welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. confrontation is the word of the day. house democrats prepare to hold the attorney general in contempt, and the president reverses course and says robert mueller should not testify. plus, the president threatens new tariffs on china and u.s. warships making big statements. guide missile destroyers sail through the south china seas and now an aircraft carrier strike group on the move because of what the white house calls alarming signals from iran, and royal baby news. it's a boy.

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quote. no redos for the dems. now if you read the mueller report, can you understand why the president wants to silence the special counsel. his take is quite damning, but if you read the president's tweets, well, let's just say he frames it a by the differently. dems can't win the election fairly, the president says. you can't impeach a president for creating the best economy in our country's history. with me today to share their reporting and insights maggie haberman of the "new york times," cnn's manu raju and elliana johnson with politico. let start with the word on the hill, holding the attorney general in contempt. not a surprise that he didn't deliver the mueller report. what now? >> escalating a series of fights between house democrats and the trump administration this morning. jerry nadler scheduled a vote for wednesday to hold the attorney general in contempt because he defied that subpoena that required the full mueller report and the underlying evidence to be turned over. democrats have tried to set the stage for what they believe would be a successful legal

strategy, you know, holding someone in contempt typically is a symbolic action. what they are really after is to show what they view as non-compliance by the justice department and encourage the courts to side with them so they have gone through what they believe is a series of reasonable requests in their view to turn over the underlying evidence as well. the justice department says the grand jury information in particular is off-limits which is why they have not complied with that subpoena, but this is just one fight wrapped into a larger series of fights between house democrats and the white house over these demands, including demands under subpoena that the administration is reject at the moment so we'll see where this ends up. >> and the white house clearly does not see a big political price in saying no, at least not yet, and add to the no, and i want your thinking on this, reporting on this, why adding robert mueller to this. first get on the record, the president asked the other day do you care if robert mueller testifies? >> i don't know. that's up to our attorney

general when i think has done a fantastic job. >> so he left it to the attorney general who says this. >> what about bob mueller? should he be allowed to testify before this -- >> i've already said pubically i have no objection. >> so can they take it back now, can they say no? >> they seem to have, right? the president tweeted yesterday he doesn't think the president should testify, and we can assume that's what he tolls his attorney general. this is part of your question from before paying of political price. will the president pay a political price and the answer so far has been no, and as long as the president sees that the answer is no he'll ton do what he has done. we should note that this is not the first white house in history to rebuff requests from congress. he's doing it in a different way. filing lawsuits of his own to squash subpoenas related to his personal finances and that's where it gets into a novel area, but in general i don't think any of this is a surprise, and if anyone is surprised that this is how the president is approaching it they haven't been paying

attention for the last two and a half years. >> if you're surprised you haven't been paying attention. the president's language, re-tweeted a whole bunch of people and borrowed some language as he tweeted one of his own. despite the tremendous success i've, including the greatest economy and the most successful two years, they have stolen two years of my president, collusion delusion, thatty we'll never be able to get back. stolen two years of his presidency. what's he trying to do there? >> i mean, it is interesting and recall 2016 and him already sort of undermining the legitimacy of that election before it took place, and then questioning the legitimacy of it after it took place, that he won the popular vote when he did not. he's back in that posture again of these stolen two years wrought having sort of a way to reclaim them. just that argument that something has been taken away from him. he's the victim here which is a familiar posture i think for president trump. >> i would say not only does the

president not think he's going to pay a political price for this, he sees it as a political opportunity and that's what the message is. that's the message he's been taking on the campaign trail saying the democrats are obsessed with investigating him at the cost of pursuing any actual agenda, and i think we're going hear that over and over and over again. he says the mueller report has opinion issued, according to the president it's exonerated him, and nonetheless the investigations continue. he says you don't get a redo on mueller. nonetheless, they want to call mueller to testify. they want to call parato testify, and he's going to portray all of this as the democrats going back to the well on this and trying to prove him guilty when he's already been exonerated. >> and that's why they believe they have locked this all up in long court fights and saying no and just back and forth. it just muddies the waters. >> makes it all politics. >> correct. >> if they were actually going to provide information that would further a narrative that will help the democrats so they say fight this at all costs,

