Biden: "Every Indication" Russia Will Attack Ukraine In Days

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tensions rise as Ukrainian and Russian backed separatists trade accusations about the shelling of a kindergarten facility in the Eastern Ukraine region of Donbas, with President Biden warning that Russia plans to manufacture a pretext for a full-scale invasion, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warning the Russian Military has already selected targets. Trump, Don Jr., and Ivanka are ordered to sit for depositions before a state-level prosecutor who is looking into their business practices. With the Trump Organization’s accounting firm abandoning them citing unreliable financial records, what will be discovered? Plus, The GOP effort to link a judicial nominee to rising crime and the doping scandal skater Kamila Valeiva breaks down after multiple falls, placing fourth in a free skate event. 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	The news continues, so let's hand it over to Laura Coates and CNN Tonight.
0:05.4	Laura.
0:06.4	Hey, John Berman.
0:07.4	Always nice to see you tonight, especially.
0:08.8	And thank you all.
0:09.8	I am Laura Coates, and this is CNN Tonight.
0:13.0	Alarms are being sounded metaphorically in the loudest ways yet by the West.
0:18.4	The President, our defense secretary, our Secretary of State, the head of NATO and others,
0:23.8	all putting Russia on blast for sinister intentions and hopes to somehow stave off an invasion
0:29.8	of Ukraine, which they keep warning is imminent.
0:35.5	Every indication we have is prepared to go into Ukraine, attack Ukraine.
0:41.4	My chances will happen because the next couple of days.
0:44.4	Our information indicates clearly that these forces, including ground troops, aircraft,
0:50.4	ships, are preparing to launch an attack against Ukraine in the coming days.
0:55.7	We see them add to the more than 150,000 troops that they already have a radar on that border.
1:03.0	And I know firsthand that you don't do these sort of things for no reason.
1:09.3	They don't do these things for no reason.
1:11.5	Well, they're also laying out Putin's playbook for the world.
1:15.2	The Russian leader isn't known for his honesty, shall we say.
1:19.2	His manufactured crises before as a pretext for war, and Biden and company are warning
1:25.7	beware because it seems to be happening all over again.
1:29.5	We have reason to believe that they are engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse
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