Carlile. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody, welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. How are you guys doing tonight . I cant hear you because im alone. So alone. Im alone, right, pete . Oh, you are so alone. Stephen thank you. Pblazer, im all dressed up fora cocktail party. But, evidently, the network thinks we should do a show. Whats up . Lets see, whats up . Okay, heres big news. In the democratic primary, theres big news, because there is no democratic primary. Because today, senator Bernie Sanders announced he was dropping out of the 2020 democratic race. I guess during a pandemic, crazy ideas like medicare for all just dont resonate. Bernie addressed his supporters this afternoon in a live stream. I want to thank the many hundreds of thousands of americans who attended our rallies, town meetings, and house parties from new york to california. Some of these events had over 25,00
And musical guest Brandi Carlile featuring jon batiste and stay homin. and now, live on tape from a safe distance, its stephen colbert. Stephen hey, everybody, welcome to a late show. Im your host, stephen colbert. How are you guys doing tonight . I cant hear you because i am alone. So alone. Im alone, right, pete . Oh, you are so alone. Stephen thank you. Now as you can tell from my blue blazer im all cressed up for a cocktail party, but evidently, the network thinks we should do a show. Whats up . Okay, heres big news. In the democratic primary theres big news, because there is no democratic primary because today, senator Bernie Sanders announced he was dropping out of the 2020 democratic race. I guess during a pandemic, crazy ideas like medicare for all just dont resonate. Bernie addressed his supporters this afternoon in a live stream. I want to thank the many hundreds of thousands of americans who attended our rallies, town meetings, and house parties from new york to california.
Place to meet, which you did through by hook and by crook, it took you a long time to get there, even still, it has to be about, well, if you scored a point on me, im going to score a point on you. And since were coming from different places we each have to win, and if we dont win by destroying the other, its not a real win. That dynamic is true, even when you fight for that common ground. I thought you did a great job with it, and im glad it was you and not me. I had that thought while i was doing it. Like, rachel kind of warned me off this last night. It wasnt a warning. It was like, oh, really. Okay. Well, you know. Its like baseball. Glass of wine for you tonight, my friend. Well done. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Its really good to have you here. This past month, abc News Reporter Jonathan Karl published a book called betrayal about The Great Unraveling of the trump presidency. The final act of the trump show. It hasnt even been a year since Trump Left Office bu
Trump left office, but there have already been a bunch of significant and wellreported books published already about how things went so off the rails at the end there. But in the Jonathan Karl book, theres one anecdote, one bit of reporting from him that has really stuck with me from that book in particular. And it was the part about rescuing the cia director because she had been wounded in germany. You remember this . I mean, spoiler alert. Cia director was fine. She wasnt in germany. Nor was she wounded. But this is the way that Jonathan Karl reported this out, page 51 of his book. Pentagon official, quote, received a call from Sydney Powell who was advising President Trump and promoting some of the craziest theories about the election. Powell called the Pentagon Official with a bizarre request. Her request was specific, urgent, highly sensitive. It was also completely insane. Quote, cia director gina haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in germany, she told the official. You