whistling laughter announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, stephen welcomes Rachel Maddow, ben platt with a performance from the musical dear evan hansen, and stay human, featuring jon batiste. Now live on top at the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause captioning sponsored by cbs stephen hey cheers and applause band playing hey, man good to see you, doctor cheers and applause thanks so much please have a seat youre too kind. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Now, i dont know about you, but ive got a little extra pep in my step tonight because donald trump has left the country. cheers and applause breathing a little easier. Federal judges, now would be a good time to reinstate that travel ban. laughter hell be flying in from a dangerous part of the world. He said some radical stuff. Im just saying, extreme vetting. Thats all im asking for. cheers and applause piano riff where does his money come from, so many unknowns. His first stop this weekend was saudi arabia, where trump was greeted on the tarmac by king salman. Thats nice. Not all royalty will do an airport pickup. laughter just call me, ill be circling. Just call me. The saudis know that the quickest way to trumps heart is through his ego. So they put up trumpthemed billboards everywhere. Including one of his tweets, great to be in riyadh, saudi arabia. Looking forward to the afternoon and evening ahead. Potus abroad. laughter they even put one of his tweets on the welcome sign. Welcome to riyadh. Rosie odonnell is a fat pig. laughter surprised they did that. That sign is not halal now. They even projected his face five stories high onto the wall of his hotel. No, no, you have to that way, if he got lost, he could find his way back. laughter now, back when obama made the same trip, trump tweeted, many people are saying it was wonderful that mrs. Obama refused to wear a scarf in saudi arabia, but they were insulted. We have eeenoof enemies. laughter eeenoof. laughter so, it was something of a surprise when melania emerged from air force one also without a scarf. But she cleverly drew attention away from her head by wearing one of her husbands w. W. E. Belts. laughter piano riff atomic. Shell atomic drop you. Boom diamond cutter applause then theres the bow. Somehow, the saudi king always gets the u. S. President to bow. It happened to george bush in 2008, and obama in 2009. Trump gave obama a ton of grief for that. So there was no way trump was going to bow when king salman gave him the medal. Here he is going from the knees trying not to and the bow, and a little curtsy at the end there. laughter applause very nice. Thank you. piano riff it doesnt matter. Youve got to bow to get the thing around your neck. But its kind of a dirty trick by the saudi king. First of all, hes short. Second, hes holds the medal down here. Come and get it limbo lower how low cou laughter now, after arriving, the president then took part in a traditional celebratory sword dance called the ardha. And heres trump, swordflopping to the beat. Im not here to cause no trouble. Im just here to do the middle east shuffle. laughter there you go. There you go. piano riff just kind of doing it. Just kind of doing it. You can kind of hear what hes thinking. Hes going okay, donny, this is weird, but get through it, and theyll let you meet the genie. Its going to be fun, im going to wish for all the wishes. laughter its hard to tell what song these guys are dancing to. Jim, can we turn up the sound a little bit . Its raining men its raining men applause but not everyone looked comfortable at the party. Heres steve bannon realizing these are not the kind of men in white robes hes used to. laughter audience reacts applause stephen what . what . what . we joke. We joke because we love. It wasnt all sword play. Trump also helped at the Opening Ceremony for the Global Center for combating extremist ideology by laying hands upon this glowing orb laughter whatever qualities that magical sphere confers eternal youth is not one of them. Fellas, if i may, you need to work on your notlookinglike supervillains skills. Look at that it looks like theyre activating the undersea robot to emerge from its volcano base and kill aquaman. laughter jim, can we pull out and see who else is there . Saruman and gargamel. There you go, yeah. I knew it laughter applause of course i dont know what theyre doing. Jon yeah, i dont either. Stephen i would be surprised if you did know. If you knew, i would be a little worried. Jon yeah, i know. Stephen of course, the centerpiece of trumps saudi visit was his speech to the muslim world, which he apparently gave in crazy ahmeds chandelier emporium. Trump had a lot of kind words about his host region. Saudi arabia is home to the holiest sites in one of the worlds great faiths. All over the world, people dream of walking through the ruins of petra in jordan. Iraq was the cradle of civilization and is a land of natural beauty. The entire region is at the center of the key shipping