>> stephen: you gotta-- ( bell rings ). >> stephen: oh, no! >> oh, man!t. how many more you have got. >> stephen: i got five more over here. >> i have to make at least these last three. >> i'm spending all my time crumpling my balls here. all right. oh! that was so close. ( bell rings. >> colbert, i'm getting crushed. laughs ) ( bell rings ) oh, man! ( bell rings ) >> oh! oh! ( bell rings ). >> stephen: wooooo! >> i didn't even hit one. how am i going to live this down? hold on a second. i got one more. >> stephen: this is for everything. oh! ( bell rings ). >> stephen: you let me win. >> no, look at me. ( laughter ) all right. >> stephen: that made this my farcht interview of all time. >> yeah, yeah. i will never-- i've lost my swag on "stephen colbert." >> stephen: really, very last question. not even a question, just a statement-- thank you for being president. ♪ ♪ same day delivery to free drive up. quick and easy contactless shopping all season at target. when panhe doesn't justs mmake a pizza. he uses fresh, clean ingredients to make a masterpiece.

>> stephen: no. it means they are bunk. >> big words, stephen!d this stuff, not even my brilliant legal partner, robert mondavi, esquire. thank you, counsel. >> stephen: speaking of your legal partners, you even fired one of the attorneys from last week's press conference, sidney powell. is there anyone left who is helping you defend the president? >> of course. we've already replaced sidney powell with an even better lawyer: a young woman named elle woods who went to harvard law to impress her ex-boyfriend. >> stephen: mr. mayor, i'm pretty sure elle woods is reese witherspoon's character from "legally blonde." you also talked about "my cousin vinny." are all your legal ideas just stolen from movies? >> stephen, you can't handle the truth! did you know that the rigged voting machines used in this election were actually robots sent here from the future? it's all here in my legal filing: "t2: judgement day." skynet is on hunter biden's laptop! hasta la vista, baby! you know who said that? hugo chavez! >> stephen: mr. mayor, your legal arguments cl

>> stephen: okay.ake you nervous. >> stephen: is this part of the uncomfortable conversation? ( laughter ) >> this is it. >> stephen: this is the one i'm supposed to have with black people? it's not the subject that i thought. >> you were so afraid of it. >> stephen: this is actually kind of fun, okay. >> you should have had this months ago. i was trying to tell you when you weren't returning my calls. remember? you were nervous, you thought i was calling you to have the talk. >> stephen: okay. what happens now? >> on the count of three i'll say president-elect biden. i'll say it. remember what your card was ? >> stephen: yes. >> one, two, three president- elect biden! >> stephen: whoa! >> is that the card? >> stephen: that is. that is actually impressive. that's impressive to me even if you knew what my card was just that you could do that is impressive to me. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> stephen: wow. >> that's the conversation we had to have, stephen, right there. >> stephen: well, i'm sorry

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>> stephen: yes, when -- okay -- >> stephen: you -- go ahead. >> stephen: no.y. he smelled so bad! (laughing) you were, like, i'm going to grab the front of the shark. i'm, like, okay, you spell that shark's breath! >> stephen: the shark was -- i mean, bad breath! >> stephen: and i was, like, why can't somebody wash this shark before we shoot? they're, like, it's living in water, it's always being washed. >> it's going to smell, no matter what we do. >> stephen: oh, gosh! and trying to get the shark from albuquerque, new mexico, for the -- >> stephen: for the big concert. >> for the concert. ( laughter ) this whole thing was jump a joy. >> stephen: sometimes you're asked to learn things for a movie or a project, like, you know, keanu reeves had to learn kung fu for the matrix movies. >> yeah. >> stephen: and you and i both had to learn how to tag great white sharks. >> and i'll never forget it. that was fun. >> stephen: yeah. it was fun. and joseph, who originally taught us how to do it. >> stephen: yash, he will be missed. >> he was a wonderful man. and i -- >

