tonight -- john oliver, from "the detour," actress laura benanti, music from blake shelton. featuring the 8g band with lil john roberts. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] fantastic to hear. in that case, let's get to the news. today was the first day of spring. psych! [ laughter ] president trump said today that he and vladimir putin will probably get together in the not too distant future to discuss the arms race. oh, sorry, i misread that. it's to race into each other's arms. [ laughter ] when asked today if the russian election was free and fair, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said, quote, "we're focused on our elections. we don't get to dictate how other countries operate." "ha, ha! good one," said iraq. [ laughter ] according to cnn, president trump's lawyers sat down with members of special counsel robert mueller's team last week to discuss the topics investigators could cover with trump. and so far, it's a p

♪ change don't come >> now go. >> you really have a terrible voice. >> i see you, john oliver. you inspired all of us. that is our show. thanks for watching "the beat with ari melber." we'll be back 6:00 p.m. eastern. "hardball" starts now. >>> the third man. let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. today in a new york city courtroom, the trump circus came to town. donald trump's fixer lawyer michael cohen asked a judge to keep federal prosecutors from looking at documents they seized after raiding every place cohen could have hidden anything. but the most explosive moment came when cohen's lawyer was forced to divulgth

amy: there you have john oliver. could talk if you about this and if you could talk about who owns sinclair broadcasting, with the cases before the fcc, and how this devouring of local stations around the country is different from other media consolidations. >> sure, well, the john oliver segment, the pieces he highlighted, daily terrorism alert desk which often seems bits frankly, islamaphobic of news, this is something that is a sinclair trademark. they call these in the business "must run" segments. another particularly egregious example of this is called "bottom line with boris." trumpepshteyn, a former campaign official in a former trump white house aide reedley who last year was hired to be sinclair's to political analyst. are required to be run every day and they are shamelessly pro-trump, basically, whatever that president is doing at that time the taxit is tariffs, bill, whether it is opposing daca. juan: i want to run a clip from segments in which he suggests the high turnover rate in the trump administrati

forget her personality or brock's personality or john oliver's personality or anybody's person that's what she brings on the line. but this tweet i'm going to read from our is totally totally nothing personal specifically about taxes here's the thing brock pierce you cannot lead a movement of crypto tax dodgers to a disaster ravaged island and expect to be taken seriously when you talk about giving back taxes are how normal people give back pay your damn taxes then tell us about your good deeds so here's a woman who goes around the world goes to places like argentina that has plundered goes to various you know disaster zones around the world you and i have been to many economic disaster zones she goes to all sorts of. disaster zones and economic disaster zones but here she is telling the guy to pay taxes to the u.s. federal government where almost all of the you know the discretionary budget goes to the pentagon to basically causing the very things she goes around the world trying to fight. on top of that we have to recall what bitcoins very first words were and that was the times jan

. >> woodruff: as both of you know, there is already another book out there b the comedian john oliver about another bub named marlon bundo, but this bunny has a life of its ow leats let's hear a clip of john oliver. >> our story is about marlon bonn doe falng in love with another boy rabbit because marlon bundo is guy. >> how did you take john oliver trolling your father as looking at your father's view for guy rights? >> i saw it that we have two bunny books ving money to charity. i am proud of the book we put out. it's educational. eat fun. it's supposed to be for everybody. and, you know, our books are also giving a portion of the proceeds the charity. >> woodruff: do you share your dad's views? >> i'm not going to talk about my political views, but we have animated debates in our house and we all have our own opinion, but i think it's important to kind of come together and i think that our book really brings people together. >> woodruff: mrs. pence, you have said you want to direct the proceeds of the book to art therapy, which is something you have spent a lot of time doing. tell

and john oliver has been talking about the issues with sinclair since july.g because of the desire to acquire all these new stations with tribune. but dead spin puts this mash-up together all of a sudden that completely catapults this story to a whole new audience. john oliver picks it up again last night after the weekend, having gone viral. it makes one rethink how to cover stories like this. it didn't last very long and it was very effective. >> it is very effective. i think about these local tv anchors. i worked in local for all of my 20s. you work for the big companies and you don't always know who the big boss is. i thank goodness wasn't told to do certain things but some of these anchors, do you think they were even aware of what they were reading? >> i think many were told, that you have to do this. this is september dont down fro. the more experienced ones had more, they were more pre disposed to getting upset and angry about it. i don't know that the others. it depends on what journalist professors they had. needless to say, a lot of this isn't new.

