Independent Russian journalists find way to reach Russian audience from the outside

Reliable Sources

CNN

News

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Journalists Ekaterina Kotrikadze and Tikhon Dzyadko, who fled Moscow when the war began, tell Brian Stelter about relaunching a channel on YouTube from outside Russia. Plus, Frederik Pleitgen talks about covering the invasion from both sides of the border; Jane Mayer shares the significance of the recently revealed Ginni Thomas texts; and CNN's Andrew Morse and Alex MacCallum preview this week's launch of the CNN+ streaming service.

To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Salter, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine
0:06.4	the story behind the story, and we figure out what's reliable out there.
0:10.1	This hour, life on the front line, we're going to talk with Fred Plykin about the war
0:14.2	in his coverage, first in Russia, and now in Ukraine.
0:17.3	Plus, the Russian government shut down this channel TV-Rain, but that didn't stop the
0:22.1	husband and wife from rebuilding their work now in another country.
0:26.0	We're going to talk with the team about their new venture.
0:28.7	Plus, the big news here about CNN Plus, the streaming services top two executives are here
0:34.0	to preview this week's launch.
0:37.1	But first, democracy still in peril.
0:40.6	Concerns about the vulnerability of the U.S. political system have taken a back seat
0:44.3	to daily coverage of the war in Ukraine, but the domestic dangers are still clear.
0:50.1	Reporters keep exposing evidence of Donald Trump's big lie and the powerful people who
0:54.2	advanced it.
0:55.4	As we learn this week, text messages from Jenny Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice
0:59.6	Clarence Thomas, lay it all out, a push to overthrow, to overturn the election in 2020.
1:06.6	Here's one of the texts from Thomas saying, Biden in the left is attempting the greatest
1:10.5	heist of our history.
1:12.2	That's what she exclaimed to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in November of 2020.
1:15.8	And then this text from January 2021, post-Riot says, quote, we are living through what feels
1:21.1	like the end of America.
1:23.3	The end of America, no.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.