CNN Inside Politics

Seven-day sprint to Iowa

First: It's the final week before the Iowa caucuses, and Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley all spent the weekend in the state making their closing arguments before the vote. 
Plus: Fighting hate and extremism is President Biden's focus when he speaks today from the same South Carolina church where a white supremacist shot and killed nine parishioners. 
And: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is still in the hospital. Why did he and his staff wait days to tell the White House that a critical member of the chain of command was in the ICU? 
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