hostages are out of harm's way. they're calling for a cease-fire. also breaking, ukraine's president in washington pleading for aid. are his hopes of getting a deal dead? this as another country is taking a pang ge from the putin playbook. and trump selling his mug shot as trading cards along with pieces of a suit he wore that day. now being accused of breaking the law and how it is paying off for trump. let's go "out front." >> good evening. i'm erin burnett. "out front," gaza's tunnels are being flooded. a u.s. official telling cnn this the israeli informed the united states that they are flooding some of hamas' tunnels with seawater to flush ott the fi fighters and short tishcircuit infrastructure. they're flooding tunnels where they believe hostages are not being held. president biden could not say whether or not that is the case. >> i'm not at liberty -- well, there is assertions being made that there's quite sure there are no hostages in any of the tunnels. but i don't know that for fact. i do know that every civilian death is a tragedy. israel stated the intent, as i said, to match its words with its intent with actions. that's why i was talking about today. >> so we can't say for a fact. clearly he is referring to civilians overall beyond hostages. biden's response here using the word "assertion" is part of a growing rift between the u.s. and israel playing out in public. today biden warning the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that he is losing international support because of, quote, indiscriminatent bombing. this is a major shift for joe biden. publicly, the words he used have been in lock step with israel and its prime minister. late today, one of the u.s.'s closest allies turning, taking a stand and calling for an end to prime minister netanyahu's campaign in gaza, canada is now calling for a cease-fire. now let's begin our coverage "out front" live in tel aviv. we're seeing this rift spilling into public. biden using the word, the "assertion" of the hostages in the tunnels being protected. this could be a major mission in inside the tunnels. >> yeah. erin, this could be a significant new tactic against in network of tunnels believed to contain 300 miles or 500 kilometers of tunnels. the idf is believed to be doing this on a limited basis, pumping seawater into a certain number of tunnels where they do not believe that the hostages are. a u.s. official tells us that the israelis are unsure how effective it's going to be. you heard president biden's concern there for the hostages. israel saying there is still 135 hostages inside gaza, 116 of them are still believed to be alive. and, erin this comes on a day when we also heard some of the sharpest comments yet by president biden against netanyahu, his government, and the war in gaza. >> reporter: the deeper israel gets into its war in gaz yashgs the more discomfort -- gaza, the more discomfort that the u.s. is expressing as israel's closest ally. the most pointed comments yet from president joe biden and that benjamin netanyahu needs to change tactics which biden says is difficult with israel's current government, the most right-wing in israeli hist rich. the poll by far right ministers means israel, quote, doesn't want a two-state solution, biden said. >> two states for two people. and it's more important now than ever h. >> reporter: all indications are that is not netanyahu's goal. in a taped message before biden's comments, he admitted there are differences in who the two countries believe will govern palestinians after the war. but netanyahu knows how critical american support is. thanking the u.s. after it was the only country to vote against the u.n. security council's resolution for an immediate cease-fire. israel is still battling militants in gaza's north and pushing south. the idf claims to have killed 7,000 militants. the hamas-controlled ministry of health says over 18,000 people have been killed in gaza. with almost the entire population displaced. tonight, biden's national security adviser is telling cnn that israel must open this border crossing to allow aid directly into gaza. jake sullivan says they're telling israel it's an emergency. we're asking you to do this asap, he says, because of the nature of the humanitarian situation on the ground. today we saw aid trucks being inspected. they're still being routed through egypt. right here is where egypt, israel, and the gaza strip all meet. the trucks coming into israel from if egypt could in theory go straight into gaza to deliver that aid. but for now that, is something the israeli government is not allowing. humanitarian groups describe horrendous conditions for displaced palestinians. this mother trying to push rainwater out of the tent she shares with nine children including a baby. dam hamas and israel. it's enough for us. have mercy on us and stop or let israel kill us all and give us relief. 13-year-old ranna says her family has nine people in their tent, also full of water. my siblings are freezing, ranna says, we don't know what to do. we want to go back to our homes and not drown. and, erin, as the fighting intensifies, the situation is getting worse. we're getting updates from the idf about the number of israeli soldiers who have been killed and it is now over 100. 