. >>> no joke stephen colbert >>> welcome back. you'll soon get a chance to walk into one of the oldest buildings on the national mall. take a look at this the 134-year-old arts and industry building is expected to reopen to the public for special events. the building is next to the smithsonian castle. it was closed in 2004 for $55 million renovation. officials were hoping to turn into an innovation center but scrapped those plans. it will reopen for the short term for exhibitions later this year. >>> stephen colbert is getting a very special medal today. the comedienne are receiving the outstanding civilian award. he's best known for his comedy central show the colbert report. he's also a contributor and fund raise are for numerous charities including care for wounded veterans. when it comes to military issues and veterans it's something he takes really seriously. >>> he should win an award just for his comedy too. >> he's hilarious. >>> put the short sleeves back in the closet as our beautiful rain gives way to -- beautiful weath

i think it would be too soon and strange to do it. >> the thing about colbert, i laugh ed laughed ate of his stuff that year as well, it didn't just fall flat with the president. the crowd took -- with a lot of this. >> let's review the rules. here's how it works. the president makes decisions, he's the decider. the press secretary announces those decisions and you people of the press type those decisions down. make anoubs announce type. just put them through a spell check and go home. get to know your family again. make love to your wife. write that nofl novel in your head. you know, the one about the intrepid washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration? you know, fiction. >> he there could have been a little more boisterous laughter there. sometimes, can be a little thin skin perhaps. >> this is exactly the character he plays on tv. this is no different than who he is and what he was. you have to laugh at yourself sometimes as journalists. thin skin. >> 2006, what's interesting, so different now. no one -- you know, didn't get a lot of coverage. and actua

colbert and four others are getting the army's outstanding civilian service award. it's the third highest honor for civilian public service and best known, of course for comedy central show "the colbert show" and a contributor and fund-raiser for numerous organizations. >>> chuck, we have more rain coming? >> lots more. don't put the umbrella away just yet. temperatures are drop boog the upper 50s now in parts of northern loudon county. mid to 60s around town. radar continues to show light to moderate rain across much of the area right now. and this rain will be with us for the remainder of the daylight hours and the weather front inches down to the south but moisture coming north and cold air south means right there in the middle of the squeeze play and that means rain chances continue all the way through the remainder of the afternoon and temperatures continue to fall. tomorrow the sunshine back but it is not a lot of sun in the seven-day forecast. chance of rain thursday night and pretty good chance on friday and both tay days this weekend particularly saturday w

maybe colbert was the tech stock but this is the gold standard. if this is where it's pushing it, i don't judge it so much on the tweets. i think he has a lot of charisma and potential. you compare his body of work before jon stewart's body of work before they took the show stewart was really sharp and incisive. that said we're looking at this like we're vetting a presidential nominee. how did he not do the advance work on these tweets. they need to fire a staffer. it's a little crazy. >> i agree. >> you don't have 12% that gets its news from comedy central and it goes down i'm okay with that. >> i was surprised it was only 12%. >> stewart wasn't stewart when he first started out. he grew into the role. i think noah is more of a comedian than a political strategist or satirist but i think he's going to grow into it too. i think that number is going to go up regardless because i think young people millennials, really distrust even cable news now. >> you made a good point too. "the daily show" did exist before jon stewart. craig kilborn hosted it fo

there is, in fact, a portrait of stephen colbert at the national portrait gallery. last year they hung that portrait of stephen colbert after he waged a campaign about it on his show and ended up hanging it on the second floor of the national gallery, national portrait gallery in between the men's bathroom and the women's bathroom and right above a nice brass water fountain. the national portrait gallery hung that last year and now say they are giving it back. they're taking it down and sending it back to comedy central because stephen colbert's show is over. who will they put back over the water fountain to replace him? what we choose to show in our excellent national museums says something about us as a people, about what we believe about ourselves, about what we want to remember from our history and maybe what we want to forget. what we choose not to display in public can also say just as much about us as what we show. and that story about what we are emphatically refusing to look at, that story is just ahead. >>> 150 years ago on a friday night a german artist w

