Killing Of Police Officers Reach 20-Year High

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 29 January 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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More officers were killed last year while working than any other year since 1995, excluding the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The San Francisco Police Chief joins to contextualize the surge in homicides targeting police and what it will take to keep cities safe. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says if Russia invades Ukraine it will be horrific. Gen. Milley further believes an invasion would result in a “significant” amount of causalities. 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	America's top general just painted a rather scary picture of the lead starts right
0:07.2	now.
0:08.2	The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says that Russia invades Ukraine it will be
0:11.8	quote horrific.
0:13.4	The House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman is in Kiev Ukraine and joins us after his
0:16.8	meeting with Ukraine's president, plus a 22-year-old widow, distraught as she says goodbye
0:23.5	to her husband and New York City cop killed in the line of duty.
0:27.7	Today I'm still in this nightmare that I wish I'd never had a full-of-bridge and anger
0:34.4	hurt and sad torn.
0:38.8	That woman is pointing the finger of blame at one person who was at today's funeral.
0:44.0	Then it's a miracle no one was seriously hurt questions and alarm today about what caused
0:48.2	a major bridge to collapse in the city of bridges.
0:57.2	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper we start with our politics lead today moments ago
1:00.2	president Biden wrapped up a speech in Pittsburgh promoting what he sees as his administration's
1:05.1	major accomplishments such as the strength of the nation's economic growth, his bipartisan
1:10.6	infrastructure deal, but a crisis overseas is consuming a great deal of the president's attention.
1:16.2	The Biden administration insisting a Ukraine invasion by Russia is imminent warning today
1:21.2	that invasion would be horrific.
1:23.2	U.S. Ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan today calling Moscow's troop build up along Ukraine's
1:28.0	border, extraordinary adding that this gives Vladimir Putin the ability to invade with no notice.
1:34.8	Democratic Congressman Greg Green-Mix is in Ukraine right now leading a congressional
1:38.3	delegation with the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he chairs and he will join me
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