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>> it's a witch hunt. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, coo-coo in cocoa town. plus, stephen welcomes clive owen ambassador samantha power and musical guest, thomas rhett 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: come on! hey! i missed you! >> stephen: fantastic. can't go wrong. thank you! thank you very much! welcome, ladies and gentlemen,

to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. we have moved into-- ( cheers ) you know why these people-- you know why these people are excited? they know-- they know what i'm about to say. we've moved into an exciting new phase of impeachment because the house judiciary panel is set to debate articles of impeachment tonight. ( cheers and applause ) they're doing it tonight. that-- that's right. it's impeachment after dark. ♪ ♪ oooh, congressman nadler, my presidential power has been badly abused. ( laughter ) why don't you just pound that gavel, and i promise you, i'll yield back my time. ( laughter ) anyway-- ( cheers and applause )

anyway, i'm glad they're moving forward, because we're at a weird point. they already wrote up the articles of impeachment, but they're not voting on them. it's like the set break at a concert: right now we're just milling around, hitting up the merch table, deciding if 80 bucks is too much to pay for a "monsters of constitutional enforcement"tour shirt. let's keep talking about impeachment, shall we, in tonight's "don and the giant impeach." >> he is a monster. >> stephen: with impeachment closing in, last night, trump went to his happy place: anger. he held a maga/kag rally in hershey, pennsylvania-- obviously because pennsylvania is a critical swing state and not because he's a big baby who likes candy.

>> hershey chocolate. i like hershey chocolate! >> stephen: i stand corrected. impeachment was clearly on the president's mind. >> this is the lightest, weakest impeachment. you know, our country's had actually many impeachments. this is impeachment-lite. this is the lightest impeachment. >> stephen: yeah, it's impeachment-lite. america's going on a diet. we've got to lose 239 pounds of dead weight. ( cheers and applause ) trump also-- doctor says, doctor says. trump also went after some of his democratic rivals. >> crazy elizabeth warren-- or as i affectionately call her, pocahantas. she's starting to crash again. you know, i thought i knocked her down. i did that heavy, heavy pocahantas deal. i give her credit. i thought she was left for--

i mean, there were just, like, little embers. and then she rose-- she rose. but then she opened that fresh mouth of hers, and it stopped. >> stephen: wow, "fresh mouth." you were a little late there, but thank you. that is some old-school sex. or maybe trump's just not used to women talking. ( as trump ) "why can't she be more like my wife, okay? she never says a word or makes eye contact. she just sits there staring into the middle distance, clutching a christmas ornament until it explodes in her hand." ( laughter ) now, by the end of the night, the president seemed to get a little sleepy, which led to some trouble speaking. >> and then they announced there was (slurring) nooobyess-znot. >> stephen: "no-bazsh-no." he's going after the evangelical

vote by speaking in tongues. then, trump told a story about a supporter whose marriage he said he saved. >> i have so many people that come up and say, "thank you, sir. my wife is so in love with me because i went up 79% in the 401(k). she thanks i'm a genius. she always thought i was a total stiff, a dumb, stupid dope. now she thanks i'm a financial genius, sir. ( applause ) and all i did was buy some stock. i have stock in a 401(k), and you made me into a genius. she loves me so much more than she ever did. shows you the power of money, right? isn't that terrible? >> stephen: it's a beautiful story. this-- this is really going to resonate with actual people in in real, totally not-made-up marriages. in fact, the trump campaign has already turned this story into an ad. >> honey, i thought you were moving out. i thought you were going to your sister's to think things over. >> i was. but something changed. you went up 79% in the 401(k). i'm so in love with you. >> but you said i was a total

stiff, a dumb-- >> stupid dope. i know, but now i think you're a financial genius. >> all i did was buy some stock. i have stock in a 401(k). >> i love you so much more than i ever did. that shows you the power of money. is that terrible? >> thank you, sir. >> paid for by trump 2020. >> hershey chocolate-- i like hershey chocolate. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: it makes you think. so beautiful. so beautiful. trump also complained about the department of justice inspector general's report that was released earlier this week. trump claimed that the i.g. found a serious breach of his campaign's rights. >> then, the inspector general's shocking report proved that the obama f.b.i. obtained secret warrants to spy on my campaign. the f.b.i. also sent multiple