lanes of the suez canal, the red sea, and the straits of hormuz. Stephen thats a hard sell. It really feels like hes trying to sell a time share on the euphrates. laughter each unit comes with a plunge pool and gym access act now, and well throw in this free glowing orb i dont know what it does. applause trump also laid out how he was going to help saudi arabia. This landmark agreement includes the announcement of a 110 billion saudifunded defense purchase, and we will be sure to help our saudi friends to get a good deal from our Great American defense companies. Stephen yeah, also were running a deal. If you buy 10 f35 fighter jets today, bring in your fully punched card, well throw in a free sub. A nuclear sub. applause Donald Trumps not the only one who enjoyed his trip to saudi arabia. So did commerce secretary and cryptkeepers fun brother, wilbur ross. The thing that was fascinating to me, there was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there. Not one guy with a bad placard. Stephen yeah, so great no protesters anywhere in saudi arabia nobody holding up a bad placard or anything. laughter of course, its pretty hard to hold up anything when you dont have any hands. laughter applause now, i know that sounds dark. I dont want to exaggerate that saudi arabia is so oppressive they cut off protesters hands. Thats not typical, and i apologize. In fact, political dissent in saudi arabia is punishable by decapitation. So saudi political chants are a lot tamer than here. What do we want . To keep our noggins. When do we want it . Whatevers good with you, great job, chief no placards. applause then just this morning, the president did Something Else historic, he took whats believed to be the first open direct flight to israel from saudi arabia. President trump is hoping his visit to israel will have long term effects. In fact, the white house put out this actual press release today saying that one of their major goals is to promote the possibility of lasting peach. audience reacts yes, lasting peach. And i think this ones really going to resonate with the American People because americans really want something with peach in it peach ice cream, peach cobbler, impeach anything with peach cheers and applause jon yeah cheers and applause stephen spreading a message of hope. Now, people were worried this would be a tense trip, because last week we learned that trump gave classified Israeli Intelligence to the russians. But trump explained why hes technically innocent. Just so you understand, i never mentioned the word or the name israel. Never mentioned it during our conversation. Theyre all saying i did. So, you had another story wrong. Never mentioned the word israel. Stephen okay, okay new york times, you got that one wrong, okay . Yes, i gave away classified information to the russians that everyone knew is from israel. But i didnt say israel until right now. Israel, israel, israel. laughter applause its funny, you say a word enough, it doesnt mean anything anymore. Israel. laughter trump also traveled to jerusalem where he became the first sitting president to visit the western wall, the holiest site in judaism. Nice wall. How did you get mexico to pay for it . laughter by the way, by the way mazel taco, everybody. laughter hey, you know what . Does everyone want a little donald trump palate cleanser . Good, we have a clip to show you. The clip is a little jarring so im going to preface it by saying that everyone is okay. All right, everyone okay . Do you understand that . Everyone is okay in the clip youre about to see. Good. Okay. Now we can enjoy this. Oh stephen shes okay shes okay. All right . If ive said it once ive said it a thousand times we have to stop selling herring scented childrensrompers. laughter luckily, the little girl was immediately saved by a nearby actiongrandpa who leapt into the sealion infested water. My god oh, my god stephen thank you, action grandpa. Thank you. cheers and applause like a sexy action grandpa applause you need a sexy action grandpa not that the other young able bodied adults didnt also help by recording and screaming, oh my god. Oh my god. applause weve got a great show for you tonight. Rachel maddow, the reigning queen of cable news, is here it is possible donald trump will come up somewhere in our conversation. Stick around cheers and applause band playing my daughter is. Studying to be a dentist and she gave me advice. She said dad. Go pro with crest prohealth. Crest prohealth protects all these areas dentists check most. And now its the only toothpaste with the ada seal of acceptance for protection against acid erosion. It did an extremely good job of cleaning. 4 out of 5 dentists confirm these crest prohealth products. Help maintain a professional clean. Go pro with crest pro health. Crest prohealth really brought my mouth to the next level. Crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. Fa la la la la with la la. 