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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Zelenksy: Bakhmut would give Russia “open road” through east

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tonight, a first look at Wolf’s exclusive interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on why Ukrainians are refusing to retreat from Bakhmut. Also, some Republican senators are calling out Tucker Carlson, lambasting his new attempt to downplay the January 6th riot. Plus, two of the four Americans who authorities say were kidnapped in Mexico have been found dead, according to the Tamaulipas governor. One of the two survivors is severely injured, according to a U.S. official. 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

Happening now we have new information about the armed kidnapping of four

0:06.0

Americans in Mexico after two victims were found dead and two others survived

0:10.5

we'll have a live report from near the border on how the four friends from South Carolina were apparently mistaken for drug smugglers.

0:18.0

Also tonight a first look at Wolf's exclusive interview with President Vlodimer Zilensky.

0:24.0

He's explaining why Ukrainian forces are refusing to retreat from Bachmut and warning about the consequences

0:30.1

if Russia ceases the embattled city.

0:32.8

And some Republican senators are calling out Fox host Tucker Carlson,

0:37.2

calling his new attempt to downplay the January 6th riot,

0:40.4

BS.

0:41.4

We're following the heated reaction to Carlson's airing of

0:44.3

insurrection video he was given by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

0:48.6

Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.

0:52.0

Wolf Blitzer is on assignment. I'm Brianna Kieler and you're in the situation room. Tonight Mexican officials say one person has been detained in

1:06.6

connection with the deaths of two of four kidnapped Americans. The

1:11.0

investigation intensifying as the two survivors are back in the US trying to recover from their harrowing ordeal.

1:17.5

CNN's Rosa Flores is near the border and following all of the new details.

1:23.0

Two of four missing Americans are back in the United States and receiving medical treatment in Texas after being kidnapped in Mexico.

1:31.0

After what a U.S. official tells CNN was a case of mistaken identity.

1:36.0

Two members of the party were found dead and one of the survivors is severely injured with a bullet

1:41.1

wound to his leg, according to U.S. and Mexican officials.

1:45.0

In the party of four, Latavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams survived.

1:50.0

Zindel Brown and Shaeed Woodard were killed.

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