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Amasses troops along the border with ukraine and as concerns continue to grow about a potential russian invasion. richard engel spent some time embedded with ukrainian froops on the front lines of the standoff with russia. he has the latest right here. >> chuck, we are in eastern ukraine, not far from the russian boarder, and this is a closed military zone created by the ukrainian military. for the last several days people around the world have been talk about the possibility that russia could invade ukraine, take some of its or all of its 100-plus thousand troops and tanks and artillery and s...

Progress in getting americans out. the estimate is 5 to 10,000 americans still in average. many in kabul. but it could be even more than that because they are not at all certain they have a firm handle on americans out in various places in the country. now another 1,000 troops laughing landed and a lot of froops the 82nd air are borne division. that elite division's command will now take control of the airport mission that the u.s. military has. 82nd airborne commander will be on the ground. he'll take control. this is something that 82nd, of course, does in combat, in war time, take control o...

Future strikes in syria. >> this reflects our consist sten policy and firm determination to prevent military entrenchment in syria. if need be, we will intensify these attacks. >> reporter: the syrian military claimed that most of the strikes were intercepted by syrian air defenses. the event comes days after u.s. secretary of state, mike pompeo, said in cairo, egypt, that the united states fully supports israel's rights to defend itself. the country faces unique threats from jihad and hezbollah. when asked whether the israelis would strike iran, prime minister, netanyahu did not rule out that...

Memorabilia. i don't have any problem with any president doing that for the troops if that makes them happy. this was omitted from cnn's report that previous presidents have done this before. the bias of omission, greg. >> congressman, you have a former assistant white house counsel under barack obama going on a tweet storm saying the president's violating the hatch act. no, the hatch act doesn't apply to the president or the vice-president. besides, these are people giving him hats. what is he supposed to do, say, sorry, i can't touch the hat? >> you are absolutely right. the president of the...

President obama in july, 2008, went to kuwait and visited an american base there and signed memorabilia. i don't have any problem with any president doing that for the troops if that makes them happy. this was omitted from cnn's report that previous presidents have done this before. the bias of omission, greg. >> congressman, you have a former assistant white house counsel under barack obama going on a tweet storm saying the president's violating the hatch act. no, the hatch act doesn't apply to the president or the vice-president. besides, these are people giving him hats. what is he supposed...