jack white, will you produce my record? >> i will. >> stephen: grammy time! me tomorrow as i check out third man records and jack helps me find my new look. in what i'm assured is the conclusion of stephen colbert presents 208 and one and one. a rock odyssey featuring jack white. >> stephen: tomorrow, jack and the black belles will join us for the world premiere of my new hit song. which reminds me: write hit song. [laughter] [cheers and applause]tststststst >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you. [cheers and applause] nation, tonight, president obama revealed his plans for afghanistan, and i tivo'd it, so don't tell me how the war ends. [laughter] with osama bin laden continuing his crowd-pleasing death, many in congress are pressuring the president to end the war. unfortunately, we can't just dump afghanistan in the ocean. [laughter] but there is a quick way out of this war, and it's the subject of tonight's word: the defining moment. [cheers and applause] congress isn't angry about just afghanistan, they're also upset about libya. >> there is growi

kids and ask them who jack white is. ghter) >> stephen: but first, afghanistan. last night the president addressed the nation from the east room of the white house, or as it's been officially renamed,the i killed bin laden room. (laughter) >> stephen: personally i thought it was in poor taste for them to put up the championship banner. (laughter) >> stephen: anyway, you've all heard the headlines. he has ordered a withdrawal from afghanistan which means obama's a coward for leaving. or for not leaving sooner. i forget which. (laughter) >> stephen: but the real shocker, folks, was where he is wasting our blood and treasure next. >> america, it is time to focus on nation building here at home. >> stephen: what? (laughter) >> stephen: we tried nation building in afghanistan. it took us ten years to get out. do we really want to get sucked into another quagmire? (laughter) >> stephen: i mean think of the challenges. if the country was crumbling infrastructure, it barely functioning democracy, large areas completely beyond the

white stripe and nine-time grammy-winning rock guitar god jack white. ♪ white recently started his ownmpany, third man records, clearly the perfect person to turn this person from a has been into a has is. [laughter] tonight, i bring you part one of my three part series stephen colbert presents 2001 and one a rock odyssey. to revive my career i journeyed to nashville, tennessee, nash vegas, music city and home of third man records. i sat down with recording artist and label executive jack white. >> this is incredibly exciting. >> for me too. >> stephen: this is an amazing moment sitting across from a true genius, an icon from a generation. what does it feel like for you to be across from me? >> i know -- i don't know how to put it into words. >> stephen: okay. >> it's funny. >> stephen: don't try. if you don't know how don't try. >> i don't know how to put it into words. >> stephen: shhh. you are both the recording artist and the record executive? >> si, yes. >> stephen: you have cut out the middle man and can exploit yourself directly. can i take to the record executive? >> you want t

i want to make sure jack white is getting what he needs. >> that is who is doing this. >> jack white would never do this. >> we know who is wearing the pants in the relationship. >> stephen: you seem to have a lot of integrity. what is that worth to you? >> what is it worth? >> stephen: what is your price for your integrity? >> there's no price. >> stephen: why don't you go for more of that sweet, sweet advertisement cash with pairing your songs up with products that sell in commercials. >> it doesn't fit. >> stephen: all your songs would fit commercials. seven nation army. ♪ stphet ♪ >> yeah? >> stephen: i think it's a great way to sell yogurt. check it out yum yum yum yum. >> i've never used yum to sing. >> stephen: go for it. danon or what is this yopliat on the bottom. >> yum yum yum yum. i'm not feeling it. >> stephen: you have to do it like you mean it, man. we're selling yogurt. come on, hit it! five, six, seven eight. >> yum yum yum. >> stephen: i'm going to eat it up ♪ >> yum yum yum. >> stephen: put on my cereal, maybe some blueberries. >>umummum. >> stephen: it's got acido

and label executive jack white. >> this is incredibly exciting. >> for me too. >> stephen: this is an amazing moment sitting across from a true genius, an icon from a generation. what does it feel like for you to be across from me? >> i know -- i don't know how to put it into words. >> stephen: okay. >> it's funny. >> stephen: don't try. if you don't know how don't try. >> i don't know how to put it into words. >> stephen: shhh. you are both the recording artist and the record executive? >> si, yes. >> stephen: you have cut out the middle man and can exploit yourself directly. can i take to the record executive? >> you want that hat on right now? okay. what is it like working with jack white? >> incredible. >> stephen: i hear he is a prima donea. what is the most exploitive thing you could ask yourself to do?

