>> well, we would have a security jar, which is locked away, far away. and if someone does order that pizza. >> so far, no one has been brave enough to order it. the restaurant is ordering a compromise putting the pina colada cocktails on the menu. that's fine. >> i'm anti-pineapple on pizza, but i'm conflicted over the fact the country thinks that's food. >> all right. >> it is on my side. i don't know. >> you're staying kind of quiet over there. you like pineapple ? >> absolutely not. >> we're on the same team here. oh my gosh, we are. >> i like pineapple. >> and pepperoni pizza. >> sure. >> have a great night. let' s

>> today is the fourth anniversary of the violent attack on the capitol which president trump has bizarrely called a day of love. >> it's was a day of love. there is a beauty to it and they love to it. they were there with love in their hearts. there was love. >> this january 6th, give her the perfect gift to commemorate that special day of love. it's the most romantic way to make ure she never forgets those three little words. >> hang mike pence! >> every coup begins with kay. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight... capitol quiet. plus, stephen welcomes... congressman adam kinzinger! and musical guest jon batiste! featuring louis cato and "the late show" band.

and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey, you know what? thank you, my friends. please, please have a seat. welcome. welcome one and all to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. it's nice to hear, it's good to be back. i missed everybody. today's january 6th which of course is the feast of the epiphany when the three wise men, say it with me, balthazar, gaspar, and melchior, followed a star to bethlehem, then stormed the manger and stole mary's podium.

what else? what else? oh, yeah, today, donald trump's electoral victory was certified by congress. [booing] yes, i used to feel things too. and the striking thing about this time was how normal it was again. there was no riot. no one broke a window with their beard. [laughter] in fact, the whole process took only 30 minutes. yeah, democracy shouldn't take longer than it takes rachel ray to make a meal. peaceful transfer of power? yummo. now, if you had come up to me four years ago and said to my face that one day donald trump will be certified for a second term, i would've said, "six feet away please! social distancing! now if you excuse me, i have to go lysol my banana and bang a pot for nurses."

i'm not sure what there is to say about january 6th at this point. we all saw what happened. trump lost, he said he didn't, a bunch of cowardly republicans backed him up, they all whipped up a mob, which stormed the capitol and beat police with flagpoles, trying to overturn our democracy. this launched the largest criminal investigation in our nation's history. nearly 1,600 of the rioters face judicial inquiry, 1,000 of which have already been to trial or pleaded guilty. out of all of them, two have been acquitted. the results are in. it was bad. or as trump would call it... >> that was a day of love. >> stephen: yes. yes, on january 6th, love was in the air. also bear spray. and by reinstalling donald trump, we are stepping right through the orwellian looking glass. with trump, hate is love. violence is peace. nugget is food.

while most americans exist in something called -- and i hope i'm pronouncing this correctly -- reality, trump's total whitewashing of the insurrection has convinced his base that the coup was no big whoop. for example, in a washington post poll, 55% of voters say the january 6 riot was an attack on democracy, but 43% said too much has been made of it. and 28% of voters said the events of january 6th were equally "peaceful" and "violent." that makes no sense! "officer, i'm violent and peaceful! yes, i stabbed him 20 times, but in my defense, i pulled the knife out 19 times. okay? murder. saved his life. die! die! die! live! live! live!" now, during the transition, democrats like hakeem jeffries are taking the high road but

keeping their eye on the democratic prize. unfortunately, he phrased it this way... >> we will fight hard to defend the freedom of opportunity that makes the american dream possible. we will fart hard -- fight hard for the freedom to vote. >> stephen: don't you correct yourself! you were right the first time! you gotta fart hard for the freedom to vote. that's why they give out those stickers on election day that say "i tooted." but be careful, because on january 6th, if you fart for freedom too hard, you could end up with... >> the poo-poo. >> stephen: thank you. thank you, madame speaker. 4 years of jokes out of that quote. the electoral certification wasn't the only big news from d.c. today, because this afternoon,

washington d.c. hit by winter snowstorm. that headline again, "hell freezes over." the weather is disrupting travel everywhere. more than 3000 flights have been canceled or delayed, and amtrak announced over 40 trains were canceled. and amtrak only cancels trains for very good reasons, like they feel like it. now, if you're caught up in this storm and want a name to shake your fist at, turns out, the folks are calling it winter storm blair. "winter storm" because of the freezing conditions and "blair" because the storm bullied you in grade school for being poor. [laughter] now, to be clear, that name is made up. the national weather service does not officially name winter storms. winter storm blair was named by the weather channel.