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what has played out over the last week in the world of american news media where comedians like john oliver in the left leaning world of cable news and pundits pounced on sinclair broadcast group the nation's largest local t.v. station operator that it's known for asking its stations to air so-called must run segments that skew politically to the right the media giant came under fire for having local news anchors deliver a lengthy monologue on the dangers of fake news in the mainstream media largely parroting press. trump's frequent talking points but a much less covered story about sinclair's exploits also emerged in the fray and that's the company's reputation for the stunningly restrictive contracts critics claim prevent unhappy employees from leaving their job is to separate the facts from the fiction in this fake news squabble we are joined today by legal and media analyst lionel of my no media line on nation how are you doing leno glad to be back watching the hottest. let's. i'm not a fan of sinclair broadcasting they're a big conglomerate who works the f.c.c. to get their way and we'

joke, oh, we got him, no guys on wall street get the joke, and, oh, they got it, doing the john oliveroutine, he's very funny, but focus on what's important november november, mid-term elections this weighs on the republican party. what are they going to do about it to hold on to the senate and house. >> yeah. >> a lot saying they lose both what happens the answer is it's the economy, stupid -- not you, just the general -- that's the point hear about stimulus and maybe they put their foot off, and facebook and amazon, you know, what are we doing here what's going on here i'll say it, money talks >> bipartisan issue. >> we'll see >> there's the latest pinatta. more from sue herera sue? >> yes, indeed, kelly. we have more complete statement by steven yan, mr. cohen's attorney as we said, he called these search warrants completely inappropriate and unnecessary. he goes on to say it resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney-client communications between a lawyer and his client these government tactics are wrong because mr. cohen has cooperated completely with all government

. >> we recommend you read tal's piece on cnn.com, and check out the segment from john oliver, as wellht." we appreciate you. live in d.c. thank you. >> thank you. >>> at his luncheon, the president had -- luncheon the president with the baltic leaders, he said we'll we will find out if putin is a friend or foe and raised eyebrows with this remark -- >> probably nobody's been tougher to russia than donald trump. getting along with russia would be a good thing, not a bad thing. just about everybody agrees to that except very stupid people. >> very stupid people. last night in his final public remarks as national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster, he took a much harder line on russia. take a listen. >> russia has used old and new forms of aggression to undermine our open societies and the foundations of international peace and stability. that brazenly and implausibly denies its actions, and we have failed to impose sufficient costs. >> mcmaster did have some words of praise for the trump administration's policy on russia, especially the coordinated expulsion of russian diplomats in respons

tonight -- john oliver, from "the detour," actress laura benanti, music from blake shelton. together in the not too distant future to us

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last night on his show, john oliver came up with a strategy to convince the president to keep the iranws for the president to see this add. >> how are you? >> good. >> how was your day? >> good. >> hey, dad. >> dinner is ready. >> i'm starving. >> hey there, donald. sorry to interrupt your supper. i'm here to tell you the iran deal may not be perfect but it restricts iran's deal to make a bomb for at least ten years. you blow up the deal and that turns into zero years. if i learned one thing from all these years of cowboying is that zero is way less than ten. >> that's correct. >> also, you want to listen to a guy with a mustache like this? don't do it, donald. don't do it. hey, does anyone smell gas? >> oh, my god, the stove. >> if a coy cowboy on fox news can't convince donald trump, can a french president? that's next. wboy on fox news cat convince donald trump, can a french president? that's next. we're finally back out in our yard, but so are they. introducing scotts turf builder triple action. it kills weeds, prevents crabgrass and feeds so grass can thrive, guaranteed. our backy

john oliver didn't know how right he was. now we have stupid tapes. what the hell.el, did you pay full price for that law degree because what the hell are you doing recording these things. >> i just got to ask you, keith davidson at one point represent ing all three of the women that we are now aware of. daniels, mcdougle and now the playmate involved with the rnc doe r nor. i find that strange. am i right? these people who don't know each other all have the same lawyer? zwl it could be that this is simply a specialty he has and you know, lawyers do develop specialties. the more sinister. >> all these women would know. >> the more sinister possibility is that cohen himself arranged for these women to be represented by someone he knew he could do business with. that's the, that's a more s sinister possibility. >> let me give you an even more cynical view. and this is i think the honest view. i think this is what trump voters believe. the swamp is trying to nullify the 2016 election. that is what is going on here. let's be honest about this. this is about impeachment.