>> stephen: welcome to "a late show." i'm stephen colbert. i stake exception to the way we announce cher tonight. john oliver, cher. no, it's john oliver, cher! did cher do something to our announcer? cher! cher! i'm so excited about cher. john oliver's price nys. -- john oliver's nice. we are only-- 23 minutes away from november 3, the day we've all been hope-dreading while laugh-screaming at our doom-scrolling. tomorrow night we will be live on showtime at 11:00 p.m. for our election night special. if you don't have showtime, just sign up for the free trial! it's free! and who doesn't love a trial? i'd like to throw a free one for trump next year at the hague! sir, just think of the ratings. a lot of americans are nervous right now, and i get it. this is the most high-stakes election of my lifetime. and i include when ruben studdard beat clay aiken. there were riots. stores had to board up their windows. that's how you board up things, with wood? circuit city, blockbuster, they never recovered. but, personally, i am oddly calm. i am approac

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>> stephen: hey, everybody! welcome to "a late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. i'll get right to it, bad news first. the president is actively working to undermine our democracy, usurp the will of the people, and hold onto power, in violation of our constitution. good news: he is really bad at it. the president is desperate to somehow throw out the votes for biden, but like everything else in his administration, it's been a race between autocracy and incompetence. and with this crowd, incompetence is usain bolt, who makes it across the finish line, steps in a bucket, and gets his head stuck in a toilet. i'll tell you all about it the in coup-nanigans in tonight's edition of: ( tune of "three blind mice" ) ♪ dead people vote dead people vote ♪ i saw them vote they are zombies ♪ they vote, and then they eat some brains ♪ they gave biden the state of maine ♪ it makes sense if you snort cocaine ♪ dead people vote >> "the road from the white house." >> stephen: he's got a really lovely voice. considering how hard he's working to keep the job, the president sure isn't

>> stephen: just said stephen dances.ds of cotton. ( laughter ) it's all love, baby. it's all love. after the good news was announced, president-elect biden and vice president elect harris took to the stage in delaware. first up was kamala harris. this is a big deal. harris is the first female vice president, the first black vice president, the first south asian vice president! the first vice president to pull off a kick-ass all-white power suit! though, to be fair, for trump, every suit is a white power suit. harris acknowledged her place in history. >> the generations of women, black women-- ( cheers and applause ) asian, white, latina, native american women, who, throughout our nation's history, have paved the way for this moment tonight. women who fought and sacrificed so much for equality and liberty and justice for all. including the black women who are often, too often, overlooked, but so often prove they are the backbone of our democracy. what a testament it is to joe's character that he had the audacity to break

>> no, sir. >> stephen: no. >> i mean yes! >> stephen: thank you, mark.hat sweden has shanked. number one, pickled herring. we have had refrigeration for a hundred years. stop it. okay. here is another one. maybe the structural integrity of all the furniture in your home shouldn't depend on little wooden dowels and an allen wrench. the swedish bikini team! it is a sexist organization, and should not be funded by the swedish government. i don't even think "bikini" is an olympic sport. and hey, swedes, you need to explain why the oldest surviving english language poem, "beowulf," takes place in sweden! i demand an apology to grendel and his mother, although she did enjoy sweden's generous maternity leave, which gave her time to bond with her warped inhuman offspring. black licorice. it's tough enough without the salt. meatballs. they're delicious, but they should be larger! okay? then you blow it with the lingonberry jam! i'm sorry, it's a weird combo. jam and meatballs, no! and don't get me wrong, i'm a huge fan of the skarsgards-- you can't have skarsgard

>> stephen: get out, get out. >> stephen: the bad is getting worse. this week alone, the u.s.oronavirus cases. but top maga scientists have a solution: >> stop the count! stop the count! stop the count! >> stephen: and the worst part is, this might not be the worst, because the holidays are approaching. as one hospital director warned: christmas and new year's eve parties could lead to a "giant, intergenerational cluster." normally if you want to see a giant intergenerational cluster, you have to ask santa for pornhub premium. so i've heard. local officials are scrambling to stop the spread. los angeles mayor eric garcetti issued a statement, telling citizens, "cancel those vacation plans right now. do not sneak in other households for thanksgiving." i'm gonna go ahead and say that second thing is just good advice under any circumstances. there's a reason you don't hear this around the holiday table; "oh, my turn? uh, i guess i'm thankful that you left the basement door unlocked." thankfully, there's advice from people who know stuff. for instance, the c.d.c. is suggesting ame

