hunkered down, kind of springing back to life. you mentioned that attack just outside the city. shortly after that, the mayor decideds that he was going to shorten the curfew that had been imposed the last several weeks. different things going on in kyiv, actually. we re seeing continuing bombardment. we re still hearing the air raid sirens on the regular. but at the same time there is a much more relaxed atmosphere in the city than there was in the past. you can see it in the streets. you can see it in people walking around. and, again, that shelling that happened outside the city, it wasn t the only shelling that s hit kyiv in the last couple days. it wasn t the only shelling that s been happening outside of the eastern part of the country. that s what the russians have said in just the last week or two that they re going to be focusing their renewed efforts on the east of the country on the donbas region, a part of the country they already seized in 2014. russia had been shelling es
welcome back to the sunday show. i m jonathan capehart. happy easter. this morning ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is vowing that the russians will be responsible for, quote, everything they did in ukraine. translator: i do not believe this wound can be treated or forgotten somehow. i think people have lost the best they had. it is the outcome of russia s war. they came and took away the most important things people had. the ukrainian people are heroic, but are my words going to give them peace? no. while the pope in his easter address this morning pleaded for peace in ukraine, in the eastern port city of mariupol, ukrainians seem to be clinging to their last vestiges of
thank you, joyce and marina jenkins, thank you for joining us. that does it for me, my friend velshi will be back. today is a holy day. happy easter and happy ramadan, do not go anywhere, the sunday show with jonathan capehart is starting right now. he s expecting you. on this easter day, we ll look at what putin is up to eight weeks into the war. . plus, safety in the city, new concerns of crime in new york after that terrifying subway shooting. mayor eric adams joins me live to discuss. and governor abbott heats up
we need to open more beds and talk about the closing of mental health beds. they were used for medical needs, covid, now we need to get more beds online. we have to abandon the belief that it is dignifying people living on the streets. this is unacceptable in our city. we are not going to allow it to happen. we have to match it treatment beds, safe haven beds. that s what we are doing. we are going to face this crisis head on and not ignore it. how is governor hochul as a partner to address public safety and mental health and crime in the city?
civil liberties, are you going to be able to keep your promise that in your effort to bring crime down and address the plague of gun violence in this city that new yorkers, civil liberties, particularly civil liberties of african-americans will be protected? well, you know, that s where i cut my teeth in, fighting on behalf of overagressive abusing. we are not going to do that 35 plus years and move away from it. we can have the justice we deserve if the safety we need. what will we are facing in cities across america is so much emphasis on those who are breaking the law. we need to start also focusing on those who are doing the right thing and victims of lawbreakers. let s start focusing on those innocent people who have been victimized my small number of