104 to be exact. 13 of them were killed by friendly fire which means that one in every eight was killed by friendly fire. and there have been notable deaths among the israeli soldiers including the son and nephew of a senior israeli minister who was the top general in charge of the idf. erin? >> thank you very much, alex, reporting from tel aviv tonight. "out front," wesley clark, also the former supreme allied commander of nato. i appreciate your time. i want to start with the news tonight. we confirmed that israel, the idf is flooding hamas tunnels with seawater. they say doing it in a limited basis. do you think this is the most logical thing? is this the right step for them to be doing right now? >> i expected it from the beginning. if you look at how quick -- what could do you with the tunnels? if you put your soldiers in, you'll have booby traps if. the you try to smoke them out with tear gas, you don't know what the ventilation system is. they probably have gas masks. so it always looks like seawater was the most likely option. we don't know what the he effecf the seawater is. it could sink right into the ground. it could collapse the tunnels. maybe it doesn't. it could collapse buildings. maybe above the tunnels. and, so, this has to be looked at as a test by the israelis. that's why they're doing oit ona limited basis. >> they say there are assertions they're flooding tunnels that doen don't have hostages in there. that was notable they use that word, assertions. and it is part of the concern that president biden warned israel it is losing support. he said the prime minister, netanyahu needs to change tactics and his government. how significant do you think is, general, this is all spilling out into public? we're all seeing this. >> it's bad for everybody, honestly, erin. it makes the united states look weak. we've already got a credibility problem after afghanistan. we're dealing with putin. we're dealing with venezuela who is threatening to invade ghana and now our own ally, israel. we wholeheartedly support, we're in a tussle with israel. it raises a lot of questions for the united states. but it's worse for israel. israel really is dependent on the united states. netanyahu's been a controversial president. it's not a surprise that there are conflicts there. he's been behind the expansion into the west bank by the palestinian settlers which caused so much of this anxiety and which the biden administration imposed. >> general, you just voted to demand a cease-fire in the conflict. obviously that, is not something that israel says they're going to do. one of the votes they were able to get was from canada. canada up until this point refused to back a cease-fire. incredibly close ally of the united states. so what kind of pressure does that put on israel and the united states? you have canada with the symbolic importance it carries, largest land border with the united states, turning against it on this crucial issue. >> i don't think israel is going to be persuaded to go with the cease-fire. even if the united states called for a cease-fire, i think it will be very tough for israel to agree to. that they said this is a threat. the united states needs all its friends. canada's vote is not helpful to us. >> all right. general clark, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you, erin. all right. "out front" now, the spokesman for prime minister netanyahu. to start with the limited flooding of the tunnels that we understand the idf is doing, israel says they're doing on a limited basis in teunnels where they don't believe that hostages are held. how do you know for sure there are no hostages in the tunnels being flooded? >> first, regarding the tunnels, i cannot comment on military operation happening on the ground or anything strategic moving ahead. this is a quell que you'll have -- is a question you have to refer to the idf. we're looking at various ways to eliminate the tunnels. we eliminated much of the tunnel infrastructure. but there is still many of them, as you heard from your reporter, also in the area where our forces are now operating. obviously, when we work on the ground to eliminate the hamas regime in gaz yaa, the hostage situation is top of mind. >> i'm curious. they say they don't believe where the hostages are. a question to you on an intelligence basis, if israel knows where they are not, do you know where they are? >> well, again this is a question for the idf. what we know is the hamas responds to pressure. we have seen release of hostages based on the outline we agreed upon because thanks to the military pressure. and we continue to hit them hard because we want to reach the mission that we have for this war. >> president biden warned israel they're losing sport support. he said to benjamin netanyahu you need to change tactics and likely your government. is there a response from the prime minister? >> first, israel is a democratic state. the ones who choose the government, as you know, are the