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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Biden Hits Russia With Strict Sanctions, Expels Diplomats Over Cyberattack

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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President Joe Biden hits Russia with strict sanctions, expelling diplomats over cyberattack, election interference and "abuses" in Crimea. A senior official says that Biden is seeking a "stable and predictable" relationship with Russia. The United States has now formally blamed Russia for massive solarwinds cyberattack as Biden imposes strict new sanctions.  Biden's administration confirms that a Russian agent shared 2016 Trump polling data as a part of their election interference efforts.  Today was the first court appearance for the ex-officer charged in the killing of Daunte Wright as city braces fir 5th night of protests.  Daunte Wright's mother shares anguish and demands accountability. "Justice isn't even a word to me... we're still going to bury our son," Wright's mother said. Attorney for Wright family says that they want full accountability and equal justice, City braces for its fifth night of protests.  Daunte Wright's father says , "Can you blame my son and anyone else for being scared of the police?"  Derek Chauvin's trial moves to closing arguments on Monday. Both sides now are resting after Chauvin declined to testify, invoking his fifth amendment right. The prosecution's medical expert briefly returns to the stand and says that car exhaust did not kill George Floyd.  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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So welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm

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Will Flitzer in the situation room. We're following the breaking news. We've

1:06.4

been listening to President Biden at the White House talking about strict new

1:10.8

sanctions. He's imposing on Russia over a massive cyber attack

1:15.0

election interference and what he calls abuses in Crimea and elsewhere.

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Let's bring in our Chief White House course about a Caitlin

1:22.7

who's watching all of this unfold together with us Caitlin president spoke

1:27.1

for what only about five minutes or so but he was very specific very blunt and these are pretty brief remarks, Wolf, that were not initially on President Biden's

1:36.3

schedule.

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