tonight stephen welcomes: jane fonda and willie nelson featuring jon batiste and stay human., live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey! hey, everybody! please, have a seat. please, sit down everybody, thank you so much. thanks down here, up there. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. it is so good, so good to be back, isn't it? we've only been off for a couple of days, and holy moly-- news, i can't leave you alone for five minutes. i leave town to go to the emmys, and the last words out of my mouth are, don't break anything." i come back, look at this place. when i left, it looked like smooth sailing for the senate confirmation of supreme court nominee and judge full of dread, brett kavanaugh. ( laughter ) last week, we found out that a woman had written an anonymous letter to senator dianne feinstein accusing kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party when they were in high school. it's a horrifying story, and a serious accusation. but republican

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(hollering) (elmore leonard) the way he combed his hair, henry fonda, fit the part.my darling clementine" had a real feel, a look to it of that period. where he's sitting with his boots up on the rail and someone comes by and smells his hair tonic. there are those little touches of realism that you appreciate. if you have to tell a story with words, you're in trouble. you'd better try and find another story. one of the things that makes westerns work is that they're told by images. which one of you killed james? i did and the other one, too. i'm going to kill you. (lindsay anderson) to see "my darling clementine," i began to learn what filmmaking could be. i mean, he had a much better sense of camera, image, cutting, putting the sequences together. (gunfire) i'd have to use the word "poetic." (gunfire) look, he knew how to make films. (gunfire) one of the marvelous things about a western is folks ride in and ride out and ride up to each other and encounter each other and with physical action. and of course that's almost pure cinema. (gunfire) (music playing) (narrato

. >>> actress jane fonda and comedian lily tomlin are back in san francisco this afternoon. they're pushing for the national adoption of a living wage for millions of american restaurant workers. the abc7 news was at pacino cafe in the dog patch as the celebrity social activist headlines a fund-raiser for one fair wage. they're pushing for all 50 states to give at least the minimum wage. right now california is one of eight states requiring it. the rest allow workers who earn tips to be paid a lot less than minimum wage. >> many more women are working in places where they're paid basically a very low wage. like the nationally mandated wage federally is $2.15 an hour or $2.13 an hour. >> in fact, women make up two thirds of the nation's tipped workers, and studies find those who depend mainly on tips are much more likely to suffer sexual harassment. in san francisco where rescue workers earn a minimum of $15 an hour base, the problem is less pervasive. >> the most important statistic to know is that california, which requires that they pay the full wage with tip on top has on

howard: jane fonda made a horrible mistake in becoming a propaganda tool for north vietnam and i'm glad decades later she fully recognizes that. >>> ahead on media buzz, katrina pierson joins us with the president's point of view on the kavanaugh nomination fight and the russia investigation. but first a deeper look at how the media culture has changed with the kavanaugh accusations from the anita hill allegations against clarence thomas nearly three decades ago. howard: the media spot light on christine ford and kavanaugh have prompted plenty of journalists to comparesons with what happened 27 years ago with anita hill and clarence thomas. >> an several occasions, thomas told me graphically of his own sexual prowess he said if i ever told anyone of his behavior that it would ruin his career. >> this is a circus. it is a national disgrace. and for my standpoint, as a black american, as far as i'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks. >> is today's media and political culture really any differe different? joining us is susan ferrechio and mara liasson. has the media cu

howard: jane fonda made a horrible mistake in becoming a propaganda tool for north vietnam and i'm gladades later she fully recognizes that. >>> ahead on media buzz, katrina pierson joins us with the president's point of view on the kavanaugh nomination fight and the russia investigation. but first a deeper look at how the media culture has changed with the kavanaugh accusations from the anita hill allegations against clarence thomas nearly three decades ago. george woke up in pain. but he has plans today. hey dad. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. this is the angel oak. some say the oldest living thing east of the mississippi. it's weathered countless storms. battered, but never broken, it stands for the resilience within us all. ♪ howard: the media spot light on christine ford and kavanaugh have prompted plenty of journalists to comparesons with what happened 27 years ago with anita hill and clarence thomas. >> an several occasi

potential negligent arson just a short while ago where i'm standing right now defense minister ursula fonda lion was visiting also taking pretty much the same questions from residents and local authorities asking how could this be how could this be that the bundeswehr the german military under your literate leadership has caused such a disaster with seemingly not such good means to handle it. but apart from an apology that fondling has issued both yesterday and today to local authorities saying that the incident should never have happened the way it did they are unfortunately very few solutions at the moment and even fewer answers. well as we've mentioned the fire has been burning for nearly three weeks now give us a sense of the scale are authorities close to bringing the fire under control. yes well we're right now talking about something like eight hundred hectares of more land burning which just to give you some proportion is roughly one thousand football fields so the fire is definitely under control as of now in the sense that it's no longer spreading any further however it is far fro

