that will help with first responders and help their efforts to battle the flames . for another family affected by the palisades fire they have been reunited with a treasured heirloom, a ring that has been passed down across three generations. four city firefighters went back to home had been destroyed after getting a message from the family that lived there . after sifting through the debris they found a safe with the ring inside of it still. the family says they are so grateful for all of their hard work. i mean, these little things mean a lot to people. >> sure. >> people who lost everything. just that little hope there. the fact that they were willing to go back inside just shows the hope >> president-elect donald trump is now a convicted felon. the judge gave jump and unconditional discharge, but he cannot own a gun and he will still have to submit a dna sample to the new york state

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enforcing 150,000 people to evacuate. california, all of america sees you and is with you, and americans are putting our money where our mouths are. go fun to be alone, americans have donated more than $50 million to the effort, and if you -- [cheers and applause] yeah. that's the spirit. if you want to give but you don't know where, you can scan this qr code right here be a list of charities that are on the ground addressing immediate needs of the people who have been affected by this tragedy. and it's not just americans who are pitching in canada and mexico are sending teams to help california fight the fires. grosse mexico! gracias. and to canada... gracias, eh? i don't speak canadian but i'm very grateful.

you know who's not helping? congressional republicans because they want strings attached california's fire aid. [boos] that is an awful, awful way to respond to any emergency. "911, what's in it for me?" [laughter] regardless of the fact that the most recent annual report shows that california put in $83 billion more into the federal treasury and i got back, you are hearing stuff like this from senator john barrasso of wyoming, a state whose entire population is smaller than the morning rush crowd at the coffee bean and tea leaf on la cienega. >> there can't be a blank check on this, because people want to make sure that as rebuilding occurs, as things go on in california, they have to be resilient so that these thoughts of things can't happen again and the policies of the liberal administration out there i believe have made these fires worse. if. >> stephen: yes, we must demand changes to clearly

liberal policies like wind. first it's blowing one way, then it's blowing the other. it's time to end the bisexual breeze! [laughter and applause] that's what's starting a fire. if that's what -- that's what -- plus, if liberal policies don't start fires, and what did the forestry service make this psa? >> only you can prevent universal pre-k! [laughter] >> stephen: as is often the case, the very worst commentaries coming from a very worst commenter, donald trump. rather than pledging desperately needed federal aid to america's most populated state while it is still on fire, trump has blamed california's leaders, calling them incompetent polls and renaming the governor governor gavin new-scum. of course during tragedy it's tradition for the president to demean the governor of the state

whether tragedy is occurring. that's why barack obama wasted no time to give chris christie a wedgy. not easy. [applause] not easy. trump is also being a jerk to other countries. take greenland, which is his plan, evidently. [laughter] and now we know what that might cost. recently the "financial times" estimated greenland had a valuation of $1.1 trillion. now, to put that in terms you will understand, that's a lot. but trump seems to have different price in mind. >> don jr. and some of your team just got back from greenland. what's the price tag? >> well, maybe no price tag. [laughter] >> stephen: so just steal it? denmark, you're going to want to put greenland in one of those locked cases with the toothpaste at walgreens. [laughter] according to trump, don jr.'s

recent visit proved just how much the greenland if an e.r.es love maga. >> the clips just released, the people greenland would love to become a state of the unit states of america. we were greeted with tremendous love and affection and respect. >> stephen: yeah, there's just one problem. according to danish media reports, all of those clips of greenlanders greeting donald trump were staged after don jr. rounded up homeless people from the area, promising them a meal in exchange for their participation. [boos] not only is that sad, it also excludes the newest greenlander, rudy giuliani. that's not greenlandish. i just want to take a second here, this is not in the script. i want to take a sidestep your to point out how [bleep] up do you have to be to be homeless in

