Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert dems the break week 2020 candidates, gone but not forgotten, except the ones we forgot. Tonight taunts and prayers. Plus stephen welcomes mayor Pete Buttigieg and Patton Oswalt. 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 hey, hi there cheers and applause fantastic. Very nice, very nice. How lovely. How lovely to be with all of you. No place i would rather be in the world than with you people right now. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause stephen so here we are. Here we are. Trump was not removed from office, which we never really thought he would be. So what now . Wither the republic. Some people fear that now there is going to be nothing to hold him back. Trump unleashed, off the rail. A, thats not a leash. It is just a really long tie. laughter and b, there were never rails, not even th
[ laughter ] for me the biggest takeaway on election day is how can anybody possibly have such a clean garage . I dont understand it. I go into these old peoples homes, and i think wheres your stuff . California has more delegates than any state. And i dont know if it was like this where you live, but we have been overwhelmed by advertising, mostly from mike bloomberg. The amount of mail weve been getting from mike bloomberg, its unbelievable. He is the Bed Bath Beyond of candidates. One of our writers came home from work last night to find this hanging on his door. This is another ad for mike bloomberg. Even his ads are too short to reach above the doorknob. Mike bloomberg has poured more than 500 million of his own money into this campaign. If he didnt have a good night tonight, he basically spent the cost of an avatar movie to find out nobody likes him. He did win he won American Samoa today, the election there. Biden won North Carolina and virginia. Bernie took vermont and expected
When he was chair. Told them hem and that fisa was not used of thely, that the power government overstretched their the other ven when elements of government says, no, even when others told us everything was fine with fisa, it was not until the Inspector General got his report and the truth was known. And i want to thank congressman nunes for being the truth and telling it to the American Public and staying with it when others wanted to lie. Thats why we are here today. Thats why this will never continue or happen again. You know, madam speaker, at the heart of our constitution is a simple idea, the idea of checks and balances. These principles protect americans freedoms by providing safeguards by governments overreach of power. Unfortunately in 2016, those checks and balances were not in place to stop individuals at the highest level of the f. B. I. And Justice Department from spying on carter page, an american citizen, who could have been one of us, but used the secrettive fisa court
[ laughter ] for me the biggest takeaway on election day is how can anybody possibly have such a clean garage . I dont understand it. I go into these old peoples homes, and i think wheres your stuff . California has more delegates than any state. And i dont know if it was like this where you live, but we have been overwhelmed by advertising, mostly from mike bloomberg. The amount of mail weve been getting from mike bloomberg, its unbelievable. He is the Bed Bath Beyond of candidates. One of our writers came home from work last night to find this hanging on his door. This is another ad for mike bloomberg. Even his ads are too short to reach above the doorknob. Mike bloomberg has poured more than 500 million of his own money into this campaign. If he didnt have a good night tonight, he basically spent the cost of an avatar movie to find out nobody likes him. He did win he won American Samoa today, the election there. Biden won North Carolina and virginia. Bernie took vermont and expected
Needs to pass. The good news is everyone agrees to sign onto to the principles of the changes made. We do expect the vote next week in the house of representatives, although Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says they will not take it up until next year. David in the meantime there is a thing called impeachment going on. You would think everything would grind to a halt, but it seems like progress is going on with its business. Is that what is happening . Anna it is an important point for nancy pelosi to say they are not just investigating the president. They are not as impeachment obsessed as republicans have accused them of being. Big are still trying to do things like passing usmca. There has been pushed from progressive democrats that nancy pelosi is working with President Trump to pass this trade deal and give them a win before the election next year, but it is important for her to give her moderate members to be able to say look at what i accomplished. I do not care. I will d