'Tale of two readouts': White House statement curiously breaks from China's in taut summit

One of the absent lawmakers was 83-year-old Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), who has been absent for weeks due to major eye surgery.

"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) urged Wilson in a recent phone call to return to Washington, D.C., as quickly as possible, according to the senior House Democrat and another source familiar with the matter," said the report. "'You've got to come. The numbers are too small,' the Democratic leader said, referring to Republicans' narrow House majority."

Wilson reportedly told him she will be back next Wednesday.

Democrats are not alone in being frustrated by absences. The GOP has also seen several, and one member, Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), has been missing for months due to an unspecified medical illness that even Republican leadership hasn't been informed of.

All of this comes amid mounting pressure on Trump to end the war, particularly as it has gone past the 60-day deadline that gives Congress authority to disapprove.

"The settlement terms are expected to prohibit Trump from directly receiving payments related to those three legal claims; however, entities associated with Trump are not explicitly barred from filing additional claims," the report reads in part.

Trump initially sued the IRS for $10 billion, claiming the agency should have done more to prevent his tax returns from being released during his first administration. The lawsuit raised conflict-of-interest concerns among some political analysts and observers because the IRS is an executive agency that Trump oversees.

A Trump spokesperson told ABC News that the IRS has "wrongfully" allowed a "rogue" employee to leak Trump's tax returns.

"The arrangement would be an unprecedented use of taxpayer dollars with little oversight," the report reads. "Under the terms of the potential settlement agreement, President Trump would have the authority to remove members of the commission running the fund without cause, and the commission would be under no obligation to disclose its procedures or decision-making process for awarding more than a billion dollars, the sources said."

With a press pool around them, the agent refused to disarm, and the American delegation didn't want to leave one of their own behind, which led to "the Chinese version of a Mexican standoff," the Post wrote. "After a thirty-minute delay and many arguments, another Secret Service agent who had already been cleared to proceed was summoned to escort reporters inside while the first agent stayed behind."

Fox News reporter Peter Doocy described it as a "very physical standoff." He also suggested it wasn't an isolated incident, adding that "there have been some heated and physical clashes between the Secret Service and the Chinese police at basically the backdoors of these events."