Thank you. But lets get back to the president. Do you know him well . I had a chance to travel all across the country with the president on Trump Force One. Stephen Trump Force One is not a thing. Youre insane. laughter look, you can be as condescending as you want. Stephen i can . Oh, good to know i love your forehead. Is it true its the inspiration behind the film three billboards . laughter and applause tell me, whats it like being a psychotic lapdog whos a mouthpiece for a mentally incompetent narcissist . Why dont you just give me three minutes to tell you the truth about the donald trump that i know . Stephen okay, fair enough. The floor is yours. Tell me about the donald trump that you know. Tragic and unfortunate. Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight president oprah . Plus, stephen welcomes liam neeson. Author Michael Wolff. And musical guests andra day and common. 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 how are you . Thank you very much hey, everybody cheers and applause thank you very much thank you thank you thank you, joe welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause lovely people here tonight. Let me ask you here something, did anybody here see last nights episode of oprah . cheers and applause laughter it was so great. Now, some people are calling it the golden globes. It was easily one of the most powerful, moving, meaningful nights of beautiful millionaires giving each other trophies. laughter and, oprah really her speech was so moving, even for oprah. I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon cheers and applause and when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight. cheers and applause and some pretty phenomenal men fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say me too again. cheers and applause stephen someone give that woman an award for winning an award. laughter cheers and applause piano riff people, of course did you hear this . People were immediately calling that speech president ial. And a year ago, i would have agreed. laughter jon whoa, whoa. laughter stephen but these days it played a little coherent. laughter now, oprah is denying any political ambitions, but two of her Close Friends told cnn she is actively thinking about running for president. Now cheers and applause now, ill tell you. Its interesting. I, for one, would love to hear that the state of the union is stroong laughter whoo cheers and applause but i offer a note of caution do we really want to elect another billionaire tv star . Granted, this one is actually a billionaire laughter and actually a tv star. laughter that said, one of the things that inspires me most about oprah is that i believe shes reasonable enough to consider the possibility that maybe being a billionaire tv star doesnt necessarily qualify you to have the launch codes. laughter then again, if we did ever go toetotoe with north korea, i believe she could calm kim jong un down just by helping him lose weight. laughter cheers and applause its a point system. Its all points, right . Its points. Jon its all points stephen you can eat anything you want i love pasta i love kim chi i love all of it jon yes stephen but listen, a lot of people think oprah belongs in government. For instance, donald trump does would you consider a woman for your running mate, and, if so, who . I threw out the name of a friend of mine, who i think the world knows of, shes great oprah. Id choose oprah winfrey. Shes really great. Stephen if you need any more proof that donald trump is delusional, he thinks oprah would take vice president. laughter no uhuh. Mmmm. applause speaking of delusional, a little bit later on, ill be talking to author of the Trump White House tellall of fire and fury, Michael Wolff, okay . cheers and applause and i believe, if im not mistaken, this is an exclusive this is the only interview hes doing for this book. laughter i think all his other appearances on tv over the last five days was promoting tonights appearance, where he will actually be interviewed on the book. Now, the book is just packed with nuggets of ohmygod. laughter if you have not read it yet, here are the cliff notes trump dumb. laughter staff worried. laughter for instance, heres one, when one of his advisers sat down with trump to explain the constitution, he says, i got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head. laughter cheers and applause piano riff boring boring get to the boring get to the part with the rapping and the music, okay . I cant believe this thing won a tony. Wheres pumbaa . laughter you know, Thomas Jefferson himself said, hakuna matata. laughter this book, this book has led a lot of people to question whether donald trump is mentally stable enough to be president. Spoiler alert laughter but, on saturday, trump slapped back the notion that hes incompetent, tweeting, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. laughter and applause jon laughter piano riff stephen being like really smart is not the same thing as being. Really smart, sir. laughter tootsie rolls are like chocolate, if chocolate was made of brown wax and disappointment. laughter not chocolate. Also, i think its worth mentioning that people who are mentally stable generally dont announce it. laughter if youre going under for surgery, the last thing you want your doctor to say is dont worry, im mentally stable and, like, really smart. laughter lets start stabbing cheers and applause piano riff he continued i went from very successful businessman, to top t. V. Star, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, to president of the United States on my first try. laughter i think that would qualify as not smart, but genius