it's going to be state department spokesperson heather nauert.aising eyebrows because it's never sent to the senate and others think this is just washington. last night we learned that nauert stepped away and asked to withdraw her name from consideration and the state department issued a statement on her behalf and i'll read it to you. now we are all caught up because it was after this statement was issued that we learned about this nanny who was legally in the united states but not legally allowed to work in the united states and not paying taxes. she had imple nauert employed this nanny before she worked at the state department. she did disclose this information when she was tapped for this post but even though the back taxes were paid, it became apparent in about the last week, this was going to cause a big problem for nauert and she agreed she needed to step aside. you might be wondering how exactly it got this far. well, we have learned from sources that president trump actually made this announcement that he was going to pick nauert before

heather nauert might have done a fine job.idn't have the same diplomatic or political or academic experience than that of her most illustrious predecessors but thshe might ha grown into the job and figured it out. you have to wonder what path the white house wants to take. this is somebody who has to think on their feet and somebody has to deal with very, very sharp and aggressive adversaries. people from adversaryial nations in many cases have longstanding deep, rich experience. so whoever is going to sit there and defend america's interests in the u.n. day after day, is going to have to be somebody who really has got a lot of talent or a pedigree, some experience they can fall back on. we will see which way the white house goes. i don't think hiring one of his buddies out of mar-a-lago is the way to go but this white house has surprised us time and again. >> when you speak about defending america on the world stage, yesterday, we saw joe biden doing just that. he was in munich for the security conference and he didn't mentio

heather nauert, president trump's choice to be u.n. ambassador, withdrew from consideration late yesterday. in a state department release, nauert said her decision was based on what was best for her family, saying, "the past two mont have been grueling." several news organizations also reported that nauert's family had employed a nanny from a foreign country who was legally in the u.s., but who did not have legal work status.ni the adration never officially nominated nauert, but, last december, after forme. mbassador nikki haley resigned, mr. trump called nauert, "very talented, very smart, very quick." nauert was a spokeswoman for the state department and previously a reporter at fox news. ts.-backed kurdish forces in syria reported todt the orislamic state is keeping than 1,000 civilians from leaving the militants' final enave in eastern syria. the kurdish syrian democratic forces saysis fighters are hiding among the civilians and using caves and tuels in a one uare mile area of the village of baghouz. the kurds also say they e holdi

in a statement, ms nauert said that she believes the decision is in the best interest for her family, what she describes as a "gruelling two months." ms nuaert was due to replace nikky haley, who resigned from the position in october.

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heather nauert backs out of the nomination to be u.s. ambassador to the u.n. the controversy that may have influenced her decision. >>> we begin with explosive, new details this morning. the alleged attack on actor jussie smollett. the chicago police department investigation has now shifted into whether or not the actor paid two men who were questioned to stage an assault. joining me now, nbc news correspondent kathy park. good morning to you. this is just a sad story any way you look at it, but can you give us the latest on this probe? >> alex, you're absolutely right. i mean, if you've been following this story ever since it broke on january 28th, there seems to be a new twist and turn every single day. so, overnight, we have learned that a police source close to the investigation, they're now looking into whether or not the actor, the "empire" actor allegedly may have paid the two men to stage this attack. you know, chicago police still have a lot of questions for the actor, and he has lawyered up. he has hired a high-profile attorney who issued a statement

this echoes what nauert herself said in a statement.s the last two months have been grueling for my family. it's in the best interest of my family that i withdraw my name from consideration. it's unclear if she'll retain her role at the state department. but a spokesperson says i wish heather the best and know she'll continue to be a great representative of this nation in whatever role she find herself. president trump heather nauert is going to work with nikki haley to replac to re -- to repr at the united nations. reporter: a spokesperson says the president will make an announcement with respect to a nominee soon. other names include some that the president previously considered. ric grenell. gina powell and john james, former senate candidate from michigan. eric: a second wave of humanitarian wave to venezuela has arrived along the colombia-venezuela border just a week after the first wave of u.s. supplies arrived in response to venezuela's interim request for humanitarian assistance. but the slice are being blocked from entering the

