>> "stephen colbert's tele-trendsi-vision." ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: tonight on "stephen colbert'se titillating world of reality romance, which may sound shallow, but the hottest dating shows nowadays are all about one thing: personality. ( laughter ) take, "married at first sight," where couples are betrothed, sight-unseen, by relationship experts "love is blind," where singles go on blind dates in separate pods, or, "too hot to handle" where attractive contestants share a villa, but they can't touch each other without their $100,000, prize pot depleting. now, wait a second. if people are getting paid for 'not' having sex, i would like royalties from my 20s. ( laughter ) ( applause ) not seeing each other is the hot dating show trend of the moment. and now there's a new player that takes it to a whole 'nother level. welcome to the strangest blind date ever. >> hey how you doing? >> how are you? >> could you fall in love with someone based on personality alone? >> you're the best looking devil i've ever seen. >> i kissed this girl and i don't know what she looks lik ( laughter ) >>

yeah. ( audience chanting stephen) >> stephen: hey! please have a seat, ladies and gentlemen!elcome, welcome one and all to "the late show." i'm your host stephen colbert, and i am so glad -- ( cheers and applause) -- so glad that quarantineif it's the only reason i can be with you all tonight, you wonderful live audience. ( cheers and applause) ( piano riff) nothing like a thursday crowd. >> jon: thursday crowd! >> stephen: but as nice as it is to be emerging from lockdown, there are a few downsides. here in new york to-go cocktails and alcohol delivery ends today. ( booing) see, new york? the people want their booooooze! ( cheers and applause) now, back at the height of the pandemic, the state changed the rules and allowed restaurants and bars to start selling alcoholic beverages to-go. but recently, governor cuomo declared that new york's state of emergency will end thursday. kicking off a new state of emergency where i can't get a bicyclist to bring me a margarita in a wet paper bag so i can sip it out of a promotional blue bloods coffee mug in my bathtub. ( laughter) othe

>> stephen: hello. >> hi. >> stephen: thank you for coming out so quickly. states. >> correct. i'm from holland. i've done some dutch late night shows, but this is my first time being on one here. >> stephen: well, welcome. ( cheers and applause ) i hope it's going well so far. >> yes. >> stephen: how am i doing? >> you're amazing. you're, like, you know, every late show talk show host dutrs e >> stephen: really? >> yes, you are. >> stephen: who are some of the big dutch-- >> arjen lubach. he's going to be very happy i mentioned you. >> stephen: what's his name? >> arjen lubach. well, you guys probably say, like, "arlen luback?" ( laughter ) >> stephen: probably. well, i understand that you started off in your career, you did a lot of improv. >> i did, yeah. >> stephen: and i started off in improv. >> obviously, i know, yeah. >> stephen: and i'm just curious, a, what drew you to doing improvisation because i was lazy and didn't wanted to memorize lines. but what's the difference between an american audience for comedy and the dutch? >> well, i think the big

( cheers and applause ) >> audience: stephen! n! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: it's all on you now.) yes. >> which called an entmoot. >> stephen: ( even more bored ) i'm familiar. >> they have this entmoot in fangorn forest, but where in fangorn forest. >> wait a second. i think he's goosing us? >> no, he's not. >> where is... >> the entmoot held? oh! >> stephen: quiet, please, quiet. >> priceless prize! ( laughter ) >> stephen: uh... it is... >> audience: new jersey! ( laughter ) >> stephen: i don't know. i don't know the name-- i don't know the name of it. >> ( gasps ) are you-- >> ladies and gentlemen, stumped by pippin. >> stephen: what is it? what's the answer, pippin. >> derndingel. >> stephen: damn it! we'll edit that out, right? let me ask you something-- is it derndingel? and we'll edit that in. ( cheers and applause ) you are one of the few people-- you're one of the few people to ever stump me. it's a great question. >> i'm actually-- i'm actually scared that i got it wrong. >> stephen: no, you got it right. it rang a bell as soon as you said it. >> should we give him the

>> stephen: and a peabody.h the great mike nichols right here. there you are. ( applause ) i'm only a little jealous to spend a little time with the man. he once said you had enormous emotional equipment. ( laughter ) i'm assuming that's not a euphemism. >> is that like an overcompensation? >> stephen: how would you describe him? because, again -- >> enormous equipment, generally. >> stephen: i would have loved to have known or worked with him. he's certainly a hero. >> yeah, and a hero to me. always was a hero to me artistically. there's a story that comes to mind that is very indicative of this. on broadway, usually luminaires of theater will go back and thank the cast and say hello to the cast at the stage door every performance. mike never missed this. even if he didn't like the show, he would go back and say, you did it! i liked your hat! then he would leave. but he would be so, so generous. even in those circumstances. but there's this one story i heard about him that sums it up so beautifully. he came ba

