Featuring jon batiste and stay human and now its time for the late show with Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hey hey welcome to the late show. cheers and applause hey im down here, everybody welcome welcome welcome to the late show here, there, everywhere thank you so much cheers and applause welcome to the late show. Very excited. What a lovely crowd. What a lovely crowd this evening. Im your host Stephen Colbert for the late show tonight. Quick question before we get on with the rest of the show, is anybody on facebook . Anybody here on facebook . cheers and applause well, theres big news from facebook today because theyre changing the algorithm behind your news feed, and its going to limit the amount of content from. Brands, celebrities and media in favor of more posts from friends. And i think i speak for everyone on facebook when i say well, theyre not exactly friends. applause just just people. The company says the tweak is going to be good news for users who want mor
That its not okay to just use people because they are dying. Some of the rationale for some of the plutonium experiments and radiation experiments and other injections was that these people are dying and we might as well get some information from them. Being ill and hospitalized did not justify that. You still have to respect them as people. So what are key lessons from the radiation experiments. Ive only scratched the surface. I hope you will go and read more about them, in arlene wilsons book, Jonathan Moreno has a wonderful book on the history of the experiments, these human irradiation experiment books, a lot more detail. One of the lessons is the medicine and the quest for knowledge has to be looked at it the in a specific political, economic, social context. It cant be understood if you take it out of the context. These radiations experiments started in the context of a world war and ended in the context of a cold war which turned quite hot on occasion, which was characterized by
Bess trumans letters to harry truman. As of last month, clifton is the board secretary for the Harry S Truman scholarship foundation. This is a role that has been vacant since the 1990s since his mother retired from our board. Clifton thank you for joining , our board and thank you for being here today. [applause] mr. Truman thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I am honored to be here. I am honored to serve on the board. I have to tell you a little bit stunned. Was 19 years old i was with my mother in independence when the first truman scholarships were awarded in 1977. I was in college and i was involved being in that group. As my mother told me i should be. [laughter] clifton,he put it was all these young people are doing a lot better in college then you are. [laughter] it isare interesting some of the things of the panel has been talking about. This is a great way to spend the afternoon. A couple of things weve been talking about is my grandfathers leadership style, things i learned and
Pilgrims, many of them iranian, who died at the hajj in minna. This whole iran deal which has been signed between tehran and the five permanent members of the counci security council, a w qulapt hachapter has started ben irans relationship, that the United States has been prompted, forced he said, to set aside the sanctions that are in place and come to the table and talk. But it is a very long speech about half an hour for president rouhani, one of the key lines, we are prepared to bring democracy to syria. So thats a reachingout from tehran and explanations to the rest of the world that they are prepared. Remember tehran backs the syrian regime. They are prepared to bring democracy to work with the rest of the world, to bring democracy to syria. As you know, president assad feels theres democracy in place anyway in his country but the rest of the world feels that any elections held there have been a bit of a sham. Nonetheless for president rouhani to have said that is probably the he
For instance in libya where all the state institutions are disintegrated. We see a situation in iraq. There is no solution to the syrian crisis. Charlie there were no ground rules. They only asked the interview be run on 60 minutes and then in its entirety on this program. President putin invited me and my colleagues for tea. During the next 90 minutes we talked of many things about politics and life. Accompany me accompany me were my 60 minutes colleagues. The 60 minutes interview aired last night on the 48th season premiere of 60 minutes. Earlier about president obama and president putin spoke at the United Nations. Obama was first. President obama when a dictator slaughters his own people that is not just a matter of one nations internal affairs. It breeds human suffering on a magnitude that access all. Compromise will be required to end the fighting and stamp out isil about realism requires a transition away from assad. Charlie his speech was followed by president putin. President