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But ive especially wanted to talk to you say, since november 9 at about 12 01 in the morning. Yeah. Stephen how are you doing . First of all, congratulations on having the number one cable news show. Thank you very much. cheers and applause stephen paid off after a lot of hard work for many years. Its hard to understand why these things happen. But its nice, i feel like. One thing thats nice about it is that i do cable news in kind of a weird way. We havent changed the way we do the show at all. It just seems more people want that now. I assume people will go back to not wanting it sometime soon and i will be stuck. Stephen i think they will want it for four to eight years, rachel. laughter ive said this to you before, what you do better than pretty much anybody out there is you lay a story out for the audience like parts on the lawn. Like, this is a car. Well build a car tonight. Thats the carburetor, those are the wheels and the brake pads. You assemble the car in front of the audience, and i think thats what people want right now is someone to go they say, wait, what happened today . And you say, let me explain to you what happened today. I definitely feel like the most important thing i can do right now is just try to explain stuff. Heres what happened, heres why we believe it to be true and heres why it seems important. Just doing that, even if thats all youre trying to do, even if youre not trying to break new news and just trying to explain the news thats out there, thats really hard to cram into an hourlong show. So much stuff happening every day, stuff breaks after dinnertime every day, every week night now. Stephen there are multiple times weve done the monologue and find out comey was fired and at the end of the show we write a new monologue and put it at the top of the old monologue. We do that over and over again. That used to be like, oh, well get it tomorrow. You cant wait till tomorrow to get it. Exactly. Stephen well lets talk about whats going on in the last few days. Hes in the middle east right now. What do you make of his trip so far . Um laughter you know, when he stephen i havent seen the news lately. Is there peace in the middle east . Has he solved it . laughter exactly. Today, my favorite moment was when he flew from saudi arabia to israel and, as soon as he got to israel, he said, i was just in the middle east. laughter israel is, like, where are you now . I would be like me getting here and saying, i was just in new york, it was crazy stephen now youre on broadway. laughter president ial trips can go either way when theres a president in a time of crisis. In watergate, right when nixon was fighting the release of the oval office tapes, he decided to go to saudi arabia and israel and came back and made this argument he was so important for world peace you couldnt possibly release those tapes, and the Supreme Court said, yeah, they released the tapes and then he was gone. They didnt say it that way, through stephen we might have to blur your chin. Im not sure what just happened. Im only quoting former Justice Scalia who famously did that. Stephen i miss that good man. He did. Stephen i know, i remember. These trips can go well and sometimes not go well. It is strange his first trip abroad is to saudi arabia. Stephen after the number of times he complained about saudi arabia being a source of terror and saying obama shouldnt bow and that kind of stuff. Saying the Clinton Foundation never should have never taken saudi money and the saudis will need to start paying and the saudis did 9 11, he said all this stuff about saudi arabia, but technically a president is supposed to use the first trip to pay tribute to our closest allies. Usually its to, like, the u. K. Or some place that we have a longstanding uncomplicated friendship with, whereas with saudi, its a little more complicated. Stephen its a business trip, too. Theres a 110 billion arms deal, so were giving them the boom boom room they can use. What i like about that photo is him giving the speech to all the arab leaders there and hes saying, just for the record, we gave these guys 110 worth of big, big bombs and weapons. Kind of like saying, these are our buddies, weve got their back. Like, dont mess with these guys. He also said, when he announced it, in his speech, i think it was an adlib, i thought, please let it be an ad lib, he said were going to make sure you get a good deal from those u. S. Defense companies. Why . Why are you going to help them get a good deal . You should not be trying to undercut American Defense companies because saudis cant afford it wait a minute like, dont give them a good deal here. Stephen all im saying is we put the whole deal up on groupon, you guys all get together. applause do you think that its an opportunity, like now that hes overseas, they seemed to have pried away his iphone or his blackberry or whatever he has. Then things seem to calm down. Like more than anything else they need message control. And if hes just over there and just so busy or too tired to tweet, this whole thing might be a