okay, fine. but you're a tv network. if you're gonna name things, don't miss out on a major opportunity for sponsorship. "nearly 3 million people are without power today as plunging temperatures endanger lives, all thanks to the yoplait gogurt blizzard. yes. [applause] from the weather channel to all those affected, you are in our thoughts, our prayers, our squeezes and our slurps." speaking of snow, there's news from canada. today, justin trudeau announced he will resign as prime minister. this is gonna have massive repercussions. you realize with the loss of trudeau, the hottest g7 leader is now olaf scholz. [german accent]

"well, hello there, fraulein. would you like herr scholz to take it... "all off"? in his resignation speech today, trudeau said he was leaving reluctantly. >> i'm a fighter. every bone in my body has always told me to fight because i care deeply." >> stephen: "except for this bone right here. this here, this is my quittin' bone. what's that? what's that? try one of those viking river cruises? good idea, quittin' bone. mmm, melted cheese on the danube." hey, everybody been on one of those viking river cruises? no one has ever been on one. i imagine it's drinking and she's the entire time. farting hard for freedom. [laughter] we have a peabody. we can only do so many fart

jokes. hey, remember joe biden? he does, sometimes. the president is doing everything he can to secure his legacy on the way out the door, and yesterday, he signed the social security fairness act. it is a major legislative accomplishment that will help a lot of seniors and stuff. i don't know. but the main takeaway was when he tried to sing happy birthday to a teen whose grandma will benefit from the bill. >> joining us today, alicio, a 17-year-old from texas. where's alicio? guess what? tomorrow is his birthday. we gotta sing "happy birthday." ready? ♪ happy birthday to you! ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you! ♪ ♪ happy birthday alilooo ♪ [laughter]

>> stephen: aleeda-leedaloo? you just said "alicio"! that's kind of a tough lyric to whiff. reminds me of this famous moment from simon and garfunkel. ♪ god bless you please, mrs. rermerhern ♪ this weekend, biden also handed out presidential medals of freedom to american leaders in the arts, culture, and science. the honorees included magic johnson, who had to bend down to receive his medal. [whistles] missed opportunity to give joe biden a piggy back ride. [whistles] the president also gave a medal to billionaire and political activist george soros. it was a nice gesture, and i say, it's about damn time. because he may be the bete noire of the right, but i believe in my heart george soros is a wonderful man who's only concerned with keeping an open and liberal society, not only for americans but for the world. plus, he has an ass that will not quit. [laughter]

[applause] another medal-getter was bill nye "the science guy," [cheers and applause] there you go. there it is. of course bill got the medal for his humanitarian work of saving science teachers who were too hungover to teach. that's why they also gave a medal to his partner, the av cart. [laughter] there were also honors for jane goodall, who dedicated her life to conservation efforts. [applause] along with fashion designer ralph lauren. now you may be thinking, one of those feels a little more "medal of freedomy" than the other.

but don't forget, without ralph, we'd never know the smell of man playing golf on horse. if watching biden give out his last medals of freedom makes you want to drink, good for you. also bad for you. because the surgeon general has called for cancer warnings on alcohol. cancer? huh. well, luckily, i'm a taurus. [cheers and applause] don't go too far. but guys, you can't put a warning label on alcohol. it's dangerous to drink and read at the same time! i'm trying to keep my eyes on the road. also, why does only fun stuff cause cancer? can't studies show it's bad to do stuff no one likes to do? "sorry, i can't refill the humidifier and then walk the sloshing container through the house in the dark. i could get lupus."

evidently, according to researchers, "there is no safe level" of alcohol to drink. well, yeah. but i don't drink to feel safe. i drink to feel nothing. happy january 6th! we got a great show for you tonight! my guest is congressman adam kinzinger, plus a performance by our old friend jon batiste. but when we come back, science! join us, won't you? new to the big city? yeah. -i'm mara. -hi. apparently progressive lets homeowners and renters bundle with their auto policy.