colbert is replacing david letterman as host of the late show right here on cbs-3.o word if he will be sporting the beard but congratulations. what a special honor. >> no doubt about that. >> we will be right back. >> but first here's is what coming up during evening prime time viewing right here on cbs-3 >>> we've got some nice weather to report for you out there, ukee, starting off with a beautiful sunrise, hint of the wind does kick up with time here but we are shooting with 07 degrees and average high six 46789 we are over achieving with pretty flowers in the background. we have another graphic with pretty flowers in the background, and jumping to the weekend as we expect some pretty quiet weather. we will call it partly sunny both saturday and sunday and saturday is a mild one in the low to mid 70's. >> i wish i had pretty flowers to show all i have is traffic. traveling on the 42 freeway, commuting north bound we had an earlier accident a approaching creek road. that has been moved to the shoulder. police activity there but delays approaching the area of 295 a

>> the steve colbert -- who's this guy?ing completely different. thank god i had jon stewart. he wanted to do a show to give platform to voices that don't always get heard and takes the point of view of the underdog. the underdog can be race/class gender ideological, all sorts of things. one of our first shows was about the cosby allegations. >> you went hard. >> the women whose voices aren't being heard over such a long time. those are the underdogs. i had no problem taking on that point of view. >> was that the advice that jon stewart gave you? >> jon stewart's advice was, larry, be funny. >> whatever you do. >> his advice was don't be a host. jump in be yourself. that was the best advice i could get. very difficult by the way. >> to be yourself? >> it really is. it is the hardest thing to do. >> that's what colbert has to be. >> exactly. he's going to be fantastic by the way. >> stephen colbert himself is very funny by the way. >> you walk in a studio it has your name all over the place. have you gotten used to that? >>

and the steve colbert, who's this guy? it's very intimidating to follow in steven's footsteps.of the underdog. the under dog can take on any form. kit be race class gendering it can be iej local cal. it can be all sorts of things. one of the first shows was about the cosby allegation. >> you went hard on him. >> i did. i said those are the underdogs. i have no problem taking on that point of view. >> was that the advice that jon stewart gave you? >> jon stewart's advice was be funny. >> whatever you do. >> you know his advice was don't be a host. jump in and be yourself. i thought that was the best advice i could get. very difficult by the way. >> to be yourself. >> i know. >> stephen colbert is funny. >> by himself he's funny. >> you walk in the studio. it's gotten your name all over the place. >> i know. >> have you gotten used to it? >> no. that part i'm not comfortable with that. not only my name but my big head. >> they said look for larry. before he was famous famous. now he's going to be famous. hes with cable famous. >> only the people that recognize you know you. now w

like, stephen colbert did not get in. >> seth: that's right.e for who's good. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. and then you -- i saw you perform in edinburgh one time. you've traveled abroad and you did a show in -- was it in england or in edinburgh where an audience member could win a date with you? >> that was a popular bit that i did with my comedy partner kurt braunohler everywhere. and it happened -- it was borne out of the fact that i was perpetually single. so we wrote this piece called "win a date with kristen schaal." so two audience members, usually men, would come on stage -- [ laughter ] it sort of didn't matter after a while. [ laughter ] and they would fight for my love by -- like, with spoons. and then they would have to draw a picture of me in repose. and then we would pick our favorite, and i would go on a date with them on stage. and kurt would be the waiter. and he would come with -- he would just give us wine. and i would show off and just drink the whole glass in one gulp. and it was real wine. and the audience ate it up. but i

nbc 10 joins us live in montgomery colbert. and county. and it's been a busy day for a lot of people out there. >> reporter: people have been coming here to this garden center all day. not just spring plantings but the east you are flowers they are going to be using to decorate the dinner table. from havertown to southwest philly. >> the best in the city. >> the shell here are empties out way before long. sweet or savory not everyone is doing all the cooking for easter sunday. >> anything my mother used to make. which would be anything from the three egg easter bread. anything any of these. stromboli stromboli. >> reporter: and the doors are almost closed. not to open again until the easter feasts are the complete. in con shocken, they are stocking with nut, roots and candy. lots of it. >> i still come for the specials. >> reporter: and the place is packed with easter shoppers. we mean it. the star of theshot show stocking up too. >> confectioners white chocolate the only placeky kyi can get it. >> we go to church sunday come home and have