positive thing because i hear there was an intervention or something . An intervention . Stephen yes, his people came to him and said, sir, youre going to paint yourself into a corner if you keep doing this and evidently hes been quiet for days now. Wow. Well, whenever the tweeting quiets down, we think its a change in course, but then it usually comes back. Stephen do you jones a little bit . No, i dont want to. Stephen do you scratch, like, ive got spiders on my skin . Is it cold in here . Honestly, with this trip, the the Washington Post announces friday night theres a significant person of interest working actively in the white house as a Senior Advisor to the president. And so now were trying to figure out who the person of interest is in this f. B. I. Probe whos currently working in the white house and is it one of the people whos on the trip with him and mysteriously Reince Priebus and steve bannon got sent home early today. What will they be doing . I dont know but mike pence is pleading the fifth. I feel like they dont get to make their own news anymore. Once youre a president , the first president in American History whos under counterintelligence investigation by the f. B. I. And likely under a criminal obstruction of justice probe for something that you openly committed to and then bragged about it to the russians before you bragged about it to nbc news. You dont get to make your own news anymore. 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Now with the people first warranty. cheers and applause stephen welcome back, everybody cheers and applause were with our friend Rachel Maddow. Talking about the news of the world. Now, okay, one of the things that the president is saying right now is that this whole russia thing, total witch hunt, okay . laughter do you think there is a chance this will turn out to be a witch hunt . That there really is no there there . Because while there is a whole lot of smoke, we havent actually seen the spark of the fire. We wont know till we know. Everybody is entitled to the presumption of innocence. Its totally possible this is all just a bizarre series of coincidences, but we now owe it to ourselves as a country to figure out because there are too many things that happen that werent explained ahead of time that were exposed and only belatedly admitted to. Just last week, reuters reported on 18 new previously undisclosed contacts between the Trump Campaign and russian government officials. Stephen ones they hadnt talked about before. No, like still were getting 18 new ones now . You guys know there is some interest in this topic. If you havent done anything wrong, you still have to tell people what happened. They still havent explained why it took them 18 days to fire or get the resignation from mike flynn after the Justice Department came to the white house and said, hes a russian agent. Stephen with a side of turkey. laughter yeah. applause piano riff so, i mean, theres just stuff that needs to be explained. There were so many contacts between the campaign and people close to trump with people in the kremlin, or people who are close to vladimir putin, and that stuff just we need to know why there were so many contacts. Its possible that it was totally anodyne, that it had nothing to do with the russian attack on the election that was happening at that same time. It was possible that there was nothing nefarious about it at all, but there was a million contacts. And so we need to know about that. We also need to know if the firing of the f. B. I. Director and the other contact that the president had with the f. B. I. About the investigation were something other than obstruction of justice. I mean, hes saying he was thinking about russia when he fired the f. B. I. Director whos leading the russia investigation. Stephen what about arguments that the president cannot obstruct justice, that the normal laws dont apply to him. That only Political Action can be taken against him. In other words, he cant go on trial for obstruction of justice but he could be put on an impeachment trial by the house and the senate. Do you think there is any chance that would happen if the democrats could not get back the house and the senate . I try to not see it in partisan terms. If its proven lets say that the department of justice Inspector General or the f. B. I. Itself determines the f. B. I. Director was fired and other actions were taken to impede that investigation into the president and his campaign because he wanted that investigation to be knocked off course, it is hard for me to believe that republicans would not rise above their party in that instance. Stephen that would be nice. I believe that. And i want to believe that. Stephen that would be lovely. That would be a very important thing. Stephen but a lot of peoples standards and norms have lowered because donald trump is president. There are a lot of things you say, oh, thats okay. For instance, white evangelical voters in the last election cycle, the number one criteria for electing