people of israel. and right now my country is not dealing with politics, erin, from if left to right there is a public census where we're all united around the goal. the goal is to defeat hamas. the terrorist targeted us on october 7th, they didn't ask who voted for which party. they didn't care. and some of the hardest hit communities that i know you have been to the southern areas are honestly the people who are most -- staunch supporters of the palestinian cause in certain areas. >> yes. >> right. >> so, in terms of the civilians and general clark is talking about how when you flood, there is unknown consequences to this point could involve buildings coming down. obviously, unknown at this point as he had a lays it out. a lot of civilians have died. the idf said they killed 7,000 hamas members. we can't independently confirm that. i did recently speak to idf spokes person. i asked him about a report that said senior israeli military officials said they were basically killing two civilians for every hamas member. he called that a, quote, tremendously positive ratio. fit was two civilians for every one hamas that, is tremendously positive. how do you see it? >> it depends what you compare israel to. if you compare israe perfectionf course. nobody is perfect. we don't want to see any civilian casualty. no other western military, no other military has done this before. to safeguard the civilian population in an enemy war zone and i think that israel is really defining the gold standard here of urban warfare. if you compare the campaigns in iraq and afghanistan, the civilian to casualty ratio that israel once the dust settles, you see israel compares favorably. >> i understand that. i understand that academically if the numbers are put out there, you talk about the gold standard. yet, what we're con fronted with every day is a horrific loss of palestinian life and a lot of agony and anguish. it is hard to hear that being the gold standard. >> every civilian casualty is a huge tragedy. there hasn't been a war in human history, the most justified ones that haven't seen certain extent of collateral damage. again, what we're doing on the ground, the fact that we're telling the civilian population where our soldiers are entering and when, this is unprecedented. i'm sure that some, you know, family and friends of u.s. arms force service members watching us now would wanondwonder who d that? this is what the idf is does. >> i want to give you a chance to respond to another report that aired on cnn last night on the money that has gone to hamas. obviously, a lot of money in recent years. questions about whether or not netanyahu's policies actually aided and abetted that by allowing hundreds of millions of dollars of cash to go into gaza from hamas despite concerns from netanyahu's own government. some of which were raised by then education minister bennett who spoke to netanyahu. here's what he said. >> i stopped the cash suitcases because i believe that horrendous mistake to allow hamas to have all the suitcases full of cash that goes directly to rearming themselves against israelis. why would we feed them cash to kill us? >> when he says he stopped it, when he became prime might bester. he said he stopped the netanyahu policy that he refers to as cash in you suit indicated. does netanyahu believe he made a mistake by allowing cash to go in? >> again this is a -- we allowed money to go inside gaza not for hamas, obviously. and it's not only a policy that happened right away during this government, previous israeli governments. we wanted the money to reach, you know, the palestinian people to fix the water system that we saw hamas turned water pipes into missiles. the sewage system and so forth. we wanted -- >> he knew it wasn't being made for those purposes. you could see the systems. >> listen, it's a major problem. i think it's a repeating pattern in history. every time the state of israel gave more slack to the palestinian people, it backfired. it was answered with more bloodshed and more murder. if you go back to the 1947 plan of the united nations, we said, yes, they said no. they started a war against us. we retreated from gaza. we signed the oslo accords. in 2005, the disengagement act from gaza. we have missiles raining on our communities and now fake rehabilitation efforts and workers want to work in israel and expanding the fishing zone. what did we get? october 7th massacre. it's a repeating pattern. >> thank you very much. it's good to see new person. next, the breaking news denied ukraine's president fails to change republican minds about funding during a high-stakes trip to washington. we're learning putin's invasion has this on his own forces. the house hours away into an impeachment inquiry into biden. phillips is running against the president and he's my guest tonight. and the graphic voice mails an election worker received because of giuliani's laws about the election. [ beep ] breaking news. ukraine's president in washington making a last-ditch plea for aid. he stood alongside president biden as both leaders made their case for american support for ukraine. >> thanks