even though he's saying on the mueller testimony is interesting because he's been totally exonerated. if he has been let the special counsel come and testify before he necessary if he comes and testify he'll give a lot more ammunition to the democrats' push to investigate and that could be problematic. >> there are people in the president's world who are not convinced that mueller testifying is a pure negative for the president. they know that mueller is going to face a lot of questions on issues he might not want to talk about, like the behavior of top officials at the fbi, lisa page and fear, like how the investigation george bush in the first place and what they have discovered there, so it's not clear that this is an easy victory for anyone. i think you're right. the president tends to sort of look at everything and sort of -- in short increments of time and getting through them and the lawsuit really are a play for time which is getting toward 2020, but i don't -- i think that there is no sort of hard sense in one way or the other that mueller would just be a clear win for democrats. >> i think that's a great point in the sense that mueller hasn't spoken throughout this whole thing. he doesn't speak, so anybody

could be surprised here number one. he fired peter struck and lisa page and he would give testimony saying i found that behavior unacceptable and that would favor the president and if he goes through the obstruction part. >> that would be frustrating for the president. >> but there are enough aspects where it's not going to be a clean kill for anybody. >> nobody knows. but to your point about the political environment. i get it completely and looking through the windshield the support going to make the case, look, the democrats don't want to get anything done. they want to investigate and had a mass me till the election. let's look through the rear view mirror a little bit. is it robert mueller's fault that they didn't repeal and replace obamacare when you had all houses of congress. was it robert mueller's fault not building a border wall when the republicans controlled everything? again, i get the political strategy, but he's using robert mueller around the investigation as a foil, some great economic news to run on, but there are also things that he promised in the campaign he hasn't run on.

>> i think you're going to hear him say only real he two years to govern so you've got to give me four more. i haven't had a full full years and you see that message starting to emerge and you heard that when bill barr i think was the first to sort of enunciate that message when he said the president felt very frustrated and felt he couldn't govern and i would add that bill barr is part of the calculus in this mueller testimony. he's somebody that could be roughed up because he gave an account of a conversation with mueller and he's in real danger if bob mueller testifies and gives a different version of that account because every democrat in congress is poised to believe mueller over barr and democrats are already calling for him to resign or to be impeached, and that is part of the president's calculus here because bill barr has been a real asset to him. >> no. i think that's right. completely i agree with you. i do think it's worth noting when the president talks about time stolen, to your point that the gop did have control over the congress, but also one

aspect of this investigation was investigating interference in the election. this was not just about the president's campaign. he has turned it into something global, and that speaks to a broad issue of how he handles russia and how he handles russia not just in the last election but heading into the next one which we saw get raised pointly by one person, joanie ernst, when bill barr was testifying the other day, when she said i want to know what you're doing going forward, and this is not something we hear this president talk about at all, including not bringing it up in a phone call with vladimir putin the other say. >> that was the big telling statement there. i wanted to add quickly into this. how do the democrats deal with this because the democrats have to deal with an unpredictable administration that clearly keeps them off balance sometimes. nancy in the pelosi in the "new york times," says she does not believe president trump can be removed through impeachment. the only way to do it is defeat him until 2020 by a margin so big he can't challenge the legitimacy of a democratic victory. we have to inoculate against that meaning the president saying you stole two years.

hours after nancy pelosi is in the "new york times" saying we have to worried about him honoring the results of a close election? >> that was the same concern that the democrats raised back in 2016. i think you'll probably hear that more as we get closer to the election but her larger point is mostly to her hone colleagues saying let's tamp down these calls for impeachment. this is not going to be politically beneficial. she sees the polls generally favoring okay with doing investigating in terms of obstruction of justice, impeachment not so much, so that's the ultimate message. worry about it at the ballot box. not all of her colleagues agree. >> the president seems to be baiting them to see if they will go that way. up next, to the global stage. u.s. warships on the move in the middle east. the white house says iran must be put on notice. bleech! aww! awww! ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft for the win win.

