Also continue the count in the handful of states with more results to to be announced in the coming hours. Plus a 2nd coronavirus knockdown in line with other European Countries has come into force in england. Welcome to the program its 500. 00 g. M. T. Midnight in the United States and georgia is one of several battleground states where the result of choose days president ial election remains in the balance these are live pictures now from Atlanta Georgia capital city where the vote counting continues its the extremely close race in the traditionally republican state trance initial lead has been steadily falling. Now its about 28000. 00 votes and thousands of absentee ballots are still to be counted now were expecting more data in the coming hours but what might help joe biden most of all is the remaining votes that are from atlanta and its suburbs which normally lean towards the democrats but winning georgia could be crucial for by news extended his lead in the race for the white hou
Its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight finishing on a high vote. Plus, stephen welcomes South Carolina Senate Candidate Jaime Harrison. And musical guest Elvis Costello featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Ladies and gentlemen, i rarely say this, and i never mean it, but we have breaking news. Just moments before i walked into the studio im in right now, i learned something shocking. Two years ago you may remember, the New York Times published an oped called i am part of the resistance inside the Trump Administration by somebody known only as anonymous. People have been guessing who this ever since it was released. Well, this afternoon anonymous was revealed and its miles teller. Star of whiplash, the beloved fantastic four series, and the upcoming top gun reboot. I have no idea how miles teller got such intimate
Democratic hardy but for the country. I had been a democrat and my College Years and surely thereafter and i became more conservative over time before becoming republican during breitbart and so forth but even then i had an empathy for a kind of utopian thinking that the left does but im not a utopian myself but i do think that Many Democrats might disagree on policy issues in an ideological issues are coming from a very good place. They want to make a world better and what struck me about the direction the Democratic Party is taking, that party in such an extreme direction better risks falling over the cliff and essentially pulling the rest of the country with it one of the most important things to change my mind about politics was my experience for seven years in south africa seeing that leftwing government mismanaged the country after apartheid and i came back to the United States with the lessons of that experience very prominent in my mind and it really guided my thinking about am
President trump, but a lot of it is your partys message about joe biden. What is your focus in pitching joe biden to the nation . Our focus this week is about uniting america. Not just uniting the party, but uniting america. This is about telling everyone you have a seat at the table. We will be highlighting what we are doing to build back a better america. We will be highlighting the leadership of joe biden and Kamala Harris and this historic partnership. We will be talking about the pandemics confronting america, coronavirus, economic collapse, and our civil rights pandemic. We are going to be talking all week about how democrats are building a vision of an america that works for everyone, Building Back better. What joe biden will do. It is not just a conversation with the luminaries in the party. We are excited to have barack obama, michelle obama, and remarkable speech are speakers of that nature, but people are going to hear from ordinary people doing extraordinary things, a param
President donald trump set off alarm bells in america last week when he talked about delaying the upcoming election after the corona virus Pandemic Public Health officials recommended that people avoid long lines at polling stations and mail their ballots and instead the trumpeters juggernaut media machine have been relentless in discounting the credibility of mail then ballots climaxing in a tweet last week where he floated the idea of actually delaying elections day which is set for november 3rd that idea was quickly killed by the white house but the fears remain especially after he said that hell wait and see if he accepts the Election Results today were joined by someone whos been involved in american politics for decades Sidney Blumenthal is a veteran journalist whos worked with leading publications like the New York Times the new republic and the guardian and hes an author whos writing a landmark series of books on the life and times of americas 16th president president Abraham L