. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert!" tonight... fired up! us, stephen welcomes robert de niro! and tamara tunie! featuring louis cato and "the late show" band. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> stephen: you know what? oh! welcome. welcome here down here, up there, out there, everybody to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. [cheering] i just love being with you guys every day because it feels like every day we get news of a another inexplicable chaotic move seemingly bent on undermining everything we as americans hold dear. and today is no different because kfc is moving its corporate headquarters from kentucky to texas. that is finger-lickin' [bleep]. what is going on? what is happening? what's next? jersey mike's becomes maine mickey's? will papa john step down as pizza pope? burger king abdicates his throne to marry a common nugget? because kentucky fried chicken isn't just a name. it's part of kentucky history. it was founded nearly a century

and then on on stephen colbert's show. it was really cool. you know, we talked about the press as well. freedom of the press. what's happening with the white house. and it was just a really important discussion. you're talking about the importance of our job right now to hold power to account and to ask the tough questions of people in power and to aggressively cover the white house without fear or favor. >> and we always are worried right now, especially now, about some problems involving the freedom of the press. it's so, so important for the american people. >> well, we're going to continue to cover it here on the situation room. nothing will deter us. right, wolf? >> we're together. >> we are together. >> we're a team. going back to atlanta when we were there for the buffalo bills, dallas cowboys super bowl, tom johnson, who was then the president of cnn, a good friend of your family, a friend of mine invited us to come to the super bowl. unfortunately, the first half was okay. the second half terrible. >> i don't remember that part, but

hopeful, carley, that conan o'brien, who i thought could never be confused with jimmy kimmel or stephen colberthat's what we just witnessed. again, conan. here's a little history lesson, putin invade other countries invaded other countries under george w. bush, barack obama, and joe biden. the one president who was in office for four years when he didn't invade was donald trump, when he was in power. this is so dumb politically and just to make this comment and we all want to escapism when we watch the oscars of course we couldn't get it. now here it is again, we will probably hear this this was the lowest rated oscars of all time half the country reflexively says i don't want to watch this because i don't want to get lectured to. they got lectured to. not surprising. i thought conan was a little above this of course he went there. >> todd: no one seen the movies themselves either. in my house we were not watching any of these most. we were too busy making movies for aunt carley telling her how much we love her. >> carley: i got a couple videos from your daughter. oscar winning performances. >>