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President Biden’s weakness on the world stage is on full display again as new sanctions on Russia have failed to curb President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. And during Wednesday’s edition of The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper pressed on this truth and was backed up by OutFront host Erin Burnett, who was reporting from Lviv, Ukraine.
“A lot of people think that it’s not enough. It's not enough to dissuade Putin and that seems to be born out with what we're watching now,” Tapper told Burnett. And she agreed, stating that “the bottom line is … it is not enough.”
Burnett did try to give the Biden administration cover by suggesting she doesn’t “think they're trying to pretend that the individuals that they've sanctioned are going to stop anything. I think they were trying to send a signal that they were willing to go much farther.”
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