now i'm stephen colbert.rent guy. ( laughter ) i'm glad you're here.y, wento tt your campaign. but i just want to hit you here as a senator. are you at all intolted that trump didn't try to get dirt on you from ukraine? ( cheers and applause ) what am i, chopped liver? what are you thinking when you hear this? >> well, what i'm thinking is he's probably the most corrupt president in the modern history of this country. ( cheers and applause ) and that the impeachment inquiry has got to move as quickly as possible. he is really an embarrassment to our country. ( applause ) and let's get moving on the impeachment inquiry. >> stephen: one of the things people are saying is that the white house is caught a little flat-footed by how fast this story is moving and maybe they could get out some sort of redacted transcript or slow walk this for a while until things came off the boil, but nancy pelosi immediately went to impeachment inquiry. do you think that's the right thing to do, to move that fast? >> i do. i have b

>>> welcome to this "360" special, the stephen colbert interview. he's been a familiar face in comedy, of course, for more than a decade, starting off in improv then becoming a regular correspondent the "daily show" with jon stewart then came "the ka boir report." a tasatirical nightly talk show. in 2015 stephen colbert inherited the coveted late night spot on cbs where david letterman reigned for more than 20 years. all eyes and pressure were on colbert as he stopped playing a character and started being himself. after the 2016 election, stephen colbert really hit his stride as his show tried to make sense of the often nonsensical world of politics. the audience has responded and stephen colbert is now number one in late night television. there's a lot, though, you probably don't know about stephen colbert. his life and what he's been through. he is as intellectual and interesting as he is funny. over the next hour, you'll hear our in-depth interview. stephen opens up about his life, his losses, his comedy, and his faith. so there's a bunch i want

i'm your host, stephen colbert. big weekend-- ( applause ) big doings.irst of all, i want to say to everybody here who works at the show and everybody watching happy 800th "late show" with stephen colbert." tonight is the 800th show. >> jon: oh, my goodness! >> stephen: how many did we say we were going to do? okay, we're great. and a big weekend coming up for us. we're all, the whole gang, is goingute to los angeles for the emmys, and we're going stroa good time. might run into donald trump out there. i'll tell you what, he's out there panning for gold, okay. he had-- that was a big nugget of gold in there. >> jon: looking for a lot. >> stephen: he is fundraisers today in silicon valley and los angeles. but because he's so unpopular in california, the events were shrouded in secrecy. in fact, attendees at tuesday's event were not even provided with the address of the lunch. though, it is easy to find trump's lunch-- just follow the trail of ketchup packets and filet-o-fish wrappers. still, still-- ( applause ) thank you. flio fish! still, the events sol

i'm your host, stephen colbert. the big story-- ( cheers and applause ) friday crowd.there. now, the big story all week long has been the impeachment inquiry of donald trump, a historic event that everyone saw coming the moment he announced his candidacy. everybody-- ( applause ) -- riding down the esk lairpt like that. everybody saw is except donaldtp called the president of ukraine and asked for political favors, he's been forced to face something he's never had to before: consequences. ( laughter ) and trump has no one else to blame but donald trump, because it turns out trump himself decided to release the rough transcript of his phone call after a heated internal dispute among trump's senior aides over whether that was a good idea. (as trump) "okay, if i'm hearing you right, all i hear is this is a bad idea. perfect, because those are as good as my ideas get. that's a difficult sentence to read, i gotta say." but trump didn't wade into this hoat water all alone. oh, no, no, no. according to the whistleblower, "the president's personal lawyer, mr. rudolph giuliani,

