Announcer its a late show live with Stephen Colbert tonight land of opportunity. Plus, stephen welcomes keanu reeves and alex winter and former congressman trey gowdy. Featuring, live, jon batiste and stay homin. And now live from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to a late show im your host, Stephen Colbert. We just walked in this room. We just literally finalized the script. I cant wait to find out what we just wrote. This is going to be really exciting, i havent even had time to prep my eyeballs because theyve had quite a beating tonight. We are live for the second night of the Republican National if you missed last night, congratulations. Despite promises of positive message, it was a dark, angry propaganda with terrible production values. They should have called it triumph of the will this be over soon . One big problem is trump and the g. O. P. Were in covid denial for months. The democrat
United kingdom we asked top toward a common creator peter put of the onset of the crisis will affect the health of 2 corsi of the listenership between the johnson government and much of the Reading Press from the United States we ask Pulitzer Prize winning journalist chris hedges one of the strains of the crisis has already affected president trumps reelection prospects or not for the better the 1st to glasgow and if youre pretty sure emails and your messages. Thank you alex and here are some of your responses to last weeks show which featured from a chief medical officer for scotland. And then piece of paper irelands kristina how fast and the m. P. For human in the us. I should add to the extended interview by alex smith said. Alexs Facebook Page and on his channel captain victor its not Rocket Science these successful countries to follow the guidelines picked on by. People who knew how to manage the circumstances we need to get away from the westminster advice prone to new says fasci
A coming point in the medias attitude to the governments handling of the crisis in the u. K. The 1st one occurred in mid april where fast the Financial Times and then the sunday times over the course of one weekend subjected the government performance to some set showing analysis how crucial were lead supports and terms of affecting the the accent by which most of the media were covering the pandemic. I think the Financial Times and in particular the sunday times reports were very important this sunday times report something times report was very kind of him very give a little insight into the attitude of the government in the early days of the crisis the revelation that mr johnson had not attended the 1st 5 meetings 5 out of 5 meetings of cobra the Emergency Committee which coordinates responses to crises was quote he did suggest that he didnt grip the crisis with anything like the the energy which might be expected and the other thing was of course it came from Rupert Murdochs sunday
North korea expert, scholar and author for the sister, dr. Sungyoon lee. His bio is on the website, but i do want highlight that outside of his Academic Work research. Chair dr. Lee has been an Expert Witness for us congressional. Hearings on north korea policy, including the Otto Warmbier versus dprk trial this evening. We have a unique opportunity to hear his insights about country that keeps us awake, continues to present challenging policy problems for the region and beyond and. As if that werent difficult enough to try to the pathology of secretive kim that leads it joining dr. Lee is our very own Emma Whitmyer easy Society Policy institute officer, Program Officer will interview dr. Lee and then conduct a q a with the audience. Emma was previously a fellow with the south Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Now we get the program underway, which is why you are here. I want to first thank dr. Lee for taking time to speak here. We are delighted for this opportunity to host you for w
Continues. Host our focus now on the federal employees that would be impacted the Government Shutdown. How many federal workers do you represent . About 750,000 federal ndc government workers. Of those, how many would be furloughed during a Government Shutdown . Guest that is a question that is unknown at this time. The last shut down, that was about 800,000 federal workers furloughed i am sorry, affected. Half were furloughed. Half went to work and just did not get paid. Host we are four days away from a shut down. You federal employees know at this point whether they would be furloughed or considered essential employees . Or are those plants still being put together . Guest in some cases, they know and are making preparations for what could happen. Host what are you telling your Union Members to expect . How should they be planning . Guest first, i am remaining hopeful. I am telling them to continue to Call Congress and ask them to not allow a shutdown to occur. I am telling them to