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i'm very glad that you played that stephen colbert thing.f -- that was sort of the best new thing in the world today among our staff. that was amazing to see him out of character. >> yeah. i saw it today, i thought we've got to throw it right in the show. >> yeah, it was great. thanks, lawrence. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is one of those days in news and politics where it simultaneously feels like nothing is happening at all. after all, again today, congress still can't decide whether or not to destroy the economy. still working on making a decision on that one.

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me, stephen colbert. this is formidable opponent. stephen, thanks for coming. anything for you, buddy. >> after all, we are partners in the war on terror. >> stephen: yes, we are. >> stephen: i said partners in the war on terror. >> stephen: oh, sorry, i wasn't listening, i'm sorry. there you go. (laughter) >> stephen: okay, it's all there. and oh, yeah, one rocket launcher. you didn't get this from me. >> stephen: didn't get what? (laughter) >> stephen: stephen, how can we keep paying pakistan? they arrested everything who helped us. there could be no doubt now that they were harboring osama bin laden. >> allegedly he was in a mansion next to their military academy. if they weren't complicity, they were incompetent. >> stephen: not necessarily. they could be income pet-elicit. where you are helping the enemies but are really bad at it. all the supply lines to afghanistan run through pakistan. >> stephen: who cares, that war is unwinnable. >> stephen: yes, but without their help, we can't keep fighting it. >> stephen: the point is, they are a nuclear power ther

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stephen colbert, apparently. my team of p.r. professionals tell me i have been on mr. that. i put sean hannity on the the ridiculist a clip of me on air which was edited to change what i said. mr. colbert took issue and accused me of copying him. he went so far as to create something called the absurd you chart just to put me on it. look. >> you, sir, are nothing but a thief! because your segment, the ridiculist, is a clear ripoff of my on notice board. and for stealing my idea, i'm putting you and your ridiculis on my absurdu chart. >> words hurt, mr. colbert. words hurt. the idea that i'm copying you is redonculous. i cannot believe it you of all people say i am copying you when in fact, sir, that's right, sir, i'm going there, it has been you who has been koipg me for years. that's right. i said it. i you exhibit a. here you are on the cover of the current issue of "outside" magazine. like you ever go outside. but oh, wow, where could you have come up with the idea of being on the cover of "outside" magazine. could it be from me? one year ago, april 2010. there i am

come tonight -- earlier today, the federal election commission granted permission to comedian stephen colbert to set up his own super pac. what precedent does this set for other cable hosts that want to follow in colbert's footsteps? are we really ready for the o'donnell super pac? that's coming up. >>> and michele bachmann refuses to correct her mistake, so jimmy kimmel gives us michele bachmann's version of american history, and that is tonight's unmissable "rewrite." . t. its powerful tools help you work faster and smarter so you can get back to playing "angry birds." it lets you access business forms on the go, fire off e-mails with the qwerty keypad, and work securely around the world so you can get back to playing "angry birds." it's the android-powered phone that mixes business with pleasure. so let's get our work done, america, so we can all get back to playing "angry birds." the motorola expert from sprint. trouble hearing on the phone? visit sprintrelay.com. >>> all those in favor a aye. >>> aye. >> opposed? motion carries five to one. although we have taken two separate votes there

stephen colbert, apparently, my team of p.r. professionals actually tell me i have been on mr. but i have no memory of that. anyway, a couple of weeks ago i put sean hannity on the ridiculist because a clip he showed of me which changed the meaning of what i said. mr. colbert took issue and accused me of copying him. he went so far as to create something called the absurd you chart just to put me on it. >> you, sir, are nothing but a thief! because your secretary the ridiculist is a clear ripoff of my on notice board. and for stealing my idea, i'm putting you and your ridiculist on my absurd-u chart. >> absurd-u chart. words hurt, mr. colbert. words hurt. now, the very idea that i am copying you is simply ridonculist. i cannot believe that you of all people say i am copying you when in fact, sir, oh, that's right, sir, i'm going there, it has been you who has been copying me for years. that's right. i said it. i give you exhibit a. here you are on the cover of the current issue of "outside" magazine. like you ever go outside. but oh, wow, where would you have come up with the i