( cheers and applause ) ♪ ( cheering ) ( audience chanting stephen ) >> stephen: happy thursday. >> stephenhappy thursday. hey, everybody! hey, chris! hey, mike! what's going on? thank you, ladies and gentlemen! all of ya. good to see ya! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ thank you, gentlemen. mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. welcome, welcome, everybody, to "the late show." i'm your shows stephen colbert. it is on nights like this that i understand the privilege, the responsibility of a show like this - to come out here and talk with you, the american people, about the events today that will forever change the course of our nation's history, or not. ( laughter ) too early to tell. but i do know this: today the former president's company was indicted by new york prosecutors. (audience goes wild) >> jon: the bell rung. >> stephen: the bell tolled. and -- and -- around i want to join you in that feeling, but i have been hurt too many times. first i fell in love with the mueller report, then i bounced back with the impeachment, then i gave it one more chance with the other impeachment. i just -- i just hurt, yo

>> stephen: tick tock.t up on the 's' to the double-r, insurrectionist and woman demanding, "give mama a kiss on the teeth," pauline bauer. bauer is accused of violent entry and obstruction of congress, and allegedly told a police officer to, "bring nancy pelosi out here now, we want to hang that (bleep) bitch." watch your manners, pauline. remember, you hang more elected officials with honey than you do with vinegar. bauer has chosen to represent herself in court, and she's got a unique defense: she claims she's a divinely empowered entity immune from laws. divinely empowered? so she's going to get away scot-free, just like jesus. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> jon: oh my... >> stephen: that's a stroker. ♪ very nice. but it does raise the question: if you're chosen by god to be above the laws of government, why do you care who's in charge of it? so what does this earth-bound deity do here on the mortal plane? she's a pizzeria owner. and considering how hard she fell for the big lie, i assume it's a dominoes.

that's normal, right. >> stephen: >> stephen: i make them watch my show. >> i know you do. >> stephenxciting things i'm looking forward to this fall is when, come september, broadway's going to open back up ( cheers and applause ) and one of the things i'm most excited about is i look out one of my office windows, i look out at a billboard at you. >> right. >> stephen: as harold hill from the music man because you're going to be at the winter garden this winter as the music man. >> just over there, right. >> stephen: just over there, exactly. >> we coud do a jump swap, it's like two blocks away. >> stephen: sure. ( singing ) ♪ ♪ good night ladies ♪ ♪ good night ladies ♪ >> you were ahead of me, how much do you know? >> stephen: that's all i know. he's a music man, he sells drum bones. the pick aloe. the shiny gold braid on the coat. i don't know much about bands but h you can't make a living selling big trombones. i don't know how he does it but he lives like a king and when aa man dances, the pipe bass said yes, sir, yes, sir! that's it. >> stephen: that is officially w this is your

>> stephen: yes.combination poodle and hoover. so when she drags her butt on the carpet, it actually gets cleaner. ( applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody. say hi to pebbles. ( audience reacts ) she's a very affectionate pup. also, due to a clerical error at techlly a caicnt )es is t y'll go tohe?opt d outn't d on ( laughter ) >> all right. come here. oh, boy! it's okay. come on. come on. >> there right here -- yeah, i'm with you. this is starla. starla once saw david schwimmer buy one of those big pretzels at an airport. better yet, she knows it's not a good story and never brings it up. ( applause ) >> stephen: this is senator ruffkins. he is an actual u.s. senator. but in these divided times, senator ruffkins doesn't see red states or blue states. he sees only grey states because he is a dog. ( laughter ) >> yep. all right. here you go, buddy. yes! >> stephen: oh, lord. come on. >> this is dr. bruce goldfarb. he's a physician who graduated top of his class at harvard medical. he has a perfect recor

