Impeachment inquiry into the actions of our Orange Julius caesar, the white house fired back and countered with a summarized transcript of the president s call with the president of ukraine. This is if oj told chris dardin, hey, you found my glove the whistleblower came floored because he or she believe trump pressured the president of ukraine, this is what the whistleblower said happened. Trump said that did not happen and released a transcript that said it did happen. He did both of those things, multiple times and abused the office of both the president and attorney general. He clearly only had one reason for making this call, that was to strongly encourage president zelinsky to find information that could hurt trumps opponents and help his campaign. That is the conclusion any region person who read this is would draw. But the president has repeatedly claimed that the call in question was perfect. The conversation i had with the president of ukraine was absolutely perfect. That call
Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight uu. K. In the membrane. Plus, stephen welcomes Renee Zellweger Walton Goggins and a special appearance by new zealands Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. 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 come on hi there thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Hello, chris. Nick and mark, every up there, down, there out there, around the world. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Ladies and gentlemen cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, get out your sextants, your compass, your astrolabes because we are in uncharted waters. Because after two and a half years of the trump presidency, we finally spotted the great orange whale, and let me tell you, thar he blows. laughter , this morning this morning, the administration, for some reason, released the official notes of trumps phone call with ukrainian president volodymyr zele
This is a tiny number of sociopaths who are making these decisions and they dont even notice if we all march outside in. Acts these marches are kind of like those those raids your experience things at airports and restaurants the flight has already been connected to anything ok the powers that be just know that you feel better if you think you gave your opinion that is it although i will say it all the last time i used one of those i did get a response from the t. S. A. At the airport. I was only even half way through taking a dump on the frowny face when the. Guys with guns showed up so the. Point is theres too much money for these corporations to stop doing what theyre doing fossil fuel companies wrist were wasting more than 2. 00 trillion dollars over the coming decade by pursuing coal. Oil and gas projects that could be worthless in the face of International Action on Climate Change they have made a 2 trillion dollar gamble that we will all keep using fossil fuels even as society c
Sal you take shootings if Punxsutawney Phil and i had taught us anything its that predicting the future can be a few tile and deborah hawk watchers but that doesnt mean we shouldnt try and the best way to know your future is to study your past and its wall streets past sins that now has many very concerned about our Economic Future you see back in mid september the new York Federal Reserve started handing out emergency overnight loans to the big banks starting up at a rate of 75000000000. 00 a day as well as handing out 3 different 30000000000. 14 day term loans to the banks as well well apparently these numbers they just werent big enough to cover the bank short term loan needs and according to wall street on parade after the demand for the 1st 14 day loan was more than double the 30000000000 that they had at the new York Observer the new york bad boosted the next term loans to 60000000000 and increased its overnight loans to 100000000000 wow. And just who is getting these loans is be
Business not to the colorful large is where we all show up for 2 hours while the politicians go golfing ok im not saying dont do this im just saying our rulers dont k. Or that you did this its like when you address of a baby you address of your baby in a costume im not saying you have to stop but youre only doing it for yourself or baby ok. Ok. Ok. But since i aim to please heres a point for those of you who dont give a about the Climate Crisis the corporations that are screwing your life pillaging your land sucking your tax dollars drive through subsidies and meanwhile paying a warm can of parts in our those corporations are the same ones creating the Climate Crisis in fact its just a 100 companies are responsible for 71 percent of global emissions when it gets even worse the report found that more than a half of Global Industrial emissions since 1988 more than half can be traced to just 25. 00 corporate and state owned entities 25. 00 corporations theyre killing us there smothering u