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i'm stephen colbert. tonight, donald trump ordered strikes to iran.to my ear, i can hear the tv in the next room. it might beci: newle or "pepper pig." what did the sky look like? do you remember, jon? >> jon: yeah, how did i get here? i fell asleep on my couch and i ended up in this box. >> stephen: read your contract, jon. you agreed to be buried together in my tv box. it's under the pharaoh box. we have to eat our way through the memory foam. stop hogging the oxygen. we have to save enough for musical guests imagine dragons. guys? are you about ready? dan? they don't look so good. >> jon: i'm getting dizzy. >> stephen: well, that solves the food problem. ♪ la-la-la-la go into the light ♪ ( laughter ) >> stephen: stick around for james cordon. good night! >> stephen: we'll be right back good night! >> stephen: we'll be right back with whoopi goldberg. good night! >> stephen: we'll be right back with i'm not picking it up. well, somebody's gotta pick it up. i'll pick it up. they're clean! ♪ cuz my hiney's clean ♪ oh yeah, i'm charmin clean ♪ that's h

i couldn't believe it when ric ocasek came on the colbert report.he show. we would send him out to do, like, commando raids for us. we have him looking for my eagle adopted son stephen junior. i have to send a commando squad to se find stephen, jr. good man! thankou so much for al your music. thank you for playing with ouru. we'll be right back. >> stephen: that's it for "the late show." tune in tomorrow when my guestsh brady bunch." now stick around for james corden. goodnight! captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ♪ are you ready y'all to have some fun ♪ feel the love tonight don't you worry 'bout ♪ where it is you come from it'll be all right ♪ it's the late, late show ladies a

the whole thing, the set up question from colbert.red that and then you'll say, jimmy kimmel. they are all in the back light, please don't mess it up! >> dana: did he mess it up? >> michael: he got through. it's like walking your crazy uncle who had some great days and really did some good stuff and you are like, you got a little bit of gravy. just leave him alone. joe should just -- he should just take a knee. he >> juan: a name >> juan: he is beating trump and every single poll. after calling the nra to rustic terrorists, california officials now unveiling even more controversial new policies. we will have some details for you when "the five" comes right back. every american wants their dollars to work as hard as they do. however, since 2000, the buying power of the dollar has dropped by over 31% - that means the dollar is only worth about 68¢ now... compared to 2000. had you owned gold, your value would have increased by over 400%. and owning gold is easy... with rosland capital - a trusted leader in helping people acquire precious

. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." plus, stephen welcomes james mcavoy stephen king and musical guest vampire weekend featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: wooo! hi there! beautiful! tell him. hey! how are you? happy wednesday. happy wednesday. >> audience: stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen. >> stephen: thankses, everybody. thanks very much. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ thank you, sir. please, have a seat, everybody. thank you so much. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. it is a solemn day here in new york and around the country. of course, it's the anniversary of 9/11. everyone remembers that day. we saw the news and all felt that pain. everyone commemorates it in their own way. you can feel the heaviness of the day without anything being said. because it's an emotional day, in an emotional year, in an emotional decade, in an emotional century, i thoug

i'm your host, stephen colbert. remember a couple of years ag when trump first got into office, when we were all afraid that donald trump was some sort of a sleeper agent who was going to sell america out to a foreign power behind our backs? well, it's throwback thursday. ( laughter ) because we just learned that this summer, donald trump had a phone call with a foreign leader that was so troubling that it prompted an official in the u.s. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint, when trump was overheard making "a promise to a foreign leader." yeah. ( audience reacts ) a promise to an unknown foreign leader. thank god trump never keeps his promises. ( laughter ) never. never has. eric -- ( cheers and applause ) in fact, eric is still waiting by the front door to go to disney world. ( laughter ) (as eric) "hi ho, hi ho, you promised that we'd go." ( laughter )e telligence communs taking this threat seriously. their inspector general considered the incident a matter of "urgent concern." that's h

i'm your host, stephen colbert.t is so great, so agreement to be here tonight is what i would say if i were actually here. right now, i'm on my way to l.a. for the emmys, and this was recorded ahead of time. so as you watch this, i'm on a flight headed to los angeles, giving the flight attendant a verbal "yes" that i'm willing to assist in the evughter ) lae ) so long ast emeris re's too much vodka on thi "ughter ) ( piano riff ) ( cheers and applause ) you've got to make the most of emmy weekend. but we still have an amazing "best of season four" show for you, with all kinds of highlights from the show's last year, where we talk about the lowlights from our country's last year. ( laughter ) but we will be back monday with a special all-new show featuring the one and only sir paul mccartney. ( cheers and applause ) back here-- yes, that's exactly right. that's exactly right. give it up. >> jon: i seen him. i seen him. >> stephen: sir paul is back here in the ed sullivan theater, where the beatles kicked off the brit

