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01/22/2023 03:35 PM EST
Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
Chicago, Illinois
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ANCHOR ONE: Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Chicago today and says he came to the neighborhood that is Ukraine’s beating heart.
ANCHOR TWO: His visit coinciding with the two-year anniversary of President Biden taking office. Our political reporter Marie Ann Ahern, joining us now, sat down with Secretary Blinken for an exclusive interview today.
MS AHERN: Good evening to all of you. Secretary of State Antony Blinken witnessed how this Chicago neighborhood displays its big support for Ukraine. Here on the city’s northwest side, Secretary of State Antony Blinken witnessed how the Ukrainian Village neighborhood displays its support for Ukraine.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: If that’s allowed to happen in one place with impunity, it could start to happen every place.
MS AHERN: Senator Dick Durbin alongside Blinken to meet with community leaders.
(Video Clip of Senator Durbin) Washington is rarefied atmosphere. You need to come into communities that are directly impacted by these foreign policy decisions.
MS AHERN: Blinken sees no easy resolution between Russia and Ukraine. Does diplomacy work with Putin?
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Diplomacy works in this sense: We have pulled together over the last year, now that this war has been going on, dozens of countries around the world; dozens of countries to support Ukraine, to give it what it needs to defend itself.
MS AHERN: Next month, Blinken visits China. And it was two years ago today that President Biden took office.