and im happy about that. I have a lot of friends who are democrats. We have democrats here. If the republicans and the democrats get together, we are going to end up with Incredible Health care, which is the way it should have been from day one. And its going to happen. It now has a chance to happen. Reporter former president obama continued to defend the law on facebook last night as the Enrollment Period came to an end, saying that if voters are upset about this outcome in the court against obamacare, they should continue to go out and vote for democrats because republicans are going to continue to pursue a repeal of obamacare. The president getting somewhat of a victory in the courts which havent been treating him so well lately. Siraj hasmi and with us this morning. Siraj, is there any gauge of what the replacement is and do you see a divide in the Republican Party over this . Already a divide in the Republican Party over this. Just with Susan Collins statement. You can look at the immediate replacement and attack and have individual votes. Kind of the skinny repeal or an overhaul is not the way to go about it. Say if you prioritize starting with preexisting conditions and working your way from there, i think at least the republicans could come to give some consensus and build some bridges with democrats who want to tackle those same issues as well. We heard the president there talking about how they can finally have a chance to make that happening. Do you see that opening . If it reaches the Supreme Court will uphold this even with a more conservative majority. A lot of legal experts are criticizing the logic of this decision which goes against what congress, itself, said in 2017. But politically, its really hard to see the House Democrats accepting anything less than a robust replacement if this should happen to the Health Care Program and republicans are pretty worried about this. They just got really beat up in the midterms on this particular issue. So they are going to have to offer voters, if somehow the law was dismantled, a pretty satisfying alternative. Siran, what does this issue, itself, do to democrats before the 2020 election . What is interesting and to julians point, republicans got beat up for the reason they did not appeal obamacare. For years during the Obama Administration they tried to prepeel and replace obamacare should they control the house and senate and the last few years, they did not get it done. Democrats certainly, you know, in the trump era everything doesnt really sort of matter, so its im not sure whether this is a gift for democrats or not, because, you know, fumble that happens in the Trump Administration happens to be a different gift for democrats, but trump somehow manages to recover. If 2020 ends up being about health care, if that is the primary issue, you know, democrats have a really good chance of taking back the white house, but, again, it all comes down to messaging and comes down to the ground game and they have a lot of work to do. There are some interesting enlightenments, i guess, of a new cnn poll in iowa and we will talk about that in a little bit. When we talk about who is leading in terms right now on the dem side. We have new details i want to ask you about. According to the Washington Post white house officials had been pushing zinke to resign for weeks. The New York Times saying zinke could face a roux mihumil firing and he didnt want to leave until he attended his Christmas Party on friday night where he had active lobbyists and donors. Julian, i know youre chuckling because i dont know what to make of this. Does this not fuel the criticisms against zinke . Absolutely. Zinke had become one of the embodiments of shady ethics at the cabinet level. What really forced him out was the fact the house is going to be controlled by democrats and subpoena power come january, so the administrations hand was forced, but this little story on christmas, youre right. Im chuckling, in part, because it really embodies the problem with him and that is what is remarkable about public figures like this. They often fulfill what people are thinking through moments like this. But he was someone who didnt see the lines between what a public official does and what happens in the world of private industry. Zinke gave his own reason for the departure and tweeted the following. Siraj, your reaction to that. Ryan zinke kind of lived in the shadow of shadow of former epa administrator scott pruitt and so many stories about pruitt and the scandals he was involved in. What is interesting about both of these figures they were effective if what they did with actual policy. They did unburdesome regulation and zinke leased out private Coal Companies to public lands. Environmentalists are not happy with him about that. With him using Agency Resources for personal gain and let the investigation on decide whether he actually violated federal law, but, you know, with democrats taking control of the house, the Trump Administration probably saw what was on the horizon and didnt like what they saw. I guess to julians point with the subpoena power, you know, that is going to be probably pretty powerful in the next two years. Right, right. The president did look. The president has a couple of notches that he can brag about. Tax reform, of course, they have gotten done. Last night, he talked about the fact that infrastructure bill is coming soon and