in a statement nauert does not mention the issue.grueling for my family and, therefore, it's in the best interest i withdraw my name from conversation. the nanny issue is not a good look after a declaration of a imagination nj tied to immigration and document in "the washington post" and "the new york times" about trump businesses filled with undocumented immigrants. let met start with you. secretary of state mike pompeo brought nauert into the inner circle and there was a period of time about who might replace sarah huckabee sanders should she leave. she hasn't left. no news to break on that front this morning. and she gets this nod, not even a nomination. it wasn't efficiently tendered. what do you make about all of this? >> nauert is a remarkable person in the trump administration because of how much she encompasses about the administration itself. she's a person trump first became familiar with when she was working on "fox & friends" and she gets this potential nomination to the u.n. which is apparently derailed by these question

more on nauert's rise and recent withdrawal. >> heather nauert's rise in the trump administration wasfire. she went from being a fox news personality. >> what do you need to do to win? >> to suddenly the number four person at the state department. she was spokesperson, often with a hint of combativeness. >> fake news i hate to say but is a real thing. >> she was acting under secretary for public diplomacy for awhile, overseeing a billion dollar budget. then came trump's choosing her for ambassador to the un to replace former governor nikki haley. >> she's very talented, very smart, very quick, and i think she's going to be respected by all. >> but now, nauert steps away from this huge move. the question is, why? almost immediately, word started leaking out that it was all about a nanny issue. at least that was the final straw. she hired a nanny for her two children years agatha was legal to live in the u.s. but not to work. there were unpaid taxes. somehow this didn't emerge during nauert's first vetting to be spokesperson. sources tell cnn she did not bring it up at the time but now

in a statement, ms nauert said that she believes the decision is in the best interest for her familyo months. ms nauert was due to replace nikky haley, who resigned from the position in october. just to recap that breaking news, heather nauert has withdrawn her interest in becoming the next us ambassador to the un, citing a being in the best interest of her family. we will get more on that is the story develops. —— as the story develops. international observers have jointly appealed to nigerians to back the democratic process after the electoral commission made a last—minute decision to postpone elections there. the group, which includes the african union and the commonwealth, has called for calm, while the electoral commission says politics played no part in its decision to delay the election, blaming logistical problems. 0ur correspondent tomi 0ladipo is in the capital, abuja. the electoral commission has blamed operational reasons, logistic — logistic problems for them changing their minds and putting off or postponing the vote. they said they had problems with bad weather when it

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heather nauert drops her bid to be u.s. amtd to the u.n. -- ambassador to the u.n. the controversy. >>> making the rounds. the jam-packed field of candidates out in full force as another high-profile name reportedly gets ready to enter the race. >>> new questions this morning about the alleged attack on "empire" actor jussie smollett. why police have been left wondering exactly what happened. >>> new, for the first time we're hearing from the acting defense secretary on whether he will approve a $3.6 billion for military construction projects to build the president's border wall. that includes figuring out which military projects to defund and whether a border wall is even needed. here's what patrick shanahan said late yesterday. >> you have not determined that a -- specifically a wall is required to meet that national emergency. >> there have been no determinations by me. we always anticipated that this will create a lot of attention. very deliberately we have not made any decisions. we've identified the steps we would take to make those decisions. this is the impo

but while he made it public he wanted nauert to be the u.n. ambassador that nomination had not been sent yet to the u.s. senate, had it? >> right, and senate democrats denied they're slow walking a lot of these people. in fact, the white house has been very slow to go through the process and send the nominations along with the paperwork to the senate. so when we talked to our sources on the hill, they say, well, it's strange for example, that nauert's paperwork hasn't shown up yet, her formal nomination was never submitted. but the reason they didn't think it was so unusual because they told us there were so many other nominees whose paperwork had not yet been sent. so they dispute that. in nauert's case it's come out according to sources close to cnn, keep in mind she wasn't only spokesperson. she eventually became acting under-secretary for public diplomacy. so in one year's time she went from being a fox news anchor to the number four person at the state department. it didn't come up in that vetting that she had hired a foreign nanny years

