Russia Denies Plans To Attack Despite 100,000 Troops Nears Ukraine

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 22 January 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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As Russia continues to make provocative moves near Ukraine’s border, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with top Russian officials in the latest rounds of diplomatic talks. Blinken said the meeting was “not a negotiation” as he expressed a deeper understanding of Russia’s concerns and their position. There are new tensions inside the White House over a proposal to vaccinate migrants at the United States border with Mexico. Some officials see this as a way to address public health concerns while critics worry the policy would encourage more people to come to the United States. 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	Need one more reason to get boosted?
0:04.5	How about three?
0:05.7	The lead starts right now.
0:07.6	The CDC releasing a trio of studies looking at millions of new COVID cases, and it proves
0:13.2	that boosters are the best protection against the Omicron variant, though the studies also
0:18.7	raise a very important question.
0:20.3	Plus, a high stakes meeting in hopes of stopping an invasion.
0:25.0	America's top diplomat faced a face with his Russian counterpart today.
0:29.2	As the Pentagon looks at possible military options to defend Ukraine, and your grounded,
0:35.8	how one woman's anti-mask moves change the travel plans for more than 100 others.
0:43.1	Hello, and welcome to the lead MJ Tap, where we begin this hour with our health lead, and
0:51.0	the strongest case yet for getting a COVID booster shot, or should I say strongest?
0:56.9	Yet three new CDC reports show that adults who'd gotten their booster shot had the best
1:02.7	protection against hospitalization because of COVID, and against emergency room and urgent
1:08.0	care visits.
1:09.0	The new data suggesting getting a booster in the age of the Omicron variant is now less
1:14.6	of a nice to have and more of a must have, this as we are learning, that unvaccinated
1:20.3	adults over the age of 65 are nearly 50, five zero times more likely to be hospitalized
1:26.8	for COVID than their fully boosted peers across the U.S. today.
1:31.7	More than 160,000 people are hospitalized with COVID right now.
1:36.4	That is a record high.
1:38.2	But as CNN's Omar Jimenez reports, the number of daily cases are actually trending down
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