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ta-nehisi coates is with me here in studio and will join me right after the break. >>> joining me now is the new yorklling author ta-nehisi coates the chair of the english department at howard university, the author of numerous books including the very latest which is titled the message. welcome. we have been missing each other a little bit over the last couple weeks. you've had a very interesting rollout to this book in which you have written about things you have observed and the impact they had on you and south carolina, and africa and then in the middle east. that has not gone over well with everyone particularly the middle east part. you observed you thought there was a fundamental unfairness with the way palestinians are treated and got a lot of pushback. what did you see that triggered pushback? what is the part you think people are not happy hearing? >> for my own sanity and health i've been taking -- i resolved to take a media fast with the message. i mostly hear things secondhand from other people. with that in mind i just think that two things are really hard to accept. one that a group of

joining me now is new york times best-selling author ta- nehisi coates, winner of the 2015 national bookhur fellow among other things. his new book is out now. it is great to see you. there has been a lot of discussion about this book at this moment, in this week and i want to get your thoughts on all of it, but first for context can you talk to me and the people watching right now about how you first thought of israel in a civil rights context back in the days of the case for reparations, your article in the atlantic? >> probably to be honest i did not think much about it. i now think there was a kind of default zionism, probably all around me within the profession. within the other reporters. within my editors. this certainly wasn't any talk of palestinian rights or anything like that around me and i think i didn't think about it. i had a vague skepticism that somewhere in the back of my head i talked about in the book. this was the greatest sin of all. it was erased in my mind as a kind of issue and in the case for reparations came out it was immediately brought to my attention that i

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[cheers and applause] second of all, ta-nehisi coates is going to be joining us later to talk about his book, "the message"! but new yorktting back to normal traffic-wise. the u.n. general assembly is over -- and by the way, what a successful general assembly it was. the world just exploding with peace right now. great session, guys. now that the assembly's gone, new york is getting ready for its next big event: the vice presidential debate tomorrow. and honestly, i'm not even going to watch it, because i already know who i'm voting for vice-president-wise. but president, i'm still undecided. so here's the thing, as an undecided, it's basically me and six people who were kicked in the head by very powerful horses. i've been leaning toward kamala harris, because of her impressive resume and ability to switch from indian to black like that. [cheers and applause] like that! and if we were doing this show 15 years ago, i would probably be doing the voices. it was a long time ago. but on the other hand, about kamala harris, i've also been hearing some very concerning things about her. >> she's come under some criticism for b

ta-nehisi coates! featuring louis cato and the late show brand. and now come alive on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stephen: thank you, everybody! please have a seat. you lovely people! welcome to "the late show," i am your host, stephen colbert. ladies and gentlemen, it's october 30th and as the election day looms, both candidates are scrambling for any advantage they could possibly find. kamala harris keeps wrapping up the republican endorsements. yesterday she got one from barbara bush, the daughter of former president george w. bush. when asked for his endorsement, w said "i just painted a watercolor of a chicken... wearing aviator sunglasses... it is a top gun chicken... thank you for your service, chicken." in a statement, barbara said of harris and walz, "i'm hopeful they'll move our country forward and protect women's rights." stirring words. [cheers and applause] you know, sometimes you've got to say it. very powerful endorsement, reminds me of when her dad famously proclaimed "mission a-kamala!" barber isn't the only daughter of a republican president taki

ta tbram, tried to take away his first amendment rights. guy, they tried absolutely everything. they weaponized every d.a. and every a.g. in this country to try to take down my father. here in new yorkballot in colorado. tried to take him off the ballot in maine. tried to subdue the vote of literally of hundreds of millions of americans who absolutely adore the guy. guys, it's been political warfare every single day. then somebody tried to kill him. and despite that every single time he stands up and he says fight, fight, fight. [cheers and applause] how do you think it feels for them as we're back at madison square garden, the greatest arena anywhere in the world. [cheers and applause] guy, i saw the rangers play here and win the cup in 1994. every nics game. every concert. the greatest arena anywhere in the world. and you better believe the entire party who has failed at taking down donald trump, and spire party who has failed at taking down his family, they're sitting there on those cameras right now watching all of us. watching all of you. [cheers and applause] almost 200,000 people tried to get into this event tonight. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "u.s.a."] the streets