hit. so what do you know about these five missile strikes here in lviv? yeah, as you reported, they were announced by the mayor. but somewhat i can see from open source data, it looks like it s different, john, from the last strikes, which were more there was a fuel depot, things like that, lots of black smoke. the smoke again, we re not giving away any locations or anything. seems to indicate more residential neighborhoods. and there s a map that shows a general map, again, possibly closer to transport facilities. i ll leave it at that. but you know, the main takeaway here is and i wrote this in my cnn op-ed last week, and i hate to be right sometimes, john, but as long as the russians have the ability to target ukraine with those long-range missiles, no area of ukraine can be considered safe. and actually, right now here in kyiv we are under an air raid alert as well.
thank you, congresswoman val demings. joining me now, jamie harrison, chair of the democratic national committee. mr. chairman, let me go right to it. i read your op-ed last week, published a day before the president delivered his voting rights speech in atlanta which i attended, and in it, you relate your experience of voting for the first time with your grandfather who, of course, lived through jim crow. you bring it forward in the piece relating your recent experience, voting with your eldest son for the first time. i think it s missed just how much the vote has meant to black americans for generations. as a black man from south carolina where i have roots, my great grandfather, i found, was enslaved there. i must add, you are now tasked with guiding the democratic party through this period of unheralded voter restriction,
process. you know, listen, we ve got to deal with trump and the shutdown. he talks about a crisis on the border. we have a crisis in the white house. this is awful what s going on today. you wrote in a national post op-ed last week, week one or week two of this crisis. now we re in week three. if democrats give up their credibility as serious and focused on results that impact people s lives. relentless negativity is playing on trump s turf. the reality show star always wins that race to the bottom. first, understand, he is a compulsive liar, throwing temper tantrums every day. he has emotional mood swings constantly. that s why we re in the mess with the shutdown. i think with that going on with the white house, i think people actually look and, as i say, someone who can come up with realistic solutions to the problems in folk s face. we have 7 million jobs today
counsel was considering. let s talk about matt whitaker for a second. he s going to serve as the acting attorney general. he will now be overseeing the russia investigation, not deputy attorney general rosenstein. and he does seem, as you note, to align with the president s view of the mueller investigation. he wrote in a cnn op-ed last week, quote, it does not take a lawyer or even a former federal prosecutor like myself to conclude that investigating donald trump s finances or his family s finances falls completely outside of the realm of his 2016 campaign and allegations that the campaign coordinated with the russian government or anyone else. that goes beyond the scope of the appointment of the special counsel. so that s just one example of many of the things that matt whitaker has said publicly about limiting the mueller probe one way or the other. you mentioned already that he had talked, high apologet hypot acting attorney general could starve the mueller investigation in term