Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, checks and unbalanced. Plus, stephen welcomes will smith and andrew scott 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 oh, my goodness hey, everybody, thank you so much. Welcome to the late show. I am your host, Stephen Colbert. Things arent going well for donald trump today. Half of Congress Absolutely hates him, and the democrats arent fond of him, either. laughter ill tell you all about it in tonights don and the giant impeach. I dont like to be the sucker. Stephen now a lot of people have been saying up tow this point, people have been musing publicly, when is the constitutional crisis coming . Well, mark your calendar, tattoo it on your forehead, and flip off your boss, because its here. This afternoon, the white house delivered on their previous obstruction of justice with an official letter telling the house of representat
Of the trade war was slipping as well so we probably are slipping into a Global Economic shutdown slowdown whether its a recession is is unclear at this point so many factoring slows does this mean that people are actually unemployed and out of work. No and well we will get the next piece of important Economic Data later on this week on friday were getting at the jobs data for the month of august you know we have still continued to see a fairly robust jobs market right now although its slowing down as well the numbers 429000 are i think about 160000 jobs created per month thats down from about 220000. 00 just the jobs that were created each month and 2018 so on balance you would still say that the economy is doing well but there are certainly storm clouds on the horizon just so that the audience understands the Manufacturing Sector of the Manufacturing Sector makes its one of the top 5 employment categories in the United States is it not and what are the one of the subcategories of man
Canada mexico but arent as aware or arent as certain about the supply chains and whats theyre able to source products from theyre not going to produce as many products theyre not going to hire as many people and thats the direct consequence and you see that playing out right now in these numbers but its also more broadly just based on uncertainty in the world right now youve got youre a possibly going into recession as well certainly the chinese economy independent of the trade war was slipping as well so we probably are slipping into a Global Economic shutdown slowdown whether its a recession is is unclear at this point so many of factoring slows does this mean that people are actually unemployed and out of work. No and well we will get the next piece of important Economic Data later on this week on friday were getting at the jobs data for the month of august you know we have still continued to see a fairly robust jobs market right now although its slowing down as well the numbers 429
This country as compared to others for example well and thats an important conversation to have if you go back to the 1950 s. And sixtys there was a time in this country where you could have graduated with a High School Degree and gotten a good paying union job in a factory that would have provided Good Health Care a good Retirement Benefits in the form of a pension you could have a work there and had a productive life those kinds of jobs simply dont exist anymore they dont exist in part because of automation but also in part because of globalization one of the reasons why for instance the trade tariffs are so detrimental to u. S. Consumers is that we get so many of our consumer goods right now from china its clothing its footwear its electronics a lot of the things that simply dont make economic sense to make here in the United States anymore in part because our labor costs are so expensive so to the extent that we have manufacturing right now it a lot of it is assembling assembling t
Journal, your reaction to last nights democratic president ial debate in houston and later, documentary filmmaker ken burns will enjoys us to discuss the history of Country Music and his latest project. Host its the washington journal for september 13. We will talk about last night and get your input on the results of the debate. Here are the numbers. You can text us this morning at city and you put your state when you do. You can also go to our facebook page. Here to break down those initial results from last nights debate and joining us throughout the morning to talk about it is john mcardle. Good morning, we will start with the tale of the tapes. This is from the New York Times, their wrapup of total speaking time. Former Vice President joe biden, the front runner in the race at the most speaking time, 17 minutes and 22 seconds followed by four of the five senators in ,he race, Elizabeth Warren followed by cory booker, then Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and there is a jump that mayo