Its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight west wing with the cast and creator of the west wing. 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 hey, everybody welcome to a rare friday late show. Its a special one. Im your host, Stephen Colbert its a very special a late show tonight, because well take a break from talking about what happened in the west wing and instead, talk about what happened on the west wing specifically, a west wing special to benefit when we all itse evt next thursday, october 15, bringing together the cast and creators of one of the most iconic shows of the last 20 years. Plus, its on hbo, so maybe well finally get a peek at josiah bartlets south wing. Im talkin martin sheen peen. Dont let us down, marty. Its all to benefit Michelle Obamas voter initiative, when we all vote. Oh, i know that one november 3. Do it. Tonight, ill be interviewing west wing stars
Ohio. Well be checking in with him. He will be talking about anything but health care today but first now to kevin corker at the white house on what the conference cal might involve. Reporter the president and hhs secretary want to talk about the Affordable Care act. Essentially what theyre doing is making a sales pitch. Yes, theyll talk about what is working, even talk about the fixes but most importantly, going to try to drive traffic to the web site, healthcare. Gov. Locking to get more people, especially Young Healthy people to sign up for plans under obamacare. This afternoon at the press briefing asked josh earnest why too you feel like so many people think the law isnt working . In spite of the political motivated attacks against the Affordable Care act launched by republicans, the American People are benefiting from the law. And they benefit even more from the law if republicans would finally decide to do something other than just score political points. Reporter did you catch
4. 9. Greeted differently by the candidates. Take a listen. We got some good news this morning. Our economy created 161,000 jobs last month. That is 73 straight months of job growth. Shows the numberobs report that of people not in the work force, increased by another 425,000 people last month. Thats why you see these phony numbers about 5 unemployed. People are stopping, theyre not looking for work anymore because they cant get a job. All right, now, theyre both right. What if i told you both stress the parts of the report that favored their argue. But i do want to show you Something Else before i get to charlie gasperino. Look at the markets today. Specifically the s p 500, it was down today after many of the markets were up all day long. That is the ninth straight day we have seen that. Have to go back to december 1980 to see that many town days in a row. Now, normally i dont want to discovery stress this because in the rules of thumb are meant to be broken but normally win you have
She did a lot of great things, and she also gave a lot of nutty advice and did some questionable things, and she was a complicated, you know, complex person. To the the result is, hope any, the complicated, complex portrait of her. And i think anyone who reads something about themselves has very mixed feelings about it. I would hate to read manager this long about myself something this long about myself. [laughter] [inaudible] and she never did like puff pieces [inaudible] and she liked a zippy read. [laughter] thanks, barbara. Anyway thats all we have time for. Thank you for coming, everybody. Lets give another round of applause for our authors. [applause] again, weve got plenty of books up at the register as well as wine. And hardboiled eggs. Just kidding. Laugh [laughter] [inaudible conversations] watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best its for serious readers. On cspan they can have a long or conversation and delve into their subjects. Booktv weekends, they bring you
Out and a republican picks that up for a net gain of one. Youre going to be seeing on the lowerr right portion of your screen as we look at shellys victory what is the break down of the guaranteed races we know. We are literally doing this in a way backwards so you can see the race to 51. Remember republicans will need 51 because the tiebreaker in this senate goes to joe biden s president of the senate if ts a 50 50 senate. He will be the tiebreaker so republicans would need that extra seat. Growing indications tonight just might be the night they get it. For my money, the big shocker of the evening is the still hard too call race in the state of virginia. Thats right. Virginia. Because dont look now, but an established incumbent who led by as much as ten points, a little more than two days ago, 20 points two months ago, well, senator mark warner the incumbent is in the fight of his life against ed gillespie, the former chair of the national committee. Nowhere on anyones charts was thi