reza aslan joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes that s what russia seems to be carrying out in its war against ukraine. earlier today russian forces bombarded the city of zaporizhzhia, killing 17 people and wounding dozens of others. the shelling was concentrating on number apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. marking a clear instance of vladimir putin s invading army roth laws of war. upstanding doubly, the strikes serve as a particularly dastardly reprisal for ukrainian military games on the battlefield against russia in recent weeks. the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive brae ridge linking rachel what the kremlin peninsula. a critical surprise route for the kremlin s forces. as you might imagine, a thin skin putin is not taking this well. on the contrary, he s renewed his nuclear saber rattling. unnerving western a
starting to get new signs. trump realizes he could beat some serious trouble as he meets resistance in the court a law. new reporting in the hill frames quote, trump scored an initial victory before us court judge in florida granted his request to appoint a special master to review more than 10,000 government documents seized at his home. this case works its way through the court system. other judges seem more hesitant to grab trump s requests. last month, appeals court lifted up lower court ruling justice department from using classified documents seized from mar-a-lago and it s criminal investigation. trump s team now asking the supreme court to allow the special master to review the documents. my colleague, maggie haberman about trump s mounting leaguer associates today on meet the press. do you think that donald trump understands how much legal jeopardy he isn t? i do. i think he understands what legal jeopardy get season. then he convinces himself it s not that b
Ada limón, for joining us. that s it for me this weekend. i m alicia menendez, i ll see you here next weekend for more american voices. but for now, i handed over to mehdi hassan. t for now, ihey alicia, thank y. have a great rest of your night. today on the air mehdi hasan, the forces with us. it s an american tv exclusive, mark hamill. yeah, is the mark hamill, aka the last jedi joins me live to discuss his new role helping the ukrainian war effort. then the geo pays projection-ism takes an ugly turn. the far-right is getting uglier in the rhetoric. and now accusing democrats of crimes and abuses that they re committing. the gop that. is and rising up in iran, protests are growing still over the death of mass of amini. others have died in the process including a 16-year-old girl.
This protest, this ten-day practice. 245 hours in front of the school district headquarters. where again, they ve been demanding in an ongoing way that the school district reboot, get rid of its school district police force. really there is a multi pronged approach that they re taking in terms of their advocacy and activism. wanting change going forward. also, their desire to protect other school children coast to coast, june sure nothing like this ever happens again in our country. tony plohetski, thank you for taking the time to be with us. next, the trans community concerned about data collected by school districts in florida. alejandra caraballo joins us next. and later, my conversation with a new united states poet laureate, ada limón, this as we can keep america together one poem at a time. t a time
Nearly historic floods. the trolls had no idea before last week either. the person that made this magical moment happened was carla hayden, 14th librarian of congress. it was an obama nominee in the first woman and first african american to pull this important job. it s safe to say, if someone like hayden is an old position, the jam session does not happen. this summer hayden named ada limón, the 24th u.s. laureate. lee mona has pulled the position. she often focuses on nature, our placement in the world of human beings. and bringing america together. i had the opportunity to speak with ada limón, about the new position and her passion for poetry. there is a lot that we made a viewer being the first latina u.s. poet laureate. i get the sense for you it s complicated and i m very very proud of my mexican heritage. but i also think there s a