greenland! residents of greenland not being paid by don jr. have a different take on trump's plans. they are saying they are a bit concerned and scared, but also that it's a little bit of a joke. yes, the best jokes are always concerning and scary. that's why greenland's top stand-up comic is the horse strangler. [laughter] it's funny at first... of course trump's buddies in congress are trying to downplay his crazy like they always do. like senator from oklahoma where the bangs, sweeping down your face. james lankford. langford was asked about the threats and he said this. decode the united states is not going to invade another country, that's not who we are. >> stephen: no, that's not who

we are. if you don't believe me, ask mexico, panama, nicaragua, guatemala, vietnam, lebanon, haiti, the philippines, congo, cuba, and iraq. [applause] they will all agree, or they won't be invaded again... here's a little something in the smile file from donald trump this past friday, because after a lifetime of contempt for the law, trump was finally facing sentencing for his felony conviction in his new york hush money trial. the judge slapped him with "declined to impose any punishment," that technical name of the not at all punishment trump received is "unconditional discharge" and you know that trump is no fan of unconditional discharge. [laughter] that's how he got eric. [laughter and cheering]

there are going to be a few consequences. for instance, trump now can't own a gun. "mr. president, you will understand, since you are convicted for public safety we cannot allow you to own a firearm, okay? next up, here are the launch codes. this button destroys civilization as we know it, and this one orders you a diet coke. or, shoot, is that the other way around?" with trump's inauguration looming we officially enter joe biden's final week as president, so joe is doing all the fun stuff. this weekend biden honored pope francis with the presidential medal of freedom. it's the highest american honor seethed by a pope since john the 23rd got the j.d. power and associates award for best midsize pope.

[laughter] biden was supposed to travel to italy for the gelato -- i mean, the ceremony. but he decided to cancel because of the california wildfires. instead, he bestowed the award to the pope during a phone call. since biden's 82 and pope francis is 88, this is the first medal of freedom awarded over consumer cellular. you know their slogan, "mom, did you fall, don't call me at 7:00 a.m. unless you fell." stay safe, mom. you stay safe. big news this week and from the world of tennis, a.k.a. big pickleball. [laughter] because it was the official kickoff of the australian open and an american tennis star vomited mid-match. the six star was the world's 16th-ranked tennis player, seen here sliding into home net read all right, people have waited

long enough. let him let her rip. in the red at the bottom, he walks over to the sideline and... boom! that is a massive scandal. he hurled on center court and the ball girl didn't even try to catch it. but the most incredible part of the story is that he then went on to win the match. [cheers and applause] amazing. come on! that is good for him, but rough for his opponent. "so the other guy started puking while you were playing how much did you win by? you won, right?" anyway, it's a crazy story and you can see it all in the steamy new zendaya movie. we've got a great show for you tonight! my guests are david schwimmer and poet kwame alexander. when we come back, is your

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>> stephen: welcome back! give it up for louis cato and the late show band, everybody! [cheers and applause] i want to give a shout out to anybody watching this clip on tiktok right now. i think if anything, the show is even more enjoyable in portrait. [laughter] it's slenderizing. it adds a air of mystery. what am i holding in my hands? you don't even know if i have hands right now. but ladies and gentlemen, our beloved tiktok is in trouble. gap is owned by a chinese company called bytedance named for the face that alleged white men make on the dance floor. [laughter and applause] by law, the chinese government could compel any chinese

companies like bytedance to hand over all the data tey gather on us. so last april congress passed a law and joe biden signed it demanding that bytedance sell its stake in tiktok or the platform would be banned in the united states. it had broad bipartisan support in congress, passing 79-18 in the senate, but senators may not understand the ramifications of banning this technology, because they are so old that they used their phones as phones. bytedance did not play ball, so tiktok is scheduled to be shut down by january 19th, just six days from now. that's right. the clock is running down for tiktok. if only there was some sort of sound effect that would capture that idea... the thing is, if tiktok is banned, it will have a huge impact on our economy. a lot of people make their living on the platform. according to tiktok, in 2023 there app drove $14.7 billion in

