Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20220121 21:34

CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper January 21, 2022 21:34:00

today the foreign minister of russia said that the country does not plan to invade ukraine. from what intelligence you have looked at, do you believe him? >> do i believe him or my lying eyes? i think the real key here is we have to make it very clear to the russians exactly what the cost would be if they were to invade ukraine. and to me, those costs are very high. there will be economic sanctions and that would include, for instance, the nordstream 2 pipeline being targeted by the big bipartisan majorities in congress. this is the pipeline that the russians want to build to transport energy to europe. secondly, we would definitely supply defensive equipment to the ukrainians to protect themselves and ward off this invasion. so i strongly suggest that the russians need to really

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