to me, when colbert did that, that's the only reason to do it. >> so in 2006, stephen colbert reallyand you saw some uncomfortable moments between him and president bush. some people loved it, some people hated it. afterwards, they were worried about who goes the next year. >> i can speak as comedians. we loved it. we loved the idea. if you're the same guy on stage in front of a concert as you are in front of the most powerful people in the world, that's a level of confidence. when you recognize yourself in either of those places, that's the only reason to do so. >> what do you think we'll hear from the president tonight? >> i think the president will put on a good show. he has good comedic timing. in the past, he was funnier than joe mchale was last year. so i think that, you know, he's going to pop some fun at himself. definitely he's going to go after journalists. that's what they do. the whole thing is about sel self-deprecation. so i'll be interested to see if he touches on any of the racial issues going on and get in a couple of -- >> i asked cesily strong about that. he said i

like south park or colbert. i think the difference between justine sacco and south park and colbert was that she really wasn't very good at it. she was very bad at it. and then the calls for her to be fired began. well spent, three exclamation marks. i think you know what was happening right at this point is that, you know we want to be like good people. we want to be antithetic people. we have cut down privilege. we've done that successfully many times in twitter, on twitter. we wanted to be -- we want to show everybody that we were compassionate people, we cared about people dying of aids in africa. in our desire to be empathetic we were about to commit one of modern times' most un-empathetic acts. i think it was our desire to kind of be like rosa parks but there's a very big difference between what rosa parks did which was courageous, there's nothing courageous about sitting home destroying somebody while she sits on a plane. good luck with the job hunt in the new year, hashtag getting fired. the last tweet o

colbert does it randy newman, "south park" does it.nce between justine saga and others is she wasn't good at it. not being couldn't shouldn't be enough to tear someone apart and ruin their reputation. >> you make reference to the fact that there was a time when people would make the jokes, and it would never have a life. which, by the way, she felt that that is what she was doing, she had 152 followers. it was like a gathering of her frendz. >> yes, she'd make the jokes, no one would reply, she was tweeting out into the void and would have the sad feeling when the internet doesn't congratulate you. >> you don't get likes on pictures or tweets. on the postings the dopamine rush. >> but you do bring up the point. it weaves a thread through the book. we don't thing of ourselves as parting an avalanche. one of the guys that contributed to this going viral met with this and apologised. he didn't know he was going to ruin his life. >> i wanted to go on this journey, the world of the shames and shame. i wanted to go on the journey to meet the

he went on to say either john stewart or steven colbert would have been his picks. >> and jimmy fallone kentucky derby with puppies. >> and they're off. oh it's number. number four. american will be crowned the kentucky derby champion. >> how cute is that. this is "early today." we hope it's your first stop of the day on nbc. doug, we have the results, but first, we have a very special guest. come on out, flo! [house band playing] you have anything to say to flo? nah, i'll just let the results do the talking. [crowd booing] well, he can do that. we show our progressive direct rate and the rates of our competitors even if progressive isn't the lowest. it looks like progressive is not the lowest! ohhhh! when we return we'll find out whether doug is the father. wait, what? my cut hurts. mine hurt more. mine stopped hurting faster! neosporin plus pain relief starts relieving pain faster and kills more types of infectious bacteria. neosporin plus pain relief kills the germs. fights the pain. love is about letting someone get close to you ...really close new revlon photoready airbrush effect

randy newman songs for south park or colbert. the difference was that she really wasn't any good at it she was very bad. and then the calls for her to be fire began. well spent. i think you know what was happening at this time. you know we want to be like good people empathetic people cut down privilege successfully many times. we wanted to show everybody that we were compassionate people. our desire to be empathetic about to commit one of the most on empathetic ask how desire to be like rosa parks but there's a big difference. there's nothing courageous about destroying someone watches asleep on a plane. good luck with the job hunting. sorry not sorry. corporations joined in. [laughter] [laughter] kind of hoping really uniting a lot of disparate groups. corporations. i hope somebody hiv-positive rapes this bitch. by the way, no one went after that post. i shaming campaigns and social media, so primitive that we can only handle destroying one person night. so that person got a completely free ride. i hope you get fired intimate b

