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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 9 May 2022

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Putin used Russia’s World War II commemoration parade to defend his invasion of Ukraine and slaughter of civilians while his forces are accused of dropping a bomb on a school killing dozens. Also, analysts say to get ready for gas prices to skyrocket further in coming days as economic turbulence continues for the stock market. 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	If Putin had new plans for Ukraine, he did not appear to drop any hints today.
0:06.7	The lead starts right now.
0:09.0	In Grand Fashion, Putin used Russia's World War II victory commemoration parade to defend
0:13.3	his invasion of Ukraine and slaughter of civilians while Putin's forces are accused of dropping
0:18.4	a bomb on a school killing dozens.
0:21.9	Economic turbulence, stock slide, inflation fears intensifying analysts say get ready for
0:26.4	gas prices to skyrocket even further in the coming days.
0:29.9	Plus, tourist site tragedy, new details on the three Americans who died at a popular
0:34.6	vacation site in the Bahamas and the American woman flown to a Florida hospital.
0:41.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:45.3	We start with our world lead in what was built as a World War II victory-daporade in Russia
0:49.3	ending minutes ago with no new victories for Vladimir Putin to declare.
0:53.8	The celebrations just wrapped up in Moscow with fireworks ending a day of events meant to
0:58.0	honor the soldiers who helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II, the West fear that Putin
1:02.7	would use today to escalate his so-called special military operation in Ukraine to declare
1:08.9	to outright war.
1:10.0	Instead, Putin spent his speech defending his decision to invade his neighbor to the West
1:14.8	and selling the war to his own people by falsely claiming the danger from Ukraine was growing
1:19.2	every day before he ordered his troops to invade.
1:22.0	The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas Greenfield, responded
1:25.9	to Putin's rhetoric and lies in an interview earlier today with CNN.
1:31.1	President Putin has recognized he has no victory to celebrate.
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