Goodbye, dear friend goodbye, ill never see you again goodbye, sweet its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight donald j. Trump tweets an oomsy. Plus stephen welcomes jason segel. Jeff fager and lesley stahl. And musical guest Mavis Staples. 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 i know i caught you this time. Whats going ojon . Jon whats happening. Stephen good to see you. Jon batiste, everybody. Please, have a seat. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. applause ladies and gentlemen a big shoutout to all our viewers in nairobi joining us tonight. I hear were huge in kenya. cheers and applause jon thats right. Stephen meanwhile, back here in the united states. Its election day. Just not the one we wish it was. Damn you, cursed monkey paw now, we tape this show early, so we dont know the results yet. Either way, im planning to upholdhe election day tradition i started last year getting a very close look at my carpet through an empty liquor bottle. laughter one year tomorrow. One year tomorrow. cheers and applause tomorrow is the anniversary. Jon wow, looking down, huh . Stephen the election everyones watching is the race for governor of virginia. Its between republican and anxious groundhog, ed gillespie, and democrat and doctor explaining where hes going to put his finger, ralph northam. One person weighing in on this race is spare trump and man who reads maxim on his kindle, donald trump jr. Don jr. Woke up this morning to urge people to get the vote out. But maybe he should have waited until hed had his morning cup of hair gel, because he tweeted, lets take edgillespie across the finish line tomorrow virginia get out and vote for ed and entire g. O. P. Ticket vagov va. Which is a fine thing to tweet, except the election was today, not tomorrow. Whoopsydaisy turnsoutericisthesmarton. Now finger, finger photo. A little late now, don jr. Later repeated his mistake, tweeting a second time that virginia voters should cast a ballot for gillespie a day late. But then, realizing his mistake, he went back and screwed it up again, because a few hours later, he tweeted, virginia, the future of the commonwealth is at stake get out and vote toady towedy. Vote towedy. I dont know who tody is. But you should really vote for him. This is really devolving. I assume his next tweet is please vote for ted galoshes for gov of vagina also, somebody help i got my head stuck in my pocket laughter applause now, he must be jon gillespie. Stephen you have to understand, you have tond, you have to have a little sympathy for this guy because right now he has to be under tremendous pressure because for the next seven days, he is the only donald trump in the western hemisphere, cause his dad continued his asian tour in south korea today. It must have been pretty tense, since there was a madman with Nuclear Weapons on one side of the border, and on the other side, north korea. laughter applause now, while he was there cheers and applause while he was stopped by a military base. Trump told reporters he was given a choice of a big beautiful lunch, but instead decided he wanted to eat with the troops for taco tuesday. Well, you know what . Good for him. I criticize him a lot, but this is what the commander in chief should do. Its nice to see that hes willing to make the right choice, as long as it involves eating a taco. laughter according to the military newspaper stars stripes, trump had tacos, a burrito, and curly tries which shows, i think, just how far weve come. Because just ten years ago, fries like everything in the military had to be straight. cheers and applause the big topic of conversation in south korea is north korea. And trump was far more restrained than he has been over here. He didnt once use the term little rocket man, possibly because the mans little rockets can reach him over there. laughter applause ive always liked him. Ive always i like him. I like him. But at the joint press conference with south koreas president , trump explained that the u. S. Is strong. I think were showing great strength. I think they understand we have unparalleled strength. There has never been strength like it. Stephen it is one of the strongest strengths in the strongoverse. And, now, just totally unrelate does anybody have a thesaurus i could use . Just. cheers and applause he continued you know, we sent three of the largest aircraft carriers in the world, and theyre right now positioned. We have a nuclear submarine, also positioned. We have many things happening that we hope, we hope in fact, ill go a step further we hope to god we never have to use. Stephen yes, hope to god, because we all know gods in the Nuclear Chain of command. laughter hes got the other key. Thats why they call it the nuclear triad, because its the