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If you cant hear it, it didnt happen. Blaaaablaaaablaaaa its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight mission impeachable plus, stephen welcomes tim robbins. And journalist Nicolle Wallace. 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 stephen hello thanks, everybody. Thank you so much. Wonderful to have you all here. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Well applause its finally arrived, the first day of live impeachment hearings. cheers and applause its what weve been praying for since the beginning of the Trump Presidency the end of the Trump Presidency. laughter now, lets not get ahead of ourselves here. Washington being what it is, who knows whats going to happen. But ill tell you all about it in tonights very special edition of don and the giant impeach. Oh, please stephen i like that one. I like that one a lot. Todays live testimony was as dramatic as it was historic. It was the biggest ratings hit for cspan 3 since drunk history starring brett kavanaugh. laughter applause i like it. Two solids right there. The star witness was acting ambassador to ukraine and grandpa telling you whippersnappers to knock off the horseplay, bill taylor. Taylor had testified behind closed doors that he was very concerned about the withholding of military aid from ukraine. But the bombshell today was something he hadnt testified to before. Heres a little background on it. Republicans say, survival strategy will be to try to distance President Trump from any ukraine quid pro quo, with Rudy Giuliani potentially going under the bus. You cannot throw Rudy Giuliani under the bus. He already lives under the bridge. How do you get the bus down there . Offramp . I dont know. So heres the deal trump didnt know nothing about the pressure to investigate biden. But today, taylor said this last friday, a member of my staff told me of events that occurred on july 26. In the presence of my staff, at a restaurant, ambassador sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. The member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. Stephen so, this staffer overheard trump asking about a foreign nation investigating his political opponent. Thats like if they had a picture of nixon breaking into the watergate. laughter taylor continued following the call with President Trump, the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what President Trump thought about ukraine. Mr. Sondland responded that. President trump cares more about the investigations of biden, which giuliani was pressing for. Stephen as taylor he also emphasized that President Trump cared more the investigations of biden than he did about his son eric, who the president described as the teeth one. laughter shen, schiff followed up on the overheard phone call. And as your staff related the event to you, your staff member could overhear mr. Sondland on the phone could overhear the president on the phone with mr. Sondland. Is that right . Thats correct. So the president must have been speaking loud enough on the phone. This was a cell phone, i take it . It was a cell phone. The president must have been speaking loud enough for your staff member to be able to overhear this . It was. Stephen as trump yelling ok, this is very sensitive information. I want ukraine to investigate my political opponent wait. Am i am i on speaker phone . Why not . I want the waiter to hear this i would like dirt on joe biden and fully loaded nachos cheers and applause oh, i forgot the garlic knots. Taylors testimony was damning when it came to trumps insistence on getting a public announcement about investigating the bidens. Everything was dependent on the public announcement of investigations, including security assistance. President trump wanted president zelensky in a public box. Stephen as trump would you, could you in a box . Would you, could you live on fox . laughter will you give me dirt on joe . Will you do the quid pro quo. cheers and applause taylor testified that there were two groups running Foreign Policy in ukraine a regular channel and an irregular channel led by Rudy Giuliani. And over time, he grew concerned. I began to sense that the two decisionmaking channels the regular and irregular were separate and at odds. Later that day, i received Text Messages on a threeway whatsapp. Stephen its weird to hear that guy say whatsapp. as taylor i received a text message on whatsapp. It was a gif of a tiktok of a toddler dancing to iggy azalea. It was so extra. Have you heard the new king princess album . Its lit. Hundo p. Taylor also gave some insight into the way trump justified his own actions. President trump told ambassador sondland he was not asking for a quid pro quo. But President Trump did insist that president zelensky go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of biden and 2016 election interference, and that president zelensky should want to do this himself. Stephen trumps kind of sounding like a needy girlfriend right there. as trump no, i dont want to meet your parents. I want you to want me to meet your parents. Also, do your parents have any dirt on joe biden . Taylor went on ambassador sondland tried to explain to me that President Trump is a businessman. When a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes him something, the businessman asks that person to pay up before signing the check. Ambassador volker used the same language several days later. I argued to both that the explanation made no sense. Stephen yeah. It makes no sense. Theres only one thing trump cuts a check for. Oh, my god, did he have sex with ukraine . Did he get spanked by ukraine . cheers and applause taylor wasnt the only witness. He was joined by