dot, dot, dot, dot, and a very stable genius at that laughter yes. Jon wow. Stephen yes, thats very important, extremely, extremely important, okay . Jon hes a smart guy stephen look, im a very stable genius. Now, if youll excuse me, its past my cheeseburgers bedtime. Lets go. laughter piano riff i love you so much. laughter and we all know geniuses spend most of their time talking about how smart they are. I believe it was Rene Descartes who said, i think, therefore, i am, like, really smart. laughter and, the trump tweettacular then swerved offroad to cite a flattering New York Post article his is turning out to be an enormously consensual presidency. laughter we did not consent. applause we had a safe word. cheers and applause sir, we agreed on a safe word. Its you lost the popular vote. applause now, if consensual seems like maybe the wrong word, thats because its the wrong word. The actual quote is, an enormously consequential presidency. laughter my presidency is very congenital. Life i believe life begins at consumption, and by the way, my mental stability is extremely conjunctivitis. laughter yeah. Of course, the biggest source for Michael Wolffs book is former white house advisor, steve bannon. And im worried about steve, because thats what he looks like when things are going well. laughter he has gotten a lot of heat, because, in the book, bannon called don jr. s trump tower meeting with the russians treasonous and unpatriotic. But after getting attacked by the president and threatened with losing his job, he folded like an origami cuck, writing, donald trump, jr. Is both a patriot and a good man. Well, there you have it. Don jr. Is a patriot, so that meeting wasnt treasonous and unpatriotic. 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I always love coming back on a monday, the audience is always energized, you know, ready to have a conversation. cheers and applause i have to say, i was this much disappointed in this particular monday because, if you remember, today was supposed to be the day, at 5 00 and we tape a little bit after 5 00 at 5 00, when donald trump was going to announce the winners of the biased and unfair media awards. He made up these media awards last week and said hed be announcing the winners. Jon yeah. Stephen we coined the term for these, the fakeys, and we actually bought a billboard in times square, put it there for your consideration, all categories. But then, the only thing dumber than the president doing this would be him canceling it today and pushing it back to when . January 17th, a week from wednesday. For the president of the United States, again, if we survive that long jon right, yeah, you never know. Stephen so well be announcing it next wednesday. So were in it to win it, the billboard will be up till then, right . Just cut somebody a check, cbs. laughter so it will be up till then. Wish us luck. applause jon yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Stephen i tell ya i dont have it here. That book that fire and fury book that Michael Wolff hell be out here in a minute to talk about that that book really got under the president s skin. Because he thinks that thing is fake media, and the white house has had a tough week dealing with the allegations in that book. So this weekend they sent out Senior Policy Adviser and shaved pauly shore, Stephen Miller. applause laughter jon wow is that him . Stephen thats him. Seems like a happy guy. laughter miller went on cnns id tap that with jake tapper to discredit the book. One of the tragedies of this grotesque work of fiction is its portrayal of the president. The reality is the president is a political genius who won against a field of 17 incredibly talented people. Stephen yes, he is a political genius, who pioneered groundbreaking strategies like yelling, and having a hat. laughter eventually, miller started to get upset with tapper. Its subtle, but see if you can spot it. Why dont you just give me three minutes to tell you the truth about the donald trump that i know and all of our Campaign Staff know because its my show and i dont want to do that. So. crosstalk stephen, stephen, settle down. Settle down. Calm down. Stephen oh my god, hes talking to miller like hes a 5yearold. But everyone knows that millers actual age is. 38 . 61 . 15 . Theres no way to tell. laughter unfortunately, telling Stephen Miller to calm down. Doesnt work. No, you have 24 hours a day of antitrump material stephen, youre being and youre not going to give three minutes for the American People to hear the real experience of donald trump . I get it. Theres one viewer that you care about right now, and youre being obsequious, youre being a factotum in order to please him, okay . Stephen hold on. Did jake tapper just call Stephen Miller an obsequious factotum . laughter looks like somebody got a word aday calendar for the holidays laughter and applause you, sir jon laughs stephen you sir, are a sycophantic dogsbody, a lugubrious mountebank, a spurious, perfidious neerdo well laughter finally, tapper had to cut him off. You know who i care about . I think ive wasted enough of my viewers time. Thank you, stephen. As republican lawmakers call for attorney general Jeff Sessions to resign, in a major reversal. Stephen lets turn now to breaking news douchebag stops talking, news anchor questions career choices. Wolff . laughter but it turns out and this is true miller was not done. Because its being reported that miller was asked to leave the set multiple times but refused, after which he was escorted out by security. 