father, the son, and the holy bleep . cheers and applause dont do it. Of course, its tough for trump to be overseas, because thats where all the foreigners are. laughter applause trump is not a huge fan. Doesnt really like them that much. Trump has been clear that he wants us to buy american, hire american, so its slightly surprising that he recently hired 70 Foreign Workers for his maralago golf club. So all you dreamers are welcome to stay, as long as your dream is mowing the back nine. laughter maralago has been granted whats known as h2b visas, and to get them, maralago had to show that no one else wanted the jobs, including calling old employees and putting ads in the newspaper. They also posted the job online with youre going to be working for a monster. Com. cheers and applause good organization. Good organization. So, obviously the way the law is drawn up, they had a strong incentive to make the jobs look back to american workers, and they succeeded because look at this actual listing in the Palm Beach Post that read three months recent and verifiable experience in fine dining country club, no tips, and instructed applicants to apply by fax. You might as well post, dead end job, slave wages, must apply via telegram, high probability of meeting donald trump. cheers and applause , of course, rubbing elbows rubbing elbows applause of course, lawn care is a roughandtumble world out there, lawn maintenance. Just ask kentucky senator and man caught midmacarena, rand paul. Now, senator paul was attacked last week, sustaining five broken ribs and a bruised lung. It was a vicious attack, and i wish senator paul a speedy recovery so he can get back to the senate to take away your healthcare. laughter pauls assailant was his nextdoor neighbor, retired anesthesiologist and botox american, rene boucher. Boucher is a registered democrat, and a lot of people were speculating that boucher assaulted the libertarian senator for political reasons. It was like a chapter out of ayn rands book, atlas mugged. laughter but were learning more details about the incident. Apparently, the violent altercation began over a landscaping dispute. Of course, landscape disputes are the leading cause of violence between middleaged white men. laughter right after lowes parking lot scuffle and wrestling over the last tombstone fourmeat pizza at cvs. Now, i condemn all forms of violence, but it is refreshing to see that even in this politicallycharged environment, we can go back to feuding over stupid stuff, because im old enough to remember a time when you didnt hate people for their political beliefs. No, you hated them because their screen door still makes that damn sound. Oil it laughter we didnt judge a man by the bumper stickers on his car. 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Lifes as big as you make it. band playing cheers and applause Stephen Jon Batiste and stay human, everybody stephen you know, folks, ill tell you audience Stephen Stephen stephen. Stephen thank you so much, everybody. Please, have a seat. Youre too kind. Ladies and gentlemen, its no secret, i love gossip, okay. Grease me. I got an whos pregnant, whos dating, who is taylor swift feuding with now . Its jimmy carter. Shouldnt have thrown shade at her new album, jimmy. Now youre out of the girl squad. But some of the juiciest gossip right comes from a huge leak of documents detailing some of the worlds biggest corporations and wealthiest people, known as the Paradise Papers. Take me down to the Paradise Papers where you pay no tax on financial capers wooo wont you take me down thats it. I had a little trouble getting it. I had a little trouble getting it. laughter the papers focus on the dealings of the bermudan law firm appleby, which helps clients reduce their tax burden and set up huge offshore trusts that in some cases hold billions of dollars. Its like their slogan says, applebys cheatin good in the neighborhood. laughter applause and the papers, these papers are just delicious. Theyre full of primo dish on bigtime celebrities, like bono, who used a Company Based in lowtax malta to buy part of a Shopping Mall in lithuania oh, yeah, because nothings more rock n roll than having a 3 interest in the profits of an Eastern European jamba juice. applause although, bonos investment in that mall does explain some of its stores, like the linen shop where the sheets have no name, laughter or the ice cream parlor, sundaes nutty sundaes. laughter applause now, the Paradise Papers are just the latest giant leak of sensitive documents. Last year, we heard about the panama papers, but the mother of all leaks the urdump, if you will was something called the pentagon papers. In 1971, a man named daniel ellsberg, leaked a classified Defense Department report revealing that the previous three administrations