and all week long i'll on an a musical journey with jack white who is pail enough to be a headliner at salmonell salmonellafest. jack will be here live on thursday along with musical guests the black bells. and who knows, maybe i'll jump in there too. so that, who knows, i will. so that's the week. ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to rock? (cheers and applause) i can't hear you. are you ready to rock? all right. all right. ladies and gentlemen, wait about ten minutes because we have other things to do first. nation f you are paranoid let me reassure you. everybody is not out to get you. it's only one guy and it's not who you think. this is the threatdown. folks i'm going to go on record. i'm no fan of world hunger. i get it, i'm fat, stop rubbing it in. the point is we all want to feed the world. but now the chinese are taking it too far. >> it isn't the quiet-- these have all been modified, and this is human breast milk. the chinese scientists responsible successfully inserted the human breast mibling gene into a cow embryo and then implanted it into a surrogate. >> with government

jack white and stephen colbert the comedian debuted a new single by the rocker on his show last night grammy. the song, though, climbing the charts today. the man is multi-talented. next up, did you not get invited to the senate for seersucker thursday? well, never fear, we have pictures from this fabulous/slightly insane tradition where members of the senate report to work in their finest seersucker outfits. it follows a tradition started by senator trent lott in the '90s to mark the beginning of summer. nice to see they could all agree at least on their outfits. finally, you know, i want to give that one a sound effect. darn it. i was going to give it the sizzling bacon because they look hot in that seersucker. all right. last up, do three reality show train wrecks, shall we say, make for good tv or a bad disaster? check out the names for this upcoming show on vh1, heidi montag, "bachelor" jake pavelka and danielle staub from "the real housewives of new jersey." the so-called reality stars will compete for the chance to run a west hollywood restaurant, but the real fireworks may be

the familiar jack daniel's label is undergoing changes and dropping some words. the letters will stay white on black, but the population of the town of lynchburg will no longer be present. is the proprietor's name will be removed as well. other refinements are being taken out to feature a picture of jack daniel's. "the voice" will move on, certainly garnering a lot of attention and the finale is set for the end of this month, all to see who wins the popular casting call. today, we get a chance to talk to one of the judges himself. adam levine joins u. >> you know, we are not technically judges. >> you are coaches. >> judging is bad. [laughter] >> thank you for the correction. big night tomorrow night. america is voting this time. has it been a fun to watch your team evolve? >> it has been great. it has been an amazing learning process for me and everybody on the show. i was saying earlier, i love this show. everyone on my team is great. >> we got to talk to devon barley last week it ha six. as his success surprised you? >> i love that he is premed. he is a great kid. i was not sure i was go

look a jack kennedy and stan musial in the white house, right, and it looks like the oval office. >>tan was not an extreme left winger but his policier were democratic. >> james michelleener who became his good drinking bud he said he was the only superstar he ever met who was a democrat. >> you will see one there who clearly wasn't. next picture. ted williams. ted nuget. george bush. >> and they loved each other. they were really -- they respected each other. >> stan and ted. >> ted went around saying he was stan musial's mother's player. she went to williams and asked for an autograph and -- >> the best thing williams could say about any player is that guy can hit. that's what he said about dan. they guy can hit. >> so tell me what it is abt those guys that can hit. what is it that they have? what duds wilams have? what does mantle have? what did -- considering that if you get three hits for every 10 times up, yore a terrific hitter. let's close with this story. you're at mickey mantles funeral and giving the eulogy. >> yes. so it's a big church inallas. and i'm standing uphere del