. >> reporter: in oakland, fonda says she does everything she can to stay healthy but doubts she will get a flu shot again after getting it last year. >> i had the flu shot because it was mandated in order to volunteer at a specific hospital. >> reporter: today the cdc offered guidance telling people who are sick not to travel and everyone 6 months and older get a flu vaccine by the end of october. >> getting it once it's available is a good idea both for flying and being in any kind of to protect yourself. >> they typically start doing >> last year it was an early peak. >> oakland international airport is monitoring the situation but say they have not received reports of inbound flights carrying passengers with flu like symptoms. >> our expectation and our understanding is the flu vaccine is coming into clinics and other places in the next week or two. >> reporter: christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> up next at 5:00, caught on camera. take a look. trying to set a planned parenthood on fire. there's a reward out to try to find this man in the video. >> it was the best day of my lif

came on broadway in 1963 in neil simon's "barefoot in the park," a role he reprised opposite jane fondathe film adaptation in 1967. >> paul? let's kill each other. >> like heep we will. >>ter: the real jolt to stardom came two years later as the "sundance kid"-- an early version of his "charming bad- guy" persona opposite paul newman's "butch cassidy." >> whoa! >> reporter: from there, film fans can reel off favorites. among them: "the way we were"br with bstreisand and "the sting," again with newman. both released in 1973. >> bob woodward. >> reporter: "all the president's men" with dustin hoffman, came in 1976. "the natural" in 1984 and many, many more. recently "all is lost" asu ival at sea drama and "our souls at night," teamed once more with fonda, just last year. >> can i talk to you? >> reporter: in 1980, he also launched a directing career-- and won an scar for it-- with "ordinary people." other directorial projects include "a river runs through it" and "quiz show." he traces it all to his southern california childhood. >> i grew up in a lower class neighborhood. and so the onle

recently "all is lost" a survival at sea drama and "ours so night," teamed once more with fonda, justt year. >> can i talk to you? o reporter: in 1980, he a launched a directing career-- and won an oscar for it-- with "ordinary people." otr directorial projects include "a river runs through it" and "quiz show." he tces it all to his southe california childhood. i rew up in a lower class neighborhood. and so the only entertainment we had-- there was no television at time, it was radio-- that you would walk to a local theater and see a movie. and so what i remembered was the joy of leaving this life you ddre forced to lead and go into a room that was ly dark with a lot of peop that you knew sitting there with and all the lights would go down and then something would come on the screen that was fresh and new t thk you out of where you were. and that had some impact on me, i think. i think that made a strong impact on me-- the value of that which i think is why i was eventual drawn to film. >> reporter: i don't know how introspective you are in thinking about your life at different times-

there's a moment when fonda is brought to all these places. and they tell the woman, "take a look.like that guy that robbed you?" it's the same. (martin scorsese) that's one of the films we studied for "taxi driver." where, utilizing this idea of the point of view, where everything goes through travis bickle's mind and eyes. (martin scorsese) you see everything in the film through him. and that's one of the reasons we studied "the wrong man" because it has that feeling of claustrophobia and paranoia that was so perfect for "taxi driver." (robert de niro) some day a real rain'll come and wash all this scum off. what it does is it draws you right in to their world the way they see it, the way they imagine it, the way they perceive it. (ray liotta) there was jimmy and tommy (ray liotta) and me. (ray liotta) and anthony stabile. (martin scorsese) you see the person walk in and he's standing there. and then you cut to see what he sees. but the camera starts to move. it becomes his point of view. i did one of those in "goodfellas" where everybody's saying, "hi, how are you," where they'r

i talk about how i'm grateful to my mom for instilling a love of jane fonda in me that was kind of my gateway drug to fitness all jokes aside, i felt more powerful when i left a karate class than i'd ever felt if you just fast forward that to us opening nine round, it was very empowering for me to do that workout it's been a great ride ever since. >> you were a professional kick boxer and boxer when you guys first started this whole thing. >> yeah. >> what lessons did you take from that? >> i won a world title, you know, and i only made $2,400 for the world title. i'm like, you know, there's gt to be a better way besides the money i said how do i take this type of training and give it to real people but take out the worst part, which is getting punched in the face. let me tell you it's no fun. we created this workout in 2008 on a shoe string budget. it's 30 minutes. there's no class time. it's a circuit you're never late. it's convenient, and you get the best workout in the world. >> i heard a guy say he burned off a thousand calories in a half an hour. >> 500 is very common for peopl

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as you have a good idea fonda i just heard that germany has been chosen to host euro two thousand and twenty four that's great i will remember the time fourteen years ago when we had a super summer here in germany we were all happy and then the world cup fever you'll have the same again leave it all. to dish boys me of course i'm happy if we have guests i would have liked it if it was in turkey for political reason it's kind of. yeah we can celebrate here in germany again and i think it'll be like the world cup in two thousand and six and it's got this been. be very six. was a repeat of a nationwide month long festival that's what germans are hoping for as they look ahead to twenty twenty four. be remembered thursday's the world the whole way here from our sport this is here to help us explain what happened today i mean germany are the hosts of europe twenty twenty four that's not a big surprise is it and it is and i mean they were favorites to begin with but then near the end it did look like this was going to be a very close vote and germany of course the safe choice i mean everythi

