sweden also expected to announce its intention to join the alliance. the kremlin reacting this morning, by calling finland s joining nato a threat to russia. on the battlefield in ukraine, ukrainian armed forces have acknowledged russian advances in some areas of the east. their scale, however, difficult to measure. plus, ukraine is now offering exchange of russian prisoners of war for the safe evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers from the surrounded azovstal steel plant in mariupol that has become their last holdout. for the first time, russian civilian has reportedly been killed on russian soil by cross border shelling from ukraine. of course, many ukrainian civilians, many thousands killed by russian shelling so far in this war. nic robertson is in helsinki, finland, and sara sidner in kyiv. nic, let s begin with the impending expansion of nato, particularly finland s joining and expected that sweden will follow. finland, a neighbor of russia, resisted this step for
right. so there are these moments here, but he s not the first rapper too have his lyrics used against him. we saw that with takashi 69. there are also though a lot of people in the music industry who feel as though including killer mike in atlanta that your lyrics should not be allowed to be used against you and there was proposed legislation in new york to prevent that from happening. so, you know, some in atlanta, they believe that, no, you know, if you said this, we should be able to use this in court against you. it certainly is getting a lot of attention. this will not be the last that we talk about it, that s for sure. chloe, thank you. here to dig in deeper into the legality of some of these issues, criminal defense attorney cnn legal analyst joey jackson. joey, i want to pick up where chloe left off because the lyrics, i mean, this legally this part of it is getting a lot of attention. a couple of the lyrics that are cited here, i just want to show some of those for the
a political one, they point to internet celebrities like takashi 69, a 22-year-old troll who s amassed over 14 million followers online known for his controversial it there, as well as his behavior and many have begun comparing his rise to donald trump. that includes my next guest, author, charlamagne tha god who interviewed takashi who said how much being hated brought his rise. and that musician also shouted out trump. behind the racist [bleep] i feel like he a good president, to be honest with you. i m joined by charlamagne tha god. you hear the laughter. he s the cohost of the radio show the breakfast club, and an author. and his show delves into culture
wealthy counties and poor cities and largely black don t get the same benefit. it s also saying when we said people should have to work, it s not good policy so some people. black people. that s messed up. that s more than messed up. patrick, who has to fall back? i say some of the artists in the music industry have to fall back. who are you thinking of? these new artists trippy red and takashi-69. i do not look how they re having so many guns and drugs and violence on their videos. it s just not a good look.
these artists need to understand how they have such a big influence. on a lighter note i would ask you if you think takashi-69 has too many tattoos? the tattoos are cool. i wouldn t put no tattoos on my face because i think it would hurt but it worked for him. face tattoos are a big choice. maya, do you have a position on that? i m actually stuck on oliver north who was talking about civil terrorism and comparing the students in park land who have been fighting gun violence to terrorists. i m a little bit more focused there where somebody who essentially is a gun runner is attacking kids. you re saying oliver north should fall back. it is wild that oliver north is getting this promotion. it s crazy. it is crazy. he s using language like