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Speculation surrounding President Donald Trump's motive to pardon Scooter Libby continues, as the special counsel probe could put some of Trump's allies in the hot seat. But if Trump did pardon Libby to send a political message, former US attorney…

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The Dow plummeted 724 points, or 2.9%, underlining mounting concerns among investors about looming tariffs on China. It was the fifth-largest point decline in history and the market's worst day since the extreme turmoil of early February.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) says he believes President Donald Trump would support a bill from him and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) to establish universal background checks.

Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro says there will be some exemptions but no country exclusions for new trade tariffs.

CNN's Jake Tapper, in partnership with FactCheck.org, looks at recent claims from both sides of the political aisle about gun violence.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CNN's Jake Tapper discuss Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim that Russia's new missile cannot be intercepted by the US.

CNN's Jake Tapper looks back on a particularly chaotic week in the Trump White House.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) on Sunday highlighted the need for President Trump to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after a false alarm about a missile attack sent the islands into a state of panic over the weekend. "I've been calling on President Trump to directly negotiate with North Korea, to sit across the table from Kim Jong Un, work out the differences so that we can build a pathway towards denuclearization, to remove this threat," Gabbard told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union." Her remarks come after an erroneous alert, sent to over a million cellphones across the state, directed people to seek shelter from an incoming ballistic missile threat. Gabbard stressed that this fear of an attack underscores the need for the two world leaders to meet and address the heightened tensions. "We have got to get to the underlying issue here of why are the people of Hawaii and this country facing a nuclear threat coming from North Korea today, and what is this president doing urgently to eliminate that threat?" She said Trump needs to drop his preconditions for attending the meeting, arguing that making Pyongyang give up its nuclear weapons program before coming to the negotiating table is "unrealistic." "They see it as the only deterrent against the U.S. coming in and overthrowing their regime there," she said. The false alert came after "an employee pushed the wrong button," Hawaii Gov. "It's not just the president making a decision to launch a nuclear weapon. It's these kinds of mistakes that we have seen happen in the past that bring us to this brink of nuclear war that could be unintentional," Gabbard told Tapper.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) defended how his party handled pushing the tax bill through the Senate via a late night, party line vote.