Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, a joe new world plus stephen welcomes Stacey Abrams and Thomas Middleditch, 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 there you go welcome to a late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. I want to give my wife a glass of champagne. You have been a rock the last couple of weeks. Thanks so much. Ladies and gentlemen, joe biden did it hes our next president im so happy i want to share this moment wit you, my audience, i wish we could all be together in the theater, instead of being stuck in this converted storage room but thats not going to stop me from firing the tshirt cannon come on chris, catch this. Come on, catch it okay, jimmy, thats enough. Ill fire that thing back up. Ready at a moments notice. Every time someone growns at one of my jokes, it is go time bleep . Hear that . That means its working. There yo
To take itot be able soon. New york times on the president s comments. The woman on my right needs no introduction. Right, the department of Health Communicable disease medical service director. Honor to be here. The superintendent of the state police. Office ofor of the Homeland Security is with us. Counsel will join us shortly. Before i get to the daily numbers, a couple of announcements and updates. Good videoconference with the white house yesterday that had a particular focus on Mental Health and the implications to Mental Health from this pandemic crisis. Good discussion and exchange. I should also say that while it was not the purpose for the call, tony fauci was in the room on the other end. Expressingly caution, and i felt his comments on the early returns on the vaccine reported yesterday were actually pretty upbeat relative to his normal demeanor. That was a big take away. I organized a call for about 16 democratic governors and Speaker Pelosi to go through her heroes direct
West virginia, new york, and california. As always, we will take your calls come and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is saturday, october 12. Welcome to washington journal as Congress Continues its recess over this long holiday weekend, we continue to track house and Senate Members at town hall meetings. The number of town halls is up this year, due to the increase in freshman lawmakers. Lawmakers of course are spending lots of time on local issues as well. Thesion is when question is, when lawmakers return to washington next week, can they balance impeachment legislating . Can they do both at the same time . Participateyou will tak in this program, we will take your calls over whether lawmakers can balance impeachment and legislating. Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independence, 202 7488002 is your number. Several other ways to take part in the conversation, you can send us a te
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However, Christopher Demuth has, during his years for working for two Republican White House is and as president s of the American Enterprise institute, is probably this towns leading expert on regulation and on regulatory reform. Not only why regulation happens, but also the ways in which it has encroached upon aspects of american culture, society, and government in ways that are not entirely desirable, and what to do about that. Im glad to ask him and see if this is the thought process involved. At a certain point, watching the steady growth of regulation in american government, i suspect that my colleague asked why is this happening . And part of the answer was what congress ought to be doing and is not, and that is going to be the starting point for us to understand what it is a restoring the Constitutional Congress is about and what might colleague has to say about that particular topic. Im going to sit down. Let me start by saying to those who were coming to the christmas party,