Tonight a bad idea. Plus stephen welcomes secretary Condoleezza Rice, bill skarsgard, and musical guest banks, 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 theme song playing stephen whoo perfect cheers and applause toasty. Right here its toasty. Thanks, everybody, please please, have a seat. Thank you very much, too kind welcome. Welcome in here, out there, all around the world, all of our viewers at sea, welcome to the late show, im your host Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause piano riff the big story tonight, tweet unbeknownst to almost everyone, the Major Taliban leaders and, separately, the president of afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at camp david on sunday. Yes, trump invited the taliban to camp david the weekend before 9 11. Thats like theres nothing thats like that. laughter that is what that is only that. Nothing else is like that. Does trump not know what 9
Let me tell you about our speaker tonight. Winifred gallaghers book include how the P Post Office created america, just the way you are, a New York Times notable book, working on god, the power of place, attention and focus life, and new, understanding our need for novelty and change period she has written for numerous publications such as the atlantic monthly, Rolling Stone at the New York Times. Her newest book, new women in the old west from settlers to suffragists, an untold american story is available for purchase from our partner bookseller politics and prose there if you use of the lake in the chat box which is also available on our website you will be able to purchase the book with a 10 discount practice make sure to use the code specialty and when checking out. Now please join me in welcoming toto the smithsonian winifred gallagher. Fellowed. Hi, kathy. Thanks so much, its wonderful to be with you. Before i begin, aye like to see a few id like to say a few words about the woma
A land of paradox. Streams and luminous days animate the landscape where , there is tropical greenery. Along the coast, forests of alder, spruce, cedar and pine spread for 1000 miles. Deep into green beyond the boundaries of imagination. The indians who named the land gave shape to the real and ghostly figures of their world. Recorded their legends in the carved spruce logs. They left the carvings of the russians who drove them from the great land. In the mid 18th century, the russian empire was expanding. In 1741, russian explorers claimed the land in the name of the widow of the russian leader. They brought the christian religion here. There are Russian Orthodox church is with its outward symbols of crusted are, russia ruled absolute for a century and a quarter over the place we now call the state of alaska. A reenactment of a historical moment. October 18, 1867. United states troops were present on that quiet, misty day when the russian imperial flag was lowered for the last time. T
28th, 1886, after 21 years of planning, fund rairaising and construction. Welcome to statue of Liberty National monument. Im have jacksonville, florida. Folks, i have a great job. I have been working here since 1999. I have been all over the United States. I got my start in alaska at gold Rush National historic park. Spent a few summers out there. Then i went to my hometown of jacksonville, worked at a small park on the banks of the st. Johns river for Caroline National memorial and went to the outer banks of North Carolina and worked at our nations First National seashore. And i moved north here to new york city, and i have been working here at the statue of liberty and ellis island for about seven years now. So i have got a great job. We want to protect these special places, not only for today. We want to leave them for future generations. So thats our goal. Folks here we are at the statue of liberty, our nations most famous national monument. A gift from the people of france, given
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