what is stephen colbert really doing?a while on his show, he's been taking on the ever-loosening rules on campaign finance, aiming his jokes at a supreme court ruling last year that opened the doors for more corporate donation to campaigns. now in typical colbert fashion, he's parodying the system by seemingly joining it. >> ladies and gentlemen, i am sorry to say we won! i am a super pac and so can you. >> reporter: in character as always, stephen colbert jumps into the mind-numbing world of campaign finance. the federal election commission gives the okay for the comedian to form his own so-called super pac, a political action committee that will be able to raise and spend unlimited money on ads for the 2012 campaign. it's part of colbert's ongoing satire, poking fun at last year's supreme court ruling that allowed corporations to spend whatever they want on elections. >> i don't know about you, but i do not expect limits on my free speech. [ cheers ] >> i don't know about you, but i do not accept the status quo. [ cheer

come tonight -- earlier today, the federal election commission granted permission to comedian stephen colberto set up his own super pac. what precedent does this set for other cable hosts that want to follow in colbert's footsteps? are we really ready for the o'donnell super pac? that's coming up. >>> and michele bachmann refuses to correct her mistake, so jimmy kimmel gives us michele bachmann's version of american history, and that is tonight's unmissable "rewrite." ;7 >>> all those in favor a aye. >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries five to one. although we have taken two separate votes there will be one advisory opinion. mr. colbert, you may form your pac and proceed as the commission has advised in this opinion. >> yes, that really was the real federal election commission granting stephen colbert permission to set up his political action committee. colbert super pac. it will join over 100 super pacs since the supreme court has ruled in favor. they ruled today that colbert can in effect advertise the colbert super pac on the show without treating the air time used to discuss the colbert ai

the crazy thing to me about this is that we see stephen colbert on capitol hill before now we see him here that you see emmy and he's a comedian it's all part of entertainment but then suddenly you can see how far it actually goes to where he's essentially done something that's a groundbreaking where now the fair election commission has granted him his own super pac and a lot of people are you know worried about his own super pac and basically three commercials for it during his show i mean i think this is a little over the line and i think that it's crazy that it started out i'm assuming that's him making a joke about how you can just buy our entire electronic process these days and now he's actually doing it and i find that kind of scary ok people spend more on potato chips than they do on campaigns in america ok it's not it's not a diet american media and average and yeah ok what about moderation no what i'm saying is that you know if your premium is that low in comparison to other things that you consume really not that big why do you have good things or you know because of the co

you never know because he is stephen colbert. but he's making a serious point there. o, maureen. >> hi, don. >> you know, colbert was in d.c. collecting money. what -- what is this all about? >> so in satirizing campaign finance laws loosening, colbert started his own super pac which is a type of organization that only recently became legal. they can raise money and spend money from private citizens as well as corporations without limit. the one sort of caveat on that is that they have to disclose who donates to them. so he both started his own super pac and also petitioned to have about sort of created something that people are worried might turn into a loophole in that they ruled the fcc ruled that the money that comes from viacom, the company that owns comedy central, won't count as donations when colbert starts working on his super pac. the fear that some people say is that this is allowing media organizations to have an unprecedented way of funneling resources then into campaigns and into the super pacs. >> okay. that happened on thursday. and just two days before

today comedian stephen colbert won approval from the federal election commission to start his own political action committee. the colbert super pac will allow the tv host to raise unlimited cash from conformations and individuals. the recent supreme court ruling allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections. >> some people have cynically asked if this some kind of joke? i for one don't think that participating in democracy is a joke. i don't think that wanting to know what the rules are is a joke. >> the cash will be used to support or oppose candidates in the 2012 elections. the commission also said colbert can use his tv show's resources to boost his pac but he has to disclose some of the major expenses as contributions from the show's corporate owners. >>> a zero tolerance law is about to go into effect in virginia. shawn yancy has that and more on your fox 5 top five. >> up first tonight you might be surprised to hear d.c. drivers are on board with red light cameras. no. 5, a new study by the insurance institute for highway safety found 78% of d.c. area drivers su

