Hidden details on Putin's secret train

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Paperwork and photographs obtained exclusively by the London-based Russian investigations group the Dossier Center, and shared with CNN, and other news outlets, reveal details the Kremlin shrouds from public view. The fact that Putin uses a train is well known. The Kremlin itself has released images of meetings held on board, in an ornately decorated boardroom. The contents of the train’s other 20-odd cars, however, have been a closely guarded state secret. CNN's Matthew Chance has details on Putin's secret train. And President Biden met with the United Kingdom's King Charles today but did he follow proper royal protocol? Anderson and CNN Royal Commentator Sally Bedell Smith discuss the historic visit.

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, a CNN exclusive, what life is like inside of Vladimir Putin's secret
0:06.4	armored train and why he's been taking it more and more since invading Ukraine.
0:10.6	The former president and his valet are trying to run out the clock in the classified documents
0:14.8	case, which special counsel Jack Smith did about it today.
0:18.4	Also, tonight, record reign and floods in the Northeast will tell you who's about to
0:21.8	get hit next.
0:22.8	Good evening, Vladimir Putin, maybe one of the most secret of Russian leaders in the
0:27.0	shows of Stalin, but tonight we're taking you inside his secret armored train.
0:31.4	This on a day that Russia and the war in Ukraine is very much in the news.
0:35.0	President Biden has arrived in Lithuania for Wednesday's NATO summit, where the US and
0:39.1	its allies will discuss efforts to contain Vladimir Putin's aggression.
0:43.0	As for Biden, we'll be meeting with Ukraine's president Zelensky, whose attendance had
0:46.9	been in question until late today.
0:49.3	The war and a path for Ukraine's eventual NATO membership both expected to be on the agenda
0:54.4	and top the agenda.
0:56.1	So today, Turkey dropped objections to Sweden becoming a member and Stockholm in turn
1:01.3	appears to be supporting Turkish membership in the European Union, according to Turkey's
1:05.5	state run news agency.
1:09.6	Completing Sweden's accession to NATO is an historic step that benefits the security
1:15.7	of all NATO allies at this critical time.
1:20.1	It makes us all stronger and safer.
1:23.4	On Russia, of course, there was the stunning claim by the Kremlin's top spokesman that
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