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Intensifies his investigation is this broader mosaic that he's 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, it's 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 capitol hill where mitch mcconnell says he has looked at all of the options to keep roy moore out of ...

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 tillerson's aides and said the secretary of state cannot act that way. we need to move forward and find a better solution movi...

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 i'm 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 look them in the eye and tell them why he's going to try to take away their health care. >> reporter:...

Cnbc's chief washington correspondent john harwood joins our panel, francesca, alex, and michael. john, what's 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, we're going to release our plan, has told house republicans the administration will not be sending a plan to the hill. instead, they're going to work with house republicans on their plan. republicans expect the same thing on taxes. so even though the president said on february 9th, in two or three weeks we're going to p...

Going to show up at these and they're going to be quite aggressive and passionate about their positions. you thought about the republican senators holding these? >> well, i think they have to. they've benefited from these for many years because all this anger was directed at president obama, you know, in the beginning of his term. what's different about this time is the anger seems to be organizing quicker. what's similar is the white house press secretary is dismissing it about much adieu about nothing. i remember robert gibbs making fun of the tea party which was just then coming out into th...