Musical guest, phoenix, and featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 666. Steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness hey welcome welcome [ cheers and applause ] you know its going to be a hot show. I feel it. I feel the love i give it right back to you. Thank you very much. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, to the tonight show. This is it, baby [ cheers and applause ] this is it this is the show to be at tonight. Hot show tonight. Heres what people are talking about. This is pretty big. I saw that today President Trump had a phone call with vladimir putin. Yeah. Actually, theyre just continuing the phone call they were just having last night, since neither of them would hang up first. [ laughter and applause ] [ as putin and trump ] you hang up. No, you hang up. No, you hang up. No, you hang up. [ laughter ] thats right, putin talking to trump. Even obama was like, now, this call im going to wiretap. [ laughter and applause ]
And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 666. Steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness hey welcome welcome [ cheers and applause ] you know its going to be a hot show. I feel it. I feel the love i give it right back to you. Thank you very much. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, to the tonight show. This is it, baby [ cheers and applause ] this is it this is the show to be at tonight. Hot show tonight. Heres what people are talking about. This is pretty big. I saw that today President Trump had a phone call with vladimir putin. Yeah. Actually, theyre just continuing the phone call they were just having last night, since neither of them would hang up first. [ laughter and applause ] [ as putin and trump ] you hang up. No, you hang up. No, you hang up. No, you hang up. [ laughter ] thats right, putin talking to trump. Even obama was like, now, this call im going to wiretap. [ laughter and applause ] put the popcorn on. [ a
My temptation would be to start with current events. I really enjoyed your july 3 column, the hijacked american presidency. Im going to read a little bit from it. I thought it was so powerful. Every now and then we are going to have to do this, step back from the onslaughts of insanity presidency,trumps registering its magnitude in its full, devastating truth. Ourselves routing than rising to the honor of the office, trump has lowered the office with his whiny, fragile, vindictive pettiness. The presidency has been hijacked. There are no words to express it. There is no new and novel way to catalog it. It is the most extraordinary and profound electoral mistake america has made in our lifetimes, and possibly ever. Powerful stuff. Why . Charles why not . There are a lot of different people who play different roles in society. , part of the job is to bear witness. , what else should i be writing . How else should i be considering what is happening . Reporters, who their job is to follow
My temptation would be to start with current events. I really enjoyed your july 3 column, the hijacked american presidency. Im going to read a little bit from it. I thought it was so powerful. Every now and then we are going to have to do this, step back from the onslaughts of insanity presidency,trumps registering its magnitude in its full, devastating truth. Ourselves routing than rising to the honor of the office, trump has lowered the office with his whiny, fragile, vindictive pettiness. The presidency has been hijacked. There are no words to express it. There is no new and novel way to catalog it. It is the most extraordinary and profound electoral mistake america has made in our lifetimes, and possibly ever. Powerful stuff. Why . Charles why not . There are a lot of different people who play different roles in society. , part of the job is to bear witness. , what else should i be writing . How else should i be considering what is happening . Reporters, who their job is to follow
Mass incarceration in one we disproportionately punish the poor and those of color, and im concentrating on the other side where we give impunity to wealthy, powerful people who sit as c. E. O. S and chairman of the powerful corporations. Cohan charles blow, Jesse Eisinger, when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following bank of america. Life better connected. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Cohan good evening, charlie is away. Im william cohan, special correspondent at vanity faimplet we begin tonight with charles blow, he is a bestselling author, commentator and visual oped columnist for the new york times. His recent columns have grown increasingly critical of the trump administration. Many see him as one of the leaders of what can loosely be called the resistance. I am pleased to have charles back