Woke in America, SCOTUS & student debt, the "real" UFO problem

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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The panel discusses politics and race, and, cancel culture and wokeness. Are we all having conversations at our dinner tables where we accidentally step in it? And what conversations do we now feel uncomfortable having because we're afraid to get it wrong? Plus, 26 million student loan forgiveness applications could be declined by the Supreme Court. And, a former Navy fighter pilot tells Alisyn the US has a real UFO problem, but it’s not balloons.Also tonight: Rupert Murdoch acknowledges FOX News hosts endorsed false stolen election claims, the Tennessee Governor who expects to sign an anti-drag show bill reacts to a high school photo of him reportedly wearing women’s clothing, the FAA is to conduct a sweeping safety review after multiple incidents, and climate crisis: scientists warn sea ice is hitting a record low.Hosted by Alisyn Camerota. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening everyone. I'm Allison Camerata. Welcome to CNN Tonight. We just heard the kind of conversation that a lot of us are having at our own dinner tables.
0:17.0	Bill Moore talked to Jake Tapper about politics and race and cancel culture and wokeness.
0:24.0	How do you define wokeness? Because I hear people use the term all the time and it means something different to everybody.
0:29.0	Well again I think it's this collection of ideas that are not building on liberalism but very often undoing it.
0:36.0	I mean five years ago Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial figure among liberals. We like to.
0:44.0	Now take his name off schools and tear down his statues. Really Lincoln isn't good enough for you?
0:52.0	Aren't 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?
1:01.0	So our panel is going to tackle all of that in just a moment. Also the Supreme Court hearing challenges to President Biden's student debt relief plan.
1:09.0	Some of the conservative justices seem skeptical. So how do their own experiences affect how they see all of this?
1:17.0	Is there a solution to the crushing burden of student debt and why is college so expensive anyway?
1:23.0	Plus listen to this President Biden and Jill Biden went out to dinner the other night and they both ordered the same thing.
1:31.0	Why? What dish was so good that they both had to get it? We have a lot to talk about tonight.
1:39.0	Okay so here in the studio with me we have Josh Barrow, host of the very serious podcast.
1:45.0	And one of our favorite Republicans, Margaret Hoover, one of our very favorite Republicans.
1:50.0	And one of our very favorite Texans, Elsie Granderson, and my estranged work husband, John Burmese.
1:56.0	I hope it would be very favorite.
1:59.0	I mean you know I do.
2:01.0	We can go down the list and have some.
2:03.0	I think I'm going to go with one of the very favorite ones.
2:06.0	All right great to have you all here.
2:08.0	Okay I mean should I just start with like this totally loaded question of who thinks wokeness has gone too far?
2:14.0	Well I mean I think it goes back to Jake Tepper's question what does wokeness even mean?
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