the very next night after that aired, it was the colbert report's turn. here's stephenoing after me for not asking a guest about his most noticeable trait. >> no, don, ask him about being a vampire. you see the little teeth right there, those are vampire teeth. ask him, ask him. forget it. i know what to do. come on. let's go. taxi. go. >> and thousands of people milling around, shops open. none of that is happening now. >> sanjay, thank you very much. stay safe out there. much more of the flooding coming up. >> excuse me, excuse me. >> stephen colbert, what are you doing here? >> don, i have a question to ask you. >> i am in in the middle of a broadcast. >> who isn't. hold on, and jay. did you or did you not interview a man who foreclosed on a bank? >> yes. >> did you not notice that he was vampire? >> stephen, i did notice when he starred talking that he had sharp teeth. >> at no point did your journalistic instincts click in and say hey, maybe that's a more interesting story? >> it wasn't about his lifestyle. it's about a bank. >> excuse me. i didn't realize it was a

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comedy central's stephen colbert makes a major political move. how he is stepping into the 2012 race. we'll see. >>> a lot of people traveling around the country this holiday weekend. we are cleared for take-off. sfo looking at sunshine and 75 degrees. heading south, going to be hot in many spots. it's been that way for a while. houston no exception. partly cloudy skies, still about 95 degrees in toward the afternoon. if you're continuing on toward atlanta, we are expecting some sunshine and still a hot 94 degrees. we'll have more on your local weather coming right up. ,,,,,,,,,, i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's why i'm here -- to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand fidelity experts working with me so that i can work one-on-one with you. it's your green line. but i'll be there every step of the way. call or come in and talk with us today. golden gate ferries are not running between marin and san franci >>> it's friday, 5:16. let's

what stephen colbert has been applying his comedic genius to in the last few moss, okaying mr.bert's only super pac. >> now the real work begins and i am reminded as we stand here as the pilgrims who on this very spot but in massachusetts filed their papers on plymouth pac to be free of the tyranny of king george who refused to allow even a corporate carving to be spent on u.s. presidential elections. of course, they'll others who say stephen colbert what will you do with that unrestricted super pac money? to which i say, i don't know. give it to me and let's find out. >> so why aren't the republican candidates raking it in so far this year? nate silver at the "new york times" today said even without all the numbers in yet it looks like all the republican candidates together as a group are raising about half of what they raised this time in the last election cycle. mitt romney's raised less than half of what he said he's raise by now. think about what's different now from the last time around. if you're a rich guy and you want to influence elections, why wouldn't you take the s

the very next night after that aired, it was the colbert report's turn. here's stephenoing after me for not asking a guest about his most noticeable trait. >> no, don, ask him about being a vampire. you see the little teeth right there, those are vampire teeth. ask him, ask him. forget it. i know what to do. come on. let's go. taxi. go. >> and thousands of people milling around, shops open. none of that is happening now. >> sanjay, thank you very much. stay safe out there. much more of the flooding coming up. >> excuse me, excuse me. >> stephen colbert, what are you doing here? >> don, i have a question to ask you. >> i am in in the middle of a broadcast. >> who isn't. hold on, and jay. did you or did you not interview a man who foreclosed on a bank? >> yes. >> did you not notice that he was vampire? >> stephen, i did notice when he starred talking that he had sharp teeth. >> at no point did your journalistic instincts click in and say hey, maybe that's a more interesting story? >> it wasn't about his lifestyle. it's about a bank. >> excuse me. i didn't realize it was a

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of an ethics i i hear what you're saying i think that there are so many other i mean this is stephen colbert doing something a little bit silly we have governments trying to trying to enforce laws preventing citizens from banding together and having political speech we have governments trying to undermine how people campaign and run against incumbents we have governments doing things like this i am less concerned with stephen colbert doing the silly licit he's done but i'm not sure that i'm going to tell you. that you're going to still bothers me is that we have governments state governments are trying to tell people they should leave someone on the side of the road and let them die and you think i mean i hear you. our guys thanks for joining us tonight thanks for joining and it makes me come back tomorrow that we take a plan from unity a strategy for giving back for our friday edition of happy hour and we have time to forget for a fan of the a lot of shell on facebook and to follow us on twitter and if miss any of the night's show or any other nights you can always catch telling you to dot