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Stephen okay, yeah, havent been found out in what way . Is this that you feel like youre a fraud or something . Yes. Stephen join the club. laughter yeah, its called imposter syndrome. Its, its waking up every morning and think, im an actor, people are paying me still to do movies and to beat up bad guys and stuff and stephen yeah. Im 65 and. Its great. laughter and applause stephen and youre afraid that theyre going to find out . Theyre going to find out. Stephen find out that youre too great . I did a movie with Anthony Hopkins many years ago. And anytime i see him now, we give each other a hug and i say, hows it going, tony . He says, great, i havent been found out yet. laughter and he believes it. Stephen what was the first movie that you ever did . It was for the evangelical outreach, it was a film adaptation of the pilgrims progress, which is still running in missions in africa, believe it or not. Stephen really . That was in about 1977 i think. Stephen have you ever gone to africa and people go, pilgrims progress, youre the guy laughter hey, its the pilgrims progress guy i know. Ive been to africa a couple of times and kind of gone laughter stephen was there some star in movies when you were younger, like, talking about Steve Mcqueen, was there somebody when you went, i want to be that, thats my model, thats the person id like to learn from on screen . It was all that bunch of actors in the john ford films. Stephen oh, like john wayne . Wayne, victor mclaglen, ward bond, harry caray theres just that little repertoire of actors. Stephen have you done a western . Ive done three and im making one at the minute. Hence, ive got this horrible little beard. laughter stephen its not a horrible beard. Im done a little western for the coen brothers, two more days to do. Stephen are you allowed to tell us what the name of the movie is . Its called, the ballad of buster scruggs. Stephen okay. And its six little separate westerns, all different stories, and im in one of them. Stephen black hat or white hat . I have a bowler hat. laughter stephen hard to read, hard to read. And i dont have a sixgun, unfortunately. Stephen oh. Well, you recently got cast in really, one of the most high profile and prestigious jobs you can get as an actor. Youre the voice of waze right now. So they tell me. laughter you did it, too, stephen . Stephen i did it many years ago, yeah, but you bring a certain charm, a certain a certain gravity to giving directions to people. laughter like stephen like, as a great actor, when youre trying to say this is a setup, i know this is a setup. Stephen when youre trying to say, like, turn left or turn right, whats your animal spine . What do you do . laughter how do you get into the emotional headspace in order to tell people youre approaching a stop . laughter i would say, turn left. The other left turn right stephen do you mind if we try a Little Something right here . Sure. Stephen youre a great actor. Im going to give you a direction and then an emotion to go with it, all right . Can you say, turn right with compassion . Turn right. laughter cheers and applause stephen got me right here, a little bit. If you dont want to turn right, turn left. laughter stephen all right, can you say, merge ahead, but menacingly . Merge. Ahead. Punk. laughter stephen thats nice, and then one, frustrated make a uturn. Ugh, make a uturn laughter applause stephen that would do it i wish i had an award to give you. Now, whats your relationship with technology . Oh, please technology, me . Have you heard of this thing called the kindle . laughter stephen yeah, ive heard about it. Its about yea size. Mine has a leather flap. Stephen oh really . They achieved leather technology, have they . No, its real leather. Stephen real leather, okay. And theres metal that switches it off. Stephen theres metal that switches it off, its called a magnet. laughter i did do physics at university for one year. I know what a magnet is. However, this book, you can keep ten, 20, 100 books on it. Stephen sure. Do you have any sort of social Media Presence . Are you on facebook . No. Stephen twitter . No. Stephen instagram . No. Stephen snapchat . No. Stephen grindr . laughter any of them . Whats that . Stephen you would do very well, my friend. This kindle is great because, i stephen did you just get a kindle . I just got a kindle. laughter and if i was on location im an avid reader, so i would take ten, 12 books. Stephen oh, thats heavy. But the kindle laughter stephen theyre all there, theyre all right there. And when you read in bed, i fall asleep, and im like this. I wake up the next morning, and it has switched itself off. laughter stephen wait a second, i didnt realize they achieved switchoff technology. laughter wow lets talk about this film, its called, the commuter and you are the commuter. Yes. Stephen now this takes place in the city going north, right . Yes, going on the roughly based on the metro north. St6ephen is this like taken on the metro north . laughter no. Stephen okay, all right. Im an insurance salesman. Stephen an insurance salesman. Who has just lost his job because i have reached the age of 60. Stephen oh my, okay. And im mortgaged to the hilt, i have a kid about to start college, and i havent told the missus i dont have a job anymore. And im approached on the commute by a very attractive lady, played by vera farmiga, who offers me this would you do this little thing for this huge amount of money . Stephen and you say yes . Sure. But i dont know what its going to lead to. It leads to a big criminal conspiracy. Stephen what are we about to see here . Im not sure. laughter stephen okay. Sorry, stephen. This is exciting. No, its fine; no apologies necessary. Lets find out together. Jim . Who are you . Calm down. Why are you following me . Are you the reason theyre searching passengers . Who are you . Stephen wow. cheers and applause that is i just want to make sure i heard you right. Youre an Insurance Agent . laughter and you fight like that . Well, thats me getting beat up. I didnt win that fight. The other guy did. Stephen no, but you got some good punches in there. Yeah, i got a couple. Stephen yeah, you get beaten up a lot in movies. Yeah. Stephen why do you think people love paying money to see you get beat up . You tell me, stephen. Honestly, i dont know. laughter its frustration, maybe to do with the presidency, i dont know. laughter stephen its entirely possible. Well, good luck with the last two days of shooting that thing. Thanks. 