My name is jimmy carter, i am running for president. [applause] tonight, tonight i have some good news for you. We will have a democrat in the white house in 1977. Ladies of the convention, probably i present before you the name of jimmy carter as the party, of the democratic the next president of the United States. Election 1976, the Democratic National convention. Analystt is political richard scanlon. Richard inis is washington, with me are professor Howard Penniman and mr. Stephen hess of the brookings and touche and. We want to discuss the Democratic Convention. We will do the Republican Convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. Before we do either of the detailed discussions we have to spend a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of the nominating convention. One has said these are real ideological struggles told by circuses. Penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the cosession of American Convention . Convention national is the nominating
Alexandria, virginia. To start off the afternoon, please welcome philip green wall. Philip is the cofounder of emerging revolutionary war and the fulltime contributor to emerging civil war. He is the author or coauthor of two volumes in the American Revolutionary war series, and three volumes in the emerging civil war series. One of his books as downstairs, as well. Phil graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in history from wheel and Jesuit University and has a graduate degree in American History from george mason university. He is currently a supervisor and park ranger with the National Park service in florida. You can ask him about the fun things he may have seen recently there. With, that let us learn a bit about why someone would want to burn down boston. laughs applause i will move the microphone up. I am a park ranger in the everglades. Dont bring any snakes. I know that was a big concern. Did you but todays top is centered on something farther north. Being a Baltimore Orioles
Laughter laughter laughter laughter laughter its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, got to get u. N. To my life. Plus, stephen welcomes Paul Mccartney, 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 theme song playing hey how are you . Happy monday. piano riff hello thank you very much very kind hey, everybody welcome one and all, ladies and gentlemen, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. It has been cheers and applause piano riff im excited, too. Its been a very big week here in new york. The u. N. General assembly is in town. Leaders from asia, africa, and europe have come to new york city to see all the people who used to live in their countries. laughter President Trump is here, too. To welcome him, new yorkers have spent the last three years crowbarring his name off of all the buildings. laughter trump has cheers and applause piano riff trump had a busy weekend
Welcome. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, before we get started, i just want to take a moment to talk about the attack today in alexandria. Once again, were all shocked in mind and soul by a mass shooting, this time targeting, apparently, republican congressmen. And i pray to god that everyone pulls through. Violence of any kind is never justified and is the last refuge of the incompetent. Thankfully, none of the members or their staff or police were killed today. And i will say this even in the horror of this day, there was reason to take heart in bipartisan responses like this we will use this occasion as one that brings us together, and not separates us further. We are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish. And an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Stephen so i just want to say thank you to the congressional leadership and to the president for responding to this act of terro
Welcome. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, before we get started, i just want to take a moment to talk about the attack today in alexandria. Once again, were all shocked in mind and soul by a mass shooting, this time targeting, apparently, republican congressmen. And i pray to god that everyone pulls through. Violence of any kind is never justified and is the last refuge of the incompetent. Thankfully, none of the members or their staff or police were killed today. And i will say this even in the horror of this day, there was reason to take heart in bipartisan responses like this we will use this occasion as one that brings us together, and not separates us further. We are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish. And an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Stephen so i just want to say thank you to the congressional leadership and to the president for responding to this act of terro