had secretly expanded the war in vietnam, then knowingly lied about it to the american people, which today is astonishing. Just imagine having a president that knows hes lying. There was a huge to get these papers out cheers and applause there they are. There was a huge competition between the New York Times and the Washington Post over who would get the truth out, while facing enormous resistance from the administration. Does that sound familiar to you . The key players at the post were publisher katharine graham, first woman to publish a major newspaper, and editor in chief, ben bradley. And now, the story of the pentagon papers has been made into a new movie called the post starring meryl streep and tom hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg its the first time these three have all worked together. I smell oscar buzz laughter now, the post is coming december 22 in limited release, and then nationwide january 12. Why do i tell you this . I tell you this because we have the worldexclusive debut of the trailer for the post. No one has seen this thing other than the people who made it, one would hope, or else it could be a mess. I just want to remind you, this is real. This is a big deal. This is like having a marvel trailer, if meryl streep was playing thor and hanks was hulk. So here it is, the World Premiere of the trailer for the post. applause so, can i ask you a hypothetical question . Oh, dear, i dont like hypothetical questions. Well, i dont think youre going to like the real one, either. Do you have the papers . Not yet. This is a devastating Security Breach that was leaked out of the pentagon. The most highly classified documents of the war. The times has 7,000 pages detailing how the white house has been lying about the vietnam war for 30 years. The way they lied, those days have to be over. Kay, people are concerned about having a woman in charge of the paper. Bet she doesnt have the resolve to make the tough choices. Thank you, arthur, for your frankness. Lets do our jobs, find those pages. Youre talking about exposing years of government secrets. Is that legal . What is it you think we do here for a living, kid. Ben, i might have something. Must be freshes cargo. Its just government secrets. The New York Times was barred from publish anything more classified documents dealing with the vietnam wa war. If you publish, well be at the Supreme Court next week. Meaning . We could all go to prison. To make this decision, to risk her fortune and the company thats been her entire life, well, i think thats brave. If the government wins, the Washington Post will cease to exist. If we dont hold them accountable,. We cant hold them accountable if we dont have a newspaper. If theres a way to destroy you, by god, hell find it im asking your advice, bob, not your permission. She cant do this. The legacy of the company is at stake. What will happen if we dont publish . We will lose. The country will lose. What are you going to do, mrs. Graham. Can you dance like you should can you dance like you should make the rules while dancing you could dance like you should can you dance like you should make the rules while dancing can you dance like you should new charmin ultra soft its softer than ever. New charmin ultra soft is softer than ever. So its harder to resist. Okay, this is getting a little weird. Enjoy the go with charmin un poquito mas rapido, no . 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Ladies and gentlemen, my first guest is an actor and now novelist you know from forgetting Sarah Marshall, how i met your mother and the muppets. Please welcome jason segel. cheers and applause this is lovely. Stephen isnt it lovely . Hi, everybody. Stephen isnt it nice . Yeah. Stephen its nice to see you again. It was Something Like three years ago or something the last time i saw you back on the old colbert report back in the old days. Thats right, for my book. Stephen how have you been . Yeah, fantastic. I moved to an orange grove. Stephen i heard this. Yeah. Stephen so what does that mean . You moved like, that sounds like are you a hermit now . No, no. Stephen you live in an orange grove. Theres a whole town of people. Stephen is there a home there or do you just frollic among the trees . No, i kind of walk around and think about what to do with the oranges like how i met your marmalade. Something like that. Stephen that would so sell. I know. Stephen that would so sell. Cbs would want their beak wet, but that would sell. I did a movie called the end of the tour. Stephen i saw, that beautiful performance, beautiful character, im sure. Really scary. I rented this orange groove to read infinite jest, because im not a stephen you rented an orange grove to read a book . Yeah, yeah. Because i had the how i met your mother money. Stephen