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CNN's first look at $60M UFC fight at White House

Court documents submitted by the Trump administration on Wednesday show the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events scheduled this week and through the weekend will cost more than $60 million. That includes food, the brand's signature “octagon” cage and as many as 494 port-a-potties trucked in for the crowd watching the event live on the South Lawn and via telecast at the Ellipse.

CNN's Betsy Klein got a first look at the cage and the preparations, while Boris Sanchez speaks with UFC Hall of Famer Georges St-Pierre and Dana Bash's "Inside Politics" panel discusses the politics of the cage match.

0:00 Inside the preparations for Sunday's fight 0:54 Boris Sanchez speaks with UFC champion Georges St-Pierre 5:40 UFC president Dana White expects "Super Bowl-type numbers" for the fight 8:24 CNN's Jeff Zeleny: "impossible to decouple" 250th anniversary celebrations from political concerns 9:17 FBI posts video of UFC fighters training agents

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