and under heather nauert, had she weren't confirmed even less.s the president decided to demote that to no longer being a cabinet-level role. heather nauert had she been wee nominated to that role would not have been a cabinet-level role. the president saying on twitter he plans to nominate someone eltively quickly to that role. a lot of talk about the folks that had come up the last time when heather was announced, including the u.s. ambassador to germany, the u.s. ambassador to canada. folks who already are in the administration who could come in and also hearing that despite this hiccup for heather nauert, she remains popular in the white house. the president likes her. likes how she defends him on television. possible she could come back into the administration in some other type of non-senate confirmed role. >> and meeting with the u.s. ambassador in the next few days and might want to ask if he's been asked about this role in the meantime. our thanks to you and thanks to mike viqueira. >>> president trump talked for about an hour during his

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heather nauert pulling her name from nomination. nauert employed a nanny who was in the u.s.egally but was not legally allowed to work. the nanny was not paying taxes and nauert decided not to move forward. the backpack taxes were paid but nauert ultimately agreed it was best to withdraw. >>> anthony wiener has been released from federal prison. he will serve out his time in a halfway house in brooken. wiener was sentenced back in 2017 to 21 months for sixing with a minor. he served about 16 months in prison before his transfer. his sentence already included time reduced for good behavior. he's going to be subject to three years of supervisored release and he's also going to have to register as a sex offender. >>> the alleged hate crime attack against jussie smollett is looking more like a hoax. chicago police believe the actor paid two men to orchestrate the assault. smollett's attorneys deny that claim, but two brothers arrested last week were released two days later with police citing new evidence in the case. here's brian young in chicago. >> according to a source familia

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so the heather nauert thing, new reporting, this nanny issue., it created problems for her in the confirmation process. >> actually, new details on this into nbc news this morning. this happened ten years ago, after heather nauert had her first child. they hired a nanny who was in the u.s. legally but did not have legal authorization to work here. the nanny didn't pay taxes on the income she was getting. later, several years later, when heather nauert and her husband discovered that, they paid the taxes retroactively. now that she's under this extreme vetting process for the senate confirmation for u.n. ambassador, this came up. it was a major problem. it has derailed her nomination. >> as we said, it is an indication of some of the roles that are not filled. they're filled in acting capacities, which the white house doesn't seem to mind all that much. >> that's right. the president said he likes that situation. >> right. >> it gives him what he calls more flexibility. he can move people around. he doesn't have to stick with people that he doesn

nauert paid the taxes retroactively, several years late. she is not expected to continue as state department spokeswoman. >>> with the u.s. set to declare victory over isis, president trump is calling on europe to take back hundreds of foreign fighters captured in syria and put them on trial or else the president threatened the u.s. could be forced to release them. as nbc's lucy kafanov reports, that idea is facing opposition abroad. >> reporter: in syria, isis is cornered. and u.s.-backed kurdish forces are closing in. with the islamic state all but gone, the question now, what to do with the foreigners who remain. like british teen shamima begum, who ran away to syria with two classmates in 2015. >> i saw the videos on the internet and that kind of attracted me to them. >> reporter: seeing from a syrian refugee camp she says she has no regrets about joining isis. >> i have my kids. i did have a good time there. it's just at the end things got hard. >> reporter: now she wants to come home. >> i think a lot of people should have like sympat

it raised eyebrows when president trump announced heather nauert as his pick to be u.s. ambassador and now the state department spokeswoman and former fox news host is pulling herself out of the running for that post. >> there were questions about nauert's lack of qualifications to be u.n. ambassador. and word came out she had employed a nanny who was not authorized to work in the united states. n awe nauert's nomination was never sent to the senate. >>> now to trump's national declaration of an emergency because congress refused to fund the border wall. despite the backlash and looming court challenges, the administration is pressing ahead. the acting u.s. defense chief must now decide which military projects to cut and divert that money to border wall construction. >> we always anticipated that this will create a lot of attention. and since monies potentially could be redirected, you can imagine the concern this generates. so very deliberately we've not made any decisions. we've identified the steps we would take to make those decisions. this is the important part of t

