hello and welcome to bbc world news. at least 18 people are now known to have died as storms and tornadoes ripped through the united states, leaving a trail of devastation. hardest hit were tennessee, arkansas and indiana. in illinois, one person was killed when a theatre roof collapsed. the storms came a week after a tornado devastated a town in mississippi, killing 25. sancha berg reports. dozens of storms and tornadoes left a trail of destruction, two of the fiercest touch downed in the southern state of arkansas. tearing off roofs, bringing down power lines, sweeping through homes with incredible force. the rate of pace and the the volume of itjust seemed rather intense and it was extremely dangerous. it came through a set of double doors and ploughed through my house, out of my front door which has steel bars in the front of it. several people have been killed, dozens injured, in this state alone. the governor declared a state of emergency. i think the real story here is
i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. we just heard the kind of conversations that a lot of us are having at our own dinner tables. bill maher talk to jake tapper about politics and race and cancel culture and wokeness. how do you define wokeness? because i hear people use the term all the time. and it means something different to everybody. well, again, i think it s this collection of ideas that are not building on liberalism, but very often undoing it. i mean, five years ago, abraham lincoln was not a controversial figure among liberals. we liked him. [laughter] now they take his name of schools and turned down his statues. really, lincoln is not good enough for you? are we all having conversations also where we accidentally step in it? and what conversations do we now feel uncomfortable having because we re afraid to get it wrong? so, our panel is going to tackle all that in just a moment. also, the supreme court hearing challenges to president biden s student
not necessarily reflect the reality of another, or of the whole. soldiers enjoying a pause in battle does not mean there is no war. az prudhoe film for four jfk shot does not make it a parade. pretending otherwise is conning. people pretending otherwise is counting something else and enabling that come when you are a high-ranking elected official directly in line of succession to the presidency is hard to imagine. or so you might think. because that s just what house speaker kevin mccarthy has done. he s enabled this. the crowd was enormous. a small percentage of them were hooligans. they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again. the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists, they were sightseers. fox s tucker carlson last night cherry-picking from some 40,000 hours of footage that speaker mccarthy released to him and only him. of the january 6th attack on the capitol. the fox
facing that mathematical reality, kevin mccarthy can step aside and let somebody else do the job, acknowledging in the process that he s not the only person in congress capable of being speaker, or he can try and win over the people who oppose him, as you traditionally do in elections. you ve got reservations about kevin mccarthy? you don t want to be ruled by a man who wears the arabian flag lapel pin? no problem. we get it. they re using threats and fear to force people to support the candidate. anyone who opposes kevin mccarthy, one his surrogates explained today, is, quote, an enemy, a, quote, terrorist. that s their mechanical. in a moment we ll tell you how that message has worked out. first tonight in the summer of 2016, the government transparency organization wikileaks released thousands of emails from the servers of the democratic national committee. those documents showed conclusively that hillary clinton partisans had worked to rig the democratic primary against h
facing that mathematical reality, kevin mccarthy can step aside and let somebody else do the job, acknowledging in the process that he s not the only person in congress capable of being speaker, or he can try and win over the people who oppose him, as you traditionally do in elections. you ve got reservations about kevin mccarthy? you don t want to be ruled by a man who wears the arabian flag lapel pin? no problem. we get it. they re using threats and fear to force people to support the candidate. anyone who opposes kevin mccarthy, one his surrogates explained today, is, quote, an enemy, a, quote, terrorist. that s their mechanical. in a moment we ll tell you how that message has worked out. first tonight in the summer of 2016, the government transparency organization wikileaks released thousands of emails from the servers of the democratic national committee. those documents showed conclusively that hillary clinton partisans had worked to rig the democratic primary against h