thats a real hollywood thing to have done. Yeah. And i was really i was just, like, really happy there, and i decided im going to stay. So i never eye never went back. Stephen so it was rent to own. Yeah, i essentially leased it. Stephen do you live there alone . No, i have a wonderful girlfriend, yeah. Stephen i didnt know, i didnt know. But im happy for her and you. Yeah, were both really happy. Stephen it sounds like a really great place to start a cult. Yes, yeah. Im rent writing scifi novels as well so its perfect. Healthtronics. Stephen the thing is you rented i just want to go backue rented an orange grove to read a book. Yeah, thats right. Stephen and i didnt know how people how you do the book reading. I laughter i stephen i leased an avocado farm to do my taxes this past year. Yeah, yeah. Stephen you got get away from it. I dont know how the Little People do it, but we just have to get away. I just cant be distracted. I used to think the reason you read a book was to say you read the book, but this time i had to really understand it. Stephen so not a big reader. I do more writing thane do reading. Stephen so now you live on the orange farm you rented to read a book and now youre writing books. Yeah. Stephen this is jur fifth book, isnt it . Yeah, thats number five. Stephen its called otherworld. applause . Thanks. Stephen and book writing is hard. Its really hard work. Yeah. Stephen now what why does this seem is this harder or easier than being an actor, in your opinion . Well, my no one was ever knocking down my door to play captain america, thats what my career was like. I wrote a lot of of the movies i did. I wrote forgetting Sarah Marshall when i was 24. And i wrote the muppets with a friend of mine nick applause . Oh, thanks, thanks. Pretty cool. But, honestly, when i was working on the mupets i want to say this correctly in case kids are watching but the mupets are puppets, you know. laughter . Stephen muppets. When kids would come to meet kermit, a puppeteer is standing right there operating kermit, but i noticed the kid looks directly at kermit. They dont see the puppeteer standing next to them. And i thought kids want to use their imagination. They want to believe. And i wanted to start writing books for them, because when you read a book as a kid youre doing half the work. I provide the words, and their imagination does the rest of the story. Stephen this is your first young adult novel. Yeah. Stephen y. A. What qualifies y. A. . Whats that category . Its 16 and up. I get really nervous about those kids, because i felt inferior to them when i was 16 and continue to. laughter . Stephen my children are all 16 up and, and theyre way smarter than i am. Yeah stephen i couldnt do their homework. I was at a restaurant the other day, and the valet parker came around. He was, like, a 16yearold kid stepped out of the car and i was instantly like, oh, man, hes so much cooler than me. Stephen you know what . I bet he thought so, too. Thats nature of 16yearolds. How old are you . Im 37 now. Stephen old man. Look like the vice principal. I wanted to ingraishate myself to the kid make him, i was cool, too, and i tried to make small talk, yeah, looks like summer is over, hey, bro. Stephen did you actually say hey, bro. He said, yeah, the brakes are on. I didnt know what that meant. And i said, oh, yeah, brakes are on brakes are on theyre on stephen the idea being that summer is over and, therefore, the brakes are on, because the fun breaks. I got in the car to drive away and the parking brake was on. Stephen so literally the brakes were on. Literally the brakes were on. Year, ive been ive been thinking about that interaction for, like, two weeks now. Stephen wow. Because i went for it. The brakes are on you said it. Stephen maybe we can get it started. Maybe we can get it started. What do you want it to mean . Lets try to get it it started. Okay. Stephen what does it means, the brakes are on we had a good time but now maybe its time to get down to work. Ive also been trying to for a long time when someone insults someone trying to make, oh, youve got mail. laughter stephen i know youre my guest. Yeah. Stephen im not going to help you with that one. laughter . Oh, return to sender stephen i want to get this one started. My friend paul and i have been trying to get this one started. Its were trying to get teens to use this term, oh, thats massive. When something is really good, thats massive. That doesnt seem like an expression as much as an adjective. Stephen do you like my suit . Its massive. Its perfect, its perfect. Brakes are on. Stephen a third party right now should look at me and say, oh, youve got mail. Oh, my god, totally stephen right now that would be perfect. You can add that glaert well do it post. It will all be digital. Youve