this steve colbert, who's this guy? i'm not sure. no.ique and so entertaining. you had to do something completely different. thank got i had jon stewart. it was his idea to do the show in the first place. he wanted to do a show to give the platform to voices that don't always be heard. underdog can take on any fofrmt kit be race class gender. kit be ideological. one of the first shows was about the cosby allegations. >> you went hart ond on that. >> did. the underdogs, the women whosevoicewomen's voices were not heard for a long time. those are the underdogs. >> and jon? >> he said be funny. just be yourself. i thought that was the best advice. very difficult, by the way, to be yourself. ♪ the king of rock that is my name we got the champagne ♪ a quarter top ♪ >> that's adam horvitz or ad-rock back in 1986 from the beastie boys debut album "license to ill." the beasties went on to sell millions of albums over the next 30 years. for ad-rock acting was also important. a number of small roles on tv and film. after a long break, he's back on

the show has even been spoofed on "saturday night live" and "the colbert report." he's retiring from the show. the final show will air on september 19th. >> well done. >>> check this out. the video is getting a lot of attention and a lot of hits online. it shows a family at the zoo checking out the gorillas bam! then they go running. the little girl you can see her in the reflection of the window. she starts beating her chest and the gorilla says she's had enough and comes crashing towards the window there and actually cracked it. you can see a little spider web. really scary things. >> the reason they said it did that is because if you beat your chest, it's like a sign of dominance. so the gorilla thought she was trying to show off, and bang, cracked the glass. i'm in charge. >> i think we have all learned the lesson. next time i go to the zoo, i'm going to politely wave. >> move right along. >>. i have to say i went outside it's beautiful. i think the pollen in the air got to me. it got me. >> i can't breathe. >> but it's beautiful today. low humidity, a high aro

former hoses of the dinner include seth meyers, stephen colbert and jaylen owe. >>> in chile authorities are downgrading the possibility of a third volume can ik eruption. forced ee vac wagsz and left several feet of ash in some places. also filled the river nearby with ashes. the volcano ee ruptd on wednesday for the first time in 40 years. an incredible sight as you can see. the chris geology and mining service said it was erupting as a lightening storm was happening inside. airlines have cancelled flights. >>> so who says you have to be a big tech exec to come up with the next invention. we're going to show you kids who are rolling up their sleeves and trying their hand in today's tech challenge. >>> a new report out that says airplanes that offer on board wifi in the sky are at risk for being hacked remotely controlled and crashed. that's next on kron. >>. >>> it is a cool and blues interrogatory evening with winds over 40 miles per hour. the is going to warmup the next few days. i'll tell you more about it coming up next. per hour. the is going to warmup the next few days. i'll tell

and that's the genius of john olive and other people like jon stewart, as well, and stephen colbert. these are comedians who are able to do journalistic things without actually being journalists. i think that's why they sought out john oliver as a potential interviewer. >> precisely. edward snowden had seen previous episodes of oliver's show and said he was impressed by the net neutrality coverage. many were. do you think oliver is picking up jon stewart left? many are calling it investigative comedy. >> reporter: yes, this is what a person close to snowden told me. i was trying to figure out why they agreed to have wistheir whistleblower, controversial figure, why did they have snowden sit down with a comedian to oliver? this person close to snowden said, you know, the reason we chose john oliver is because of his journalism. because of that neutrality segment last year. and these other long, 15, 20-minute stories on that oliver does combines comedy and news. not every newscast can be humorous like oliver is. combining the two, he's able to get younger audiences to pay attention to

that's the thing about oliver and others like stephen colbert. they are able to do journalistic thing without being journalists. that's why they sought out john oliver as a potential interviewer. >> precisely. edward snowden had seen previous episodes of oliver's news show and was impressed by the neutrality. do you think that john oliver is picking up where jon stewart left? many people are calling this investigative comedy. >> this is what a person close to snowden told me. why did they agree have this whistle blower, this very controversial figure, some believe he's a patriot and others a traitor, why did he sit down with john oliver. this person says the reason we chose john oliver is because of his journalism, because of the neutrality. not every newscast can be humorous. but he's able to get especially younger audiences to pay attention to these issues. the reason they're doing the interview now is because in a few months, the congress has to decide whether to reauthorize the patriot act and some of these things that allow the mass surveill