after his previous nomination — former fox news presenter and state department spokesmwoman heather nauertchris buckler told us a bit more about the president's pick. kelly craft is someone who has been serving, as you mentioned, as the ambassador for the us in canada, and has been involved in these negotiations to try and set up a new trade agreement between the countries and mexico. and she is somebody who does have a bit of experience when it comes to the un as well. she was under president george w bush, a member of the delegation at the un general assembly for a time, and she is also in big backer of the republicans. her husband is a very successful businessman and they are big donors to the party and there has been increasing speculation that she would get this job because she had the support of mitch mcconnell, who is the republican leader in the senate, and also some of president trump's inner circle inside the administration. it is worth noting, of course, that the us has not actually had a representative as an ambassador to the un since the end of last year, whenever nikki healy

real concern about filling it because, up until a week ago, we thought it was going to be heather nauerttment spokesperson for awhile, close to mike pompeo but she decided not to go ahead with her nomination after a number of tabloid stories and also concerns about gravitas and experience and whether she had that to fulfil the role. ijust had a statement from the us secretary of state mike pompeo in which he talks about kelly kraft and he points out that she is extremely well qualified to do thejob that she is extremely well qualified to do the job at the united nations and think that is an indication that they want to feel this role as quickly as possible. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: a chaotic countdown — three cabinet ministers make it clear they're prepared to vote against the government — to avoid a no—deal brexit. prince charles has chosen his bride. the prince proposed to lady diana spencer three weeks ago. she accepted, she says, without hesitation. as revolutions go, this had its fair share of bullets. a climax in the night outside the gates of mr marcos's sanctuary,

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what happened with nauert and who might be next on the list? >> for a long time we have been asking why has heather nauert's nomination not be sent to the senate. where's all the paperwork? from our sources we knew that was a big question mark. some thought it was odd. some told us that there were some concerns over her qualifications. there were other concerns about how tough it would be to get her nomination through the senate. but there were so many other people that the white house was expected to nominate that also didn't have their paperwork done yet that they thought maybe it was just based on the delay and suddenly last night we get this announcement coming from the state department and including a quote from heather nauert that she was with drawing from consideration. she said the last several months have been grueling for her family so she's going to spend more time with her family. the secretary of state indicated in the statement that not only was she pulling herself from consideration of u.s. ambassador to the un but she is leaving

heather nauert announced that she was withdrawing her name from consideration.bs news confirms a nanny issue came up during her background check that may have caused a problem during congressional hearings. "bloomberg" reports the immigrant nanny was in the u.s. legally but was not authorized to work. the president announced that he was picking nauert in december, but her formal nomination still needed senate confirmation. >>> chicago police want to re-interview actor jussie smollett after new evidence emerged about the attack against him. sources tell cbs news two brothers told police smollett paid them to stage the attack. tony dokoupil has the details. >> reporter: a celebrated young actor -- >> regarding a friend that was assaulted and battered. a noose was placed over the friend's neck. >> reporter: a heinous crime. but was it staged? according to a chicago police source, authorities are investigating that very question. just four weeks after "empire" star jussie smollett first described a racist, homophobic attack that shocked the country. >> i see the att

the other question is what does heather nauert denuclearization looks like.a lot of reports he not only once -- he wants to hang onto his nuclear weapons. >> we just left chairman kim. we had a really i think productive time. we thought and i thought and mike pompeo felt it wasn't a good thing to be signing -- >> a line of thinking he wents to keep some nukes. would you allow him to do that if he has a certain vision? not exactly our vision but closer than it was a year ago. it will be bridged at a certain point. he wants to denuclearize but just do areas that are less important. we have to get what we have to get because that is a big give. >> reporter: the areas in which kim jong un wants to denuclearize which the president things are more important are intercontinental ballistic missiles some of which can reach the united states and the warheads he can put on top of them. the president didn't like the deal if it wasn't the right deal for me or the secretary of state for the united states. so he is walking away from it so the question is what happens? the p

