good evening, everyone. thanks for tuning in i m alison camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. let s start with the culture wars. in the past 24 hours the battlefield has been noisy. more battles about books in the classroom, drama over drag shows, and gaslighting about gas stoves. here is florida governor ron desantis this morning surrounded by and taking urgent action to protect gas stoves. they are trying to take away your gas stove. they are coming for any little thing in your life that they can do, and i think what they want to be able to do is they ultimately want to control the amount of energy you consume. well, it turns 92% of floridians use electric stoves, but let s not let that get in the way. what is this really about? well, governor sarah huckabee sanders spelled it out. we are under attack in a left wing culture war we didn t start and never wanted to fight. sure seems like some people do want this fight. but what s the truth about culture war rhetoric? we
romney with a time to say, what are you doing dude? santos needs to go. what did you think? von santos, for him to play the victim here. but it is just so absurd. but it is mid romney s privileged background. all around that. it s about the fact that you are a pathological liar. but romney, yes, he did work in investment form. you re on a ponzi scheme. does he have millions or is he did he really equal all those 199 dollar or 99 cent dinners that the restaurant? that was on the expense account. the pay first campaign. really, just absurd. here s something interesting, john, i think it s in your wheelhouse. one of our great correspondents did an interview with a specialist and pathological liars. and so, here is what that psychologist has to say. we see people telling egregious lies like that. and there appears to be a lifelong pattern association with. it hits the type of person who s engaged and pathological lie. v there s this moment at the state of the union
the so-called war on woke is heating up. tonight, we re learning arkansas s republican governor, sarah huckabee sanders, may soon be signing a bill that would impose restrictions on direct shows. that s according to the washington post. this proposal still needs to make its way through the state house to the governors desk. her spokesperson telling the post, the proposal is not about banning anything but protecting kids from sexually explicit drag shows. unquote. cnn has reached out to governor sanders for comment, and we re still waiting to hear back. that s not all, her first month in office, she issued an executive order to prohibit critical race theory and arkansas schools. she also banned the term latinx, in official documents. and it s not just her, across the country more politicians are getting traction with rhetorical and legislative wars on so-called woke culture and language. i want to turn now to new york times columnist nicholas kristoff, he has a new piece out o
well, the so-called war on woke is heating up. arkansas governor may sign a bill that would impose restrictions on drag shows. that s according to the washington post. this proposal has to make its way through the statehouse and the governor s desk. but the spokesperson says the proposal is not about banning anything, but protecting kids from sexually explicit drag shows. cnn reached out for comment and are waiting to hear back. that s not all. in her first month in office, she issued an executive office to prohibit critical race theory in arkansas schools. and she banned the term latin x. it s not just her. across the country, more politicians are getting traction with rhetorical and legislative wars on so-called woke culture and language. i want to turn to nicholas kristof. he has a new piece out on these language wars and writes, in part, i fear that linguistic contortions, however well-meant, aren t addressing our country s desperate inequities or achieving progressive
there are new questions tonight about the source of substantial loans the congressman george santos s campaign. the embattled republican, who s been caught in a web of lies as you know, previously claimed he made personal loans to his campaign, totaling more than $700,000. a new filings with the election commission, he is indicating that loans of $500,000 and $125,000 had come from personal funds, those were left on marked. i want to turn out right away to cnn political commentator, jonah goldberg, and ashley allison. national politics reporter, eva mckend. eva, let me begin with you here about the new questions around these loans. what are you learning about the loans he allegedly gave to his own campaign? laura, the blood broad outlines of the story that you mentioned, that is absolutely correct. he previously said that he personally loaned his campaign $700,000. that was in the filing. he also has reiterated, he went on that podcast with congressman matt gates not too lo