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♪ ♪ >> stephen: give it up for louis cato and "the late show" band, everybody. there you go. >> louis: happy new year. >> stephen: happy, happy. it's going to be a good one, you know what i mean? what's the option? right? we are just balls to the wall for the next year, right?

we've got a great guest joining us, a man who was actually one of my guests four years ago to buy from his congressional office between being evacuated and going back in to certify the electoral votes. adam kinzinger is going to be here. one of the members of the january 6th committee. plus, we are going to have a performance by our old friend jon batiste tonight. stick around for our friends over "after midnight." folks, as you know, i'm a big. fan of the sciences. for example,. geology, where my favorite. mineral is the actual. and completely real. "cummingtonite." actual rock which i don't have to tell you is a metamorphic rock from the mono-clinic crystal system... if you're doin' it right. and i like to tell you about

the latest scientific developments in my science segment... >> "the sound of science!" ♪ hello, science, my old friend ♪ [cheers and applause] >> stephen: garfunkel. that's two funkels in one night. first up, a nutrition study analyzed the health effects of various ultra-processed foods and drinks and scientists have revealed that you lose 12 minutes of your life every time you drink a coke. explains why coca-cola changed their slogan from "taste the feeling" to "get your affairs in order." the study also found that a hot dog could shave 36 minutes off your life. but all i gotta do is take 40 minutes eating each hot dog and then i gain 4 minutes of life for each one. that way, i just have to eat three hot dogs to get a guilt-free coke. sorry, science. that's math. [applause]

that's true. that works. next up, in canine news, researchers are now saying that the calculation of seven dog years to one human ear is a common and persistent myth. so how should we guess our canine's age? well, they say the first year of a medium sized dog's life is roughly 15 human years, and the second year of life is about 9 years for a person. and after that, each human year is approximately five years for a dog. okay, so my medium-sized dog benny right there, benny is 5. that means 15 for the first year plus 9 is 24 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5 means he's 39 years old. and still living at home. get it together. get it together. next up in the sound of science, while renovating a building in

the city of alkmaar in the netherlands, archaeologists have discovered a mysterious floor of bones. gonna make for a weird episode of "the property brothers." "well, jan, as we began the demo in your kitchen, we found... [menacing voice] a floor of bones. we have awoken an ancient evil that demands blood be repaid with blood. now let's check out the den! we're gonna do something about that popcorn ceiling." [applause] "property brothers" fans. also in science, according to experts going on a "fart walk" after eating can be good for your health. and if you're a man over 50, every walk is a fart walk. [ping!] hey! i just hit 10,000. next up in sciencing, if you're a parent concerned your kid is spending too much time looking at screens, worry not, because a new study links spending more time playing

video games with a boost in intelligence in children. that study published in the prestigious "new england journal of your nephew kyle." next up, scientists say, your coch could be emitting toxic vapors, specifically volatile organic compounds that could pose potential health risks, especially in indoor environments. so your couch might kill you, but only if you put it where all couches go. next up in "the sound of science," researchers have announced a new lollipop-shaped lickable device that can produce nine different flavors in virtual reality, allowing the user to taste flavors like sugar, salt, citric acid, cherry, passion fruit, green tea, milk, durian, and grapefruit. or you can just go lick everything at the grocery store for the low, low cost of bail.

it's a fun job. next in "the sou' of sci'," scientists are trying to crack the recipe for the perfect plant-based eggs. apparently, it's been tricky because real eggs play so many roles in the kitchen, so an all-purpose egg substitute must do all those things well, while also yielding the familiar texture and perhaps flavor of real eggs. "perhaps" flavor? well, i'm sold. it reminds me of when arby's updated their slogan: "we have perhaps meats." we'll be right back with congressman adam kinzinger. ♪ ♪ when i was diagnosed with h-i-v, i didn't know who i would be. but here i am... ...being me. keep being you... ...and ask your healthcare provider about the number one prescribed h-i-v treatment, biktarvy.

