and we have music from one of my favorites, courtney barnett.o you're here on an absolutely wonderful show tonight. before we get to that, the president openly celebrated violence against a reporter as saudi arabia lied about the death of a journalist. for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] tonight president trump traveled to texas to campaign for his former nemesis, senator ted cruz. trump, of course, famously called him lying ted during the 2016 campaign, but on his way to texas he was asked by reporters if he still felt that way, and he gave cruz a new nickname. >> is he no longer lying ted? >> he's not lying ted anymore. >> what is he now? >> he's beautiful ted. [ audience ohs ] >> steve: no. no, you can call ted cruz a lot of things, but beautiful is not one of them. ted cruz once took a picture with a butter cow, and the only thing that looked like it was melting was ted cruz. [ laughter ] trump is pulling out all the stops for the midterms to try to avoid the impending blue wave. and the reason these mi

courtney barnett started playing music when she was just 10.debut album rare performance on this show in 2015, and a best new artist grammy m grammy nomination. now performing city looks pretty, here is courtney barnett. ♪ the city looks pretty when you've been indoors ♪ ♪ for 23 days i've ignoredur ph ♪ and everyone's waiting when you get back home ♪ ♪ they don't know where you've been, why you're gone so long ♪ ♪ friends treat you like a stranger and ♪ ♪ strangers treat you like their best friend, oh, well ♪ ♪ spare a thought for the ones that came before ♪ ♪ all in a daze bending backwards to reach your goal ♪ ♪ sometimes i get sad ♪ it's not all that bad ♪ one day, maybe never ♪ i'll come around ♪ the city takes pity on your injured soul ♪ ♪ and heay prose ain't enough to fill that hole ♪ ♪ everyone's soaked in animosity ♪ ♪ it's vicious in winter, you never say what you mean ♪ ♪ friends treat you like a stranger and ♪ ♪ strangers treat you like their best friend, oh well ♪ ♪ waking up to another dismal day ♪ ♪ you got a ways to go, you oug

ike barinholtz, star of "chilling adventures of sabrina," actress kiernan shipka, music from courtney barnett