Thats not going to last long, i dont think. Its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight the feeling is mutable. Plus, stephen welcomes dolly parton and musical guest Ty Dolla Sign 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 hey, everybody welcome, one and all. To a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Were are exactly two weeks away from the election. So, if you havent decided who youre voting for yet, good luck escaping that abandoned mineshaft. Or stay down there til we have a vaccine its hard to explain. We really need a vaccine. Its a long story. As the election day barelies down on us like an outofcontrol manure spreading, one of the last chances to influence the race is thursdays president ial debate. We at the late show will be live, with indepth political analysis and extensive coverage of whatever flying creature happens to steal the show. My money is on a fruit ba
Ends and the determination to mount a sustained cleanup effort, our ultimate goal much to be the complete restoration of the ecology and the economy of Prince William sound including all of its fish, marine mammals, birds and other wildlife. The Exxon Corporation is acknowledged responsibility for this bill, and its liability for the damage. As exxon should remain responsible for both damages and for employing civilian personnel, necessary to control further damage. However, exxons effort, standing alone are not enough. And after consulting with the congressional delegation, senator ted stevens, senator frank macau ski, congressman don young, i have determined to additional federal resources to the cleanup effort. In addition to the considerable federal equipment already on the scene. This new effort will focus on the job of helping recover oil now in the water, and restoring beaches and other damaged areas. This effort should not in any way relieve exxon from any of its responsibiliti
Mr. Cotton madam president. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Cotton in the next few days Senate Democrats will move to discharge a war powers resolution to tie the president s hands in defending this nation against iran and terrorist masterminds like Qasam Soleimani. Lets think about how we got here and the implications of this reckless action. Qasam soleimani has the blood of thousands of americans on his hands and hundreds of thousands of innocent souls across the middle east. For more than 20 years he was the Supreme Leaders most trusted lieutenant, irans terror mastermind, the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan by supplying the most deadly kind of roadside bombs soldiers ever faced. He and his proxies and iranian leaders like him are responsible for bombings of our embassies in places like lebanon and kuwait. Theyre in no small part responsible for the ongoing horror of the Syrian Civil War or the civil war in
We have your statement. It will be including the record in its entirety and under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety if you wish or summarize, either way. I will summarize it. I am here to provide a frank response the questions regarding the Exxon Valdez Oil spill and to describe our continuing efforts to deal with its consequences before this i do this however i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of the exxon and certainly on behalf of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred and we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and in particular those in the Prince William sound area thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this we take full responsibility and weve done so from the beginning and well continue doing all we can to clean up and mitigate those
You ready for me, mr. Chairman . Yes, mr. Roe, we have your statement. It will be included in the record in its entirety. And under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety or summarize, either way. Ill just sort of summarize it. Ill here to provide a frank response to questions regarding Exxon Valdez Oil spill, and to describe our continuing to efforts to deal with its consequences. Before this, i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on beha of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred. And we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and particularly those in the Prince William sound area. Thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this, we take full responsibility, and weve done so from the beginning. Well continue doi