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
Today, he s locked out of his twitter account. and yet, thursday night, the house gop judiciary committee s twitter account was hailing this guy along donald trump and elon musk. they were tweeting all the three names. imagine the reaction on the right if the democratic party was picking up a guy pushing wild conspiracy theories and anti-jewish death threats. imagine if msnbc were platform-ing him and win you know, for a guy who is always whining about being shut down or shut out and being silenced, this guy, man, he sure has been given a lot of platforms over the years. a guy who despite implying slavery was a choice, or threatening his ex wife s boyfriend, selling confederate flags on tour, making antisemitic remarks before today, kanye west was still given access to and welcomed by the music world, the bash the fashion world, the media world. what did he do with his platform? he promoted white lives matter,