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(CNN)Here are the stories our D.C. insiders are talking about in this week's "Inside Politics" forecast, where you get a glimpse of tomorrow's headlines today. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's planned visit to Russia could hardly come a time when US-Russia relations were under closer scrutiny. Paul says the upcoming trip is aimed at supporting what he sees as President Donald Trump's diplomatic outreach to Vladimir Putin. But it comes on the heels of a stark warning by US intelligence chiefs over Russia's ongoing efforts to interfere in American elections -- and amid continued fallout from Trump's controversial summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Four more women. "So we could see women running against women as they battle for the votes of -- you guessed it -- suburban women," said CNN's Nia-Malika Henderson. Trump's advisers tell CNN's Jeff Zeleny they want the President to avoid alienating the swing voters that won him the 2016 election -- and who could play a crucial role in the upcoming midterm elections. "Obama-Trump voters are some of the most important political commodities, if you will, the people who voted for Barack Obama in '08 and '12 and Donald Trump in '16," says Zeleny. While President Trump later tried to downplay any disagreement between them, Ivanka was hit with criticism that her family separation comments didn't go far enough. "It really underscored the compromises and the challenges of the role that she has tried to carve out for herself in this White House," says the AP's Catherine Lucey.