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hello and welcome to a special presidents edition of "inside politics." im abby phillip in for john king in washington. president biden surprises the world with a trip to kyiv. >> russias aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putins war of conquest is failing. plus, former president jimmy carter is now at home receiving hospice care in a small georgia town where he spent most of his life. and can ron desantis muzzle the media? the presumptive 2024 candidate makes his case to overtur...

On their faith at this time. i also want to tell you about this man i met. a mail carrier but also a painter as we were driving in yesterday. here he was painting this large peanut statue. it is really a roadside attraction that is pretty famous here. and it was on the campaign trail with jimmy carter in the 1970s. he told me he has been meaning to get out here for weeks to paint that statue and that it was all the more important to do so in the wake of learning about mr. carter being in hospice...

In a laboratory in Senegal, researchers are looking at the potential to recycle natural waste not just to generate energy, but to store it too. The aim is to produce scalable batteries from a local street-food staple.

Monkey nuts are a street food staple in Senegal. Now researchers say they're confident they can use the shells to generate and store energy. Success would mean recycling natural waste and developing a clean energy source.

I just discovered something about my 22-year-old son who has lived with me his entire life.

Statues. they were created to be beautiful and uplifting. the idea is small people in particular are supposed to think thats what we should have done. those things were built not to make people feel bad, they were built to make people feel good. of course trump doesnt understand theres a such thing as a moral trajectory that a nation makes and that this one, despite people who pretend it doesnt happen, has made quite a moral trajectory in many ways. he is the most morally backwards president in ...

President in that sense since andrew johnson in terms of whos in the white house and who understands where the country needs to go or at least knows to pretend. linden johnson was not mr. racial sensitivity, but when the chips came down, he at least pretended and evolved. trumps knuckles are dragging on the peanut shells of the floor. >> watch this. >> what about the altleft that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? do they have any semblance of guilt? let me ask you this, what about...

Trash, food and all, and turn it into glass. the laboratory fridge is packed with a treasure-trove of leftovers. >> you have coffee, this is plain grass. >> we can eat the food and then use the waste to create materials that we need. >> reporter: lead researcher dr. ivan says worldwide demand for glass is booming. right now global usage stands at about 100 metric tons a year. the high-value minerals used to manufacture glass are normally dug out of mining pits. >> what we have done is that we ca...