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
and michelle obama has a thing or two to say about her return to the white house. i noticed that you went, back you went back to the white house recently. you haven t been back. no, wasn t invited. [laughter] wow. all right, but we start with the former top booker for tucker carlson s show, who apparently has a heck of a story to tell. she filed a lawsuit against fox, and revealed a lot of unsavory details about how his show is run. it all sounds like one toxic, misogynistic boys club. people regularly using the sea word around the office. many posters of house speaker nancy pelosi in a plunging swimsuit adorning the walls. one of tucker s producers reportedly like to ask questions of maria bartiromo s sex life. this is an addition to the mega defamation lawsuit that just cost fox 787.5 million. tucker apparently did not think his own bosses were very smart. he sent this text to one of its producers right after the network called arizona for biden. quote, the combin
welcome to cnn tonight. is it possible the u.s. shot down a hobby balloon or that the u.s. new something and said nothing. plus trains have become less safe. tonight we ll talk about the rollback of regulations that allow them to carry more hazardous material through all of our neighborhoods, just as they did through east palatine, ohio, causing that toxic spill. very hard to believe there is a particular path that can cause harm small community. and with smart home technology, are you the boss of your home, or is your home the boss of you? tonight i ll speak to one man whose smart home locked him inside without the code to get out. you might think you control your own heat and lights and ring cameras, but think again. we have natasha alford, l.v. granderson, josh barrow, and thanks so much for spending friday night with me. great to have you guys here. okay. let s start. the northern illinois bottle cap balloon brigade is missing a balloon tonight. it is missing
tensions in the skies, a russian fighter jet forcing a u.s. drone over the black sea. the u.s. air force calling the encounter reckless and unprofessional. it s at a potentially dangerous escalation at a crucial time in russia s war against ukraine. joining me now from the magic wall is cnn military analyst, retired air force colonel cedric leighton. i m so glad you re here to help us unpack. what happened in this moment? now, colonel, officials are saying that this drone was over international waters on the black sea when a russian jet dumped fuel on them and bumped into the drone? i mean, it sounds incredibly dangerous. yeah, it really is, laura. and it s good to be with you tonight. and where this happened is probably about in this area right here. so, all of this is international waters that you see right here, just off the crimean coast. and of course, the southern coast of ukraine. so, this area is one in which the united states of course has a lot of interest in tr
face backlash will survive it. and who are we facing backlash from honestly, it s people who i assume a year or two down the road if they re stopping at a gas station in the thirsty for beer, they re going to still buy the beer. okay but to be fair here, like there are some real serious issues here. you had a florida legislator this week, calling transgender people, mutants and demons and you have kid rock shooting beer cans because he s upset that they have someone who s transgender as a part of their you know, marketing campaign. what s happening is transgender people already filled targeted. they already face an outsized amount of violence. and here we are again. jennings something up for what for what? what is the endgame here, people exist. they should be able to exist in their bodies the way they are, and instead you re hearing these these horrible things about transgender people, and they are going to be targets of violence . the more this sort of thing happens. that i