Stephen welcomes Molly Shannon, Thomas Lennon and comedian owen smith. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater is new york city, its stephen colbert. cheers and applause . Stephen hey, everybody. Please sit down, everybody. Sit, sit, sit, sit. You, down, thank you very much. Thanks, everybody. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, stephen colbert. All week long, all week long President Trump has tried desperately to convince us that he is a stable, steady meeting to the press, met with foreign dignitaries, it was a nice act. But like many men his age he can only keep it up for so long. laughter today, today, today he returned to the same unstable, reactionary president weve all come to know and know. This afternoon he was meeting with lawmakers to discuss immigration policy. Several of these lawmakers suggested lifting restrictions for immigrants from haiti, el salvadore and various african country, trump reportedly said why are we havi
Stephen welcomes Molly Shannon, Thomas Lennon and comedian owen smith. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater is new york city, its stephen colbert. cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody. Please sit down, everybody. Sit, sit, sit, sit. You, down, thank you very much. Thanks, everybody. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, stephen colbert. All week long, all week long President Trump has tried desperately to convince us that he is a stable, steady leader. He took questions, opened up a meeting to the press, met with foreign dignitaries, it was a nice act. But like many men his age he can on k long. laughter today, today, today he returned to the same unstable, reactionary president weve all come to know and know. This afternoon he was meeting to discuss immigration policy. Several of these lawmakers suggested lifting restrictions for immigrants from haiti, el salvadore an various african country, trump reportedly said why are we h
Outlook for the future is looking strong. This is remarkable in itself especially considering the news background. The government may shut down the end of this week in the president is talking about withdrawing from nafta. Investors do not care. A little history if i may. The dow first crossed 1000 in 1972. Hello in the seven hundreds in the early 80s. Today, 26,000. Very glad you are along for the ride. Varney company is about to begin. Another historic day for the market at the opening. First of all, the big tech names. Look at them though. These are premarket quote. This is the price now. Apple, amazon, every single one of them that. Amazon for heaven sakes up 15 backs premarket. The big banks this morning, some of them reporting profit, all of them up with the sole exception of jpmorgan. The rest they gain especially citigroup up to. 5 premarket. Profits more than doubled at United Health driven by a onetime tax gain at the tax code overhaul. That could echo up two bucks. Boeing, C
I dont know of if you saw this but he gives President Trumps Overall Health an excellent grade in a crazy News Conference reporters just didnt seem satisfied so he answered questions, a lot of questions. We have a member of the trump team here to react to that. Its an allstar guest lineup tonight reacting to all of the above including economist ben stein, the former Trump Deputy Campaign manager david vo ssey, republican South Carolina congressman ralph norman and retired Lieutenant General tom mcinerney. All here all tonight politics and money weve got you covered on all fronts. Im Connell Mcshane good to be with you this morning now the dow did erase those gains it was quite a market day turning negative at the end of the day a possible Government Shutdown indeed is looming and certainly something some investors might be concerned about. Earlier today, the average broke through 26,000 first time we had ever seen that it was up more than 250 points and then lost steam. We will have a
Plus, a mysterious dell luge of amazon deliveries that wont stop. Youll meet one family that keeps getting packages it didnt order. How it could be part of an online scam to get positive product reviews. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. A late night, isnt it, guys . It was important that we got our work done. Congress votes to end an overnight shutdown. A night and an Early Morning drama. The massive budget deal went to the president s desk and he signed it. We all could have done better. The white house struggling to explain why a top aide rob porter was allowed to stay on the job despite Domestic Violence allegations. Should chief of staff john kelly keep his job . Absolutely not, absolutely not. Investors are bracing for another possible rocky day on wall street following the dows 1,000point plunge. A fierce snowstorm blew into the upper midwest. Chicago and detroit are expected to be the hardest hit. I was haunted by tweets every