>> stephen: stay free. year, i'm afraid, my friend. >> jon: yeah. >> stephen: we'll catch you next year. >> jon: understandably. we will get together again. i believe it. >> stephen: jon, could you give us a little music for the moment? >> jon: oh, yeah, yes. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: falling leaves. jon batiste, everybody. thank you, jon. >> jon: thank you, stephen. >> stephen: friends and neighbors, last night wasn't just about the fate of democracy. it was also about getting high, because voters across the nation, americans of all stripes voted yes on the proposition: "you guys party?" first, the recreational marijuana was legalized by new jersey voters. so we might finally get an answer to the question: what if chris christie got the munchies? in washington, d.c., voters passed a measure to decriminalize the use of magic mushrooms. now that is-- wait a second, are we sure d.c. didn't decriminalize mushrooms four years ago, and this has all been a bad trip? because that would explain a lot, like why trump's commer

>> i have -- >> stephen: please. no, no. >> stephen: this is my favorite.ar in lord of the rings. you fool, no man can flip me! i am no man! >> no man! ( laughter ) >> stephen: so $92 is the last time clinton won. >> yes. >> stephen: what's different now? what do you think is most different about georgia now that they were ready to give their electoral votes to a democrat? >> so i worked on the '92 campaign as a college state and at the time every state office was held by a democrat except one and we lost the senate seat. democrats controlled the legislature for 130 years. biocircumstances we had seen a demographic shift beginning but an i logical shift release the minting and that's when democrats really controlled the state of georgia. in 2010 i put together a 21 page deck i traveled the country seeing donors with and my argument was we were having a democratic shift happening that we had to harness and, two, had an incoherent message for 20th t had to be refined and, three, we had to build a infrastructure that sought to win who was was on the ticket. we

>> stephen: no, wrong., there won't be a second trump administration, unless tiffany wins in 2032 with the slogan, "make america 'make america great again' again." secondly, nothing this administration has ever done has been smooth. he couldn't even manage a smooth transition from stage to ground level. third, your guy lost. fourth, if that was a joke, you just bombed so hard you violated the geneva convention. this is dangerous. he's the secretary of state. he represents america to other countries who just got the message that maybe the guy who lost isn't going to leave. you know all those dictators you visited, mr. secretary? that wasn't supposed to be an internship. and pompeo's not the only administration official indulging the president's beautiful dark, twisted fantasies. so is attorney general and jackass-o'-lantern, bill barr. yesterday, barr broke with decades of justice department policies intended to keep law enforcement from affecting the outcome of an election, when he sent a memo instructing f

if you say e-a-r-s. >> stephen: ears. >> yes. >> stephen: i'm sorry. er. >> that's it. >> stephen: that's nice. >> that's pretty much it. >> stephen: gillian, obviously, margaret thatcher is the iron lady, and the queen, at least to those of us watching from a distance over here in the united states, seems look a figure a bit carved in marble, very stade, very proper. now that you have played them, i assume there is a more tender or human side that you didn't see before. like is the queen-- does it make sense to hear her called lilibet to you now, as phillip calls her? >> well, yes, i think it's more-- i mean, i would never dare to be presumptionuous enough to say i know, you know, how she feels. i'm an actor saying words, pretending to be someone. but she-- she's obviously human, and she's been forced into this job that she wasn't actually meant to do. it was meant to be somebody else. and she's done it with extraordinary gusto and dignity and... i don't know. i knew nothing about her before, really. you know, growing up in a place where they have alw

