What does this day, memorial day mean to you . Good monday morning on this memorial day. Simple crime. Somebody who died known only to god. This piece dont take the remembrance out of memorial day. Share with you in part what he writes at the hill. Com. What does memorial day mean to you . Is a day off work, time spent grilling with family and friends. A day to grab the hottest discounts on cars and electronics. It seems over the years memorial day has come to represent the luxuries of to society and best sales since president s day. Those who served and the families of those who did not come home it is anything but a retail holiday. It is a day to honor the ultimate sacrifice so many of our brothers and sisters in arms have made for this exceptional nation. Good morning from the hill newspaper. Congressman republican from florida had to to say about memorial day. Those heroes never thought about what was easy or popular to masses. Or what they would get out of their actions. Who will
Youre too kind please, everybody, thank you so much. Welcome to the late show. Im your host stephen colbert. Well, the last 24 hours the last 24 hours have just raised more questions about why donald trump fired f. B. I. Director james comey. Okay. No one seems to know why. Donald trump doesnt seem to know why. laughter because heres the dealio. First, he said it was based on the recommendation of assistant attorney general and 50yearold just hitting puberty, rod rosenstein. laughter hang in there, rod. Now, trump even sent out mike pence to repeat that idea. You know, pence had to go out there and go, what are you going to do . Rod says hes got to go. Rods the man. Our hands were tied. Now, some people were skeptical that this was the reason. For instance, people like rod rosenstein, who said, and im paraphrasing, what . No sorry, fellas, no, no, no, no, no. laughter at one point, rosenstein actually threatened to quit. It will all be detailed in his tellall book threatening courage.
Of isis insurgents is nothing to weathering the merciless bombardment of april ryan. laughter if i am felled on the battlefield, the wind will whisper my words to you woo hoo, sweet release, i am free. Sincerely yours, sean spicer. P. S. , please send gum. laughter announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight stephen welcomes mayim bialik, andy karl and comedian ramy youssef, 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 woo hey cheers and applause thank you woo youre too kind please, everybody, thank you so much. Welcome to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. Well, the last 24 hours the last 24 hours have just raised more questions about why donald trump fired f. B. I. Director james comey. Okay. No one seems to know why. Donald trump doesnt seem to know why. laughter because heres the dealio. First, he said it was based on the recommendation of assistant
U. S. And japanese navies. Leading off is a review of the war in pacific prior to june 1942 then new information about the japanese at the battle. This is live coverage on cspan3. We are pleased and very very proud to be hosting it. I would like to thank our partners that helped put this together. The Hampton Roads Naval Historical Foundation and world war i and world war ii come mem ri commemoration. We couldnt have done it without you. [ cheers and applause ] now, before we get going i do have housekeeping items to pass along. First of all, turn off or silence your cell phones. Keep your programs. We have something of a limited supply of those and please wear your fwbadges throughout the da. Keep in mind we are on cspan so during the q and a use the microphone deployed here on the square. At this time i would like to bring forward my counter part john pentanjelo who will make some remarks, john. [ applause ] thanks, chris. Good morning and welcome. The Hampton Roads naval hue see yum
Walter borneman. His biography as well as all the other speaker biographies are in your program. Hes author of books including the study of civil leadership and we had him here last july to speak on his book of General Macarthur. Haeds a great scholar and doing some really cutting edge stuff on the pacific war. At this time walter borneman. Good morning. Thank you, chris. You know its a pleasure to be here. And when i was invited by criss and jim to speak about the battle of midway i said, gosh, im not really a midway expert. And they said thats okay, we have the experts coming. What we want you to do is set the table. And thats what im going to indeed do this morning, set the table of how we got to midway. I want to go through a few landmark things in terms of japans relations with the world 50 years prior to midway. And then were also going to talk about based on my book the admiral the leadership that appears at midway. And finally were going to do an Operational History of what goe