that criminal justice reform, he believes, is going to be addressed next week. But when youve got zinke, youve got mick muscle vlvaney temporary chief of staff. You look at the positions he has to fill. He has to fill a fulltime chief of staff, first of all. He has an interior secretary, obviously, who just left. A u. N. Ambassador and attorney general, both need to be confirmed yet. So those essentially are still misplaced as well. Is there a gauge, julian, of what this president about functionally get done, despite all of this instability within the administration . Well, he can still get a lot done with executive power and that is what we have seen him do with epa, with interior, and these positions will still have people who can move forward, even in the chaos that is going to exist. But you do have a president , unconventional president running with historically high levels of turnover, and very few places of stable counsel surrounding him, head nothing a really contentious two years of politics and partially divided government. So there will be limits on what someone who is already limited in his ability to get legislation can do. And so, again, if we are going to place political bets, the odds are this wont be another era of a Great Society or new deal, its going to be much more of a defensive posture from the white house. All right. Siraj hasmi and julian zeleny, we appreciate you both taking time to be with us. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Republican senator Susan Collins and democratic congressman elijah cummings, both on cnn later this morning. Dont miss state of the union with jake tapper at 9 00 a. M. And noon today. Before he won the president ial election, donald trump to relationship up the paris climate agreement. But this morning, that deal is still alive. In poland, they jumped on tables and hugged and danced all in celebration as delegates reached a deal to put it in action and each country has to measure emissions and track climate policies. The countries in agreement includes, yes, the United States. Despite the president s vow to abandon it since the United States cant leave that agreement until 2020. So i know its only 2018. Almost 2019. Almost. Almost. 2020 democratic president ial hopefuls are getting their first look at what voters think of them. Coming up, who votes in iowa, specifically, are backing at this stage of the game in the race to face President Trump. Plus, Michael Cohen, he is headed to prison and he says he is no longer loyal to the president. So what information could prosecutors learn from his change of heart . Later this hour, saturday night live looks at Donald Trumps presidency through the lens of its a wonderful life and what might have been. What is that music . Mike pence is deejaying. Mike, is this what youre doing now . Hell yeah. Thank goodness i wasnt your Vice President. Would i in a room with you and staring out into space just imagining this. I just got my cashback match, is this for real . Yep. 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I think not only hat Michael Cohen sentencing really clarified how much trouble he and his family are in but it shows the depth of it. It is collusion, it is fraud, it is obstruction of justice and all of those aelllegations are real and i think mueller is trying to develop the facts around the allegations and present it to the American Public so we can have transparen transparency. The most thing we can do in the senate is protect the mueller investigation. We have more on Michael Cohens relationship are President Trump. The words the media should be using to describe mr. Trump are generous. Reporter he was the ultimately loyalist. Principled. Reporter protector and defender. Kind. Humble. Honest, and genuine. Reporter the trump fixer who said he would take a bullet for his idol, his boss. They say mr. Trumps pit bull, that i am his i am his right hand man. I mean, ive been called being Different Things around here. Reporter now in a plot twist worth of shakespeare the script has flipped. Im done being loyal to President Trump and my first loyalty belongs to my wife, my daughter, my son, and this country. Reporter prosecutors say he has provided relevant and useful information on contacts, with persons connected to the white house, and his own conversations with individual, number one, donald trump, the candidate to political the election. He stands to pay the price, three years in prison. He is a weak person and not a very smart person. Reporter a betrayed trump says its all a lie. The deceit only serving cohens selfinterest. Michael cohen is lying and he is trying to get a reduced sentence. Reporter but wait. Just this past spring. I always liked michael. And hes a good person. The man is honest, honorable lawyer. Reporter what changed . Michael cohen. This man has turned a corner in his life, has hit a reset button and he is now dedicated to telling the truth. Reporter no longer dedicated to being Donald Trumps mini me as he was when he started working for the boss more than a decade ago. Michael was, id like to say the ray donovan of the office. Ill take care of it. Tee care of what had to be taken care of. I dont know. It had to be taken care of but all i know is michael was taking care of it. He is the guy you could call at 3 00 in the morning when you have a problem. Reporter do you know stories of donald trump calling him at 3 00 in the