Howard featuring jon batiste and stay homin. Are are and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert, im flad to be your host tonight, all nights, but particularly tonight is an historicam night in the annals of television. Tonight is the first night i am sitting down with a guest in person the late show and who else do you want to break that seal with but president barack obama. Thats right, barack obama, my guest tonight. Three acts . Three acts of barack obama. And you go, is that seems like a long time no, its not. You cant believe how quickly it flies. First act, obviously, just friends hanging out. Power packed though, and really substantive. Next act were going to move some paper. Were gog sell some books. Super fun at the same time. Then the third act, we play basketball. Thats historic. That is an historic game. Wait until you see the results. A
But lots of other places too. So theres this aspect of language about whats knowledge of language thats inside your head, that you actually that every human being shares. But then theres also a separate nation about language, about how do you put it, what use do you put language . And those are 2 Different Things to different ways of looking at language. So if linguists can now think about the evolution of language, like what is language, or where is the language of all the ng . I mean, is it for them being divided into many different ones or will, would just all speak at rahman tongue one day, sooner rather than later. Right. When i say, i dont think i will arrive at some kind of limbo where theres just essentially one language that used by everyone. I think there you have to distinguish between, again 2 fundamental ways of looking at the evolution of language. So one way to think of it can, you can think of the evolution of, well, what was the initial origin of language. You know how
Commented he has not come out with the statement regarding the outcome of the elections in the United States he is touring the southern part of the country places that have been affected by heavy rains from the remnants of hurricane ada which slammed into Central America earlier last week but if we look at it from the perspective of different political leaders here in mexico especially those that work in the area of International Politics the politics those that work in the area of International Trade surely they are breathing a collective sigh of relief a biden presidency for mexico and for political leaders in mexico just like with many other countries of the world represents a return to traditional diplomacy a departure away from threats issued over twitter of tariffs if mexico doesnt comply with it with immigration standards in a style that the United States will insist on it represents a return to traditional negotiation tactics when it comes when it comes to trade more so than an
The Freeman Foundation. By judy and Blum Kovler Foundation pursuing solaions for amerneglected needs. And by cpbtributions to thistation from viewers like you. Thank you. Anchor this is bbc world news america. Ngi am repor tonight, and texas has voted more statewide in 2016, and we still have four days to go. Staying out west in arizona, native americans dying from coronavirus disproportionate hi numbers. Locals say that the pandemic means instant death. Knowing that those people are laying there and they are here because of covid, it is heartbreaking. Laura an earthquake off of the gean coast strikes and hundreds are dead. How one neighborhood in britain is bursting with terriing, spooky decorations. Laura if you are watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to bbc world news amera. The sheer volume of early voting taking place across the united 80 million have already voted early. 60 of the total votes cast in20 with four days still to go. Texas is shatterin turnout records. More
Postelection standoff between the Trump Administration and the Biden Campaign. Day and it 8 45, leo shane discusses the fallout from the defense secretarys firing. A week ago this morning, the results of the 2020 election were unknown. By saturday morning, joe biden had garnered enough electoral votes, and was declared the winner. President trump and his republican allies have been contesting that, but states are standing by the results, and legal efforts so far have yielded no change in votes. Good morning. It is veterans day, november 11, 2020. This is washington journal. We will talk about the continuing standoff in this first hour. We want your calls this year. If you are a supporter of joe biden and Kamala Harris, the line is 202 7488000. Supporters of donald trump and mike pence, 202 7488001. All others, or if you did not vote, the line 202 7488002. Also, send us a text if you would like. It is 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. Andwitter cspanwj faceb