undercover human spies to surveil and record people associated with our campaign. >> stephen: okay, that's a bold claim. however, the inspector general, michael horowitz, testified on capitol hill today and his report doesn't say what president trump said it did. >> did you find anything where the f.b.i. planted spies in mr. trump's campaign? >> we found no use of confidential human sources and placing them in the campaign. >> stephen: okay, no human sources. he didn't say anything about animals. but i seem to remember an enormous manatee in a man-suit calling mexicans rapists and asking russia to release hillary's emails. i mean, they didn't even give him a convincing costume-- the skin was all loose and orange, that could have-- that cooch-- that almost destroyed his campaign. ( applause )

so trump got that wrong. big deal. but the f.b.i. should hold off on the victory lap, because according to the i.g., the f.b.i. got a lot of stuff wrong, too, starting with how sloppy they were when it came to getting surveillance warrants on american citizens. >> we found that investigators failed to meet their basic obligations of ensuring that the fisa applications were scrupulously accurate. we identified significant inaccuracies and omissions in each of the four applications. >> stephen: there was a bunch of them. one application omitted the fact that carter page was a government informant, one relied too much on the steele dossier, and one of them was just, "investigate this guy, cuz, yeah." ( laughter ) ( applause ) horowitz said that there were f.b.i. agents both pro-trump and anti-trump assigned to the case, but lindsey graham wanted to focus on two in particular: famed f.b.i. lovers peter strzok and lisa page, and he read their texts out loud.

>> february 12, 2016: "oh, he's trump, abysmal. i keep hoping the charade will end and people will just dump him." march 3, 2016, page: "god, trump is a loathsome human." strzok: "oh, my god. he's an idiot." "trump is a disaster." "he's not ever going to become president, right?" "trump is an f-ing idiot." "wow, donald trump is an enormous douche." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: yeah. a damning-- a damning chain of texts. i'll tell you what, i can understand why graham is furious. not only is that overt bias by f.b.i. agents. they're stealing graham's best material. >> you know how you make america great again? tell donald trump to go to hell. i think donald trump is a con man. i think he's a kook. i think he's crazy. i think he's unfit for office. he has become toxic. the world's biggest jackass. he's a race-baiting, xenophobic,

religious bigot. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: okay, will the last vertebra to leave lindsey graham's spine please remember to turn off the lights? graham's not the only republican sticking by trump through thick and... let's just stick with thick. house republicans are fighting off impeachment, regardless of how it might look in the history books, like ohio representative and man learning they don't make meat-flavored seltzer, jim jordan. jordan told the huffington post, when it comes to future generations, "i don't care how i'm remembered." well, good, because they've already carved your headstone. ( laughter ) ( applause ) another trump ally-- it takes a second to read it. another trump ally out there who

doesn't care how history remembers him is north carolina representative and man just too tired to hail satan, mark meadows. meadows insists, "most of the historical commentary will be about the process more than the individuals." yeah, history is all about process. nobody remembers the guys who wrote the constitution. what were they called? "the starter daddies?" ( laughter ) we also-- we also got an interesting take from utah representative and personal attorney to colonel sanders, rob bishop. bishop had an even more depressing view on his legacy, saying that "the idea that history would remember what republicans do assumes "that we're going to survive in this country long enough to have a history." okay, that's pretty bleak. i guess that explains his campaign slogan: "bishop 2020: our bones shall return to the silent dust." ( laughter )

