WH: Russian Invasion Likely Would Begin With Aerial Bombings
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now breaking news the White House issues its most dire warning yet about |
| 0:07.0 | the threat of a Russian attack on Ukraine saying an invasion could happen at any time |
| 0:11.6 | including during the Olympics. |
| 0:13.6 | Tonight, chilling new information about how Vladimir Putin may launch a deadly war. |
| 0:18.8 | Also breaking, the FDA just postponed a critical meeting on the Pfizer vaccine for children under age five |
| 0:24.5 | will tell you what's behind the delay and what it could mean for the bigger push to |
| 0:28.1 | move beyond the pandemic. And a new state of emergency is in effect in Canada as protests by truckers cut off major routes into the U.S. |
| 0:36.0 | Officials now threatening to use force as the blockade's crippled trade and cause economic pain on both sides of the border. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:46.0 | Wolflitzer is off today. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Jim Acosta and you're in the situation room. This is CNN breaking news. |
| 0:59.4 | We begin with the strongest signals yet from the Biden administration that the Russia-Ukraine crisis |
| 1:04.1 | could explode at any moment. |
| 1:06.0 | Our correspondence and analysts are standing by in Ukraine in Russia and here in the United States |
| 1:11.2 | as we cover this breaking story as only CNN can. |
| 1:14.8 | First let's go to our White House correspondent, |
| 1:17.2 | M.J. Lee, after weeks of US efforts to prevent an invasion, |
| 1:21.1 | time appears to be running out. |
| 1:24.1 | That's right, the clock still is ticking and while in the last 24 hours we have seen a notable |
| 1:30.0 | shift in tone while U.S. administration officials are saying they still have not |
| 1:34.4 | determined whether Russia will in fact invade Ukraine they say a potential |
| 1:39.0 | invasion could come sooner than previously expected and they are issuing a stern warning to American |
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