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cheers and applause announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, the betrayal. Plus stephen welcomes Neil Degrasse tyson and ambassador susan rice, featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause theme song playing whoo thank you so much, everybody welcome to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause i have a simple but extremely important question can we take away Donald Trumps phone . laughter or, if he has to have one, could it be this one . laughter cause everything he does with his phone is bad. Tweeting, talking, sexually harassing it. laughter as trump siri, what are you wearing . laughter heres how his phone makes things worse yesterday, after a phone call between trump and turkish strongman recep erdogan, the president announced that the u. S. Is withdrawing troops from Northern Syria posts, leaving kurdish allies to face turkey. This is a complete betrayal of the kurdish fighters who helped the u. S. Defeat isis, and theres only one way out of this. Kurds, youve got 24 hours to dig up dirt on joe biden. laughter cheers and applause im not the only one whos alarmed. So is South Carolina senator and possum youve trapped at the bottom of a garbage can lindsey graham. laughter graham is normally a reliable trump toady, but today he said this on fox and friends. The kurds stepped up when nobody else would to fight isis. If we abandon them, good luck getting anybody to help america in future. I expect american president to do what is in our National Security interest. It is never in our National Security interest to abandon an ally who helped us fight isis. Stephen look how uncomfortable the fox and friends are, sitting through that. laughter theyre just agoo nicing. Jim, zoom in and see what theyre thinking. National security oh, my gosh, trump turns on his allies . Were his allies what if we go from fox and friends to fox and enemies . Hey, now, youre an allstar get your game on get paid cheers and applause stephen now, we kid. But heres what Brian Kilmeade actually said what a disaster. The president s statement through Stephanie Grisham is we defeated the caliphate and the caliphate is destroyed. We would not have done that without the kurds who did all of our fighting. Now we are saying, okay, turks go wipe them out or force them out. What kind of message is that to the next ally that wants to side with us . A disastrous series of events. I hope the president will rethink this. Stephen okay, brian, i get what youre saying, but to rethink something, he has to have thinked it first. Im not sure the evidence is in on that one. chrs and applause jon yeah, got to use the brain to think it. Stephen but still, i cant believe trump lost Brian Kilmeade. Thats like timmy losing lassie. barking laughter hell be fine. It wasnt just graham and kil killmeade. People on both sides of the aisle unloaded on trump for this betrayal. So trump went on twitter and went full twit, saying that though hes pulling out of syria, we will be focused on the big picture, knowing we can always go back and blast as trump we can go back and blast we can also bring the boombooms, the blammo, and if all else fails, multiple kablooies. laughter but, in defending his actions, he saved the best for worst as i have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if turkey does anything that i, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey ive done before audience reacts jon whoa stephen what is he talking about . Stephen wow, hes gone full godemperor. as trump it is i, donald the great, of unmatched wisdom and infinite wives, destroyer of casinos, conqueror of 10piece mcnuggets scourge of chrissy tiegen, defeated only once in battle by my eternal nemesis umbrella. laughter piano riff applause but we cant forget about trumps ukraine scandal. Ill give you the latest in tonights don and the giant impeach. laughter it was a really great conversation, and everybody will say that. Stephen when it comes to this scandal, it feels like someones feeding me crazy pills. I mean, we have seen the transcript of the phone call where trump pressures the president of ukraine for dirt on joe biden, but everywhere you look, republicans are saying, theres nothing wrong with this call. You didnt see what you saw. Its like that scene in star wars. You dont need to see the transcript. We dont need to see the transcript. These are not the transcript youre looking for. laughter stephen and, now, the lawyer star wars. People love star wars. applause piano riff stephen now the lawyer for the whistleblower announced theyre representing a second whistleblower. A second whistleblower. They are really starting to build a case that the president did the thing he has repeatedly admitted. laughter plus, on thursday, House Democrats received a series of damning texts that demonstrate how ukraine was pressured before the president s call. In one exchange, former ambassador to ukraine William Taylor straightup asks ambassador to the e. U. Gordon sondland whether military aid and a meeting between trump and