small business owners revenue and contributed 24.2 billion to the country's gdp. which isn't surprising, creators love tiktok, because the algorithm finds the right audience, no matter what subject people are into. you can talk about literature on book talk, share your moves, see cute puppies, exchange recipes on cooktop, and of course if you are a chicken that wants to speak to other chickens, and your native language, that can be found on buck, buck, buck tok. [laughter and applause] sure. why not. we've peaked. we've peaked as an organization. tiktok creators are tiktoked off, like this woman. >> there are a lot of good, honest hardworking people that depend on the money they make from tiktok to survive from day-to-day. i'm just an old woman from east texas, but i've got sense enough to know if a foreign country wants to steal our secrets, they

don't need a social media app to do it. >> stephen: that's right, foreign countries don't need a social media app to steal our nation's secrets. they just need a membership to mar-a-lago. [laughter and applause] on friday, this past friday, tiktok went to the supreme court to try to shut down the shutdown but it doesn't seem like the court was all that convinced, even after tiktok's lawyer downplayed the idea that china could manipulate content for propaganda purposes. >> look, everybody manipulate content, there are lots of people who think cnn, fox news, "the wall street journal," "the new york times" are manipulate in their content. that is core protected speech. >> stephen: okay, and also, clearly the justices have never been on tiktok. it's just a bunch of silly videos and helpful recipes, lik& this one i found today. >> this one night weeknight pasta recipe will have you saying yum! and also bring that

taiwan has always historically been a part of china. [laughter] >> stephen: oh, my god, that sounds delicious! so here's the question, is tiktok a security threat or is tiktok an economic boom for the creator economy, or neither, or both? to help us find the answer, please welcome former chief of staff from both the director of cia and the secretary of defense, and current national security analyst, jeremy bash. jeremy bash, everybody! please have a seat. there you go. >> pleasure. >> stephen: okay, jeremy. thanks for being here. here's the question: is tiktok a security threat or an economic boom for the creator economy, or neither, or both? >> i would say both. i'm the dad of two teenage daughters, they are doing scrolling and there's candy salad, slime videos and occasional trauma dump but there's also nother side of

tiktok, which is that china is engaged in an ongoing and unrelenting effort to hack the united states, to gather our personal information, to gather our financial information, to hack into our electrical grid, water systems, financial systems and now they've got a surveillance tool in everybody's pocket on everybody's phone because this chinese software can amass all of that data, harvest it together and they can build an incredibly large dossier of american personal information and they can use that to steal passwords, to hack into the electrical system, the water system, the financial system -- >> stephen: how does china do that from hacking an end knowing your daughters are watching trauma dumps? how did them that hack the electrical system? >> because the offer doesn't just have funny videos, it also collects everywhere you go, everybody to talk to, everybody you work with, it can also turn on a microphone, it can amass a massive amount of information

and when you put put it all together, stephen, constitutes a major cyber risk to the united states and our critical infrastructure. >> stephen: there among of social media companies, are there others we should be banning? >> i think the key distinction is if a chinese-owned company has software on the phones of 170 million americans it's a serious national security threat. and there are other issues, because that recommendation algorithm is so strong, it's what makes tiktok so addictive and interesting to watch, that's an opportunity for china to influence not just our young people -- oftentimes the first thing that my daughters know about an issue whether it's a wildfire or school shooting or politics or the middle east or ukraine, they've learned from tiktok. often time it's the only thing they know. so if there were a geopolitical crisis in china wants to use this algorithm to advance certain narratives, certain information, certain propaganda, if we were in, heaven forbid, a war with china, this would be the mother of all propaganda platforms to try to good use

buried. >> stephen: what about the people who make their business on there? aren't they going to be hurt? how do you help them? >> the small business owners who earn a living on tiktok are injured. that's a series consideration that congress looked at. there are other ways they can go on other socially to flatworms, american preference. >> stephen: and american could come in and buy this, right? >> and that's what donald trump wants. so donald trump was against tiktok until his little dance videos one viral. and then actually he said i'm now for tiktok and when i become president i want to see if maybe company in that way china could sell it to maybe donald trump's friends, hey, a business transaction for him, his friends take a buck, china makes a buck, my kids can still watch their slime videos. is this a great country or what? >> stephen: just a few weeks ago therewere concerns that chinese-made air fryers were spying on users.

