Scenes on social media at post boost on twitter, instagram and facebook. Remarkable year for book that have been tackling the uses and especially the abuses of this countrys criminal Justice System. And we at politics and prose have been honored to host authors and poets behind them. The first event we hosted this year at this location was for the investigation of the misdemeanor punishment without crime and were closing with an equally essential look at the way the legal world unfairly treats this countrys disenfranchised and the author target is his own former profession as a public testify. The become called usual crueltity comes from alec karakatsanis. The founder of the civil rising corps, advocating for racial justice. Especially known for come batting the unconstitutionality of money bail, karakatsanis was name the 2016 trial lawyer of the year by public yates and the steven b. B. B wright aired for and as an introduction to his talk tonight im very excited to be welcoming his g
Tonight, Charity Begins at court. And the cast of star wars answers just one question. Plus, stephen welcomes mark harmon and comedian Caitlin Weierhauser featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hey happy friday nice to see you beautiful you audience Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen stephen good to see you. Happy friday hello, my friends thank you so much. Wooo wooo got that friday feeling. Got that friday feeling in this room. Welcome to the late show, everybody. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. It is friday, and everybody is ready for the weekend. Trumps had another rough week on the impeachment front, but hes got something to look forward to this weekend. On saturday, hes going to the annual armynavy football game. Now, this is one sporting event where trumps got a pretty good chance of not getting booed. laughter and even if he is, the booing will be highly regimented sir
Coming out. Thank you also to cspan for covering this in our cspan viewers. Im going to introduce the who is the advisor to the National Security program and she is a Longtime Department of defense she most recently defense fory of energy security. Apparently, you all realize it is snowing, so we are grateful that you braved the weather to come and join us for a very important conversation and fastmoving situation. I want to to start with peter has a new book out that you should all read and his book just about two weeks ago, i said you are writing about a president and National Security team before the story is over, so what is the next chapter . [laughter] you see where this is going. President has not had a genuine foreignpolicy crisis yet. We dont know the capabilities, so make sure you ask his projections on the market and Everything Else and here we are. I would encourage you to read the detailed biographies of our panel because we would be here all afternoon going through their
Viewers. Im going to introduce the who is the advisor to the National Security program and she is a Longtime Department of defense she most recently defense fory of energy security. Apparently, you all realize it is snowing, so we are grateful that you braved the weather to come and join us for a very important conversation and fastmoving situation. I want to to start with peter has a new book out that you should all read and his book just about two weeks ago, i said you are writing about a president and National Security team before the story is over, so what is the next chapter . [laughter] you see where this is going. President has not had a genuine foreignpolicy crisis yet. We dont know the capabilities, so make sure you ask his projections on the market and Everything Else and here we are. I would encourage you to read the detailed biographies of our panel because we would be here all afternoon going through their qualifications, but i want you to know that they are not only the t
Welcome to new america. Thank you for coming out in the what the Weather Forecast has called a wintry mix. Thank you for cspan for covering this. And welcome to the cspan viewers. Im going to introduce our moderator, sharon burke who is the Senior Advisor to the International Security program. She runs the resource security program. Shes a Longtime Department of defense most recent position was assistant secretary of defense for energy and security. Ill go to sharon now. Thank you. Sharon thank you very much. Apparently, you realize its snowing. So we thank you for braving the weather for joining us together for a very important situation and a fastmoving situation for sure. I want to start by acknowledging something that we just did with peter. Peter, of course has a new book out that you should all read. And when we were here talking about his book just about two weeks ago, i asked peter, i said you know, youre writing about a president and a National Security team before the story i