cheers and applause its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, impeachykeen. Plus, stephen welcomes Whoopi Goldberg. And Tanehisi Coates featuring jon batiste and stay human. Nod live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen come on wooo wow wow stephen please, have a seat sit thank you very much welcome to the late show. Ladies and gentlemen, im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause oh, good lordy. What a day. You really feel the ground shifting under your feet. But it youve got a seatbelt on your couch, one why . Number two buckle up, because for two and a half years, donald trump has had scandal after scandal russian collusion, obstruction of justice, saying nazis are fine people, being an unnamed coconspirator to Campaign Finance violations, lying about the moscow trump tower, stealing money to pay for the border wall, faking the weather with a sharpie. Every time every time none of those is made up. Every time, people have asked, is this the thing . Surely, this must be the thing. And every time, it wasnt the thing. laughter but heres the thing theres a new thing, and it might be the thing. cheers and applause because this afternoon, nancy pelosi did this thing today, im announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. cheers and applause stephen aaahhh okay okay okay, but how do you feel . laughter ill say this finally, a check on the president up until now, weve only had a check from the president to a porn star. laughter now, to make her case, pelosi reached back to the earliest days of the republic. On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when our constitution was adopted, americans gathered on the steps of Independence Hall to await the news of the government our founders had crafted. Stephen and a Young Bernie Sanders was there to complain about it. laughter as bernie the top 1 of the landowners are represented by 45 of the legislature and they refuse to adopt my universal leechcraft. All leeches are covered leeches, bleeding, releasing demons from the skull. She quoted the words of one of our founders. They asked benjamin franklin, what do we have, a republic or a monarchy . Franklin replied, a republic, if you can keep it. Stephen wise words. From a man who then took his kite and went outside to invent getting hit by lightning. laughter now, she announced she would be giving the impeachment inquiry to members of different committees. Im directing our six committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella. Stephen smart. They found trumps greatest weakness umbrella. laughter applause so so jon cant deal with that. Stephen so why is this the thing . Well, longtime viewers of america know that last week a mysterious whistleblower accused trump of making a troubling promise to an unnamed foreign leader. Then, friday, it was reported that trump tried to extort ukraine into a political probe of joe biden and his son. No wonder pelosis launching an impeachment investigation. This makes watergate look like nixon tried to pass an expired coupon at the kroger. as nixon i had no idea that these yogurt coupons were no longer valid. And, furthermore, i believe that when the president redeems it, a coupon is never expired. Fruit on the bottom. cheers and applause a little carrot carrot in the throat. For the details, lets go to our brandnew, ongoing segment where in the world is donald colluding with who in the what . Oh, no stephen according to the whistleblower, on one phone call in july, trump pressured ukrainian president , volodymyr zelensky, to investigate the bidens about eight times. Eight times . In one phone call . Those are numbers you normally see with a toddler asking for a balloon. as trump hello, volodymyr. Yeah, this is donald trump. Im just calling to say i want a balloon. I want a balloon. I want a balloon. I want a balloon. I want a balloon. No, okay . I want a balloon. I want a balloon. I want a balloon. I want a balloon. I want a balloon. Hello . Hello . Oh, and fun fact if the end of democracy sounds like fun to you, trumps phone call with ukraines leader took place, literally, the day after the special counsel robert s. Mueller iii testified to congress about russian interference. So the idea that a foreign power like russia shouldnt interfere in our elections is the only thing everyone agreed on everyone but trump, because he just moved one country over. as trump okay, no collusion with russia. Okay. Hello, ukraine, you up for interfering with our election . No . No, you dont want to do that . Okay, do you have polands number . laughter yesterday, trump was at the u. N. And issued this denial there was no pressure put on them whatsoever. I put no pressure on them whatsoever. I could have. I think it would probably, possibly, have been okay if i did. But i didnt. Stephen wow. You wouldnt want him as your lawyer. as judge how does the defendant plead . as lawyer the defendant pleads notonor. I mean, he could have done it, might have done it, and it might have been fine. So, probably possibly guilty. Who knows . You know what . Guilty. Lets see what happens. Probably fine. Then, this afternoon is this this afternoon . cheers and applause so guilty. So guilty. Then, this afternoon, trump announced that he was going to release the full, unredacted transcript of the phone call, promising, you will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call. No pressure and, unlike joe biden and his son, no quid pro quo as trump it wasnt a quid pro quo. It was much more of a tit for tat. That way, i get to say tit. laughter sohe president ce was no pressure. He says there was no pressure. But