stephen colbert went in there and did everything backwards.o his family afterwards going "hey how are you doing?" and they looked like they'd just attended a funeral. >> but the general populous loves that knew looking back and watching it online. >> have you decided what our family picture will be? >> i don't know but it should be equally disturbing this year. >> i'm so concerned about what they've got. >> ronan, we'll do a special family portrait! >> all right. >> we're dysfunctional. >> i'll see you there. >>> up next, what, if anything, did we learn today? ♪ ♪ ♪ jeff... hey, scott! this is no time for lollygaggin', lad. the chickweed and the dandelions are reekin' mad havoc! now's the time to send in the scotts turf builder weed and feed, man! it kills weeds while it feeds and strengthens your grass. feed your lawn. feed it! when account lead craig wilson books at laquinta.com. he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can settle in and practice his big pitch. and when craig gets his pitch down

>> well, it's the lasting legacy of jon stewart and stephen colbert. those newsmakers and those politicos who like to go on those shows to look mainstream and to look like they're going to get an easy interview to get their message out, that's not the case anymore. when you factor in that 10% of americans -- and you referenced it, 10% of americans get their news from late-night shows, primarily from those who start their show with a monologue that has political jokes in it. 12k3w4r >> right. >> even more to that point, 47% of americans between the ages of 18 and 29 use late-night talk shows as their primary source for getting political news. the days of fluff on late-night shows are over. >> let's say that john oliver did a good job of co-mingling the two, making news and having fun. it has to do with the question of what americans actually really care more about and the whole edward snowden thing -- is it national security or nude pictures? >> the good news is there's no program named the [ bleep ] program. the bad news is they are still collecting ev

stephen colbert was criticized in 2006 for maybe crossing a line.wasn't very funny. i don't remember who the comedian was or the entertainment. but i think in those days one would have been terrified to gave speech when the president was there with anything remotely approaching that kind of criticism. >> don imus changed all that a if you can remember. >> yeah. >> thanks so much for your time tonight. appreciate that. and as michael mentioned msnbc is going to have live coverage of the white house correspondents dinner tomorrow night at msnbc is going to have live coverage of the white house correspondent dinner tomorrow night beginning at 9:00 eastern time. >>> ahead, a change at the top of the justice department and the legacy of asparagus. stay with us. >>> so how about this? yesterday on capitol hill we ran into senator ted cruz. ran into him at one of the few places that didn't close, at least right away when cruz led the effort to shut down the government in 2013 in a failed effort to defund obama care. >> i started coming to the house barber

but colbert won't take over until the fall. >> the hype will help the ratings for the beginning. at the end of the day we have to realize whether he begins now or six months the show he does for the first week is not the show it's going to be six months later. he's going need time to find it and make his own. i have no doubt they'll be able to do that. and it looks, you know, i'm hoping it will be a place that take on the media as well as the politicians. >> i am too. >> i don't want to see weekend update five nights a week. >> there's a lot of places for. that it would seem owning a niche is a way to go. >> that's what i think the best talents do. and that which makes you a freak as a child makes you unique as a grown up. that's the story of the stand up act. i think he'll bring a nice international perspective to. it. >> thank you. >>> it is a new mantra among republicans among the potential 2016ers, that is i'm pretty fired up about it. i'll tell you what it is when we come back. don't just visit orlando visit tripadvisor orlando tripadvisor not only has millions of real trave

louis post-dispatch and writer elizabeth colbert in general nonfiction for her book "the fix extinction was quoted about, change. to see our interview, you can go to democracynow.org. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. with the debt clock ticking greece is fast running out of money. all state bodies up in order to place her cash reserves in the central bank, the bank of greece as it struggles to stay afloat. greece is supposed to receive the last installment of its bailout funds from european creditors. but the countries knew leftist anti-austerity party has expressed concerns about its terms. the creditors reportedly pressuring the country to restructure its labor market and curtail its pension system. sir reza has instead in the opposite by increasing pension payments to lower wage workers. speaking in washington, d.c. last week, the head of the international monetary fund christine lagarde urged greece to restore stability. >> what needs to happen

