A very big donation to a cause close to their hearts this morning. And winners . A thrilling finish at the National Spelling bee, and the event ends in a rare tie, the first in more than 50 years. The cochamps are celebrating with us today, friday, may 30th, 2014. Life is a highway from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Can we take that shot one more time . That is a concert crowd. Wow. So many. Eat your heart out, austin mahone. That was a big crowd earlier this week, but huge today. And there is good reason. This is the most awarded Country Group in the past decade. They have 14 number one hits, 22 1 2 million albums sold. They have a new album thats getting critical acclaim and theyre going to give us a great concert in a few moments. That crowd, its all ages. They, Everybody Loves rascal flatts. Good to have them here. Were going to get to our top
Stay, if you will, and well continue this on line captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org captioning sponsored by Comedy Central theme song playing Stephen Colbert presents, the Colbert Book Club, tonights selection. Everything, the catcher in the rye, by j. D. Salinger. Stephen Stephen Stephen welcome to everybody. Thank you for joining us, in the studio and all around the world. You are joining us for an historic evening. This is the second edition of the Colbert Book Club. Tonight, we are stepping away from the conflict in syria, because apparently that was the united states. A lot of details still to be worked out and we will get into those tomorrow, but the upshot is that america will not attack syria for gassing its citizens if they give up their chemicals weapons. It is like if you decapitate add coworker, so they are taking away your ax. But you get to keep your job and your hatchett. Be good now be good okay. Anyway, for
Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org captioning sponsored by Comedy Central theme song playing Stephen Colbert presents, the Colbert Book Club, tonights selection. Everything, the catcher in the rye, by j. D. Salinger. Stephen Stephen Stephen welcome to everybody. Thank you for joining us, in the studio and all around the world. You are joining us for an historic evening. This is the second edition of the Colbert Book Club. Tonight, we are stepping away from the conflict in syria, because apparently that was the united states. A lot of details still to be worked out and we will get into those tomorrow, but the upshot is that america will not attack syria for gassing its citizens if they give up their chemicals weapons. It is like if you decapitate add coworker, so they are taking away your ax. But you get to keep your job and your hatchett. Be good now be good okay. Anyway, forget that stuff. It is a downer. Lets get to the bo
But now i do have this book club, which is why i have been chugging chardonnay since noon. And pitching about my sisterinlaw sharon and the way she feeds my kids when they are over at her place. Dont tell me they had dinner if all you gave them but a gogurt and a cliff bar, you bitch [ applause ] speaking of drinking heavily, f. Scott fitzgerald. That is the author we talked about last time. Tonight, we will be talking about the biggest initials in 20th century literature, j. D. Salinger. A man so reclusive his first two names are still a secret. Was it joe don . Juan diego . Joe da plumber . Unfortunately salinger cannot be with us tonight, either mtv booked him to appear on the vmas, or [ cheers and applause ] stephen or he died in 2010. Only time will tell. But we have got a fantastic show later on we will be talking about salingers literary influence with tobias wolff, author of this boys life and we will be discussing the new documentary about salinger with its director shane sale
Stephen welcome to everybody. Thank you for joining us, in the studio and all around the world. You are joining us for an historic evening. This is the second edition of the Colbert Book Club. Tonight, we are stepping away from the conflict in syria, because apparently that was the United States. A lot of details still to be worked out and we will get into those tomorrow, but the upshot is that america will not attack syria for gassing its citizens if they give up their chemicals weapons. It is like if you decapitate add coworker, so they are taking away your ax. But you get to keep your job and your hatchett. Be good now be good okay. Anyway, forget that stuff. It is a downer. Lets get to the book club. Already in progress. Now, as you know, i am a powerful media mogul. I have got my own show, i have got my best selling book. I have got an Award Winning twitter feed and, of course, i have my massive daily email blast of the internet best forwards. Critics have raved, unsubscribe but i