ukrainian president zelensky are contingent on the biden investigation. Taylor says, are we now saying that Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations . To which sondland replies, call me. laughter oh, that looks bad. You dont text call me, if the phone call is i just wanted to make sure that no one ever finds out how innocent we are. laughter no, this was the call me you get from your lawyer after you text, how much meth can i cook and its still a misdemeanor . laughter call me. cheers and applause jon i cant relate. Stephen they had their phone call, sondland and taylor. Then, a few days later, taylor texted as i said on the phone, i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign, sondland reportedly called trump and then replied, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. The president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. Thats the way you write a text when you know someone else is going to read it. laughter you up . Susan, you are incorrect in assuming i am up for latenight extramarital shenanigans. I havecrysn l clear i am not meeting you at the motel 6 at 11 00 p. M. Call me. laughter cheers and applause got to back up and come back into it again. And its not just ukraine. Remember, last week, trump stood on the white house lawn and said this china should start an investigation into the bidens. Because happed in china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. Stephen dont admit that laughter what are you doing . Its like bill clinton saying as clinton i did not have sex with that woman, miss lewinsky. I had sex with all women theres plenty of me to go around, ladies. Belly up to the bubba buffet laughter cheers and applause jon oh, my wow stephen but just standing out there and bluntly asking china for election help is a tough one for republicans to spin but they came up with a terrible excuse, that trump was joking about china investigating the bidens. I just want to point out that i tell jokes for a living, and successful or not, rarely do people i work with have to go on sunday news shows to explain that i was joking. laughter jon well, except that one time. Look, stephen was just joking when he said the president of russia was named vladamir poopin piano riff s s s take it, bob woodward stephen thank you. Thank you. applause stephen today trump announced a new trade deal with japan. And he started by thanking the folks who worked on it. I would particularly like to recognize zippy zippy duvall. Hes been with us from the beginning. Zippy . Zippy . Where is my zippy . laughter now maybe theres somebody named zippy duval, but it really sounds as if trump has gotten so unpopular that hes just making up the names of supporters . as trump zippy duvall . Blippityblop von donglestein . Mr. Podium q. Microphone . laughter no, he was very piano riff very proud of all the American Products well be selling in japan. 126 million japanese consumers will have greater access to highquality american almonds, blueberries, corn wine, poultry and egg products, beef, pork, wheat and so much more stephen always exciting when trumps trade deals match his restaurant orders. laughter as trump ill have the almonds, blueberries, corn, poultry and egg products, beef, pork, wheat and so much more. laughter the lady will have a garden salad. laughter applause when questions turned toward his impeachment, he seemed shocked that he was being impeached at all you cant impeach a president for doing a great job. You cannot impeach a president for having the lowest and best unemployment numbers we have had in 51 years. You cant impeach a president for tax cuts and regulation cuts. Stephen thats true. But you can impeach a president for asking a foreign leader to interfere in our election, and then being dumb enough to release the transcript and brag about it on television. cheers and applause weve got a great show for you tonight. When we return, Neil Degrasse tyson. Stick around cheers and applause band playing dramatic orchestra performance comes in lots of flavors. Theres the ampedup, overtuned, feedingfrenzyof sheetmetalkind. And then theres performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. Thats the kind lincolns about. Fishrisotto. Buffalo. Buffalo Wild Wings gelato. Cheesecake. Cheesecake Factory grilled steak. Clam bake. Milkshake. Brussels sprout. Sauerkraut. Freshcaught trout. Alfalfa sprout. Curry. Fried turkey. Mcflurry. mcdonalds cacciatori. Chimichurri. Adlib inhale spiral ham. Blackberry jam. Rack of lamb. Candied yams. Pokes. Smokeys. Gnocchis. And them banging raviolis. We are americas kitchen. Doordash. Every flavor welcome. Emreplenished,d, fortified. 