since the 1940s, the white house correspondents dinner has featured hosts from bob hope to stephen colberton monday. no matter what happened tuesday. >> i remember when that was live and just being blown away and just thinking he's so amazing, and so brave. look what comedy can do. >> events can change. this man's beliefs never will. >> cecily strong will be only the fourth female comedienne to step behind that podium. >> it doesn't feel like a huge deal to me. it's i think a really nice testament to where everything stands right now. i think a lot of it has to do with tina and amy being out there so much. it's very accepted. it's nice that it doesn't feel like a big heavy thing for me. >> and we'll see if you feel that way after everyone askingout about your dress and not about your performance. >> well, then i'll feel pretty. >> you've got one of the most powerful audiences in the room. the leader of the free world right there. >> i'm going to ask for a lot of favors. >> ask for favors right. >> i want an ambassadorship. >> i think that could happen. belgium, here you come. >> oh, yes, w

you may remember stephen colbert asked me why i thought i could do better than god and i said, well, we have computers. robert: let me ask this. i assume that if you have a cell, and you can create something, it is a very simple life form. why do we need one? craig: we do not need one per se but if we want to do a design for new medicines vaccines, food sources etc., we want to get down to where we can do design on first principle basis, so the other thing we are doing is we are trying to defrag the general home. if you think of these analogies, 4 billion years of evolution is pretty messy. things get inserted all over the place. there is no logic to it. there is a lot of randomness. but we want to put in a cassette or genes that do sugar metabolism or methane metabolism, we want to do that, and you plug in this set, and then we are deep fracking -- de fragging it, which is a lot more complicated, and the point is to get to where we can do design from known components to start to build things for the future. this is for very specific design are opposites. robert: you were thinking of

. >> he also admitted in order of preference, he wanted jon stewart to replace him, then steven colbertthinks cbs should have chosen a woman or a minority. woman or minority. okay. >> hmm. >> hmm. >> look at our desk. look at our desk. women are a minority. >> and you fit a lot of boxes. >> thank you for that very pc way of doing it. >> no. >> my cell phone is not ringing. >> it shouldn't be ringing because you're a woman or a minority but because you can get the job done. >> you know who else has got the job done? fascinating interview, bruce jenner. so many talking about that interview with diane sawyer. >> jenner revealed that the women he was married to knew of his secret struggles with gender identity and yesterday a show of support from his first two wives. a picture posted by his second wife linda thompson. she is on the right there. there she is on the right and on jenner's wife his first wife chrystie thompson posted it, the article titled how living with and loving bruce jenner changed my life forever. the picture echoes the show of support from the interview when diane read t

since the 1940s the white house correspondents dinner has featured hosts from bob hope to stephen colbertieves the same thing wednesday that he believed on monday, no matter what happened tuesday. >> yeah. i was -- i remembered when that was live and just being blown away and just thinking he's so amaze and so brave and look what comedy can do. >> events can change. this man's beliefs never will. >> cecily strong will only be the fourth female comedian to step behind that podium. >> doesn't feel like a huge deal to me as a nice testament to kind of where everything stands right now, and i think a lot of that has to do with tina and amy being out is there so much. it's very accepted. it's nice that it doesn't feel like a big heavy thing for me. >> so when we talk about funny presidents. >> mm-hmm. >> let's talk about some of the potential next presidents. >> oh, sure. >> okay. give me your thoughts on ted cruz. very funny president? or unfunny president? >> unfunny. >> rand paul? >> that would be funny, maybe. yeah, that's a funny president. he's got that goofy little silly dad who is so e

but to me stephen colbert's 2006 appearance is hard to beat because he took a bat to that coziness and justkeptwinging. look. >> let's review the rules. here's how it works. the president makes decisions. he's the decider. the press secretary announces those decisions. and you people of the press type those decisions down. make announce type. just put them through a spell spellcheck and go home. get to know your family again. make love to your wife. write that novel you've got kicking around in your head. you know the one about the intrepid washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. you know, fiction. >> i was there in that room -- there that year and you can see in this video here the discomfort in the room. it's a room not used to being uncomfortable. so patrick gavin, he used to be one of the gawkers interviewing celebrities, gossiping with sources but in this film he's decided to step back and take a more critical look and he swroinz me now from washington. thanks for being here. >> hey, brian, thanks for having me. >> i remember seeing you at some of t

