Come on come on. Gotta love it. Suspense. Intrigue. Oooh, yeah, thats good. Right now they gotta do oh, goonies. No, i cant do it again, cant do it again. Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, the democrats trump, trump. Plus stephen welcomes Norman Reedus. Sean astin. And comedian pat mcgann. 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 thank you very much. Tack, tack, tack, tack particular thanks so much. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause well, folks, one year ago today, donald trump was elected president. Give him a chance. laughter yesterday, democrats commemorated this anniversary, by kicking trumps ass, using his arch enemy the popular vote. cheers and applause okay, lets go around the horn. Lets see the results. Lets start in helena, montana, where Wilmot Collins became the first black mayor in m
And inspiring america. If i can give back half of what this community has given me, im complete. He went from refugee to mayor, and made history along the way. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our viewers in the west. We start with late word of a bombshell change at the white house. Communications director hope hicks one of President Trumps closest aides and confidants is resigning. The announcement coming just one day after hicks testified under oath before the House Committee looking into Russian Election influence where she reportedly admitted having told white lies on behalf of the president. Chief White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson now with late details. Where is hope . Where is hope . Hope, get up here, hope. Reporter tonight, another dramatic departure in the west wing. This time to someone who might as well be family to donald trump. Hope hicks, his Communications Director and longtime aide resigning. Hope hicks is a
Pervasive in many parts of this country. And obviously and importantly omar has a history of launching vicious antisemitic screeds. [ crowd sending send her back ] thats the president from his nuremberg rally from last night. Something like that. Two days and three unmistakable messages from the white house. Last nights top he searching on the online dictionary. Racism, socialism, gassism, concentration camp, xenophobia, big bigot. Good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is thursday, july 18th. Along with joe, willie and me we have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and cohost and executive producer of the circ circus john heilemann, jonathan lemire, White House Correspondent for pbs news hour yamiche alcindor. Hard news to cover for sure. At a Campaign Rally in greenville, North Carolina, last night President Trump launched into a fiveminute broadside against congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota who as a child refugee fled war torn somalia and became an american citizen and is
Glosser how part of the impetus for doing this is stephen mill or the stump for trump was invoking his Family History to talk about his ancestors as if they might have been pro trump or Trump Supporters and that was too much for his family to stomach and they starred telling their story publicly. That was something to watch. Breaking news about Robert Muellers testimony to the house judiciary and Intelligence Committee and we will get to that in a moment. If you are going to follow the democratic debates and figure out which approach to health care is the best. The biden approach of strengthening the Affordable Care act or medicare for all, none of those are possible if the democrats dont have 60 votes in the senate. Right now they are 13 votes shy of 60 votes in the san jose. They are four votes shy of knocking Mitch Mcconnell out of the leaders position and installing chuck schumer. This is by far the most election coming up, but the second most important elections are the United Sta
From our nbc headquarters in new york. Day 19 of the trump day 914. Administration, that puts us less than 36 hours away now from what will be Robert Muellers 89th appearance before congress. Likely the most consequential of his long and consequential career. On wednesday morning at 8 30 a. M. Eastern, the first of two backtoback hearings will begin, and it sounded today as if the president might have given this some thought. Im not going to be watching. Probably, maybe i might see a little bit of it. Im not going to be watching mueller because you cant take all those bites out of the apple. Robert mueller, i know hes conflicted. Theres a lot of conflicts hes got, including the fact that his best friend is comey. But hes got conflicts with me, too. Hes got big conflicts with me. As you know, he wanted the job of the fbi director. He didnt get it. And we had a business relationship where i said no, and i would say that he wasnt happy. Then all of a sudden he gets this position. But you