BOLDUAN: This just in from the Pentagon. CNN is learning that U.S. and Iranian ships got uncomfortably close again in the Persian Gulf. Let's get to Barbara Starr with more details on this. Barbara, what are you learning?</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Good morning Kate and John. What we're learning from the Pentagon is this happened on Sunday, word just coming now. A U.S. patrol craft was in the Persian Gulf when he was essentially swarmed by seven Iranian Revolutionary Guard small boats. One of those boats came within 100 yards right in front of the U.S. Navy ship and came to a dead stop in the water, significantly raising the risk of a collision between the U.S. Navy ship and the Iranians. The U.S. Navy had to make a sharp turn, steer out of the way and it came within 100 yards of this Iranian ship that stopped dead in the water right in front of it. There have been a series of these incidents. They're raising a good deal of concern at the Pentagon. Consider the numbers, the increased incidents. So far, this year in 2016, 31 unsafe encounters with the Iranians in those waters. All of last year, 23. So the Iranians, in the view of the U.S. Navy, stepping up their unsafe actions in these waters, and there is a good deal of concern that this could lead to a potentially deadly encounter, something the U.S. says it wants to do everything to avoid -- John, Kate?</s>BERMAN: Close calls, very, very dangerous. Barbara Starr, thanks so much.</s>BOLDUAN: Thanks, Barbara.</s>STARR: Sure.</s>BERMAN: Coming up for us, a $25,000 question about a questionable $25,000, perhaps. Donald Trump dismisses any notion that a donation made to Attorney General Pam Bondi's campaign had anything to do with a potential investigation into Trump University. That's next.
Iranian Boats Interfere with U.S. Ships