>> while i was, let's see, i left the white house, i went to work for jack kemp, i thought he would be a good president, and that would have been in 1986, and while working for him, i started to write a newsletter, a -- a nightly column that went out to the republican members of the house of representatives, and it was like 2,000 words every other week, and it got a great response, and i thought, hmmm, it isn't that hard, it seems to get a great response, and by them i had a good portfolio of published work elsewhere, so i went to a syndicate and said, would you be interested in taking me on? i was going to a syndicate that was get offing the ground itself. so they were looking for new talent and we happened to meet at the right time. so i was syndicated before i was a columnist for a newspaper. i went straight to syndication. >> when you're starting out as a columnist, how much do they pay you? how do you get paid? >> nothing. >> i mean, do they pay you per column? >> no, not exactly. your clients, your newspaper clients pay the syndicate so much per column, like $10, per column. >> h

for a more gradual drawdown a former cia officer jack rice says washington's confused in a country. i think that the department of defense and the white house are probably mischaracterizing how this is successful if you will and one of the problems is that somehow the u.s. has broken the taliban or is separating the taliban from al qaeda well the fact is is that the taliban and al qaeda were separate organizations from the beginning and just simply characterize them as the bad guys as all the same guy was one of the biggest mistakes that the united states ever met and i think you are going to see more instability when i talk to people in other parts of the country they look at president karzai as a crook they see him as somebody who's doing nothing but protecting himself and his own democracy is not here that you know what at the same time anybody who thinks that the u.s. or the or the europeans can roll into a country and simply say we have decided we're going to we're going to do with iraq we're seeing you put it in equals i can't imagine any country in the world where a foreign army could walk in and say we're going to give you som

host its first ever twitter town hall on wednesday, july 6, at 2:00 in the east room of the white house. jackate a conversation between president obama and americans across the economy about -- across the country about the economy and jobs. more information can be found at the event home page. very exciting. i will take your questions. >> is the president going to accept the invitation to go to deal today? how does he justify going to philadelphia? >> the president has met repeatedly with leaders and with members. he had the entire senate republican caucus you're not too long ago. benny had the entire house republican caucus here not -- then he had the entire house republican caucus. what the senator invited the president to do was to hear senate republicans restate their position. we know what that position is. he also invited him to hear what would not pass. that is not a conversation worth having. what we need to have is a conversation about what will pass. negotiations that build upon the success -- to move forward with a significant deficit reduction deal that is balanced and fair. the a

klinger, went after the white house counsel, jack quinn, who was the holder of -- the custodian of the documents that the committee was going after. and the president never claimed executive privilege. but alluded to it and kept putting it off. and at one point made a conditional claim of executive privilege, depending on x, y and z. well, the committee got fed up and what they did with schedule, schedule a contempt vote for two weeks hence. actually, they had already contacted -- contented quinn discusses the floor on the house two weeks hence. and within a two-week period, the documents were all turned over. so, that kind of an opportunity, it's what we call a staged process, which i believe that investigative oversight is. so from one point of persuasion to the next to the next to the next. and what's happened over the last 15, 20 years is we skipped the threats, you know, i subpoena and then subpoena mean and the threats of content. and then holding contempt over somebody's head. jack quinn did not want to be held in contempt. >> and, mr. chairman, my time has expired but from my v

white house. >>> we found out this morning that dr. jack kevorkian died of heart failure.83 years old and known as a crusader in the emotional battle over assisted suicide. >>> president obama is on his way to ohio. he will visit a creaseler plant where he will defend his bailout. chrysler will pay off its remaining loans ahead of schedule. >>> involuntary manslaughter charges have been filed against the driver of the fatal bus crash early thiewls morning. ken chung was tired when he swerved off 93 wheel driving from north carolina to new york. it hit an embankment and flipped over. federal officials have shut down the bus company for multiple safety violations. >>> the only medical marijuana dispensary in the east palo alto is fighting now to stay in business. the peninsula caregivers collection went before the palo alto city council making its case on why this should stay open. the council ordered it to close saying the collective is too vague about what is and what isn't allowed to be in business and it's icing a dictionary as a defense. >> if it's determined that this