( cheers and applause ) i like that. >> audience: ( chanting ) stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen!en! stephen! >> stephen: very nice. hey! nice to see you! beautiful, beautiful, people. physically attractive, intelligent, kind, giving people. please have a seat, everybody. thank you so much. welcome in here, out there, to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. the big news today-- ( cheers and applause ) the big news today is the big thing that didn't happen yesterday, when, thanks to the filibuster, senate democrats' big voting rights bill, the "for the people" act, failed 50-50 on straight party lines. the republicans-- ( booing ) the republicans instead supported the "for some of the people-- we can't say it out loud, but you know which ones we mean act." ( laughter ) republicans had a lot of stupid explanations for blocking the bill. but the creme de la dumb-- came from senate minority leader and man realizing he left the house-- ( booing ) without his top teeth, mitch mcconnell. before the vote, mcconnell explained why our completely dysfunctional senate is actually

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it's still wonderful stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: hey! fantastic! thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you very much. please, ladies and gentlemen, welcome, welcome, one and all, to... ( cheers and applause ) it's still exciting. it's still a little exciting. yeah. i-- i kind of still feel the same way. now, welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert, ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ tonight is our second show back, and it is great to be here with all these fully-vaccinated people. ( cheers and applause ) got the covid shot. and thre notlone, because today, the state of new york officially announced a 70% vaccination rate. ( cheers and applause ) wooo! wooo, baby! 70%. that's the-- that's an important threshold. that is a c-minus. hell, yeah! and that's great. because we don't have to take summer school, i think. i think that's what that means. also, because herd immunity is commonly considered to be achieved at somewhere between 70% to 80%, so new york state will lift "virtually all" covid restrictions

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i am your host, stephen colbert.rs and applause ) this has happened at this point. this evening, the democrats attempt to pass the "for the people" voting rights bill but it was defeated by mitch mcconnell and his republican colleagues. ( booing ) yes, yes, at long last, that moment that we knew would never happen, finally didn't, just the but for thof us who cant never still vote, today is the new york democratic primary or, as it's called in new york: "the election." ( cheers and applause ) all sorts-- all sorts-- all sorts of municipal offices are up for grabs like city comptroller, manhattan district attorney, and public urination czar. ( laughter ) quick reminder: yesterday, we won a peabody for jokes like that. ( cheers and applause ) but-- ( cheers and applause ) --i would say that joke changes the spelling of "peabody." but the big office up for grabs is who will replace mayor bill de blasio as the person getting booed at mets games? ( laughter ) the winner is expected to be... i dunno. in the latest poll, br

(cheers and applause) >> stephen, stephen, stephen. >> hello, chris, hello, mark. ladies and gentlemen, welcome, one and all to the late show. i'm your shos stephen colbert. how's everybody feeling tonight? (audience woos) that's because you'reacovid cases are once again on the rise, due to the highly infectious delta variant. inoculations have slowed dramatically, and less than half of the total u.s. population is fully vaccinated. so if you think of it like a pie, about half of the pie would maf would be vaccinateed while the other half wouldn't be able to taste the pie because they have covid! the rising cases are being fueled by vaccine hesitancy-- which itself is being fueled by a dangerous pathogen scientists are calling the republican party. tnyhichoac h hers watg,plea try tstay neut. laugh laugh but now, the forecast is so dire, some prominent republicans are speaking up, like senate minority leader and condom stuffed with baby food, mitch mcconnell. yesterday, mcconnell urged everyone to get the shot: >> it is not at all unclear that the way to avoid getti

>> stephen: incredible news! that's a good one right there! >> jon: yes! >> stephen: amazing! and not only -- and long overdue. juneteenth commemorates june 19h, 1865, the day the last group of enslaved people in america learned about the signing of the emancipation proclamation that had taken place two and a half years earlier. then, it only took 156 more years until the idea finally reached washington that maybe we should celebrate this. it's getting the full holiday treatment. undstanding is -- ( cheers and applause ) my understanding is that they're giving it the full holiday treatment -- a day off, community gatherings, and, oneu) earlieday, at the signings leat new holiday. >> stephen: so, throughout history, juneteenth has been known by many names. jubilee day, freedom day, liberation day, emancipation day. and today, a national holiday. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: june 19th, known by many names, also known as mackelmore's birthday but, haven't black americans suffered enough? ( laughter ) one person at the ceremony who has been working to make this happen for d

i like the hair. >> audience: stephen! stephen! stephen. >> stephen: joe, louis. thanks, everybody.ody. please, have a seat. welcome, everybody, to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. and i have got-- ( cheers and applause ) folks, i'm going to shoot you straight. i've got good news, and i've got bad news. the bad news is i lied about the good news. and both bads combine to be the worst news: bill cosby has been released from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned. ( audience booing ) yeah, i agree with you. or to put that another way, me too. ( laughter ) ( applause ) now, no idea. got no idea what's next for cosby. but my guess is he's going to join bill o'reilly and the former president on tour. now, i want to be clear, this isn't an exoneration, cosby is getting off on a technicality. the ruling stems from a 2005 agreement cosby struck with then-prosecutor, bruce castor, who declined to prosecute cosby in exchange for his testimony during a civil trial. now if the name bruce castor rings a bell it's because he's the same paragon of legal ethics w