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chickens flying around. you've got a bad headache. you're only wearing a shirt. you're like "what did we do last night?" that's where i thought the party was. >> your thinking even at that moment was like the insurrection attempt to overthrow the government and the coup d'etat that included 140 republicans voted to not certify the election, you just thought that might've been a crazy bender and they were going to wake up and get their [bleep] together? >> yeah, you're going to wake up and deal with the hangover and gut it out and drink water, right? donald trump was a nonentity. nobody even showed up at andrews when he left. but you can always fix a hangover by starting to drink again. and that's when kevin mccarthy goes to mar-a-lago, that changed everything. >> stephen: please welcome back to "the late show," congressman adam kinzinger! [applause] ♪ ♪

>> mr. kinzinger: thank you. thank you. good to see you. >> stephen: good to see you too. >> mr. kinzinger: thanks. >> stephen: so, can i call you adam? i've been calling you congressman kinzinger for so many years. >> mr. kinzinger: you had to call me congressman for the first four years after january 6th but as of today, you can call me adam. >> stephen: okay, great. congressman, you tried really hard to stop donald trump from winning another term in office. it did not work. the american people disagreed with you. would you like to apologize to them? >> mr. kinzinger: only if you join me. >> stephen: i've got a tickle in my throat.

i don't know if i'll be able to. what do you make of the fact that donald trump, as you say in that clip, he was a nonentity. he was down. generally speaking, historically, i was wrong about this too. strong man is strongman ever not stronger than strongman weak and that's what i thought would happen but now strongman back. >> mr. kinzinger: he was weak and this is what the clip says, for three weeks nobody in the house g.o.p. was -- would even admit they knew donald trump. and so in this vacuum where nobody was speaking, i mean, look, him leaving andrews with nobody there goes to mar-a-lago. he's alone. and then kevin mccarthy made a decision, and that decision was "i really want to be speaker. if i take on trumpism i won't be able to be speaker. if i embrace it, everybody else will come along." i think this is a failure of leadership, of g.o.p.

leadership, because the base, the trust the g.o.p. leaders, look at them and when the republican leaders go, january 6th was nothing. was it tourist visit. i eventually going to be like i guess i believe them. there's a lot of responsibility because around for this, not the least of which of course is donald trump himself. >> stephen: you have said there was a bit of a silver lining to trump winning reelection. i am all ears. >> mr. kinzinger: [laughs] >> stephen: i'm not throwing up my hands. i'm intensely curious about what the next four years are going to be like. while i have my opinions about the guy, i'm not prejudging with the events will be. what do you think this over lighting is? >> mr. kinzinger: the silver lining is i truly believe we know the end of trumpism will be in four years. had donald trump lost... [cheers and applause] because if donald trump would have lost, you know, look, then he passes the baton on to somebody or maybe j.d. vance runs again or whatever.

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we will get to them just a moment if you don't mind, and to have voted to impeach trump on the january 6th impeachment. to investigate that attack, the damning report and at the end of the day, 55% of voters believe that the rioters were violent according to "the washington post." 21% believed they were peaceful. 28% believe they were equally peaceful and violent at the same time. >> mr. kinzinger: i mean, it's a good survey because it's indicative of this split world we live in where everybody has -- but what this shows his donald trump set out to whitewash what happened on january 6th and he succeeded with a significant number of people. i think there were still a lot of americans that were concerned

about january 6 that still voted for donald trump because of other issues, economics, inflation, whatever. but this is a big concern to me that people are getting their news in completely different worlds from their neighbor. i don't know the answer to that except that all we can do as leaders, as media, is just tell the american people the truth. and it's on the american people to seek out true information are not being manipulated, abused by a weak small man. [applause] >> stephen: what about the people who testified before the january 6th committee and ultimately members of the committee of course, about donald trump is that he's going to go after all those people. kash patel said he's going to go after those people. would you say lawyer up? >> mr. kinzinger: i mean look. >> stephen: that took courage for those people to do that. >> mr. kinzinger: donald trump has made it clear. with all the stuff going on, everyone is like we can move on from january 6 because we have this peaceful transfer. everybody is fine with moving on except donald trump. he has to keep revisiting it because we embarrassed him on the committee. >> stephen: what to think embarrassed him the most?