to ukraine's success in defense, other european nations are safe from the russian aggression unlike in the past. >> putin is banking on the united states failing to deliver for ukraine. we must, we must, we must prove him wrong. >> yet, some republicans are not onboard to give ukraine more military aid. holding it up in congress, that includes mike johnson who met with zel enskyy today. >> there are important questions that must be answered so that we can continue with these negotiations. among those is what is the objective? what is the end game in ukraine? >> that is a major about-face for johnson. he not only supported ukraine loudly, clearly and proudly, but he slammed biden for being too slow on providing military aid to ukraine. here's mike johnson in april 2022. >> they're asking for the ability to fight back. as we've seen in recent days, there's a real chance they could win this conflict with russia. but they will not be able to do that. they certainly can't prevail if the biden administration continues to sit on its hands and not deliver the weapons that are sorely needed and we're prepared to provide. >> a total about-face on that issue. if if aid does not come, putin will be triumphant and able to continue on has openly stated quest to defeat the root of evil, the united states. >> translator: we need to know and understand where the root of evil is, where this very spider trying to envelope the whole planet, the whole world with its web and wants to achieve our strategic defeat on the battlefield. >> it is, of course, ukrainian that's fight every day for putin's defeat on the battlefield for the basic thing, the most basic thing, their nation's right to exist. on the ground in ukraine, the war grinds on tonight. nick paton walsh is "out front." >> reporter: the war isn't over or even slowing. in the east, the nest town that moscow wants to swallow. the latest estimate, russia has had 13,000 casualties here. a huge number offered without evidence but a clear bid to show american aid to ukraine is right now hurting russia. the lack of a summer breakthrough means ukraine's president zelenskyy faces perhaps his toughest weeks ahead. i has taken time away to get caught between the two politicians as they have their own squabble. here on capitol hill, the lawmakers are eager to go home for the holidays at the end of the week. in ukraine, weeks later, they may start running out of money on the front lines. it is life or death. >> it is very difficult for us to fight without u.s. assistance. but we have no choice. unfortunately, we don't have enough within our country to support our army. but we extremely need it. this is just a question -- this is just a point of our s surviv. >> reporter: said ukraine's security service, possibly behind a cyber attack hitting a major cell phone provider. it impacted air raid sirens, air raid alerts on phones and added to the sense of putin moving in on what is left of civilian safety in ukraine as winter looks bleaker. now zelenskyy returns to ukraine likely without achieving the thing of this trip hoped he would do with some officials here warning that salaries for doctors, first responders and the front lines may indeed run out in january with clear public tension with his chief of staff who ran the counter offensive that hasn't yielded results that ukraine and the western backers wanted. the defense minister joking he hadn't heard whether or not the chief of staff had indeed been fired. he hasn't just for clarity. but also ukraine experienced consistent russian shelling, attacks on infrastructure. the cell phone service nationwide experiencing what ukraine said was a russian cyber attack today. the problems mounting. but this key one, a lack of financing will burn in the next weeks very hard, erin. >> all right, nick, thank you very much. and "out front" now, long-time putt incritic was once the large -- putin critic was in russia and now on the wanted list. a true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving vladamir putin's wrath. president biden said today if congress fails to pass the supplemental aid package, its going to give putin the greatest christmas gift. is are this how putin sees it? >> there's to question. ukrainians showed us two years ago with some is resources even though they were outmanned and outgunned, they could fight the russians back. in a war that should have lasted three days is going now almost two years. but that is contingent on ukrainians getting weapons that they didn't have before from the united states and other countries. and the united states is responsible for more military and financial aid than any other country. so, if for some reason the americans can't provide the ukrainians with any more financial aid, then basically putin had to wait two years for this. but he's going to get what he wants. president biden is right about that. >> a declassified intelligence assessment that congress got said that putin lost 315,000 troops on the battlefield and that the war has basically set back 15 years of russian effort to modernize the ground force. 