Um, lets start with something simple. Youre a dispassionate chunk of driftwood whos never broken a sweat in his life. Youre a monster who thinks no one else but himself. When you close your eyes, no one else exists. Perfect. Something different, youre a thoughtful, compassionate leader intent on helping the country and hes gone. Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight the shutdown is shutdown. Plus stephen welcomes james corden and ann curry, 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 band playing stephen thank you very much hey, folks thanks, everybody, please welcome to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause thank you very much. Youre excited. Im excited. We should all be excited because, as of this taping, america has a government cheers and applause yeah, yeah. Still . Do we still have a okay. Just got to check in every so often because its touch and go. Heres what happened this afternoon, after intense closed door meetings, democrats and republicans reached a deal to reopen the government. Well, thank god thats done. And we dont have to think about it again until february 8. laughter mr. Johnson, ive got your results, and theres some very good news. Youre going to live. Til february 8. laughter the two day shutdown almost didnt happen at all because on friday, Chuck Schumer met with trump at the white house, and they came close to a deal over cheeseburgers. laughter thats smart. Get him all burgered up first. Although if theyre eating burgers, i think that means they were negotiating in trumps bed. laughter looks very comfortable. Looks very nice like youve never eaten in bed laughter didnt work out. Shutdown over the weekend. So today, in exchange for voting for the shortterm funding, democrats got six years of the Childrens Health insurance program, which everybody including the republicans wanted. And they got an agreement by Mitch Mcconnell to hold a vote on daca by february 8. And Senate Minority leader and man whose cheeks are farsighted, Chuck Schumer, is very confident its going to happen. I expect the majority leader to fulfill his commitment to the senate, to me, and to the bipartisan group, and abide by this agreement. Stephen why would you expect that . Mitch mcconnells proved he will lie to anyone about anything. He told Susan Collins that shed get a vote on improving obamacare in exchange for her vote on the tax bill. Lie. And to get jeff flakes vote on the tax cut, he told flake, theyd vote on daca weeks ago that was a lie. I have been told we just received footage of what one republican senator said directly to leader mcconnell right before christmas you sit on a throne of lies. laughter yeah. Senator buddy. Senator buddy. Really, is a good man. applause stephen but, okay. Here we are. To avoid another shutdown all that needs to happen is congress has to agree on how to fix our entire immigration system in 17 days. After that, the pigs that fly out of their butt will solve world hunger. laughter applause butt pigs butt pigs laughter piano riff and the leverage is that Chuck Schumer thinks that voters will all remember Mitch Mcconnell made this promise 17 days from now. Can you remember what happened 17 days ago . I cant. Im guessing, in two days, were going to forget the name stormy daniels. laughter that was the hurricane that spanked the gulf coast, right . laughter i cant remember. Jon oh stephen it was a mess. Thats all i remember. But maybe the democrats didnt get rolled. This is how democracy works. Everybody gives up something. Everybody gets something. And the president understands that all parties needed to save face to Work Together in the future, so he stayed respectfully silent. Im just kidding. laughter he emailed democrats caved. Wait a second theres a cave . Can we all fit in there . Is there enough food and water for the next three years . cheers and applause and attacks like that arent going to help finding a bipartisan solution. Neither is this ad trump ran over the weekend. President trump is right build the wall. Deport criminals. Stop illegal immigration now. Democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants. Stephen now that was subtle laughter but i think he was implying that Chuck Schumer wants to rub your children down with steak sauce and feed them to cannibalistic gangbangers. laughter that ad seems extreme, but accusing your opponent of being complicit in crimes goes all the way back to the 1840s Martin Van Buren hell unfasten the trousers of irishmen and leer as they drunkenly molest your livestock im Zachary Taylor and i approve this broadside. laughter applause Zachary Taylor fans and now that the shutdowns over, theyre going to have to change the outgoing message at the white house. Heres what it was this weekend thank you for calling the white house. Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today because Congressional Democrats are Holding Government funding including funding for our troops and other National Security priorities, hostage to an unrelated immigration debate. Due to this obstruction, the government is shut down. Stephen and thats the toned down version. We have obtained the first message they recorded. Thank you for calling the white house. We really wish someone could answer your call, but democrats hopped up on marijuana drugs let an immigrant murder our phones. Please leave a message after the oh no its chuck shumer hes got a knife beep stephen yeah, just get out of there. Jon yeah, get out of town applause stephen of course, trump was busy all weekend, watching fox news. We know this because he tweeted thank you to Brad Blakeman on foxnews for grading year one of my presidency with an a, and likewise to doug schoen for the very good grade and statements. Working hard youre the most powerful man in the world. Why do you care what the replacement weekend guy at fox news thinks . Is this guy Brad Blakeman the person trump has been trying to impress the whole time . Brad blakeman . I like to think of him as dad hugman. laughter also, mr. President , you cant start a tweet talking about watching fox news and then end by saying youre working hard laughter youre watching tv, you just said so whats next . Just ate three cheeseburgers, and a filetofish. Dieting hard laughter applause im reading that wrong. Unless hes just confessing. Trump no like work. Working hard. Trump want watch tv. laughter of course, this saturday marked the trump presidencys one year anniversary. There was going to be a huge gala at maralago to celebrate. Donors had paid 100,000 for tickets, which got you a meal for two and a photo with the president. Not bad. Normally if you want a meal and a photo with donald trump, youd have to wait around the d. C. Mcdonalds. laughter but because mcconnell couldnt get the votes, trump had to miss his party. Seems fair. Republicans ruined trumps party, and trump ruined the republican party. laughter applause thank you. Yes. piano riff seems like an even deal. Instead, trump was stuck in d. C. With nothing to do except not help negotiate ending the shutdown. He just wandered around the white house like a cranky roomba. laughter so the president was forced to send fillins to his maralago bash eric and lara trump. Come on, these people want donald and youre giving them eric . Thats not an acceptable replacement. Sorry, but Paul Mccartneys plane was delayed. Now please enjoy the musical stylings of Kevin Federline laughter we miss you kevin. applause all is forgiven. And this exclusive party was so huge, there wasnt enough silverware for regular maralago members. As one diner posted on instagram hate to do this, but this is a total disgrace, shame on maralago, you cant serve caviar with plastic spoons please offer your caviar with mother of pearl spoons and dishes maralagopalmbeach. Lowbudget disgraceful caviaraccompaniments, crying face. I cant believe im saying this, but donald trump might not be the worst person at maralago. laughter applause weve got a great show for you tonight. James corden is here. But when we return women on the march. Stick around cheers and applause band playing fortified. Tored. Replenished. Emerge everyday with emergenc packed with b vitamins, antioxidants, electrolytes plus more vitamin c than 10 oranges. Why not feel this good everyday . Emerge and see. Try degree ultraclear black white saves your white clothes from yellow stains and black clothes from white marks still with 48 hour sweat protection. Try degree ultraclear black white it wont let you down discover card. I justis this for real . Match, yep. We match all the cash back new cardmembers earn at the end of their first year, automatically. Whoo i got my money hard to contain yourself, isnt it . Uh huh let it go whoo get a dollarfordollar match at the end of your first year. Only from discover. Ayep, and my teeth are yellow. . Time for whitestrips. Crest glamorous White Whitestrips are the only adaaccepted whitening strips proven to be safe and effective. And they whiten 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste. Crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. cheers and applause band playing Stephen Jon Batiste and stay human, everybody right there oh oh, jon. Yep cheers and applause good to be back nice to have the weekends off thanks jon, you know please, have a seat. Youre too kind. Did you have a good weekend . I had a good one, man. Stephen what did you do . I was over in california, actually. Stephen we do the show in new york. I took a red eye yesterday. Stephen do you have enough energy to do the show . Yeah, cant you tell . Were jamming cheers and applause stephen you know what im excited about, jon, is i just heard this news that is this true . Theyre going to hold the super bowl again this year. Oh, wow stephen yeah, they say it went so well last year, theyre, like, lets have those guys come back again. Lets have one of those teams come back again this year. Not two . Stephen just one is coming back because people cant get enough of tom brady winning. Do you think its going to happen again . Stephen i dont follow the game. Youre not into it . Stephen i played for one day in high school. What happened when you played . What happened . Stephen what happened . Jon why did you stop . Stephen theres a lot of running laughter i found out theres a lot of running in football. I showed