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Is it hunger, is that one of the big issues? >> it is everything. its food, its hunger, its getting cash, its getting things like documents. all kinds of things. afghanistan is a complicated country, always has been and always will be but in transitional government for better or for worse things are very hard and difficult. it is still a very poor country. so no reason to believe it will change any time soon. so when you add that onto the winter, when you add on starvation, when you add on all t...

The narration is they need to stop this. they feel threatend by this protest. if youre on the other side of the fence, theres a real concern. you dont know why russia has almost 100,000 troops on the border of ukraine. special forces. military intelligence. domestic intelligence. some troops are 3,000 miles from their bases in russia. not a normal time to have military exercises in the area. whats the intent? they dont know what putins intent is. is it posturing or does he intend to cross the bo...

Report. theres growing concern over russias military activity near the border with ukraine as russia amasses its troops. the u.s. and its european allies are raising the alarm over whether russian president vladimir putin may be considering an invasion. lets bring in cnn international editor nic robertson from london now. is there a sense an invasion could be imminent or is it unfortunate just vladimir putin flexing his muscle and trying to provoke anxiety. >> reporter: theres a lot of muscle be...

A lot of it, jim, was based upon gathering additional data. but back in august, a bunch of us, myself included, but also the heads of the cdc and the fda and the surgeon general, said it looks like boosters are going to be needed probably for everybody but lets look closely at the data. the data came forward, and in september booster is authorized for people 65 and over. by october it was basically also moderna and not just pfizer. and now here we are covering the bases for everybody over 18. wh...

In some ways its a win/win game. these troops are thousands of miles from their normal bases in the world. this is not a typical time to have troop buildups and military exercises a long way from home, a long way interest their bases, so what is the intent? this is abnormal but russia also points to the u.s. navy and the british navy operating in the black sea doing training maneuvers there as, again, the black sea around that crimea, important naval base for russia. based on that, a concern for...

One guy he shot. the guy he wounded admitted he had pointed his gun at kyle rittenhouse first before being wounded. why do you think much of the press so politicized this one trial? >> well, the trial was televised, right, so it captured the nation, and it allowed us in our living rooms or at work to play the role of the jury. but the truth is that the trial is going on from 9 to 5, right? when most people are watching. and theyll watching it while working, behind the scenes. but then at night t...

It goes. >> what is your point of view on the fact there was a crew? does it speak to perhaps the confidence level that rittenhouse and his defense team had in reaching a decision that was favorable to them? >> i think they just wanted to cover all their bases and do everything possible and turn over every stone. you heard mark richards yesterday, he said they had an exercise where they had rittenhouse appear in front of a mock jury and one heard from him and the other didnt and rittenhouse did ...

Be gone. >> he could run? >> he could run. >> reporter: the agents decided to go ahead with the sting anyway. >> the adrenaline was pumpin. we were keepin our eyes out -- hoping to spot him. and -- and hoping that everything went smoothly. >> reporter: ncis enlisted the help of local law enforcement. ten officers and agents had the hospital covered. >> we had plain clothes officers just walking around the hospital as just normal patrons and we had -- officers and agents all around the hospital i...

Him of his assignments after he posted an animated cartoon of killing a colleague. lets take a look at some of that exchange first. >> why is it the only thing republicans will punish their own members of congress is speaking out of donald trump. >> i dont understand your question. >> the only republican member whos been anyway punished by the conference this year is liz cheney. >> did she lose her committee? >> she lost her role. >> thats an election. she lost an election. people go out for ele...

So i think its about power. congress -- i loved being a member of the congress. its a great job. and a lot of people dont want to give up power. they like their positions. and i think thats all there is to it. its about holding on to power and basically donald trump has the ability to take them out in the primary and thats their fear. see, most of them -- most members werent like me. i had to represent a swing district and it used to stun some of my colleagues. and i told them i need to win near...