Senior State Department official george kent, who watched taylors impassioned testimony like this. Heres my advice, young people find someone who looks at you the way george kent looks at william taylor. laughter kent made it clear just who was calling the shots in our ukraine policy. It became clear to me that giulianis efforts to gin up politically motivated investigations were now affecting u. S. Engagement with ukraine. Stephen and if theres anything Rudy Giuliani knows how to do, its gin up. Also, vodka up. laughter after 45 minutes of questioning, adam schiff asked kent and taylor the one question we were all dying to hear would you gentleman like a brief recess . Stephen ah ah sure . Oops. Jinx owe me a coke i got the monkey bars when it was the republicans turn, devin nunes hammered home one message this was all a big show being directed by the democrats. The witnesses deemed suitable for television by the democrats were put through a closed door audition process. as nunes they required these witnesses to sing both a ballad and an uptempo number. I nailed surrey with the fringe on top. how come im not testifying . Thank you. Then applause jon that was good. I liked that you did that. Stephen then it came time for questions from g. O. P. Staff attorney and guy at the gym judging how much you can squat, steve castor. Castor seemed to have a Clear Strategy keep bringing up a bunch of insane debunked republican conspiracy theories. In the Information Published by sergey luschenko about the manafot black ledgers in august of 2016, i mean, the very day that was published, mr. Manafort resigned from the campaign, correct . I dont know, mr. Castor. But certainly that gives rise to some concerns that the ukraine establishment were out to get the president , and that is a very reasonable belief of his, correct . I i dont know. I dont know, sir. Mr. Castor, i dont know. Stephen as lawyer mr. Taylor, can you verify where barack obama was born . Is Hillary Clinton her own stunt double . Was hunter biden paid 50,000 a month by burisma to spray the chem trails that are turning my dog gay . Why else is my dog humping my leg, sir correct . laughter in a followup question, castor tried to clarify kind of. It wasnt really clear. The runup to the 2016 election, theres many facts that remain unresolved, agreed . I am sorry. Whats the question . laughter stephen the question is, is it not true that there are still unknown things in this world . Is there is there a loch ness monster . Where did they bury jimma hoffa . Why did i say jima hoffa instead of jimmy hoffa . Why do men have nipples . Jima hoffa. Jima hoffa. applause according to castor, the president of ukraine was really into meeting with giuliani. But the way zelensky states it here, it sounds like he is very much looking forward to speaking with americas mayor. Stephen oh, everyone looks forward to meeting pete buttigieg. Hes delightful. cheers and applause just so nice. Jon thats a good guy stephen after, that representatives were given five minutes of questioning each, and g. O. P. Representative mike turner had a novel approach to his questioning. Ambassador you testified about a number of things that you heard. Isnt it possible that the things that you heard were not true . You could be wrong, correct . And they could be wrong, or they could be mistaken . Right . So you could be wrong. Stephen so thats their best argument . Maybe there is no reality. Uh, maybe everything is just an illusion created by an evil genius to deceive us about the nature of the universe. Maybe were all stardust where there is no up or down or right or wrong or high crimes or misdemeanors. Thin, then, republican nothing can be known nothing can be known. Then representative representative John Ratcliffe shared this ironclad defense of trumps ukraine call. What did president zelensky actually do to get the aid . The answer is nothing. He did nothing. He didnt open any he didnt call attorney general bill barr. He didnt do any of the things that House Democrats say that he was being forced and coerced and threatened to do. Stephen so trump got caught before he could force zelensky to do it. He failed, but the fact that hes a bad criminal doesnt make it not a crime. Because if being bad at something makes you not that thing, then trump is not a Business Owner or a husband. Then cheers and applause then all over the place. Just black ice. Then Democrat Eric swalwell had some technical difficulties when he tried to play a clip of mick mulvaney. Ambassador taylor, i would like you to listen to what he said. Ill read it for you. laughter stephen thats embarrassing. Jim, can we see that clip again . laughter lets just move on. Lets just move on. The real republican attack dog was ohio congressman and americas assistant wrestling coach, jim jordan. Jordan kept calling for the whistleblower to testify, because he said he wanted to talk to the guy who started it all. But he was shut down by vermonts peter welch. I say to my colleague, i would be glad to have the person who started it all come in and testify. President trump is welcome to take a seat right there. laughter cheers and applause jon ooooooooooon h stephen is this on . Thank you, ill be here all week, seriously. This is never going to end. Weve got a great show for you tonight. Tim robbins is here. But when we return, donald trump talks turkey. Stick around. paul switch to sprint and get the new iphones everyone is talking about. 