. >> stephen: right you are. ran for the democratic nomination, former colorado governor, john hickenlooper. >> actually, stephen, i'm michael bennett, the colorado senator. >> stephen: nice try, hicken looper. we would never be able to book a michael bennett. that dude is a rock star. we have james carville live from the 1993 documentary "the war room." >> it's the economy, stupid. >> stephen: don't call me stupid, you cajun mole rat. next we have andrew yang who ran on the slogan, math, how are the numbers looking tonight, andrew? >> the numbers are looking great tonight, stephen. three and five are so visually appealing. 11 has perfect symmetry you won't find anywhere else. these numbers look fantastic. >> stephen: only time will tell. now, for a scientific perspective, we have astrophysicist neil degrass tyson. >> tonight, i predict the university will die of heat death, 10 to the power of 100 years. >> stephen: well, i believe ohio might have something to say about that. and to discuss how covid might be aff

>> darnell wig is a wig that isn't real hair. >> stephen: okay. yeah. >> stephen: jim, hit it.ake these for friends and send them to them? >> that is for my manager christian. but i didn't know that candle is one of the horrible fake candles that keep coming up, so it's real surprise. >> stephen: it's also quite dangerous when you're wearing a wig that's not real hair. >> that's true. >> stephen: i'm sure you were aware you were wearing petroleum products on your head. the look has a little bit of a cruella devil to her. >> that's true and she likes animal prints and also likes camo. >> stephen: we have one other clip. you actually have a little cruella devil right here. what's going on with cruella in this footage? >> i was invited by bette midler who has this fantastic nonprofit in new york, the new york restoration project to be part of her hula wean and she had written me this funny, funny skit. i put together what i could have of cruella in my house. i got online, got a cruella wig, but i painted a chop stick to be my cigarette holder, and put baby powder on my face -- not

stephen: five years ago, dr. hickman teamed with a private company called police strategies, also based in seattle, to begin tracking data showing how, when, and where police use force. matthew: with these data, we can start to understand how use of force incidents evolve, and hopefully lead to better policies and training so that we can try to minimize injury. bob scales: so, you can't have an evidence-based policy or evidence-based training if you have no data to back it up. stephen: bob scales is a former prosecutor and assistant director for seattle's public safety department. he helped found police strategies. bob: without the data to back it up and see a before and after of the training, we don't know if the training has had any impact on how officers behave and how they use force. stephen: for example, separate research conducted by the use of force project shows that police departments that ban chokeholds can significantly reduce the number of incidents that end in death. eddie garcia: we banned the choke

i agree with you, stephen.ry much encouraged, though, by president—elect biden‘s comments, which i think have been just dead on in terms of what's needed. and i think it's now it's time for all americans to help the elected president succeed. i mean, i think it's fine for us to be divided politically. a lot of people make a big deal about that. but if we were all united, we'd have a one—party system that sounds kind of like communist china to me. so i think it's ok for us to be divided politically, but we need leaders who will who will bolster and maintain our confidence in our democratic principles and institutions and processes. and sadly, the president's undermining those at the moment. i hear your words about president—elect biden, but i'm also mindful that he is not in office and has no real power for another 70 days. let us just reflect on what president trump — and he's still the president — what he's been doing in the last few hours and days. for example, he's just fired defence secretary mark esper, "t

how did you first meet stephen?e, he read my first two books and one was called useless window about kurt states and what he really means and how over the centuries the idea developed, how it's usedn physics and that was a very actually important topic for stephen. then he read my second book which was search for beauty in physics and in life and that was in the more about my relaonship with the great -- [inaudible] while i was at caltech in my 20s. he liked those books and is oking for someone to write with. i think he wanted someone with a sense of humor and someone who's writing his life. most of the one some who understood physics. i guess he decided i fit that. when did i just get a call from an agent, stephen hawking called. that happened. this is a bizarre question, but would you like to write a book? are you kidding me? >> i can say again, having read the book, i make my living in the funny busess. you do have an excellent sense of humor, leonard, and he comes across beautifully in the book. it truly does. y

