White House: Russian Invasion Of Ukraine Remains “Imminent”

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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President Biden said he is willing to order sanctions directly on Vladimir Putin if Russia enters the Ukraine. CNN teams are witnessing more military arrive in Ukraine as the White House characterizes an invasion as "imminent." While we have boosters and vaccines, some companies are working on a fourth shot aimed just at the Omicron variant. Pfizer and BioNTech have begun a clinical trial for their Omicron-specific Covid-19 vaccine candidate. 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	President Biden says if Vladimir Putin gives the order to invade, it could get personal
0:08.0	the lead starts right now.
0:10.2	President Biden today is saying he's willing to order sanctions directly on the Russian
0:15.8	President, if Russian forces enter Ukraine, as CNN teams witness more US military aid
0:21.0	arriving in Ukraine.
0:22.0	Plus, we've got vaccines, we've got boosters, now one company is testing a fourth shot,
0:27.4	which will be aimed just at the Omicron variant.
0:30.5	Then, the one test that could derail Olympic dreams, athletes in Beijing, take us through
0:35.7	the intense COVID protection process that one doctor calls a public health extreme.
0:40.5	Welcome to the lead object taper, and we start with the world lead today, President
0:49.6	Joe Biden today saying he would consider leveling personal sanctions on Russian President
0:54.9	Vladimir Putin, if Putin gives the order for Russia to invade Ukraine.
1:01.3	Sanctions directly on Putin himself, he means.
1:04.1	This as the Kremlin maintains some 100,000 Russian troops strategically positioned near its
1:09.3	border with Ukraine.
1:10.3	The White House says a Russian invasion appears imminent, means I'm Russia is accusing
1:14.9	the US of escalating tensions by putting 8,500 American service members on heightened alert.
1:20.6	They are on standby though, not ordered to deploy, though the Biden administration says
1:24.7	two factors could quickly change that, one, if NATO decides those US service members
1:30.0	are needed in Eastern Europe and two, the actions of course of Vladimir Putin himself.
1:35.6	Here's the Pentagon press secretary earlier today.
1:38.8	There's another incursion into Ukraine that certainly I would believe could drive NATO
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