colbert must be stopped. i'm nancy pelosi and i support this ad, because americans deserve a better tomorrow today. join me in stopping colbert and creating a new politics, free of special interests money, the first step is passing the disclose act. learn more at facebook.com stop cole bert. >> you can't have cpac without herman cain he will be the headliner any day of the week. he made a grand entrance at cpac yesterday to the song made famous in his political ad. >> we must outsmart the liberals, we must outsmart the stupid people trying to ruin america. we outnumber the stupid people, trust me. i counted them. i knew that we together could change washington d.c. even if your david didn't make it to the white house. what i decided to do, is create an army of davids. one of the people that is running for united states congress in the state of ohio, in a very challenging district has adopted 9-9-9 and i am endorsing his candidacy is my friend, joe the plumber, stand up joe! >> doesn't get any better than that

of course, folks, i haven't mentioned the most powerful superpac, colbert superpac.pplause) now i happen to believe it's gauche to talk about all the money you have, so i will let other people do it. >> stephen colbert started his own superpac. he pulled down a million bucks. >> he raised a million dollars. >> a million dollars. >> $1 million dollars. >> a million dollars, here. >> $1 million dollars! >> a million dollars well 1 million. >> $1 million. >> stephen: yes, a million dollars. and only half of it went to paying for those movie clips. folks, it all started 11 months ago right here. you see, hi just seen this ad for presidential candidate tim pawlenty. now if that name doesn't ring a bell, don't worry, it didn't back then either. (laughter) and i thought to myself, i'd also like to spend other people's money on something like that. well, we've come a long way because now when you google superpac, colbert superpac is the second and third result. (cheers and applause) i, i don't want to stop there. i want the google recognition of a santorum. i will not be sat

this is the "colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you so much. welcome to the report. >> stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: thank you so much. ( cheers ) thank you, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the report. good to have you with us. folks, anybody knows me knows i'm not a racist. i mean, do i look italian? ( laughter ) in fact, i am so far from being a racist, i don't even see race. i don't even know what race i am. ( laughter ). people tell me i'm white, and i believe them because i did not know it's black history month. ( laughter ) it really surprised me, in fact, because i always thought the name "february" sounded more jewish. still, i have to take a moment to celebrate black american history, all the greats, black george washington. ( laughter ). who as a child famously cut down the cherry tree, which is where black cherries come from. and let's not forget the accompli

stephen colbert americone dream. they have turned the former best friends in enemies as they battle to outsell each other in the stores. last night on "late night" jimmy fallon received a heart warming valentine's card from colbert prompting hopes for peace treaty, when fallon thinks they are back to being friends, the ice cream war heats up. >> did you get the present i sent you? >> what, the rabbit? >> no, the big present! >> guys did we get a present from stephen colbert? whoa! >> not so fast! >> well, well, well. >> well, well. >> well, well, well. >> i thought you wanted to be friends. >> you fell for my ruse, hook line and scooper! i just needed to get close enough to you to launch my sneak attack, ben, jerry! jerry, tell jimmy the latest sales figure force americone dream. >> in the last quarter, americone dream outsold late night snack by 8%. >> boom! eat it fallon, eat my ice cream! you can't because it's sold out at the grocery store. later, sucker! >> stephen! >> jimmy! >> this is crazy, whey are we fighti

this is the "colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: thank you, everybody. welcome to the report. thank you for coming. thank you so much, everybody. [cheers and applause] folks thank you so much. [cheers and applause] folks, we've got to get to it. folks begun everybody knows it's january 24, 2012, day two of what some are calling the colbert super pac hostage crisis. [ laughter ] last night i ended my bid to be president of south carolina. and i offered to pay back colbert's superpac from its evil step father jon stewart. but jon refused and flew off in his zeppelin cackling. i cannot imagine how scared my money must be right now. nation, won't you comfort my money by second it more of itself. go to colbert super pac.com and give recklessly. we're so close to a nice round ridiculous number no one thought we would hit in a million years. republicans held their 18th debate last night. the question on everyone's mind who cares? it was a dud.

you are now darthboma. >> i love colbert.

colbert must be stopped. i'm nancy pelosi and i support this ad, because americans deserve a better tomorrow today. join me in stopping colbert and creating a new politics free of special interests money, the first step is passing the disclose act. learn more at facebook.com stop colbert. >> i love it but i'm willing to bet newt doesn't. >>> it's halftime in america, i'm fearful of what the final score will be if we let this president start the second half as a quarterback. >> the bile was flowing in the nation's capital today. >> he's a terrible president. >> joy-ann reid and martin bashir of day one on cpac. >>> this attack on the federal government must not stand. >> republicans are fighting a losing cause on contraception. now terry o'neill on the latest. >>> sean hannity is letting blind ideology get in the way of facts. you don't want to miss his bogus response to the challenge i issued last night. say they'll save you by switching, say you'd have, like, thea ton of dollars.switching, but how are they s

let's watch the return of stephen colbert.pended production last week setting off a pan i go. most of the speculation was that he had rushed home to be with his ailing 91-year-old mother. here is stephen back in the saddle last night. >> tonight, hi. how you been? as the hub around which the republican turns, i can understand why the machinery of in great nation ground to a halt last week when you were denied this. there were some wild human ors about why i was gone. one person, or whatever part of that original person has not been off her skull, accused me having plastic surgery. >> he's back finally tonight. >> he left for like mysterious reasons. last week the report came out they're suspending the show indefinitely and we're not saying why. >> he had a nose job. you watch, he'll have new eyes. >> i did not have my eyes done. that is ridiculous. i had my ass done. the doctors cranked this thing so high and tight, you can barely blink now. anyway, rumors quelled. moving on. oh, one more thing. evidently having 11 children ma