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And he asks, one of the remaining contacts i have, said he asked for my media schedule today. So that might mean that all hes done today is watch me on television. laughter stephen well, congratulations. Congratulations. Are you in any way surprised by the splash this book has made . Of course. I mean stephen you are surprised . I am surprised. Stephen you describe the president as mentally unstable, unfit for the office, basically kind of gibbering to his cheeseburger when he goes to bed and hes got the launch codes, why wouldnt that cause a splash . Because i thought we knew this. laughter it turns out cheers and applause i kept saying, before this came out to my publisher, i said, oh, you know, youre printing a lot of copies. You know, theres nothing really too new in this book. Stephen oh, you said that to your publisher . Yeah. Stephen and he goes, youre crazy, sit down . Yeah. Stephen okay, you said, in the forward, you say, i want to get this rightyou eventually, after going through all your material, settled on a version of events i believe to be true. What does that mean . It means its the Trump White House. Everybody is telling you different stories. Lets put it this way, everybody is lying in their own particular way, because thats what you do in the Trump White House. So, i had to go and take whatever the event was, find as many people as i could, and then use my judgment. Stephen so its just a judgment call as to what stories to include, and what stories not to include . Yeah, i mean, well, what version of stories to include. In other words, theres a story in the book between a fight, a fight between steve bannon and hope hicks, and they run down, theyre running down the halls of the west wing into the oval office. And i got two pretty different accounts there, from one side and from the other. So then i went to other people and thought, okay, i know these people well enough, i think im confident ive got it. Stephen who did you believe . Which one . Did i get it . It was a combination. You would have to believe neither of them in this situation. So some, you know, okay, this is the hope side, and this sort of seems true. This is the bannon side, this sort of seems true. Now, this is the Trump White House. So everybody i mean, theyd kill each other. You have two fundamental these two sides who would be each others assassins if they could be. So, therefore, how do you get the truth out of, out of one side telling you one thing and one side telling you the other . Stephen but in this world that you were in, in the Trump White House, the actual existence of it is such a crazy thing that is so unbelievable. You know, two years ago, if you had said, look, im looking at the facts here and im going to say donald trump is going to be president , we would say, youre absolutely crazy, thats not going to happen. A completely aberrant enterprise. So you go in there and you hear these events and you think, this is completely aberrant, and this is the nature of this book. How do you put that into a narrative, into a story . How do you do it in such a way that it makes sense, that people can read this and say, okay, i have a pretty good im pretty confident that i now have some understanding of whats going on here. Stephen so how should i read it, though . Because im deeply conflicted when i read this. Its not that im not enjoying it, i am enjoying it. But its not that it doesnt upset me, it does upset me, so on a certain level i am not enjoying. As a comedian, sure, i would love it to be true so i can make jokes about it, but as a citizen i dont want any of it to be true. And you dont have sourcing, at least not listed for everything you got in here, so how much should i believe . You should believe all of it. Thats the alarming thing, that this is all true. Stephen but i do have to exercise some judgment. And you say youve got recordings of a lot of these interviews here. Why not release the recordings so you can slap down the character attacks against you by the white house . Because im not in the recording business, im in the writing business. Youve got to, if you want to turn to a recording, there are television these people are nothing but recorded. They are on television all of the time. Im offering something different. Im offering and this was totally mystifying to people in the white house im offering a book. laughter you sit down, you read it, page after page after page. Does the story does this comport with what you already know . Does it make sense . Does it have an internal integrity in which you come away saying, i think i understand this now . Thats my job as the writer. Stephen ive got your greatest hits of this book right here. Some of the things hes semiliterate, he has three tv screens in his bedroom, he goes to bed with a cheeseburger at 6 30, he has a long time fear of being poisoned. And thats this is just on one page. Stephen yes. He fails to recognize