john boyd jr. joins us now.reat t to see you again. >> farmers are facing, especially members of our organization, we're facing extinction and just watched that segment there, china is doing more than flying balloons, they are buying american farmland. it should be illegal for china to buy farmland in the united states. we are faced with high cost inflation, diesel fuel, fertilizer has tripled to $1500 a ton, high cost of seed. these things have to be paid for up front as we put corn planters in the field next month and this administration, i lfrned to the president's state of the union, didn't say how to advance farming and agriculture at home and in america. we have aid for everybody, for ukraine farmers, provided them with equipment and combines and this type of infrastructure is needed here in america for american farmers. >> todd: you mentioned numbers throughout fiscal year 2022, production up 11%, feed prices 14%, price of chemicals up 44%, farm machinery up 11%. so look at the numbers and what you just s

john: boyd grew up on chicago's gritty southside. 1 years old, she says she has already seen far too much gun violence. >> my brother was shot entering my freshman year of high school. john: her father, brother and uncle have all been shot. one, she said, was mistake identity, another a case of wrong place, wrong time. many of those she grew up with have also been victims of gun violence. >> i can count on more than both my hands how many classmates have died because it's more than 10 since elemeary school all the way through high school. i would like to say that some of our high schools, some of our youth, are cursed, but that's what it is seeming to be. >> i literally dropped to the ground. i was laying on the sidewalk thinking, i don't want to be the next person on the news that's killed by a stray bullet. john: hogan is an attorney who lived in a north side neighborhood for nearly two decades and saw it change. after a family member was shot during a botched carjacking, hogan and her two chocolate labs packed up and moved to a sle

john: in the closing days of the campaign, miracle boyd and the gun violence prevention organization e works with held a forum for chicago's youth to engage directly with the candidates. >> our communities are suffering. our youth are dying of gun violence. john: of the four candidates polling in double digits, only johnson showed up. brandon johnson: i believe a better, stronger, safer chicago is possible, and we can build that together. john: johnson's plan for community-based interventions resonated with boyd, and was a big reason she says she's voting for him. >> he's actually been in the communities, been on our talks, been on zoom with us. the citizens of chicago is calling for treatment, not trauma, and not police to show up. john: while voters have been casting ballots for a month, it may be weeks more before they know which candidate will be tasked with trying to lower crime in chicago and to restore faith in the police department. if no candidate wins a majority of votes tomorrow, the top two finishers advance to a run-off election in april. for the "pbs newshour," i am john

john: what's more, since johnson's conviction, two men have confessed to being the ones who killed boyd had nothing to do with it. >> it shows that, sometimes, there is a miscarriage of justice. john: johnson says he remains hopeful that, one day, he will be free. >> from the beginning, i knew something was wrong because i got convicted for something i didn't do. and so i knew the truth was out there somehow and i just didn't give up. and knowing that kept me hopeful. like, as long as there's life, there's hope. and so long as there's hope, i know that the situation can be righted. amna: yesterday, after nearly 28 years behind bars, lamar johnson's murder conviction was overturned. johnson was given a new hearing thanks to a change in missouri law that allows prosecutors to reopen cases they believe were wrongfully decided. and a judge ruled that there was "clear and convincing evidence" that he was innocent. geoff: following the ruling, the now 50-year-old johnson walked out of a st. louis courtroom as a free man to chee. the state attorney general, who fought against his release, said

conviction of lamar johnson, a man sentenced to life in prison in 1995 for the murder of marcus boyd. johnmore as part of our searching for justice series. john? john: in 2021, producer frank carlson and i looked into johnson's case. we interviewed him in prison, spoke with lindsay runnels. onof his lawyers, at the scene of the crime in question, and with st. louis circuit attorney kim gardner, who re-examined johnson's case and became convinced of his innocence. gardner's investigation turned up even more proof of johnson's innocence. the prosecution's eyewitness recanted, admitting he'd only identified johnson because police told him johnson was ilty. and her team found records showing prosecutors paid that witness more than $4,000 for housing and expenses, information that was never disclosed to the defense. so, you have no evidence that he committed the crime. you have the confession of two other people that they committed the crime and that he did not. you have raised pretty good questions about whether or not the trial was ir. people will ask, then why is he in prison? kimberly: that

it was clear that joe boyd and wanted to go and express his desire to continue to support ukraine and the ukranian people armed forces on a pilot capital warsaw 5. thanks hannah john. what, meanwhile, your foreign ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss plans to supply more ammunition to ukraine. our different navigators are james base has more from the belgian capital solidarity and also support. and we've seen this similar patent, i think throughout this last year that keep keeps asking for things. europe says we'll think about it, delays for some time and then gives it. so we've seen a progression from light weapons to heavy weapons to artillery tanks. now the focus is on potentially on fighter jets. that's the, the thing that the key is asking for now. and for now, the nato and european leaders are saying, well, we'll think about it, but not yet. but there is, i think, another urgent issue on the agenda, which is re supplying some of these weapons systems that are already there in terms of the ammunition. and the particular concern is about the artillery and the artillery shells. because currently we're told that the ukrainian artillery are using more she

john humbert the nato commander? he was able to give ukraine time to get ready for this war. host: boyds next, west virginia, republican line, go ahead. caller: i believe biden is just looking at the economic side of it. all he wants to do is make a name for himself. he knows wars create jobs and helps make the rich man richer and that is all he's interested in. he is not interested in anything but making a name for his some -- himself. he knows, he knows he created all those jobs. he didn't create jobs, covid did. host: back to the president's trip, are you supported of his trip to ukraine are not? caller: no because is not going to stop russia. russia is going to be there for the duration and they are going to do what they have to do. he's only going to help things worse. host: ok. that is boyd there in west virginia. 5.5 hours president biden spent in kyiv. the original plan was traveling to poland tonight but in the early hours of the morning it was announced that the president landed in kyiv for a 5.5 hour visit. he was with president zelenskyy they're talking about a variety of th

john humbert the nato commander? he was able to give ukraine time to get ready for this war. host: boyds next, west virginia, republican line, go ahead. caller: i believe biden is just looking at the economic side of it. all he wants to do is make a name for himself. he knows wars create jobs and helps make the rich man richer and that is all he's interested in. he is not interested in anything but making a name for his some -- himself. he knows, he knows he created all those jobs. he didn't create jobs, covid did. host: back to the president's trip, are you supported of his trip to ukraine are not? caller: no because is not going to stop russia. russia is going to be there for the duration and they are going to do what they have to do. he's only going to help things worse. host: ok. that is boyd there in west virginia. 5.5 hours president biden spent in kyiv. the original plan was traveling to poland tonight but in the early hours of the morning it was announced that the president landed in kyiv for a 5.5 hour visit. he was with president zelenskyy they're talking about a variety of th