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this hour new reporting from cnn about just why the pentagon made the sudden decision to move military assets into the middle east amid what the national security adviser calls troubling warnings from iran. according to two u.s. officials who spoke to u.n., they sought official credible intelligence that the proxies were targeting u.s. forces in syria, iraq and at sea in the region. let's bring in cnn's pentagon correspondent barbara starr, also our international correspondent fred pleitgen in finland with secretary of state mike pompeo. barbara, tell us what your sources are telling you about this deployment. >> reporter: well, what they are

saying is they do believe the threat was serious enough over the weekend that they needed to scramble some additional military force to the region. the goal right now is to deter and to make a very public show of force, get those forces there and deter these iranian elements. they say that they were making possible plans to prepare for a strike against u.s. troops in the region and now they want to show that an aircraft carrier son the way. u.s. air force bombers are on the way, and that these iranian groups would pay such a heavy price for any kind of action against the u.s. military that they simply, you know, need to understand that they cannot succeed. they cannot do it. multiple threats of information of intelligence over the weekend coming about the iranian revolutionary guard carr and iranian-backed militias. these are some of the most militant elements in iraq and may not be under the full control of the iranian government so this really ramped

up the concern over the weekend. a number of meetings and phone calls across the trump administration, national security and intelligence community culminating in the very unusual announcement from the national security adviser john bolton on sunday night here in washington that an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber group were on the way. john? >> barbara, stay with us. fred, you're not only with the u.s. secretary of state as he sits down with the russian foreign minister, you've twice been on the u.s. abraham lincoln, the carrier in question including a week and a half ago. tell us about the capabilities of the carrier strike group and a the message that the united states is sending. >> well, i think, john, the message of the united states is sending is that the u.s. is very real in the straight of hormuz and the persian gulf and it won't back down. i was actually on the "abraham lincoln" in 2012 when it was in the strait of hormuz, and you can see it's a big deterrent for the iranians, and one thing we

need to make clear for them is when a u.s. ship is in the persian gulf and the strait of will hormuz they are really, really close to iranian vessels. you could see the iranian ships from where they were and could see the iranian coastline back there as well and even had iranian planes on the radar so it's in very close proximity so it's very important for a big u.s. warship with those capabilities to be in that area. the "uss abraham lincoln," has a very, very capable and highly motivated crew. they were just in the mediterranean sea. i wanted to add one more thing to what barbara was saying. i also spoke to commanders of the iranian revolutionary guard and former commanders of the iranian revolutionary guard not too long ago when they did say to me if there was an escalation with the united states, that one of the things they would think of doing is, a, targeting u.s. forces at sea in the persian gulf and second of all targeting other american military installations around the greater

middle eastern area talking about the missile capabilities that they have. it seems as though they do know that those missile cape abilities are quite strong. they believe they could use them to retaliate against u.s. forces. one of the other things that we seem to be seeing though is that the iranian government seems to think that there are somewhat divisions in the trump administration about all of this. you do see the iranian revolutionary guard talking very tough on what it would do in retaliation against the u.s. and the iranian foreign minister came out and said, look, iran doesn't want an escalation in all of this and keeps trying to single out john bolton and secretary of state mike pompeo saying he believes president trump doesn't want any military reaction to iraq or military intervention in iran but believes, for instance, that john bolton is much more inclined. >> language like that makes you worry about a miscalculation. barbara at the pentagon, so unusual to have a deployment announced from the white house, not directly from the pentagon. what's the reasoning behind that? >> reporter: well, by all accounts from the people that we have talked to, it was the u.s.

military over the weekend that really felt they wanted the announcement to come from the white house, that it would have much more impact on the iranians. it would show the seriously, and there would be no miscalculation or mistake that this was a routine deployment planned months ago, that this was something very, very different. now the fact that it was put out by john bolton may send the message that the iran hawks are out there, but the military wanted it from the white house. john? >> we'll keep an eye on this. obviously an ominous development. thank you both. coming up, president trump strikes out at china with new threats days before trade negotiations are scheduled to resume. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. it was funny because when we would call another insurance company, hey would say "oh we can't beat usaa" we're the webber family.