trump ordered a hold on military aid to ukraine days before calling the ukrainian president. Okay, that sounds like pressure. Because ukraine is fighting an undeclared war with russia at their eastern border, and you withhold our military aid. as trump look, if you want our help stopping them from taking more than crimea, youve got to do crime with mea. Do you understand . Hello . Hello, mabel . laughter applause heres the thing constitutionally it is not up to trump to allocate Foreign Military aid. That is congress job. So to allay suspicion, Administration Officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of an interagency process. Yes, its a complex interagency process where the administration commits crimes and. Okay, its much simpler than i thought. Its just and its not just the transcript its not just the transcript of the phone call, because this afternoon, the Senate Unanimously agreed to schumers resolution calling for the whistleblower complaint to be turned over to the intelligence committees immediately. cheers and applause unanimous jon yeah, baby stephen republicans democrats everybody turn it over jon come on stephen i feel like i just had my whistle blown laughter and i am ready to release the full transcript. Plus is it adam schiff . Adam schiff, chairman of the house intelligence committee, tweeted we have been informed by the whistleblowers counsel that their client would like to speak to our committee and has requested guidance from the acting d. N. I. As to how to do so. Were in touch with counsel and look forward to the whistleblowers testimony as soon as this week. cheers and applause wow. This is historic. Historic. Historic. Its historic, highstakes testimony in congress from someone with intimate knowledge of trumps criminal wrongdoing. We havent had one of those in days laughter now, we dont know who this wib is yet, but based on their high placement in the Trump Administration and ongoing disgust with the president s behavior, we have generated this computer model. laughter applause we dont know. Thats all thats all those are fractals. This evening this evening, trump responded to pelosis announcement, calling it a democratic plot. Our country is doing the best its ever done, and theyre going to lose the election, and they figure this is a thing to do. Were in the election. And i mean, if she does, that they all say thats a positive for me for the election. Stephen you know, mr. President , i heard the same thing. Impeachment could be very positive for you. So logically, it would be more positive if you stepped down now. 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But sometimes i like to sift through the junkyard, haul out an old pickup truck, knock the wheels off, strap some oil bareilless and use a tennis racket to paddle out to sea on the juryrigged survival raft of news that is my segment meanwhile. Stephen meanwhile. Sometimes you dont get a chance. Sometimes shoot from the hip. Shoot from the hip. This is one of those times. Lets see what survives. I have no idea meanwhile, this footage has gone the eagles loss to the lions on sunday. Plot twist turns out that man is eric furda, the university and when you dont get into upenn, his rejection letters are. Brutal. Meanwhile, meanwhile im kind of surprised im kind of surprised that joke survived into the show. Im a little surprised that joke made it into the show. Meanwhile, just in time for halloween, theres a new sexy Mister Rogers costume. Excuse me, we already had a sexy Mister RogersMister Rogers, okay . cheers and applause the man the man was erotic napalm. Oh, he would take you to the land of makebelieve. Meow. laughter as henrietta pussycat meow, meow, horny meow. laughter another joke i wasnt sure was going to make it into the show. No do not cut that joke meanwhile, the new Downton Abbey movie dominated the box office this weekend. And as part of the films promotion, you can now book the Downton Abbey castle on airbnb, other movies have done this before. There have been limitedtime listings for tony starks cabin from Avengers Endgame and bella swans family home from twilight. And my personal favorite, the hole from silence of the before leaving, it puts the lotion in the basket, and it loads the dishwasher. Meanwhile, in Restful Slumber news, these new qaectresistant beds are naik the round online. Stephen aww, yeah wooo who knew that being buried alive in a cold metal casket could be so funky . laughter now, as you can see in the video, the device acts as a normal bed until an earthquake is detected, whereupon, it becomes a minifortress, which can be stocked with food, emergency supplies, and plenty of water. There is no toilet, however, so make sure to bring a pillow case you dont care about. But why do i need to wait for an earthquake . Im ready to go now. Give me a selflubricating catheter, and im all about that box life. Heck, ill do the show in there. But, stephen, you say, interrupting me, how could you do your show in there . Im glad you asked. Check it out. Welcome to the late box. Im Stephen Colbert. Tonight, donald trump ordered strikes to iran. I think if i put it up to my ear, i can hear the tv in the next room. It might beci newle or pepper pig. What did the sky look like . Do you remember, jon . Jon yeah, how did i get here . I fell asleep on my couch and i ended up in this box. Stephen read your contract, jon. You agreed to be buried together in my tv box. Its under the pharaoh box. We have to eat our way through the memory foam. Stop hogging the oxygen. We have to save enough for musical guests imagine dragons. Guys . Are you about ready . Dan . They dont look so good. Jon im getting dizzy. Stephen well, that solves the food problem. Lalalala go into the light laughter stephen stick around for james cordon. Good night stephen well be right back good night stephen well be right back with Whoopi Goldberg. Good night stephen well be right back with im not picking it up. Well, somebodys gotta pick it up. Ill pick it up. Theyre clean cuz my hineys clean oh yeah, im charmin clean thats how i know theyre clean vo charmin ultra strong is woven like a wash cloth and just cleans better. Yeah, im charmin clean the kid does have a point. vo enjoy the go with charmin. 