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April 3 — Sec. Blinken, Hillary Clinton, Masha Gessen

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🗓️ 3 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Secretary of State Antony Blinken discusses Ukraine and the American response. In an exclusive interview, Hillary Clinton talks to Chuck Todd about the Russian war on Ukraine and NBC News Correspondent Richard Engel reports from Ukraine. Masha Gessen, staff writer for the New Yorker talks about Putin’s state of mind. Amy Walter, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Cornell Belcher and Brad Todd join the Meet the Press roundtable for insight and analysis.

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0:00.0

This Sunday is Russia withdrawing or reloading?

0:05.0

There is what Russia says, and there's what Russia does.

0:10.0

We're focused on the ladder.

0:12.0

Ukrainians push the Russians away from Kiev and the north,

0:15.0

but retreating forces appear headed to Ukraine's east.

0:19.0

It's clear the Russians want to reprioritize their operations in the Donbos area.

0:24.1

Real questions now about what Vladimir Putin is being told.

0:27.8

We believe that Putin is being misinformed by his advisors about how badly the Russian military

0:33.0

is performing.

0:34.1

My guests this morning, the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and Russia and Putin

0:38.3

expert, Mashagessin of the New Yorker. Plus one-on-one with Hillary Clinton. To let an autocrat

0:44.1

do what Putin decided to do is something that everybody has a stake in trying to stop.

0:51.1

I'll talk to the former Secretary of State about Putin, the war, and the Democrats' midterm headwind.

0:56.8

Also, the government plans to end a Trump-era COVID policy that limited immigration.

1:01.8

Every single day that passes, it becomes more and more absurd for the administration to claim

1:06.3

that Title 42 has any basis whatsoever in public health.

1:10.1

But now, Mr. Biden is likely to hear criticism that he's making illegal immigration worse.

1:15.6

And Donald Trump asked Putin for information on President Biden's son, Hunter.

1:20.0

So now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should be released it.

1:24.3

Why is the former president again asking for help from a man waging war

1:29.1

on an ally? Joining me for Insight and Analysis R. Amy Walter, editor-in-chief and publisher of the

1:34.7

Cook Political Report, Democratic poster Cornell Belcher, NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent

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