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. >> brennan: david, switching gears here, we heard overnight that our heather nauert is withdrawing her name from consideration to be the next u.n. ambassador. what happened? why did she do that? >> well, we understand that her nomination was languishing in part because her own team had not even forwarded all the necessary paperwork to the senate committee that would have to do her oversight hearing. i think reason is that she actually employed a nanny who was in the country legally from another county, but she had not been necessarily had a work permit to work here legally, taxes were not being paid on time. nauert had flagged this internally, but it's become an issue of this being a problem and a disqualifying measure, something that would be embarrassing not only the her family, but also could stand in the way of the senate moving forward. this is a blow to the administration, though, because she's certainly someone i think that the president had grown to trust in her role as a spokeswoman at the state department. and he had his own -- president trump had had his own problems wit

. >>> heather nauert has withdrawn from considerations. she is currently the state department spokesperson she released a statement today saying it was in the best interest of her family that she withdraw. the replacement for nauert is said to be coming soon.>>> and uber driver nearly becoming an unwitting drug runner for a customer who asked him to deliver a box of sneakers from what one location to another. the driver was notified last saturday that a female passenger wanted to be driven from san francisco to tiburon. when the driver arrived at the san francisco location, he was greeted by a man who asked him to deliver a shoebox to the woman who requested the ride. the driver became suspicious when the rideshare was canceled as he was in route to tiburon. he spotted some sheriff's deputies nearby and show them the box. they found suspected fennel hidden inside. the drugs and the shoes that were in that box were taken as evidence. no arrests have been made. >>> victims of 9/11 could soon receive less money than they expected. coming up,

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ambassador heather nauert, withdrew her name from consideration after questions about her background emerged. now, nauert's announcement of her position was announced before the white house could complete the vetting process and like a lot of president trump's previous nominees, she was forced to withdraw her name. sources are telling cnn that president trump is returning to the drawing board. searching for a permanent person to fill that important ambassadorship position. wolf. >> very important position, include, abby phillip, thank you very much. let's get more on all of this. including the breakdown of andrew mccabe's interview and the significance of his claims. our crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz is joining us right now. so, shimon, how far did these ideas get, supposed ideas that we're hearing from andrew mccabe that the justice department should consider invoking the 25th amendment to the constitution to get rid of the president or to have the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein wear a wire to secretly record the president in the oval office? >> well, so, you k

state department officials say the issue was heather nauert's failure to pay taxes on a foreign-born nny. she paid retroactive taxes several years late and she is not going to continue as a state department spokeswoman. >>> president trump is now calling on europe to take back hundred of foreign fighters captured in syria and put them on trial or else the president threatened, the u.s. could be forced to release them, but as nbc's lucy cavanaugh reports that idea is facing opposition abroad. >> reporter: in syria, isis is cornered, and u.s.-backed kurdish forces are closing in. with the islamic state all, but gone, the question now, what to do with the foreigners who remain? like british teen shamima begam who ran away with classmates in 2015. >> i saw the videos on the internet and that kind of attracted me to them. >> reporter: speaking from a syrian refugee camp she says she has no regrets about joining isis. >> i had my kids, you know. i did have a good time there, it's just that bad things got out of hand. >> reporter: now she wants to come home. >> i think people should have sy

ambassador to the united nations has withdrawn eration.s heather nauert, who previously worked for the state department, said the nomination process has been ghouling on her family. nbc news reports she pay taxes on a foreign-born nanny. she did notse disc it when she joined the administration. >>>his morning, we're learning more about a workplace shooting in aurora, illinois. look at the emotional vigil held yesterday. five people were killed, including an intern. it was his firn day the job. six others were killed in that shooting. >>> we are getting newat infon on a weekend shooting that made many think the was an active shooter. >> police are looking for jamarry hammond. they say he shot a man after getting into a fight with another person. the pair d not know each other prior to the shooting. >> this was a targeted incident. it was a shooting at the mall, shooting.l >> the man who was shot walked to the hospital and is expected be okay. >>> we're learning a student was attacked aa montgomery county school. this happened last week in gaithersburg. four students face assault charges

