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(as blitzer) "breaking news. the fire has now reached the snickers wrapper. is it only a matter of time before the empty chicken bucket is engulfed in flame? anderson?" but you can find footage of peaceful protests all over twitter. like this stirring scene from houston, where black activists fought for change on horseback. come on! look at that! it's like the ride of the rohirrim in "the lord of the rings"... if there were any black characters in "the lord of the rings." but despite the peaceful nature of these protests, local governments have been cracking down hard. curfews have been enacted in atlanta, chicago, cleveland, dallas, denver, l.a., louisville, minneapolis new york, philadelphia, phoenix, raleigh, san franciso, seattle, and washington, d.c. basically every major city. so, congratulations to the nation's new nightlife hot spot: oconomowok, wisconsin. oconomowok: come for the beer, stay because we had to take away your car keys. because you really enjoyed the beer. the point of a curfew is to stop lawbreakers from taking advantage of the protests. but, in some cities, folks are getting swept up by cops in curfews starting as early as 6:00 p.m. ah, yes, 6:00 p.m., the witching hour, when evil anarchists drink their amstel lite and conspire to roast that chicken for dinner. burn, baby, burn. because i forgot to baste, baby, baste! in many places, police are using curfew as an excuse to bring the smackdown on peaceful protestors, like in new york, where cops chased and beat up a biker just trying to get home. and not only is that just absolutely awful. it's completely unfair. all the bars in new york are closed. why do the cops still get to go clubbing? ♪ ♪ >> slam! >> stephen: in cincinnati, cops stopped a group of young women trying to get home and confiscated one of their bags. turned out, it had her insulin inside. here's what happened when she asked the cop to return it. >> stephen: yeah, everyone knows that "diabetics" is l. ron hubbard's less successful second book. turns out, negative thoughts put alien ghosts in your pancreas. you've got to cut out the engrams and teddy grams. and cops haven't been making life easy in places like in d.c., where protestors demanded the cops let them go home: >> stephen: yeah, that's the same thing my kids started chanting around week five of quarantine. there's a name for when police box in a crowd of people to create a pretext to arrest them. it's called a "kettle." i guess that's a case of the cops calling a kettle on anyone black. >> stephen: now maybe the craziest story of police entrapping people for breaking curfew also came from d.c. on monday. while peacefully marching, a crowd of protesters "wound up in a residential neighborhood where they were boxed in by police, who started pushing, spraying mace, and trampling people." now, a good samaritan gave the 60 protestors shelter in his home: he's rahul dubey, seen here proving that not all heroes wear capes. some wear tasteful scarves. even though police fired pepper spray into his home as people were entering, dubey let the 60 protestors stay all night until curfew was lifted, and even provided milk to soothe their eyes, and pizza! oh, my god. someone get this man a medal. and maybe a new bathroom. 60 people consuming nothing but milk and pizza? woo! who needs tear gas? one of the harshest responses we've seen is police firing rubber bullets at people, a peaceful protesters, or even just bystanders. >> hands up, don't shoot! ( gunfire ) ( gunfire ) >> (bleep). ( screaming ) ( gunfire ) >> doing it again! ( gunfire ) >> stephen: and rubber bullets are a lot more bullet than rubber. officers call them less ethyl officers call them less lethal ammunition. monday's military assault on peaceful protesters so trump can get handsy with the bible. trump has been criticized by a lot of people for misuse of the military, and the latest is trump's former defense secretary and star of disney's new live action "droopy," "mad dog" mattis. in a scathing statement released last night, mattis said, "i have watched this week's unfolding events, angry and appalled. the words 'equal justice under law' are carved in the pediment of the united states supreme court. this is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. it is a wholesome and unifying demand, one that all of us should be able to get behind." (as trump) "you're right, jim. we should get behind them. element of surprise. then marinate those suckers with some pepper spray. you know, like it says in the good book." mattis added that "we must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. the protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values-- our values as people and our values as a nation." that is a stirring message of compassion, unity, and reason... from "mad dog"? you know what, i hereby rename you "principled pooch!" mattis accuses trump of dividing the american people and uses history to point out why that's bad: "instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the normandy invasion reminded soldiers that the nazi slogan for destroying us was 'divide and conquer.' our american answer is 'in union there is strength'." that's strong stuff, though trump has his own views on the battle of normandy. >> very fine people, on both sides. >> stephen: mattis' harsh words are especially surprising, because after he left the white house, he said this: >> i will not speak ill of a sitting president. >> stephen: evidently, he will speak ill of a president lying in bed covered in curly fries. trump immediately fired back on twitter: "probably the only thing