please welcome back to "the late show," neil degrasse tyson! n: there you go! there it is. come on. come on. neil, my friend, it's good to see you again. >> there was one section who didn't give me a standing ovation right there. we'll deal with that later. >> stephen: there is always so much to talk with you about, my friend. you were last here in april. >> okay, yeah, yeah. >> stephen: check your calendar. in april. since then we talked about the webb telescope going out there. but since then the webb telescope is out there, giving us new glimpses to of the universe. this is a successor to the hubbell telescope, which was impressive and important. what do you make of the new telescope so far? >> it's all that. >> stephen: and a bag of chips. >> by the way, you actually said it unfolded. many people don't realize this telescope is way bigger than the fairing that launched it. the engineers said let's figure out how to fold the telescope, stick it in the fairing and unfold it a million miles out from where it's parked. >> stephen: it looks like

neil degrasse tyson, it's a real privilege to speak with you. thanks so much. or having me. geoff: climate change is altering the very nature of wine and spirit production around the world, from the destructive fires that rip through california's wine country each year to the floods that threaten grape and grain harvests from bordeaux to napa valley. bryan friedman is a wine, spirits, food, and travel writer. his new book, "crushed," captures how growers and producers around the world are adapting to sudden and dramatic climate shifts. brian freedman joins us now. thanks for being here. brian: thank you for having me. geoff: in the wine and spirits industry, i was struck to learn, that's a $120 billion industry. so it's a huge part of the economy, a huge part of the culture. and in this book, you capture how climate change is affecting the industry, but you do it by looking through the eyes of the people who grow the grapes and who produce the wine. what did you find? brian: you know, these are human stories at the end of the day. i thk a lot of times it's easy,

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america among others. 30 year veteran of the combating terrorism program, he has been called the neil degrasse tyson of counterterrorism. [laughter] >> and he is considered one of the great african-americans and espionage by the international space museum. spy museum. thank you, sir. [laughter] >> neil degrasse tyson, yeah. he is a counterterrorism analyst for nbc news and msnbc. joining in conversation tonight is maxwell, and msnbc political analyst, commentator and writer. she is the senior director of progressive programming for serious xm and the cohost of the radio show signal booster. she is the author of "the end of white politics: how to heal our liberal divide." please welcome malcolm nance and ms. maxwell. >> can you guys hear me? you can hear me? excellent. i'm so glad to see all of your faces. i want everybody to be safe, i don't want you to leave with anything other than critical information on how to protect american democracy. so we will be joining to keep us all safe. i'm so excited to see malcolm. first of all, thank you for coming and welcome back. that is the first thing. you have

neil degrasse tyson, yes. and he is a counterterrorism analyst for nbc news andmsnbc , joining him in concert conversation is a zerlina maxwell.nd mbc political analyst, top commentator, speaker and writer. she's the senior director of progressiveprogramming for serious xm and cohost of the award-winning radio show signal boost . she is the utauthor of the end of white politics, how to heal our liberal divide. so without further ado join me in welcoming malcolm nance and zerlina maxwell. >> can you hear me throughthe mask ? you can hear me. excellent, perfect. i'm so glad to see all of your faces even if it's just half of the faces. i want everybody to be here, i don't want you to leave with anything other than critical information on how to protect americandemocracy so we're in agreement we're going to bejoining in that effort . just to start us off . i'm so excited to see malcolm, thank you for coming and welcome back . that's the first thing. you've been over in ukraine but that's not actually why we're her

[laughter] >> neil degrasse tyson. and he's a counterterrorism analyst for nbc news. >> and joining us in conversation is arlena maxwell. and a commenter and speaker and writer, senior director programming for sirius xm and signal boost. she is the author of the end of white politics. how to heal our lib cal divide. without further ado, please join me in welcoming them. [applause] >> hello, can you hear me through the mask? do we use this, we use the mics and those. >> all right. >> you can hear me. >> yes. >> excellent. perfect. i'm so glad to see all of your faces even if it's only half of faces. as i said i want everybody to be safe in here and don't want you to leave with anything other than critical information how to protect american democracy so we can be in agreement that we're going to be jing in that effort to keep us all safe. just to start us off. i'm excited to see malcolm. first of all, thank you for coming and welcome back, malcolm, that's first nlt thank you very much. >> that's the first thing. malcolm

and, a cosmic conversation -- we talk with astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson about nasa's latest mission new book. neil: i don't want to be the laughingstock of the galaxy, being the only species with enough resources and intellect to have a space program and not actually invoke it to prevent us from going extinct. geoff: all that and the day's headlines on tonight's "pbs news weekend."

well, recently mark whitaker review, neil degrasse tyson's newest book and took a rather view of it.d. tyson is obviously very well respected as a scientist and a scientific thinker. this book may be ranged a little farther afield into current affairs and politics and some more philosophical concerns and and i'm sure there are people who would disagree with mark take on it. but he found that it didn't have quite the potency of one. tyson is writing about science, his field of specialty, let's put it that way. here's another cover of book, world. and this is a contempt every issue that we're all knowing about right now. and this is dealing with russia. what is this? yeah, this is this is sort of a summary review of three or four different books about russia and russian history that the writer in a again, a wider way that gets at not just the current affairs but also some of what led up to the current. i think the subtitle says something like the 400 year path to putin's ukraine decisions. and this is like you were saying about the i don't it's not a difference between the times and th

something will happen in the coming days, and i understand the fears, because here is what neil degrasse tyson kind of reassuring, yes, well, i don’t care that you are so-so about nuclear weapon. if we can do it, if we can hit an asteroid, then, can we do it with a nuclear weapon, because satellite is getting a little uneasy. i don't know, i mean i love ukraine but do i love it enough to get irradiated? there is nothing you can do. so i mean, if there really are nuclear bombs that putin is worth - it's obvious that there should be an answer modern bombs do not have a radiation problem just to clearly the truth will still blow to smithereens, but this is a different kind of weapon, than the one used in hiroshimegasaki. if a nuclear weapon explodes, there will be no problems with radiation. not if there is everything people's bombs. no, not in the way we came to worry about it because of the fallout. everything else i want you to really worry about is what you vaporize after that, if you don't vaporize, then you will be blown to pieces. this is a much more serious problem that you will face. i d

in the coming days something might happen, and i understand the fears, because here is what neil degrasse tyson american astrophysicist, says, as if reassuring, yes, well , i don’t care that you are so all about nuclear weapons. if we can do it, if we can hit an asteroid, then, can we do it with a nuclear weapon, because satellite is getting a little uneasy. i don't know, i mean i love ukraine but do i love it enough to get irradiated? there is nothing you can do. so i mean , if there really is a nuclear bomb, that stands putin it's obvious that there should be responsibility, the modern bomb has no problem with radiation just to clear the truth will still blow you to smithereens, but it's a different kind of weapon than the one that was used in hiroshimegasa. if a nuclear weapon explodes, there will be no problems with radiation. there is no case if there are hydrogen bombs. no, not in the way we came to worry about it because of the fallout. all the rest. what is really worth worrying about says that you will evaporate after that, if you do not evaporate, then you will be blown to pieces. and