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
great to see you, my friend. much appreciated. thanks for joining us at home. lots of news at all times going on right now. in california, the monsoon styled brains there have literally 10% of the entire u.s. population living under a flood watch right now. the population of california is so big, that when 90% of californians are under a flood watch, as they are tonight, that is 20% of the whole u.s. population. in this accession of extremely wet storms, the north central coast of california has been particularly hard hit already. now, with additional storms still coming, there are all kinds of california rivers that don t usually flood that are looking out like they are going to flood. these are places where there aren t a lot of flood mitigation systems, because they are rivers that don t usually flood. there is not a lot of local experience with inland flooding with people surviving it, and again, mitigating it. it is bad tonight. a lot of california with more rain and s
live with representative jayapal, who s chair of the progressive caucus. we have a lot to ask her about with just three weeks left until the midterm elections. but first, during the second half of the presidency and even since he s been out of office, donald trump has been obsessed with a man named john durham. i look forward to but durham s report, that s the one i look forward. what happened to durham, was there? and by the way, where is there, what happened? where is he? he disappeared. trump was obsessed with john durham, we ll call him bowl john durham, because he was the guy who s gonna prove that once and for all, the entire trump russia investigation was a hoax, exactly as trump has always set. justice was coming, and it s just around the corner. john durham had been handpicked by trump s attorney general, bill barr, for expressly that purpose. trump s allies and the right-wing media were obsessed with durham as well. he was going to blow the lid off the wh
it bears repeating. it does, thank you, as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us. we have a great big show just this evening, and in just a few minutes, i ll be joined live here on set by representative camilla jayapal of, whose chair we have a lot to ask her about with just three weeks left until the midterm elections but first, during the second half of his presidency, and even since he has been out of office donald trump has been obsessed with a man named john durham. i look forward to but durham s report, that s the one i look forward. what happened to durham, was there? and by the way, where is there, what happened? where is he? he disappeared. trump was obsessed with john durham, we ll call him bowl john durham, because he was the guy who s gonna prove that once and for all, the entire trump russia investigation was a hoax, exactly as trump has always set. justice was coming, and it s just around the corner. john durham had been handpicked by tr
detective ted williams, a defense attorney in his own right. we re learning everything every hour today, ted. the most scary has to be that he was looking at a follow up attack in madison, wisconsin. we don t know for sure why hi cancelled that. but he was essentially there. yeah, that s very scary. because after he left the scene there in highland park or illinois, he headed to his mom s house, he picked up his mom s car and he headed to madison, wisconsin. from what we ve been told, he is talking to the authorities, neil. he s informed the authorities that he saw a crowd there in madison, wisconsin and he thought very strongly about shooting up that crowd. he thought about it. he then came back, of course, to illinois and quite naturally i m happy and elated to say that he was captured there in illinois. neil: ted, i want to go over the red flag laws in place in illinois that he was violating or at least authorities ignored or didn t have any idea going back to 2019. of