Wrong. Its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight down for the count. Plus, stephen welcomes Shepard Smith. And musical guests leon bridges and lucky daye. 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, ladies and gentlemen to a late show. It is 11 35 east coast time, and cbs is ready to project that i am your host, Stephen Colbert. Though theres a good chance donald trump is going to challenge that in court. And 24 hours later, we still dont know the winner of the president ial election. I win i win i win stephen get out of here go more on that later. As you can see, i am still on the election set, because the elections still going on. As we knew it would. We planned to keep this set up for days, because, covid. Its going to take a while to count all the votes and its all coming down to a few states where theyre still counting votes in north carolina, georgia, nevada, an
144,000, 65000 people hospitalized and we are averaging over a thousand deaths a day. A new round of restrictions would surely slow the economy and put more people out of work, heard even more with travel, retail and Entertainment Industries perhaps, thats one reason the market is selling this morning. After the huge recent gains the dow looks to be down about 200, s p down about 10. Look at the nasdaq with a modest bounce to the upside with the dana may be a quarter of a percent of the standout political headline comes from Bernie Sanders. He says yes, if offered the job of labor secretary in a biting next he would take it. On that, we will say this, varney co. Is about to begin. Stuart born to be wild, well i guess thats fairly appropriate. What you are looking at is rather empty new york city on a rainy thursday morning. Of course, its been half empty for about eight months and Governor Cuomo has more restrictions on businesses. Ashley, bring me up to speed. Ashley he certainly has.
May be time to reopen some schools. And Close Encounter with a cougar. A utah hiker learns what it feels like to be prey after getting too close to a cub. The six minutes of terror caught on tape. Dont mess with a mama cougar. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. If confirmed, it would be the honor of a lifetime to serve alongside the chief justice and seven associate justices. The political battle has broken out on capitol hill as confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett begins. I think this hearing is a sham. When you tell them theyll be a catholic judge not an american judge, thats bigotry. The president returned to the campaign trail. I feel so powerful. Ill walk into there. Ill kiss everyone in that audience. Dr. Anthony fauci wants the Trump Campaign ad featuring him to be taken down. I think its unfortunate and really disappointing that they did that. Its so clear im not a political person. Voters head to the polls but are forced to wait hours to cast
I have read the book. Not only that, i highlighted it. [laughter] i made notes. Come on. Thats a phenomenon with the movie but people talk about books without reading them. Sometimes when they are promoting the movie im working off your page. I feel i could do better than Rachel Maddow right now the goal is to go even deeper than she did. That congratulations on the book and these ideas of what is happening that we wonder about how did this happen . How destructive is it and will it ever get better. But a question of how you got into journalism i got a sense that you were a journalism nerd the way i was a comedy nerd as a kid. Out often interviewed comedians i would hunt down john candy or Jerry Seinfeld because i was obsessed and you did a version of the same thing. The only job i ever wanted in my life when i was five i wanted to be a trash man that was a big event in my house. Was so amazed. Ever since then i wanted to be a journalist. Some people will say the two jobs are the same.
And at 9 00f truth a. M. , biographer and president ial historian Craig Shirley Discusses Campaign 2020 and the history of postconvention president ial campaigns. Host three months until election day, the candidates and issues come under more intense scrutiny. Joe biden making his First Campaign speech since the convention accusing the president of stoking violence in our cities and that the president forfeited any leadership in our country. Welcome to washington journal for this tuesday, september 1. We will spend the first hour getting your thoughts and reaction to joe bidens speech and we will hear from joe biden, play you this speech and reaction from President Trump. Here is how we are breaking the lines up. If you support joe biden and Kamala Harris that line is 202 7488000. The president and Vice President mike pence, 202 7488001. If you are undecided or supporting another candidate the line is 202 7488002. You can always send us a text, 202 7488003. Make sure that you tell us y