15 years. you would look at that and say if you're looking at damage to the russian military machine that, damage is being done. but is there any point at which these losses get too big for putin to continue? obviously this question would be contingent upon support, obviously, contingent. >> putin doesn't care how many soldiers are killed. he has no empathy. he is real whly a psychopath. he operates in a country with a lot of people that could one day rise up against him. and the 300 ,000 people that ar dead, that's 20 times more than the soviet union lost in afghanistan in. they lost about 15,000. and that was over ten-year period. and that led to the mothers of the soviet union rising up and forcing the regime to withdraw from afghanistan. and, so, you know, it's -- putin can do this as long as he's running a complete totalitarian system where everybody, even the mothers and wives and sisters and brothers of the soldiers who are lost can't rise up. but if at any point they start to rise up and organize, then putin is really in a bad place. and, so, it's not certain what that moment is. putin seems to think he can carry on. >> right. that's the thing. that moment hasn't happened. i think confounding many, right, and the question is when? one person who obviously had been -- well, the leader of the opposition spoke up against putin prior to all this. poisoned and put in a penal colony. one of the closest aides yesterday told me he's been missing for a week. and right before he went missing, his lawyers were unable to get access to him, he now hasn't appeared at multiple hearings. he had a health incident. he needed an iv. but no one knows anything about what happened to him since then. he could be sick. he could be moved to a worse penal colony as could be the case. he could be dead. they don't know. i mean, what do you think happened here? >> well, i think the very best case scenario is that they put him in the transfer system between the prisons and we've seen this before with various people including novalni. you get losted and nobody has access to where you r you can't communicate and your lawyers don't know where you are. and that may be where he is. and that is the best-case scenario. and, of course, the worst-case scenario is that something catastrophic happened to him. and that is entirely possible. that the last anyone heard from him is six days ago. >> of course, we wait for news for that. hearing nothing gagain today. bill, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next, republicans are one step closer to launching an impeach. inquiry against biden. dean fphillips is "out front" next to weigh n. trump cashing in on legal problems, now offering supporters a literal piece of the suit that you see in this mug shot. somebody cut it up for a hefty pricice. i'm a little anxious, i'm a little excited. i'm gonna be emotional, she's gonna be emotional, but it's gonna be so worth it. i love that i can give back to one of our customers. i hope you enjoy these amazing gifts. oh my goodness. oh, you guys. i know you like wrestling, so we got you some vip tickets. you have made an impact. so have you. for you guys to be out here doing something like this, it restores a lot of faith in humanity. the full house hours away from launching an impeach. inquiry into biden. they have not turned over documents in the hunter biden probe. they say it's about politics and helping trump win in 2024. out front now, a man running against president biden on the democratic seed for 2024, dean philips. congressman, i understand you're running to win. >> of course. >> you want president biden out of office. but do you stand with him against this impeachment effort? >> i have not seen a single shred of evidence that would indicate he's guilty of anything whatsoever, other than being a good father. and that's the truth. i'll be flying to washington tomorrow to register that vote. i think it's absurd. the we can't use impeachmentes as a regular course of business in a massively dysfunctional congress. >> i want to talk about your run to defeat president biden. but, look, there is growing concern among democrats. i'll go through a few things. he is trailing farmer president trump by five points in georgia which is a purple state now. it is worse news for biden in michigan. trump has a ten-point lead. these are states that biden won. biden says, you know, look, his approval rating is at 37%, the lowest that it has been. but then biden, we asked them, what about you? and they say, well, you're only polling, congressman phillips is only polling at 10% in new hampshire. there is nothing to worry about. did you think it would be easier when you look at his numbers, did you think that your job would be easier? >> no. in fact, i'm thrilled i'm at 10%. i'm thrilled -- >> that is another way to look at it. >> absolutely. >> people don't know my name now. you know why they don't know my name yet? because i'm not a jerk. it's easy to become famous in politics by just being a jerk. it's going to take months to be known, introduce myself. i'll be around. i'm not surprised at all. and those comparisons doan the matter right now. what really matters is