please welcome sarah silverman!w. that's how you do it. oh, welcome back. whew! sarah silverman, welcome back to "the tonight show." congratulations about your new musical here, "the bedwetter." >> thank you. >> jimmy: this is a -- this is based on your memoir, which i loved, "the bedwetter." >> thank you. >> jimmy: it was such a great book, super funny. but i want to get into your stand-up. your stand-up, you're still on tour right now. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and you just filmed your special over the weekend? >> yeah, i'm in the middle of tour, and for some reason i shot m my speciain the middle of this tour. so -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> -- it was great. but i got -- i completely lost my voice right before it. >> jimmy: no. you got sick right before -- >> but i had a really good attitude. >> jimmy: okay. >> 'cause my therapist thought me to say, "thank you for everything just as it is." and then, you know, it's all right. they pumped me through -- filled with steroids. >> jimmy: ooh. >> and that makes it so you can talk. b

. >> brought to you by sarah silverman. >> celebrity iou season premiere next monday night at. nine on hgtv. >> elon musk bringing his influence to germany's far right party with less than a month before snap elections in that country, the tech mogul making a surprise appearance at a campaign launch for the alternative for germany party. cnn's fred pleitgen has musk's message and the growing opposition. >> can you hear me? okay. >> yes, we can hear. >> you. >> elon musk, larger than life. the virtual guest of honor at the far right alternative for germany's election campaign kickoff event. some afd members have been accused of using nazi rhetoric. musk calling for more german nationalism. >> i think there's like, frankly, too much of a of a focus on on past guilt. and we need to move beyond that. it's okay to be proud to be german and not to lose that in some sort of, uh, multiculturalism that, that, that that dilutes everything. >> music to the ears of afd supporters. >> you know, go, go, go. >> fight, fight, fight. musk speaking even before the party's main candidate, alice w

brought to you by sarah silverman. >> celebrity iou. >> season premiere february 3rd at. >> nine on. >> hgtv. >> another big meeting for the federal reserve this week and president trump's second week of his second term. experts believe they won't touch interest rates this time, but could start cutting them again later this year. and on capitol hill, the senate will cast its final vote on president trump's pick for treasury secretary, scott bessent, on monday evening. we're joined now by justin wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the university of michigan. justin, good to see you. everyone is kind of hedging their bets with the economy as the new president takes office. could we see any surprises from the feds this week? >> and the. >> fed's job is not to surprise. >> people, and. >> they're pretty good at doing that job. so. >> look. >> the truth is trump inherited really quite a wonderful economy. the unemployment rate is low. people are finding jobs pretty well. and so the fed doesn't feel like it's in a hurry to cut rates anymore. >> so if they do as expected, h

. >> sarah silverman. >> celebrity iou season premiere february 3rd at nine on hgtv now. >> mother's search for her missing son a long journey that has now taken her to syria's capital. she's the mother of missing american journalist austin tice, who vanished near damascus in 2012. i want to show you the last known video of him recorded in august of that year. a blindfold over his eyes. the u.s. believes he was abducted by the regime of then syrian president bashar al-assad, but they never acknowledged it. the regime. and now, after the stunning fall of assad's government last month, tice's whereabouts are still unknown. his mother is hoping the new syrian government can help her find her son. more now from our clarissa ward. >> this is the story of the lengths a mother will go to to find her son. it's the story of so many syrian mothers and one american for 12.5 years, deborah tice has not stopped looking for u.s. journalist austin tice. taken at a regime checkpoint in syria in 2012, he has been missing ever since. one of many thousands who disappeared in the prisons of syrian dicta

. >> brought to you by sarah silverman. >> celebrity iou season premiere february 3rd at. >> nine on. >> hgtv. >> president donald trump is applying new pressure on russia to end the war in ukraine, threatening new tariffs and sanctions, also accusing russian president vladimir putin of, quote, destroying russia. cnn's matthew chance is live in moscow with putin's reaction to all of this. >> well. >> boris and erika, the russian president, vladimir putin, has lavished praise on president trump while urging a meeting between the two leaders to discuss ukraine and other issues. in an interview on russian state television, putin insisted that he always had what he called an exclusively professional and businesslike relationship with trump. a u.s. leader who he appears to hold in very high esteem. take a listen to this he is not only a smart person, he is a pragmatic person. >> and i can hardly imagine that decisions will be made that will harm the american economy. therefore, most likely it would be better for us to meet and talk calmly about all those areas that are of interest to both

brought to you by sarah silverman. >> celebrity iou season premiere february 3rd at nine on hgtv. >> all right, 24 minutes past the hour. here's your morning roundup today on capitol hill, a key procedural vote to advance the nomination of pete hegseth as secretary of defense. the former fox news host, facing new allegations about his drinking. hegseth ex-wife reportedly giving a new statement to the fbi claiming that he, quote, drinks more often than he doesn't. hegseth was grilled on his drinking and allegations of sexual assault during his confirmation hearing last week. hegseth denies any wrongdoing. president donald trump, brushing off concerns about tiktok and whether china has access to americans personal information. he was asked about it on fox news. >> is it that important for china to be to be spying on young people, on young kids, watching crazy videos? >> the president signed an executive order delaying a federal ban on the app. he has said he's open to elon musk or larry ellison buying tiktok. the cold weather remains after this week's historic winter storm. that left a

. >> sarah silverman. >> celebrity iou season. premiere february. >> 3rd at. >> 9:00 on. >> hgtv. >> president trump has a plan for the future of gaza build new housing and uproot more than a million palestinians by moving them to neighboring countries and we just clean out that whole thing. >> it's, you know, it's over the centuries, it's had many, many conflicts that. right. and i don't know, it's something has to happen. but, uh, it's literally a demolition site right now. almost everything is demolished. >> trump told reporters on air force one that he asked jordan's king abdullah to take in more palestinians. he wants egypt to do the same. the suggestion was rejected sunday by egypt and by jordan, both countries emphasizing that the only way forward is a palestinian state. meanwhile, tens of thousands of displaced gaza residents began returning to their homes overnight following a 48 hour delay that was caused by a hostage release dispute between israel and hamas. max foster joins us live now from london, with more. max, good