cheers and applause hello, jon audience chanting jon hey, hey, hey stephen hey, thats nice thanks, everybody cheers and applause piano riff whoo thank you all thank you very much please have a seat thanks, everybody hello, chris. Welcome. Welcome one and all to the late show. Im your host stephen colbert. Before we start tonight, id like to congratulate the staff and crew of the late show, because today we received four emmy nominations. Stephen Whoo Whoo Whoo got four. Its a new record. Its a new record. Of course, the real emmy is the friends we made along the way. laughter unless we win, then you dont need friends. Youve got an emmy. laughter piano riff you know whos not making many friends lately . Donald trump. Over the weekend, the president bellied up to the bigot buffet with a bunch of racist tweets aimed at four democratic congresswomen of color, known in washington as. The squad. cheers and applause specifically, trump said the four should go back to the countries they are fr
Good morning, everyone, im alex witt here in new york at msnbc world headquarters, heres whats happening right now. When did he find out . New reporting about when President Trump learned of Michael Cohens payment to Stormy Daniels. And it does not match what he said on air force one. Another new report about Michael Cohen and the 700,000 he had access to during the trump president ial campaign. The Ripple Effect from Rudy Giulianis media blitz and whether americas mayor still has the president s confidence. Plus we have laws that were written by people that truly could not love our country. The president talked about immigration to supporters as special protections end for more than 50,000 People Living in the u. S. With another good day, were beginning with a live picture of the white house, where the president is getting ready to leave for a trip to cleveland. Eats going to head there to campaign ahead of tuesdays primary election in ohio. But the president leaves behind the fallout
Week. He has a lot to answer for, including the priority on the trump investigation over the clinton investigation. The u. S. Supreme court ruled that the government must generally get aarnt when seeking cell phone records thatltimately indicate when and where you are located while using your phone. Loud. Talk about loud. Its summer, right . Officially i had to wait for the official start of summer which was, what . Yesterday or the day before. You break out the seersucke seersucker. Ed more like a cry for help. Abby like someone sitting on the coast of nantucket drinking a latte. Reading their new york times, getting their news for the day. Oh, pete, thank you for representing the country today. Pete i try. Why cant a man of the people wear a little seersucker once in a while. Abby what do you think of the suit . Ed is that Middle America or coastal elite . Pete ed, you are having your hay day. Drinking coffee and having a moment with you. Abby good to have you back there is a lot of
A bind, familiar to his predecessors careening towards a confrontation with iran and stalemating to north korea. Dispatching 1,000 more troops to the middle east in part of the escalation with iran but in the policy schizophrenia, secretary of state out with a more dovelike message. We are there to deter aggression. President trump does not want war and we will continue to communicate that message while doing things necessary to protect american interests in the region. Reporter the policy whiplash more disorienting than comforting, particularly as abject failure to halt north koreas dispute of a full Nuclear Weapon is on display as he sounds more like a devoted schoolboy with a crush on the brutal dictator of north korea than serious intelligence of u. S. Assessment. Heres the president when asked about the Intelligence Community assessment. Do you think hes still building Nuclear Weapons . I dont know. I hope not. He promised me he wouldnt be, he wouldnt be testing. Do you still trus
Im yasmin vossoughian. Amit outrage over Living Conditions at a Border Patrol facility in quint, texas, theres new reporting about 100 Migrant Children have been moved back into the facility. The transfer came just days after about 300 children originally housed at the border station were moved to other facilities to relieve overcrowding. Lawyers who visited the site last week reported that children were not being given adequate food or even water. And described unsanitary conditions including outbreaks of flu and of lice. In an interview with msnbc this week, texas gop congressman michael burrges suggested that children are not leaving because theyre well taken care of. Yes its a restored walmart. You know what, theres not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at anytime. But they dont, you know why . Because theyre well taken care of. Okay, not what were hearing. Meanwhile, msnbc is also reporting that a border and Customs Agency was not running low in supplies, thats in res