should i be afraid of my home appliances? >> no, but! all of our devices are connected to a network and to some degree all of them could be some sort of surveillance device, but nothing is as pervasive as tiktok. it's on the phones of 170 million americans and this is data going right to the chinese communist party. >> stephen: are you on tiktok? >> i'm not. >> stephen: you hesitated before answering. you are wondering how quickly can i delete it, is that what you are thinking? >> i may have downloaded it to prepare for this episode. once i walk out of here i'm deleting the app. it. >> stephen: last question, you are chief of staff to the director of the cia? >> i was worried. >> stephen: is there any possibility that you are ethan hunt in a mask right now? [laughter] you don't have to answer that. >> thanks, appreciate it. >> stephen: jeremy bash, everybody. we wil be right back with david schwimmer. ♪ ♪

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"friends." please welcome back to "the late show," david s david schwimmer! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ looking good! looking! it's lovely to see you again. >> you too. b1 how are you? >> i'm good. >> stephen: so lovely. getting to talk to him tonight. are people who don't know, we were in college together at northwestern university. we were both eager students at northwestern and here's a picture of our improv group, then no fun mud piranhas. can you pick us out? i'll pick out you. there you go. can you pick out me? >> i think i can.

[laughs] >> stephen: we had some hair, my friend. >> and facial hair. >> stephen: exactly. i could still grow a beard back then. overnight -- here's the thing, of all my friends at nu and chicago back then, you were the first one to blow up. you get "friends" -- there's just almost nothing that happens at that level anymore because there was like a unit culture at the time, on nbc, must-see tv. "friends explodes, you can't walk onto the floor of the mgm grand without shutting the place down and they must imagine that's two per exciting but also weird at the same time. >> oh yeah. it was exciting -- >> stephen: what were you, 27? >> 27. yeah. but the thing is -- >> stephen: you are not prepared for that. >> one day you are a waiter and the next day you are on the cover of magazines -- >> stephen: getting invited to do god knows what constantly.

>> there's no manual, there's no handbook or anything. >> stephen: there are people to guide you and give you good advice. >> you would think. you would think. >> stephen: a manager to manage you. how did that -- was that always good? >> most of the time -- actually, i was thinking recently you make a lot of mistakes and there was one big mistake i guess i made. i will try not to blame all my reps, but -- so i was the first in the cast of "friends" to be invited to host "saturday night live." it was a huge honor. >> stephen: of course. [applause] >> 1995, just a year after the show aired, and i couldn't be more excited. so i'm -- i think because, you know, "friends" at the time was shooting on tuesday nights we were shooting until sometimes 1:00 in the morning and so i had

to fly from l.a. to new york on wednesday to get there and it took six hour flight, three hour time difference and i really didn't get to arrive at "snl" until thursday, two days before the saturday show, and when i walked into the writer's room, like the entire writing stuff looked at me as if i had just slept with their mom or something. [laughter] they were not happy to see me and i had no idea. somehow i got through the next somehow wo days, but i was kindf traumatized. >> stephen: how did it go? >> [laughs] i don't remember how it went, to be honest. but it wasn't until years later that i was talking to somebody else who hosted the show and he said no, were supposed to show up on a monday. >> stephen: no even told you that you had [bleep] up! >> no one told me and for years, i had no idea why. recently i received an email.

i was invited to the 50th anniversary of "saturday night live," which is coming up in february -- >> stephen: is one of the previous posts? >> i guess. and i'm -- it's been 30 years and i'm thinking maybe they forgot? >> stephen: that they hate you? >> that they don't like me? or it's just some intern that's tasked with emailing everyone who's ever hosted. but i don't know what to do because -- >> stephen: you should go! i worked over there for a little bit and no one invited me. [laughter] >> but i don't want to be like charlie brown with the football, you know? you show up all eager. nope, we don't want you here. >> stephen: wow -- when is it? >> do want to be my plus one? [laughter and applause] >> stephen: do you have a plus one? >> yes! >> stephen: i will go, that will be fun! we wil take a quick break but we will be right back with more

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[cheers and applause] >> stephen: hey, everybody, we are back with the star of the new "goosebumps: the vanishing" on disney+. mr. david schwimmer. we were both waiters and chicago. were you a good waiter? >> i was a great waiter. >> stephen: i waited at schools he. >> you were great.