up one day. I was late for morning practice. My coach, coach holcombe, goes, colbert, you and grant, you guys are doing wind sprints on each others backs. I did wind sprints until i vomited. Jon oh, wow. Stephen showed up for the afternoon practice. One of my best friends was the biggest guy at school and had the weight lifting record at school and i was across from him on the line at the scrimmage and we had one play. He kind of, like, pushed me out of the way and the coach comes over and goes, brahamlet, there are no friends on the football field. You see that man . I want you to kill him. Jon oh, my goodness i went out for the team because all my friends are on the team brahamlet lines up across from me on the line of scrimmage and goes, im sorry jon oh, snap because keep in mind. I was this height and weighed 135 pounds. I could fit into one of my pant legs now. The next day i couldnt get out of bed. I went to coach in the middle of the day and i said, i dont think its my game. Jon tom brady got it. Stephen he said, yeah, i dont think so either. laughter that was it. There was another party trump didnt make it to this weekend the womens march. cheers and applause i agree. On saturday, people all across the country took to the streets to rally for womens rights and protest trumps policies. It was a huge turnout, with an estimated 600,000 people gathering in los angeles, 300,000 in chicago, and 200,000 here in new york. cheers and applause yep. Im all in. In some places, it was even bigger this year. Like in the tiny town of sandy cove, nova scotia which doubled their numbers from last year, with a total of 31 people. Plus one baby cheering a baby. A baby. I think i know how someone kept warm last time. laughter and just like last year, there were some fantastic signs. Super callous facist racist nazi braggadocious, norway, please help us , we shall overcomb, im also 63 239 lbs, please note the lack of nazis at our marches, and how did i survive the past year . I watched Stephen Colbert lateshow. cheers and applause thank you. We are honored. Jon yeah stephen we are honored to have help. applause thats how i got through the year, too. But trump being trump, he had to put a positive spin on the protest tweeting beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all women to march. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and Wealth Creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years ive created so many jobs in the field of paying pornstars to keep quiet. youre welcome, ladies cheers and applause this and allegedly. laughter this is, allegedly i should say that so often in every show we do this is as trump as it gets. You cant just take a march thats against you as a march thats for you. laughter after dr. King marched on washington, the k. K. K. Didnt thank him for raising hood awareness. laughter well be right back with james corden. cheers and applause band playing cheers and applause band playing stephen ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the late show folks, you guys are in for an enormous treat because my first guest hosts the late late show, and on sunday, will be hosting the 60th annual Grammy Awards on cbs. Please welcome james corden. cheers and applause band playing stephen wow. So good to see you, man. Lovely to see you stephen man, you are a good hugger i love it. Ill never let go. Stephen no, no. I could do that twice. laughter congratulations before anything else, congratulations, you and your wife have welcomed a lovely new daughter. We do. Shes five weeks old cheers and applause its lovely. Its wonderful. Its terrific. Stephen but taxing a bit because two to three its a different beast. Well, you know, youve done this. Youve done two to three. Stephen yeah, yeah. Its well, were no longer were no longer its zonal, you take the kitchen, ill take the living room and its done. Shes very small so its lovely. Stephen easy to handle now. Ive forgotten the leaving of the house and how difficult that is to do with three children. We went to when i say the end of our road, i mean a little food place at the end of our street in los angeles, and we were nipping out for lunch the first time the five of us had ever gone, and we looked like we were fleeing a country. laughter like, im not joking, i had a daughter here, a backpack, a bag, and then a bag on the wrist and a stroller, another child. My wifes got a bag and our son. And i was, like, this is not worth it. The food is the food is not good in this this is not worth this. Weve got a fridge. laughter i realize, because im one of three, i realize why we would never go out on the weekend. Stephen oh, no. We found out everything is a fourhour trip. Doesnt matter. You might as well go someplace two hours away because its a fourhour trip no matter what you do. Thats it. Stephen did someone talk you into having a third child . Or were you, no, were definitely going to do it. We didnt think we were going to do it. In truth, as someone said to me dont see your life now today dont see your life today because of course its difficult and challenging. They said see your dinner table on Christmas Day in 20 years time and how many