live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukraine s president will be appealing for more international aid this week when the ukraine recovery conference gets under way in switzerland. he urged his fellow ukrainians to stay optimistic. here he is. translator: no matter how difficult it is for us today, we must remember that there will be tomorrow. and tomorrow should bring maximum benefit to ukraine. everyone should do absolutely everything possible for this. russia s relentless rampage in ukraine is now most heavily focused on the key city of lysychansk, one of the few places still under ukrainian control in the donbas. a local ukrainian military official says the city is on fire. meanwhile days after russian forces abandoned snake island in the black sea, ukraine s military is claiming it destroyed some of the equipment russians left behind. as they put it, russian spirit does not stink there anymore. scott mclean is joins us live from the ukrai
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insulting that it almost doesn t bear taking seriously. yeah, i am also just struck by how much of this is so deeply personal for clarence thomas. you know, there s a reason we went through his history and his distaste for affirmative action as it personally intersects with his own story, the sense of grievance he has and how it s the opposite of what supreme court justices are supposed to do, make the personal the national, and yet it seems that s exactly what he s done. i mean who hurt you, boo, is really the bottom line here. this is a man who s been clear he believes affirmative action is stigmatizing. he says nothing of the fact that affirmative action programs got him in the seminary and then allowed him to enter into holy cross and then allowed him to graduate from yale law school which put him in a prime position where he could be noticed by john danforth, go to missouri andth then be propelle to the center of politics in washington, d.c. he completely misseshe the fact whe
in. yet they never indicted. why didn t the federal government indict? in 2018, the trump justice department, even though they thought there was a crime, was operating under the view that a sitting president couldn t be indicted. obviously, that doesn t bear now on the district attorney of new york city s investigation. right. and i think it s important you raise that and remind people. people get frustrated with parts of the system that arexd workin. in other wormay be frustrated that donald trump runs oute1 the clock and that si would say, between people and donald trump. bute1 the fact that there are non-partisan career prosecutors, as you like you were a career, you know, employee of doj, you were an appointee in the solicitor job which is a dutifully foreign partisan go ahead. i was not career. i was always right. political appointee, just to clarify for the record. yeah. and in this case let me let me yeah, let