Sources: Russians arrive at site of U.S. drone crash in Black Sea
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
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3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now, breaking news. U.S. officials say a Russian crew has reached the site |
| 0:08.3 | where a U.S. drone crashed in the Black Sea after being hit by a Russian jet. I'll ask Key White House |
| 0:14.2 | official John Kirby what if anything the Kremlin might learn from the wreckage. |
| 0:18.6 | Also tonight stock prices slide amid fresh chaos in the banking industry. |
| 0:24.0 | New troubles at two banks adding to fears that more failures are on the horizon |
| 0:29.0 | as many Americans are wondering if their money is safe. |
| 0:32.0 | And former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen are wondering if their money is safe. |
| 0:33.0 | And former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen just wrapped up his second round of testimony |
| 0:38.1 | in the investigation of hush money. |
| 0:40.0 | He says he paid to Stormy Daniels. |
| 0:42.1 | The adult film star meeting with prosecutors today |
| 0:45.0 | as a grand jury considers criminal charges against the former president. |
| 0:50.4 | Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm Will Flitzer, you're in the situation room. This is |
| 1:07.0 | this is CNN breaking news. Let's get straight to the breaking news. |
| 1:09.0 | sources now telling CNN that Russian naval craft have arrived at the site of the US drone |
| 1:14.3 | Downing in the Black Sea. |
| 1:16.3 | CNN's Orrin Lieberman is working as sources for us over at the Pentagon |
| 1:19.9 | or in US officials believe the wreckage would be extremely difficult to retrieve, but the Russians appear |
| 1:25.9 | to be trying. |
| 1:27.1 | What are you hearing from your sources? |
| 1:29.4 | Two U.S. officials tell us that the Russian Navy, essentially Russian assets in the Black Sea, were able to reach the crash site of the MQ9 drone, that crash site about 70 miles or so, approximately 70 miles southwest of the Crimean Peninsula. |
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