hbo's last week tonight with john oliver and veep do especially well with democrats and saturday night likely come from larger urban areas with nba teams. there are also shows republicans are more likely to watch like abc's last man standing whose main character is politically conservative. the show was canceled last year and fans are petitioning to bring it back with the success of the "roseanne" reboot and college football and nascar do well with republicans because both sports are popular in the republican south. there's also long-standing reality competition series including survivor and no, i'm not talking about the president trump cabinet shuffle, but in terms of overall popularity, our tv viewing habits actually have more in common than you may think. these are the top ten overall most popular shows for democrats, and what do you know? the list looks awfully similar to the list of republicans. in fact, seven of the ten shows are the same including big bang theory, 60 minutes and property brothers. you probably didn't have any idea how much hgtv really brought the country togethe

about hosting and titling this panel, it was going back to the idea that, and the question that john oliver kilns raised at one of the national black writers conferences which is what is the social responsibility of the black writer. and i think we are really way beyond that, as you've pointed out, because you are in a situation as writers where you are writing about the issues that affect us, and you're doing it through fiction and through poetry and through essays. and that was the impetus behind having a panel that represented these different genres. but i think we still have a challenge of how to we really -- how do we really engage more students in reading and young people in reading and the general public in reading the text, the powerful text that you are writing. so i just wanted to hear your thoughts on how you think we can engage more people in reading the literature when we live in a world that is so dominated by twitter and instagram and direct messaging. how to we get people connected to reading the text and the powerful text that you are creating? [laughter] >> well, i will, i

. >> i see you, john oliver. i see you. i salute you. i thank you.aybe you inspired all of us. that is our show. thanks for watching "the beat with ari melber." we'll be back 6:00 p.m. eastern. "hardball" starts now. >>> the third man. let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. today in a new york city courtroom, the trump circus came to town. donald trump's fixer lawyer michael cohen asked a judge to keep federal prosecutors from looking at documents they seized after raiding every place cohen could have hidden anything. but the most explosive moment came when cohen's lawyer was forced to divulge the identity of one of cohen's clients who had been kept secret. in preparation for today's hearing, mr. cohen told a federal judge that he had three legal clients in the past two years. the president, a gop fundraiser, and a third client whose identity he asked to keep secret. the unnamed client turned out to be fox news host sean hannity. hannity, who is on air when the news broke explained his relationship with michael cohe

so john oliver decided to cut a commercial advocating for the deal. >> the iran deal may not be perfect, but it helps restrict iran's ability to start making a bomb for at least ten years. you blow up the deal, and that turns into zero years. and if i've learned one thing from all these years of cowboying and calving, that's zero is way less than ten. >> that's correct. >> also, you really want to listen to a guy with a mustache like this? ♪ whether it's a big thing, small thing, or something unexpected, pnc will be right there when you need us. because when it comes to your finances, if you focus on today, tomorrow has a way of working itself out. if you focus on today, we see two travelers so at a comfort innal with a glow around them, so people watching will be like, "wow, maybe i'll glow too if i book direct at choicehotels.com". who glows? just say, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com you know what's not awesome? gig-speed internet. when only certain people can get it. let's fix that. let's give this guy gig- really? and these kids, and these guys, him, ah. oh hell

john oliver said that they looked like members of a brainwashed cult. i am struggled to disagree.ocesses, but it is something extraordinary when we have 200 different television distance belonging to one group and with the same messages. it is hard to wonder what they were thinking when you are given a script and made to read it. brilliant piece of editing. the bad news is that it doesn't seem to be doing anything to their profits. their profits are still pretty healthy. and listen, if you did not know the name, sinclair media group, you do know it now. it is a big player in the american conservative television market. it's hard to imagine a day when we all stop talking about the 2016 us election. it may be even harder when you'rejennifer palmieri — the communications director for hillary clinton's last presidential campaign. so it's perhaps not surprising that she's out with a new book. it's called ‘dear madam president', but unlike many campaign books, which offer a post—mortem on the mistakes leading up to election day, palmieri's memoir mostly ignores the "what—ifs" of the cli

it is to make the weapons and the president, john roberts in the white house, he clearly, john, put out the olive branch, saying that listen, hopefully we'll get along with russia and iran. maybe not. i say this, we have a lot to offer meaning the united states. >> when it comes to to iran in particular, sean, maybe not. but in terms of russia, the united states had fine relations with russia reagan and gorbachev got along and there was close relations between clinton and yeltsin. and certainly it is not beyond the realm of possibility. but the president was correctly articulating in the tweet when he said relations between the united states are low and surpass those of the cold war. there is no question that the united states, that the united states and russia are not seeing eye to eye here. but as he did with north korea and speaking to the parliament in south korea, the national assembly there, the president said look, the united states has a lot to offer. if you want to partner we'll be happy to do it but we have to work together to reign in people like assad. and the president saying what ha

ken doherty, and john, that is a cracking match so far. centuries olivernce for maximum but failed. high quality and jack has got through the qualifiers and looks in tiptop form. a test. and attractive player to watch, jack. very quick. a good player with a similar type of game. one of the fastest average shot time. one of the fastest on the circuit and stewart bingham... a cracking match. this one could go all the way. appleby amazing but the other match online, you will see the former champion neil robertson, up against rob. this is interesting because this is a repeat of a very, very sore defeat for neil robertson a few yea rs sore defeat for neil robertson a few years ago to this man at the same position in the championship. a fantastic player, neil robertson. i love watching the other one play as well, fast on the shop and get on with it with no problems. great to watch. a lot better in the safety department. you don't always see that from rob but he can play actively. - up that from rob but he can play actively. up the best that from rob but he can p