morning . Donald trump has called him at all hours of the night. Reporter he is not calling now because cohen is singing admitting negotiations about trump tower moscow continued during the president ial campaign, while trump denied having any business interest in russia. He says he wasnt touched with trumps lawyers and white house staff as he prepared a false statement to congress. And cohen says at the direction of the candidate, he coordinated payoffs to women accusing trump of sexual relations. Even releasing a secret recording about one of them. When it comes to the finance, which will be what financing . Reporter all part of the job. My job is i protect mr. Trump. Thats what it is. If there is an issue that relates to mr. Trump that is of concern to him, its, of course, concern to me and i will use my legal skills within which to protect mr. Trump to the best of my ability. He is going to be my absolutely pleasure to serve you 500 million lawsuit. Reporter often with threats as in this 2015 conversation with a reporter. This is also part of the trump cohen methods is you skate on the edge of what is reasonable and maybe even on the edge of what is ethical or legal. Reporter cohen, a sometimes democrat, first came to trumps attention after buying apartments in trump developments. Then went to the mat for trump against one of his condo boards and then won. Trump loved him for it. That was the beginning of it. Then after that, they became close. It was much more than an Attorney Client relationship. It was something much deeper. Almost father and son kind of thing. Reporter for trump, hiring cohen wasnt about pedigree. Cohen, who was 52, got his degree from western michigans Cooley Law School and eventually entered the less than genteel world of new york taxi cab medallions. If you look where michael came from in his legal career before he started working for trump board, it wasnt like he came from a white shoe law firm. He came from a hardnosed new york trial firm. I will faithly execute. Reporter but when trump came president , he did not bring his brash wing man to washington. Do you think he wanted to be in the white house, be white House Counsel . There must have been a part of him was that dreaming of a great job at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, but he is also the guy who not only knows where all of the bodies are buried, he buried a lot of them himself and that ironically, disqualified him. 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We are more than a year away from the first contest of the 2020 president ial and Campaign FormerVice President joe biden is lead ago crowded field in a new poll. Iowa is the first state in the nominating process and ryan nobles say caucus goers are warming up to some familiar faces. Reporter no doubt we are a long way away from iowa voters head to go their caucus sites for the 2020 president ial campaign but never too early to get a sense of what iowa voters are thinking and democrats are telling you what their early thoughts are about the 2020 race for president. We are seeing their thoughts are matching up pretty closely what we are seeing nationally. Former Vice President joe biden leads the field at 32 . Bernie sanders who had a pretty Strong Performance in 2016 at 19 and the name that jumps off the page is beto orourke who just lost in texas to senator ted cruz is in third place. And we could easily be in store for a wildcard when it comes to this race. Names we threw into this poll to see how iowa voters are thinking about them. Among hthem is Hillary Clinton and oprah winfrey. 72 of people from iowa saying Hillary Clinton would be a distraction and 55 say oprah would be a distraction. What is the minds of iows is 54 strong chance to win and 40 share their issues positions. This is something the democrats in particular have always cared a great deal about. And that is exactly what they are thinking at this early stage of this campaign. So a long way to go. 14 months before the iowa caucus, but we are now starting to see what iowa voters are thinking. Ryan nobles, cnn, washington. The first lady spokesperson issued a staunch review of a oped about Melania Trump. The criticism comes after cnns Kate Anderson wrote a piece saying Melania Trump doesnt understand what it means to be first lady. Browers remarks followed a fox news interview last week where the first lady call journalists opportunists. Joining me to discuss is maria bank. Thank you for being with us this morning. Happy to be here. Browers piece claims the more Melania Trump becomes vocal, the less people like her. A recent poll has showed her popularity dropped double digits from a couple of months ago. What do you attribute that to and what do you think is going on here . With a lot of polling its hard to pinpoint one factor or one sort of catalyst, but i would say the overall trend with her, we saw her a while in the shadows and not really being active and now she, i think she is trying to figure out her role as first lady. As she does that and makes more public appearances and works on her initiatives, she is becoming a lot like her husband. She is taking on a lot of the same qualities in terms of dealing with the media, dealing with press coverage. That statement is like a lot of the statements that she has put out on behalf of the first lady and also the first lady, herself, has made which is criticizing the press, lecturing