it's "the late show" with stephen colbert. stephen welcomes paul mccartney, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) hey! how are you? happy monday. ( piano riff ) hello! thank you very much! very kind! hey, everybody! welcome one and all, ladies and gentlemen, to "the late show." i'm your host stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) i'm excited, too. it's been a very big week here in new york. the u.n. general assembly is in town. leaders from asia, africa, and europe have come to new york city to see all the people who used to live in their countries. ( laughter ) president trump is here, too. to welcome him, new yorkers have spent the last three years crowbarring his name off all the buildings. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) trump had a busy weekend prepping for the u.n.-- on friday at the white house, he hosted a state dinner for the australian prime mi

props like you said to steven colbert for pushing her on this., really on both sides, utilize. she used the word costs, he said taxes. regulations or other things that are used in place, i mean, that's really the issue here is that these are l, they're allie, they're not plans. they aren't guarantees. whenever you hear the government say oh, and by the way, this is paid for? david: yeah, sure. >> run because it's not and they just go after you more and more as a taxpayer because it's an endless supreme court play of money. >> yeah, she can not defend this because the math doesn't work. if you look at the top 1% of the taxpayers they pay $538 billion, so if you had 100% increase in taxes just think about that, they would still be paying only just over $1 trillion. she's talking about multiple trillions of dollars in spending so if the 1% doesn't have that guess who does? it's going to be the middle class, and maybe this plays out okay for her here in the primary but when you get into the general election if she's the nominee you just start putting

i'm your host, stephen colbert. the big story-- the big story continues to be hurrican dorian, which, as we speak, is churning towards my home town of charleston, south carolina, which is under a mandatory evacuation. i hope everyone down there stays safe. dorian devastated the bahamas over the weekend. and we all want to help, so last night, i talked to our friend chef jose andres of "world central kitchen," who is in the bahamas right now to feed the survivors. ( cheers and applause ) he is-- he's in nassau. right now, he's in nassau, making meals in the kitchen of his restaurant at the atlantis resort. and i love this: guests at atlantis are joining in the relief effort, with families and their children pitching in the kitchens to help make ham and cheese sandwiches. they are-- ( cheers and applause ) yeah. that's the right thing to do. that's the right thing to do. they are spending their vacations making sandwiches-- also known as "being a mom." ( applause ) so last night i asked-- last night i asked jose what

i'm your host, stephen colbert. it does feel good to be back.d from a two-week break. i didn't watch any news. how's kirsten gillibrand doing? really? she's out? well, that's just more votes for jay inslee. what?! but he had glasses! he was the one with glasses, right? okay. of course, the big story is hurricane dorian. it's currently a category 2, but over the weekend, it grew to a category 5 storm that has devastated the bahamas. it's slowly moving off. our thoughts are with everyone down there tonight. and let's remember them when this is all over. now, the storm is hovering off the coast of the united states. no one is sure if it's going to make landfall or where. and by "no one," i mean donald trump. ( laughter ) over the weekend, he pelted the american public with 122 tweets, including dozens of updates about the storm, mixed in with comments about the trade war with china, complaints about james comey, and his annoyance with the actress debra messing. ( laughter ) plus his tweets weren't overburdened with accuracy. for instance on sunday

i, stephen colbert, work for a major corporate media. free from corporate influence and i can say whatever i want. which reminds me: all hail the glorious merger of viacom and cbs! ( cheers and applause ) may it forever bolster our premium content portfolio and position us to span all content categories and demographics, creating eternal value for shareholders! viacom-cbs: stronger together! ( cheers and applause ) we've got a great show for you tonight. curtis "50 cent" jackson is here. but when we return, i send one of my writers to iowa! stick around. -guys, i want you to meet someone. this is jamie. you're going to be seeing a lot more of him now. -i'm not calling him "dad." -oh, n-no. -look, [sighs] i get it. some new guy comes in helping your mom bundle ansave with progressive, but hey, we're all in this together. right, champ? -i'm getting more nuggets. -how about some carrots? you don't want to ruin your dinner. -you're not my dad! -that's fair. overstepped. -that's fair. did you know you can save money by using dish soap to clea