next may or june, head-to-head comparisons, how does president biden stand against trump? how do i stand? and then give democrats choice. a really clear choice. i believe i'll be had head of president trump. >> you think in the polls, when people say your name versus trump's name that you will win? >> almost with certainty. let's get to the dates and see. but most importantly, we democrats are diluted right now in noo th into thinking the best way to proceed is in this coronation. the data you shared is horrifying. why don't we want a multicandidate primary to identify the person best positioned to beat trump? that's my proposition. the fact i'm the only one doing it is the most bizarre part of this whole episode. >> r.k. junior was doing it. now he moved over. won't back him if he's the nominee. >> i'll absolutely back the president if he's the nominee. we have no choice. my position is in 2020, i think he was the only one that could defeat trump. i believe he's the only ones that can't. >> which is obviously a big switch. you've been vocal in the border. you've been vocal on biden and criticizing how he handled it. you called it a, a mitigated embarrassing, inexcusable disaster. so, today we heard from several republicans. we heard from senator graham and senator cornyn. here's what they're saying. >> i think it's going to take the president himself telling his cabinet and telling his staff get this done. >> lindsey graham, the key is to get the commander in chief involved in the negotiations. it's his job above all others. do you believe with the senators? >> every american should agree. it is the commander in chief's primary job to provide security to the united states. i've been in the southern border twice, erin. it is an unmitigated, embarrassing horrifying disaster. not just under this administration for about the last ten administrations. and that is true. democrats and republicans have absolutely failed at the border. these are truths i wish more americans knew. we have to reform our immigration policy and our asylum policy. we're putting human beings in the position of making this horrific journey spending their life savings, giving it to mexican cartels because they have to come across the border. we should be doing that -- we should be processing asylum cases in the countries of origin to prevent the crisis once it gets to the border. they've been doing this so long, they don't know how to anticipate, plan ahead, between the border crisis, ai, we've got a lot coming down the pipeline, erin. we do not have leaders in positions right now. and trump is certainly not it, that can anticipate these issues, process them, plan ahead and prepare for the future. it's pretty simple. >> all right. congressman phillips, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. it's good to see you here. next, trump is cashing in, charging for trading cards with his mug shot and a piece of the suit he was wearing. this is how he raises money. now run ins for the law have been lucrative for him. this is real money. plus, one world leader now taking a page from putin's playbook threatening to invade another country. take half of it and putin may be involved. will they get away with it? a a special rereport. tonight, the former president, trump, fund-raising off his mug shot again. so now this is what he's doing. he's now offering people the chance to buy this historic gift just in time for christmas, mug shot edition, that's what they call it, digital trading cards. if you buy 47 of them, you get a piece of the suit trump wore when the mug shot was taken. it will run you about $4,600. so we're laughing. it is funny. yet, this is real money. he is raising real money. that's why it's a story. how much money did trump make since the mug shot in that court where you have the numbers? >> he made millions of dollars. i mean, that's what they have reported out. we know that mug shot was his best fund-raising quarter in all. he raised $45 million. he raised $45 million, the best fund-raising quarter so far. this is a general upward of trajectory. he was not fund-raising at all before the first indictment. then he saw this just tremendous climb in the fund-raising numbers. right now he's a run away train when it comes to endorsements. >> and the mug shots, can you, i mean, i know correlation is not necessarily causality, but what is the relationship between the mug shot and polls? >> you might think this is something that plays to the base. in fact, it seems to be something that might be playing to the general election. before the mug shot was taken, joe biden had a small lead in the national polls about two points. you look at where we are now, we see trum weapp with a lead of t points. it has no t cut down on his support at all. this is not a primary phenomenon, it is something -- >> five-point margin. people supporting him, as you see, that seems to have improved. does that mean they think he's not guilty? >> this, i think, is the most interesting part of this, erin. they may be more supportive of him now. but they also actually do think that he's guilty and that georgia election subversion