Blinken welcomes Finland to NATO

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🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Finland today to welcome NATO’s newest member and launch a message across its 832-mile Russian border: Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine has been a strategic failure, greatly diminishing Russia’s power and influence. Blinken calls Finland’s entry into NATO a sea-change. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto tells Bianna about his meeting with Blinken. Also on today's show: José Carlos Zamora, son of jailed Guatemalan journalist; chef and humanitarian activist José Andrés; Lin-Manuel Miranda (from the archives) 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	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammonpour. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	There is no question.
0:10.0	Russia is significantly worse off to date than it was before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
0:15.0	Speaking in Helsinki, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinking calls Putin's war against Ukraine a strategic failure.
0:23.3	I ask Finnish foreign minister Pekka Havisto how joining NATO is impacting Finland and how Finland
0:30.3	is changing NATO.
0:32.1	Then troubling signs of Democratic backsliding in
0:35.3	Guatemala. Its most prominent journalists is in jail on trumped-up charges. Today a
0:41.4	plea for justice from his son Jose Carlos Amora and
0:46.2	hunger and poverty is not an issue of Republicans or Democrats.
0:50.6	It's an issue of Americans.
0:52.4	Hari Sri Vassen speaks with world-renowned chef Jose Andres
0:56.0	as he tackles food I'm Bianna Goldriga in New York sitting in for
1:16.9	Christiane Amantour. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blincken visited Finland today
1:21.6	to welcome NATO's newest member and launched a message across its
1:25.1	832-mile Russian border.
1:28.1	Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine has been a strategic failure, greatly diminishing
1:32.4	Russia's power and influence.
1:34.6	Lincoln called for diplomatic efforts from any quarter to end the war while keeping Ukraine's
1:39.3	sovereignty secure.
1:42.8	The United States has been working with Ukraine and allies and partners around the world to build
1:48.0	consensus around the core elements of a just and lasting peace.
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