i'm your host, stephen colbert! today, special counsel robert mueller testified for six hours in front of two different congressional committees. it was a marathon. i know my nipples were bleeding. ( laughter ) the-- the first bombshell of the day wasn't even from robert mueller. it was about robert mueller. >> robert mueller, 74 years old, as we mentioned, former vietnam veteran, marine. also known as "bobby three sticks." because he is robert. mueller iii. >> stephen: bobby three sticks? ( laughter ) i had no idea! three sticks-- robert mueller has a gangster nickname. "eh, not for nothin', but bobby three sticks is keeping an eye on big donny fish lips, head of the trump-bino crime family. rumor has it donny fish lips is in cahoots with vladdy no-shirt. ( laughter ) big, big vladdy." judiciary committee chair jerry nadler got things started, asking mueller why trump refused to sit for an interview. >> did the president refuse a request to be interviewed by you and your team? >> yes. >> yes. and is it true you tri

think it's smart that the biden campaign decided to put joe biden on stephen colbert last night.any time you're trying to make light of something that could potentially be damaging in the future, it's very commonplace that campaigns will put your -- the candidate in a setting that allows them to, you know, sort of ease the, you know, potential burden, ease the potential pain and, you know, sort of make light of this. there's no better place do that than putting the candidate on the late show. we do this a couple times with hillary clinton on the campaign whenever there's -- the email situation, for example, which got so far out of hand it was a way for her to sort of make fun of it, make light of it but try to focus on the fact that she's moving on and focusing on the issues that matter most during the campaign i think that's what joe biden's campaign has done. look, he's going to keep making gaffs. he's been making gaffs for years. this is not unusual for him. it's something that is endearing to an extent to some of his supporters. they see it as something that he's been doing f

tonight joe biden will appear on the late show with stephen colbert. this is the first such appearance by the former vice president since he launched his campaign. biden has appeared on this show twice before. >> tonight on the latest show, former vice president joe biden. the last time he was here, people thought he might announce run for president. will it happen tonight? stay tuned. >> you can watch the colbert show tonight right here after the occurs 5 news at 11:00. >> join training extra exercises today at the white house, preparing for multiple threat scenarios. the drills in washington d.c. were called capitol shield. officers dress up with fake injuries, act like civilians in need of rescue. >> it brought together people who don't train together day to day, but we do this annual training so that when this happens, we can respond and do so effectively. >> cities across the country conduct similar drills. officials say they became more frequent after the 9-11 attack. the training at the nation's capitol will last three days. >> hong kong is beak

. >> colbert response was probably the right one but i don't know that ultimately after enough of theseds of things begin to accumulate will biden be able to withstand in the long haul, the number one thing democratic voters care about is choosing someone that they believe can defeat donald trump's next november. joe biden is saying things that are indelicate, misremembering details, part of the good-ole joe sort of brand for a long time, that's priced in people's assumptions about biden, anything about his health, perhaps too old to take on trump. howie: which is something that they raise a lot. >> more about electability. >> i have a sound bite for you, molly, podcast on the iraq war, play it. >> immediately the home started i came out against the war, now the judgment of trusting the president to keep his word on something like that, that was a mistake and i apologize for that. howie: now as npr's pointed out as part of interview package, biden for months after voting to authorize the war defended or at least said he would vote the same way, until 2005 a couple of years later biden t

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and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: whoo! perfect! ( cheers and applause ) toasty. right here it's toasty. thanks, everybody, please! please, have a seat. thank you very much, too kind! welcome. welcome in here, out there, all around the world, all of our viewers at sea, welcome to "the late show," i'm your host stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) the big story tonight, tweet! "unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major taliban leaders and, separately, the president of afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at camp david on sunday." yes, trump invited the taliban to camp david the weekend before 9/11. that's like-- there's nothing that's like that. ( laughter ) that is what -- that is only that. nothing else is like that. does trump not know what 9/11 is? >> i was down there, and i watched our police and our firemen down on 7-11, down at the world trade center right after it came down. >> stephen: 7-11. way to use the old slurpee, si

