Kyiv Your Friends Close And Your Enemies Closer
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🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the military has ordered some Russian troops near the borders of Ukraine to return to their bases, signaling the potential for a further de-escalation. However, President Joe Biden later said that “an invasion remains distinctly possible,” and that the U.S. had not yet verified if Russian troops are actually falling back. Matthew Chance, CNN’s Senior International Correspondent, joins us from Kyiv to discuss what things look like on the ground.
And in headlines: Remington Arms has settled with families whose loved ones were killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, American scientists say they have cured a woman of H.I.V., and a federal report predicts that sea levels along our nation’s coasts could rise one foot in just three decades because of climate change.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, February 16th. I'm Gideon Ressick. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Josie DeFieryce, and this is What A Day. |
| 0:11.4 | Reminding everyone that the movie Mad Max Fury Road began with a bunch of truckers protesting |
| 0:16.7 | vaccine mandates. |
| 0:17.9 | Right, or at least that's one interpretation. |
| 0:20.0 | It is pretty hard to make out what they're saying in a lot of that movie. |
| 0:22.8 | Look, the point is, we need to send Tom Hardy to Canada right now. |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show, the gun company Remington has settled with the families of Sandy Hook |
| 0:34.8 | victims, plus a new climate report says that ocean levels around our nation's coast could |
| 0:39.4 | rise one foot in just three decades because of climate change. |
| 0:43.5 | But first, you bring you more on the standoff around Ukraine. |
| 0:46.6 | Yesterday featured a series of encouraging signs in the ongoing tensions. |
| 0:50.8 | First, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the military has ordered some Russian |
| 0:54.7 | troops near the borders of Ukraine to return to their bases, signaling the potential for |
| 0:59.8 | a further de-escalation, possibly maybe. |
| 1:03.0 | He also said, after meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Schultz, that, quote, |
| 1:06.5 | we are also ready to continue on the negotiating track, even as his demands about Ukraine never |
| 1:12.7 | joining NATO in a rollback of NATO presence in Eastern Europe remained firm. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, however, later, in an address from the White House President Biden said that the US had not yet |
| 1:21.6 | verified if Russian troops are returning to their bases yet, though he said that, quote, |
| 1:26.4 | an invasion remains distinctly possible. |
| 1:28.4 | He too sounded hopeful about reaching a diplomatic resolution. |
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