barack obama and i have in common is that we both had the honor of firing jim mattis, the world's most overrated general. i asked for his letter of resignation, and felt great about it. his nickname was 'chaos,' which i didn't like, and changed to 'mad dog.' dot-dot-dot, i gave him a new life, things to do, and battles to win, but he seldom 'brought home the bacon'." (as trump) "it's true. we had all these great wars. he didn't bring me home a single piece of bacon from the middle east. and it's not just the bacon either. he never brought home the sausage, the ham, not even a hash brown. or as i call it, potato meat. uh-oh... now i'm hungry. somebody tear gas those protesters, we're walking to denny's, guys. just like winston churchill did." if you think trump's tweet was stupid, you're wrong. it was stupid and wrong, because trump claimed he fired mattis, but mattis resigned, and trump also claimed that he changed mattis' nickname to "mad dog," but he did not. why does trump have to take credit for everything? (as trump) "i can't believe espn left me out of 'the last dance.' you know, i'm the one who came up with 'air' jordan. they used to call him 'sugar shorts mike'." trump has also gotten pushback from secretary of defense and school principal who hits on your mom, mark esper. at a press conference yesterday morning, esper said that using active duty military to quell protests was a bad idea, and promised to reduce the number of troops in washington, d.c. shortly thereafter, when asked if president trump still had confidence in esper, press secretary kayleigh mcenany said this: >> as of right now, secretary esper is still secretary esper. >> stephen: rarely a good sign when you hear something like that. "hey, thanks, everybody, for all the anniversary wishes. i just want you to know that, as of right now, my wife is still my wife. here's to... whatever." last night, we learned that esper met with trump in the oval office. i'm sure that was a fun meeting. 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>> i was just a couple of miles away. and i really wish -- i almost feel embarrassment i wasn't there with the protestors to confront what has been, my opinion, in my lifetime, one of the greatest affronts of our most sanctuary state principles and ideas. you have to understand, i was born in washington, d.c. i moved to new jersey when i was a baby u but my parents came out here after attending historically black colleges, got their first jobs here because of activism of people black and white. my dad was the first black man to get a job with i.b.m. in the virginia area. my mom worked for d.c. schools and helped organize the march on washington. it was one of the greatest protests we've seen in history in the '60s. my parents said this is sacred ground where people are protesting their second amendment rights, all the way to lgbtq rights, women's rights. the first person arrested in that same area was from nj, alice paul, suffragette. for him to speak how he ehonors peaceful protesters and then, behind him, to unleash tear gas, rubber bullets, men on horseback, charging-- or marching into that crowd, it was horrific, and tramples some of the most, to me, sacrosanct ideals of america, the trying to petition your government, the right to protest, the right to free speech and the right to protest. free press. there were journalists there. i talked with classmates whose son was hit with one of the bullets in the park. the assault on the americans peacefully protesting in their capital, that was an assault on all of us. >> stephen: now, of course, washington, d.c. isn't a state. there is no governor to invite or to disinvite the president from doing this. and there are, evidently, reportedly, there's been a flood of different federal law enforcement and correctional officers from federal prison systems, d.e.a. agents, custom and border patrol besides military on the streets, including military armored vehicles. it looks like an enormous somewhat oppressive show of force on tv. what's it like there? is it a harbinger of things to come elsewhere? >> what it is, is sad. what it is, is hurtful. what it is, is scary. i'm a united states senator and i left here late last night, and i literally thought twice about putting on my shorts and a t- shirt to walk home because the painful thing that and the conversation i've had with many other black men this last week is to know you have this fear, you've had it all your life. when i was-- when i was 12, 13 years old, i was already about 6' tall, and to have a nation where the elders, the men in my family, felt the need to begin to educate me, that i would make people feel scared or uncomfortable, they had this chilling sort of-- it was a time i was feeling strong and playing football, to try to help me understand that, when i was getting my license, this is not a joke, you need to listen to us because a misunderstanding or an interaction could mean your death. and then to have experiences in my late teens and early 20s with police officers, with weapons drawn on me, with my car surrounded, accused of stealing my car, followed in malls for years upon years, to being confronted by security guards. and the feeling of a united states senator, tim scott, republican from south carolina, has talked on the floor about how many times he was stopped on the way into the senate in ways his colleague lindsey graham says "never happens to me." and, so, when i said about the rodney king thing, when you brought up the use of the insurrection act, it was hard for me to think about that time. i wrote down, i was president of my class, awarded the rhodes