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No, no, not today. Stephen are you just wearing it underneath the shirt, like a hair shirt . Yeah, its underneath the shirt. Stephen we were talking backstage before you came out, and people ask me all the time who is my favorite guest on the show and i always say neil tyson, and people always seem to understand that. One of the reasons is youre one of the easiest guests to get on because if im lucky, ill get in a word edgewise. laughter my first question is not easy because you havent been here for a year and in that past year you were accused of Sexual Misconduct by a few women. I know there were three investigations. Yeah, thats right. Stephen and at the end of those, they did not find any grounds to dismiss you from your jobs at the Hayden Planetarium or on star talk or cosmos on fox, but, regardless of that outcome, i cant imagine that was aarcularly satisfying result for you or these women who have said that theyre not satisfied by that result. What has this last year been like for you . Its been very long, and its been. Been when i think about what i valued over that time, it was, in particular, just the value of support from family, from friends, friends even such as you, even, and especially fans who were there the whole time, and theyre there now, receiving all that i do for them, trying to bring the universe down to earth for whoever will listen. Stephen i think a lot of people, during the last couple of years of sort of the elevation of the expansion of the Metoo Movement have been asking the questions what can we learn from this . What did you learn over the last year, regardless of what the outcome is here, what did you learn . Yeah, thats what i learned. I learned that i had friends in time of need and in time of stress, thats what i learned from this year. You know, as a scientist, most of the time im just thinking objectively about the world, thinking a little less about emotion, about feelings, about and when i needed it most, people were there for me again, family, friends and fans, especially fans. Stephen and for the fans, as i think ive said to you before, clearly, the audiences love you, and they want to love you, and part of the last year is an emotional response because factually it has been adjudicated but we werent there. The full results werent revealed to us. We werent there for any of the instances and the accusations. It is an Emotional Experience for everyone involved. Yeah, sure. But i would you will also say that the fans are at least what i try to do with the fan base is try to never be the object of their interest, that its the universe and im just a conduit to the cosmos for them. So i think of it differently, i think they like learning about science and the universe and im a vehicle for that stephen well, they piggy back on your enthusiasm. You are a professional enthusiast. When i talk to you, i feel one side of my body is singed by the radio active enthusiasm you have for science. If it was radio active, you would lose your arm later in the week. Stephen its still early in the night laughter just f. Y. I. Stephen i want to talk to you about the universe. One of the things you and i bond on is our love of exploring the unknown. One of the things i have on my computer is the live feed from the International Space station. Very nice. Stephen i want to see whats going on on planet earth around there. For weeks now this is what it says on the i. S. S. Feed. It says previously recorded. laughter what do they not want us to know, neil tyson . cheers and applause what are you scientists hiding from us aliens . I am not authorized to divulge. laughter it is true that, if it were aliens, the first thing they would take out is your ability to monitor the oath. So consistent with that. Stephen i say to you, ahha, neil tyson. Im not saying it is aliens. I am saying if aliens wanted to poke into our situation, they would make us blind athand not have us see what were up to. Stephen im saying n. A. S. A. Is shut it down so we cant see the aliens, we are being protected from the knowledge by our own governments, like the snakes in the western United States, the cluster of lights off the coast oh, you think the government is competent enough to pull that off. cheers and applause stephen let me tell you im just saying. Stephen last week n. A. S. A. s chief scientist said n. A. S. A. Is close to making an announcement about life on mars and we, the human race, are not ready for it. Come on, thats saying we know but were not going to tell you. First, im worried im ready for it and that might mean im not part of the human race, given the logic of that sentence. Stephen so youre ready for it . Totally. Stephen im ready for it, too. Are you . laughter stephen if you werent ready would you know . If you found out there was even microbial life related to mars maybe the top of your head would blow off. If we found life off earth i would change the human condition that we cannot imagine. Stephen we would want to know is it edible. laughter you can imagine entire strains of life that are entirely not edible to us. There are amino acids that have different kirality. Stephen whats kirality. Theyre molecules that are differen a mirr than they are in your hand. Theyre mirror reflections of each other. Stephen are molecules like that . Some are. Stephen are we kiral . laughter you havent looked in the mirror lately . You dont know your symmetries . laughter dna turns in one direction, not the other. Stephen which way. Clockwise