friends at maralago, repeats stories over and over again. Bannon says the russia meeting was treasonous. He sam nunberg only got to the Fourth Amendment before trump was pulling down his lip. Ivanka and jared had made a deal with themselves; one of them is going to run for president. She makes fun of trumps hair. But ivanka is going to be the first one to run for president. Stephen and then jared has to go. Is there something in your book that you went, i cant believe anybody hasnt picked up on this . Like, this was the shocking thing to me that nobodys picked up on is there something in here you cant believe nobodys asked about this event . You know, and this is less of a funny a fundamentally serious thing about this that everybody in the white house had their own press secretary. So, the president has his own press secretary; not sean spicer, but his private press secretary. Jared had a press secretary. Steve bannon had a press secretary. So there are all these different press operations. So the answer, why are there so many leaks in this white house . Thats what they did all day. Thats what the operation was. Stephen so everyones spinning their own p. R. All the time. Everybody. And there are essentially different white houses with these little staffs going out, talking to the press all day long. Stephen anything when you were there that gave you hope, like, oh, they do this well . Hmm. laughter stephen people have to go to sleep after this. Yeah. laughter nothing. I mean, this is really this is alarming in every way, to sit there, and basically thats what i did, i was like the sort of the, you know, come to me and tell me how how horrible you feel about working here. I was the guy. Stephen wow, and just people would reach out to you because they needed somebody to talk to . I think the truth is that they were talking to everybody. Stephen but you got the book. Im the only person who was willing to say this, because im the only person who doesnt have to go back again. laughter stephen i wouldnt go back again if i were you. laughter i mean, all of the reporters in the press room and in the briefing room, and i was careful to stay away from there, i never went in as a reporter. They all have to show up there again and again and again, every day. Stephen oh, i see. I do not. So, this is the real story. Stephen well, thank you for the book. I look forward to the tapes. 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Stephen and now performing their Grammy Nominated song, stand up for something, from the Motion Picture marshall, please welcome andra day and common cheers and applause you can have all the money in your hands all the possessions anyone can ever have but its all worthless treasure true worth is only measured not by what you got but what you got in your heart you can have you can have everything what does it what does it mean . It all Means Nothing if you dont stand up for something you cant just talk the talk you got to walk that walk yes, you do it all Means Nothing if you dont stand up for something and i stand up for you and i stand up for you yes i will, yes i will you do the best that do the best that you can do then you can look in the mirror proud of whos looking back at you define the life youre living not by what you take or what youre givin and if you bet on love theres no way youll ever lose take a stand make a stand for whats right its always worth always worth the fight it all Means Nothing if you dont stand up for something you cant just talk the talk you got to walk that walk yes you do it all Means Nothing if you dont stand up for something and i stand up for you stand for respect dignity if thats all you got then you got all you need and without that you dont have a thing oh, no, no rise up, love, lift your hands i stand with you cause i understand aint here to judge just to take a stand the greater plans the creators plan lets all rise like the day began reach out and touch with the saviors hand on rock, we stand like this native land let the ways of love be the ways of man these days we dance between love and hate dont know the date so we stay awake a knee we take for our souls sake new victory off an old faith a president that trolls with hate dont control our fate, because god is great when they go low we stay in the heights i stand for peace, love, and womens rights and it all Means Nothing, yeah if you dont stand for something because you cant just talk the talk you got to walk that walk yes you do it all Means Nothing if you dont stand up for something come on, colbert, clap your hands and i stand up for you stand up stand for you i stand up for you everybody at home, clap your hands. I stand up for you stand up for you cheers and applause god bless yall. God bless. From the worlds number one conditioner brand. New pantene lightasair foam conditioner, full of rich prov nutrients. And infused with air. For 100 conditioning, with 0 weight. Strong is beautiful. New pantene. Foam conditioner. Sorry. I cant make it. Its just my eczema again, but its fine. Yeah, its fine. You ok . Eczema. Its fine. Hey hi arent you hot . Eczema again . Its fine. I saw something the other day. Eczema exposed. Your eczema could be something called atopic dermatitis, which can be caused by inflammation under your skin. Maybe you should ask your doctor . Go to eczemaexposed. Com to learn more. Stephen good night stephen thats it for the late show, everybody. Good night cheers and applause captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org this is steve. He never thought it could happen to him. Getting fired is something that only happens to poor people. laughter but then it happened to him. Twice. In six months