These stories every year and this is one thats recent. So you know i just ran into drew whittenburg whos here and he always brings me these bright Young Students from tipp city. And its such a pleasure to meet them. Theyre so inspiring to be here. And it reminded me of a story when i when devil grove first came out about ten years ago, i got a letter or email from a young law student at northwestern, and she wrote me this beautiful. She said, gilbert, after reading your book, ive decided what i want to do. I want to be a public defender in the spirit of, you know, Thurgood Marshall. And i said, thats beautiful and stayed in touch with her a little bit. And she said she moved down to florida. She got a as a public defender in west palm beach. Her name was claire. And, you know, she would keep me updated. Her progress and the cases that she was on and a of years later, she started to really rise up in the office and she said, you know what, i want to give you an award. Its called the gid
Now the good part starts. Lets begin to talk about something before we start the id like to talk about something thats inspiration on and i have these stories every year and this is one thats recent. So you know i just ran into drew whittenburg whos here and he always brings me these bright Young Students from tipp city. And its such a pleasure to meet them. Theyre so inspiring to be here. And it reminded me of a story when i when devil grove first came out about ten years ago, i got a letter or email from a young law student at northwestern, and she wrote me this beautiful. She said, gilbert, after reading your book, ive decided what i want to do. I want to be a public defender in the spirit of, you know, Thurgood Marshall. And i said, thats beautiful and stayed in touch with her a little bit. And she said she moved down to florida. She got a as a public defender in west palm beach. Her name was claire. And, you know, she would keep me updated. Her progress and the cases that she was
Year are really yes youre supposed to have a balanced budget but it look like because of severance and everything kept running away from us to look like things could be more dire and we could have a 200 million hole in the bucket. The next year, my first full year, 497 million in the hole. Heres after that going up to 722 million. I said minutes ago, just imagine the miracle this is happened. Its not sitting here, the miracle that is happened is you. The people at home, the miracle that is happen teach one is just this. There is really unfair to think what i wanted to do is just minutes a lets just raise taxes thats lasting on earth i wanted to do. I didnt know what to do. I didnt know where to turn. We all know that we had during the rainy day. s. Didnt know where to go. We had to have a bridge. There is one guy in this room heavily with all his heart but if we could pass the tax we continue to grow. If we made modifications to education, we would get a response from the outside world
American artifacts, Wake Forest University professor david lubin shares images from his book. Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Next on cspan, here West Virginia governor jim justice announced several initiatives to discuss the drug epidemic and to prevent child sex abuse. Now, only briefly do i want to belabor the past with you. I am going to stay back here. I am going to spook myself a little bit closer. Ok. , when i got here, this is what we were facing. Like it or not liking it, when i got here, it was in the middle year, the 16 17 year. We were supposed to have a balanced edge it but it looked like we were going to come up because things kept running away from us. It looked like things could be even more dire and we could very well have a 200 million hole in the budget. The next year, my first full year, 497 million in the hole. In the years thereafter that, going up to 722 million. Now, i said a minute ago, just imagine the miracle that has happened. The miracle t
Say that because i was there when he didnt say it. I also want to deny rumors that Rex Tillerson is the author of this joke, knock, knock. Whos there . Moron. Moron who . Moron that later. Trump say moron. Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, tillerson drops an m bomb. Tonight, stephen welcomes Kerry Washington. Russell brand. And musical guest st. Vincent. 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 wow, wow. You knocked it out. Hey, everybody thanks very much. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, i have some shocking news. Theres chaos in the trump white house. laughter i didnt know there were enough people left to qualify for chaos. laughter horse play, yes. Grabass you bet. Chaos seems ambitious at this point. It all started this morning, when nbc news reported that, over the su