people do you want there. And my wife and i were, like, oh, yeah, i think i want some more people there. And, you know, i really like the other two. The other two stephen sure. You know, they are growing on me as every day passes. Stephen the fear you have, or at least the fear we had going into more children, its, like, oh, we have so much love, and it gets divided and multiplies. Oh, if my love carries on in the way it is for my son, i will be proposing to hem when hes 21. The two of them, i just crumble. I have been crying for about a month, just everything. Stephen thats because you havent been sleeping for a month. Im exhausted. Stephen thats one of the reasons. Thats a chemo psychosis. Ill tell you how we got talked into the third, we wanted more love, but i have a friend of mine who was the first to have children. He says, youve got to have the third child. Youre already maximally inconvenienced. The third is not harder because you dont have any free time now. And then you have the third one. And it was so much harder i called him up and he goes, oh, i totally lied. I didnt want to be the only one of our friends with three kids because my life is hell. Yes. laughter with two, it was like we had two really, really great pets, and now its like weve bought a zoo. Thats what it feels like. laughter stephen first of all, welcome back to broadway. Youre a tony winner. You have experience on broadway. applause my understanding is when you were serving with two governors, you met donald trump. I did. I brought him up on stage. This was in 2012. Throughout the whole play, i would talk to the audience and bring people out of the audience and things like that. One day, that show is a really brilliantly constructed play. Stephen hilarious. I was in the audience one night. Its great. As anything, when you do it every day, you realize your audience will either be brilliant, fine or just an audience, and you can work that out about ten minutes in. And we heard that donald trump was coming to see the show with melania, and i was talking to my friend ollie who was in the play and i said weve had loads of great people come to see the show gene wilder, steve martin people who you could never bring them up on stage, it really could be seen as disrespectful. But then trump, we were, like and this is in 2012, and ollie was, like, half the audience doesnt like him anyway, so we could either win with everyone or win with half of them. So i said, im going to give it ten minutes and see what the show feels like, and if i think theyre a bit slow, im going to do it. Not slow in that way laughter to be clear piano riff stephen yes i didnt mean that way. I didnt mean that way. Slow to the laughs. It was similar like today. A wet wednesday evening and i thought, im going to do it. And he had halfway back in the stalls and i grabbed him and said youre coming with me. I brought him up on stage and i spanked him which i retrospectively realize now he must have really enjoyed. cheers and applause piano riff and he had to move this, like, trunk around. I said, what youre about to do is called manual labor. You normally get other people to do that and stuff like this. We would do this every night with people in the audience and send them into the wings. Normally when they would go into the wings they would be a bit shell shocked and our stage manager would say you did great. Wait here a minute and james will call you out and you walk back to your seats. It would always be the same. Stage manager of 2012, i said what was he like in the wings . He said, you know what, it was like he thought he was the president of the united states. laughter applause i swear to god that was his words. Because he just went around shaking everyones hand. But not in a lovely to meet you. In p a, this is a big deal for you. Im going to let you have this moment so you can tell everyone you shook his hand and thats what it was like. But i have to say, he was very v good on stage. He was wildly charismatic and really good at doing that part of it. Stephen okay. laughter i have no doubt. Hes very good on stage. Yeah. Stephen lets move on. laughter in fact, weve got to take a little break. 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I think the first person we had on the show stephen not the show. Not the show. On our show. Stephen not your show. We have a clip. We have a clip that we got from a show in england called oh, shut up. Oh, come on. Stephen good morning with ann and nick in 1995. How old were you . I was, like, 15. Stephen how did you get on the show . I cant believe youre going to play this. laughter stephen this is you speaking to a big musical hi, this is james here and this is meatloaf and were doing this english Breakfast Show and its really cool. Do you prefer performing to doing all the promotional side of things . Is that what you really love . Are you kidding . Promotions are you want to do this, james. This is what you want to do. Hold this for a second. During a promotion tour, this is exactly what you want to do. laughter applause stephen do you remember . Of course oh, man stephen how did you end up how did you get a job interviewing meatloaf on