2 dead after “explosion” in NATO member Poland

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

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A reported missile strike beyond the borders of Ukraine hits NATO member Poland. The weaponry and who may be behind the event remain unclear, but the explosions occurred the same time Russia launched its biggest wave of missile attacks on Ukrainian cities in more than month. Plus, Kevin McCarthy wins the GOP nomination for speaker of the House. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we start with a potentially earth-shattering
0:08.8	development in Putin's brutal war on Ukraine.
0:12.6	Reports of missile strikes inside neighboring Poland this afternoon, killing two people.
0:18.8	The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky blames Russia.
0:22.3	U.S. officials say they're still sifting through intelligence.
0:25.5	Polish leaders have not yet publicly confirmed a strike.
0:28.0	Russia is denying it, though, of course Russia also denied that that country was going to
0:32.6	invade Ukraine.
0:34.2	If this attack by Russia did happen, it could have significant consequences.
0:39.2	Remember Poland is a NATO country, unlike Ukraine.
0:43.0	A NATO country that President Biden has repeatedly and definitively pledged to defend.
0:48.2	Listen.
0:52.2	America is fully prepared with our NATO allies to defend every single inch of NATO territory.
1:00.3	Every single inch, so Mr. Putin, don't misunderstand what I'm saying, every inch.
1:08.8	The reported missiles hit a farm in a small eastern Polish town just over the Ukrainian
1:14.2	border.
1:15.2	They killed at least two people.
1:17.7	Two Polish government officials tell me this afternoon that an emergency national security
1:22.9	meeting was called in Poland tonight.
1:25.7	It is a third Polish official, TLCNN, a, quote, crisis situation.
1:31.4	Listen to how Ukrainian president Zelensky put it just a moment ago.
1:37.4	How many times, as Ukraine said, that the terrorist state will not limit itself to our country?
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