hurricane ian, and now questions are growing about why officials waited to order mandatory evacuations. and the person who helped recruit the migrants is a former u.s. army counterintelligence agent. so who is she? let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin s chaos. this video shows one of the ambushes destroying three russian tanks. and videos posted online by ukraine s defense ministry show one town after another being liberated. you see the flags flying over the key city of lyman. the losses are leaving putin s forces in a state of chaos in. a story you ll see first out front, russian recruits are revealing the reality of putin s war. some claiming they were given no training before being shipped. and his commander telling the new recruits that it doesn t matter if they have hernias or plates in their heads, they re if fit to fight. putin throwing them in the line of fire as his options narrow. he s growing more desperate, threatening
no that, there are no checks. well, what i d say is one of the axioms of the military guy is to understand that hope is not a method. you can t hope for someone to interfere with orders from putin to his troops. you have to plan for what happens if. so, yeah, i agree with secretary austin. he s right on target. never underestimate the enemy or the enemy s commander, and never hope for what you think is going to happen. you have to plan for countering it when it does occur. general, thank you very much, as always. a pleasure, erin, thanks. next, the crisis in florida, at least 100 now confirmed dead in the wake of hurricane ian and some areas still with no water or power. many people are still unaccounted for. we ll take you to the ground. plus, dramatic opening statements in the highest-profile january 6th case so far. members of the oath keepers saying they y were at the capit to providede security and that they didn t have any violent intentions on that day.