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
A slogan that has been labeled as hate speech. and somehow, despite all these aggressions, he was given this platform on fox and tucker under the fallacy that he was a freethinker he was being silenced. to your point, are we really surprised by any of the hypocrisy of the right wing in this country anymore? of course, the gop has embraced him along with the guy who tried to overthrow our government and elon musk who wants to give ukraine to russia and taiwan to china. and now the arbiter of free speech on twitter. can you imagined elon musk this evening just after welcoming kanye west back to twitter, then turns around and see him go on this antisemitic tirade. it will be a test of all this free speech absolutist nonsense we hear from people, that there should be no restrictions. everyone should be able to say whatever they want. even this? even say i m gonna go deaf contrary on jewish people on twitter? it would be a real test if elon musk does end up buying twitter. who knows if th