gaining political traction. but is he stoking a dangerous culture war? peter boghossian, welcome to hardtalk. i think we have to begin with that word woke . it is so widely used now. i am mindful that its origins in the united states were amongst the black community who insisted, demanded that people should wake up, get woke to injustice. now, that s a positive. you invest the word with a great deal of negativity why? it s not that i invest the word with a great deal of negativity. it s that it s become a catchword. we can use other words. helen pluckrose from the author of cynical theories called it. a british writer and academic. exactly, exactly. ..called it critical socialjustice, people maajid nawaz, also from here, has called it regressive leftism, wesley yang calls it the successor ideology. so it s an ideology that goes by different names, but it basically means the same thing. there s a suite of conclusions around which it cohers. so, for example, the author
carolina coast sharks have been seen and a 15-year-old surfer was even injured in an apparent shark attack. the teenager was dangling from her surfboard with their body in the water when she felt something on her leg. she was not seriously hurt, thank goodness. this fisherman captured a tiger shark attacking his kayak off the coast of hawaii. the fisherman believes the shark mistook it for a seal. only 57 shark attacks and all of last year. humans are not really on the sharks menu, we should say. people overly all overly worried about these shark attacks. 57 out of the amount of people that actually enter the water across the entire planet, that is quite rare, as you are pointing out. i think we are misrepresenting what shark attacks are. sharks live in the ocean, we live on land. if someone were just to come into my house one day come into my territory, i may take a bite out of them, too. this is a wonderful segue. what if you are eating at home and an intruder threw the
we are following all the developments in the house where lawmakers are on track to vote on a bill to raise the nation s debt limit. a key vote in this race to avoid default is just over two hours away and we re on it. u.s./china tensions soaring. a chinese fighter jet gets so close to a u.s. spy plane it causes turbulence. the pentagon is calling it an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver in international airspace. we ll have more on this close call ahead. and nasa tracking ufos. the space agency holding its first-ever public meeting on unidentified aerial phenomenon. the truth is out there. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. heading to the house floor with no time to lose. soon the house will hold a critical vote on president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy s debt ceiling deal, with the nation barreling toward june 5th, the day the treasury department says it will no longer bow able to pay its bills.
g7 in japan. we re going to begin right now with nbc s julia tsirkin on capitol hill force. julie, i know that you have no information about a phone call with the president and the house speaker. presumably this took place on board air force one. what do we know? yes, it. debt that s exactly right. i just got done out of the 20, nearly 20 minutes with the speaker. he walked out, along with their graves top ally in these negotiations. you had a conversation with president biden on air force one, as the president, of course, makes his way back to the united states from g7. the big picture here is a from mccarthy, from when we talk to him just a few minutes before that phone call. he said it was a productive discussion, he said the two leaders agreed to meet in person, sometime tomorrow afternoon. this is after the president is able to recover from his travels. it s still the top line number, here how long the that limitless will last, what the spending cap situation is, h
examining spending cuts needed to. balance america s budget. west virginia senator joe manchin on what he s willing to support to unleash america s energy assets. plus, the people of east palestine, ohio, are still reeling after pete buttigieg showed up three weeks after the train derailment. and then claimed to be on private time as president biden jetted off to ukraine and poland. are you going down will? what s that? are you going down there at all? yes, i am. when are you going? i ll share that when i m ready. can i get a photo with you? maria: all of this as president trump headed to east palestine with water and supplies for the region. we have told you loud and clear you are not forgotten. you are not forgotten. we stand with you, we pray for you, and we ll stay with you in your night to help answer your fight to help answer and the accountability that you deserve. the community has shown the tough and resilient heart of america, and that s what it is.