>> stephen: i was very good. any number of tables, you could not put me in the weeds. >> i think we were both excellent waiters. >> stephen: where did you wait? i just told you that i had a little upscale italian, let's see how good you were. >> i was a roller-skating waiter in chicago. >> stephen: you are a roller-skating waiter and you didn't get a part in "happy days?" [laughter] i understand you had a little bit of a unique hustle. did you work with your mom? >> i had so many jobs. i had so many banana jobs. so yes, one summer after my freshman year in college, i was just looking for work and my mom said you can be a process server for me. my mom was a divorce lawyer and so you'd -- you'd be the guy. i was the guy who -- >> stephen: would pop out of the bushes? bushes and serve you divorce

papers. so -- at the time i was 18, i'm like i was james bond. i'm not james bond because you get a tip -- you are tipped off as to where they might be, and once -- oh, man. [laughs] thank goodness i've never run into him since, but i served rod stewart. i don't even know if he knows -- i don't think he knows. >> stephen: he knows now... [laughter and applause] change your locks, man. he is vengeful. he's vengeful. >> he's not here, is he? >> stephen: rod! that's fantastic. you could theoretically run into rod stewart sometime. and now he knows to punch you. now you're starting in the new series "goosebumps: the vanishing," dipping your toe into the horror genre. >> yeah.

>> stephen: any surprising parts about working in horror? >> the surprising thing for me -- this sounds so naive but it was so not scary to shoot. do know what i -- >> stephen: you go insane i want to do it but i'm afraid i might be scared? >> no, i love being scared and i love scaring people in a fun way. there was part of me that was like i don't know -- because i had never done the horror action comedy genre before but it was so not scary to shoot, which makes sense because everything is broken down and then you see the guy in the scary thing it's like hey, what's up, man. >> stephen: it finally dawned on youth that show business isn't real! [laughter] all those years you thought you were at a coffee shop with your buddies. >> pretty much. >> stephen: phuket scared easily yourself? >> not really. but i really like scaring -- in

a fun way, scaring people that i know. >> stephen: you like terrifying other humans. >> especially -- oh, my gosh, the greatest joy in the world was scaring my sister growing up, nothing came close. >> stephen: anything like -- what would be the thing? >> mostly i would either -- [laughs] i would get under her covers and be as flat as possible with all the stuff he's and pillows on top of me and i would wait for maybe 45 minutes until she was ready to climb into bed, i'd hear her brushing her teeth and i would like -- oh, my god, this is going to be so good. [laughter] and then sure enough, turn off the lights, she'd come over and i'd jump -- as she was getting into bed, and she would pee herself. it was the greatest. >> stephen: so great to see

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[cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey, everybody! welcome back, ladies and gentlemen! my friends, my next guest is a

"new york times" best-selling author of 42 books was won the newberry medal and an emmy award. his new book is "how sweet the sound." please welcome back to "the late show," kwame alex alexander! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ we love poets on "the late show." would love having the artists on here who paint the pictures with the words and the rhythm and inflection and unexpected twists and turns and combinations admit just curious, you as a poet, what is it that first drew you to poetry? when did you discover poetry as a human being? >> i was three years old. >> stephen: you remember! >> i remember. i was living on the upper west side, my parents were in graduate school at university, my mother read to me every day.