heather nauert drops her bid to be u.s. amtd to the u.n. -- ambassador to the u.n.oversy. >>> making the rounds. the jam-packed field of candidates out in full force as another high-profile name reportedly gets ready to enter the race. >>> new questions this morning about the alleged attack on

ambassador after heather nauert withdrew her name saturday.ng to a source close to the white house, he sounded out the idea with trusted advisers at mar-a-lago over the weekend, saying he's been very impressed by the iraq war vet and sees him as a rising star. president trump never saw nauert's formal nomination to the senate after choosing her in december. the former fox news anchor has faced questions about lack of experience for the job. she says the last two months have been grueling for her family and she's facing complications over a foreign-born nanny who didn't have a proper work visa. much more on this breaking news in our next hour. >>> still to come, even more twists tonight in the evolving case of "empire" star jussie smollett. what we're now learning from the brothers first arrested in connection with the alleged incident. they are talking not only to police, to the media today. did they help stage a hoax? the mystery deepens, ahead. # aused by over 200 indoor and outdoor allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals a

heather nauert withdrew from consideration from the u.n.x issue with a nanny whose visa did not allow her to work in the united states. >>> crews rushed to rescue 16 people trapped in a gondola ride at sea world in san diego. harnesses and lifeguard boats were bought in to pull the passengers to safety. emergency officials say an infant was among those on board along with a partially paralyzed passenger. officials say the attraction bay side sky ride stopped running over mission bay after a gust of wind tripped a circuit breaker. scary. >> you get nauseous just watching them dangling. >>> not racist, not homophobic. two brothers speak out after being cleared in the alleged jussie smollett attack. when will the actor speak to police again? one hour pickup order? got it. ran out of ink and i have a big meeting today. and 2 boxes of twizzlers... yeah, uh...for the team. the team? gooo team... order online pickup in an hour. and, now save up to 40% at the furniture event. at office depot officemax. carla is living with metastatic breast cancer,

the issue was heather nauert's family failure to pay taxes on a foreign-born nanny hired to take care of her children. she is no expected to continue in her current role as state department spokeswoman.ru >>> president is now calling on europe to take back hundreds of foreign fighters captured in syria and put them on trial or else the president threatenedehe u.s. could forced to release them. but as nbc's lucy kavanaugh ports, that idea is facing opposition abroad. >> reporter: u.s.-backed kurdish forces are closing in, with the islamic state all but gone, the question now, what to do with he feigners who remain, like british teen, who ran way to syria with two classmates in 2015. >> saw all the videos on the internet and thatt jind of attracted me to them. >> rmorter: speaking f a syrian refugee camp she said she has no regretsbout joining isis. >> i have my kids. i had aood time there. >> reporter: now she wants to come home. >> i think people should have sympathy toward me fev ything i've been through. >> reporter: more than 480,000 foreigners from 80 countries joined isis. most c

president donald trump's nominee for a bus there to the united states heather nauert has withdrawn her candidacy for family reasons the former fox news host joined the state department a spokeswoman two years ago the white house has not yet said who might be next in line for the job well right now. yellow vests protesters marched across france for the fourteenth weekend in a row saturday's demonstration was overshadowed by an anti semitic.

us president donald trump's nominee for a bus there to the united states heather nauert has withdrawn her candidacy for family reasons the former fox news host joined the state department a spokeswoman two years ago the white house has not yet said who might be next in line for the job right now.