you might remember stephen colbert asking me why i can do better than god command i said we have computers assume if you get a cell that you can boot up from store-bought ingredients and create a a life form, it is a simple life on. why why do we need one? >> we don't need one per se. it is a proof of principle. if we want to do designed for building new organisms to make knew vaccines, medicines food sources we want to get down to where we can do design on push principle basis. the other thing we're doing is defrag the genome. if you think of it as computer analogy 4 billion years 4 billion years of evolution is pretty messy. there is no real logic. if. if we're trying to do design where we want to put in a cassette for genes that do sugar metabolism versus methane metabolism we would like to do that with, you plug in this cassette and have the energy production. we are. we're trying to reorganize which is more complicated than it might seem. the issue is to get to where we can start to do design from known components to start to build the things for the future. these are the early baby s

he hired stephen colbert to do a super bowl commercial for pistachios.seen, as many big business people do, you have great advantages if you throw a lot of money around in politics, and he has been a bipartisan campaign contributor to republicans and democrats alike -- but much every governor -- senator dianne feinstein, all of them, have been recipients of mr. reznick's campaign contributions. in a way, the example of what is happening now down in the central valley where if you drive down -- up interstate 5, the major highway connecting sentimental in san francisco you will see signs on the road blaming congress, and specifically nancy pelosi, by the way, for the suppose it does no that is happening -- dustbowl that is happening there. there is a picture -- some of those signs are put up in front of newly planted almond trees. almonds are an extremely thirsty crop. even as the farmers try to shift the blame to the federal government, they are planting some of the thirsty just -- most thursday crops you can imagine -- thirsty crops you can imagine. let'

this is related to the jon stewart and stephen colbert. >> you can have a cynical view of humanity and get the data and say two thirds of what we do is gossip about other people and about 90% of that is negative in certain studies. it would be interesting to look at the subculture but when you think deeply about that it makes sense you don't think about your relationship and you don't talk about the great things you talk about the bad things in hopes of improving them and also if you think about the society at large, people that are doing a great job are not the people that concern us most and that is a fundamental aspect and why in the delinquent taxpayers for instance there is about 20 states now that chamberlain for taxpayers and you could say why not reach for something more positive why do we have to expose the people that don't do it, should we expose the people that pay their taxes? this is an absurd idea we expect people to pay, 90% of people do so that would be strange to have a system of positive reinforcement. >> one of the first things you learn in psychology class is that

and to the credit of people like jon stewart and stephen colbert, the reason they win is they stab you with a smile they never raise your voice, they trick you into coming on their show. they do your book and then they kill you! and you have to understand that the media is a savanna and the conservatives all have targets. >> disagree with you about something? disagree about you about something? >> sure. yes, you saying that you got this job because you were bashing the media. but you wanted this job. you didn't want to be the president of the united states. that's true. >> there is a difference. temperament matters. >> can we also point out the difference between a savanna guthrie -- savannah guthrie interview with the president at the white house where they are talking about the white house beer and then her -- the way she -- >> that was for the super bowl. >> the problem is the optics look pad, him being contentious with somebody, greg gut feld interviewing him, being contentious. >> i would never. >> difficult then when you have that two -- put sandwiched together, two female interv

directly with the pac right now so they can coordinate the strategystrat strategy -- >> did stephen colbertch you nothing? >> until he's declared candidate then once he is, people like mike murphy will already be in place. you are technically not allowed to coordinate you can't get busted coordinating. unless we have the nsa enforcing campaign financing law, do we really know these people aren't talking? >> can he land a fighter jet on the aircraft carriers? >> so proud of his own joke. >> this is out of control. >> wish you were here for all of the things happening here. >> i wish i were too. thanks so much for being with us. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. up next the baltimore police department takes action against those officers involved in the arrest of freddie gray. we'll get you up to speed with the latest developments orn that story that we've been following. barry's thoughts on gain flings. holy macaroni !! ♪ holy macaroni ♪ that's no regular gain. this little thingamajig is some kind of super, duper, special gain. ♪ special gain ♪ super, duper. ♪ super, duper. ♪ if my n