what you think the thing you said or did that just burned his bones the crispy is? >> mr. kinzinger: i think it's two things. sitting and doing absolutely nothing for 187 minutes while he was watching the capitol lease act. the best week you can describe it for him is he was completely incompetent and inapt and frozen indecision. i think he was waiting to see what the outcome would be. the other thing is, everybody with one or two exceptions that spoke to the chamber sixth committee were republicans. republicans in good standing, ruby red republicans that sat there, told the truth about how well-qualified donald trump was for office and that obviously bothered him. >> stephen: well, they january 6th committee is the number one target right now. people he's mad at, people who testified. he thinks you guys should be in jail. how good is your toilet hooch? >> mr. kinzinger: i'm practicing.

i am excited about, for four years people have been threatening me to go to gitmo. i've got these plans for what i'm going to make myself look like, and cuba. >> stephen: "get hard?" >> mr. kinzinger: i'm ready to go. >> stephen: good. bernie sanders says he thinks biden should offer preemptive pardons to a host of different people including the people in the january 6th committee. i know that you said on cnn with anderson cooper asked you point-blank, would you take a pardon if offered in your answer was -- >> mr. kinzinger: no. >> stephen: why? >> mr. kinzinger: because i didn't do anything wrong. if donald trump wants to come after me, do i want him to come after me? of course not but if he decides to i will be twice as much of a pain in his backside because i will from my cell in jail continue to remind the american people that this is not the country we live in.

this was not the country the constitution represents. i will continue to call him out. if that's what my next thing of service is is doing it from a jail cell, okay. >> stephen: can i have your pardon? >> mr. kinzinger: yeah, you can. [laughs] >> stephen: we've got to take another break here but stick around. we'll be right back with more congressman adam kinzinger. ♪ are you having any fun? ♪ ♪ what you getting out of living? ♪ ♪ who cares for what you've got ♪ ♪ if you're not having any fun? ♪ ♪ have a little fun ♪ when winter season hits emergen-c supports your immune system with so much more than vitamin c. be ready to fight back with emergen-c and for on-the-go immune support try emergen-c crystals. no water needed. ♪♪ some people just know they can save hundreds on car insurance by checking allstate first. like you know to check your spelling first

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are back with congressman and subject of the new documentary "the last republican," adam kinzinger. on january 20th, as hakeem jeffries said, today in congress, not all americans are election deniers. donald trump won eight years ago. whatever kind of cloud he may have won under, he was president of the united states. he won again. what concerns you most about the next four years? what is he going to do differently than biden that's going to concern you the most? >> mr. kinzinger: two things. number one as the war in ukraine. the importance of ukraine being able to defend itself against this invasion by russia. i'm very worried that he is going to basically break a commitment to let russia take ukraine or at least negotiate a settlement that can restart this war. >> stephen: he said he can fix it and 24 hours. >> mr. kinzinger: sure, yeah. if he gives vladimir putin everything he wants, he sure can. i worry that he's just going to set up another war in five or

ten years. russia has lost 700,000 people. 700,000 casualties which is an incredible amount. ukraine is acting heroically. i worry about that a lot and i worry about these guardrails of the law. what happens if you weaponize doj? that doesn't mean they're going to throw people in jail but if kash patel decides to just start investigations, that costs the average person lawyers, time, and everything, reputation. >> stephen: hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees that are just an investigation. you're not necessarily charged with anything. you're not sent to jail. not necessarily going to trial. just defending yourself. >> mr. kinzinger: and they will say "we didn't find anythng." but if that's two years down the road, everybody thinks you're guilty and you're bankrupt. that's weaponizing the law. not trying to throw somebody in jail for being on the committee. it's weaponizing the law. >> stephen: that's kash patel. there might be more to say on him but let's talk about some of the other people who are nominated by donald trump. matt gaetz is no longer in the

