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
Undoing of democracy if we don t have free and fair elections, we don t have anything. i mean it s not as if they re not saying it s bad. the problem i have when i talk to members of congress as they say, yes, it s really bad, democracy is under threat. but also prescription drug prices, also this, also. that it s not one of many issues, it s the issue. but it s existential. i wish more than would say. that charlie, if the election deniers on the right wind in 2022, next month, to me democracy looks like it s over in america, fascism is here to stay. insurrection, domestic terrorism, civil war, god forbid. is there any scope for optimism here? well, that was dark. i do wonder in my darker moods, if we ve crossed a red line here. but the stakes are so high, it comes down to your point of why this is not a bigger factor in the campaign.