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i'm your host, stephen colbert. look, i know, i know that all of us have been so concerned that, with john bolton gone, there is no national security adviser. there was no one steeped in all facets of international political, military, and economic conflict who could make sense of a dangerous world and give our president the essential information he needed to completely ignore and tweet whatever he wants. ( laughter ) well, everyone can breathe easy, stop worrying, because the position has finally been filled. introducing future former national security adviser and photo that comes with the picture frame, robert c. o'brien. now, trump made the announcement about o'brien in los angeles, which explains why the guy looks like the second male lead on "suits." of course, the national security advisor is a critical member of the administration and one of the most powerful positions in the world. something that important should only be revealed via tweet. ( as trump ) "i am pleased to announce that i will name robert c. o'

. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, send him back!elcomes tiffany haddish, jared harris, and musical guest the smashing pumpkins. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: come on! wooo! hello! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ come on! thanks, everybody. please have a seat. welcome, welcome one and all, to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. now folks, we live-- we live in such partisan, divided times. or at least that's what it feels like most of the time, you know. >> jon: that's right. >> stephen: and it can get you down. but sometimes a hero emerges to show us the way to face the darkness. yesterday, an angry trump supporter interrupted a tucson city council meeting and this happened. >> the city does not change or defy immigration laws. that is congress's job-- >> shut up! >> to change immigration laws. >> shut up! ( booing ) >> american citizen-- >> shut up! >> american citizens respect our laws. ( b

some unsolicited advice from stephen colbert.'t she just admit she's going to raise taxes on the middle class? >> juan: i think she should. her argument is that you do away with the deductibles. you do away with some of the other costs and make a better deal. >> jesse: yeah, she's having a hard time though. >> emily: exactly. we all deserve specificity. in the beginning, it was artful. now it's agonizing to watch. she needs to admit it. >> jesse: one is she going to admit it? >> dana: probably not until she becomes the nominee. she is talking about, even though she's not admitting it, a middle tax hike. >> jesse: yeah, they are making a lot of news on these late-night shows, greg. >> greg: yeah, it is tax the out of people. they can't say it, because they are to lose. she said that she was going to. the left, they don't know how to do math. they don't know how they are going to pay for stuff other than punishing with taxes. >> jesse: she says the deficit under republicans should go down, not up. >> jesse: so much for home-field a

he was pressed by stephen colbert last night on his campaign struggles. attention to his answer. >> in the last few weeks you have confused new hampshire for vermont, said bobby kennedy and mlk were assassinated in the late '70s and assured us "i'm not going nuts." follow-up question, are you going nuts? >> the reason i came on "the jimmy kimmel show" is because -- here's the deal. any gaffe that i've made and i have made gaffes, like every politician, they have been not about a substantive issue. trying to talk about what other people have done. they made a big deal of my saying that i pinned a metal onto people -- >> the branch of the military was wrong and the date was wrong and the act he was awarded for was wrong on the metal was wron wrong. on what position you held at the time. that was all fact-checked and use the details don't matter. >> i was not talking about me. i was praising the valor of all these people out there. >> you told npr that the details are irrelevant. >> those details are irrelevant. the point i was making is absolutely accurate.

i'm your host, stephen colbert. i have never, ever-- i have never been more grateful for the president's pettiness and stupidity. ( laughter ) because today he was spidly tty engh to save us from a very smart warmonger. i'm talking about national security adviser and last walrus on the beach without a mate, john bolton. ( laughter ) today, with no public preamble, the president tweeted, "i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) and another-- another goodbye! another trumpling bites the dimpling of dirt. ( laughter ) trump goes through staffers like a high 17-year-old goes through little debbie swiss rolls. we knew there was bound to be conflict between these two guys like two rams butting heads. it was going to happen eventually because trump was very down on our middle eastern wars, whereas bolton has never seen a patch of sand he didn't want to make glow. in fact, trump has long complained privately that mr. bolton was too wi