my favorite book was a book that went like this: fox, sox, knocks, box. fox in socks, sox inbox. so at my preschool there was this kid who didn't like me and one particular day i built a castle out of wooden blocks to show my mother so should be proud of me when she came to pick me up, but this kid knocked them over so i went up to him and i used the only weapons i had. those were my blocks that you flipped, lest you want some quick payback, better flip my blocks stack and he started crying. so the teacher said we have a problem, your son kwame is arrogant. he intimidates all the kids with his words, and my mother said "thank you." [cheers and applause] >> stephen: mission accomplished! you were last here for your

collection of poetry "this is the honey." you now have "how sweet the sound," a soundtrack for america. this is your 42nd book -- who's counting -- and many of your books are for kids. do you change anything in the way you write if the book is for children as opposed to general public? >> not really. i try to write books that i would have wanted to have read when i was four or ten or 12 and i would love now. so i'm writing about topics that i think families can read and enjoy together, but certainly i have a soft spot in my heart for young people because i believe that the mind of an adult begins in the imagination of a child, and what better way to enhance, elevate that imagination then through the words on a page. if. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: the book is a love letter, "how sweet the sound," the book is a love letter to music. what makes up the soundtrack to america? >> well, i believe it's a

symphony of refuge, it's a score of redemption. last night i was at the blue note and i saw sweet honey and the right. they sang that. and i don't care where you are from, what you are feeling. when you hear music, music can heal, it can give you hope. it can open up a world of possibility, which is what the same thing i think children's books do. >> stephen: poetry and lyrics are -- well, what is the difference to you? are they the same thing? >> no. i think maybe they are cousins. maybe they are kissing cousins. [laughter] but imagine this, stephen. lyrics when they are done right, they need a beautiful guitarist, they need a sax player.

they need musicians to help elevate those words that are onn the page. >> stephen: they are in relationship to the music that they are dancing with. >> poetry is the whole band. you have to do it all in those words on the page and i think that makes it special. >> stephen: have you written lyrics? >> not successfully. >> stephen: you've given it a shot. >> i've given it a shot and that's when i found out they weren't the same. >> stephen: one of those first poets that was read to you, the acclaimed poet passed away a few weeks ago and i know that she was your mentor. how did the two of you become close? that's an extraordinary experience to become close to someone who influenced you when you were 3. >> well, i met her in 1987, this was the beginning of our relationship. i was a sophomore at a place called virginia tech. and she was visiting professor. me deeming myself a pretty

fantastic poet took her advanced poetry class. i think she gave me a c. and so i was livid and i went to her office and i -- i had just discovered jazz music and so i went and sat down in her office during office hours and i said i don't understand why i got a c-, i'm a poet. i listen to nancy wilson and i'm channeling my inner jazz and i know what i'm doing. and she said "kwame, i can teach you how to write poetry, but i cannot teach you how to be interesting." [laughter and applause] >> stephen: oh! i felt that. >> that was the beginning of a 37 your relationship. >> stephen: are there any words of hers who would like to leave us with your tonight? >> yeah. and the band joined me on this? >> stephen: yeah! and you guys... ♪ ♪ >> i know you just wrote a cookbook with your wife, so you might find this apropos. >> stephen: okay.

>> it's called "still life apron," by nikki giovanni. i would like to see you cooking. i would like for you to cook for me. i would like to see you decide upon the menu, go to the market, and pick the fruit, vegetables, the fish. i would like to see you smell the fish. i would like for you to test the flesh for freshness and firmness. i would like to watch you in the bakery buy the generals, deciding roles or crusty bread. i would like to watch you run back to get the goat butter. i would like to be sitting in a corner and you intent up on your meal not noticing me. when you go to the wine store, i would like to watch you wrestle with red or white wine, of course, because it is fish, but bread is so seductive.

and whoever fell in love over a glass of white wine? i uncharacteristically on time would like to greet you. i would like for you to greet me in a butchers apron. i would like for you to greet me only in an apron. i would like to watch the movement inside the apron as i undress for you. i would like to watch you walk -- no, stroll, to the closet where you bring out your buffalo plaid dressing gown, your pilloried, much lost dressing gown that smells like you. after you shower, after you brush your teeth, after you comb your hair, i would like to embrace your odor. i would like to embrace your essence as we sit down to eat. if i would like you to cook for me. yes. i would like that very much. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: thank you for

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