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global markets rattled today by uncertainty as president trump threatens to impose higher tariffs on china. there's the big board in new york there. the dow down more than 200 points. it was worse earlier today. that wipes out just a chunk of the stock market's recent surge. the market is responding to new fears that china and the united states could now be headed for an escalated trade war. the president tweeting over the weekend threatening to hike had a 10% tariff on $200 billion worth of chinese goods way up to 25% as soon as this friday. president trump hitting the issue again today tweeting the united states has been losing for many years. sorry, we're not going to be doing that anymore. now the timing here is no coincidence. u.s. and chinese negotiators are

due to resume talks this week. the talks still on the books, but it's not unclear if china's chief negotiator will attend. so the question here is why in the sense that if you're the president, you've been saying for weeks you think you're on track to a deal, and now you're kind of blowing it up a little bit, why in. >> i think the key in the tweets from the weekend where he said something about renegotiate the terms in one of those terms and he was referring to china. my understanding from people in the trace is that he has been led to believe by bob lighthizer or others that china was balking on certain things that they had agreed to as they were heading into this meeting, and it's not a surprise that the president knowing his m.o. that he's looking to sort of pull this back and not allow somebody to claim they had a victory over him. there's possibly a short-term, maybe longer than that problem in terms of the stock market. you're seating markets react. we don't know how long it will go, but i think the president has come to see is that he has been warned repeatedly that the market will tumble when you do

tariffs and xyz and it does and then it comes back. so i think he'll weather this and see what happens. i don't know whether there's a long-term strategy here. i can that there is. this caught a lot of people by surprise, but for those people afachd to the trade discussions it's not much of a surprise. >> is the glass half fuller half empty for the president who has long believed way before he got into politics that china has been cheating, raping is the word he's used the united states for 20 years. if you're the trump team, you see 3.6 unemployment and the economy growing and you say, mr. president, don't mess when this trophy. that's a beautiful trove. if you are peter navarroor robert lighthizer, those who like the president think you've got to go big and don't sign a deal unless you get intellectual property business done and other -- the bigger structural issues done, don't just go

soybeans, you say mr. president, the economy is strong enough to take the him. the question is if you're taking a hit heading into the election season that's a bold risk for the president if you're willing to may that way. >> the long-term gain is it will rebound and china being such an important part of his political message and again will be in 2020 if he gets sort of a bad deal ordeal that he can't sell so that's what he's aiming on this. the politics are all scrambled where chuck schumer is cheering him on and soybean futures are down in a major way giving chuck grassley and joanie ernst problems in iowa and where this heads in the short term is really hard to predict. >> but to maggie's point earlier. he's been warned repeatedly that mantel that he showed there will be wiped right out whether it's escalating tariff war or shutting down the government for the longest period in american

history, and that's what happened to everyone that warned him about, and now we're seeing low unemployment and the gdp numbers, very positive and if he believes he can have a short-term fight that could lead to markets tumbling for a short term and could rebound. he could have someone to run on in the china deal and listen to those concerns by the chuck grassleys and joanie ernsts of the world. you'll be fine. look what happened months ago. >> many of the president's economic advisers are telling him that the goal is not a deal. the goal is to have the right deal, and that's why i think this has gone on for so long. >> yeah. >> and in a somewhat revealing comment at the white house on friday, the president's economic adviser larry kudlow says the president views tariffs as a negotiating tactic. not simple police had a matter of principle for him but uses them in negotiations to get the other party to where he wants them to go and that's why we see the threat now as we near what is supposed to be the end of

negotiations for china. >> you've seen this happen. help me. you get a little nervous when you look at the head links. amid trade tensions u.s. warships and u.s. warns china, russia against aggression in the arctic region. we seem to be gaining the week with a muscular approach on several fronts. >> well, what i think is so interesting about the headlines is that this is a president who is, you know, on the more isolationist side of the ledger who doesn't like these sorts of muscular use of american forces, certainly not the deployment of troops overseas, but he's got a raft of virsz who really like those sorts of things, and so i think these sorts of moves which fall short of the deployment of american troops and that send to fly under the rarary, they are n not the types of things that are okay by them, and we know when

there was lots of tough talk last week about venezuela and lots of threats of military intervention, the president got frustrated because he doesn't want to ultimately deploy troops. he doesn't want a war to his name the way the past several presidents have had to theirs. >> up next, michael cohen had a message for the president just before heading to start a three-year prison sentence today. i've always been amazed by what's next. and still going for my best, even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin... i want that too. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both.