been a movie star, a tv star. Now youre a star its previous series like this, there are, like, five books in it. Somebody will make a movie out of this stuff. Whats it like to be a book star, to be out with kids and adults, i assume, at a reading . Is it different . Its funny you said that. When you go to these readings, honestly, hundreds of people come because they dont care about the book, but the parents want to meet the guy from forgetting Sarah Marshall. And they well, its really a different crowd. And sometimes they make the mistake of doing, like, wine events before these kids book events. And i just did one stephen they get you drunk . No, they give the parents they give them some rose while the kids are supposed to ask me parents. The other day, the first six rose were kids, and the rest were parents. And i came out, i think ill start reading the first pages of this book. And a woman said, or you could just take that shirt off. laughter applause . Stephen its an option. You know what was sad . I made eye contact with the womans daughter. Stephen oh, no, oh, no. And the look on her face was that she was not surprised. Stephen okay. So, i know you dont have time to read the book here but what is it about. Quickly, since were running out of time. Basically, if the kids from freakfreaks and geeks got sucked into dudgeons and dragons. Stephen thats a quick pitch. Did you play d d. I played mist. Stephen i remember mist. I i was terrible at it. Iwould wander around. And the book is about what if a company like amazon created a Virtual World so seductive nobody wanted to leave. Yeah . Stephen im in. Im in. I can keep this . Yeah, its all yours. Ill sign it for you. Stephen jaceob, lovely to see you. Otherworld is on sale now. Jason segel, everybody. Well be right back with jeff fager and lesley stahl. From 60 minutes stick around. Ghtening. You dont like my lasagna . No, its good. Hmm. Oh. Huh. [ both laugh ] here, blow. Blow on it. You see it, right . Is there a draft in here . Im telling you, its so easy to get Home Insurance on progressive. Com. Progressive cant save you from becoming your parents. But we can save you money when you bundle home and auto. Progressive cant save you from becoming your parents. Youre more than just a bathroom disease. Youre a life of unpredictable symptoms. Crohns, youve tried to own us. 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Now, lesley, obviously, we all know you. Youre on tv. That makes you important. Whos that guy over there . And why do we care . So,ob, he, obviously, hes e boss, and whats important about jeff is that he took over from the giant, the creator, donahueit don hewitt wo created 60 minutes, and its impossible, as you may well know, to take over from the god. But jeff did it, and he did it magnificently. Hes kept what don created at its heart and soul, but hes made us more newsy. Hes made us on the news more than we used to be. And one of dons great strengths was that he could look at a story and know exactly how to make it better. And we all thought, well, jeffs never going to be as good as don at that. And he is. Thank you. Have i sucked up enough . Stephen yeah, you sure have. applause now, so, youre in the 50th season of 60 minutes. Yes. Stephen its as good as it ever was. I watched it this sunday. Had three perfect 60 minutes storys. You had puerto rico. You had the slowly tilting Millennium Tower in san francisco. And you had the musical prodigy from england. Like, whats the formula that goes into choosing those three stories . Why are those 60 minutes stories. It really is a perfect mix, this sunday night broadcast we just had. You love to have something which is in the news which is puerto rico. Its devastated by this terrible hurricane. And to have the piece about the leaning building in the middle was fascinating. And then this beautiful prodigy as the end piece, which was inspirational and just lovely to watch. So that mix is a big part of what we try to do every sunday night. Stephen now, is there a is there a competitive culture at 60 minutes . I hear that its whats the word a tiger pit between the laughter is there a story there . Is there a story there . Well, you know, it is a tiger pit. And steve kroft and i went at it because we both want harvey weinstein. Im joking. Stephen ening youre kidding on the square because im totally kidding. Stephen i understand that you guys will snake each others stories away from each other, and thats just how that is. Well, i think that that reputation comes from mike wallace who was never afraid to say, im prepared to steal your story fru. Stephen but prepared and then would do it. Yes. Oh, my god, he did it with me when i first got there with Barbra Streisand. He read upside down on my notes that Barbra Streisand he thought