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Stephen okay, before we do anything else. What, babe. Stephen nancy pelosi at 5 00 tham this afternoon said tt she was finally going to green light an impeachment investigation against the United States. What are your thoughts on this . What do you think about this . I dont really give a bleep . laughter . Stephen you you you do not give a flying flag about that she did it or about him or about the inquiry or my question . I dont really care because at this point, i want to have some fun. I just want to talk aboutmethhae ridiculousness that goes on in washington. So i just really care about my book right now, stephen. Stephen really . Yeah. Because you know stephen you dont think thats in any way thats not selfish in any way, that the president of the United States might be pressuring other countries and you think im being selfish you . Know this guy has been doing this. You can run, take this ball with you, and run with it. I run with this ball every day, and tonight i dont care. Tonight, i wrote a great book. I did and let me let me stephen whoopi, whoopi, dont get me wrong. Were going to talk about the book. Theres no fear. But you do have opinions about this cat. But i have to do this tomorrow. I do this all day long. Stephen i have to do this tomorrow, too i know, i know. Stephen and right now, id like someone on the show to have an opinion. Stephenopinion. You know what . Whats your opinion . Gli cant give your opinion. Dont you watch the show . No. Stephen what were you walking backstage. Look, you had the coffin with pepper pig in it. Stephen i did. I saw that. Stephen your cousin was in the scene. Thats why you watched it. The truth is because people have forgotten how to just have a conversation, it is how people approach me all day long what do you think of this . He did this you know this happened. Yeah, i know, but it doesnt matter what i think. What are you going to do about it . I know what im going to do . Stephen me or them . Everybody. This is listen, im sorry, if youre okay with all of this stuff thats going on, then dont vote if you dont like whats going on, then get your behinds out there and change it. Thats what this little girl is doing, this little greta girl. Stephen greta thune berg. Dont tell me how sad you feel for me, fix it thats where im at now. He has talked to all kinds of despots. He has pretty much done every despicable thing you can do. And people go, well, you know. Thats just how he is. Well, okay. Now thats what you got. What you going to do with it . But in the interim, i wrote an amazing book cheers and applause stephen you know what, i have heard a rumor and i hope you can verify this or not. Okay. Stephen i heard you wrote a book. laughter just on the street. Right. Stephen on the street, you wrote a book. Its called the unqualified hostess. Yes. Stephen you have hosted so many things. What like, the oscars, the view, fundraisers. Why are you in what world are you the unqualified hostess . Im the unqualified hostess in the world of most peoples thinking. No one expects a book like this from me, because theyre like, thats whoopi. Shes probably just sucking down some beer and smoke a joint, you know. You know . Stephen sorry, im not into that scene. Thats not your thing, i know, i know. And i try to be respectful of that. Thats why i didnt bring you anything. Stephen thank you very much. You have in the past, though. Thats right, i have. Stephen exactly. But the idea is that people should have a good time. I wanted people to think about the all the stuff that they knew as kids. My mother taught us how to set the table. Not because we had any fancy stuff, but because it was the way we sat down and talk to each other. And so washing dishes, you know. People have dish washers. I dont know how to use them. I only know how to hand wash dishers. Stephen really . Thats what my tom taught me. I have lots of crazy things in my house and i put them on the dinner table because i like to im not very social, so its taken me a while to how to start conversations with people and be im very sort of singular. Stephen well, in this you talk about tablescapes in this book. This is stephen whats a tablescape . I have no idea. Stephen its your damn book i have never called anything a tablescape in my life. Other people call stuff tablescapes. That wasnt me. What that is thats a table they liked. To me, the most interesting thing they love about this, is i i dont want stuff to be perfect. I just want to learn some stuff. You. Stephen say you dont want perfection. You want theitably to tell a story. Yeah, you know . And i also want people ton if they really are having a rough day, take yourself to dinner in your kitchen. Make set your table. Make it nice for you. Because why shouldnt you have a nice dinner . Why shouldnt you do it . You know . applause stephen best doublebareilles question. Like, best party youve ever thrown, and if youre hosting a party who do you invite to make it a fun party . The best guest i ever got to sat