[applause] i guess they were all guilty. [laughter] thank you so much for the lovely introduction and for sharing the wonderful history of your friendship and his mentorship. Both of you have played a large role in the event of the history for over five decades and the law schools are incredibly fortunate to have you both in leadership and all of you are wonderful as leaders and as institutional leaders. I want to thank everyone for joining this to discuss the an exciting and extremely timely book and a portrait of donald trump and 3500 lawsuits. His other two books both of which are highly relevant to other books as well are cases that mattered and americans greatest trial court and supremely partisan here and how in Supreme Court. This is the fifth time you get to sit with you to talk about your wonderful work. So its meaningful and noise fun to have a conversation with you. You are someone who as i described an extraordinary contour. You have been a wonderful friend who is given so
I would like to call this town meeting to order. I want to thank you all for coming and i want to take the village of germantown for its cooperation in setting up this and local Law Enforcement for their assistance this afternoon. We have cspan filming our meeting, which is coming up live. So this is on worldwide television. When i call on you to ask questions, just stand up where you are as cspan has a boom microphone that we will put in front of you so the world will be able to hear your questions. [laughter] our also want to introduce two state legislators who represent the germantown and richfield area. Senator alberta and representative joelle. Here to listen to your comments and answer your questions about whats going on in madison, while i try to do the same on federal issues. Try to do the same on federal issues. For 40 years i have done more than any person in congress. Whatsy job to report going on in washington. While i have announced that i will retire at the end of my 2021
All it takes to win risk chaos edition is to boldly declare victory and leave chaos in your wake you just lit the board on fire. Guess i win again. laughing hey, guys, i just got the new risk chaos edition. I win son of a bitch risk chaos edition, nothing means anything announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight burning it down plus stephen welcomes steve carell and musical guest toby keith, 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 stephen hey there nice to see you i like it i like it thank you thank you cheers and applause thank you, dear friends. Welcome. Welcome one and all to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. And folks cheers and applause in light of the darkness that is the trump presidency, id like to start tonight with something nice. Last night, gymnastics World Champion simone biles threw out the first pitch at game two of the wo
Severe flooding in the italian tourist city. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington where President Trump has again denounced the impeachment inquiry into him as the first public hearings got under. It started with testimony from the acting Us Ambassador to ukraine. Bill taylor said it was clear to him the white house was making both military aid and a visit to washington by the ukrainian president conditional on ukraine launching an investigation into mr trumps democratic rival joe biden and his son. Our north america editor jon sopel has been watching. History in the house. This is like the super bowl for politics, the day the impeachment hearings go public. And coast to coast, all the Us Tv Networks are gearing up for the unfolding drama that could be the decisive moment of the trump presidency. And early this morning, in the white house residence, the light is o
Politics is politics, and sadly no one at this point should expect politicians to be anything but what they are, politicians. Democrats are trying to poison Public Opinion against the president of the United States ahead of an election. Its the wrong way to run their business, so to speak. Have a problem with the ceo, publicize it, fine. But leave it to shareholders to do the dirty work. If you have a problem with the president of the United States, before you rush to undo 63 million votes, consider following precedent and fight back the right way at the ballot box. Americans have always had a way to deal with politicians they disapprove of, and thats called voting. It many our strength. Its ou our system. I suspect this has become their insurance policy, if you would, a grand cya insurance policy against the soon to be result of attorney general barrs criminal investigation of fisa abuse during the 2020 election. Dems have employed the best oh defense is a good offense. Adam schiff sa