may the best stephen colbert win. nation, i don't usually pay attention to what's going on in england. i assume if something really important happens over, there i'll find out about it in the next harry potter movie, which strangely there has been no mention in the latest trailer of my favorite angelo-australian-american media billionaire muggle, news corp chairperson and five-time dark lord of the month rupert murdoch. he's facing a spot of legal trouble in merry old england town because a tabloid he owned, the "news of the world," well, they went and did a silly thing. they illegally hacked into people's cell phone messages. 4,000 times. and now poor uncle rupi is getting his crumpet stopped and for what? >> rupert murdoch said "news of the world" tried to hack into the voice mails of victims of the 9/11 attacks. >> as well as the voice mails of families of british segars killed in action. >> the paper hacked into the voice mail of 13-year-old millie dowler while she was still missing and the hacker even deleted som

well, i'm proud to introduce stephen colbert's pledge shock collar.er] it's the same sound-recognition technology that trains dogs to stop barking. it's got two electrodes, right here. you just strap it on the candidate like this. get that sucker on there nice. and tight. okay. there you go. okay. now. the candidate wears it, and if the candidate ever forgets the pledges he has signed and -- i don't know -- says that we should raise taxes on the top two per-- arrrrgggghhh! [ applause ] we'll be right back. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] nation, all's fair when it comes to covering presidential candidates but there are some things in politics that are off-limits -- like a candidates' spouse or children. but lately, the blame-stream media has started going after michele bachmann's husband dr. marcus bachmann. they're attacking his christian psycho-therapy business in an attempt to ruin his good name. >> dr. bachmann's brand of counseling is highly controversial

and stephen colbert is mad at me. did you know he interrupted one of my broadcasts? ding coming up -- >> excuse me. excuse me. >> stephen kolber, what are you doing here? >> i have a question to ask you. >> i am in the middle of a broadcast. >> who isn't? hold on sanjay. did you or did you not interview a man who was foreclosed on by a ban income. >> yes. >> did you not know that he was a vampire? >> you get out of here. >> he was really mad at me. he called me up personally. he called me up one day and someone said, someone from the stephen colbert show is going to call you around 3:00. and it was like 4:00 or 5:00. and i answered the phone, i said you people at ""the colbert report" have a very strange sense of time. he said this is stephen. and i said all right. >> but he's really mad at me. >> i didn't get the impression that that was mad. >> and jon stewart had a few choice words to say about me to, too. >> he did not know you. they had a good sense of humor. at least it appears. and you did too. >> more of don lemon uninterrupted in just a few minutes from now,

. >>> late-night funny man stephen colbert had his day in court.ntial ambitions -- might be a laughing matter, why you can laugh all the way to the bank with your political donations. he's kind of serious here about forming this super pac. >> interesting. >> we'll tell you what this is all about. >> sometimes it takes a comedian to highlight what's going on. with all the seriousness and all the rhetoric, sometimes it's good to have -- >> satire can be very effective. >> -- somebodyo break it down, let you know what's really going on. >>> defying gravity. james bond has nothing on these thrill-seekers. go as high as 30 feet flying in their water jet pack. we're going to take a look at this latest craze. it looks like an accident waiting to happen. i think the e.r. is goinin great, now we've got these guys coming in. >> that's how i got to work this morning actually. >> i saw your jet pack parked out front. >> it's tough to get around with in new york because you don't have the water supply you would have out there. >> there you are. >>> but first th

."" >>> stephen colbert goes to the middle of the earth to find out what's up in washington. >> it willnd the public will turn en masse against barack obama, and the pea party hobbits could return to middle earth having defeated more bills. >> gandalf is the tea party here. i get comparing the debt crisis to the lord of the ring. they've both got elaborate plots, more characters you than you can keep track of and talking about both of them repels girls. >> let's go to christine romans live. good morning, christine. you know what's weird about the markets this week. they're not just paying attention to the debt ceiling. i think if investors were only paying attention to the debt ceiling, we'd have had worse markets than we've seen so far. think you're right. we've got futures lower this morning because of what's happening in the house, the failure to vote on the deal late yesterday. we've had five days in a row of stocks down. it does tell you the overriding concern continues to be what in god's name is going on in washington. but we're also watching bonds, currencies and the other manag