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Rain, time and troop count. he's doing it the wrong way and i'm afraid he's doing it for the wrong reasons. >> if you lose a kid, a son or daughter in ace place like syria, you can say, why'd they die? because the president thought we would be there? that's all have you right now? >> that's it. not congressional authority. he didn't tell our allies. that's most concerning. now they're going to start, other alliances, i who irin korea as you allude to he doesn't understand why it is to be in south korea to protect an important footing against china and north korea. >> anyway, in his letter of r...

At large. what he's done is used all the tools in the toolbox. it hasn't been strictly a military response or diplomatic response. you've seen, for example, when it was necessary to increase the troop count in afghanistan, he did that responsibly when it's about intelligence sharing to make sure that we're 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 particularly with our allies and countries in the middle east and south asia. >> doug, for you,...

Russia with the troop count. barbara starr joins me on the phone. she's 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 ready. they know they're in position. what they do not know tonight is whether vladimir putin will...