jack welch's jockeying for a cabinet position pawlenty presidency? [laughter] >> can't ask with a straight face. >> i think not. and when president reagan was in the whiteouse, marginal taxes were at 70%. it's lowest point since 1950 today. there's a plan that eliminates the capital gains tax, it eliminates the estate tax. it's a huge handout to the upper income of the corporate interests. of course they're going to be cheering. but if doesn't produce the 5% growth, then what? i don't think he'll get to the white house to prove his plan, but i think it should be exposed for what it is. it's -- >> giving away cancan i did. >> can we talk about the percentage of federal spend that pawlenty wants this government to bear, which is 15% versus obama's 18%? >> obama has 25% and 18. i don't think you can get down to 18, given the entitlement program. >> why? >> if you aim for 18, maybe you end up at 20 some it's the right goal. and he is taking on entitlement is and bloc grant, medicaid, raise the retirement age on social security, means test social security, and he won't go where ryan has gone on medicare but will be aggressive on medicare as well some he's do

was a time lapse picture done and you see him stepping over all the white lines until he starts playing. wasn't there a movie with jackholson or something not wanting to steg step on the cracks in new york. >> exactly. right. >> hey, seems to be working for nadal. he's a great tennis player. avoid the white lines. what can i tell you. thanks. >> all right. once again, we want to remind you, that we are keeping our eyes on waterloo, iowa. why? because michele bachmann about to step up to the mike. the latest republican about to enter the presidential race. as soon as we see her, we will take it live. >>> looking for a job? why don't you head to tucson? they're looking for a marijuana connoisseur. that story and others when we go cross country. and the casey anthony murder trial back in session after the judge rules that she's -- competent -- or competent to stand trial. we're live in orlando with the details. host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? host: what, do you live under a rock? man: no way! man: hey rick check this out! anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save 15% or more on car

tommy the cork's interest in helping jack was his interest in covering the rear ends of some people at the white house and the state department and justice department. goodall j. edgar hoover had wiretapped tommy the cork so because the truman and mr. schwab very nervous about the old new dealers. so, it started in 45, and there were claims of coverups but it was always, jack was always able to prove that he was assigned on a vote, they didn't press charges against him. he was sent to tokyo to be on macarthur's staff. this is not what you do with someone who is not very confident or may not be something illegal. hoover didn't like that. at all. and he said that the case against the six was airtight unless they had to prove intent. excuse me, you always have to prove intent if you're going to find someone guilty. and he didn't give up on it. and lo and behold, by 1950, after the soviets had detonated a atomic bomb and shock the world and we found there were atomic spies, he gave a lot of information, leaked information to mccarthy, who leaked it to the present started this spies and communist age

jack cafferty here with the file. >> just what they need. a lot of people didn't think president obama could ever win the white house in 2008 because he's black60 a lot of people didn't think jack kennedy could be elected president because he's a roman catholic. he was. according to the pew research center, voters's attitudes towards candidates who are black, female, catholic, or jewish have changed americans warmed up to the idea that voting for someone who might be different from previous presidents or god forbid different from themselves. that doesn't necessarily hold true for all minority groups mitt romney, the republican front runner and new entrant to a race, jon huntsman and ambassador to china are both mormons. members of jesus cries and latter day saints. many christians are skeptical. most people don't know a lot about the mormon church beyond the former ties with polygamy. whatever people know or don't know, they are not necessarily trustful of them. according to a gallup poll, 22% of americans say they would not vote for a mormon for president even if the candidate was a member of the voters's own party. hun huntsman is the less