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topping our political radar today, an afternoon focusing on sports for the president. right now he's presenting the commander in chief trophy to the united states military academy football team. tiger woods then heads to the

white house a bit later to receive the presidential medal of freedom. woods played golf with the president back in february before winning the masters in april for the fifth time. after that win the president tweeted he'd be honoring tiger woods with the nation's highest civilian honor for his incredible success in california back in golf and life. after missing two previous deadline the treasury secretary steven mnuchin scheduled to tell house democrats whether or not he'll hand over the president's tax returns. the source says you won't be surprised by this. the treasury expected to reject the request from the chairman of the house ways and means committee which most likely will lead to a court fight. cory booker looking to unveil a plan related to gun violence and the booker plan would expand background checks and mike gun licenses the federal standard similar to a driver's license. booker is driven by his own experience dealing with gun violence while the mayor of newark.

>> i'm guy who has helped deal with this issue on a very personal level, people i've lived with in my building, people involved in an assault rifle shooting on my block last year. enough is enough. we're going to bring a fight like the nra and the gun lobe and those people who don't stand with the majority of republicans who believe we should be taking steps to end the carnage in america. i'm not only lead this fight but we will win this fight. >> president's longtime lawyer and fixer reporting to prison starting a three-year sentence for several crimes, including campaign finance violations related to hush money payments paid he said on the president's behalf. before leaving manhattan cohen had some parting shots for the man he once said he'd take a bullet for. >> i hope that when i rejoin my family and friends that the country will be in a place without xenophobia, injustice and lies at the helm of our

country. there still remains much to be told, and i look forward to the day that i can share the truth. >> more now from new york. michael cohen was critical to some of the investigations, specifically the southern district of new york. where do those investigations go from here? >> reporter: that's right, john. that's a big question where does the southern district of new york investigation go because michael cohen did not sign a traditional cooperation deal but he did offer up several bits of information to them including some which has launched into the investigation of the inaugural commit, but the big question of what it means for the trump organization is one that's unanswered. prosecutors could still interview michael cohen while he's in prison, and that's always on the table for them. what's interesting though is cnn reported first in february that the prosecutors wanted to interview several executives at the trump organization. multiple sources tell us they have not followed through on that and that's been three months where there's been no followup. next week is the deadline now

for prosecutors to reveal to a judge the status of the investigation into the campaign finance case. that's relating to the media request to unseal the documents from michael cohen's search warrant, so we could learn some new information next week or it's possible that prosecutors just tell the judge that it's ongoing and we might not have an answer on that for quite a while. >> michael cohen begins his sentence today. when we come back, the 2020 field. joe biden in south carolina today and kamala harris today with her take on the electability question. cheaper aerosols can cover up odors, burying them in a flowery fog. switch to febreze air effects! febreze eliminates even the toughest odors from the air. freshen up, don't cover up. febreze last year, the department of veteran's affairs partnered with t-mobile for business, to help care for veterans everywhere. with va video connect, powered by t-mobile, men and women who serve can speak to their doctors

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i have met more teachers as i've traveled this country who are working two, sometimes three jobs to help pay the bills. teachers are helping to raise the next generation of leaders, and we are not paying them their value. >> that was senator kamala harris last night at an ncaa dinner in detroit. senator harris is in the midwest battleground in what you would call an interesting early moment in the democratic race. the field now has a front-runner in the former vice president joe biden and other candidates like senator harris trying to get a sense of biden's strength, just

how deep is it and a sense of their own paths now that they are in the race. nia-malika henderson joins us live. harris doesn't criticize biden but is there to offer her own take on the electability question. take a listen. >> there's been a lot of conversation by pundits about the electability and who can speak in the midwest. certain voters will only vote for certain candidates regardless of whether their ideas will lift up all our families, and it is a short-sighted. it's wrong, and the voters deserve better. >> what's -- what exact point is she trying to make there? >> pointed remarks and we can guess who they are directed at,

