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
see it, the whole scene is so awful, so degrading to our once proud country. but the moment was it was too fast and at times pretty amusing , at one time the imminent tv doctor, dr. jill should be on walked over to kamala harris has been in kisse him square on that mouth withou a mask. what was that about? it was an unmistakable tea part vibe to it. old school stuff, except they let bystanders film the whole thing, so clearly they are exhibitionist to. a lot going on behind the scene at the biden administration, a lot of which we don t want to know more about that when did they find that to you time for hijinks? dr. jill is extremely busy, way busier than you are. according to her husband, she a working day and night to drag this country out of its medieva ignorance. that s not an easy task. jill, my wife who teaches full-time as an expression, and hope i get it right, any nation that out educates us is going t outcompete us. wait a second, dr. jill is teaching quote full
tonight andrew weissmann at a stunning revelations from the snt why prosecutor fired by donald trump. then, what we are learning about newly unsealed portions of the mar-a-lago affidavit and the republicans unveiled their plan to abort plant that abortion nationwide. i thought of the night to introduce a bill. senator amy corker on the overwhelming backlash to lindsey graham s plan. give me a chance to vote on this bill. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. well, it was as bad as it looked, in fact it was even worse. had a lot of occasions to say that in the trump years of american life but this new example of donald trump s misconduct in office is about as clear as it gets. it comes directly from the former united states attorney for the southern district of new york, arguably the most powerful district in the entire country. for two and a half years that man you see there jeffrey bergman served in that role as the head of th
enchiladas loop goes, everything else in the taco bell menu. the good news is america is getting a lot more amusing. the bad news is that it s also getting scary. the government announced that inflation is once again at a year-over-year record. artie knew this was happening, or did you? there were parts of today s report that were not expected. they seemed to defy the most basic rules of economics. here are the raw numbers. inflation cranked up a whopping 9.1% in june. the consumer price index released show the price of necessities and the price of gas is almost at 50% year-over-year. this ran 5.6% of the year, and food 10.4%. if you break it down to just groceries, the angle jump was 12.2%, citing the eggs at dashcam 26%. so, the biggest annual spike in inflation and more than 40 years, that s the headline. but, the reality is worse than that. during the harder years were inflation famously hit 14.64% during the high inflation years of the 1970s and 1980s, average
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