greetings everyone. you are watching symone. this week marks one year since russia launched its brutal assault on ukraine. no end in sight. we are digging into the future of america s support of ukraine. biden prepares to travel to the region and now u.s. officials say china might be considering lethal support of russia s war effort. nikki haley has joined the former president trump and the republican primary for president in 2024. it is shaping up to be crowded, where her former boss is the man who beat. does nikki haley have a chance? we are asking one of her former staffers. plus, in our living black history series, my conversation with brian stevenson, a true champion for justice. he has helped free more than 130 wrongly convicted people from death row and he has not done yet. i am symone sanders johnson and i have something to say. nearly one year ago vladimir putin was saying if russia were to invade ukraine, his troops would take kyiv in 48 hours. of course, putin di
legs in a national election. it is something that is good for primary. it has now voted so well for my republican friends in the general election. what, i don t understand what s going on here. feel back the layers. they have to get the nomination. they re going to continue to fight the culture wars. it is at the heart of the republican party. it is not at the heart of the democratic party. it is not at the heart of independents. when you talk to democrats and independents, they aren t talking about these things in the same way that the republican candidates want them to. when you watch someone like ron desantis, something that he s able to do that others cannot, he has been differentiating himself from them by actually using the tools of the state to fight culture wars, like nikki haley, all those other folks are talking about it. he s actually use the tools of the state to do that. okay, doug, look, state retaliation, let limiting free expression. i mean, i have a whole list he
forgive a candidate who doesn t want to release his tax returns, unless there s a federal law requiring it. but what s the downside? what s the downside of forcing them to release their taxes? i think the downside is you have a very blue state or alternati alternatively, you can imagine a red state that makes other dmabds of a president, something passes and you end up in tit for tat state retaliation at the state level. that seems to be a problem when you are dealing with questions about a i have to think it through legally. this is new to me. my guess is there are probably unintended consequences i can t think of in the two minutes we have to discuss this that we ought to think about carefully before we endorse it. what else could happen that could be a good thing is other states could follow new jersey s lead. then shouldn t be this happening as a congressional