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All right. this breaking news out of beirut, lebanon. protests over garbage piling up, as you see right there, in the streets have turned very violent. police are using water cannons and tear gas on the crowd. demonstrators in the thousands calling the piles of refuse an example of government dysfunction. nick patton walsh is live for us. nick, this is an incredibly volatile-looking situation. >> reporter: the pictures you're seeing are live images of basically pretty much outside the white house, a comparable thing for lebanon, outside the prime minister's residence. there's been this clash u...

On fire. police are using water cannons and tear gas on the crowds there. demonstrators calling the piles of refuse an example of government dysfunction. nick paton walsh is live for us in beirut. nick, have things calmed down? i know you said the piles of trash, that's really just the beginning of the problem that people are upset about. >> reporter: well, i mean have things calmed down? hard to tell more broadly. the police have taken the move now to head toward the remnants of the protesters who are behind me further down that road here and they fired a lot of tear gas at them. at one point...

And hearing from our local governors saying these are real projects in our communities that will make life better for citizens we represent. let's hope something good does come out of the tragedy and that would be a long-term transportation fund. >> i want to bring fawn into this conversation. zach roth over at msnbc.com is pointing out that amtrak has long been a target of cuts by republicans in particular become this sort of symbol for conservatives of government dysfunction and inefficiency. why do they dislike amtrak so much? >> it's true that it's kind of a punching bag particularly for r...

Real economic -- like i actually get the i'm with the people sort of discourse. it's also one that if he were to ending up running against hillary clinton, he would ending up with a pretty powerful narrative over and against hers about that populism. but i wonder if it stands up in the same week in which he signs so-called right to work legislation. >> he's talking about looking at discounts on the rack but actually those are about the kinds of wage cuts that people may see if he continues to go with this really sort of sharp worn inequality ajengdgendaagenda. at a time when you have the highe...

West virginia. then come the ten nail biters. all could be extremely close. each could go either way. so here we go. from across the country. alaska, colorado, iowa, michigan. from north to south, new hampshire, north carolina, kentucky, arkansas, georgia, and louisiana. will there be a sweep where the republicans win seat after seat, in state after state, and a national rejection of president obama? or will there be, as there often are, candidates who hold their stand, even in the worst of winds because voters have come to trust not just them, but their families? i'm thinking of begich up in ...