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INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - A City-County Council committee is expected to appoint a new member to the Beech Grove Economic Development Commission on Monday.

His name: Mike Pence.

Seeing that, we had to ask at least a couple of questions.

At first, it was kind of hard to track him down. We eventually reached him.

Mike Pence agreed to meet us at a southside restaurant. He didn't have a driver, no security detail and the only media following his every step was us.

When he walked in and found a table, and not a single person recognized him. That doesnt stop people from calling him.

I get it all the time, Pence said said. It's amazing.

That's because his name really is Mike Pence. In fact, at 65, he's had the name longer than the former governor and now vice president.

When he became governor was the craziest because we were getting calls constantly on my company cell and my phone at home, Pence said.

Sometimes he'd get calls inviting him to speak at an event.

He doesn't know it, but I accepted a couple of dinner reservations for him.

But, he says, most of the time, people weren't too nice.

They don't even give you a chance, said Pence. Most were calling because they're mad at what he did.

That's why you get a this number is no longer in service message when you try to call him now.

This Mike Pence isn't related to the VP and has never met him, but he has a routine message ready for introductions.

I go I'm Mike Pence, not the governor, not the vice president, I just work for IPL and they all laugh.

The two Mikes do share other things in common. Both have run for office and won. This Mike served on the Beech Grove City council. He's also been very active in the community and, like the vice president, he is a Republican.

Yeah, I like him, Pence said. He has heck of a job in front of him to calm Trump down.

Pence says while it's definitely odd having the same name as a such a well-known figure, he's gotten used to it.

Doesn't bother me. It did when he first ran for governor, but it doesn't bother me anymore, Pence said. He has a job. I got a job. I don't want his.

And in case you're wondering, this Mike's wife is Debbie, not Karen.

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JAKARTA U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Japan and Indonesia next month, sources said on Monday, as part of an Asian tour amid concerns the Trump administration is rolling back Barack Obama's "pivot to Asia".

U.S. President Donald Trump has already withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, which was seen as an economic pillar of the strategy.

The tour will also include South Korea and Australia, the Nikkei Asian Review reported, with North Korea's missile and nuclear programs and South Korea's political crisis likely topics for discussion.

China has been infuriated by South Korea's plan to deploy a U.S. missile defense system, targeted at the North Korean threat, and South Korea is going through political turmoil after the dismissal of its president in a corruption probe.

Pence is also expected to visit Tokyo for the U.S.-Japan economic dialogue, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The visit comes after North Korea's latest missile launches and the assassination in Malaysia of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother added urgency to the region's security.

It will also follow this month's trip by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Japan, South Korea, and China.

The TPP had been the main economic pillar of the Obama administration's pivot to the Asia-Pacific region in the face of a fast-rising China.

Proponents of the pact have expressed concerns that abandoning the project, which took years to negotiate, could further strengthen China's economic hand in the region at the expense of the United States.

Indonesia's chief security minister said Pence would meet President Joko Widodo to discuss terrorism and other security issues on his visit.

Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population and has recently grappled with a series of low-level militant attacks inspired by Islamic State. .

"We discussed the planned visit of U.S. vice president Mike Pence to Indonesia and the strategic problems that can be on the agenda to discuss with our president," chief security minister Wiranto told reporters after meeting the U.S. ambassador to Jakarta.

He added that no dates had been finalised.

In Indonesia, Pence is also expected to discuss a brewing contract dispute between the government and American mining giant Freeport McMoran Inc, said two Indonesian government sources.

Freeport has threatened to take the Indonesian government to court over newly revised mining regulations that have prompted a major scale-back in its operations in the eastern province of Papua.

(Reporting by Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Kanupriya Kapoor; Additional reporting by Malcolm Foster in TOKYO; Writing by Kanupriya Kapoor; Editing by Nick Macfie)

GENEVA North Korea boycotted a U.N. review of its human rights record on Monday, shunning calls to hold to account the Pyongyang leadership for crimes against humanity documented by the world body.

MOSUL Iraqi forces battling Islamic State faced tough resistance from snipers and mortar rounds on Monday as they tried to advance on Mosul's Old City and a bridge across the Tigris river in their campaign to retake the western part of the city.

BEIRUT The Syrian army and its allies gained control of an arterial road in a small rebel pocket in northeast Damascus early on Monday, bringing them close to splitting the enclave in two, a Britain-based war monitor reported.

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Vice President Mike Pence said the "Kentucky is a textbook example of Obamacare's failures" and promised that it will be repealed and replaced. Sam Upshaw Jr./C-J

Vice President Mike Pence smiled at supporters before making remarks at the Trane Parts and Distribution Center in Louisville. Mar. 11, 2017(Photo: Sam Upshaw Jr./C-J)Buy Photo

A budding bromance, protests and a vow to repeal Obamacare. Here arefive takeaways from Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Louisville.