thats a good idea. And he called her and he took it away from me. Stephen did you go after him with a broken bottle . What did you do . You know, i suffered. I suffered. I just was hurt. He was very lovely to me. He was a tough man. Hes what you saw on television. But he called me in one day, and he said, look, kid, youre never going to make it until you learn how to ask an embarrassing question without being embarrassed. And thats, of course, what he did. Yeah. And it was hard. You know, you ask these personal questions, and believe me, you suffer inside. Stephen is there a question like, is there a question that you havent been able to bring yourself to ask, like, with a subject . Well, its really hard when you have a sick kid and youre interviewing the parents. And maybe the parents did were negligent in some way. And that is just impossible. Its the personal stories that not with politicians. Theres nothing i wouldnt ask a politician. laughter and nothing i would be embarrassed about asking a politician. applause stephen well, theres a new book out to go with the 50th year of 60 minutes. The book is warts and all. Mostly successes, but some failures. Yeah. Stephen what did you what did you do, you know, on a piece or producing something if it didnt go write, if you didnt get your facts right, if you were caught up short on something, how did you deal with it . You know, one of the most important lessons we learned from don hon hewitt that goes back to the beginning of cbs news, is own up to your mistakes. Nobody thinks youre going to be perfect. The audience, viewers know thats going to happen sometimes. We have one of the most incredibly strenuous and rigorous processes of bringing the stories to air. So by the time they get to air, our all of our tools for watching after fairness and accuracy, its gone through the grist mill. It really has. Theyre few and far between. But when we do make mistakes, you better own up to them, explain how it happened, and move on one story at a time. I had one. Stephen you had one mistake . applause . I had a biggie. Its true. It was a defector. Stephen a defector. Right before the iraq war, and he came on. I was warned never listen to a defector. Theyre going to lie to you. But i went ahead and did it. We had him vetted. And he was telling us about these trucks that Saddam Hussein had him buy Renault Trucks and they were roaming the countryside of iraq making biological weapons, weapons of mass destruction. And, of course, it wasnt true. And we put the story on 60 minutes, and it was so painful when we realized it. And we did approximation it. Stephen when did you find out . How long before you found out it was a lie . For a long time, months. Stephen had the war already started at that point . Yeah, we found the whole war found out after the war start gld did you feel any culpability at that point . I do, terrible. Stephen what do you do with these feel . Tion i dont mean to be too personal. But you take the work very personally and you are part of a historical moment you wish hadnt happened, how do you obi have at that . You go on and do your next story as well as you can and the next one and the next one and you dont make any more mistakes. Yeah. Stephen thank you so much. 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Stephen and now, performing build a bridge from her new album, if all i was was black with jeff tweedy and jon batiste and louis cato, ladies and gentlemen, Mavis Staples im tired of us livin so lonely i think i know what to do gonna build a bridge right over the mountain im gonna walk right over to you look around at our city look at us out on the street got kids looking over their shoulders people looking down at their feet im tired of us livin so lonely i hope i know what to do gonna build a bridge right over the ocean im coming right over for you when i say my life matters you can say yours does, too but i betcha never have to remind anyone to look at it from your point of view gotta build a bridge right over the mountain gotta build it right over the sea gonna build a bridge right over the ocean so you can walk right over to me look around at our country at the people that we dont ever see standing side by side were divided lonely in the land of the free im gonna pull the shades off of my window im gonna let the sunlight right in im gonna open my heart to a stranger i think i know where to begin im gonna build a bridge right over the mountain i think i know what to do gonna build a bridge right over the ocean im gonna walk right over to you im gonna walk right over to you im gonna walk right over to you im gonna walk right over to you im gonna walk right cheers and applause stephen Mavis Staples everybody well be right back. 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