with sit with at my table was neal degrasse trice tooison. Stephen oh, yes, i have been to a dinner party at his house, i have had him to my house, i have been to somebody elses dinner party. Everybody wants to know stephen bring your own oxygen supply, though, because he will talk for three hours, and youll enjoy all three hours. And you know whats even crazier . Youll remember a lot of it. And thats the thing, i want people to come to my house who are not going to feel like, oh, i cant talk to this guy, you know he cant talk to me. Im not smart enough. Everybody at the table is smart enough to be there. And so i always feel like when neal is at the table, people feel like i didnt know this. Im interested in this. And they didnt know they were interested in it. Stephen thats what its like to hang out with him all the time. I love it. Stephen any subjects not to bring up at your dinner table . Other than nancy pelosi and the impeachment. That whole thing. Theres not a lot of people i would say dont bring up. I just what happens to me is i just i want to hear something new. Remember when people told, like, stories about their day . I want ton stuff like that. Like, what happened to you today . What . Oh, you werent ducking b. S. And trying to figure out if the president was telling you the truth or not . Thdn you . No you just had i would like to have at least one day a month like that where i dont have to think about what hes doing. I dont care what hes doing. Tonight, lets party. Stephen well, im hoping im hoping im hoping you get what you want on january 22 of 2021. cheers and applause because the next day he doesnt matter. Heres the thing. Im hoping everyone is paying attention to whats going on. Because if youre not, its going to sneak up on you in a way youre not expecting. Because you have to listen to what this gentleman has been saying. Oh, it would be great to be the president for life. Maybe i wont go. All that kind of stuff. You know, you have to be prepared. And the only way youre going to be prepared is if youre paying attention. Put the phone down. Put the phone down. But the b. S. Down. Take one day for b. S. But just know, just know that unless you get out and vote, its not going to change. Its up to us individual its that cheers and applause you know . And, you know. Stephen put the phone down. Put the phone down. And pick up the book the unqualified hostess, available now. Whoopi goldberg, everybody well be right back with bestselling author Tanehisi Coates. Take him all the way back to mount everest. Maybe i am. It cannot leave the city. We have to go. Yi, are you crazy . Whoa hes magical. This is impossible. Woo everest i promised to take everest home. 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Stephen and of course the thing ive interviewed you before are your works of journalism and your essays, like your book between the world and me which won the National Book award. Those are essays and journalism. Now youve written your first piece of fiction, a novel, the water dancer. Its a beautiful book. As i was talking to you backstage this is my readers copy back here. Im about that far into it. So please dont tell me how alen no spoilers. Stephen no spoirlz, please. No spoilers tonight. Stephen why did you decide to write fiction . What story can you tell in fiction that you cant or what power does that have that nonfiction doesnt . The shorter answer is my editor, my agent, said, you should try fiction. And i did. Stephen really . Yeah, thats actually true, im not joking. I wrote a book i 2000, the beautiful struggle and when both of them were done they thought i could try this and this took 10 years. This is older than the world two me. Stephen this is 10 years old. Thi it took 10 years to realy get it right. You hint at something i think very, very important, and that is what are the things that can be gotten across in fiction that maybe cant be in nonfiction. And this is just for me. One of the things i got at my time working at the atlantic where i was able to do some of the most fulfilling work of my career, you could state verifiable facts to people and they would just bounce right off. In my case, i would say, the civil war was fought over slavery, and people would just say, no, its not sm. And you would go and dig up the documents of the people who started the civil war who said, were starting this war gauze of slavery sm. And they would say, where did you get that . Who said that . There was always a way out, even if you had the math. One plus one somehow always equaled three. And when i realized what they were actually resisting were not the facts but the implications of the facts. If they accepted the civil war was about slavery that meant they had to look at robert lee differently, the dukes of hazards different, and the myths that existed in society would come under question. So it wasnt an actual factual argument. It was an argument of myth. And one of the things i realized is the way to get to that is through storytelling. Stephen quickly, to tell the people out there, tell them the basic outlines, without giving away any of the surprises and there are beautiful and amazing sort of magical realist surprises in here. Its just the story of a black man gifted with this photographic memory, can remember all sorts of details, except those things that are most intimate to him in this case, his mother. He is the child of an enslaved woman and a white man who is the enslaver and master of the plantation who sold off his mother. And hiram is in this search like all enslaved people of the period for freedom. And the book charts his journey and his coming to