you remember ali baba fonda jacmel had promised to create one million jobs in the united states now he says he's not going to do that he's going back on that pledge and guess knows why he does indeed the emirate of the billionaire owner of china's biggest shopping portal made the original promise in january last year in a meeting with donald trump just before his inauguration as u.s. president but now has now said that the u.s. china trade war as quote destroyed the original premise the idea was to set up one million jobs by helping american entrepreneurs to place their products on ali baba while the plans viability was met with some skepticism at the time it was considered a notable sign of economic ties between china and the u.s. growing closer. we stain china which is planning to slash the average tariff rates on imports from most of its trading partners as early as october according to the bloomberg news agency the move would come off to china imposed higher duties on sixty billion dollars worth of u.s. products this week in reaction to washington's new tariffs on chinese goods it'

and for me, the last film i loved doing it with jane fonda, it was a sad love story, so kind of on a dark side so nice to step up into something more up beat and fun. and that is what this represents. >> especially for these times. >> these are dark times. >> so did you actually think about that when you did this fairly fun film? >> i did. i thought we are surrounded by darkness and can't escape it. it is beyond our ability. >> so also a love story in a way, you meet sissy spacek, she is the character. >> that was easy. >> and it is very moving to see the two of you have this relationship especially two people of a certain age finding this live late in life, this relationship. so there is a great clip that we are going to play where you are explaining to sissy spacek why you were doing the robberies. >> say this is a bank and that is a teller window. so you walk up and look her in the eye and say ma'am, this is a robbery. and you show her the gun. you aren't going to get hurt because i like you a lot. >> you have done quite a few outlaw films, the best most famous one is "butch cassi

last night, i had jane fonda on, which is an amazing actress.g, anything you remember? let's see, she was a really incredible and fun woman to work with, and i loved her and we went -- she set up this fly fishing class for me because i said i've always wanted to fish but i never would want to hurt the fish and, also, i'm a vegetarian, so i have always wanted to go fishing but i don't ever want to hurt the fish, i just want to see them, and i think it would be really interesting. and she said, well, have you ever gone fly fishing? and i hadn't. and she scheduled the next day this cool and elaborate fly fishing trip, and it was really fun. >> stephen: oh, wow. and there's one fish floating around the colorado river named jane. >> stephen: because you caught the fish andeth catch and release. some people kiss the fish before they let them go. >> i did. >> stephen: you got your start reviewing broadway shows on youtube. you had your own youtube channel. what shows, what's the first show you saw? >> the first show i saw was "hair spray" in virginia a

. >> she campaigned in hollywood with jane fonda. >> this is one of the six or that factor in and buildought was unthinkable and take the senate majority. >> this is risky. whenever the president comes in, there is a counter reaction on the left. the democrats get excited to vote. the president is going to stayses that heeraried and we will see if it pays off or it can backfire. >> they will ask where the president is going. i open it's elko, but it's las vegas. the president fires up the resistance movement and the only shots republicans have is to get the trump voters out. they can't fult him for doing that. the central question, will trump voters going to rub off on other candidates. it didn't work for obama or bush. we don't know. >> if we have the president under 40. if he stays under 40 and several national polls have him under 40. the house is gone and the senate is at risk. the challenge is to use these rallies to try to go up in the polls and not stay flat or go down. bill clinton on election day in 1994 in the exit polls, his approval rating was 48%. barack obama's first in 20

lgbtq nation.com and picked up on blogs, making the argument that social justice warriors jane upon fondaould be considered war veterans. griff: veterans of a struggle against what they perceive as a struggle. this is dr. warren j. blumenthal, and he says it is the unacceptable when one's love of country is called into question when advocating for peaceful means of conflict resolution. adding, but to take a few moments to consider those fighting a cultural and figurative civil war to reduce the violence and injustice and place the united states in higher standing around the world. rachel: wow. pete: he goes on to say -- rachel: we can as a nation begin to consider expanding the category of veteran to include the diplomats and the mediators, those working conflict resolution and activists dedicated to preventing wars and to bringing existing wars to diplomatic resolutions once they've begun. i really want to know what a real veteran thinks about this. [laughter] griff: well, we've got one right here. pete: join mentioner e-mail us, friends@foxnews.com. the argument that he's make, and in t

. >> so did you want to be on the side of jane fonda or john wayne? my parents chose john wayne.herefore, they were for nixon and nixon was on the side of law and order. ♪ nixon now ♪ more than ever ♪ nixon now ♪ more than ever ♪ more than ever we need nixon now ♪ ♪ nixon now ♪ more than ever >> nixon's law and order platform was very popular. in the coming election he seemed a shoo-in for a second term. >> i again proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> by the summer of 1972 nixon's campaign machine was in full force. but amidst the hoopla his re-election committee would suddenly become entangled with a mysterious illegal break-in. >> five men were arrested early saturday while trying to install eavesdropping equipment at the democratic national committee. >> well, it was the sunday after the burglary. we were the only two who showed up in the office. >> i was in the office that day. i was writing a profile. and i said, this is a better story than the one i'm working on. and i think i'd like to work on this. >> and it turns out that one of the men h