( applause ) but the president of the united states it's president is not the only trump embarrassing our country overseas. we just found out that this past summer, donald trump jr. went to mongolia and killed an endangered sheep. first of all, who hunts sheep ( laughter ) i mean, that's the kind of manly, papa hemingway rush you can only get by sneak a hammer into a petting zoo. but, wait, it gets dumber. one reason this animal is endangered is because it is the largest sheep in the world. yes, don jr.'s going after only the most-elusive prey. ( as don jr. ) "next, i'm hunting the rare morbidly-obese sloth! the trick is to kill them before they die of congestive heart failure." ( laughter ) now, if taking down a really big sheep wasn't achievement enough, don jr. did the deed at night, using a rifle with a laser sight. and you, too, can experience all the pulse-pounding excitement in

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a drink with friends can turn into two. and a prescription can be stronger than you thought. stop! there are a lot of ways to get a dui. and a lot of ways to go. text a friend. call a cab. share a ride. whatever you choose to do, go safely, california. ( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: jon batiste and stay human, everybody! there you go. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: gotta goat into it all the way! >> stephen: it's a lovely

night. i love the dome tonight. can we see-- can we see the-- can we get a shot of the dome up there? isn't that pretty? isn't that nice. that's actually not graphics. it's that cold in here right now. are you guys cold? >> audience: yes! >> stephen: too bad! ( laughter ) jon, clive owen is here tonight. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: classify rolling through, hanging with us. >> stephen: and tomorrow, congressman adam schiff is going to be here, right there on the chair. >> jon: that's his story. >> stephen: it is historical. i don't know if anyone here uses the internet, but if so, you might be familiar with the growing online popularity of something called a.s.m.r., or "autonomous sensory meridian response," which refers

the "tingling sensation in your head and neck" when exposed to certain sounds. it's basically "ear porn." by the way, do not google "ear porn." youtubers rack up millions of views posting videos of themselves making sensuous sounds into a microphone, stimulating the a.s.m.r. response. >> hi, good evening. >> stephen: i will point out that last video has 107,000 views just since october! so the next time you're short on cash, maybe just get out there and shake your money maker. you like? ( applause ) but the latest a.s.m.r. rage is

a genre known as "a.s.m.r. boyfriend roleplay," like boyfriend tucks you in at night, sweet bedtime cuddle boyfriend, and even a.s.m.r. vampire boyfriend helps you sleep. the vampire is actually way more relaxing than a.s.m.r. zombie boyfriend. yes, there's a tingling sensation in your head and neck, but it's him gnawing on your spinal cord. ( laughter ) now, i know what you're thinking: "those videos sound horrible. please don't show me any." to that i say, "sorry." >> shhhhhhhhhh. quiet now. >> i'm not even sure what i would do without you. you're my relaxation and relief. >> i noticed you got a new candle. pumpkin spice is my favorite, so you have great taste, honestly. >> do you want me to brush your head, your hair, or to simply massage your body? body. body. body.

body. body. body. ( laughter ) >> stephen: now, if any of you are still weak, and you think it might be unhealthy for lonely people to watch these, you're not alone. one psychologist has expressed her "concerns that watching too much of this kind of role-play may cause an unrealistic and idealized perspective of what a partner can or should be." yeah, how can a real boyfriend live up to these a.s.m.r. dudes? >> body. body. body. body. >> stephen: most guys can only say the word "body" like two or three times in a row. obviously, viewers are being desensitized to what real relationships are like, which is where my writer django gold comes in. django volunteered to make an a.s.m.r. boyfriend roleplay video that accurately depicts average boyfriend behavior. >> hey, i hear you can't get to sleep. that's messed up.

man. by the way, my legs got dry earlier, so i used some of your lotion, you know, the tiny little jar with the gold lettering. yeah, it all got used up. ( laughter ) would it help if i made some soothing sounds for you? ( laughter ) ( bell rings ) oh, i need you to help me figure out what to get my mom for her birthday. she's into, like, cloth? mmmm. you're beautiful. ( laughter ) is your roommate going to cry on the couch about her dad all night? it looks like you're out of toilet paper. but don't worry-- i found some coffee filters in the kitchen. ( laughter ) nice candle. oh, by the way, i put your bras in the dryer.

