Just drink at home. I honey . Eh its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight alone again, naturally. Plus, stephen welcomes Ryan Reynolds with jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey. How are you . Welcome back. So glad to see you here at a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Its wednesday i think . That doesnt have the date on it. I think its wednesday. Its hard to tell. Because right now, every day feels like youre being humped. This is our seventh, i think seventh show . Seventh show without an audience. We did one in the theater before we left. We did three the week before the break, so this is seven. Happy to be here. Lovely to see you. Its strange, but its lovely. I actually did the math, and ive been selfisolating for 2 idate now. Did you know and i just found this out that the word quarantine comes from the italian quarantina, which means 40 days which is how long people were isolated during the plague . So
Have the forward air observers that would make it more efficient than what youve got today. Can you share with us a little bit about what youre doing to try to improve that situation and how you would like to see that handled . General austin sir, we routinely use all of our Intelligence Surveillance and reconnaissance assets, u. A. V. s and manned aircraft, to make sure that we are understand whats going on on the ground before we employ weapons. And we are diligent in our efforts there, not overly cautious to the point where we where were not able to take advantage of opportunities to engage the enemy, but were very, very mindful of, you know, the possibility of committing civilian casualties. Senator round but were not using any of our own forward air observers at all . Is that fair to say . We dont have any forward air observers on the ground at all . General austin thats correct. Our jtacs are operating in the command center. What that does is allows jtacs to have visibility over
With a focus on the prison system. A harvardpreview with professor talking about a resumeon has become of people are thrown in jail. Incapacitation, rehabilitation, retribution has also looped in our reasons for punishment. We really shifted our motivation for incarceration from rehabilitation. Retribution, a sense that these are somehow deeply immoral actors that we want to submit to the harshest possible conditions. I think we are now seeing the ansequences of what i feel is misguided strategy that we are somehow expecting for the 2 million individuals currently have in prison, if we can exposed them to psychologically brutal conditions, and then release them into the streets, successbe a policy for and a strategy to reduce crime. Part of the conference will also hear about overcrowding in prisons, the vocational programs, and what happens to prisoners after they leave the system. That is tonight here on cspan at 8 00 eastern. On q a,sunday night twotime bullet surprise cartoonists,
Or commercial courts of law which they have asked us to help them with. They want serious help to create commercial courts of law. They created an intellectual Property Court because they recognize they are becoming amateur, innovative economy. They need these things. It will benefit american businesses but they are not doing it for that reason. Theyre going to trying to do this because it is for their own benefit. One area they talked about was a structured response to allegations of cyberattacks but the president had a pointed comment. Is, our wordsow followed by actions . What is the timeframe, thinking about whether this works, our sanctions still on the table if it does not . There is not a precise timeframe. Is the messagey was clear. Actions speak louder than words and what are you doing about this . Where big an area progress was made, the bilateral investment treaty. That was struggling to make progress. Leading up to this, significant progress was made in terms of the sectors
Skilled workers, there is an opportunity in terms of Immigration Reform to do with that but also there is an Economic Opportunity and a moral obligation when it comes to skilled workforce. I mean immigration. Second is we have to invest in not just roads and bridges and we have read the data about we are not investing enough but we have to invest in high speed broadband. With 20 of households do not have access, how can we compete . More business is being done on the internet. Betsy etsy, a company that allow someone to start a business at home, it is a Public Company. A fast Public Company here in the United States and it basically is a marketplace for craft workers to sell these things. We have to have broadband for those folks to have access, 90 of which are women, most of whom are staying at home, these are microbusinesses. There is a new definition of what business and productivity is that we are not connecting. And generally 2010 the president set the goal of doubling u. S. Expor