darren bell says publications should now meet the moment. >> newspapers have an opportunity right now to show who they want to talk to in this country, and i hope they think long and hard and pick the right ones. >> adams says he'll likely lose most of his income in the wake of his comments that he continues to stand by. back to you. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports," let's get right to it. at this hour, the worst violence in the west bank in years is settlers on a rampage through a palestinian town. surprise visit, janet yellen is in ukraine to talk about economic health as russia's war enters its second year. extreme wild weather,

neighborhoods in oklahoma and kansas in ruins today after tornadoes reportedly ripped through that region. and another astonishing twist at the double murder trial of alec murdaugh, the jury is going on a field trip just days before they're expected to start deliberations. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments for us. we want to start with catie beck outside the courthouse in waltersboro, south carolina, as she has been throughout. first of all, some graphic testimony today, but also that block buster decision by the judge. they're going to take the jury to the scene of the crime. >> reporter: yeah, chris, that was a bit of a surprise. this jay way more often than not sides with the prosecution, and today he granted that defense motion to take the entire jury to moselle, to this hunting property, to the crime scene to get a spatial understanding of exactly how these murders happened. at least that's what the defense said they were hoping. separately, i spoke to a defense

attorney about their motives here, and basically what he said was we're trying to show spatially how large alec was and how small that feed room was and how it would have been extremely difficult to maneuver around with two rifles in that small space. that's what they're hoping the jury is going to get from that. the prosecution obviously objected saying we don't think this is necessary. it's not required, but the judge said if you would like to take the jury there, i'll go ahead and make it so. so they have said they're going to have tight security. they possibly are going to block the roads and make sure that the area is completely evacuated for the jury's visit. it looks like that is going to happen. when exactly has not yet been determined. >> catie beck, thank you for that. now to a rare sight this early in the year, tornadoes, and winds whipping more than 100 miles per hour in the southern plains overnight. morgan chesky reports from the hardest hit city, norman,

oklahoma. morgan? >> reporter: yeah, it's going to be a tough day for so many oklahomans. we're here in norman that took the brunt of the overnight storm. seven tornadoes in oklahoma, another two in texas, the damage unmistakable. you can see this car was picked up and hurled against this home. the roof ripped off behind me. you can see damage on yet another home here, debris scattered in every direction. unfortunately there's going to be more damage now that the sun is coming up. officials say 12 people were injured in the norman area. none of those injuries appear to be life threatening. a terrifying scene under the cover of darkness, spanning 100 miles an hour winds in certain areas, and the multiple tornadoes. at last check, more than 10,000 oklahomans still in the dark as a result of this storm. up and to the north of us in michigan, people are reeling from a power crisis from a storm that happened last week. 100,000 people without electricity in frigid conditions

there. hard to believe so much spawned by the storm that originated in california, dumping feet and snow and rain there, and it's now making its way eastward with more potential severe weather expected. here in oklahoma, officials are expected to be touring the damage today to see how devastating these tornadoes were, but a heartbreaking scene here in norman. >> yeah, without a doubt, morgan. thank you for that. meantime with the u.n. human rights council meeting in geneva, russian forces launched swarms of drones across ukraine knocking out critical infrastructure and killing at least two people, officials there say. nbc's erin mclaughlin is on the ground in kyiv for us. erin, ukraine has had success in the past fending off these drone attacks. talk about what happened there today. >> reporter: that's right, chris. there have been a number of unexplained explosions in the past 14 days in mariupol. about 14 explosions, in fact,

and the british ministry of defense saying that a number of critical infrastructure sites have been targeted, targeting the russians specifically, who are now in control of that devastated port city. you can see the pictures there, just shocking, hitting a military base, a fuel depot, as well as some warehouse infrastructure. the british mod tweeting russia will likely be concerned that unexplained explosions are occurring in a zone it had probably previously assessed as beyond the range of routine. ukraine's strike capabilities, thought to be about 10 kilometers outside the range of a himar. a spokesperson for the ukrainian ministry of defense telling me that they have successfully managed to launch drone attacks against the port city using intelligence from informants on the ground in mariupol.

