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Anderson Cooper 360

Biden Refuses To Walk Back His Comments On Putin

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

President Biden refused to walk back his comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin saying he was “expressing my outrage” but not making a policy change. Over the weekend, Biden said Putin “cannot remain in power” which caught American and international officials off-guard. Washington Post Columnist Max Boot joins AC360 to discuss the President’s comments. Plus, photojournalist Juan Arredondo was injured in an attack that also killed award-winning American documentarian Brent Renaud. In an exclusive interview, Arredondo tells Anderson Cooper about the terrifying moments when he realized he got shot and how he found out that he lost his friend. 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

Good evening.

0:02.0

Whatever you'll hear tonight or heard over the weekend about Russia shifting its military

0:05.4

focus to eastern and southeastern Ukraine, it might not be as simple as that, because

0:09.7

there has been shelling overnight in and around Kiev and other attacks in the West.

0:13.7

And despite news today from Air Pins mayor that his suburban town had been liberated, the

0:18.3

site of residents being helped out of what the mayor said could soon become a combat zone

0:22.2

again was sobering to say the least.

0:24.9

The same can be said for late words and I from Ukraine's general staff that defences

0:28.6

within Mariopoul continue to hold because this is Mariopoul.

0:33.9

Look at that.

0:34.9

Ukraine officials now say 90% of the city's residential buildings have been damaged or destroyed,

0:41.9

90%.

0:43.2

And according to Mariopoul's mayor, the humanitarian corridor or in and out of the city is now in

0:47.8

Russian hands.

0:49.4

As much as any day in the invasion so far, there's a lot in flux right now.

0:53.0

Now we're going to talk about where things stand militarily tonight, where they go

0:56.6

next with former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark.

0:59.5

We'll also talk at length about President Biden declaring over the weekend that Vladimir

1:03.1

Putin and his words cannot remain in power, also the White House walk back of that statement.

1:08.5

And finally, but the president said standing behind his remarks today.

1:11.4

The fact of the matter is I was expressing the more outrage I felt toward the way Putin

1:16.7

is dealing and the actions of this man, just brutality, half the children in Ukraine.

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