Im in my bedroom on january 6th watching thousands of people at the United States capitol on the day that the president ial election was supposed to be certified. Like most of us, last winter i watched live as people stormed the United States capitol. Fueled by the baseless claim that the election was stolen. Make no mistake, this election was stolen from you, from me. Stop the steal stop the steal this is the consequence of Conspiracy Theories rung amok. Accusations of lies, treason, even pedophilia flew from all directions. It begs the question, how did we end up here . Americans have always been fascinated with alternate versions of the truth. The clues were all there, actually, that it had the potential to get as huge as its become. But in the last decade, Conspiracy Thinking has gone mainstream, and it may not be entirely our fault. If youre a democrat and im a republican, the algorithm is incentivized to push us apart. Tonight were taking a closer look at a system thats designed
whistling laughter announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, stephen welcomes Rachel Maddow, ben platt with a performance from the musical dear evan hansen, and stay dear evan hansen, and stay human, featuring jon batiste. Now live on top at the ed human, featuring jon batiste. Sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause captioning sponsored by cbs stephen hey cheers and applause band playing hey, man good to see you, doctor cheers and applause thanks so much please have a seat youre too kind. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Now, i dont know about you, but ive got a little extra pep in my step tonight because donald trump has left the country. cheers and applause breathing a little easier. Federal judges, now would be a good time to reinstate that travel ban. laughter hell be flying in from a dangerous part of the world. He said some radical stuff. Im just saying, extreme vetting. Thats all im asking for. cheers an
whistling laughter announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, stephen welcomes Rachel Maddow, ben platt with a performance from the musical dear evan hansen, and stay human, featuring jon batiste. Now live on top at the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause captioning sponsored by cbs stephen hey cheers and applause band playing hey, man good to see you, doctor cheers and applause thanks so much please have a seat youre too kind. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Now, i dont know about you, but ive got a little extra pep in my step tonight because donald trump has left the country. cheers and applause breathing a little easier. Federal judges, now would be a good time to reinstate that travel ban. laughter hell be flying in from a dangerous part of the world. He said some radical stuff. Im just saying, extreme vetting. Thats all im asking for. cheers and applause piano riff where does his money come from, so
whistling laughter announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, stephen welcomes Rachel Maddow, ben platt with a performance from the musical dear evan hansen, and stay human, featuring jon batiste. Now live on top at the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause captioning sponsored by cbs thanks so much please have a seat youre too kind. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Now, i dont know about you, but ive got a little extra pep in my step tonight because donald trump has left the country. cheers and applause breathing a little easier. Federal judges, now would be a good time to reinstate that travel ban. laughter hell be flying in from a dangerous part of the world. He said some radical stuff. Im just saying, extreme vetting. Thats all im asking for. cheers and applause piano riff where does his money come from, so many unknowns. His first stop this weekend was saudi arabia, where trump was greeted on the tarmac
Im not the expert sally son. Tucker barnes, erin como, theyre our sdmerts morning. Erin whats going on. Hey, well, ill tell you what, tucker will have a look at forecast in a second and as you make your way out good news 270 earlier crash involving tractortrailer cleared by falls road and heavy residual delays linger past father hurlry boulevard and look at metro blue line delays to Largo Town Center earlier malfunction to king street. Impacting green line and yellow rush plus. Full look at traffic and forecast coming up in the next few minutes. Back to you guys. 7 00 starting top story. Shockwaves reverberating after james comey is fired. It took comey and everyone else by surprise. Live from capital hill now. Good morning. This was a shock here at fbi headquarters. No doubt. The agency itself is now being run by comeys deputy. As far as comey himself he certainly angered both democrats and republicans at times during his tenure here at the fbi. Timing here was such a surprise. What a