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
becomes one of fear and devastating violence and tragedy. the latest in the never-ending epidemic of gun violence in america, the 33rd mass shooting to happen so far this year, at least 11 people were killed at a lunar new year celebration at a billion room in monterey park, california. it is a predominantly asian american suburb of los angeles. the deceased are all in their 50s, 60s, and 70s. officials say that the shooter, 72-year-old asian male, attempted a second attack at another ballroom nearby. that attack was stopped by two patrons. here s how one of them describes what happened. i lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon, and we had a struggle. we struggled into the lobby, trying to get this gun away from each other. he was hitting me across the face, bashing the back of my head. i was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him, create some distance. finally, at one point, i was able to pull the gun away from him, shove him aside, create
straight-up, racially motivated hate crime. now, the justice department is investigating. we ll have the latest. the january six committee slapped five congressman with subpoenas, and more could be coming. former impeachment manager joe neguse joins me live to discuss. a new nbc news poll is that with the latest snapshot of voter sentiment in this midterm election here. senator chris murphy joins me live on set to discuss the democrats agenda. also here, former attorney general eric holder to talk about the fight for voting rights and our democracy. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, we begin with that mass shooting at a grocery store in buffalo, new york, that left ten people dead and three people injured overnight. law enforcement officials have flat out called that racially motivated. the 18 year old white suspect is in custody and appeared at a hearing overnight. according to the erie county da, he is scheduled for a felony hearing on thursday.
continent millions of indigenous people were killed with famine and more and disease. we have a legacy of slavery in america that we have to understand. the great evil of slavery wasn t the involuntary servitude and the brutality of the violence, that was horrific. the real was the narrative to create whitens labours didn t want to feel immoral, so many of them made up this false narrative that black people aren t as good as white people. black people aren t for the human, aren t fully evolved. there are people that wonder, is it possible to create a more just society? i think it is. just society we have overcome that kind of chattel slavery that doomed many of our for parents. my great-grandfather learn to read in virginia as an enslaved person when it was against the law for black person to be taught to read. so, we have seen that. we lived through this horrific era of terror violence were mobs are pulling black people out of jails and prisons and lynching them on courthouse la
asians in with each other. so it s still quite possible that even if it was a beef, a personal beef, a domestic beef, it s still potentially possible that, within the asian community, there are these subcultures, you know, taiwan versus mainland china versus vietnamese, that we all seem not to think about but that could all lead to a hate crime charge here. so we don t know. but, yes, it speaks volumes about where we are in society that now we seem to think, yeah, this has got to be some more hate and violence, because we live in this environment that even the fbi director, as he testified on capitol hill, had said the number-one most lethal subcategory of domestic terror violence is hate-based violence. that s the reality, what the statistics tell us, and that s what we should be prepared for in terms of securing our events, more security, more thinking about what we would do in those situations. you mentioned heroes. yes, there are heroes amongst