and we are also just hearing of reports of an unexplained explosion in belarus striking an aircraft field, hitting a russian reconnaissance plane. we're hearing a lot of reports about different unexplained explosions to the north of ukraine, and then that critical port city in the south, chris. >> take take there, erin mclaugh lin. thank you for the report. and now molly hunter, what's being done to bring down the temperature there right now? >> reporter: and, chris, as you mentioned, we are amidst the cycle, kind of the deadliest cycle that we have seen there in 20 years. i want to bring you and your audience up to date right now. the scenes we're seeing in tel aviv right now, and i don't think we have pictures because we are starting to see them on israeli tv and on social media is of a growing protest in te aviv among left wing israelis protesting against the israeli settler violence that happened in the west bank. what happened yesterday, chris,

and it's been a very fast moving 24 hours, a palestinian gunman opened fire outside of a settlement, killing two israel settlers near the palestinian town. in retaliation, in revenge, a huge mobs, hundreds of the israeli settlers went into that palestinian town, and these are the pictures you're seeing right now, torched the city. according to palestinian officials, one person was killed, a 37-year-old palestinian man, a hundred cars were burned, 70 homes were burned by israeli settlers, some of those burned to the ground, according to the red crescent, 350 people injured. today, just a couple of hours ago, another shooting in the occupied west bank. we are getting details right now. according to the israeli military, several palestinian gunmen opened fire near jericho. it's a city in the occupied west bank, killing one israeli, all of this really, though, is not

doing anything to tamp down tensions. what we're hearing from palestinian officials, chris, is that the israeli military last night did not do enough to protect the palestinian town, did not stop the israeli settlers and what we're hearing from the israeli government, headed by benjamin netanyahu, we are hearing them say for the israeli settlers, for the israeli civilians, do not take the law into your own hands. we are hearing criticism of the military, of the government, saying that they are not doing enough. these are the fault lines, though, right now, chris, and certainly the temperature is not being turned down tonight. >> molly hunter, thank you for that. a house republican not named george santos making an admission about his resume today. we're live on capitol hill with the details and the fallout. plus, exclusive new reporting, how amateur voter fraud hunters are drowning election workers in paperwork and threatening voting rights. plus, why a small town train

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new today, questions about whether yet another republican member of congress and his resume. tennessee's andrew ogles is acknowledging that he misstated the degree he received from middle tennessee state university. after investigative local reporting raised questions about whether he embellished parts of his resume. nbc's ryan nobles is on capitol hill for us. so what other parts of his resume are in question today, and have we heard anything from congressman ogles himself? >> reporter: well, there were a lot of parts, a lot of different issues that were raised by this investigative report by a local television station in nashville, and at this point, congressman ogles is only addressing one specific area that they raised, and that is that his degree from middle tennessee state

university did not come in international relations as he had suggested but it was instead a degree in liberal studies, and ogles said in a statement that his degree, he was mistaken, he had taken time off from college, when he went back to college to pursue his degree he had started in international studies program but then ultimately when the studying had been completed, the degree he ended up with was liberal studies. that's the one area he's clearing up. he does have a degree, it's not in international studies. there were a number of other issues this report raised about ogles background, he describes himself as an expert when it comes to human trafficking and he's fought against human trafficking, he specifically worked with a charity connected to that, and there have been holes in his resume to specifically back up those claims. this is ogles at least addressing one part of this report, and we should point out as well, chris, when news channel 5 in nashville asked him to participate in their story to

ask him questions about this, he refused to do so. this is ogles, at least beginning the process of correcting the record. >> i think he called himself an economist, and they report he took one community college course, and i think the quote was he barely passed so i'm sure there's more to come on that. i want to ask you about another story because you've got new reporting about the gang of eight. they're going to get a preliminary briefing tomorrow. what's that about? >> this is a long time coming, something the gang of eight has been asking for some time. thises a preliminary briefing from the department of justice on their investigation into the classified documents that were found in former president donald trump's residency, the documents that were taken from offices and residences connected to the current president, joe biden, and to former vice president mike pence. now, the different intelligence communities, the different intelligence agencies have been specifically asking to actually see what the contents of these classified documents are to determine whether or not there's some sort of national security

threat, and whether or not that needs to be addressed. the department of justice has been reluctant to take that step because it's an ongoing conversation. what we're told is it's setting up the parameters for exactly what they're investigating. it does not seem likely they're going to share the contents of the documents themselves but at least begin the process of trying to inform congress in their oversight capacity as much as possible. there's no doubt that republicans and democrats have been frustrated with the department of justice and their lack of accountability in this regard. we'll have to see if this satisfies any of their concerns when they meet behind closed doors tomorrow, chris. >> more to come on that, ryan nobles, thank you. we have new and exclusive reporting about what's being called voter fraud vigilanteism in georgia. amateur sleuth on the hunt for voter fraud so they challenge

