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
under fire from hillary clinton, but also within his own part. clinton now backing more getting more members of the military to back her as a result. cnn washington correspondent, jeff zeleny, is following all of the developments for us. jeff. good morning. the praise donald trump is showering on vladimir putin is a traditional break from american politics. it is outraging democrats and making republicans uneasy about the plurblurred lines of countr versus party. hillary clinton says this is the latest sign that donald trump is not fit for the presidency. he is really very much of a leader. amid ongoing criticism of his praise for vladimir putin. donald trump in an interview on a television station funneled by the kremlin, telling larry king, he thinks it is unlikely the russian government is meddling through hacking. i think it is probably unlikely. maybe the democrats are putting that out. if they are doing something, i hope that somebody will be able to find ou
And who knows, maybe he s just a star wars fan. like you. i know you ve mentioned president arise when you matt. and called russia the evil empire. is that a view you share, it was a view that ronald reagan shared in the 80s, when star wars was at its peak. today s republicans though, marjorie taylor greene, matt gates, donald trump, they don t share that view they don t want to be funding ukraine. they don t think russia s that bad. joe biden almost forced putin to invade ukraine by taunting him with don rhetoric. that s trump s words. what do you make, what is your view of matcha, what do you make of the gop s view of russia? someone asked me in an interview, if actors in star wars supported ukraine.
Do you condemn those words? putin is evil and he needs to be called such and anybody who does not call out putin for the person that he is and the atrocities that he s conducting, they they are not the leader of the party that i believe in in terms of ronald reagan s strength and, of course, he called russia the evil empire and let s call it as it is, and this is aggression that needs to stop, and i want all of our republican leaders to be united in that voice. governor, we are running tight on time so i want to just get to our final question which is about the republican response. we re going to hear from iowa s governor kim reynolds. what do you want to hear in the republican response? what does she need to say? first of all, just the fact that she is speaking really reflects middle america. it reflects the strength of our women leaders here in the united
Here s our breaking news. h historic summit going on right now in singapore. douglas, this is a big historic day. how high stakes is this one? very high stakes. it means a lot for donald trump. he s been a bully on the world stage. we saw that over the weekend, how he treated canada and trudeau. but it bringing a result here. remember ronald reagan in the 1980s used to talk about mr. gorbachev, turn down the wall and called russia the evil empire. donald trump was all about little rocket man.