folks on the top of the polls at this point, joe biden, bernie sanders, people like pete buttigieg also seeing something of a surge, and it's all about this question of electability and who can actually win the midwest, and her notion is that there's too narrow a frame when we think about the midwest, right? she talked to those african-american voters. there's about 5,000 folks there, and she said people like you are also in the midwest. people like you built the midwest so she want to expand pundits, ideas of electability and who can connect with the voters and also voters who have their own idea about electability. i spoke to people in the audience who like kamala harris and feel like they want to vote for her but have questions of whether or not other people will vote for her, whether or not she's electable against a candidate like trump who has resonance with voters in the midwest white working class voters so you have a kamala harris going directly at that

question that everyone is talking about, who is the most electable, and certain candidates certainly at this point seem to be benefiting from that question more than other candidates. >> enjoy your time out on the trail. mark me down as jealous. she is in michigan which is so important anyway. a, for the democratic nomination and a place where bernie sanders beat hillary clinton last time around and a blew state that the president flipped red. biden gets and gets a bigger bounce than most people expected. the question for the other candidates is do they believe that that is real, that that support is deep, that it's name recognition and familiarity and how do you -- i think harris is gutting to the course -- how much is about addressing black voters that hillary clinton did not and how much is converting

white working class voters that trump won over and joe biden is making the argument that the latter is very important and is making that case. i think he comes in with a lot of structural advantages. i was in south carolina with him over the weekend where he mentioned barack obama almost every minute, you know. my buddy barack, you know, and i think that's an effort to -- to, you know, sort of get at the black voters that have a lingering acceptance and love for obama, but voters also expect joe biden to start talking about what he wants to do, and he's not really doing that yet, so how fragile is this support that -- that he has and the built-in advantages. >> you read -- you mentioned that. he said my friend barack, the one person who doesn't have to say president obama, and he can do that because he was his vice president. when barack and i worked together we spent a lot of time how to change the systemic racism that exists and continue to work on that so i think the african community nationwide knows who i am. i'm not saying the others aren't

qualified. i'm just saying i've been there. early institutional support helps a great deal. biden rolled out some endorsements in south carolina today, helps a great deal. i'm reminded in 2007 when hillary clinton, especially in the african-american community, even with obama running had a lot of institutional support. once he proved he was viable most of it went poof. >> that was after iowa and new hampshire. once he proved he was viable was not may of 2007, and so i do think what kamala harris is getting at is two things. one is the degree to which this can be self-fueling that we all at these tables decide that somebody is not doing well because they are not in the polls and, therefore, they are not doing well. we really don't know. this is such a big field. polls that i've seen and please correct me if i'm wrong show that joe biden's bump came in part because of black voters, and i think some name recognition. some of it is that this is a community he's worked with for a long time. he has to be careful not to take it for granted and there's

something in that statement that sounds like he's trending towards that and that's the big question of the primary is where are black voters going to go in terms of candidates and kamala harris is saying no one should assume anything. >> electability means one thing but where do you stand on these issues and that's another dig at biden because he's not laid out exactly what he's going to do if he becomes president. boyden will have to do that. there's also criticism that the party elites are electable a simply not the actually electable candidate so in 2004, you know, the democratic party thought oh, we need somebody who is anti-war who has military credentials to go up against george w. bush in the middle of the iraq war and tapped john

kerry and proved not to be the right candidate for that movement after the 2012 election the republicans thought we need somebody good on immigration and a supporter of comprehension immigration reform and marco rubio was the golden boy and donald trump did not fit that profile at all and i think harris is getting at that when she says what is electability, kind of poking fun at that notion hand that's something trump really shattered and harris is appropriating that sort of phony notion of electability or the, you know, debatable notion of what that means for the dems. >> more than six in ten democrats say they are still open to changing their mind. biden has a good lead. see if he can keep it. very early in may hand anyone who knows how this is going to play out is lying to you because nobody has a clue. >> thank you. >> it's wide open. >> but you still can watch. >> that's different. >> it's a lot of fun and interesting. great policy debates and interesting people, watch. it's interesting, but nobody has a clue. up next, a new addition to the royal family.

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