92,000 voter registrations last year. preliminary data reveals the vast majority of those challenges were unsuccessful. but as election workers drown in paperwork, there is the threat to voting rights. nbc's jane tim is here with her exclusive reporting, and mara gay, msnbc political analyst. i want to make sure i get this right. you got this from an advocacy group. what exactly did they find? >> they did tracking in 15 of the states 159 counties so the real number is probably larger. and they did this by watching these public hearings where these challenges go through, but essentially these amateur fraud sleuths have been going through public records, change of address files, mail forwarding notices, even driving around their communities, trying to find ineligible voters.

america's voter rolls are messy, built to get on, not to get off. i think i'm probably one of the few in america who has cancelled a voter registration from another state. they're trying to get people off saying it leads to fraud, and there's no evidence it does. worried it's going to lead to people being confused and intimidating. some of the voters, of the 92,000, some of them, 2,200 removed in hearings, but others will also get letters telling them somebody has challenged their right to vote in their state. that they say, could be very intimidating. >> yeah, mara, let's read a little bit more from what jane wrote. advocates and experts say the challenges created bureaucratic nightmares for busy local officials trying to run smooth elections, left to sort through stacks of challenges as they balance the right of voters with their legal obligation to respond quickly. on one hand, you have folks who are -- tell me if i'm wrong

about this, jane- in often heavily black areas having their votes challenged, heavily black areas, were used to voters being intimidated, used to a long history in this country of trying to stop black people from being able to vote, and on the other hand, you have already workers at the local polls who have seen what's going on. it's not a fun time to be a poll worker, and now they've got all of this extra work. >> that's right, chris. the issue is that we need to pull back for a moment and remember. we actually don't have a problem in this country with widespread voter fraud, so this is a solution in search of a problem. what we do have a problem with in this country is what you identified and what your work is involved with, which is the intimidation and disenfranchisement of large numbers of americans, especially black americans. that's the real issue, and this campaign is part of a larger campaign to disenfranchise

americans, particularly those who live in cities and vote democratic, and happen to be black voters and other people of color. i think the thing that's especially cynical about this effort among other things is the kind of division that it sows among voters and americans themselves. essentially empowering certain americans to assess the worthiness of their fellow americans and their citizenship. so these are actually inalienable rights we have, depending on the laws of the state, but citizenship entails voting rights, one man, one vote. one woman, one vote. the other thing i'm concerned about is the local response from all of the different counties in, for example, georgia, you know, these overwhelmed election officials. i would hope the doj's civil rights unit is taking a close look to make sure that there are actually responses to these challenges that don't

automatically disenfranchise voters, because county election officials can get overwhelmed and in gwinett county, closer to atlanta, there's going to be more attention and more focus to make sure that people are able to vote. so there are concerns there but they're a little different. in the smaller counties, i would imagine, and jane would know more about this, there may not be eyes on all of these election officials, so that is part of the doj's mandate, i believe. >> what does fair fight do with this information? do they report it or is there follow up that's going to happen. >> fair fight pac is suing over a mass challenge that happened in 2021, sort of the earliest of these mass challenges. it was more than 300,000 voters, right before those critical runoffs and they're trying to see if they can get them thrown out as discriminatory. while this day is far from

comprehensive, it affects black, brown, and young voters. addresses changing, students living in dorms, the kinds of things that are the nature of voters. there's an impact, especially in places like gwinett. >> if your life's history is you're being challenged when you to the polls and having difficulty voting anyway, and you get one of these letters, it's impossible to know, well, i'm just not going to vote or maybe this means i can't vote. >> it's one more barrier. we want a system in which anybody who is eligible to vote has an easy time voting, and the more barriers you add to that, you put polling sites farther away, you create fewer of them, you create challenges, you intimidate voters. the harder it becomes for people to vote, and then of course when you're talking about people who are in vulnerable populations, whether they live in poverty or just transient populations like students who may have, you know, multiple addresses, that's