More than 600 people gathered along the road before Vice President Mike Pence arrived at a warehouse facility to speak. Many of the protesters chanted, "Save our care." There was a sign of Vladimir Putin holding a baby Donald Trump, and a sign saying "No! to Ryancare," a reference to House Speaker Paul Ryan. When Trump supporters showed up, it was civil but some sharp words.

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Pence had a friend during his visit: Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin.And they were effusively praising each other. Bevin made his "dear friend" Pence a Kentucky Colonel, the highest title of honor bestowed by the commonwealth. Pence, Indiana's former governor,said he was a Bevin supporter "before it was cool." Shucks, they evenkick around a football, together.

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Bevin called the Affordable Care Acta "disaster" in Kentucky, saying there is only one provider in some areas of the state. Pence joined in, saying,"Obamacare has failed the people of Kentucky" and that the state's Medicaid expansion is threatening to bankrupt the state. More than half a million Kentuckians have gained health coverage under Obamacare.

Former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear speaks at the Green Building on East Market Street in Louisville as he defends the Affordable Care Act and its benefits to Kentuckians. March 11, 2017(Photo: Alton Strupp/CJ)

That's right. During his speech, the vice president said former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear was a friend, noting they worked together as governors of their two states. But, Pence said, they disagree on Obamacare, and that's all right. The debate is good, Pence said. Beshear, who gave the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's first address to Congress,doesn't think his implementation of Obamacare as governor was such a bad thing. Matter of fact, he feels quite the opposite.

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., criticizes the House Republican healthcare reform plan as "Obamacare light" during a television interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2017.(Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, AP)

Despite all the talk about Obamacare being bad for Kentucky and Pence's effusive praise of Bevin and President Donald Trump the target of Saturday's visit may well have been Sen. Rand Paul. The Kentucky senator and ophthalmologist has denounced the repeal-and-replace plan promoted by Pence. And this week, Paul reintroduced legislation from the last Congress to fully repeal Obamacare.

In recent weeks, the vice president has gone on the road to promote the plan, and Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said this week that it's common for politicians to show upin the backyard of key legislators they want to pressure. But Dr. Paul has shown no sign of backing down.

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Fun to host a true American explorer, Buzz Aldrin, at the @WhiteHouse as we work to shape the space policy of our administration. pic.twitter.com/22tFtQknUp

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person ever to walk on the moon, stopped by the White House Friday (March 10) to talk space with Vice President Mike Pence.

Aldrin's visit, which Pence unveiled in a Twitter post, comes as President Donald Trump's administration works to develop a new space policy for NASA and other government agencies.

"Fun to host a true American explorer, Buzz Aldrin, at the @WhiteHouse as we work to shape the space policy of our administration," Pence wrote in the Twitter post. The statement was accompanied by a photo of Pence and Aldrin decked out in American flag print socks and tie in mid-conversation.

The Trump administration has not yet formally announced any space policy goals, though there has been some discussion of reviving the National Space Council to coordinate the nation's space activities. If that comes to pass, Pence could oversee the NSC as its leading it has traditionally been a role for the vice president.

Aldrin, meanwhile, has been a staunch advocate for human spaceflight and sending astronauts to Mars.

Trump has mentioned space exploration twice in recent speeches.

During his inauguration in January, Trump said that the nation was "ready to unlock the mysteries of space." Then, during his Feb. 28 speech to the Joint Session of Congress,Trump mentioned space again with the line: "American footprints on distant worlds are not too big a dream."

The Trump administration has also asked NASA to study the possibility of launching astronauts around the moon in 2019 on the first test flight of the Space Launch System megarocket.

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During last nights broadcast of MSNBCs The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow took aim at the recent revelations surrounding former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and his lobbying and consulting ties to the government of Turkey.

Specifically, Maddow took issue with Vice President Mike Pence recently telling Fox News Bret Baier that this was the first time he heard the story that Flynn had to retroactively register as a foreign agent due to his contracts with Turkey that paid him over $500,000 during Trumps presidential campaign and transition.

As Maddow noted, there is just no way that this was the first time Pence wasmade aware of Flynns dealings with Turkey.

It is impossible this is the first Mike Pence has heard of it, Maddow exclaimed. Mike Pence was the head of the transition, while all of those news stories of Mike Flynn being on the Turkish governments payroll were breaking.

She continued, He was the head of the transition when Mike Flynn was being vetted for the National Security Advisor job. He was the head of the transition when Congress formally notified the head of the transition that Mike Flynn appears to be on a foreign governments payroll. He was the head of the transition when Mike Flynns personal lawyers came and told the transition that Mike Flynn maybe needed to register as a foreign agent.

Yesterday, the Associated Press reportedthat the Trump transition team was made aware that Flynn likely needed to register as a foreign agent due to his work with Turkey. Also, as Maddow explained, Rep. Elijah Cummings sent a letter to Pence a week after the election expressing his concern over the Turkish dealings.

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