understand that that search is actually connected to many more things and many more people than he thought, and to his memory, or lack thereof. Stephen you say you worked on this for 10 years. Tell me about the research that goes into this. Because i grew up in the south. I grew up in charleston, south carolina. Did you visit plantations . Is that a thing you did . Stephen oh, sure we went to middleton and drayton. It was a field trip. Did they talk about slaves . Stephen yeah. But there werent, like, examples. When i was a child, there wasnt much. Wasnt much pointing at it. It was most like like architecture and gardens and things like that. They didnt talk much about who ground the corn or why the gardens were so fancy, and who did all that landscaping. It was m, look at this sort of cultural artifact that is left over. And a lot of talk about how the yankees burned it down. I did that. I went to a number of plantations in the course of research. I went to the whitney plantation in new orleans. I went toont in virginia, i went to montpelier with the Shirley Plantation in virginia to get some sense of how folks would have lived. Whats happening at a lot of those plantations, not all of them, is they are beginning to reincorporate enslavement and congress the fact all of those resources and those riches derived from the fact from people there who were property. In many ways, the reason why i asked you that question, is that gets back to the whole thing i was talking about with myth. Once you acknowledge that the war was about slavery, slavery was a big deal, that plantation looks really, really different. And the people feel coined of different about the architecture. And they have to talk about the architecture differently. In fact they might wonder if they even want to talk to about the artarchitecture at all. Stephen when i went to monticello the last time, i heard something that wasnt expressed this way, they were only referring to the enslaved people, not the slaves. It was a different change of attitude or tone toward these people. Slave is an identity. Yes. Stephen an enslaved person is what happens to this person who has has their own singular identity. Right. Stephen hi calls the people in here for maybe 100 pages we dont hear the word slave. Of. No, you dont. Stephen you hear the word task. Where does that come from. If slave is in there, its a mistake. If i had done this right it would not have appeared in there at all. Stephen ive read 250 pages and it only appears three times. In my mind, one of the things you have to do as a fiction writer, sucant write a novel about slavery, even when youre writing about slavery. Has to be your slavery. It has to be your picture of it. It has to be your particular thing. Because you say the word slavery and images automatically come to mind, whether you want to focus on them or not for instance, whips, chains, all of that is immediately what is conjured up. This was a big theme in the novel, i was very interested in how enslavement affected family s. Stephen family separation was a huge part of this. Were you writing was that the focus of this, what its doing to hi or psychologically doing to all the people who were slaves. Is that the theme before our present National Focus and our own heartbreak in certain ways about the family separation going on at the border . It was. Its one of the oldest it was one of the first things i keyed on when i, again, was doing that research and reading some of the narratives. What people mourned about the most was a son being sold off, a daughter, wife, husband. Thats where you saw some of the most heartbreaking stuff. And i think the fact that its resonant with the politics right now is more about the fact that when you want to be cruel to, you know, other people, as a policy, family is often the place where that happens. Its not uncommon, even if some of the earliest examples originate. Black people. Stephen we have to take a little bit of a break, but well be back with more Tanehisi Coates, everybody. Be back with more Tanehisi Coates, everybody. Stick around. But one blows them all out of the water. Hydro boost with hyaluronic acid to plump skin cells so it bounces back. Neutrogena® and for body. Hydro boost body gel cream. So it bounces back. vo the subaru crosstrek. Dog tested. Dog approved. Subaru establishes National Make a dogs day. Helping hardtoadopt dogs find homes. Emreplenished,d, fortified. Emerge everyday with emergenc. Packed with b vitamins, electrolytes, antioxidants, plus more vitamin c than 10 oranges. Why not feel this good every day . Emerge and see. 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Stephen and has any of your work writing for marvel influenced your or are there commonalities between your work on black panther and your work on this novel. People may not know that you have written for marvel for the black panther storyline. Its not the writing so much reading of comic books which i started at a very young age. But i think the thing is a, the supernatural is present in slave narrative. Its present in frederick, w. P. It was already there youre a d. And d. Positive guy, right. Stephen yes. Im a d. And d. Guy, too. Stephen dudgeons and dragons for those who dont know. My first game of durchlons and dragons was when i was seven. I had some of that in me already, so it was the thing i would be automatically already attracted to. Stephen thank you for the book. Thank you for being here. Dont tell me how it ends. I wont. Stephen its nice to see you again. Thank you so much. Thank you. Stephen the water dancer is available now. 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