Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. John mulaney nbc News White House correspondent Kristen Welker music from Tracy Chapman featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now se meyers. Seth welcome to late night. Hows everybody sorry, im just checking 5 38 okay lets get to the news. During a Campaign Rally in florida last night, President Trump suggested he might fire Infectious Disease expert dr. Anthony fauci after the crowd began a fire fauci chant. See, this is how you know fauci is beloved even a trump rally crowd didnt chant lock him up. Free fauci to pursue other opportunities after supporters chanted fire fauci, at the Campaign Rally in florida last night, President Trump suggested that he may fire fauci after the election, and said, quote, i appreciate the advice, and somehow a crowd in florida is still only his third worst adviser. Yesterday was the beginning of daylight savings time, because even though we live in a deeply divided nation, the one thing we can all
But donald trump and his supporters a defiant the president s showing no signs of conceding i will that affect the transition of power at the white house. And as a by this president says that his military is taking control of the strategic city of shusha in the disputed region of the border cut about. And in sport tell here is ability to stage an advance safely in the era of coronavirus has been put to this past gymnasts from 4 countries that had a friendly metas japan hopes to show the world it can carry out next year salary olympics. A promise to restore the soul of America Joe Biden is delivered a message of hope and unity just hours after the clearing victory of the president ial election he spoke of ending my. Racial unrest of bringing a new approach to dealing with the pandemic thats devastated the country but by will faced challenges President Trump is refusing to concede that its threatening legal action that he hopes will overturn results that secured by his victory we have 2
Pentagon to pull 2500 u. S. Troops from afghanistan, iraq, by mid january. And that the Defense Department will cut the number of troops in afghanistan from 452500, the number of forces in iraq from 322505 january 15th, just 5 days before joe biden would get sworn in. Naturally cries of National Security dominated the airwaves in response to this news. Yes, it was an all out political news media blitz to convince you that somehow removing us troops and bringing them home from war are now multigenerational wars. That somehow puts them in more danger than being in a never ending war. But that wasnt the only bad news for the pentagon this week, as it appears once again. They just cant seem to get the old books right. Reuters is now reporting that the pentagon failed, failed its comprehensive audit in fiscal 2 the and fiscal year 2020. Thats the 3rd year. The pentagon has failed since the 1st audit was conducted back in 2018. But apparently my friends there misuse and disregard for keeping
Calm. You know hell do it calm, the polls have biden ahead. Dont tell me about polls. The polls had hillary ahead. How did that go . Calm, calm buzzer couple calm calm calm screw calm vote vote votes announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, should we joe . Plus stephen welcomes john oliver, cher and musical guest jojo, 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 Stephen Colbert. I stake exception to the way we announce cher tonight. John oliver, cher. No, its john oliver, cher did cher do something to our announcer . Cher cher im so excited about cher. John olivers price nys. John olivers nice. We are only 23 minutes away from november 3, the day weve all been hopedreading while laughscreaming at our doomscrolling. Tomorrow night we will be live on showtime at 11 00 p. M. For our Election Night special. If you dont have showtime, just sign
Greeting since us President Donald Trump dast it could double stating laws to former Vice President joe biden, all the way back on what feels like ages ago. November 3rd, our brand name in chief has been running a sort of scorched earth transition policy from outright denying his defeat in a half brained attempt to muddy the upcoming Electoral College vote in the summer for team to his randomly on purpose. Firings of pentagon and Homeland Security officials who just happen to disagree with them about the election. Trumpets, how the news media isnt political punditry for outrage, machine running on full time minutes on a full tank of gas 27. 00 ratings, clicks and pearl clutching was galore. But it wasnt until recent reports that on his way out the door, the donald may drawdown or outright end the u. S. Wars in afghanistan and iraq. That, that hit the washington d. C. Where it hurts the most right between its military Industrial Complex legs. In fact, the hill is now reporting that acti