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asian affairs at the national security council. always good to see you. a lot going on obviously. president biden's top national security adviser was on the "meet the press" yesterday and he made the argument for why china should not do this. take a listen. >> i don't think it is in china's interest to do this. i think it would alienate them from a number of countries in the world, including our european allies, and it would put them four square into the center of responsibility for the kinds of war crimes and bombardments of civilians and atrocities that the russians are committing in ukraine. >> now, we should say the u.s. says there's no evidence that china has sent weapons yet to russia. the concern is that they are considering it. you know china. would xi risk it and help russia in this way? >> well, it's a good question, chris, and i think, you know, the national security adviser made it very clear that they haven't seen munitions going from china to russia yet but

they're concerned china is thinking about it. i don't think the u.s. government would be concerned about china thinking about unless they had some information, some intelligence that led them to be concerned about this. i mean, i do think that china is trying to position themselves as a somewhat neutral party, but the reality is that there is a growing cohesion between china, russia, iran, and north korea. north korea has also transferred munitions to russia. i think we're starting to see a cohering of this group of the two biggest proponents of china and russia. >> china is doing an interesting balancing act here. they have said their alliance with russia has quote no limits but then on friday, china released a 12-point proposal for peace talks, something ukrainian president search says he does want to discuss with xi. what do you make of this, china not only trying to brand itself as a neutral peacemaker but also paint the u.s. as a warmonger

and in some critical circles, play both sides. >> i think it's very interesting like you said, the chinese accused the u.s. of disinformation. china is sort of a master at disinformation, whether it's in the global south or the global north, and they have clearly painted the united states and nato as the instigators of this war in ukraine, which is clearly not the case at all. so that to me is laughable that they would claim such a thing. i mean, i think in the end what we have to do is watch very carefully the extent to which china is willing to link up. i mean, it seems like a loser proposition to me that they would link up with russia which is now in a quagmire in this world war. it's interesting that zelenskyy would be willing to meet with x i. he would tell him china cannot provide military support to russia. >> china is accusing the u.s. of undermining peace and stability in taiwan, a u.s. patrol plane

flew near a contested area. what's your read on the situation there, victor? >> so that's a very tense situation. you know, china's close proximity to our intelligence assets which are flying in international airspace or international waters, they're moving closer to them. partly in retaliation, i think, for the balloon, the intelligence balloon that the u.s. shot down. and, you know, that's a very dangerous situation. that could lead to a crisis as it has done in the past when a u.s. chinese fighter jet, you know, collided with the u.s. intelligence plane in international airspace, so they are escalating the situation here with regard to that, and it's something that the united states has to watch very carefully. the problems that the chinese don't allow direct military communications between the united states and china. they remain pretty opaque about these sorts of operations and that's tremendously escalatory. >> victor cha, always great to

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says is quote erupting into the country's latest cultural fire fight over identity, polarization and the role of government. "the washington post" white house bureau chief cowrote that article. mara gay is back with me. taluse, you wrote it surprised the white house by becoming such a political and cultural battle. there are literally hundreds of train accidents every year, why do you think this incident struck this nerve? >> yeah, chris, there are a number of different elements of this accident that made it ripe for the kind of cultural battles in discussions of race and other areas that have become so polarizing in our culture. the demographics of this community, a mostly white community that voted heavily for donald trump, and the fact that we now have this sense of mystery about what's going to happen to this community based on these rare symptoms that

we're seeing and the idea there's a lot of government mistrust, and even though the biden administration was on the case very early after this accident, you know, having briefings, calling out all of the experts to get to the scene, there's a lot of mistrust about whether or not what the people are being told is true, and so you've seen some right wing media figures, some provocateurs sort of try to seize on the moment to stir up a scandal and make this a controversial case, even in cases where the government was doing what it was supposed to be doing. >> among them, donald trump, who went there and made, you know, right before a segment for snl. this is serious stuff, and you understand people are nervous. a lot of people you hear from, well, my house is worth nothing now. i'm worried about what might happen ten or fifteen years from now, they have this idea that they just can't believe what the government says, and i want to play what the head of the ntsb said to try to address that last

