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
Twitter saying, even he turns up in a debate with raphael warnock, will he be addressing an empty podium. have you always been politically engaged, politically passionate? i have been but not publicly. in other words i ve always voted as i said. no one s ever after my martin dukakis asked me to go out on the campaign trail. it was in the last month or so. he was in a downward spiral for sure. but what happened was when i got on twitter, i think your personality comes out. and your likes and dislikes. i m not an activist, i m not a pundit, but i m just an american who has an opinion. i think that comes out. like i say, we never see the legs if you wrote up a screenplay or a novel, based on the last six years of our political history, and went back in a time machine, you wouldn t be able to sell a cause nobody would believe it.