U.S.: Russia Plans To “Manufacture A Pretext” To Invade Ukraine
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now breaking news Russia on the brink of war. |
| 0:07.0 | President Biden says all signs now point to an invasion of Ukraine within the next several days. |
| 0:12.0 | CNN is on the scene of an attack that Ukraine within the next several days. |
| 0:12.5 | CNN is on the scene of an attack that Moscow might use as a pretext to invade. |
| 0:18.8 | Also breaking, a judge orders former President Trump to testify under oath along with his daughter |
| 0:24.8 | Ivanka and son Don Jr. The New York Attorney General says that Trump's now have |
| 0:29.3 | 21 days to answer her questions about their business practices, but the former president |
| 0:34.8 | plans to appeal. |
| 0:36.6 | And we're standing by for California to unveil the next phase of its COVID response, shifting to an endemic approach to the virus, the most |
| 0:45.2 | popular state, taking a leading role right now in the accelerating push to return |
| 0:50.6 | to normal. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation room. This is |
| 1:07.7 | This is CNN breaking news. We begin this hour with President Biden's most urgent warning yet that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent. |
| 1:14.9 | The US and its allies sounding the alarm that Vladimir Putin may be in the midst of |
| 1:19.6 | plotting a pretext to attack. |
| 1:22.2 | We're covering this breaking story with correspondence and analysts in Ukraine, in Russia, |
| 1:27.0 | and here in the United States. |
| 1:28.0 | First, let's go to our chief White House correspondent, Caitlin Collins. |
| 1:32.0 | Caitlin, the President says the threat of a Russian invasion |
| 1:35.6 | is very high right now. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, you are right, Wolf. |
| 1:39.0 | It is the most blunt warning yet that we have heard |
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