how did you first meet stephen?> welcol, he read my first two books. >> wow. >> one was euclid's window about curved space and what it really means and how over the centuries it was developed and that was a very ully important topic to stephen. and then he read my second book which was feinman's rainbow, search for beauty in physics and life and that was my relationship with the great-- when i was at cal tech in my 20's and he liked read those books and he was looking for someone with a sense of humor and writing he liked and understood physics and i think he thought i fit that and one day i got a call from my agent, stephen hawking called and this is a bizarre question, would you like to write a book with him. >> are you kidding me? having read the book, i make my living in the funny business you have an excellent sense of humor, leonard and it comes across beautifully in the book, it truly does. you mentioned how the sort of dryness of physics, but you have found a way and clearly mr. hawking had a wicked sense of

judge stephens: ok. a response from the secretary of state -- i don't know who is responding, but >> good afternoon, your honor. i know the court is aware that we have filed a response. that response was to the emergency motion for a declaratory statement that we received on december 4. we did not receive a motion for injunctive relief that was purportedly filed -- we are not sure of what that pleading does. the getting a response that we already provided. i don't have a second motion. judge stephens: what motion? the original complaint didn't have a motion. >> the complaint that we have was accompanied by an emergency motion for declared relief. judge stephens: we got a summons. ok, all right. for was the request injunctive relief served? client -- onthe behalf of the plaintiff? >> your honor, if i could address that question, it was served electronically on behalf of the plaintiffs to secretary benson as well as the others. where wead a process try to physically deliver it to the secretary of state's o

i know this because i read the book but how did you first meet stephen? >> he read my first two books and he was, one was about curve estates and what it means and how over the centuries the ideas developed and how it was used and that was a very important topic to stephen and then he read my second book which was finding his rainbow a search for beauty in physics and in life and that was a memoir of my relationship with the great richard steinman while i was in my cal tech in my 20s. he was looking for someone to write with and i think he wanted a sense of humor and someone who is writing he liked and i think most of all he wanted someone who understood physics and i guess he decided i fit that so one day i got a call from my agent and said stephen hawking's office called and this is a bizarre question but would you like to write a book about him? >> again, having read the book i can say i make my living in the funny business and you do have an excellent sense of humor, leonard. it comes across beautifully in the book, it truly does. you mentioned how th

stephen, stephen, you've got to let me answer the question. go on.ans want is they want a british prime minister to stop at the dispatch box and take responsibility for the ireland government. that isn't going to happen. the reality is if we're going to we need to have reconciliation. there are republicans whojust decide to tell a story in a very sort of, trusted way that didn't help them. and my point is, yeah, you want to talk reconciliation. i've worked in reconciliation projects, i've worked with people on the other side. i've worked with people who are members of the ira. so stephen, people who along with others were involved in cease fires. i was also involved in the... i do know that. yeah, well, what i'm saying to you is, that my record will stand up with the rest of the people over the years. my point, my point... this is both political but it all deeply personal. my all deeply personal. point is that i'm very mindful my point is that i'm very mindful that a man that you came to respect a great deal when you are in prison, and i should tell

i'm stephen sackur.enezuelan government is keen to bring down president nicholas medeiros to be my guest is the leader of the popular opposition party, and last month he escape from venezuela and found refuge in spain. is that the action of a man who has lost faith in the 00:01:48,282 --> 2147483051:37:39,785 opposition‘s ability to win its 2147483051:37:39,785 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 struggle? leopoldo lopez, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. you are talking to me from madrid. why did you decide to flee your country? it was a very difficult decision, stephen. i spent four years in a military prison and then i spent 1.5 years in house arrest and another 1.5 years in the spanish embassy while i was under asylum. i never wanted to leave venezuela. i actually presented myself in 2014 when a process against me was presented by the dictatorship and i decided, it was my own decision to go to jail instead of going into exile. for the past seven years, i have been without liberty or freedom but the circu

thank you, stephen. thank you. hello there. largely dry but rather a chilly start to the new working week with a touch of frost in place. however, a frontal system up to the north—west will eventually change things for some as we head on up through monday. but the morning starts off rather on a chilly note. temperatures down around freezing even a touch below for some. not as cold in the far south with some extra cloud, not as cold in the far west either. in the cloud in the west will roll its way eastwards through the day introducing rain into northern england, wales, the south—west. especially around the coast and over the hills the sunshine through the afternoon across eastern counties of england and perhaps some parts of north—east scotland. windy, particularly towards the north—west. those are the average speeds. the gusts could touch 60 mph for the western isles. turning milder from the west. it will be a bit of a struggle with those temperatures in eastern areas after such a chilly start. but as we go through monday nigh