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Meeting with bastion of liberty turkish strongman recep erdogan, seen here failing to raise the roof. You all may remember that a few weeks ago, trump agreed to allow the turkish army to attack our kurdish allies in syria after talking to erdogan on the phone or as trump calls it perfect phone call 2 2 perfect 2 phone. Well, today, trump invited erdogan to join him for an official squat in front of reporters in a brandnew episode of chair chat. Stephen right off the bean, trump got to what mattered most. First lady, thank you very much. And i know you are going to stephen as trump now lets get to the real issues what are you gonna order . Are you getting apps for the whole table . Because if so, order twice as much calamari as you think you need. The president was asked about the impeachment hearings. I did not watch it. Im too busy to watch it. Its a witch hunt. Its a hoax. Im too busy to watch it. Stephen no, youre not laughter for petes sake, you live tweeted sean spicer on dancing with the stars. You didnt even skip the commercials later, trump and president erdogan held a joint press conference. Trump got things off to a great start by mispronouncing president erdogans name. Last month, i sent Vice President pence, secretary of state pompeo is with us. National security advisor obrien, thank you to meet with pre laughr stephen as trump yes, were so excited to meet with mr. Erdogahn, president of tofurkey. laughter its my honor to have you here at white castle. laughter he seems tired. When it was question time, trump was asked for his thoughts on todays impeachment hearings. Do you feel that democrats made their case . And how did you feel about the republicans performance . Are you talking about the witch hunt . Is that what you mean . Is that what youre talking about . I hear that it is a joke. Stephen its actually a knockknock joke. Ready . Knock, knock. Audience whos there stephen whistleblower. Audience whistleblower who . Stephen it doesnt matter who all the testimony says youre guilty applause trump may not have watched the testimony, but he got a report from his friends in the room. But i heard just a report. They said its all thirdhand information. Nothing direct at all. It cant be direct, because i never said it. Stephen as trump it was all thirdhand. It was all hearsay. It was like a big game of telephone, because i used a telephone to ask ukraine to investigate joe biden. Trump was also asked about that bombshell revelation from todays testimony, where bill taylors aide overheard a phone call of trump asking about the ukraine investigation. I know nothing about that. First time i have heard it. I have never heard this. I have never heard it. I dont recall. No, not at all, not even a little bit. Stephen as trump not even a little bit. I dont recall a thing. My brain is as empty as a theme park in january. 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Ask your Health Care Provider today about onceweekly ozempic®. band playing cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody, welcome back to the show already in pgress he at the ed sullivan theater. Folks, my first guest is an Academy Award winner redemption mystic river and castle rock. He now stars in the new film dark waters. Please welcome to the late show, tim robbins cheers and applause its been so long stephen how long has it been . I know i interviewed you on the old gig. The old gig. The colbert report. Do you remember the first question you asked me when i was on your show . Stephen nope. Let me remind you. Stephen there were a lot of guests. Im sorry. What was the first question . You said, what is it like to work with Clint Eastwood and why do you hate our troops . Stephen i remember that one. I think i modeled every actor i talked to after that based on you. Because i admire you as an ajtor, but, obviously, youre part of the problem because youre one of the hollywood liberal elite. Right, yeah. Stephen corrupting our minds, warping our spines, losing the war for the allies. I know, right . But youve evolved. Stephen have i . I dont know. Ive aged. Ive aged, i know that. So have i stephen no no way so the second time i was on the showue know i dont know if youre all familiar with that show, whenever stephen would come out, make his entrance, he would highfive the audience. Stephen the guests would be seated and i would injury because i was the guest. After you introduced the guest. I thought well, you know, what . Why is he the only one who gets to do that . Soy jim, do you have a clip of what happened that night . Stephen woooo woooo stephen woooo woooo woooo stephen woooo woooo applause cheers and applause stephen nicely done. I had forgotten. About that. I forgot about that. Thats nice. What did we talk about . That took, like, two minutes. We only talked six minutes. We didnt have time to talk after that. Stephen now that i can talk to you in my own voice, not my character voice, i do mean it, i do admire you as an artist. But i have to confess, i have never seen the Shawshank Redemption. Its a major hole in my cultural milieu. But i dont eye dont know. Theres, like, youre in the rain at one point. And then laughter i know that part. Theres rain and Rita Hayworth or something lake that there nthere. Yeah. Stephen i want to watch it with you. Okay, we will. Stephen iment to watch it with you and Morgan Freeman. Oh, wow. Youre getting demanding now. Stephen i am. I want to do a reaction video of me watching it with you guys. That would be fun. So i had heard a rumor about this. Stephen that i hadnt seen it. That you hadnt seen it. Stephen are you mad . No, not at all. I came prepared with some questions. Actually, a quiz. Stephen the Shawshank Redemption quiz. Is this like a quiz, which prisoner am i from the Shawshank Redemption. Necessary a prison. The quiz is im going to read some lines from movies, and you have to tell me whether they are lines from Shawshank Redemption or not. Stephen okay. I promise you, i