>> stephen: jim gaffigan? how are you? >> stephen: jim gaffigan? gaffigan, are you telling me, are you here to tell me that you're from chesterton, indiana? >> can you believe the coincidence? i'm from chesterton, indiana. >> stephen: it's more than a coincidence, it's a happy accident because it's time for chesterton, indiana's community calendar. ♪ ( cheers and applause ) welcome to community calendar, your source for what's happening in and around chesterton, indiana and the greater duneland area. joining me is native chesterton-ian, jim gaffigan. welcome jim. ( cheers and applause ) >> thanks, stephen. you know what we say in chesterton: it's a chester-ton of fun. ( audience reacts ) >> stephen: so true. now, let's get to some actual upcoming events going on in and around chesterton. >> this wednesday, head to nearby portage lakefront pavilion for sunset yoga. pro-tip: if you don't look good in yoga pants, show up late, it'll be dark. ( laughter ) >> stephen: from now through sunday at the memorial opera house, it's the closing weekend for "clu

to meet you in person. >> yes. >> stephen: we talked before the election. >> right. >> stephen: righting time when you were on and i was still up in the storage room and i couldn't see my staff, before the election, you expressed some trepidation at the time that you thought that perhaps the republicans would attempt to gain the election by claiming that biden only won through cheating or something. >> fraud >> stephen: and undermine the legitimacy of the election. >> yeah. >> stephen: you were... right. >> yes. >> stephen: and i am curious if you have anything else you would like to talk about. >> i don't have lottery numbers. the reality is it wasn't sort of powers of prognostication because donald trump said that's what he was going to. he made it very clear the only way joe biden could win the election was through cheating and fraud and he was telegraphing he was going to anchor that alleged cheating and fraud in the votes of african- americans, and he targeted specific cities and counties after the election, as expected, where black and brown people majority vote. and it's not an

. >> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert! tonight, stephen welcomes joy reid! and musical guest alessia cara, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> stephen: hey, everybody! nice to see you. ( cheers and applause ) that's beautiful! please have a seat! sit, sit, sit! sit, everybody! thank you so much. welcome one and all to "the late show," i'm your shows, stephen colbert. i hope -- ( cheers and applause ) feeling good? >> jon: feeling great. >> stephen: i hope everybody had a great weekend. yesterday i had a lovely day. evie and i weren't to a place on the hudson river, what's it called, little island, which is a small little manmade island they've got there. it's kind of beautiful just to see how it's built, you know, took in some fresh air. >> jon: oh, yeah. >> stephen: took in the beautiful views. you know, tested out what it would be like to flee from humanity off the island. you could blow the bridge, cut off from the land. you have fiel

thank you, stephen.retty much exactly a year since you used your platform as a cricket commentator to speak with great eloquence and passion about the continued damage being done to society by racism. now, in the year since then, do you see any signs of progress? definitely. i see quite a few signs of progress. first of all, i don't think the voices that you're hearing most, stephen, what you're seeing on social media, is the majority. i think that's a very, very small minority. and i see people now hitting out against those people who are coming forward with those views. and when you talk about social media right now, you're talking about the vile abuse aimed at... the footballers... ..black footballers representing england who played, and played very well, in the euro 2020 tournament, but then faced a torrent of racist abuse. yeah, and that was sad, but, to be honest, i expected it, and i think they expected it. but, again, social media is giving these people a voice. it's amplifying what they have to

plus stephen welcomes jimt! gaffigan and musical guest jp saxe and john mayer, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ( cheering ) ( audience chanting stephen ) >> stephen: happy thursday.