reporters for not covering the first lady positively, not unlike the way the president sees the role of the press which is to cover him favorably. When asked what was the hardest part of being first lady, this was Melania Trumps response. Listen. I would say the opportunist whose are using my name or my family name to advance themselves. They like to focus on the gossip and i would like that they focus on the substance and what we do, not just about nonsense. Now brower claims she played victim here and could have used this opportunity perhaps to highlight more of her work with children, the less fortunate military families something she was doing prior to that interview. Is it a fair criticism . I think it is. I mean, we have seen her, for example, her signature issue right now is the be best initiative, focusing on Cyber Bullying and online safety, but its difficult to make that a priority when, you know, the hypocrisy is clear with her husband, sometimes simultaneously she is doing a be best event he is on twitter launching attacks and its hard to cover the hypocrisy. While certainly she wants the media to cover the event, its hard to cover that event and ignore the hypocrisy. Her husband is unpopular in a lot of circles and im wondering whether that reflects and falls back on her as well. I dont know that there is a direct link. Unfortunately, the role of the first lady is often under a lot of sexist and gendered criticisms. Its a role, including her, is difficult to navigate. Its a role very much undefined. It really depends on the person and also, in some ways, depends on the president. I do think, though, going back to what we were saying earlier, is that she is heal really taking on these qualities of her husband and i think that can contribute to the negative perception of her, just like, you know, certainly her husband is an incredibly divisive figure. All right. Thank you for joining us this morning. The oldest sitting justice of the Supreme Court is back in the spotlight with update on her health. After falling and breaking three ribs in her office, Ruth Bader Ginsburg sat down for an interview in new york and said she is feeling much better. How is your health . Its fine. Thank you. And those ribs you busted . Almost repaired. Thats good. And have you gone back tour trainer, Brian Stephenson . Yes. We went back immediately after the fall, to do legs only. But, yesterday, they did the whole routine. A whole routine . Yes. The whole routine that most 35yearolds cant do. Despite her accident, ginsburg never missed a day of arguments of the Supreme Court. 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There are fears this morning that chinese authorities may be cracking down on christianity. The u. S. Based nonprofit chinese aide said a pastor and his wife are among 100 christians who have recently been detained. The pastor is seen here with george bush in 2006 and charged. For more, will ripley is in hong kong. What is happening here . Reporter its taken us days to confirm these details because of the secrecy and lack of transparency in china when it comes to their legal system. What we know this morning is wang yi has been in the oval office and a former legal scholar, he along with his wife and 100 krivens were key obtain christians were detained last week. Wang is the pastor of a church that has been targeted by china for quite sometime. They are basically operating underground. Churches in china have to register with the National Religion bureau which essentially guarantees that the communist party rules are being followed in church. They opened themselves up to surveillance and the churches that are approved. But in this church, they do things that are considered highly provocative. Here is a picture of pastor wang holding up a sign which translates pray for the nation on june 4th, the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. People are not supposed to talk about it and cnn is what kind out whenever we mention it in china. To have pastor of a Church Preaching to a congregation with 0 that is to get attention. The real crime religious groups that support this church would say is that they are not supporting the communist party ilg ideology. What is the consequence for these people arrested . Do we have a gauge for that . We dont know. There is concern, they, like others who have been detained for religious crimes in the past, could be sent to concentration camps. You think about, you know, what china has been accused of, which is like this crackdown on independent religious practice, systemic almost, human rights abuse, talking about the hundreds of thousands of muslim leaders, for example. China says they are just trying to tackle violent extremism but critics say they are setting up like buddhist. A religion of freedom is designated china one of ten countries of concern because people there dont seem to have a right to religion even though china, as an atheist state is to guarantee religion under the law. We have on to watch this very closely but a lot of sqern abco about the 100 christians who have been detained. We will keep an eye on it. Thank you, will. Coming up, for the first time in the history of the Miss Universe pageant, tonights competition is featuring an openly transgender contestant. We have more on what is to be expected. Do i use a toothpaste that whitens my teeth, or one thats good for my teeth . Now i dont have to choose. 