promise you i have not heard one line from the Shawshank Redemption. Okay, good. Stephen ive seen pictures and thats it. This will be good then. Stephen it looks good. Here we go hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it, youll never make it through the night. Shawshank or no shawshank . Stephen shawshank. Actually, thats princess leah. Stephen keep going. In just a few hours, youll be sitting around a campfire with andy, making delicious hot schmos. laughter stephen is that from toy story . Yes. Stephen okay. Okay. applause is stephen that ive seen. Ive seen that one. I guess i just miss my friend. Stephen shawshank. Very good applause all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. Stephen come on, thats gandolf. Okay, all right. Stephen now youre in my hood. Running aint freedom. Stephen shawshank. Actually vin diesel in fast five. laughter applause stephen its a fine line. Its a fine line, sure, sure. I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really get busy living or get busy dying. Stephen is that toy story, too . Whats that. Thats shawshank. Stephen thats shawshank. You got three. Stephen i got 50 . You win. Stephen i win . You win a screening with Morgan Freeman and tim robbins. Stephen its a deal. Its a deal. applause now the new film dark waters, what is it based on . So its based on the work of what i feel is a genuine american hero, a lawyer named rob bell on the who was working for a law firm tawld taft in cincinnati. And this law firm, it was its what they do is they represent corporate climate clients chemical companies. And rob was approached by a family friend, a farmer, whose land had been polluted by dupont. And he asked rob to take on his case. And it was completely against the culture of that law firm for rob to do it. I play the one of the managing partners of the firm. And i agree with rob that we should do this. And i provide the resources of the firm for him to investigate. And what we find out is that in fact dupont was negligent and in fact knew for years that they were polluting the West Virginia area around where their plant was. And in fact, this i think some of you may remember it. It was teflon, which many years ago, they had a lawsuit and realized that teflon was actually poisoning us, and so they got rid of teflon. But what they defense they actually reinvented it, and it went back into the stores under a different brand name. So this is the story of rob blotts struggle for 20 years to get justice for this farmer in West Virginia. Stephen we have a clip here. It looks like its in the board room or the law office . Yes, its where ive gone to the partners of the firm, and ive presented robs case, and were agreeing were discussing whether or not we should take on this massive lawsuit against di dupont. Stephen jim. Has anyone even read the evidence this man has collected, the willfulling willful negligee corruption . Read it, and then tell me we should be sitting on our asses. Thats the reason why americans hate lawyers. Its the crap that fuels the ralph naders of the world. We should want to nail dupont. All of us should American Business is better than this, gentlemen. And when its not, we should hold them to it. Thats how you build faith in the system cheers and applause stephen did that guy really say that . Now, heres the thing that guys name is tom terp. He really exists. I met him via skype. This is the kind of this is what we need this in this country. We need people that possess the power to change things, to look to themselves and to decide for themselves what is moral and what is not. 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Thats a lesson politicians in washington could use right now. Im tom steyer, and i approve this message. band playing band playing cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody, welcome back folks, my next guest served as Communications Director for president george w. Bush and was Senior Advisor to the 2008 mccain campaign. Shes currently the host of msnbcs deadline white house. Please welcome Nicolle Wallace applause its a. Thankou havg me. Ay of impeachmt hearings. Youve been on the air since 9 00 a. M. This morning, right . Yes, yes. Stephen did you carboload to get through the day. A day of candy and coffee. Stephen its like running a marathon all day long. Without moving. Stephen and somehow my nipples are bleeding. Something like that. Stephen now the sondland trump call, thats thats one thats the bombshell they had. Stephen thats one i hadnt heard before. Thats the ultimate significance of that story . Sondland is the most centering character in all this. I worked in republican politics. You know that. Stephen i used to make fun of your boss a lot. I know. I saw it a lot, threw things at the tv. Stephen youre welcome we usually dont we usually dont get to these parts of the city so thank you for having me, inside, inside. But the sondland story is so interesting, because, you know, donald trump talked about human carnage in his inaugural address. Stephen sure, sure. Sondland epitomizes that to me. He was a republican fundraiser for the bushes and he was on jeb bushs team before he flamed out in the primaries. High finally gets what he seems to have sought for so long a plumb ambassadorship stephen a Million Dollars to the inaugural campaign. He gave money to other politicians. Trump is the first one who gives him an ambassadorship. He ends up in the middle of this messy scandal. He may or may not have perjured himself. Im sure he has huge legal bills. And hes sort of in the eye of the storm. And there are real questions now about whether he is the smoking gun that leads this whole thing right to donald trump. , who unlike other scandals that you sort