a morning show . It wasnt really a job. The show is similar to i guess the today show or Something Like that. They held a nationwide audition for people to fill all the slots of the six or eight hosts, and you have to film yourself and send in your tape. So i sent one in and then i ended up being, like, a show business correspondent. But what i remember most about that is not really meeting meatloaf and he was lovely is i realized the second i did that that i had never been in a hotel before. My dad had told me that where we were staying was a hotel, and it wasnt because that was an actual hotel with carpet and everything. laughter it was like being shown a world youd been completely sheltered from. Like seeing first class on a plane and going, oh and going back, going to dad, going those travel lodges we stay in are rubbish thats my biggest memory. Stephen well, weve got to go, but one last question, do you prefer performing or doing all the promotional side of things . Is that what you really love . cheers and applause good luck on sunday the 60th annual Grammy Awards will air live this sunday at 7 30 right here on cbs. James corden, everyone. Well be right back with ann curry. cheers and applause band playing lock its tuition. From your first dream to your first dollar. From between shifts and after hours. From the struggle, to the reckoning. To the moment you sit in that auditorium and realize that your whole life is about to change. What if a university could guarantee fixed affordable tuition. From your first class, to your last. Do i use. One thatsthat wgood for my teeth . Now i dont have to choose from crest 3d white comes new whitening therapy. Its our best whitening technology. Plus, it has a fortifying formula to protect your enamel. Crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. Packing to the last minute. Guys, i have a couple of things to wash we got this. 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Only one detergent can give you a sniff like this. The irresistable scent of new gain botanicals laundry detergent. Bring the smell of nature wherever you are. cheers and applause band playing stephen welcome back, everybody cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, my next guest is an awardwinning journalist whose new series on pbs is called well meet again. Please welcome, ann curry cheers and applause hey. Stephen hi. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. In fact, i probably should tell you something. Maybe you wont hear this, but i actually have a baby crush on you. Stephen whats that mean, a baby crush . That means im married so i cant really have a crush on you, but i do have a baby crush on you. My husbands in the audience and i think its okay because i think he has a crush on you, too. Stephen okay. He watches you all the time. And youre just so devastatingly witty and funny and youre just as adorable as a puppy dog. We just love you. Us the so hard not to love you. cheers and applause right . Who doesnt have a crush on Stephen Colbert . cheers and applause piano riff stephen i am not sure why but this is my favorite interview of all time laughter now, youve done you have a 40year career. Really long, yes, 40 years, almost, yes. Stephen since you were an intern in oregon. Yes, thats true. Stephen i have a photo here we have been given of you at your first news job. See if you can pick her out among all the women in this photograph. laughter cheers and applause thats right. Stephen wow. I was actually the first woman reporter theyd ever had. Stephen what channel is this . Thats channel 10 in medford, oregon. It was really tough because at first there was a man who was a big deal at the station and said, you know what . You should not take this job because women have no news judgment and women cant carry the cam and you cant carry the camera. Thats what he said. I felt bad for these guys because when you walk into the newsroom, it was a cigar, smokefilled room. I think they were nervous. That were, like, this woman is going to come up and switch us off and make us mind our ps and qs. My father raised me to never cuss, but i realized when i was in this room i had to calm them down and i said no fing worry here and i started cussing with them and learned to be cool. Stephen in the news room. And i never stopped. Stephen this looks like an outtake from anchor man. laughter this could be ron berg and his news team there. laughter i even got a perm. My mother from japan said, ann, how come you cut the hair . You look like a boy. No sexy or nothing. Stephen nour mom wanted you to be a sexy news lady . She wanted me to marry a rich guy, but she how come you dont marry rich guy . Anyway, but when i was on television, she sent me a jacket covered in rhinestones because she wanted me to look pretty. I would do the news. Hi, mom i would call her up, mom, how do you think that went . You wear too much eyeliner you look like a raccoon you never going to have a husband i love you that was my mom. Stephen thats fantastic. cheers and applause now, last week, you were on with our friends at cbs this morning. I was. Stephen and they asked you about matt lauer and the fact that