up. Stephen never counterclockwise. Not for life on earth, no. So these are things that are different in a mirror. If you find life, it could be you might want to eat it, but it would have no nutritional value to you, like fiber. laughter stephen what do you think thats true. Dont shoot the messenger, goes right through you. laughter stephen so were going to find met mus metamucil on ma. laughter so astro physically, it is practically as interesting if we found mats of microbial life as it would if it were a green alien with a ray gun because its life somewhere off of earth, thats the boundary we would be crossing in our quest to convert ignorance into knowledge. Stephen do you think that it would unite humanity . Good point. So i dont know for sure, but i can tell you, given how table we have all been, especially in recent years, where we are finding reasons to separate ourselves and then fight, to find life somewhere else might be the first occasion to unify earth as a tribe of its own. applause stephen well, we have to take a little bit of a break. Dont go away. Back with more Neil Degrasse tyson, everybody. cheers and applause band playing people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of onceweekly ozempic®. In a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7 and maintained it. Oh under 7 . announcer and you may lose weight. In the same oneyear study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. Oh up to 12 pounds . announcer a twoyear study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. 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Its both, but it also contains letters i just wrote, one to my parents, one to n. A. S. A. Theres a eulogy i wrote in a form of a letter to my father who passed a couple of years ago. I wrote an open letter 2012 because i lived two blocks from ground zero and just to witness that was i mean, i get i well up just remembering that. My accordance related to that my correspondence related to that, and letters to people in search of meaning and they write to me on the hope, and i think i delivered it at least in some of the cases where i can share astrophysicist luminosity on a decision they need to make next. It includes letters from people in prison, there are letters what are you doing. Stephen . Stephen im writing the phrase cosmic perspective luminosity. I want to name a band that. laughter i could say shed light on it, but luminosity is what stars do. It comes out of that. So theres a jewish woman raising a tenyearold son whos on the autism spectrum and he comes home from Hebrew School and says he doesnt believe in god and that he thinks the bible is just stories and she says, where did you get these ideas . And he says, cosmos. Stephen are you happy, neil . Havent the jews suffered enough, neil . laughter ive got to get to this letter. Another letter. Stephen a letter from 2006 so after that exchange, she invited me to his bar mitzvah. Stephen thats nice. That was very nice. Stephen Everybody Knows that you were involved with the demotion of pluto from planet to also ranet. Get over it. Stephen no ones over it, no one forgives you. Take a look at. This would you mind reading to the people what the young person wrote to you here . This in the book is reproduced in facsimile, this is from a fourth grader. A missed off fourth grader. laughter its in a chapter called hate mail. Stephen oh, okay. Third grader. Dear scientest. Stephen youre mocking a fourth grader . Wow laughter applause wow im just because they dont see the word spelled, i i am enunciating. Dear scientest. What do you call pluto if its not a planet anymore . If you make it a planet again all the science books will be right. Do people live on pluto . If people live there, then they wont exist why cant pluto be a planet . If its small, it doesnt mean it doesnt have to be a planet anymore. Some people like pluto and if it doesnt exist they dont have a favorite planet. Please write back, but not in cursive because i cant read in cursive. laughter applause i just want to know, we dug up that child, shes in college, majoring in environmental studies in florida. So she turned out okay in spite of this. Stephen wow, letters from from letters from an astrophysicist is on sale now. 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You just disagreed politically. All right, yes. Stephen well, youre a perfect person to have on right now. Obamas National Security advisor for years, our present president has just announce add withdrawal of u. S. Troops from syria allowing turkey to come in and really have their way with the kurds who they labeled a terrorist organization. What does this mean to stability in that region . Stephen, i woke up this morning to hear that news and, as i do, it seems like six days a week, i just put my head in my hands. This is bat bleep crazy. cheers and applause stephen for those of us who may not have followed the role of the kurds in helping us fight against i. S. I. S. , why is this . Let me explain. Stephen why is this . Because these are the people who, for the last four years, have been