of work your way up and you try to figure out what the president knew and when we knew it. This was directed and run by donald trump. Stephen right, the very first piece of evidence we got was him on the phone call saying, you can have your military aid if you give us if you give me some investigation. Right. And it didnt leak out. It didnt get, you know, handed to some deepstate guy who handed it to a deepstate girl who handed it to a russian. He released it. laughter . Stephen yeah. Kind of like junior releasing all the emails. Right. Stephen yeah. Stupid does not fall from the tree. You you were upset over Laura Ingrahams questioning the patriotism of vind man, who was one of the National Security officials listening in on the call, and testified that this was not good. It was definitely a quid pro quo. This is what they said on Laura Ingrahams show, and this is what you said in response. Jim. Here we have a u. S. National security official who is advising ukraine while working inside the white house, apparently against the president s interests, and usually they spoke in english. Isnt that kind of an interesting angle on this story . I find that astounding, and, you know, some people might call that espionage. Except those people arent chicken bleep like the three of you, and they know that he passed a background check that the president s daughter and soninlaw didnt. applause . Stephen ta it. You said it. cheers and applause now, youre doing this, youre doing this. Are you doing this because you regret having said it . So i got the swear jar in my house. And my sevenyearold is like, 20, mom. Can i see you say chicken bleep . Oh, god. Instead of watching stephen what do you think has happened to your former republican side. Stephen colleagues . What has happened to your side . Because the republicans you know, i dont always agree with what their policies might be, but they have made a very good run at acting on what they considered principle. Where is the principle now . Look, my problem with that specifically and just the galling nature of that exchange was that, one, Laura Ingraham knows better. Shes a lot of things. Stupid isnt one of them . Stephen eh. What she teed up there with john yu who you know very well. You were very aware of it at the same time. Stephen sure. Hes the torture memo guy. Correct. He knows better. He worked at the highest levels of the justice department. He knows colonel vindman isnt a spy. So just to leave it out there like, oh, i dont know. Isnt it weird they speak in another language. Maybe a spy, next question, is so reckless, so scary, representing the debasement not just of the right but the debasement of what happens on that program. Stephen why did it happen . I dont know. Stephen why is this happening . I dont have the answer to that. Stephen you say they have been kidnapped. Their souls have been kidnapped by donald trump. Did you say that . Probably, its been a long day. Stephen i have a slight problem with your analogy because kidnappers dont cooperate. Right. Stephen people who are kidnapped dont cooperate with their kidnappers. Thats a fair employment of point. Stephen these people have volunteered to be kidnapped. If you watched the testimony today they had seven different ways to have their souls hijacked. Oh, that didnt work, try this. Calling vindman a spy didnt get trump out of the trouble he was in, lets try this. Just ludicrous excuse after ludicrous excuse. Yesterdays talking points went out to the republicans. And, like, before they hit send donald trump had undermined them. If i had any capacity for sympathy for my old party it would be so sad, it would be embarrassing. But i dont. Stephen so you say your old party. So youre no longer a republican . 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Look, we should be careful not to deride some of the structural changes hes made because he did become president without a press secretary, without a pollster, without a all the normal stuff, right. Stephen without the popular vote. Correct. cheers and applause yeah. Stephen been there, done that, though. Yeah, i mean, so i i dont want to be judgey about org charts and stuff. It seems fussing about stephen but if somebody has a job you want to see them exercising it on some level. I think the bigger point is they dont care. Those jobs existed because mike mccurry would take to the podium and make profound announcements about war and peace and legislation and health care and taxes. And the white house podium used to mean something. Now its the place where sean spicer stood and lied about the size of Donald Trumps inauguration crowds. I mean, its just its its really almost like a symptom, not the cause. But it is another symptom of the fact that they dont care about the government serving anybody, informing anybody. George conway was on our Networks Coverage today, and he said what the ukraine scandal shows is the presidency exists to serve donald trump. Stephen i saw that George Conway was on your show today. And i know that neither he nor kellyanne are willing to answer any questions about their relationship or how they keep it going when she is 100 in lockstep with the exprt he is 100 for the president s rimove from office. What do you think is going on there . You dont know. I have no idea. My parents think donald trump belongs on mount rushmore. I live this sort of need to understand and understand the people who have different views about donald trump, so ive got no judgment on that. I think if transparency is the disinfectant, theyre both sort of living their political views out loud. Stephen do you need someplace to go on thanksgiving. My place, in case it gets too tense. 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