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bryan kohbergers attorney said he drove to pennsylvania with his father. kohbergers attorney was told that he was driving home for the holidays. authorities tracked the suspect all the way to pennsylvania and watched him for days before finally making an arrest in the middle of the night. veronica miracle is following the story for us from moscow, idaho. whats the mood like now there after theres actually finally an arrest? >> reporter: paula, the community of moscow has really been on...

Capability of an enemy force or the resolve of the civilians of your enemy to support the war. however, when you are talking about the conduct of warfare, there are actually rules of engagement to do that. in fact, you have heard the term geneva convention thrown around. there are four treaties and three protocols that are part of that convention established in 1949. specifically it says, anything that violates the fourth treaty, which prevents extensive destruction of either civilian property o...

Winnable war for vladimir putin, the whole world turned on him and any rational human being would have known the whole world was going to turn on him, and yet he did it anyway. with this war not being a winnable war at the end of the day, whats putin doing? how can anyone come to the conclusion that this man who controls the largest nuclear stockpile in the world is anything but a deeply irrational, disturbed, erratic man? >> well, lets start with the warning signs like you do in medicine, joe. ...

Territories including crimea. do you have any hope that anything comes out of this? >> i can see bhie he will say nato isnt worth this. i can see why hes offering some of the stuff up, putting it on the table when two months ago it was not on the table. helping ing assad do what putin doing, they had high level talks with the u.s. and geneva. they had them all over europe

Something, basically, to make him stop this aggression and the killing of so many people? >> after russia regroups and rebuilds its military, this is what happened years ago, with putin doing, so and they believe in fighting against ukraine but nato and america and ukrainian territory. and in the grand scheme of things, putin is actually getting what he wants inside of russia. he is rebuilding the system and really turning russia back into the soviet union type of control regime. and the only th...

Shows it could a mass 175,000 troops along its border with ukraine and could begin a military offensive within a matter of months. that is what is being planned here. bianna, 175,000 troops on the border with a plan. whats putin doing? >> listen, we have been here before. putin views ukraine as the crowning achievement during his reign. he thinks they have historical ties with russia. and that is where ukraine belongs. obviously anybody who thinks putin is bluffing here should think twice. becau...

First strike the other side. the question is, what is mr. putin doing? a lot of sanctions on him. he is going down the wrong path. i think president trump is starting to recognize that at least, there was some joint response with the european allies in the assassination in the united kingdom. >> when the eu was formed, who do we call in the united states for issues related to this issue of national security? who do they call? is it general mattis? >> he is one of the influential voices in this a...

The new york post. whats putin doing? >> hes thumbing his nose at us and the russians are making a point. they are going to get something for this arrival of snowden arriving on their shores. the other thing they are doing is sending a message to obama. we dont care if you want him back. we dont care what you have got to say. its the ultimate after obama continues to make the reset concessions to russia. they finally last week obama said im going to cut my nuclear arsenal. great, we are not doin...

Strip along moldova is a russian-speaking strip in moldova. its an autonomous region that essentially has always wanted to be affiliated back with russia, didnt want to leave the soviet union previously. what you see putin doing is grabbing these pieces where theres strong kind of russian ethnic nationalism and grabbing them. the question is, what will stop that? to what degree does that need to be a combination of tougher measures in addition to whatever economic measures they might want to tak...