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Extraordinary warning to president vladimir putin-- cut it out on the border of ukraine or face new economic punishment that the biden administration says goes beyond the traditional sanctions and could cripple the russian economy. you'll recall, putin inveiledded and annexes ukraine's crimea region in 2014. tonight, putin says he has no intention of attacking ukraine but is pressing for guarantees that ukraine will not join the western nato alliance. president biden has been working the phones with european leaders to form a joint strategy to deescalate or inflict significant harm on the russ...

From the white house. >> reporter: ask about the failed program to train and equip syrian fighters, president obama told "60 minutes" sunday that he never believed in the plan in the first place, despite its billion and a half price tag. >> this is why i've been skeptical from the get-go about the notion that we were going to effectively create this proxy army inside of syria. >> reporter: but if you're so skeptical of the strategy, which already has cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, he certainly didn't show is in 2014. >> tonight i call on congress again to give us additional author...

>> sony releases course and will give you the interview at select theaters. and a look back at the silver linings for the terrible, horrible, almost no good year that was 2014. tonight, good news for the holidays. the kbrosz do megsic product rose 5% in the third quarter of 2014. that's the strongest groit rate since 2003. the dow jones industrial average hitting record highs today. consumer spending koblted to make solid gains.

This stage who's doing what and to what extent. it could even be the chinese. they're pretty angry at north korea for a lot of their provocations in recent years. and they may have concluded that this was -- this sony attack was a violation of their major objectives in northeast asia of stability and peace. >> bruce bennett, fran townsend. thanks to both of you. thanks very much. >> thanks, wolf. just ahead, we'll shift gears. something to make you smile. anderson has been asking you to vote online for your favorite ridiculist of 2014. tonight we start counting them down. your pick for numbe...

You've been voting online. for your favorite one of 2014. tonight we start counting down your top five. coming in at number five, a real career highlight for our own randi kaye. here's anderson from back in january. >> time for "the ridiculist." tonight we'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the dedication that one of our intrepid reporters recently displayed. i'm speaking about randi kaye, who spent last week in college reporting on the newly legal business of recreational marijuana. for starters she showed us what an eighth of an ounce of pot looked like. take a look. >> here it is right ...