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Angela potts won Miss Universe spain and now compete for the International Title tonight. Cnns natasha chen reports. Reporter from swimsuit to evening gown, for me winning Miss Universe would give great pride. Quick changes will not be compared to the slow societal changes she has faced. Tonight she will be the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss Universe pageant. Translator i started working in fashion ten years ago. In the past three years i started to compete in beauty contests. In 2015 i was a representative in miss world spain. But the rules didnt allow me to get in the national competition. Reporter she turned to the Miss Universe organization, a pageant that already dealt with the question of transgender participants in 2012. If it affected my score or my performance, no. I was giving it my best. Im very proud of myself. Reporter a canadian told she was disqualified from the organizations miss canada pageant because she was born male but the pageant coowned at the time by donald trump came under recruit knee and she did not win the canadian title. Now six years later, spain has won hearse competition in that country and heads to the Miss Universe pageant in thailand. Translator i think the mindset is changing. Today positive references and people speak about the Lgbt Community and transgender community. Reporter appearing on stage is already historic. Translator if i dont win, i get great friends and a unique experience. Reporter but if she does get that crown, poncy says this would be a win for human rights. Natasha chen, cnn. Thank you. Next, saturday night live delivered with a holidayspid holidayinspired spoof on the white house. We have their take coming up on it is a wonderful life. Hi. This is peggy. vo you do more than rescue pets when you share the love. You build families. Get a new subaru, like the all new forester, and charities like the aspca can receive two hundred and fifty dollars from subaru. avo get zero percent during the subaru share the love event. Five golden. Six golden rings. Seven golden rings there a memorable moment this week in the oval office. The president and Congressional Democrats got a bit testy together in the corner, quiet there was the Vice President. Yes, he was. As jeanne moos the internet noticed. It wasnt what they said but how they looked saying it. I will shut down the government if i dont get my will. Do you want to know something . You said it. Ill take it. Okay, good. Reporter anchors were wow. That was special. Reporter watch the president pull a special face, the mention of pinocchios. The Washington Post today gave awe whole lot of pinocchios because they say you obviously misstate. Reporter the guy that got attention was keeping his mouth shut. Mike pence looks like an elf on the shelf. Someone emptied his chair and moved him to the mantle. Vice president pence seemed, hum. Penceive and got that look in his eyes the music flowed. Parody going out. Saddled with curb your enthusiasm. Because im not going to get the vote. I need tep senators. Reporter Honorable Mention to pence for willing himself to blend in with the furniture. At times his head swiveled as if he were watching ntennis. When he blinked got down to save electricity. People put thoughts in his head about being president. This rug is the first them inc. Getting rid of wishing perhaps that he were anywhere but here. Senator schumer wore the hint of a smile but the guy who seemed uncharacteristically happy as the meeting broke up was white house chief of staff john kelly. After all, in a few weeks he is out of there. Before the press is ushered out, go live to mike pence, when youre at a smackdown, it pays to wear armor i am proud. We disagree. I am proud to shut down the government. Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. The folks on saturday night live had their take what the Vice President might have been thinking in the oval office there. A reimagined version of the holiday classic its a wonderful life. A world where President Trump did not win the presidency. Well, everybody looks so different what are those things on their faces . Those are called smiles wait. So hillary is president . Thats right. And in this reality, all she had to do to win was visit wisconsin once. About did they find her emails . They did. They were all bed bath and beyond coupons what is that music . Mike pence is deejaying. Mike, is this what youre doing now . Hell yeah, doug. Its so great to be myself. Thank god i was never your Vice President. I would just be sitting in meetings with you an pelosi and schumer and staring out into space imagining this. When is this Party Getting started . Wow cav a gnjudge kavanaugh, how Supreme Court . With me, my temperament . Are you insane . No, they went with that nerd Merrick Garland but when i say i like beer, they find is charming and not like im threatening violence i believe we are going to get really good health care. Do i think this is going to be the thing that crafts some type of Bipartisan Health care agreement . Of course not. People dont realize i have a lot of friends who are democrats. It will be interesting to see who the president is talking with about when he says democrats will help him on that issue moving forward. Another day of resignation at the white house. Secretary of the interior ryan zinke announced he is out