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>> what's different today, nick? >> this bridge was on fire yesterday. one of the key scenes tweeted out by national security adviser bolton. thf this was the scene they were showing maduro is a sick tyrant, the kind of violence they were willing to use to hold those crowds of opposition back. a large convoy walked straight at riot police who had seemed friendly, they had lowered their shields and then they raised them. tear gas was fired when it began to get out of control. things entintermittently flare once in a while. on top of the bridge and below it, i think the issue now for colombian f...

>> phil rucker, it's a great reminder, and you've covered these foreign trips, where the president's attention is anywhere but where he is. he's trying to monitor cable news coverage back at home during some of these other flashpoints. but you just painted a pretty stunning constellation of flash points. cohen, his former fixer, will be on capitol hill before three committees, i believe. at least one of those open. we know how the president feels about what he possesses in terms of knowledge about trump's conduct. he calls it an attack on the nation when his offices were raided. what sort of p...

According to our reporting is the anticipation for the mueller report as well as next week's public testimony by michael cohen. white house officials will say publicly they're not concerned at all about cohen's testimony but that testimony promises to bring a lot of fireworks that could be very complicated for the president. you can rest assured that the president is going to be paying close attention to it from 12 hours away on the time zone out in vietnam, where he's going to be next week for that summit weapon kim jong-un. >> phil rucker, it's a great reminder, and you've covered these fore...

Investigations. and then goes on to sort of describe those efforts as brazen by one of his lawyers, can't be criminal, we do it in public. can you just remind us of all the flashpoints? whether it's the effort to fire robert mueller or get sessions to unrecuse, which you mentioned at the beginning. what is the body of conduct from donald trump under investigation in the wider obstruction of justice probe? >> well, it's everything. it's everything related to comey, to russia, but as you point out, there's an interesting sort of wrinkle to it, that a lot of these things may have happened in publ...

For a potential physical barrier at the border. also one of the real flashpoints that emerged from these discussions over the weekend. and in large part, whthe republicans on this committee for immigrants who have committed crimes. democrats want to see a cap on the number of beds, a level that republicans frankly won't go for. in three hours here on capitol hill, there will be a critical moment where the top four negotiators are going to sit back down at the table to essentially try to restart the big talks. the question is, brianna, is there something salvageable here four days before the de...