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here. >> nice to be here. >> stephen: i want to get to your film in just a moment here, but i just found out moments ago that you are going to portray in the new season of "american crime story," you're going to be playing william jefferson clinton, president of the united states. because the season is the clinton impeachment, like the whole monica lewinsky scandal, right? >> i need to go and do some work. >> stephen: obviously, my first question is did you have sexual relationships with that woman, miss lewinsky. wow, are you intimidated at all playing such a recognizable-- >> totally, kind of terrified. it's a huge challenge. i mean, they came to me. they asked me to do it. i was a little confused at the beginning "why are they coming to me?" and then i started to watch all the stuff and i got totally intrigued and fascinated. and, you know, i like an easy gig. ( laughter ). >> stephen: do you have the-- do you have the thumb? do you have the lip bite. >> i have nothing yet. i'm right at the beginning.

i have absolutely nothing. >> stephen: when that scandal hit over here, back in '98, something like that? were you guys obsessed it over there. >> yeah, of course, yeah. >> stephen: what about the impeachment going on right now. is the u.k. paying attention. >> the u.k. is paying attention. the u.k. has their own drama going on right now. >> stephen: is the election tomorrow? >> yes. >> stephen: good luck with that. good luck both of us, actually. you have such a varied career. like, "closer" "bourne identity," "gossford park" "the knick." what's a clive owen role? i don't even know myself. >> i trained in the theater, and i look back on my career and i think it's suched a mixed bag. i kind of go with things, you know, they get inspired by. and i try to keep it as varied as i can. i think i decided at a young age i didn't want to develop, you know, something i hone and

protect. i wanted to keep doing as different things as i possibly could, and to keep free and sort of, you know, free to explore everything. if you look film to film, my career is pretty vary gld my understanding is when you played romeo in a production-- when was this? >> ah, about 30 years ago. >> stephen: about 30 years ago. you were quite taken with your juliette? >> yeah. >> stephen: and what became of that relationship? >> we're married 25 years next week. ( applause ) >> stephen: wow. did you-- very happy for you. >> thank you. >> stephen: very happy. i love hearing about a long-term marriage like that. did-- is-- i don't know why, it seems leak a dangerous thing to marry a juliette for some reason. >> it was. >> stephen: that story does not end well. >> i fell for her the minute she walked through the door. she was late for the read-through and i hadn't met her and she had been in a

secondhand bookstore, and the books were falling. and i felt like there was an attraction there and i felt it would be a dangerous thing to get involved with juliette and it would go wrong and we had a seven-month tour of the play to do, and two lovers maybe not getting along. >> stephen: exactly, might stab each other. >> but eventually, about halfway throughout tour, in belfast, we began a relationship. >> stephen: oh, wow. i'll leave it there. i'll leave it there because it's a family show. when you were coming up as an actor-- is this in london when you were starting off your career? >> yeah. >> stephen: were there performers that inspired you that people who you were sort of in awe of? >> i was crazy about david bowie when i was -- >> stephen: sure, sure, sure, as a musician and an actor, yes. >> no, just as-- like, he was the first-- i often say he might have more to do with me being an actor than anything. because he was the first person to spark my imagination. i come from this small town in

england, and there was this total, unbelievably imaginative guy that was so creative. and it sparked things in me. and, you know, i ended up acting, but that was the first time my imagination was fueled. >> stephen: did you ever get a chance to meet him? >> i did a couple of times briefly, yeah. >> stephen: wow. could you talk-- >> no. >> stephen: were you tongue tied? >> i literally couldn't talk. my heart was pounding. i just sort of fell apart. both times, actually. >> stephen: well, the new more is called "song of names." what's the story, and who are you in it? it's a story set over a period of time and begins sort of during the war where a young, brilliant violinist is rescued out of poland and adopted by a family in london-- it's based on a novel. and he-- there's a huge concert that's going to go on and he disappears. and the film really is a journey of the son of the family who is sort of his adopted brother trying to track him down and find him. and they have a sort of, you

