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Head into the general election, someone who is getting under the presidents skin. of course theres another school of thought that perhaps by trump going after biden, that could hasten attacks on biden from other democrats. but certainly there is a contingency within the trump campaign circle that dont want him to be making those attacks on biden. >> alex, weve seen other democrats in the field go after joe biden. do you expect theyll follow the presidents lead and also start to turn their attent...

The drone. but u.s. central command did release this video. the military says it shows iranian forces removing a mine from the hull of one of the ships. fred pleitgen has more on the conflicting information. >> reporter: hi, ana, yes, a lot of things unclear about what went down in the gulf of oman. the iranians arent commenting on very much of it, all theyre saying is flat out they had nothing to do with the attacks on the tanker. theyre not commenting on the u.s. allegation that they allegedly...

Trump campaign may suddenly be changing its strategy. with us now, our sarah westwood at the white house and politico reporter alex eisenstat. alex, you have new reporting this weekend, youre hearing the tru trump team is turning its attention to elizabeth warren in a big way after her rise in the polls. whats going on behind the scenes? >> look, its an interesting thing, ana, theres sort of a reassessment going on within the trump campaign and the broader political apparatus. and theres this wi...

>> lets look at some of those polls. theyre starting to go warrens way in nevada, for example, a key early state. but bernie sanders is still holding on to second place nationally. so why isnt the trump campaign as worried about sanders, alex? >> well, look, when you look at warren, you talk to trump advisers about her, what they say is that as a potential general election candidate she might be fairly competitive against trump. she potentially has appeal to suburban female voters who will be cr...

Confirmed uranium one investors dropped from $140 million to $4 million. the clinton foundation did not disclose those donations. the foundation reported they made miss station, saying they disclosed money from a canadian charity but did not specify the names of the donations to the charity. even so, the accusation is predicated on the charge that secretary clinton approved the sale. she did not. a committee of nine evaluated the sale. the president approved the sale. the nuclear regulatory comm...

Intensifies his investigation is this broader mosaic that hes painting. you saw some new revelations emerge yesterday as relates to don jr.s contacts with wikileaks. a broader mosaic of a campaign that was communicating with russia, had some contact with russian interests. as mueller builds his case, its interesting to see exactly how deep those contacts were, how widespread they were and what the president and his closest advisers knew. >> shepard: alex, thank you. coming up, we go live to capi...

Tensions over hiring. he believed destefano had been taking over control. this is tension that has been going on for months with the state department and white house. it is one of the reasons why a lot of the state department is not staffed up. they cannot decide who to fill the roles. back and forth with the state department and white house. what happened after the screaming match between tillerson and destefano. jared kushner who is at the meeting pulled aside one of tillersons aides and said ...

Question she wants to ask senator cotton? does she have a specific question for him? >> reporter: sure. sorry about that. now you can actually see suzy. if you have one specific question for tom cotton tonight, what is that question? >> i want to ask him how -- whether or not he would be willing to work on insurance and pharmaceutical companies to reduce the cost of health care and im also going to invite him to come to our clinic to see if he will sit down with my patients and see if he will lo...

Cnbcs chief washington correspondent john harwood joins our panel, francesca, alex, and michael. john, whats the story on the long-awaited health care? >> well, the story that the new hhs secretary, tom price, the one who president trump had said as soon as he gets confirmed, were going to release our plan, has told house republicans the administration will not be sending a plan to the hill. instead, theyre going to work with house republicans on their plan. republicans expect the same thing on ...

Going to show up at these and theyre going to be quite aggressive and passionate about their positions. you thought about the republican senators holding these? >> well, i think they have to. theyve benefited from these for many years because all this anger was directed at president obama, you know, in the beginning of his term. whats different about this time is the anger seems to be organizing quicker. whats similar is the white house press secretary is dismissing it about much adieu about not...