stephen colbert was criticized for maybe crossing the line.r instance lyndon johnson gave a speech in 1968, wasn't very funny. i don't remember who the comedian was or what the entertainment was, but i think in those days one would have been terrified to give a speech when the president was there with anything remotely approaching that kind of criticism. >> don changed that a few weeks ago, if you remember that one. >> the crowd created an entire different dementia. >> thanks so much for your time tonight. appreciate that. and as michael mentioned msnbc is going to have live coverage of the white house correspondents dinner tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern. ahead a change of the top of the justice department and the legacy of asparagus. stay with us. but when i started having back pain my sister had to come help. i don't like asking for help. i took tylenol but i had to take six pills to get through the day. so my daughter brought over some aleve. it's just two pills, all day! and now, i'm back! aleve. two pills. all day strong, all day long. an

alison: steven colbert is receiving an awrd for his work. he's one of four people receiving the army's outstanding civilian service award at fort meyers today. the third highest honor for civilian public service. leon: today marks one year since hundreds of school girls were kidnapped in nigeria. today, other young girls marched in the nation's capital calling on the government to do more to get the girls back to their families. more than 300 girls were kidnap by the radical group boko haram. 219 are still missing. the kidnapping sparked a worldwide campaign to bring back our girls. alison: today, members of the u.s. senate started working on revisions to the no child left behind bill. they're calling this effort the every child achieves act of 2015. the bipartisan committee dubbed the help committee is considering giving states more leeway in deciding what to do with low performing schools and it's looking at the number of tests they take and how much waste the results will carry. speaking of tests, 10 of the 11 former atlanta educators who

steven colbert was on the show.ber this. >> yeah, so we were auditioning people to be in the cast, and you came in. and you were a young, adorable little boy. [ laughter ] i mean, he was a grown man, i'm not a creep. [ laughter ] but you came in and auditioned for us, me and all the producers were sitting in chairs. and you came in and you're playing guitar, and you had these little troll dolls and you were singing songs about troll dolls. [ laughter ] and you would sing -- you were kind of like, "hey, okay. here's a song about troll dolls." and you're singing and then -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: your impression of me is unbelievable. i've never seen you do an impression. that's why i'm hilariously laughing. >> "yeah. here's a song by a troll doll. it's a neil diamond thing." or something like that. i don't know. you would do an impression. >> jimmy: neil diamond? >> i don't remember. and then you would turn around and wiggle your ass a little bit, because you were young and you had a tight little ass. so you'd wiggle

we americans didn't want to know and you had the courtesy to not find out. >> stephen colbert in 2006ushed the envelope. >> yes. >> some people loved it, some hated it. >> i loved it. i will not be that, though. it's different circumstances and i think he's incredible, and i don't know. i think even is just different. but i was a big fan. i thought that was incredible. >> you have said that you think everyone in d.c. is pretty much a drunk murderer. >> because of "house of cards." bill clinton said 99% of it is true. >> her former weekend update castmate seth myers hosted the dinner in 2011 and has been helping cesily prepare. >> what happened to you? when you were sworn in, you looked like the guy from the old spice commercials. now you look like louis gossett, senior. >> if something is not hitting with the crowd, i can be like, well, those jokes aren't working. but those are the ones i like to push harder then. that's the difference between seth and i. >> she's only the fourth female comedienne to take on the task in the 80 plus year history. >> what's nice is it doesn't feel like

we are seeing more colbert he has a strong second screen presence. they have youtube channels. have younger viewers. [no audio] ♪ alix: from amazon to etsy e-commerce has been huge. online art sales account for $3.6 billion last year. joining me to discuss, the ceo and cofounder of online auction site paddle eight. you're going to be listing in crane's 40 under 40. that is a huge deal. guest: it is an honor to be included. we are the world's leading online auction house. bring the world collectors luxury design from around the world. everything from jewelry, books accessories, to the latest wu-tang album. the idea is to occupy the middle market where the mass market doesn't. between those two points of the massive middle market being serviced by reasonable auction houses in an efficient manner. it is cumbersome and expensive. you'd rather not do it. alix: have you siphoned off? guest: it is a huge valuation of the fact that art does sell online. four years ago when we started people asked us with that online, -- if art sells online. they are working on a distribution plant line