. >> thank you superintendent carranza please add john meyer to the school that had no absence we had none. >> thank you for pointing out that out i wanted to save it (laughter). >> i have my kindergartener teacher we've been best it work with the bryan k law firm the first generous act to renovate our parent room not only accommodating all the furniture and paint everyone or everything that went into it the blood and sweat and tears to make that a fabulous resource i'd like to give them a round of applause for that (clapping) and ms. molly is going to talk about the second effort they did to support our school. >> after completely redoing our parent community bryant k spent some summer redoing our staff room we were not eating in our kindergartener chairs alone so we appreciate everything that everyone does to support our students and we've not had a group come in and supporting our teachers and staff and parents it really has been trofrp active i want to introduce marcie a partner anothers bryant k who comes and paints and the lawyers get their work done from 9 to 5 they're working

meyers." tonight -- john goodman. author and comedian, aasif mandvi. music from interpol. ing the 8g band with fred armisen. [ cheers a applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, everyone. i'm seth meyers, and this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] it's thanksgiving week. people excited for thanksgiving week? [ cheers ] if you get very quiet you can hear my parents approaching. [ laughter ] be very quiet, can you hear my mother saying, "i told you there'd be traffic." [ laughter ] "you should have left an hour ago." [ laughter ] this is big news, secretary of defense chuck hagel will reportedly give -- he will reportedly give in to pressure from the white house to resign, hagel realized things were over when obama started responding to his memos with "k." [ laughter ] once people start writing back just the solitary "k," it's over. this is interesting, president obama was asked this week whether he thinks hillary clinton will try to distance herself from him in 2016. and he said, "she's

doesn't happen very often around this town -- the new inspector general at d.o.d., john rhymer, intervened in mr. meyer's behalf and blocked those efforts. the case against mr. meyer was very flimsy, though his clearance is still hanging fire. in the end, mr. meyer bore the brunt of blame for the pogo leak. the principal targets of the investigation -- panetta, vickers and bash -- they skated. mr. meyer exposed their alleged misconduct and yet he got hammered. justice got turned upside down. what happened during the 22 months between chairman king's request and june 2013 when the report was finally issued is a tangled bureaucratic mess. despite exhaust i have -- despie questioning, an explanation hasn't been given. what i have today is just a brief summary of the facts and analysis laid out in greater detail in a staff report that i released today. in that report, my staff identified potential red flags pertaining to the way the inspector general's office handled the zero dark 30 report. these were boiled down to nine conclusions that fell into four broad categories: one, impairment of i.g. independence

meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers ] great to hear. that is great to hear. now, this was surprising to me. today, johnarned, he warned president obama against using executive action to push through immigration reform saying, "when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself." [ light laughter ] which begs the question, when did john boehner turn into a bond villain? [ laughter ] "when you play with matches, you -- mr. obama, you take the risk of -- of burning yourself." [ laughter and applause ] who are you? "they call me -- orange-finger. [ laughter ] now you are orange." [ laughter ] now you are orange." [ laughter ] this story is crazy. the drummer for rock band ac/dc has been charged, he's been charged with attempting to have two people killed by hitmen. yeah. authorities say the drummer would have done it himself but his last hit was over 20 years ago. [ laughter and applause ] so he might be out of practice, as it were. as it were. this is troubling. a new report shows the jihadists may be using cruise ships to get to syria and iraq. but not carnival cruise ships. they're not th

meyer, joins us now. it's quite an undertaking. i read the whole book. it's a big book. what i'm focused on is the two most famous figures. winston churchill and john f. what you did in your book quite well, which is talk about how the older man, the brit, influenced the younger american? >> well, sure, everybody knows that joe kennedy had an immense impact on his son, jfd. but churchill was the intellectual godfather of jfk from a very early age. there were people who saw jfk sick in bed at age 15 reading winston churchill's books. so he had a profound impact on his thinking, his view of the world. >> you know, my father, who is a republican and a real nixon guy back in '60 would say, and it stayed with me, he said, when you listen to kennedy, there's a touch of churchill there. >> absolutely. he invoked winston churchill's name quite a bit in the 1960 campaign. when we think of the inaugural address, it is replete with churchillian imagery, the idea of human freedom, that we should stand for freedom in the world. he took on that burden from churchill and it was jfk who carried it through his administration. >> and he would sit in the bathtub listeni