a candidate was character or morality, and it was the very last this time because they had to flip their standard in order to elect the man they want. My worry is donald trump will degrade everyones standards and morals as we, you know, pick sides. Yeah, and were going to have to decide if were that country or not. And i think were not. applause i think that people when confronted with issues of Real National interest, the people will do the right thing. Stephen has there ever been this much leaking that people are confirming . Because there are 4, 8, 12, the white house is confirming these leaks. And not that many work in the white house. laughter they havent staffed up. Stephen what kind of boss must he be if that everyone is willing to throw him under the bus . Because it must feel like hes dangling them over the wheels of the bus every minute so they want to turn him in before he turns them in. Weve also never had a white house this early on in the administration where its actually just a good reporting strategies to just send your stringers to go park outside major law firms to watch as white house officials walk in looking for defense counsel. Thats whats going on in this administration. Stephen ill be watching tonight, i cant wait to hear what you have to say about mike flynn. 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The best or nothing. band playing cheers and applause stephen welcome back, everybody cheers and applause folks, my next guest is the tony nominated star of the devastating new broadway musical, dear evan hansen. Please welcome, ben platt cheers and applause band playing how are you doing . Hello stephen well, congratulations on dear evan hansen. Thank you very much. Stephen and the tony nomination. cheers and applause congratulations. Thank you. Stephen is this your first tony nomination . This is my first tony nomination ever. Before you say anything else about me, i have to tell you i love you very much, always have, and i think youre a beacon of sanity and happiness and intelligence in this crazy, crazy, horrible time. cheers and applause stephen and i just want to say to you, for no particular reason, youre my favorite guest of all time. laughter wouldnt you know. Stephen im so moved by emotion just by seeing you right now. Thank you. Stephen if you havent seen this dear evan hansen, its an absolutely beautiful play, musical story. It tells the story of a very nervous young man. Yes, indeed. Hes a very lonely teenager. He has a lot of trouble connecting. Hes kind of isolated, and thats sort of emphasized by the hyperconnectivity of social media, it pulls him further and further into himself, and makes it even harder for him to reach out. Stephen he has an overcranked, anxious and fugue like way of speaking that only gets fueled by social media. Certainly, yes. Stephen he gets pulled into the jet ports of his own story because he ends up telling a lie that breaks his and a lot of peoples hearts. He does indeed. Stephen i want you to know this is a compliment when i say i started crying in the first song and i did not stop. I cant be the first person that said that to you. It really is, you know immediately who this kid is and feel for him immediately. The performance is beautiful. Thank you very much. I think what we found is oh, stop it. Stop it. applause please. No. You know, whats been really beautiful about this experience is its an incredibly universal show in that i think everybody feels when they come in that theyre unique in their experience of loneliness or isolation, and theres something about this kid, and everybody can find a piece of themselves in him because there is something about knowing that is not a unique experience that make people feel connected. Especially right now, i feel like people are in their own bubbles. Its nice to have everybody come sit in the theater eight times a week and have such a sort of interconnected experience. Its nice. Stephen you yourself are in tears singing these songs. Yes, sir. Stephen how do you do that . You have an extremely powerful voice. Well, thanks. Stephen extremely emotive. Youre sharing these emotions, but theyre so deep. There is tears and runny nose. How do you do that and fill a broadway house . Theres sort of two sides to it. There is the technical level of things, which is a bit graphic but ill go in for it here. When you cry a lot of mucus drains and fluids come down and its trying to figure out in a very technical way where is there time to swallow that stuff and let it go down and make the sound. Stephen yes. But the interesting thing is, once youve drained that out because of all the emotion and the singing, theres tons of room to send sound and lot of resonating space for the noise so its actually a great time to sing after you cry. In a more artistic sense laughter applause i think its something i always try to struggle with each night is not sacrificing any of the beautiful music. Theyve written a really gorgeous score and i want the music to be heard and obviously