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$965 million to the victims of the sandy hook school shooting massacre. were getting reaction about the verdict and impact of jones lies about the shooting. also tonight, russia launches mass casualty missile strikes in ukraine. as the u.s. and nato scramble to beef up ukrainian air defenses. ill ask white house national security official john kirby about administrations response to vladimir putins provocation and learning more about tomorrows january 6th hearing and new evidence tha...

>> sandra: so much for moscow saying theyre withdrawing troops. now nato is accusing russia of doing the opposite. increasing their troop count there. so what is really going on here? lucas tomlinson is live in ukraine for us with the very latest. hi, lucas. >> hi, sandra. thats right. earlier today i spoke to the top u.s. diplomat on the ground that says the risk of invasion by russia in this country remains very high. its one of the reasons that she ordered documents shredded and the u.s. emba...

Russias largest joint exercises since the cold war. putin is sending hisbelarus. after contact forces have taken up positions on the ukraine border in the last 24 hours, they said the troop count will be heading close to 170,000. thats where its heading in 2000 and one day. we are getting "out front" tonight in eastern ukraine. >> reporter: lying low over the ukrainian countryside this soviet-era military plane heads to the border with russia. we traveled here with senior ukrainian officials and...

Name mohammed. able to get him out is he working to get others out. is he an interpreter. here is what he was saying about the situation on the ground. >> me and my family [inaudible] people behind. thats [inaudible] it im hiding in my house. i havent seen outside whats going on outside. >> i think there is countless interpreters that are still in afghanistan with the hasty withdrawal if we had had clear objectives, to our troop count, when we were withdrawn from afghanistan, i think it would ha...

Wasnt made public. hes meeting with glenl clark of socom. as we mentioned, 1,000 additional troops being sent to the middle east. it shows there might be unity of whats happening now because of the fact that the call came from the white house. that meeting happened yesterday in which they came out with acting secretary shanahan to increase the troop count. we remember back in late may, they asked for more troops than they got. they got 1,500 troops. they asked for more. i think this is a follow ...

Rain, time and troop count. hes doing it the wrong way and im afraid hes doing it for the wrong reasons. >> if you lose a kid, a son or daughter in ace place like syria, you can say, whyd they die? because the president thought we would be there? thats all have you right now? >> thats it. not congressional authority. he didnt tell our allies. thats most concerning. now theyre going to start, other alliances, i who irin korea as you allude to he doesnt understand why it is to be in south korea to...

At large. what hes done is used all the tools in the toolbox. it hasnt been strictly a military response or diplomatic response. youve seen, for example, when it was necessary to increase the troop count in afghanistan, he did that responsibly when its about intelligence sharing to make sure that were tackling extremist cells, improved that across the country. and the federal budget, less than 1% is foreign aid and used that in a very smart, targeted way to improve forgn aid and keep those ties ...

Russia with the troop count. barbara starr joins me on the phone. shes breaking the story tonight. barbara, what do you know? >> reporter: erin, good evening. 40,000 russian troops on the eastern border with ukraine, another 25,000 russian troops at locations inland. all of them, erin, fully equipped the u.s. believes ready to go if and when vladimir putin orders them to go into eastern ukraine. as we go into the weekend, that is the real dilemma for u.s. intelligence. they know those troops are...