stephen: adeeba. adeeba: so matthew, what i saw mostly -- [indiscernible] long acting as prep for key populations. i think we had the results from -- i'm blanking now. that looks at gender and transgendered in south africa -- but the -- there was nothing specific, i think, in i.a.s. 2021 looking at key populations that i can remember. and i still think there are certain designs of the long acting -- both the oral and the injectable that, for instance, for people who take drugs. [indiscernible] certainly from previous experiences, it's going to take a long time for the pricing of these drugs make it affordable for low and middle-income countries. chris: yeah, i think it's an important question. the oa-4 data on the converters is very compelling data that cab-la injectable is clearly far superior for women and girls. and for many, you know, those were, of course, all women and girls in sub-saharan africa, they fit into a key population for many reasons. so that's very encouraging. the oa-3, which was am

stephen: adeeba. adeeba: so matthew, what i saw stephen: adeeba. adeeba: so matthew, what i saw mostly -- \[indiscernible] long acting as prep for key populations. i think we had the results from -- i'm blanking now. that looks at gender and transgendered in south africa -- but the -- there was nothing specific, i think, in i.a.s. 2021 looking at key populations that i can remember. superiority. it was very clear superiority. that analyses of those viruses i don't know is out yet. we haven't had a chance to look at that yet. but there's no question, i think, that people are thinking about these as potentially very important for adolescents, and adolescent key populations that are at risk and sex workers, women and girls at risk. so i think -- i think there is some differentiation happening there already. also with data on merck's new drug is unique, different mechanism reverse inhibitor. a novel mechanism that a very small dose essentially blocks the replication for a month. it's a really remarkable drug. it may be long acting and an implant. the o

i'm stephen j. morris. this event is sponsored jointly with the kaiser family foundation, a close partner over many, many years. my co-host is jennifer kates, also a close friend, who is the senior vice president at kaiser foundation. we've been in the habit for two decades of jointly organizing these events. we have with us in person this morning two good friends and noted h.i.v. experts, chris beyrer and maureen goodenow. chris is professor of epidemiology at johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health and president of the international aides society. aids society, 2014-2016. maureen is associate director for aids research at the national institutes of health and director of the n.i.h. office of aids research. we have coming in remotely adeeba kamarulzaman, president of the international aids society. welcome, adeeba. she's a former dean of the faculty of medicine and is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the university of ma lay shah in thank you, adeeba. delighted to have you here to

and that was part of the strategy of stephen a. douglass. because when stephen a.glass comes and says let's let popular sovereignty solve the question of slavery in the territories? ? what does that sound like except -- well that's self-government. that's democracies. let the people on the ground make choices. that's self-government. all right, yes, lincoln says the doctrine of self-government is right, absolutely and eternally right. but it has no just application as here attempted. or perhaps i should rather say that whether it has such application depends on whether a negro is not or is a man. if the negro is a plan, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? you talk about popular sovereignty as an example of self-government. and then you take a whole category of people and you exclude them from governing themselves. that's not self-government. that's a fraud. that's a bad imitation of self-government. you know what the problem is, lincoln says, it's not just that stephen a. douglass is a clever

did you think of stephen? had such a great love of music and he loved to cook and i thought this man is gonna be perfect to go on about with us. >> oh, yes. the boat. he had adopted the l.a. yacht club, a 69 foot beauty called the elon mara. harvey had a big plan for that boat. they talked about ever since the first date. he says what you want to do when you retire? and i said i want to sail all over the world. >> it was her dream of a lifetime and now debbie actually found the man who shared it. they married at the dawn of the loop millennia right here on the front porch of their new texas home. all of that adventure to look forward to. but now harvey had invited stephen to go along as chef on their beloved yacht. steven move the board, lived with him on the boat but before they set sail there was work to do. >> he brought this rusty tub, right? >> yes. greg fashioned all of the stainless steel trim i felt a connection with harvey too. he was a wall street guy, rejecting society. >> a little bit like you? >>

it's not just that stephen a. douglas is a clever politician, and it's not that kansas-nebraska appeals to self-interest. the problem is that our republican robe is soiled. what he's saying here is, we've all got our hands in the toilet. our republican road is soiled and we have allowed it to become soiled and trailed in the dust. the fundamental thing we have to do here is to turn and repurify it. turn and wash it white in the spirit, if not the blood of the revolution. let us turn slavery from its claims of moral right. people that said slavery was good for the slaves, back upon its existing legal rights and arguments of necessity which is to say the only reason we tolerate slavery is the same reason that we tolerate the founders did, because it was there, and it has certain legal guarantees, but don't give it more than that. let us return to the position our fathers gave it. there it is it rest in peace, r.i.p. let us re-adopt the declaration of independence, and with it the practices and policy which harmonize

