well, subject very much to be continued, ambassador jeffrey and wendy sherman. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: stay with us, coming up on the newshour, a woman's mission to help girls in liberia. and a letter to five presidents who owned slaves. but first, can the healthcare law be replaced and work without a mandate? that's something the president and congressional republicans seem to be trying to do, although just how is not clear yet. as the annual enrollment season for buying insurance has come to a close, there are very real questions about how this all would play out once the law is changed. our economics correspondent, paul solman, went to kentucky to explore that further, part of his weekly series, "making sense." >> folks, folks, we want to end obamacare, we want to go to a plan that is so much better and so much less expensive, right? >> reporter: throughout the campaign, donald trump promised to repeal and replace the affordable care act. >> so help me god. >> reporter: and sure enough, on inauguration day, he signed his first exec

wendy sherman under secretary for the obama administration is with us, a critic with the baltimore sun and davidal cha c. and you hit the nail on the head when sean spicer talks about this being a trust issue, you raised the right question. if president trump had made aware of this mid-january, what about it being a trust issue then? >> right. again, sean spicer was clear when the president as pamela just took you through the timeline immediately learned from the white house counsel's office that doj was aware that sanctions was indeed a topic of discussion on the call, he knew immediately in that briefing that flynn had lied to pence and spicer and others, so sean spicer said hang on there needs to be due process, an exhaustive investigation, i don't know what you need more if the whole notion is the trust was eroded because he wasn't truthful to the vice president, that fact was learned on the 26th and there was no new data today that suggested any other piece of information came in between the 26th and yesterday other than the "washington post" made it public that indeed mike flynn'