case, you can see that there. majority, 51% believe he is guilty compared to just 26% who say not guilty. so, this sort of this thing where the voters are weighing the different issues in his mind. but trump is the beneficiary so far in the metrics that matter. >> and quickly now saying you going to get a cut up piece of the suit. i mean, we were all talking about and making a joke. it's like relics in the catholic church back in the day. who knows if it's the real suit. >> who knows if it's the real suit. >> i have no idea. but whatever he is doing, its working no matter how bizarre it is, erin. >> right. raising money. that is the bottom line. that's why it's a story real money. all right. thanks. >> thanks. next, he is power hungry and threatening to invade his neighbor. you'll see who it is. plus, an election worker in tears as she testified about the death threat she received because of giuliani's election lies. you'll hear the horrifying messages. tonight the authoritarian leader of a country with nearly 30 million people threatening a massive land grab tonight. a leader taking his cues from his ally vladimir putin. lisa soares is out front. >> reporter: it's an outlandish attempt at a land grab that has the world on edge. long live the full map of venezuela. this is president nicolas maduro revealing his new vision, a larger, a more powerful venezuela, which ina lush and vast patch of land that makes up two thirds of neighboring gianna. after a referendum at home backed his bid to declare sovereignty over the territory. let's publish and take all the school, high schools and universities of the country, the new map of venezuela, he says. across the border guyana's president is ringing alarm bells. >> this is a direct threat to giana's territorial sovereignty and political independence. >> roughly the size of florida it's been a part of giana since 1899 when international arbitrators set the current borders. venezuela has long sought to control the territory. and the discovery of more than 11 billion barrels of oil and gas off guyana's coast by oil giant exxon mobile in 2015 which put them on track to become the world's highest per capita producer has only emboldened him. telling oil companies operating in the region they have three months to pack up and leave. this as he orders venezuela's national oil company to start exploring the area. immediately we'll proceed to give operating licenses for the exploration and exploitation of oil, gas, and mines in all of guyana he says. it's a move out of president putin's play book. and the fear guyana's president tells me is that maduro feels empowered by the russian leaders's invasion of ukraine. >> we cannot allow the annexation of the territory in this western hemisphere. >> reporter: allies and neighbors too are taking note. brazil's president desilvia has ordered additional troops and vehicles to the northern border. something we don't need in south america's war, we don't need a war, we don't need a conflict, he says. what we need is to build peace. and long-time ally, the united states, is conducting flight operations within guyana while throwing its support for the country's sovereignty and robust security. and erin, context here is important. president putin is one of nicolas maduro's strongest backers and washington along with guyana's allies will want to avoid a snir yo like the one unfolding right now all the way in ukraine. already the white house which has eased sanctions on venezuela's oil sector back in october says it's not ruling out putting those sanctions back on the table. >> all right, isa, thank you very much and an incredible pretty story, though of a land grab of more than half of country happening south of the border. nenext an elelection worker rerevealing ththe racist a and t threatats she receceived becaua rudy giuliliani's elecection l . first time i connected with kim, she told me that her husband had passed. and that he took care of all of the internet connected devices in the home. i told her, “i'm here to take care of you.” connecting with kim... made me reconnect with my mom. it's very important to keep loved ones close. we know that creating memories with loved ones brings so much joy to your life. a family trip to the team usa training facility. i don't know how to thank you. i'm here to thank you. a former fulton county election worker cryings she testified today in rudy giuliani's defamation trial. shaye moss spoke of how her life changed when trump's former lawyers spoke about conspiracy lies about her leading to death threats. i'm most scared of my mom finding me or my son finding me outside on a tree or having to get the news from school that haze mama was skilled. and also hearing some of the mose racist and violent threats she and her mom received. and i will warn you these are graphic threats. >> have a nice life. >> this is shaye. >> a federal judge has already found rudy giuliani guilty of defamation. before we go an important programming note. my friend anna bash is goat to sit down with nikki haley and governor chris sununu endorsing her of course tomorrow at noon, and you'll want to