scholarship, and that night of the rodney king verdict, i remember writing it with shaking hands, why have i lost control? because the rage and hurt and anger that led me to the streets to march peacefully because i was so angry because, at that point, it had been a decade i'd had conversations with family members about this country will treat you differently. and yet here i had all these titles, all these things i worked for, but i knew there were experiences happening to people that could easily be me. and i think that what has made this moment in american history so difficult for all of us, after amaud arbery, after breonna taylor, after a black man in central park bird- watching, having police called on him, and then seeing the death of george floyd in front of us, a horrific, violent pornography of a killing... i think the thing that's made a lot of my friends just break down in tears this week is, 30 years ago, rodney king, when we were marching at stanford, we felt we could change this and that we wouldn't have to have these same conversations with our kids, with my nephews. and decades have passed, and we haven't put this nation to a point where you have kids in our streets again, like i was in my 20s, who are really questioning this nation and wondering if a country that has spent generations in search of itself, the values i would die for, liberty and justice for all, equality under the law, we are still in search of making those real. and this is one of those times where it's good to see-- it's so good to see americans of black, white, the whole rainbow, it's so good to see their anger, it's so good to see people who for too long have been too comfortable in this country. too comfortable to sit and accept a nation that says the land of the free but one out of every three incarcerated women on the planet earth are in our prisons and jails. predominantly, disproportionately people of color. the nation, the greatest indicator whether you will be around toxicity that will give you cancer and respiratory diseases, the number one indicator of whether you live around toxic sites in america is race, more than any other indicator. where the safety and security of black bodies is being exposed in a way right now with covid-19, with african-americans losing jobs at greater rates than others, and now, to be displayed for all america to see something that is an every day haunting part of your thoughts that maybe, when i'm walking home as a united states senator, i might be mistaken and something might happen. so that's wrong. it's this weird moment, stephen, where i am emotionally raw. i've had moments on the senate floor-- i just came from another one-- where i'm yelling with respect to a colleague who stopped 99 senators ready to vote for an anti-lynching bill, for dear god, a bill where we finally got passed, only four dissenters, democrats and republicans, and it was stopped. >> stephen: who stopped it? >> it was rand paul, and i don't want to question his character and good intention, he's been a partner of mine-- >> stephen: is it okay if i question him? >> again, this is-- to make this-- you know, king said something-- and this is the problem, you want an enemy, right? people want an enemy and i'm telling you right now it's not that. king said it so eloquently when his life was getting death threats, when-- bomb threats, when people were being stabbed and bombed and girls were dying in churches-- we want to blame the white supremacists, they still exist. we want to blame people with hate in their hearts, yeah, but that's not the majority of us. king warned us what we have to repent for is not the vitriolic words and the action of the bad people, but the appalling inaction and silence of the good people. so we need to come to a point of deep love, where the circles of empathy expand. where we realize it's not a quaint idea of one nation under god, indivisible, no, that's an inescapable truth. and if we ignore it, we ignore at our own peril and we see the results of it now. i don't want to direct ire. donald trump wants to make it all about him. it's not. this season of america is not a referendum on him. this is a referendum on us, on who we are and who we're going to be to each other. will we be a nation of love? i'm sorry, that sounds like sentimentality or saccharin, but, god, that word, it's sacrifice, service, struggle. it's saying what happens to you is injustice to me. it's injustice everywhere. if we, this great experiment, the most heterogeneous democracy on planet earth, if we can show we can make our ideals more than our slogans and songs, but to live deep in the fiber and fabric of this country so all of us experience the same opportunity, justice, brotherhood and sisterhood, then we succeed as a nation. but right now, we're struggling, and i'm hoping that out of this struggle and this hurt in this country right now grows a new akevest of hope and we can real change in this country. >> stephen: i accept why you say that this is not about donald trump, this is about us, but, don't the nation's leaders reflect what the people will allow? and we are now equipped with the least helpful leaders i can imagine in this moment because you need a sense of unity and humility, especially, in this moment. so can you reexamine your own values and whether you live the principles you claim to be for-- go ahead, sir. >> you put your finger on the test, stephen. there's not a generation of americans that has not had someone rise to powerful positions with demagoguery, hate and divisiveness. father conk lynn with his anti- semitic screams, mccarthyism. how do we beat o'connors and george