week. >> enough with the politics. i don't understand why this has gotten so political. this is a community that is suffering. this is not about politics. this is about addressing their needs, their concerns. that's what this should be about. so i don't care about the politics. >> but are we simply in a place with the polarization we have in this country, mara, that none of this should be a surprise to anybody? >> it may not be a surprise but one place to celebrate is the fact that not only does it seem that the federal government is doing the responsible thing in trying to really contain the situation appropriately, but also having these briefings to give frequent information to residents who live there. that's a good thing. we should acknowledge that people's fears come from a history that we have in this country that's very real of americans actually seeing their health put at risk by the

failure of public health officials that happened after 9/11, and certainly it just happened more recently over a million dead in the united states alone with the covid pandemic. so it's not that people's fears are coming out of nowhere. the problem is there's an opportunity created for the conspiracy theorists and the opportunists like j.d. vance and the former president to come in and stoking fears where they're not founded. understandable that people are nervous. this is a very serious situation, and there is some sign, actually, the reporting on the ground people have been impacted, their health, short-term by this. and we should acknowledge this. this is a place where public health officials can stand up and the more information they can give, even sometimes just answering questions that residents have, saying here's what i know, here's what i don't know. instead of here's what i think you should know. that can go a long way to allay these fears and to really close

off the opportunity that cynical folks that don't have an interest in the health of the community, the former president, i would argue, so we can take their concerns seriously without feeding into the conspiracy theories here. >> there's another part of this, and the times wrote about it last week. i'm going to read from your paper. to democrats, the train derailment and the chemical leak in the hamlet of east palestine, ohio, is that story of logic, and consequences, put in place by the obama administration were intended to prevent just such accidents, the trump administration gutted them. two republicans, east palestine is a symbol of something larger and more emotional, a forgotten town in a conservative state like so many others in middle america. struggling for survival against an uncaring, mega corporation, whose concerns have never seen the likes of a town of 4,718

souls, and in a way it begs the question, if you're pitting a logical argument against an emotional argument, who wins? >> right. well, when the republican party is involved, usually the republican party wins because they are so much better at story telling than democrats. so there is, you know, the political story is why is it that the democratic party has yet to be able to convince, persuade, communicate, how that kind of regulation that it has supported could have prevented this kind of tragedy. why has it been unable to persuade those voters that, you know, its party platform is actually in their overwhelming interest, instead of republican party officials who come in days later to grand stand. why is that? what is that disconnect, that's kind of the million dollar question for democrats. >> and when i have spoken to white house officials, they feel like they have done what they can do, what they needed to do,

and they are committed to doing it, but do they feel from a political standpoint like they are losing this culture battle, this political battle right now? >> well, they realize that they were somewhat late to the take on the culture front even if on the technical side they had been sending people to the scene and were doing all the things that you would do from the governmental perspective by the book when there is a chemical spill like this. but on the political side, they have jumped into the fray as this has turned into this culture war and called out republicans, called out big corporations for colluding, essentially, to remove some of the regulations that were in place to gut safety regulations, and they have pushed this narrative as well that if you want to find out why the issue -- the situation in east palestine is as tragic as it is, you have to look at republicans and their deregulatory approach to the government, and you also have to look at big corporations

and how they have also pushed to deregulate to make more profit, and so there is a willingness by the white house to jump into the cultural fray and political fight, but they realize it took quite a while and you even hard transportation secretary pete buttigieg say that he wished that he had spoken out earlier because he realized that some of the criticism he's getting now for not speaking out about this earlier is being misinterpreted as a lack of care for the people of east palestine. >> toluse, mara gay, thanks to you as well. syria still reeling from the deadly earthquakes. our sister network sky news managed to make it inside aleppo, syria. they met a 14-year-old girl. she lost her father, home, and her right leg when her apartment building collapsed. sky news, alex crawford has the story. >> reporter: it's a tale of endurance, and determination by rescuers who refuse to give up.