know, past that they have to reconcile. >> stephen: and you're the violinist? >> i am. >> stephen: and do you play the violin? >> no. ( laughter ) and i never want to see a violin again. no, it was a lot of work. >> stephen: did you have to learn the fingering and all that kind of thing? >> yeah. i had an amazing coach. you know, and it was an awful lot of work because there's a big concert in it, and i have to be convincing and of course, you know, you're working with these musicians who have been playing their whole lives. and i'm like eye felt i was really up against it. but when i talked to the director and took the film on, i said, "how are we going to do it this?" he said do as much work as you can and i promise you give you my word i will make you look brilliant on the violin. deal with what we can. that's what he did. and he did a pretty good job, i think. >> stephen: let's test that theory now. jim. ♪ ♪

( applause ) ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: so you're telling me-- so you're telling me none of that violin playing was real? >> some of it was, actually. >> stephen: are those your hands. >> i did what i could. sometimes they are. the boeing is yeah. >> stephen: are you making those sounds? >> no, one thing i did do was-- my first day filming was in this beautiful academy in budapest, full orchestra, full audience, and i come out to play. this is my first day filming. and i suddenly realize just

before, like, when you actually hear what i'm doing, it's going to not only throw them but completely throw me. how can i play convincing when-- so -- >> stephen: it sounds like-- it's going to sound like you're gifs a cat a hysterectomy way pair of pliers. >> and that acting is beyond me to act like i'm brilliant, so -- >> stephen: is-- is the beard real? is the beard real? >> the first call i made in the movie wasn't to a violin coach. it was to a woman who is brilliant at hair and i said, "tell me, can we do this totally convincingly?" because i can't play this part unless we can. >> stephen: it's a fake beard too? >> i'm sorry. you don't have to tell everybody that! >> stephen: i don't know what to believe anymore, clive owen. well, it was lovely to meet you. thank you so much for being here. >> and you, thank you. >> stephen: "the song of names" is in theaters on christmas day. clive owen, everybody! we'll be right back with u.n. ambassador samantha power.

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( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody, welcome back. my next guest is a pulitzer prize winner who served for eight years in the obama administration and became the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. please welcome ambassador samantha power!

♪ ♪ ( applause ) >> stephen: hi. >> hello. >> stephen: nice to you have back. >> great to be back. >> stephen: you're the first diplomat we've had on since the impeachment hearings, when so many members of the state department and national security organization came out and spoke about their experience dealing with the president and his interactions with ukraine, why do you think it's important that we hear from these-- these career officials from the state department? >> well, for starters, because they tell the truth, and many of the political appointees have stopped doing that in ways that are-- that are really disturbing. but, also, i think the window they offer into america, the diversity, the backgrounds of the different people who serve in those roles, whether in the intelligence community or the civil service or the foreign service officers who testified. it's such a-- their professionalism, their patriotism, their truth-telling,

their dedication to the rule of law, rather than to any particular individual, i think is a great advertisement for our diplomatic corps, and it's no secret that our diplomatic corps has been hollowed out over a long period of time, but particularly acceleratedly in the trump years. so we're going to need to rebuild and rejuvenate that diplomatic corps because we never needed diplomacy more than now. since the second world war we have more conflicts in the world than at any point in more than 30 years. with china's rice, diplomacy comes more, not less important because we no longer get to take what we want and do what we want. we really need other countries to come to our side, particularly other democracies. and so i think those individuals, america really-- it's horrible the circumstances that brought them forward, but america got a taste of what happens behind the scenes, and what i benefited from and any political appointee benefits from, which is expertise, & dedication to the constitution and to principle. >> stephen: when you were at

