Putin Congratulates Military For “Liberating Mariupol”

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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New images show what Ukrainian officials say is an enormous massive grave outside Mariupol, the same besieged city Putin claims is now under Russian control. Plus, CNN talks to one Ukrainian risking his life every time he gets behind the wheel and heads closer to the front lines about a selfless mission to rescue his neighbors trapped by the relentless shelling in the east. Then, an inside look at just how close the top Republicans in the House and Senate came to turning on Donald Trump after January 6th. 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	Someone tell Putin this is not what liberation looks like.
0:06.8	The lead starts right now.
0:09.0	New images show what Ukrainian officials say is an enormous mass of grave outside
0:14.2	Mediopol, the same deceit city.
0:16.6	Putin claims it's now under Russian control, even while ordering his army to surround the
0:21.0	steel plant, sheltering innocent civilians to not let anything or anyone in or out.
0:26.7	Plus CNN talks to one Ukrainian risking his life every time he gets behind the wheel
0:30.7	and heads closer to the front lines, a selfless mission to rescue his neighbors trapped
0:36.5	by the relentless Russian shelling in the east then.
0:40.5	And inside look at just how close the top Republicans in the House and Senate came to
0:44.6	turning on Donald Trump after January 6th.
0:47.7	The New York Times report that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was even going to tell
0:52.2	Trump to resign.
0:57.7	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper.
1:00.9	We start with the world lead in new satellite images today reportedly showing mass graves near
1:06.4	Mariopol, Ukraine as Vladimir Putin brazenly claims.
1:10.6	His forces have quote liberated that port city.
1:13.9	Images backup reports from Ukrainian officials this week that Russia carried truckloads
1:18.8	of corpses and simply dumped them at this site.
1:23.0	Max R technology says the line near the top of your screen, not the road, but the one
1:27.8	underneath that expands over time, showing more graves being added to it.
1:33.9	The US based company that captured the satellite images say the pictures are from mid-March
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