that was a joke. okay. i m actually just going to walk away. you win. you can have easter. and you know what? i would be so good with bunny because i have told america covid would be over by easter. i just didn t say which one, okay? i didn t say which one it was going to be. all right. that wraps it up for me this hour. i ll be back in the chair next saturday and sunday. reverend al sharpton, politics nation starts right now. good evening and welcome to politics nation. tonight s lead, hope rises. right now, many of the world s believers are in the midst of a religious observance. for christians like myself, today is easter, a day of peace,
need to make sure everyone in our household, in our family, our social circles are registered to vote. we need to understand what the limitations, the restrictions, the new rules are in your state. we need to come together to push back if we can against those rules, but to otherwise vote in large numbers. if we have to take the day off, if we can take the day off from working on election day to make sure that we can stand in lines because there are going to be long lines, we have to do that. whatever it takes, we have to stand up, and we must vote. thank you for being with us on this easter. my political panel is next. stay tuned. ®! oh, oh, oh ozempic® is proven to lower a1c.
any peace deal that were on the table will come off the table. but the russians have never been particularly serious about any sort of peace deal with the ukrainians. it s not just about ukraine not joining nato. they seem to want some land here as well. but ukrainians are fighting hard and saying they are not willing to give up any land in their country. even zelenskyy mentioned that again today that they re not willing to give up any of the donbass region in that fight. so this looks like this war is now going to enter a much more lethal phase. all right. ali, thank you for that report. joining me now is congressman jim clyburn, democrat of south carolina and house majority. congressman, thank you for joining us tonight, especially on easter sunday. but i want to get first to get
a frayed to admit guilt. he compares them to alcoholics who do not admit that they are alcoholic. if they want to recover, they have to learn to accept the truth. russians need leaders they choose, leaders they trust. leaders who can then come in and say, yes, we did that. that is how it worked in germany. president zelenskyy said this easter weekend would be different in ukraine. quote, people usually pray for the future of their families and their children. i think that today they will pray for the president, just to save everyone. with the russians planning for attacks in eastern ukraine on easter weekend, president zelenskyy said, i cannot understand how a christian country, the russian federation, will be killing people on these very days. this is not christian behavior at all, as i understand it. on easter, they will kill and they will it be killed.
attacks in eastern ukraine on easter weekend, president zelenskyy said, i cannot understand how a christian country, the russian federation, will be killing people on these very days. this is not christian behavior at all, as i understand it. on easter, they will kill and they will be killed. leading off our discussion tonight is jelani cobb, staff writer for the new yorker and professor of journalism at columbia university, and a political contributor to msnbc. and fintan o toole, columnist for the irish times and the new york review of books. he is the author of, we don t know ourselves, a personal history of modern ireland. professor, let me begin with you. and what we learned about the man, zelenskyy, as he is approaching this greatest challenge of his life for the lives of any president.