the u.n., you had to deal with the russians a lot. you got to know and become friendly with your opposite number in the russian delegation. you also were very tough with him. you made some very, very firm statements about it, especially their behavior in syria. what do you think the last three years have been like for putin and his ambitions to reestablish something like a soviet or russian empire in eastern europe and extend his... realm of control in the middle east, especially vis-a-vis trump pulling out of syria? >> well, i think president putin's got a very high return on his investment, let me put it that way. the investment that he made in 2016. i mean -- >> stephen: you mean the ukrainian's investment, because the ukrainians, i understand actually investing in the 2016 election. that's what the president of the united states is saying. >> look, nato exists as an alliance that was created, of course, to stand up to the

soviet union, now has a new lease on life or should have a new lease of life, because of russian aggression, like that in ukraine but all of the irns ference voosh carrying out around the world. france, bulgaria, sweden. theresa may came out in 2017 and said, "don't you dare do it in the british election," because of what happened in brexit. >> stephen: there's a british election tomorrow. are the russians interference with that? >> it's not clear to the extent but you have heard people come up on the and talk about social media accounts that have suddenly turned up. what russia does-- the election is the bright, shiny object, but in our country, russia has been interfearing in our democracy since november 2016 as well. russian-backed social media accounts weigh in anti-vaccine/provaccine. progun control/antigun control in the debate on social media. >> stephen: just to stirt pot. >> they see our cleavages, our

divisions in our society and they seek toid widen them and that is what president trump is doing as well and they work in tandem. >> stephen: the book is "education of an idealist." when an idealist is educated, how do they maintain their idealism? because many people who start off as idealists can become cynics once they're exposed to the organizations and apparatus that they're trying to change. how did you maintain your idealism? >> because i have seen time and again how much good individuals can do. i've written the book in the way i have, in a very personal and raw way-- and you know because you're irish-- that irish people have trouble using the first person, even in therapy. but i have managed to write a memoir and managed to use the first person in the memoir, in part because i really want to open up this sort of personal story. because so many people right now feel like they want to make a difference, and then that feeling of wanting to make a difference knowing the world is not as it ought to be is quickly

swallowed up by the sense, "i'm so small. i'm only one person." what i saw, whether organizing a coalition to end the ebola epidemic in south africa, getting the paris climate agreement across the finish line in an an expeditious way, gettig political prisoners out of jail, watching journalists on the outside hold our feet to the fire and make a huge difference in terms of putting issues on the agenda that needed to be on the agenda. there's so much good to be done. and it need not number diplomacy-- although i hope people come back into that enterprise because it is so needed. in our own communities there are so many people in need right now. and i think what we-- what we tend to see in the news is the doom and the gloom. what you tend to see up close when you see people in public service and an intensity and integrity of service and the sense of satisfaction you get from service. i'm left more idealistic, not less, even if i'm looking forward to 2020. ( laughter )

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distracted you wish i could focus ♪ you think that i don't notice how you brush your hair and your greenize ♪ the way you blush when you drink red wine ♪ the way you smile you think i don't notice all the songs you sing you still tear up at a sunset ♪ and you dance just like you're the only one in the room ♪ you think they don't notice but i do i do, yeah ♪ i do, yeah ♪ at that party last night baby, i don't know i forgot to mention ♪ you were looking drop-dead not even a contest, center of

attention ♪ and if i had to say every time you looked amazing you'd think i was joking ♪ but i brag about you when i'm not around you you don't even know it ♪ you think that i don't notice how you brush your hair your green eyes the way you blush when you drink red wine ♪ the way you smile when you try to bend the truth ♪ you think i don't notice all the songs you sing underneath your breath ♪ you still tear up at a sunset ♪ and you dance just like you're the only one in the room ♪ you think that i don't notice but i see it all

♪ it's my fault they don't remind you every day of your life , you're perfect, baby ♪ i do, yeah ♪ you think that i don't notice how you brush your hair your green eyes ♪ the way you blush when you drink red wine ♪ the way you smile when you try to bend the truth ♪ you think they don't notice all the songs you sing underneath your breath you still tear up at a beach sunset ♪ and you dance just like you're the only one in the room ♪ you think that i don't notice but i do i do, yeah ♪ i do, yeah ( cheers and applause )

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