to hear the beautiful melodies and not sacrifice that too much for the emotion, but also, vice versa, not sing ago pretty song and you not feel at the motion. So its a balance on how much to sacrifice on either side of that. Stephen what about the people in the audience . Do people in the front row need a poncho . Because theres spittle, and usually, i have no control. Theres a lot of spit, a lot of snot. However laughter stephen go see it. Im not joking. However, i used it to my advantage only once, one time. There were these four foreign teenagers who came and sat in the very front row in a double date. It was two guys with two girls in the middle of them. Just really no concept of what it means to come to a broadway show, full conversations, pointing at me and making comments about me. I tried to find these times during the first act to kind glare at them and give them a telepathic, please shut your mouth. And it really just egged them on, hes looking at us and thats opposite of the reaction i wanted. I was trying to figure out how to get the people to be quiet. And so at the end of the first act, i get to come up all the way up to the lip of the stage and give this really nervous speech with the cards. And im right in front of them and theyre literally right at the edge of the stage and i had a real sort of a cometojesus moment, but im a jew so its more of a come to moses moment, where god sent me a sneeze. Stephen oh. applause what are you supposed to do . Usually i would freak out and try to hide it but i just right on their faces, and it was great. laughter applause stephen im happy to say to the audience here and the people at home that youre going to do a performance of one of the songs. Yes. applause stephen whats the name of the song . Its called for forever. Its actually the first time ive ever sung the song out of the context of the show. So essentially, this lie evan fabricates earlier is that he was friends with a kid in his class that committed suicide. So evan has been invited to dinner by this kids grieving family, and they were led to believe he was a friend of their son. And evans plan when he goes in to dinner is to either diffuse that or make sure the situation ends right there. However the mother of this kid is in so desperate need of something good to hold on to, some sort of memory that evan starts to fabricate a story of a day they had, a friendship that never existed, and in doing so, really visibly helps this mother to heal and also sort of finds he gets to heal a little bit himself and gets to find an answer to his loneliness that he didnt expect to find. Stephen well, its a beautiful song. Stick around, well be right back with a performance from dear evan hansen by ben platt. cheers and applause there must some kind of way out of here said the joker to the thief theres too much confusion i cant get no relief business men, they. You are forever becoming who you are. Drink my wine Bleu De Chanel at macys. 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Stephen and now, performing for forever from dear evan hansen ladies and gentlemen ben platt cheers and applause end of may or early june this picture perfect afternoon we shared drive the winding country road grab a scoop at a la mode and then were there an open field thats framed with trees we pick a spot and shoot the breeze like buddies do quoting songs by our favorite bands telling jokes no one understands except us two and we talk and take in the view all we see is sky for forever let the world pass by for forever feels like we could go on for forever this way two friends on a perfect day we walk a while and we talk about the things well do when we get out of school bike the appalachian trail or write a book or learn to sail wouldnt that be cool theres nothing that we cant discuss like girls we wish would notice us but never do he looks around and says to me theres nowhere else id rather be and i say me too and we talk and take in the view we just talk and take in the view all we see is sky for forever we let the world pass by for forever feels like we could go on for forever this way this way two friends on a perfect day and there he goes racing toward the tallest tree from far across the yellow field i hear him calling follow me and there we go wondering how the world might look from up so high one foot after the other one branch then to another i climb higher and higher i climb until the entire sun shines on my face and i suddenly feel the branch give way im on the ground my arm goes numb i look around and i see him come to get me hes come to get me and everythings okay all we see is sky for forever we let the world pass by for forever buddy, you and i for forever this way this way all we see is light cause the sun burns bright we could be alright for forever this way two friends true friends on a perfect day cheers and applause stephen you can see ben platt in dear evan hansen on broadway, and at the tonys june 11th on cbs. 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