its no secret that i think matt lauer forced you out of the today show. Do i have that right . Mmm. Stephen oh, wait, do you have a nondisclosure agreement . I do, but i can talk. Stephen you can talk . Im bold, yes, i can talk. Stephen what are the words you cant say . Whisper them in my ear. What are the words you cant say . Oh, wow, thats going to be a short interview. Heres the thing. No, i dont want to cause pain, you guys. Stephen i dont want to cause pain either. But let me just ask you this, when mr. Lauer was let go at nbc, were you aware that twitter blew up with somewhere ann curry this thing, said somewhere ann curry just made her orange juice a mimosa. Somewhere ann curry is having a nice bowl of frosted flakes. Somewhere ann curry is drinking more wine than cheers and applause so is any of that true . I wish. Stephen no . No. The truth is that i was raised catholic by a buddhist. Stephen oh, okay. O think about the catholic faith mixed with a karma, worries, the intensity of that. It was all of a sudden my brain became a whole wall of, huhuh, you cant talk or think like that so i didnt get to enjoy it. Stephen it was his karma . Thats a good point. But i think that and also you have to think about the pain this i mean, a lot of people have suffered. Stephen sure. O i havent had a chance to celebrate for a lot of reasons. Stephen okay. Because im sort of limited. Stephen youre a very nice person. Thank you. Well laughter stephen thank you. Do you have a nondisclosure agreement about being a nice person . No, i can say thank you. No, im just trying to be careful. Stephen how about this . Now, with the times up movement, the ongoing metoo and the times up movement, do you think one man, however powerful would be able to force out a season journalist like yourself . Do you think that would be a different outcome now . How about that . Would there be a different outcome in this atmosphere than when you left . I think were not really done fixing the problem. I think we are a long way from fixing the problem. Its more about conversation. Its about action and its not just about telling people they cant do certain things, its about changing the dynamic, the power balance within companies so that women are not seen as people who could never rise to the top. Once we figured that out, we might have a chance to figure this out. cheers and applause stephen i hope so. I hope so, too. Stephen well, very quickly. Youve got a new show on pbs called well meet again. Thats right. Stephen i understand i need to bring a tissue to this one. What is well meet again . Its basically about worldchanging events, the people caught up in these worldchanging events and their effort to find the one who helped them survive emotionally or physically, and we help, you know, them find each other and, when possible, we reunite them. Stephen like who . Well, like pete peter who survid the shanghai ghetto and the woman who helped him. The woman sue who experienced mt. Saint helen and he was in the red zone when it blew. She wouldnt leave her friend who had fallen and broken his hip. She promised to come back and bring help. She climbs hours through the ash, gets out, a helicopter shows up and before she gets on the helicopter she said, i refuse to get on this helicopter unless you promise to turn back and help me find my friends. The truth is none of the helicopter pilots needed to be there. They could not be ordered to be there. A large number of them were National Guard helicopter pilots. This one guy had flown in vietnam and he looked at her he had a family and kids and, yet, he look at her and said, dont worry, well go get him, and he flew under the ash cloud toward the mountain, even though it was dangerous, to help her find her friends and did help her find her friends and now she wants to thank him these years later because when she got off the helicopter she wasnt thinking, she was so traumatized, and i wont tell anybody else but you what happened laughter that she actually it changed her life not only because she survived and because of all of that, she actually, in his honor, joined the National Guard and dedicated her entire career to trying to be as good enough a person as he was. applause can you believe that . And for her, its just amazing. So you meet these people. I mean, the reallife stories, you cant make this up. Its amazing. Im so moved by it. Stephen i look forward to it. Im crying now. Ann, lovely to meet you. Thank you for being here. Lovely meeting you. Stephen well meet again starts tomorrow on pbs ann curry, everybody youve worked hard. Busted tail. And impressed the boss. Maybe its time to be your own . Transform your career with strayer universitys mba program today. Lets get it. Sfx ominous musicshakes. S mba program today. Mmm. Sfx boing boing boing sfx screech tic tac orange. An irresistible burst of flavor. Tic tac. Go little. Sfx tic tac pack shakes. Stephen thats it for the late show, everybody. Tune in tomorrow when my guests will be john dickerson, eugene levy, and musical guest, midland. Goodnight captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. 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