♪ ♪ >> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert! tonight, alabama.ephen welcomes mayor pete buttigieg and graham norton, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: whoo! please have a seat, everybody! welcome one and all to "the late show." i'm your host stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) the big story continues to be hurricane dorian. it's currently a category 2 spinning off the coast of the carolinas, after devastating the bahamas over the weekend. everyone's thoughts are with the people down there. well, everyone but donald trump's. ( laughter ) because he's still obsessed with alabama. ( laughter ) >> jon: man, get over that. >> stephen: over the weekend, he got into it with the national weather service over whether alabama was in the path of the storm. he said it was, they said, you crazy, so yesterday he tried to prove his point with an outdated map which he had personally altered with a sharpie. ( laughter ) he drew

that was shown in the colbert hit.e gaffes but the important thing is that he's not denying it and to his credit, earlier on-later on in the clip, he does say one of his greatest strengths is his ability to empathize with people. that's something that is very not strong right now in this democratic primary. it's not a terrible amount of em pa you this for the middle -- empathy for the middle of the country and biden has that. lauren: his defense is he makes the gaffes but they're not anything of substance and you can brush them you aside. mark tifen joins joe biden in the democrats to 2012 to the wishy-washy -- his words -- candidate mitt romney. the question is, is biden the frontrunner because there's lack of a better choice. >> it's because he's perceived as the most electable candidate, especially based on head to head polling against donald trump in the key states that won trull the presidency in 2016. even if elizabeth warren could win a popular vote, would she win wisconsin in the same way that biden's polling?

i'm your host, stephen colbert. we are coming to you live right now-- ( cheers and applause ) we couldn't-- legally, we couldn't put that up in if wasn't true-- after the third democratic presidential debate. tonight's debate was a big step forward in the primary, because it narrowed democrats down to the top 10. ( laughter ) which means we're this close to the fantasy suites! ( laughter ) and we got some never-before-seen match-ups between the heavyweights. tonight was the first time biden and warren shared the debate stage. and the fireworks started early. before the debate even began, a biden aide said that the former v.p. would target warren by arguing that "we need more than plans." warren's team responded by releasing her "plan for when we need more than plans plan." ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( cheers and applause ) she has a plan for that. >> jon: a plan. >> stephen: for that. the debate started, of course, with opening statements, and andrew yang came out strong. >> in america today, everything revolves arou

i'm your host, stephen colbert. ladies and gentlemen-- ( cheers and applause ) ladies and gentlemen, get out your sextants, your compass, your astrolabes because we are in uncharted waters. because after two and a half years of the trump presidency, we finally spotted the great orange whale, and let me tell you, thar he blows. ( laughter ) , this morning-- this morning, the administration, for some reason, released the official notes of trump's phone call with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. seen here thrilling his fans with "crazy train." and these notes that they released of this phone call make trump look-- and i don't want to get too technical-- bad. ( laughter ) the call starts with trump congratulating zelensky on his recent victory in parliamentary elections, but then he quickly reminds zelenksy how much ukraine owes the u.s. "the united states has been very, very good to ukraine. i wouldn't say that it's reciprocal." ( laughter ) (as trump) "i wouldn't say it's been reciprocal, because i don't know w

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stephen colbert asking biden, "are you going nuts?" how biden answered. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: after a string of misstatements, the self-proclaimed gaffe machine went on late night television and tried to laugh off the scrutiny. >> in the last few weeks you've confused new hampshire for vermont, said bobby kennedy and mlk were assassinated in the late '70s. assured us, "i'm not going nuts." follow-up question, "are you going nuts?" >> look, the reason i came on the "jimmy kimmel show" is because i'm not. i mean, i -- i -- i -- i'm not. >> reporter: pressed again, joe biden downplayed his missteps. >> any gaffe that i have made, and i've made gaffes, like every politician i know has, have been not about a substantive issue. >> reporter: and he pushed back on a "washington post" report that he's been telling inaccurate stories out on the campaign trail, saying it's the message that matters, not the details. >> i'm not sure that's relevant, but i don't -- you know, i don't get wrong things, like, you know, we should lock kids up in cages at the bord