fighting on our behalf with our equipment to defeat i. S. I. S. , and they have done it with enormous efficacy, and theyve sacrificed immensely, and we basically just said to them, see ya, and let the turks who are like the hungry wolf trying to kill the lamb go for it, and its just appalling because, you know, we promised them our partnership, and we promised them, if they worked with us to defeat our common enemy, but particularly the United States and the western enemy, then we would stand with them, and trump woke up on the wrong side of the bed, it appears, and decided never mind, which is why, finally, the republicans in congress have gotten a pulse today. Stephen even Mitch Mcconnell has come out against this movement. Lindsey graham, Mitch Mcconnell, people on fox friends were against it, god help us. Imagine. It must be really, really bad. Stephen im not in there with the president making these decisions. Have you heard any rationale being given for it . Because i dont quite understand how hes justifying this. Have you heard theres no justification you or i would understand. He seems to be trying to couch this in we have been at war too long, im sick and tired of all this, somebody else should take up the burden, bye. Stephen thats not a bad argument on a certain level because america has been at war for a long time, since 2001. But these are different wars, to be precise. This is a war that we have been involved in very smartly through these partners. American servicemembers are not in combat on the ground in syria in any meaningful way. They have been advising and supporting these very brave kurdish allies who have taken the fight to i. S. I. S. On our behalf. Thats the smart way to fight terrorism, and thats what we started and what we pursued during the Obama Administration. Trump continued it and, at some point, i guess he decided hed had enough, but the problem is i. S. I. S. Is still there, and when they come back, and when those prisoners that the kurds have been holding on our collective behalf get released supposedly into turkish hands, those are terrorist who will come back and try to harm us and try to harm our european allies. Stephen the National Security Council Staff the going to be cut, trump announced, hes going to be cutting the National Security Council Staff. Well be less safe if that happens. Well, if trump just gives an edistrict, cut it an edict, cut it arbitrarily by some radical amount, it will be dangerous and it will be detrimental. Its one thing to rationally and wisely reallocate staff and do a thoughtful downsizing, thats what i did under the Obama Administration by the way, not directed by the president of the United States, i did it myself because i thought we could rebalance some jobs here, put more there, take some from here. What trump did, apparently, was get angry at the career professionals who work at the National Security council and said, you know, off with their heads. Stephen the whistleblower, reportedly, was an intel official assigned to the n. S. C. The president says the whistleblower is a spy. Does that description make any sense to you . No. I mean, its part of denigrating the loyal americans who are still serving in our government, thank god. It is ones responsibility, as a public servant, if you see something wrong or illegal or otherwise immoral to report it, and if that if serving your country and prioritizing, you know, the interests of the American People above the interests of an individual leader, even if hes the president , constitutes spying, then, you know, i think that tell us all you need to tells you all you need to know about donald trump. He has equated himself with the state and, therefore, nancy pelosi and adam schiff and anybody who questions the legality of his actions is by definition a spy or a traitor. Nice. Stephen nice guy. Are there any times that youve agreed with the president on his Foreign Policy . What about when he laughter what about when he ordered air strikes against Syrian Military installations after assad used chemical weapons against his people gwen . Gwen again . I agreed with that decision to use force which was a limited set of strikes and i advocated for that during the Obama Administration, and president obama decided that, before he would do that, he thought it was best to get congressional authorization, which ended up not being forthcoming, and he worked to get a deal with the russians that got 13 metric tons of chemical weapons out of syria. When the syrians again used chemical weapons and demonstrated they all didnt come out or they made new ones, i didnt disagree with president trumps decision to use force, but the problem was it was one and done. He used force, he didnt back it up with diplomacy. He could have played its so unfortunate because hes perfect at this, he could have played in 2017 the crazy aunt in the at tick at which point nobody in the world knew what he might do and put the fear of god into the syrians and the russians that this might be the beginning of something really serious and, instead, he had his senior officials go out the