Here we choochoochoose to believe in the constitution. Isnt that bananas . Yeah hey, its the loch ness monster. I had a perfect phone call. Oh, boy. Im full of steam. But hes full of whistle blowing its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight in syrias trouble. Plus, stephen welcomes ronan farrow and Andrea Savage 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 come on wooo hi we made it we made it nice perfect thank you, everybody. Please, have a seat. Ladies and gentlemen, one and all, welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Well it is another yet, yet another bewildering day in america up is down, right is wrong, trump is president. Ill tell you one thing, you have got to hand it to the guy, hes willing to call his most disastrous blunders his greatest victories. If he were in charge of the hindenberg, it would have sounded like this and the back motors are
expose the truth about things they re doing that are wrong. the fbi collusion with big tech. to shut down differing viewpoints is the end of any analytical or investigative body. this hearing is a vehicle to legitimize the events of january 6th. the level of corruption, weaponization, politicization that has occurred at the highest levels of the doj and the fbi. this hearing is evidence as if we needed any more that maga republicans are a threat to the rule of law in america. as if you re one of the good employees in our government that come forward to talk about the targeting, you then become a target. martha: two different takes there. so nicole parker is a former fbi special agent. she said she left the bureau because she couldn t be part of what she saw is sadly a politically weaponized arm of the united states government. first, let s go to justice david spunt who lays out for us what they were talking about in there today. hi, david. quite a hearing. two
when it does, we ll take it live. what happened to these fbi agents caught up in alleged political targeting by fbi leadership. well one agent says he was placed on unpaid suspension on the first day of a brand new assignment. the weaponization subcommittee, says today s testimony is the human evidence of what it calls institutional rot and anti conservative bias at the highest levels of government. politics is driving the agenda in federal agencies. parents attending a school board meeting pro lifers praying at a clinic or catholic, simply attending mass. you could be a target to shut down. differing viewpoints is the end of any analytical or investigative body. it sends a chilling effect across the workforce and does not allow for intellectual freedom, which is vital to any investigative body to members of this committee, current and former fbi employees and indeed all americans to ensure that the weaponization of our own government against the people comes to an end. no ma
argument. have a great rest of your night. thank you so much. appreciate it. tonight on the mehdi hasan show, my warning for democrats. improve your messaging to voters, or risk a stinging defeat in 2024. congressman eric swalwell, who communicates better than most democrats, joins me live. plus, new reporting on the behind the scenes chaos at fox in the weeks up to the 2020 election. their fealty to trump on full display. and, should we be doing more to rein in israel s far-right government? i ll speak with you just hand delivered to president biden on this issue. good evening. this weekend, some of the most conservative republicans from across the country gathered in maryland for the annual conservative political action conference, once a staple of the season, this year s cpac conference was a gust of years past. many republican simply refused to attend, and those that did show up, while, they didn t quite get the rousing reception you may have hoped for. 2024 hop