Biden: If Russia Invades Ukraine, Human Costs Will Be “Immense”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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President Biden warned that if Russia invades Ukraine the human costs will be “immense” over a “war without cause or reason.” Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) is a former U.S. Army Commanding General for Europe and the Seventh Army. He tells AC360 why he isn’t convinced Putin is going to launch a “large scale” attack on Ukraine. Plus, the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas to six more people, further digging into illegitimate electors from key swing states that former President Trump lost. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs joins AC360 to discuss the subpoenas and why it’s so important to have people at every level who are “going to continue to uphold the will of the voters.” 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	President Biden offers Russia a way out of the Ukraine crisis, so long with the clearest
0:05.6	warning yet of the price to be paid for not taking it.
0:09.3	John Berman here in for Anderson.
0:11.2	The president spoke at the end of a tense and somewhat confusing day with mixed signals
0:15.4	at every turn.
0:16.8	On the one hand, Vladimir Putin claimed that a number of Russian troops are pulling out
0:20.4	of the region.
0:21.5	On the other, he accused Ukraine of committing genocide against ethnic Russians, which many
0:26.0	believe could be a pretext for invasion.
0:28.6	And yet, another hand, his flurry of high-profile diplomacy continued today.
0:33.3	It was the turn of German-Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
0:36.3	And then there were the apparent cyber attacks today against Ukraine's defense ministry
0:40.7	and the website for two big banks.
0:43.5	With all that to process, the president warned Russia against any such attacks on the
0:47.7	US or NATO allies.
0:49.9	He said claims of a Russian pullback have not been verified and used a higher figure,
0:55.1	150,000 for the number of Russian troops threatening Ukraine.
0:59.7	And in Vazhiyad, he said that remains distinctly possible, his words, which he also tempered
1:05.2	with his appeal to the Russian people.
1:08.6	To the citizens of Russia, you are not our enemy.
1:13.4	And I do not believe you want a bloody destructive war against Ukraine, a country in a people
1:18.6	with whom you share such deep ties of family, history and culture.
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