thank you, thank you stephen.t more murky weather to come over the next few hours. now, this weather watcher picture, i quite like it. this is the fourth rail bridge of course or at least half of it. the other half is subsumed beneath low cloud, the fog and the murk. futher southwards meanwhile, we've got these bands of rain crossing england and wales moving at a northeastward direction thanks to an area of low pressure. this weak low pressure is also drifting northeastwards. but some of this rain is actually washing the fog out of the atmosphere. so, it's not quite as murky as it has been. still some mist, still some cloud. the really dense fog is away from that rain across northeast england, particularly eastern scotland and some patches through the central belt. and where it is worse, the fog, visibility down to 100 metres so it is really quite dense. tricky travel conditions are to be expected if you're out and about over the next few hours. a mild night though and a mild start to tuesday. this little low pres

welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur.ialist government of venezuela presides over an economy in meltdown and a population desperate for change. but still, the country's opposition has failed to build a movement capable of bringing down president nicolas maduro. why? my my guest is the founder of the popular will opposition party. leopoldo lopez, last month he escaped from venezuela and found refuge in spain. is that the action of man whose lost faith in the opposition's ability to win their struggle? leopoldo lopez, welcome to hard to talk. —— hardtalk. you are talking to me from madrid. why did you decide to flee your country? it was a very difficult decision, stephen. i spent four years in a military prison and then i i spent 1.5 yea rs prison and then i i spent 1.5 years in house arrest and another 1.5 years years in house arrest and another1.5 years in years in house arrest and another 1.5 years in the spanish embassy while i was under asylum. i never wanted to leave venezuela. i actually presented myself in 2014 when

thank you, stephen. hello.ith us for the past few days is going to get swept away, and we're set to see a real change in weather type through the course of wednesday. it's going to be windy with some rain moving eastwards, and behind that, some colder air moving in, too. it's all down to this area of low pressure with its trailing cold front here, which is moving its way eastwards. lots of isobars on the map, indicating strength of the wind as well. still very mild out there. in fact, first thing wednesday, the temperatures well in double figures, teens for most of us. more typical, really, these temperatures of daytime highs. now through the day, we've got some initial heavy rain across western parts of britain and northern ireland, western scotland, too. the rain will edge its way slowly eastwards. something really persistent for the northern isles and also for western parts of scotland as well. but it becomes a little bit more patchy as it heads across eastern england during the course of the afternoon. so,

joining this evening for a conversation about the new book stephen hawking a memory of friendship andhysic one of the most influential physicists of the time, he touched the lives of millions. recalling his nearly two decades as hawking's collaborator and friend, he brings this complex man into focus in a unique and a deeply personadeeply personal p. he puts us in the room as he indulgence her passion and curry and love, death and disability and grapples with a deep question of philosophy and physics. the deeply affecting account of friendship teaches us not just about the nature and practice of physics but also about life and the human capacity to overcome daunting obstacles. joined in conversation by voice actor rob paulson who is in a voice actor for nearly three decades and is the voice of pinky from pinky and the brain, donatello from teenage mutant ninja turtles and carl weser from jimmy neutron. he's one and any award, peabody award and three emmys for his voice acting. his memoir, voice lessons, was released last year and ironically a man that uses his voice for work, he found

stephen, let me, let me ask you the same question. let me ask you about that divide between the younger members and the older members of the pro-democracy movement that generational gap can that be bridged. this is a very interesting topic, and there was a lot of impatience, particularly back last year at the beginning of the movement as a box of the younger demonstrators who thought that sufficient democrats, you know, not just been, not up to power. but what has happened, and i think this is happened much more recently, is there now all sharing a common fates? the front line protesters who were arrested last year during the height of the demonstrations. and now being joined in full, by the traditional, if you like, all of the democrats, they're all in the same boat net. so that the, this divide and there was a divide to some extent, has been there and by the actions of the hong kong government and its most embarrassing. they are putting everybody in the same camp now. and i don't think that there is a very big hasn't between the 2 g

