Preferences are. To pull that Military Threatening Military Funding or threaten it in a meaningful way. One thing i want to say quick is if american politicians saw daily video briefings of the suffering of the people in gaza and the people being killed day in and day out, they would put an end to this immediately. The problem is we operate in an environment in which palestinian lives are considered secondary. No one is paying attention and we put israeli lives that somehow more valuable and you are emboldening a situation in which it continues. I really appreciate it. I know there is more to discuss, but i greatly appreciate your time and insights this evening. That is our show tonight. Now it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening. Good evening, ayman, thanks. We are about a minute over with that one. Thank you. Sorry about that. Stack we will cover what Samantha Power is calling the single largest humanitarian crisis on the planet. It is probably not the one
And fuhaul does a thorough job removing all the related garbage. So call fuhaul today. Remember our motto get em out of here announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight plus, stephen welcomes Matthew Mcconaughey and cedric the entertainer featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody welcome to a late show. I am your host, Stephen Colbert. Ill get right to it, bad news first. The president is actively working to undermine our democracy, usurp the will of the people, and hold onto power, in violation of our constitution. Good news he is really bad at it. The president is desperate to somehow throw out the votes for biden, but like Everything Else in his administration, its been a race between autocracy and incompetence. And with this crowd, incompetence is usain bolt, who makes it across the finish line, steps in a bucket, and gets his head stuck in a toile
Susan Harold Holzers is our second hour about your new book the president s versus press. While i invite people to find the first hour, for those who havent seen it, whats that the jist of your new book . Mr. Holzer the thesis is we may believe we are living through the most chaotic and unpleasant confrontational era ever between a president and the media. But in fact, its a long tradition in American Government and American Media history that president s and the press do not share the same interests and have been out war, and a sense, ever since george washington. Susan from the time you started this project, was it always it versus the press . Mr. Holzer im glad you asked. No. Originally it was the president s and the press. In my research about president kennedy, i found that he gave a very defensive speech in 1961 for the American Publishers Association in new york city. And during the speech he said, i wanted to call this speech the president versus the press because you are not a
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