congress, which was fun to see -- applause. >> mr. kinzinger: it's fantastic. >> stephen: applause when it was announced that the person doing the roll call the swearing people inside matt gaetz sent a letter he's not going to be part of congress. there was applause bipartisan. he was going to be attorney general. he's out of there. kash patel for fbi. tulsi gabbard for director of national intelligence. she was -- oversees 17 or 18 agencies. pete hegseth, we can host a fox and friends, secretary of defense. which of those three, kash patel, tulsi gabbard and pete hegseth, would you have the strongest opinion on? >> mr. kinzinger: i mean, for

the country, kash patel. once you weaponize justice or the fbi, that's a huge problem. now -- >> stephen: there's a lot of autonomy in that job. he says go, the dogs attack. >> mr. kinzinger: yeah, there's really no oversight. next would be obviously hegseth. dod, this is the largest corporation in the world. there's people that put their lives on the line, and pete served honorably in the military mode by the way, anywhere in d.c. there's probably 50,000 people as were better qualified than pete hegseth to run the dod. tulsi, i knew her and i was friends with her up until the day she visited bashar al-assad who think god is out of power and do his dirty work basically saying it was the rebels who use chemical weapons and not bashar al-assad. seeing that twisting literally rushing talking points. i knew she had a little bit of affection for assad but to visit and see russian talking points, the russian television station has called her basically "our girlfriend."

that's frightening to me. >> stephen: this new documentary called the last republican which covers the last year and half of your career. a bunch of requests, people want to make documentaries about you. why say yes to director steve pink who might be best known as some people in the audience as the director of the movie "hot tub time machine." >> mr. kinzinger: true story. i love "hot tub time machine." >> stephen: it's a fine movie, not the most policy-based. >> mr. kinzinger: when he came to me, i had a lot of offers. they were interested in the human story of what i was going through. it was less about the horse race. are you going to run again? it was more the human element. that's when i love about the film.

it shows first off he's very far left. it shows us getting along and having great respect for each other despite our differences. and beyond that, it's the human story. i thought that's what attracted me to it. i love talking about him behind the scenes stuff with "hot tub." >> stephen: if you had a hot tub time machine, where would you take it and what would you do? >> mr. kinzinger: january 7, 2021. i'll grab kevin mccarthy by the collar and tell him whatever you're about to say today, remember it and stick with it. i don't think we would have donald trump today if he did. >> stephen: adam, think is much for being here. "the last republican" is in theaters now. congressman adam kinzinger, everybody. we'll be right back with a performance by jon batiste.

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>> stephen: and now with a special performance from his album, "beethoven blues," please welcome back our old friend, jon batiste. [cheers and applause] >> welcome to the mind of jon batiste. [laughs] yeah, that's right. you're hearing my thoughts as i play. ♪ ♪ i just want to remind you to never stop chasing your dreams.

be you. ♪ don't stop dreaming ♪ ♪ don't stop believing ♪ ♪ because you know that our time is coming up ♪ ♪ so you won't even... when i was a kid i had dreams of playing on tv just like this, studying classical music. yep, the study of beethoven. put a little blues and it too. [laughs] the blues can be soulful, but it's also dreaming.

aspirational. open it up, batiste, and healed the people. ♪ ♪ modulation. [laughs] ♪ ♪ you'll be a rock star for this. when i was a kid, i always thought if i played beethoven in the same way that you play "when the saints go marching in." ♪ when the saints go marching in ♪

up and down the streets of new orleans. i want to be in that number ♪ ♪ oh when the saints go marching in ♪ put the fire on, let's go, let's go, let's go. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ but it all goes back to africa. so i took beethoven and brought it to congo. the rhythm, baby.

two against three. the odd rhythm against the even. feel it in your soul. i love you even if i don't know you. life force energy. i said i love you even if i don't know you. keep going. ♪ ♪ yeah! [cheers and applause] >> stephen: jon batiste,

everybody!