wallaces? it's a test of us. when i was running for president this year, running for a stage, i'm a big guy, you know, and i'm running for a stage and a big guy confronts me and says to me, dude, i want you to punch donald trump in the face! and i'm, like, dude, that's a felony. you know, you cannot beat donald trump by being more like him. and, and you can't-- you cannot win this country by taking on the tactics of those who you-- who try to oppress you. and i'm sorry, and people can disagree with me, but i really think this is a moral test of how well we are going to create that more beloved community because, i'm sorry, the 58 million people that voted for donald trump-- and about three million more voted for hillary clinton, i will not forget that-- but those 58 million people are not my enemy. >> stephen: senator, we have to take a quick break. stick around, everybody. back with more cory booker. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [10th gen intel bong] proof i can fight moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. proof i can fight psoriatic arthritis... ...with humira. proof of less joint pain... ...and clearer skin in psa. humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an infection. humira is proven to help stop further joint damage. want more proof? 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what is qualified immunity? >> i'm doing that in cooperation with senator kamala harris and a great group of legislators in the house of representatives from the congressional black caucus working in coordination and we're hoping we can land a plane where you have the judiciary, all of us coming around reforms that, as you're saying, make sure the standards to hold police who do really awful things that hold them immune from civil or criminal penalties on the criminal side, something called section 242, which makes it very hard to get a criminal conviction against a cop who's done things that violate all our community standards as well as the law. and then their eligibility for civil penalty, there is a standard that has gotten what's called qualified immunity which it sounds like making officers who have done very bad things immune from civil suits as well. so our bill, one of the pillars of that, will say that no one is above the law, and that if you do heinous things that tear at the fabric of our community or even endanger or take lives, that the federal government of the united states will take action to hold you accountable, and you will be subject to that accountability. so that's one pillar. another pillar is just, hey, america, accountability means you have to have standards. well, you have to be able to measure progress toward those standards. so why don't we do something really radical in america and just keep a data base of use of force actions, of when police shoot people and kill them. and police misconduct. so police officer can't get charged with misconduct in one department, leave and move to another state and get a job. now-- >> stephen: so before you introduce this legislation, have you checked with rand paul about whether he's going to let anybody vote on it? >> again, i don't want to vilify him. i want to simply say that today is a day that i got a little hot, and that's good, anger is such a constructive emotion. >> stephen: yes. >> but i will fight to get these things done, so that perhaps the kids in my life will not have to ask themselves, can i-- am i safe, just walking or jogging in my neighborhood. so, to me, i want to tear down systems of oppression in this country like mass incarceration, like laws that enable people who have no remorse, like the person who killed george floyd. that we as a society, people of good will, we have systems that could hold them accountable for their actions. >> stephen: senator, we have to take a break here, but stick around, folks. when we come back, i'll ask the senator about the presidential race, how biden's doing and who he should pick as v.p. ♪ ♪ nope... charmin ultra soft is so soft you'll have to remind your family they can use less. charmin ultra soft is twice as absorbent so you can use less. don't worry, there's plenty left for you, dad. we all go, why not enjoy the go with charmin. they're going to be paying for this for a long time. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it's your fault. cut! sonny. was that good? 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>> well, i mean, first of all, who is doing enough in a country where race-- you know, there's no difference between blacks and whites for using marijuana, for example, none whatsoever. but if you're african american, you're three or four times more likely to be arrested for it. people say nobody gets arrested for pot anymore. in 2017, there were more marijuana arrests than all the violent crime arrests in america combined. when you get marijuana arrests, you're poor because rich kids don't get these charges, just minorities, veterans are disproportional to get charges-- >> stephen: hold on a second i need to hide something. >> don't worry. my bill will stop at no-knock warrants where they just barge into your house unannounced. i guess my point to you is when this injustice exists, marijuana laws, you can't get a loan from the bank, you can't get pell grants, 40,000 consequences for being caught and convicted of things two of the last three presidents admitted to doing. so who is doing enough, that this injustice exists? i'm going to say something about joe biden that maybe you've never heard before, i've watched him a lot and we were competitors in the primary, since then i have been watching the