Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont think teddy wouldve approved of it was get on a raft wi
Maybe it would. Maybe it wont. What the hell do you got to lose . Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight home sweet show plus, stephen welcomes conan obrien. And musical guest michael stipe. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen oh, hey i was just pretending i could be at home without a camera. Welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Happy to be here. Happy. Tuesday, i think . It is tuesday. Good. Thank you, thank you, sir. I dont always know. Im so grateful that im still able to do a show for you guys and for all of you out there who are watching, one assumes. Its possible my producers are lying to me that were broadcasting at all. Sure, stephen, weve put a van on n. It talks to space. Now take a shower and shout into your phone. Whatever. Im grateful for something to do. Now, there is one aspect of the show that i have really been missing and that is my conversations with our friend
Theory and campaign strategy. I looked forward to connecting topics in the class with our discussions tonight. Im pleased to introduce our guest tonight, Symone Sanders author of no, you shut up, speaking truth to power and reclaiming america. As a fellow woman of color i am in cribbage qaeda leadership, passion for social change in the representation in a space that has historically exploited women of color. A seasoned political strategist who x. 25 became the youngest president ial press secretary on record while working on the 2016 president ial campaign and was named to Rolling Stone magazine youngest americans shaping the election. Unapologetically fighting for juvenile Justice Reform and pathways for millennials like myself to fight for our passion. We are thrilled to have her tonight to discuss the new book career paths and experience on the 2020 campaign trail. The ring tonight events please share your thoughts using the hash tag political page turner and a tag geopolitics. Ton
Blast that through the capital i report was completely destroyed and on thursdays on now bari about one tending food stamps. And a passenger plane skidded off the runway india and breaks into the Indian Express flight with almost 200 people on board slid off the runway on landing in the state of terror. And i think how broken travel is arriving in germany undergoing mandatory testing for corona virus after a surgeon infections across the country the new rules apply to any one of arriving from breech to be high risk those who refuse the test could face fines of up to 25000. 00 euros the new testing requirement comes as experts warn that germany could be seeing its 2nd wave of the pandemic with nukes. Isis rising to over 1000 a day. Speak now to a correspondent conrad person whos at Frankfurt Airport can read testing is on the why as per the new rules how are people coming off the flights reacting. To the atmosphere here at the Testing Center in frankfurt is very. I have to say i talk to