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There's some news expected out of Washington D.

C concerns the Muller report the special investigation by former FBI director Robert Mueller.

It looked into alleged Russian interference with the U.

The Justice Department already released a summary of the report to Congress that happened last month.

It said the investigation did not find that the campaign of Donald Trump illegally conspired or coordinated with Russia.

The Muller report didn't draw conclusion about whether President Trump obstructed justice if he illegally interfered with government work.

Attorney general and deputy attorney general both concluded that there wasn't sufficient evidence that the president had done anything wrong.

Democrats said the four page summary wasn't enough.

They wanted to see the entire Mueller reports of more than 300 pages that's expected to be released today, though it's also expected to be redacted, meaning parts of it will likely be edited or removed first.

CNN 10 is planning to follow up on this story next week.

Which of these countries won its independence from Spain in 18 11 Brazil, Pai de Venezuela or to make on Lee?

One of these countries that won its independence from Spain is Venezuela.

Venezuela's leader is starting to let humanitarian aid into the country.

For years, President Nicolas Maduro has denied that there's a crisis in Venezuela.

But this week his government allowed the Red Cross to make its first delivery there.

The United Nations estimates that more than 20% of Venezuelans are in desperate need of supplies like medicine.

A CNN investigation just found that illegal drug trafficking through Venezuela is soaring.

S and Columbia of trying to distract attention toward Venezuela, toe hide their own defeat in the war on drugs.

But Nick Payton Walsh found firsthand how Venezuela is becoming a major courier of cocaine.

Below is a cocaine superhighway enriching Venezuela's corrupt elite on bringing Coke toe American streets.

Beast in lines, a secret pathways from Colombia's cocaine farming Heartlands below across into neighboring Venezuela.

From their billions of dollars of the drug a smuggled north in tiny planes, US and regional officials have told CNN, Aided by Venezuela's army and lead, the Colombian military were with Don't get any lower to stay out of the range of traffic and machine guns and talk to locals mostly through the leaflets.

They drop wave stopped drug flying Sound of Colombia, he tells me, but not from places we don't control, means Venezuela, just five miles away, below.

They think they've spotted a cocaine laboratory, one of many fueling Venezuela's role as a cocaine courier, which is CNN investigation has learned is booming just as the country collapses.

240 tonnes went from Colombia, Venezuela and 2018 up, her third in one year, a U.

S official told us, which could fetch $40 billion on US streets.

It's alleged by so many in the Venezuelan army and government of reluctant to give up on Nicolas Maduro.

The trade remains mostly secret inside Venezuela on the other side of the border here, but we were able to learn more about these illegal routes in from recent defectors from the Venezuelan Army Board patrol on about how their officers ordered them to let cross specific trucks carrying cocaine for five years.

This sergeant got those orders often three times a week.

The cars that cross both weapons and drugs were pickups on.

We would be told the color and make of the truck.

And when usually just after donor dusk, everything was coordinated by the brigade commander.

He'd send a lieutenant to tell you what needed to cross on this was arranged high up above.

Those who didn't agree were swapped out automatic.

He fled to hear Colombia when the pressure to comply got too much and his unit found themselves confined to base.

The general would say Everyone must be with us.

They had us brainwashed with food handouts.

I went home and told my wife, We leave for Columbia.

My son started crying and said, Dad, what are we going to do?

But I knew if they stayed without me, they'd be captured or interrogate.

Venezuelan state TV occasionally shows how they're armed forces crack down on the trade here in dissenting.

Mexican pilots have previously rejected allegations they're actually running the drugs on did not respond to several requests for comment, but the U.

S official has told CNN these flights are surging.

They used to take off from the remote hidden runways in the southern Venezuelan jungle, but in the last three years have moved north, U.

S official told CNN to reduce flying time, they used to be three a week, but last year there were almost daily.

This year they've seen as many as eight in a single day, original official said.

Using 50 hit on runways, CNN has seen a confidential U.

S radar map approximated here that shows the sharp turn left the planes from Venezuela take before landing on the remote Central American coastline off Honduras before the cocaine travels north through Mexican states.

This is where we pick up the trail of this booming traffic again, on the coastline below, turned into a surreal graveyard of narco planes.

Cocaine cargo they carry is worth so many millions that played itself is just a fraction in a $1,000,000,000 deal, so many discarded like a used plastic jungle crammed here.

One River Bend troops were with don't want to be on camera for their safety.

Some of these have their markings torn off make the job of working exactly where they came from, even harder.

America's drug habit is where the money the rot all begins.

But that same open market also supplies a key part of the logistics here.

Well, the fire's deprived most of this plane of kind of distinguishing characteristics, but you can still see end for their end, meaning this plane originated in the United States, brokers, a U.

S official tells me, buy up dozens of old planes at auction in the United States and hide their ownership in shell companies to send himself to start the cocaine journey north from Venezuela.

Another end, which means another plane that started It's days in the United States.

It's not just traffickers in Venezuela in the U.

Making billions, the entire region is in on it.

This is surely Honduras's biggest industry that billions at stake everywhere from this jungle road, which is actually a hidden runway up to the Honduran president's brother, inducted last year on trafficking charges, which he denies.

You can't stop the planes being sold or taking off one officer tells me so.

They instead just have to try and make landing harder by blowing holes in the runways, just even slowing down.

This multi $1,000,000,000 trade requires so many more holes to be blown in this vast expanse of jungle.

The amount of money cocaine brings here literally dwarfs any effort to fight it.

Insane amounts of cash into some villages along this coastline I have known.

In fact, the Honduran army tells us traffickers flying towards these villages often kick their cargo overboard when they think they're about to be intercepted.

Each 30 kilograms bundle of cocaine is attached to floats on drifts ashore.

They then pay these communities of fishermen $150,000 for each recovered bundle.

It's a calculus of corruption that most officials I spoke to admit beggars, belief and the no police or aid operation really hope to challenge one that sees the collapsing Maduro government is the alleged curious cashing in fast in a region of desperate delivery.

First, this will look like your run of the mill pontoon boat hanging out on the lake.

Nothing really unusual here until we zoom out and now you see the problem.

Officials believe that recent severe storms in the area caused the boat to break loose and drift to the edge of a damn.

Once the weather calmed down, wildlife officers used an electric winch to pull the boat back to shore, all hands on deck to stop a ship wreck to keep the boat afloat.

Attack to stay intact From bow to stern and from port to starboard, It's still sea worthy of being safely Harvard.

It was on the edge, hanging out in it deep one waterfall away from being Poseidon Seep.

But thanks to some maritime magic in a pinch, she sails again, tugged away by a winch.

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