. >>> gavin newsom donated to stephen colbert's super pac. coming up next. >>> a nice pack of traffic driving out smoothly across 880. a little construction in oakland. we'll tell you what else is going on when we come back. >>> welcome back, everyone. a beautiful live look outside this morning. christina said if you're south of the golden gate bridge, don't take an umbrella. you shall be in the clear this morning but we are seeing some precipitation out there. 4:53. we'll check that forecast in a bit. >>> this morning we will learn how much water we've pick up over the past month. the department of water resources will conduct its second snow survey of 2012 today. experts say electronic data shows the snow pack is only 38% of nomrmal but that's still muc better than the survey taken on january 3rd which showed snow pack at just 10% of normal. the water monitors say despite the dry winter, most of california's reservoirs are still above normal levels for this time of year. >>> a kitchen that's helped san francisco's poor and hungry for decade

(laughter) this is "the colbert report." (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central (cheers and applause) (crowd chanting "stephen") (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. welcome to the "report," everybody. good to have you with us. well, folks, the show was on hiatus last week in observance of yom ki-martin luther fourth of jul-easter. (laughter) one of the many long religious festivals i've had engineered into my schedule since i converted to orthodox owning a sailboatism. (laughter) and, as usual, there was lots of big news over the my break. (laughter) most of it was bad for handsome millionaires from massachusetts. (laughter) (cheers and applause) yes, my very own new york giants won a whole mess of super bowl! whoo! whoo, baby! whoo! and the city has been celebrating hard. last week, new york threw the champions a ticker tape parade down the canyon of heroes! iraq war vets, we will get to you eventually. (laughter) but as much as i love me the football

(cheers and applause) ladies and gentlemen, colbert superpac is officially back. and guess-- i feel t i feel it tomorrow is january 31st. when of course we'll all be celebrating black history month eve waiting for frederick douglass to come down the chimney and fill our stockings with guilt. but tomorrow is also the deadline for all superpacs to at last file their financial-disclosure reports with the federal election commission. up until now we didn't know who was funding these superpacs. the great day for transparency because tomorrow voters in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and florida will finally have the vital information that would have been useful before they voted. (laughter) >> stephen: now we, we at colbert superpac have properly filled out all the actual paperwork which we will file at midnight tonight. and post on the colbert superpac web site and which will tell you exactly how much we have raised. i think some people are going to be pleasantly dropping a load in their pants. (laughter) >> stephen: now folks, the filing, this filings also contai

finally, stephan colbert unexpectedly suspended production of the colbert report due to what comedy central said were, quote, unforeseen circumstances. a source says colbert's mom is seriously ill. we wish her all the best. a lot of the audience members got e-mails saying this is going to be suspended. it's the first time they've missed a scheduled episode. >> they don't have fill-ins for that. >> exactly. we wish them the best. >>> this comes to us from kxas where nearby garland, texas, a little girl took on city hall and won. a great story here. 10-year-old allison loves spending time playing, but her friends couldn't come to any of the city's 42 playgrounds because they're physically challenged and the equipment isn't designed to accommodate them. allison wrote to the city council for help. it worked. the city said they will renovate the playground. way to go allison. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today." just your first step today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. we're starting out with some pretty thick fog in some nei

you won't believe how much stephen colbert has raised. >>> carmelo anthony returns and the spectaclef super bowl media day. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back. i'm lynn berry. here are your top headlines this morning. >>> the director of the national intelligence told the congress tuesday that iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the united states and warnings that iran leaders are reacting to u.s. pressure to stop iran's nuclear program. >>> the taliban in afghanistan is getting direct assistance from pakistani security service according to a secret nato report. pakistan's foreign ministry called the accusations, quote, frivolous. search has been called off for 16 people in a cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of italy. >>> susan g. komen for the cure is cutting offer financing for planned parenthood. the breast cancer organization says new rules prevent it from funding any group under investigation and a republican-led probe in the house disqualified planned parenthood. planned parenthood says the organization is caving in to politi

this is "the colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) (cheers and applause). >> stephen: welcome to "the report." thank you for joining us. khrapb(crowd chanting "stephen". (cheers and applause) thank you! thank you stpwh-frpblgt thank you so much. you know, folks, folks, when you are chanting my name like that, you make me feel like dorothy in munchkinland. (laughter) nation, i know america has taken some licks. but despite president obama's best efforts to keep us down, we are now officially back on top, baby! doing what we do best-- punching european royalty. (laughter) jim? >> the prince of monocorps was briefly hospitalized after a brawl at a new york city nightclub. he and his playboy pals apparently got a beatdown at a club in the meat packing district on saturday. >> stephen: boom! that is right! pretty boy, his highness, got meat-packed. (laughter) prince creme brawl-ee, here, of monaco, made the mistake of getting in the face of all-american s