putin felt like he had to invade ukraine because he felt very shy about nato. the nato alliance just had too many countries in it, too many countries that were too close to russia, and that all just gave putin this terrible feeling about nato being too close, and so therefore, he had to invade ukraine. i don t actually think that s it. i don t think we know all of the reasons he does what he does, who knows what s going on in his little short dictator heart of hearts. but if, in fact, the apologists are at least partially correct, if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invading ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less about nato, and somehow starting this war would make that happen, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine, there were 30 countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country, and now as of tonight, we
left some at a kin coe s copy shop, these are personal private medical records, dealing with the most sensitive possible medical information. the attorney general who did that in kansas was an antiabortion activist who republicans elected to be their state attorney general. his name was phil klein. he ended up having his law license permanently suspended for doing that about ten years ago. but now here s the tennessee republican attorney general using a page out of the same play book now. demanding and getting unredacted, complete, private medical records for trans people in tennessee. as republicans use every tool they ve got to try to make life miserable for trans people and their families in that state. attorney general chase strangio, the aclu is suing the state of tennessee over the ban on care for trans youth.
some 400 firefighters battling a huge blaze in colorado. this blaze doubled in size overnight. thousands of people were forced from their homes. i cannot imagine that my house is there as close as the fire was, and now i won t have a home. i have no place to go. so far the fires have gone through nearly 37,000 acres, a massive blaze. now the commerce secretary cited in two car accidents over the weekend suffered a seizure. that is the word today from a spokeswoman from the commerce department about the investigation into the accidents involving secretary john bryson are ongoing. brianna keilar joining us live with the latest. brianna, do we know when he had the seizure in relation to when the accidents happened? no, michael, we don t know that. it seems like the implication is that the seizures somehow caused the accident, but the statement coming from the commerce department doesn t exact ly mak that clear. it just says that he was involved in the traffic accidents, an