this was once four apartment blocks, unrecognizable now. there were concrete blocks one on top of each other, he tells us. up to 100 were dead inside, but remarkably at least one teenager called rima was still alive. >> translator: we had to go down through this pole, and there was lots of twisted metal and concrete. there was a gap that formed a tunnel. we had to go through that and another tunnel to get to her. >> reporter: the flats had more or less pancaked, the snatched images on his phone show how cramped it was as they went in one on one to reach rima. >> translator: it was resting on this part. any movement it would collapse and we would lose her. >> reporter: rima's relatives were working with very little, no heavy machinery, just their

bare hands and a lot of ingenuity. they managed to squeeze their way through the gaps, following the sound of her screams until they found her, cold and terrified. and with her right leg pinned down by tons of concrete. they covered her with blankets to keep her warm and using only torches after hours of trying, they realized the only way to free her and save her life was to amputate her leg, there under the rubble. >> she can't remember anything of the amputation, and still hasn't been told her father didn't make it. she's just relieved her ordeal is over after 30 hours of being trapped. she realized herself the only way to get out was to lose her leg. >> translator: i told them, i told them to cut my leg, she says, they tried really hard to save it, but there wasn't any hope when there wasn't blood at all, so they took the decision to cut it. when i was trapped in the hole, there was a dead man next to me,

she goes on. i was really afraid, i just wanted to get out. she's now hoping to somehow get her prosthetic. still only 14 years old, the night of the earthquake's dramatically altered her future and so many others. her family lost everything. her father, the main breadwinner, as well as their entire home and all that they had to their names. at the moment, they're staying with rima in the hospital so they have some shelter for now. they're just living from day-to-day. >> alex crawford from sky news, thank you for that report. massive tornadoes over the weekend. but it's just the latest extreme weather we have been seeing lately, including snow in california, dust storms in new mexico. so what the heck is going on? you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc

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to help us make some kind of sense of all of this, i want to bring in bill karins, msnbc meteorologist. let's start with the tornadoes. i saw one of these weather chasers this morning saying i don't know what's going on. we don't go out this early, but we did. >> it's not like we're doing march in february. this is a march type storm, severe weather, snow, you kind of expect that as you head into the springs months. usually february is a straight and narrow winter month. here we are, four tornadoes reported today. nothing as bad as what we saw yesterday, especially around norman, oklahoma. and we have one tornado watch we're watching closely. our radar watch is showing debris in the air. our radar, which scans the sky, usually it sees snowflakes or hail or rain drops but it's seeing foreign objects in the air. that means a tornado likely touched down, sucked up some of the debris in the air and through it in the sky. that's what the radar is

showing. we think there has been a tornado between cincinnati and dayton, ohio. we'll continue to watch that and give you updates and find out if anything horrific happened. hopefully not, hopefully just minor damage. the other story, tonight, and this shouldn't be a big deal at the end of february, but we're getting snow in the northeast, typically 4, 5, 6 inches of snow this time of year. like a yawn. get it over with, clean it up. go to school, go to work. because this is the first snowstorm in the region, a lot of people haven't driven in snow. 4 to 6 inches in the northeast. they cleaned up before they head to school and work. then as we head to california. another storm is coming in, and this one is also bringing significant snow. the snow levels aren't as low as last time, you aren't going to see crazy pictures of palm trees, but the mountainous

areas. and some of the higher elevations. you notice areas like los angeles here, more rain for you, and even the hills outside of los angeles are going to get some snow out of this one too, chris. it has been a wacky, you know, week or two in california. it's going to continue. no big warm up for at least another two weeks. and by california standards, that's like a panic in the streets. >> after what has been the most incredibly mild winter, we're going to get snow in new york city. >> about time. >> or shocked and dismayed one or the other. bill karins, as always, thank you, my friend, good to see you. >> if you're not in a region used to tropical storms, you might get ready for them soon. in the coming decades, cyclones with hurricane force winds are expected to grow more intense and hit areas deeper into the country. that's according to a new study by the first street foundation. this analysis finds that more than 13 million more properties in the u.s. will become vulnerable to hurricanes, just in the next 30 years, and it could cost the country nearly

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good to be with you. i'm katy tur, if you're going to run against donald trump, people have got to know who you are. for ron desantis, that's meant exploiting the culture war, pushing policies intended to