. >> joe biden in the wake of several mishaps sits down with stephen colbert. >> defending a string of campaign trail gaffes. "fox and friends first" continues right now. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. rob: category 3 hurricane dorian closing in on the carolinas where the window to evacuate is close. heather: the unthinkable distraction, coastal states are urged not to take any chances. rob: team coverage with janice dean, todd pyro in wilmington, north carolina. jillian: aishah hasnie is in charleston, south carolina where conditions are getting worse. the storm is 80 miles from you and inching closer. >> i can feel it hitting me hard. every now and then i feel that big band of gusts and powerful rain but i'm standing in the middle of one of dozens of flooded streets in charleston and you can see it is coming up to my ankles. is going to keep rising in the next couple hours. this is a triple threat storm, storm surge, flash flooding, the warning going out a moment ago and wind gusts we are bracing for, 40 feet in front of me is the water. we are expectin

stuart: let me run a quick sound bite from the late show with stephen colbert, where colbert asked joelease. >> i think it's fair to go after political figure for anything, okay? i mean, we stand up and it comes with the territory but here's the deal. any gaffe that i have made, and i have made gaffes like every politician i know has, have been not about a substantive issue, been about other -- i'm trying to talk about what other people have done. stuart: you want to respond to that, bret? >> his gaffes have been pretty big. his point there was that in essence, he was trying to focus on the guy who got the medal who didn't want the medal because he didn't rescue his colleague. but there are other examples where he talks about the parkland kids, talking to him as vice president. well, they didn't. that happened when it was vice president pence. so there are big issues here that go beyond just the essence of the story. joe biden has a lot of sympathy in the democratic party. he has a lot of power. he's still leading the polls. but if he slips at all, starts coming in second or third, tha

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warren was grilled by stephen colbert earlier this week and wouldn't give an answer to it. >> she hasnswer for everything except the most important issue. i think mayor pete calling people evasive, not straightforward, in february, january when he launched on the presidential scene, he was saying single payer great centrist position, compromised position. now i think he has worked out -- there's nowhere for him to go. he hasn't had that continual rise. he's in the joe biden lane, has a joe biden plan and is attacking the main rival of joe biden, swallowing up all the votes between biden and sanders. it's kind of opportunistic on his part as well. >> opportunistic politician. >> what? >> indeed, indeed. >> listen to this, someone else perhaps in that biden lane is senator amy klobuchar. listen to her earlier today spl my view is that we've got a lot of great people running but some of these ideas are better left in the college faculty lounge. >> she actually said this during the debate, to her credit. great idea, bad plan. i can't remember her exact verbiage. she has come at, in a resp

. ♪ >>> the late show with stephen colbert is up next . >>> are discussed tomorrow morning up 4:30.he champagne. that is a good sign. >>> let's go ace. >> we will have alleges serious wrongdoing by the president of the united states and the first thing you do is go to the president's man at the white house and women and say, should i give it to congress? >> as you said, it came to me very early on in this. the fact that i was just -- i am the acting d.n.i. and i was still using garmon to get to the g.p.s. for intel officials. >> i just got this whistleblower report on donald trump. whitou. to congress. tth >> no, don't take me there! the complaint sabt the president! >> rerouteing to the justice department. >> no! william barr is named in the

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they're mad at colbert for daring to ask the question and pursuing it like that.arently, even comedians. she didn't handle it well. bernie sanders came out said, yes he is for putting taxes on the middle class but they will be better off, take his word for it. but she had to try to hedge. and if you look at europe where they do have the single-payer government plans, what do they have all there? higher income taxes. they have vats which are is super sales taxes. imagine 20, 25% sales tax, middle class. that is what awaits you. these countries have triple payroll taxes. these countries, 40 to 50% payroll taxes versus 15% that we have here in the united states. our fica taxes. connell: right. >> so no wonder she was evasive but i think people, what they want to see how well does she handle did. if she is evasive people pay less attention to details, wondering what kind of character is this. connell: i don't want to take too much of your time, steve. melissa: no, no, my turn. connell: she has been dying all day. melissa: this is very sad news for both you and i. >> i