next day and say, thank you very much, that was all well and good, good night, and didnt narrowly up, did the same thing in 2018 with no follow up, so we all felt good for 24 hours hey, we stood up, we dropped some bombs on the syrians dr. But at the end of the day, every single ounce of chemical weapons that was in there on the day we struck, if not more, is still there today, so i prefer attend of the day president obamas approach. Stephen belle be back with more former National Security advisor susan rice and tough love. Almost done, folks chics indistinct cheering and laughing in the background. that was a funny one shes the funny one man my mother was so wrong about you. man, shouting honey what are you doing . woman, shouting lets have a Harvest Party . man, shouting ill invite my mom man nice woman yeah, we need that. man definitely all i have to do is dream only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. They release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. Tylenol®. For fast pain relief. So you dont have to stash antacids here. Here. Or here. Kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. One pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. Emreplenished,d, fortified. Emerge everyday with emergenc. 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Just one bowl of frosted mini wheats blow a kiss, into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss, into the sun all we need is somebody to lean on cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody welcome back were back here with former National Security advisor and author of the new book tough love susan rice. Did you ever have to be tough with obama . Because youre very direct. You think . Stephen yeah. Okay. Yeah, you know, there were times when i just had to tell him what for. So, for example, on st. Patricks day, every year, st. Patricks day is a big deal in the white house. The irish Prime Minister comes, everybody is wearing green boot nears, its all very fancy. President of the United States comes down into the oval office for the morning briefing on intelligence and Foreign Policy and hes wearing this weird tie thats kind of like teal blue with weird flex in it and i said, mr. President , that tie is not green. Hes, like, come on, rice, of course its green. I sort of raised it up to his face and said, man, its not green, and called for reinforcements from to the Staff Members and they said, right, its not green. So he turns around, very annoyed, walks back down to the residence, comes back with a legitimately green tie on. End of that conversation. That was all well and good until next year, literally 365 days later, he comes back with the same old teal necked tie. Stephen is he color blind . Ive got to tell you, that question crossed my mind. And i said, man, its still not green this year, wasnt green last year, not green this year, and he walked back up and not the right tie and, you know, that was, you know, tough love. Stephen is any of the story you just told me classified . Its not classified, no. Stephen now, again, the book is called tough love. Youre very direct now. Were you direct and tough at an early age . You know, i have been accuse of that, and i think if you pulled my family, some of my teachers, they would tell you that. My mom likes to tell a story on me and i remember this well, when i was about four years old, she took me to this very exclusive school for an interview, and this was a school in washington that she really wand me to get into, and i had already been refusing to answer questions, ignoring everybody. We walk up the hill to the Principals Office and the principal is trying to interview me and i just wont talk, and my mother is mortified. She thinks that, you know, im deliberately trying to embarrass her, which probably i was laughter and as were talking out of the office, i notice, over my shoulder, this fish tank which belonged to the principal, and i turn around and i say, hey, lady, your fish is dead. laughter because i have to floating on top, right . Stephen this is all you said . It was all i said, but its enough to get me into the school. It worked stephen maybe it was a test. applause susan, so nice to see you again. piano riff the book is tough love and its available starting tomorrow former National Security advisor susan rice, everybody well be right back cheers and applause band playing you know when youre at ross and your new fall look just keeps Getting Better . Check this out thats yes for less. Score a headtotoe look youll love and save 20 to 60 percent off departmeto prices. At ross. Yes for less. And you get first dibs on that brand. At that price . Thats yes for less. Seriously, get the fall brands and styles you love and save 20 to 60 off Department Store prices. At ross. Yes for less. Stephen thats it for the late show, everybody. Tune in tomorrow when my guests will be will smith and the hot priest himself, andrew scott. Now stick around for james corden. Good night captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. 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