enemy is stephen miller who is one of the organizers of the workshop coming up and over 23 stephen is a person at i'm so delighted that you have joined us today. >> template pleasure to be a actually to be here with st. teresa. >> that is right. it's like we are here to promote the workshop. it's like you are the intimate think the workshop is it st. ann.>> that is right. it's like thank you. now i will not forget. i want to first begin by asking what does laudato si mean to you. >> for me and my professional work in marin county but also with my work at the parish at st. teresa, i have been really focused on education and consultants around the climate crisis with laudato si we now have top-down practice and a call to action from the holy father to act and to internalize, and localize the climate issues that all of us around the planet are facing. it is the official church social teaching now on the climate crisis, and it is giving us all permission to act. >> definitely. the thing that i was most struck, by the document, that i was personally really inspired by was the pope constant

no, stephen.my duty to present the president with multiple options in the best advice and i think we delivered pretty decent outcomes across those 13 months. and of course, i did as i mentioned and used up in that process there was a piece of that. i was on active duty army officer at the time of this was my fifth commander in chief under whom i've served. what do you believe has been donald trump's impact on america's national security strategy? what i've read about an battleground is one of the most significant shifts in us foreign policy since the end of the war and that is the shift away from this assumption that china, having been welcomed into the international community, would play by the rules, would liberalise its economy. and its governance. 0bviously that's not the case and therefore we needed to recognise that china is arrival, strategic competitor. and that has been a profoundly important shift in policy not just by the united states but across the free world so i think recognising po

has written to borisjohnson, council, stephen brady, has written to boris johnson, asking council, stephenn to borisjohnson, asking him to intervene urgently. he says the city is now at a critical point. he wants a certain flexibility to be able to close schools if necessary. we have spoken to the schools minister, nick gibb, and he says this absolutely will not happen. but stephen brady wa nts will not happen. but stephen brady wants urgent help and he says he wa nts wants urgent help and he says he wants the same sort of help that has been on offer to other cities like liverpool in the past. vicki johnson, thank you. vicki johnson, thank you. meanwhile, government plans for mass testing to try to reopen large parts of the economy have been criticised. scientists today warned it's likely to be ineffective and expensive. they say the programme should be paused and the test and trace system should be improved instead. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson is here. this is operation moonshot? yes, absolutely. the tests that are used in operation moonshot are these rapid turnaround tests

locke detested stephen douglas. i wouldn't be surprised he heard lincoln impersonating a maybe because it was like three years late that he comes up with the first nasby sketch and the first sket one of the first ones is petroleum, this is lincoln in the whiteouse. there's a kind of direct connection from a vy, very beginning. it could be a case where lincoln let a sense of hum anyway and used his humor again douglas might've prompted something right. there is a minor strain in at five slavery political culture that doe that, theamous exchange on the senate floor between william seward, the leadingepublican of the day, and stephen douglas in which everyone to stephen douglas, who were both angling for the esidency. seward says to douglas, he belittles idea he could possibly elect present on the ground no one could be elected to present who spells the word negro with two g's. nevertheless, we are attaching lincoln as he is thepecial in the late 1850s, increasingly aplled by the explosion of demagogic racism, and part

judge stephens: as of this point, there is a dropbox. once the ballots are taken out of the dropbox, are they segregated based upon which dropbox they came from? >> there is other litigation by other parties that asks that they be segregated. so that you can identify what ballots came from what box and you can tie that back to a video. judge stephens: are you saying there was a statutory requirement that they be segregated? >> there is not a statutory requirement. judge stephens: are you alleging that there was a practice or routine where individual local election officials separated the boxes based upon which dropbox? >> the request we have -- judge stephens: that is not what i am asking you. i'm asking you as a matter of fact are you alleging that the , individual election officials had a practice that segregated the ballot per ballot dropbox? >> there are so many election jurisdictions in michigan. i cannot make a representation as to what each jurisdiction did do. judge stephens: we know -- maybe we know there were additional drop bo

welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. donald trump cannot and will not bring himself to concede that he lost the presidential election. amid the presidential election. the talk of legals challenges amid the talk of legals challenges and a slew of states the party is under strain. most seniorfigures sticking the party is under strain. most senior figures sticking with the president. some very publicly backing away. my guess is former congressman and loyal trump backerjack kingston. what longer—term lesson should his party be taking from the imminent loss of the white house? jack kingston and washington, dc. welcome to hardtalk. president troy trump had a choice to make he? he could either accept the verdict of the american people or he could deify the democratic outcome. do you think he's made a wise choice? i think he has. i think, in accordance to our constitution, he has the right to make sure that the election was done in a fair and legal way. and that's what we need to do — just make sure that the votes that were coun

stephen: very quickly.ers that will be resigning today, will you again resurface and re-stand for elections when they come around the corner? claudia: it is too soon to tell. it's a long time in politics. any time now, a day, week. we don't want -- know what's happening in the next year. never say never in politics. stephen: right. i will let you get back to drafting your resignation letter. thank you for giving us the time in this very tenuous time in hong kong's history. back to you, heidi. haidi: the hong kong pro-democracy politician claudia mao there speaking to us ahead of that resignation expected from the pro-democracy lawmakers. we are getting opinions from across the entire political spectrum today when it comes to hong kong. more perspective over the next hour when the commerce and economic development secretary will join us for another exclusive interview. breaking news when it comes to joe biden's situation starting to take shape. he has selected his longtime aide as his chief of staff. he serv

raskin: and that was stephen douglas' crowd. mr. blumenthal: and stephen douglas was desperate to win their approval in order to gain the nomination because they were the powers that be. and they never trusted douglas because he was always out for himself. they thought he was uncontrollable. what happens with charles sumner is, preston brooks enters the senate and with a cane, he bashes him on sumner's head while he's seated at a wooden desk and almost kills him. charles sumner falls on the floor of the senate. blood flows through the senate. and what's important about this politically, sumner is the leading order against slavery in the united states senate and the congress. he represents the commonwealth of massachusetts. standing against slavery. he represents the idea of the united states, as opposed to the southern idea of the nation. and he is almost killed. sumner believed in a certain kind of politics. it is a moral politics, he believes in moral suasion. he believes in humiliating his enemies. and he's got to this position i

he is award-winning stephen stanley with amherst pierpont.oes wonderful work with the conventional function -- what matters right now within that equation? stephen: consumption has been the star of the show, and that is what we are looking at. the consumer has set up much better than most people expected through the pandemic and now with renewed restrictions and cuts in mobility, there is obviously some concern about whether the consumer then continue to get back toward normal over the next couple of months. tom: give us the calendar of the need for income substitution. 1231 disappear for many. how urgent for you is income replacement? stephen: we are in a different place than we were in the spring. in the spring we put more than $600 a month unemployment benefits as well as a round of rebate checks for everyone, and at this point whatever income replacement we do probably needs to be more targeted. i think the idea of continuing the unemployment benefits, continuing them beyond midyear, or the end of the year, but also may be putting forward

judge stephens: as of this point , there is a dropbox. once the ballots are taken out of the dropbox, are they segregated based upon which dropbox they came from? >> there is other litigation by other parties that asks that they be segregated. judge stephens: are you saying there was a statutory requirement that they be segregated? >> there is not a statutory requirement. allegingphens: are you that local election officials separated the boxes based upon which dropbox? we have --est judge stephens: that is not what i am asking you. are you alleging that the individual election officials had a practice that segregated the ballot per ballot dropbox? >> there are so many election jurisdictions in michigan. representation as to what each jurisdiction did do. know -- maybe: we we know there were additional dropbox is added. i do not know if there were not. we do not know whether or not the content of those drop boxes as of october 2 were segregated there before october 1. somehow those ballots were taken from their secure dropbox to the local