guy during this. i have to say there's something people might not appreciate it but i love it, and one of my favorite authors loves it, and it's the idea of, where does strength come from? vulnerability. i love that he's admitting that. he's not like trump, "i know everything, more than my9 generals, nothing is wrong." joe biden says "i don't have all the answers, i haven't lived this experience, but i'm going to listen and learn. i'm going to grow with you, america, and we're going to take on these problems." for him to show the neediness of us-- i found out when i was mayor, i found it to be the time i was most dependent on others, in that there's a neediness of us all. and for this guy, who said "i'm going to be the president of the united states, and i don't have the answers on race, but i'm going to build a team and we'll work together to get it right because we're america, we stumble, we fall, but we somehow get progress, we somehow move forward and do it together." so by joe biden telling me he isn't perfect and doesn't have all the answers, god, i love that, makes me happy. >> stephen: we all need help and joe biden needs help, he needs a vice presidential pick. who do you like? >> i like michelle obama. >> stephen: come on! who doesn't like michelle obama? she doesn't want to do that. >> she's my favorite obama! >> stephen: kamala harris? >> he would be lucky to have kamala harris. >> stephen: do you have an opinion on who it should be? >> i am not going to "should" all over joe biden. i am not going to "should" all over joe biden. >> stephen: would rand paul be a good choice? >> hell no, i would use a more choice word because that's the mood i'm in. >> stephen: senator, thanks for being here. >> love you man, thank you very much. >> stephen: senator cory booker, everybody. back with a performance by brian wilson. ♪ ♪ we've got the retinol that gives you results in one week. not just any retinol. accelerated retinol sa. for not only smoother skin in one day, but younger-looking skin in just one week. and that's clinically proven. results that fast or your money back. unless you're attached to your wrinkles. one week is all it takes. neutrogena®. tonight, try pure zzzs all night. one week is all it takes. unlike other sleep aids, our extended release melatonin helps you sleep longer. and longer. zzzquil pure zzzs all night. fall asleep. stay asleep. sorry i'm late, everybody, and apologies for my appearance. you look fine. we were just talking about -- yeah, right. i look like a wanted poster. i didn't have time to get my beard routine in this morning, so... what beard routine? 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[ laughs ] jamie, do you know what a beard is? capital one knows life doesn't update you about your credit card. so meet eno...the capital one assistant that looks out for charges that might surprise you and helps you fix them. what's in your wallet? ♪ so i'm gonna hold on promoting you this quarter. cool? drop the taco. get in the car. does this sentra feel like a compromise to you? wait, what...? the handling is good, right? no compromise there. nope! watch this... umm... b-brie...brie brie! rear automatic braking. so if this nissan sentra isn't gonna compromise, why should you? you're right! atta girl. the all-new nissan sentra. with more standard safety features than any other car in its class. "ok, so, magnificent mile for me!" i thought i was managing... ...my moderate to severe crohn's disease. yes! until i realized something was missing... ...me. you ok, sis? my symptoms kept me- -from being there for my sisters. "...flight boarding for flight 2007 to chicago..." so i talked to my doctor and learned- ...humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief... -and many achieved remission in as little as 4 weeks. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened,- -, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. tell your doctor... ...if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections... ...or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an infection. be there for you, and them. ask your doctor about humira. with humira, remission is possible. if you can't afford your medicine, abbvie may be able to help. new force flex plus, bright colors febreze freshness. >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. and now, performing the classic beach boys song, "god only knows," please welcome brian wilson. ♪ i may not always love you but long as there are ♪ stars above you you never need to doubt it ♪ i'll make you so sure about it god only knows what i'd be ♪ without you if you should ever leave me ♪ though life would still go on, believe me ♪ the world could show nothing to me ♪ so what good would living do me ♪ god only knows what i'd be without you ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ god only knows what i'd be without you ♪ if you should ever leave me though life would still go on, ♪ believe me the world could show ♪ nothing to me so what good would living do meo ♪ god only knows what i'd be without you ♪ god only knows what i'd be without you ♪ >> i love you all. love and mercy to you all. >> stephen: thank you, brian wilson. check out another song from brian, as well as other great performances, in our play-at- home series, online at colbertlateshow.com. we'll be right back. >> stephen: stick around for james corden. but first, let's say good night with some music from jon batiste and stay human. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ the late late show, oh, oh the late late show, oh, oh ♪ it's the late late show

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