samantha bee, john oliver, stephen colbert. what is interesting to me about the psychology of all this is that humor's magic is not magic -- it feels like magic, but what it is is it is the audience making meaning from the joke. jokes are incomplete. a good joke is a mismatch between two things that are incongruent us. there is a theory of humor called incongruity theory. this is the kind of humor that jon stewart would use a lot. the classic late-night joke is there is two pieces to a puzzle and you have expectations going into the text and those expectations are not met. yet to figure out why there is a mismatch. in so doing, you access information from your long-term memory to make sense of it. in political satire, the thing that you bring is some kind of an argument or proposition or claim. about how perhaps a politician is a hypocrite, or someone does not have integrity or there is a policy that is a bad policy or an institution that is broken. that's me is fascinating because unlike traditional discourse, the meaning is n

welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. inevitably, we associate artists with the times in which they emerge and the work which brings them widespread acclaim. so it is with my guest today, michael stipe, lead singer of the american band rem, who were pioneers of an indie rock sound which emerged from a georgia college campus in the �*80s and won worldwide acclaim in the 1990s. now, he's a visual artist who records new music sparingly. he says the best art is about bravery, confronting fear. so, what has he been frightened of? michael stipe in berlin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. how are you, stephen? i am very well, delighted to see you. i think it's fair to say that we all think of you, first and foremost, as a musician, but these days, your primary focus seems to be visual art and i'm just wondering whether that visual sense was with you from the very beginning. yeah, i actually started as an art student, but prior to that, i took up photography at 1a. it was when i was 15 years old that i discovered the cbgb punk roc

remember the doctrine and that was part of the strategy of stephen a douglas because when stephen a douglass comes to you and, says but is that sound like exactly? self government, isn't it? it's democracy. let the people on the ground, make the choices, right? all right, yes. the top tier of salt government is right. absolutely an eternally right. but, it has no trust application as attempted. or perhaps i should rather say, that whether it has such application depends on whether a negro is not or is a man. if the negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of some government? to say that he too shall not govern himself. you talk about popular sovereignty's as an example of self government. and then you take a whole category of people and you exclude them from governing themselves. that's not really self government. that's a fraud. that's a bad mutation. he knew where the problem is, lincoln says? it's not just that stephen a douglas is a clever politician, and not just the kansas nebraska feels the injustice. the problem is, our republican war were soiled. but are you seei

stephen: this is tricky.ou sick of china's reputation of being a pretty dirty economy because of its use of coal, but china will miss out on a lot of the oil and gas experience that europe and the u.s. have been through and will move directly from cold words were knowable -- from coal towards renewables. my sense is that particularly with the white house views having changed with biden, there's no greater focus worldwide and more agreement than the road previously, so it isn't so worrying as what otherwise be the case. alix: you are going to stay with us. we are going to talk about u.k. inflation, also coming in hotter than expected, partially because of used car sales. that wasn't me. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: let's check in on the bloomberg first word news. the united arab emirates has resolved its standoff with the opec+ coalition. a delegate tells bloomberg there was a compromise deal that would give the uae a new oil output quota. lest we, opec and its allies were forced to abandon a tentative deal to

welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur.nese communist party is pumping out a relentless stream of propaganda to celebrate the centenary of its formation next month. in a sense, it is a triumph of creative thinking. china's modern—day economic miracle was engineered when mao's communist orthodoxy was abandoned. the party exercises authoritarian control in the name of stability, rather than ideological purity. my guest is victor gao, party loyalist and one—time translator for deng xiaoping. how sustainable is the party's grip on china? victor gao in beijing, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me. it is the 100th anniversary of the chinese communist party. would you agree that perhaps that's more a recognition of the party's devotion to raw power than it is to ideological purity? well, i think china is celebrating the centenary of the founding of the communist party of china, the biggest, largest, most important political party ever in human history, with almost 100 million party members. and the party is, ind

stephen: it is clearly normalizing.ing restaurants receipts up, hotels reopening and doing relatively well. if anything, it is a labor constraint recovery. can't get enough labor to run some of the hotels at traditional occupancy levels. they just can't get room service daily. or restaurants that are not operating seven days a week as they might have traditionally because they can't get the staff to run seven days a week. so as the supply imbalance on the labor side straightens out, we think the economic recovery and the strength of that will continue. in many ways, this may extend the recovery in the years ahead of us from what we have traditionally seen in terms of cycles. alix: what has been really interesting and the second quarter gdp released today is the saving rate is around 11%. there's two schools of thought. one is that people are just going to save more because they are so traumatized by the pandemic that they don't want to get into a tough financial spot. the other is that there is an enormous amount of cap

