cheers and applause its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes kelly ripa. Billy gardell. And musical guests the lemon twigs. 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 how are you . Hey stephen thank you, sir cheers and applause whats going on, jon . Nice to see you. cheers and applause stephen welcome to the late show, im your host, Stephen Colbert. Is anybody here. cheers and applause anybody here from out of town applause anybody from out of the country . Hide. Theyre coming for you if you are visiting in new york, right now, you might have noticed that yesterday, activists put a banner on the statue of liberty reading, refugees welcome. cheers and applause okay. Yeah, i agree. I totally agree. Thats lovely. Thats lovely. Its absolutely a lovely thought, but kind of redundant on the statue of liberty, isnt it . Its like taking a rainbow flag and add
Players in that resurgent city. Power lunch starts right now. Dont you know that i heard it through the grapevine not much longer would you be mine welcome to power lunch, im melissa lee. Gm, ford, Fiat Chrysler all dropped. Hurricane matthew is barrelling through the caribbean. Could make landfall in haiti. Stocks kicking off Fourth Quarter in the red. Take a look at where we stand right now. We have the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 all pointing lower on the s p 500, materials the only sector in the green but it is really being crushed today by the downturn in utilities which is down by more than 1 . Oil, meantime, is higher today by. 8 of a percent. Trading above 48 bucks per barrel. We have a busy two hours. We kick it off with Brian Sullivan live in the motor city for us. Hey, bri. Hey, melissa. Thank you very much. Cant hear the song, heard it through the grapevine without thinking of the movie the big chill. When we came here a few years ago detroit was in a big chill. We came back be
Rhetoric and examining the issues from healthcare in kentucky to minimum wage in alaska, and soon well know who is going to capitol hill as America Votes. The long and expensive Midterm Election campaign is over. Today voters are casting ballots that will have widespread impact. It will come down to a handful of days. We go to David Shuster who joins us with more on what to watch. Lets talk about control of the u. S. Senate. Yes, tony, for the purposes of calling a senate majority, the first wave of results on the east coast could be crucial. Around 8 00 p. M. Of republicans could flip either New Hampshire or North Carolina, where were favored the chance to reaching 51 tonight will rise dramatically. Keep an eye on kentucky and georgia, seats that republicans are defending. The Democratic Victory in either kentucky or georgia would raise the democratic chances of holding on to the u. S. Senate. Mitch mcconnell stands to become majority leader if republicans gain control. The reason why
And its such relief for me as well and lots of other mothers that were like me. Reporter her story of great personal loss was documented in an awardwinning movie and the woman who was forced to give up her son shares her story with the pope. All eyes are on russia as the sochi olympics are officially underway. The most expensive Olympic Games in history began smoothly on thursday and qualifying events took place and the olympians arrived and the Opening Ceremony is coming soon and they talked about gay rights and security and promising a safe olympics and rolling out 37,000 police and Security Officers and good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America and im stephanie sy and we are in sochi and good morning and a pretty routine start to the games despite the weeks of anxiety leading up to it. Yeah, well stephanie i suppose as routine as any large Opening Ceremony can be in the most expensive Winter Olympics there has ever been. But, yeah, the Olympic Games always start with a huge gre
How disgusting. Do you have money . Yeah. Can i piss on you . Cenk damn. Well show you the original video, well show you that, and we have ed right here on the show. And then the elbow of the day we have a little knockout. Well go to politics, and then cause to celebrate. We have gay marriages in washington that started over the weekend. [ cheering ] cenk what im amused by is people who see that celebration and go, o, how terrible. Well talk about it all on tonights show. You know what time it is, go time. [ theme music ] cenk so off and on on this show we talk about money and politics. I think its the number one issue over all other issues. For once i have an amusing fact about that for you guys. Last couple of weeks of the election turns out republican dopers gave 86 million to mitt romney. Thinking that he would win and this would put him over the top. Oops. Wrong again bob. Thats not how to worked out. What i love about that, if conservatives were watching the young turks, they cou