oliver wendell holmes and john futch cannot have been more different. in other words and actions resided a pragmatic philosophy grounded in situational thinking, adaptability, and elevated individual consciousness as the arbitrator of duty. this was the common thread at how soldiers thought. he did not create a common experience in what they thought or how they acted. so drink assumed an individualized -- soldiering assumed an individualized role. it is the soldier actions and thoughts and convoluted in ways. we are able to ask three men how did you cope with the physical strength and emotional pressures of having to survive in the ranks? true veterans would stand up and i did my whole duty as far as i knew it or it thank you. [applause] >> we don't have a lot of time for questions, but we can talk more after. >> the soldier from north carolina, was he executed? and 11 other soldiers were captured in scottsville, virginia, along the james river. they shot -- a gunbattle before, charge.t the officer in they were sent to richmond and spent a few days in c

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now to the clip that he mentionmention mentioned john lovitz, and he is a sketch artist from "saturday night live" in the '80s when he said that olivernnocent, because he is the one who perpetrated the crime. >> that is a deep cut into the archives. >> he is dating himself a little bit here. but it is a really striking, and this is very much trump in the sense that once he feels sleight ed or he does, and always has to the defend himself and keep striking back and that is what he is doing with comey here. >> and alex seitz wald here, and this is the genesis for names by the president, and we have the lovers, peter strzok and his girlfriend. and there was a former governor of virginia who received pac money. and he is saying that now senator took money -- and the story is evolving? >> yes, it is putting blame on andy mccabe for taking money for his wife's campaign and i have heard the campaign operatives that, this is the way that the way he views the women, that andy mccabe had nothing to do with his wife's candidacy who got money from terry mccauliffc and who was campaigning for hillary clinton and there is some plot, there and he w

olive branches, refusing to criticize putin directly. you didn't hear the president talk at all about those items. >> two new administration officials. johnng in and there's also mike pompeo moving over to the state department. what signal is that sending to russia and what could that mean for a policy going-forward. >> both of those gentlemen have been tough on russia before, at least rhetorically, with respect to ambassador bolton. someone i've talked to and debated about russia before. i think it will reaffirm the trump administration's policy in russia. the conversation you were just having, this dual track, would i call it somewhat different. everyone's on one track and the president is on another. so far that creates some space, and what's interesting to note, if you watch the kremlin media kremlin controlled media or media close to president putin, they keep open that space. we have the good czar. he wants to do the right thing, the deep state is doing the wrong thing, they want to keep open the idea that trump and putin could get together and try to reverse this bad track we're on right now. >> it's interesting to hear russia use

momentpitomized in the mayor oliver beach who pled for an ordinance to limit saloons near schools and to support women and children, not saloon keepers. the saloons won 14-2. [laughter] john taylor probably won't -- jon taylor probably won't tonight about the booze and the sex. but cheer up, he will almost certainly talk about the corruption. jon has a bachelor of science degree and a masters degree and a phd. he is a professor of history at the university of central missouri and the author of four books on harry truman, including books about the grandview farm truman independence, and freedom , to serve about truman and civil rights. ladies and gentlemen, jon taylor. [applause] >> good evening. crosby, you have set the bar very high for my talk tonight. thank you for that introduction. i would like to thank the kansas city public library for hosting c-span, thes kauffman foundation, and missouri humanities council. part of what i will talk about tonight comes from one of the contributions you saw illustrated earlier. but much of what i am going to talk about tonight comes out of a book i am working on about truman's senate career. i think you will find things very intere

john williams in maine, he's accused of shooting and killing corporal eugene cole, the department veteran will be layed to rest next week. he leaves behind wife and four-grown children. 25-year-old officer oliverhit by a bullet as he -- as the fight escalated outside of house in arkansas, police say he was not the intended target. his children were inside at the time. no arrests have been made. the police department created gofundme account, he leaves behind a fiancÉe and two young daughters. rob: more than two dozen school kids safe, driving through south carolina when their bus crossed into the opposite lane and fell down in embankment. the school thanking a trucker for stop to go help injured kids, no word yet on exactly what caused the crash. carley: president trump will be welcoming nigherria's president to the white house marking first visit by first african leader, they will be discussing how to combat terrorism as the country faces a growing battle with boca horon. rob: the president tweeting, quote, the white house correspondence dinner was a failure last year but that year was embarrassment to everyone associated wit. the filthy comedian totally bombed, couldn't deliver lines much li