is very much, stephen mcdonald — that. is very much, stephen mcdonald there _ that.in - that. is very much, stephenj mcdonald there in beijing's. donald rumsfeld, one of the principal architects of the invasion of iraq in 2003, has died at the age of 88. he served as secretary of defense under president george w bush and his leading role in promoting the bush administration's so—called �*war on terror�* has been heavily criticised by many. 0ur north america editor jon sopel has more. we can now speak to allan lichtman who's a professor of us political history at the american university. good to have you with us, professor. what do you think the most enduring aspect of donald's legacy will be? he was a dedicated _ donald's legacy will be? he was a dedicated public _ donald's legacy will be? he was a dedicated public servant - donald's legacy will be? he was a dedicated public servant for i a dedicated public servant for five decades, member of congress, chief of staff twice, secretary of defence and ambassador, but what everyone is going to remember is he was complici

stephen: i think they do.s is an environment where the banks that have the best opportunity for longer-term growth, more diversification, steadier earnings stream i think are the ones that will continue to get the premium in terms of price-to-book, so jp,'s a company that is extorting their well diversified. they do benefit when capital markets are strong, and as they has been the last four quarters, but of course, it has been goldman sachs' cup of tea in terms of the last four quarters. we had great m&a. we had solid investment banking, trading results starting to pull back a little bit from unsustainably high levels the past few quarters. tom: do they amend, or do they have a plan to diminish the sterling balance sheet ratios? or do they just let it ride out? do they manage them lower or not? stephen: they've tried, of course. if you are talking about more sustainable capital returns, i think they would very much like to do that still a precarious time for the economy. i think they will probably keep those a

well-meaning scientists like stephen goldstein and robert redfield disagree, i'm happy to hear that stephen goldstein permission to look into the lab leak theory and then figure it out. we can talk again once we've actually done that. i appreciate stephen goldstein's endorsement of that. >> if we can get to chon ground that's great. i want to make sure you consider that a mildly fair characterization of your position. if you haven't closed the door entirely, do you think there should be more investigation to determine the true origin, is that correct? >> we certainly think tlrkd be more investigation to determine the true origin and we think those should focus on animal sourcing because to not do that or focus on that would cost us the opportunity to find out r it very likely started. dr. redfield's comments, josh's claim it started in september 2019. >> not my claim. >> colleagues of mine have studied this closely and determined it most likely emerged in november 2019 based on scientific analysis that josh hasn't done. and i don't think dr. redfield, frankly, has done himself either. and i

rishaad: stephen engle there. thank you. got to get more context and analysis on this crackdown on the china internet giants. haslinda: how will the crackdown on tech effect the appetite for ipos from chinese companies? our senior research analyst for diversified financials joins us. how do you see this latest clampdown on didi affecting new listings? >> they are basically started with ant last year, and we've seen a lot of these large chinese unicorns choose to list in hong kong and the u.s., and a huge part of that is they currently only list in china. these companies have decided to list in hong kong and the u.s., and maybe now the regulators do want to crackdown in general, because of national security. i think the real risk would be the ipo pipeline for both hong kong and the u.s. in the second half. first half, it was a record high for hong kong. rishaad: give us a sense of how this came about just days after that massive ipo we did have for didi. give us a sense also, the wariness, you talked about the wariness this m

stephen will tell us about the book andtalking with all of you please take it away stephen . >> thank you, i appreciate it. i'm really glad to behere , this is the first official book tour of the extra life world tour which is taking place entirely in this room. but it's really wonderful that we're doing this s in brooklyn, i'm in brooklyn right now. it's a perfect venue to start out this adventure. so thanks for having me and it's a total honor to be here with randall who is just, we are huge fans, everyone in my household is a big fan of randall work. he's the only offer all three of my sons have actually read. so it's in the ron robinson household he's a big deal. this is a real treat for me but i want to just dark with a couple of words about this project because it is a multi-platform project that started this book. it's also a tv series that premieres tomorrow night as well on pbs. at 8:00 which i cohost with david sugar, running four episodes every tuesday night. but the project goes back now for five years. i had written many years ago as katie alluded to a book called the gho