in a statement heather nauert said that she believes the decision is in the best interest for her familydescribes as a "gruelling two months." she was due to replace nikky haley, who resigned from the position in october. stranded passengers are trying to find alternative travel arrangements, after the airline, flybmi, collapsed. in a statement, the company blamed rising fuel costs, as well as challenges created by brexit. the airline, based near east midlands airport, has told customers it will not be able to reschedule any flights. colin campbell has the details. with all flybmi flights cancelled, hundreds of passengers including families on their half term breaks have had their travel plans disrupted. others have been left stranded abroad. all the flights on the return home have been cancelled. they said they would not give me a refund. we are now off into austria for our skiing trip but there is a real concern as to how we are going to get home now the company has gone into administration. based in the east midlands, flybmi operated i7 jets, flying to 25 european cities. the airline,

of his previous nomination, former fox news presenter and state department spokesmwoman, heather nauerthave demolished pablo escobar‘s former apartment complex in medellin, after the site became a tourist hotspot. the infamous drug trafficker lived there in the 1980s. the city now plans to build a memorial park to replace the abandoned building. stefan levy reports. the building raised to the ground in seconds, his legacy much harder to demolish. this aid story building was where the colombian drug lord, pablo escobar, called home for many yea rs, pablo escobar, called home for many years, where he planned some of these most brazen attacks. pablo escobar met his fate in 1983 in a police shootout. up until that moment he was responsible for killing thousands of people as he built his cocaine empire. translation: i think today is not simply the demolition of the building, today is an insurgent of history built from the memory of the victims. the building in medellin was gutted in 1980 aid and has remained empty. in recent years, annette flick series, chronically the life of pablo escobar

there have been some vague rubbi rumblings on twitter there are more issues with nauert. i don't have any evidence, but i think if it's just this one, authorize interesting, to say the least. >> last word to you, francessca, the optics of all of it. >> i would just say that moving forward, it's clear that the president is going to have to nominate someone else for this position. so we're restarting the clock, and any names are back on the table that he had put off the table before, including current ambassadors who might be interested in the job. so i think that this upcoming week once the president gets back from mar-a-lago, you'll start seeing a lot of speculation about who the person that he could nominate could be. and some vetting within the media of those folks. >> okay. we will look for that. and thank all three of you for your time. daniel, charlie, francessca, thanks, guys. >>> new today, stunning developments in the jesse smollett case. nbc news now confirms the investigation into the alleged attack against the "empire" actor has indeed shifted. police are looki

former state department spokeswoman heather nauert withdrawing from consideration.as expected to face an uphill battle in the senate over her lack of foreign policy experience. but now leaving the state department after reportedly revealing she hired a nanny who was not legally allowed to work in the u.s. >>> a major section of a new england highway shut down for hours in both directions because of this. take a look. a 9,000-gallon gas tanker bursting into flames on i-91. this happened south of hartford, connecticut. it took firefighters hours to put it out. investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the accident. >>> and desperate moments for parents outside of a courthouse in florida, accidently locking their 1-year-old in the back seat of the family suv. deputies turning to five inmates who were working nearby to try and help that child. a brief group effort with a clothes hanger, and success. they were able to open the door. >>> and a tricky rescue for firefighters in eastern p.a. two clydesdales falling through the ice. the 15-year-old draft horse

after his previous nomination — former fox news presenter and state department spokesmwoman heather nauertnow to our top story. our correspondent in caracas is katy watson. we sure we ——we saw orla guerin at that concert on the border between venezuela and the colombian border. any signs that it will cross the border into venezuelan this weekend? well, if you speak to nicolas maduro, he says that it won't be coming in. he's told his armed forces to be on high alert and not to let any unauthorised vehicles ci’oss to let any unauthorised vehicles cross the border and is also closed the border with brazil, he closed late on thursday night and he said he will evaluate what he does with the colombian border. if you speak tojuan the colombian border. if you speak to juan guaido and the colombian border. if you speak tojuan guaido and their supporters, they say no matter what, this aid will come through, there are informal routes, smaller routes, it's a porous border and a really big border, they will get their radian no matter what so the question will be on saturday morning, when the trucks sta