Announcer stephen welcomes joy reid and yahya abdulmateen, ii, featuring jon batiste and stay homin now live on tape from the ed sullivan theaters Office Building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody welcome to a late show im your host Stephen Colbert. Let me just key up here. Mmm oooh, tepid i thought that was going to be hotter than it was. Hello. So nice to see you. Speaking of hot have you lost weight . You look amazing. We havent been together for a week, and ive missed so much has happened. So much has happened today. So much has happened in the last few hours. Honest to god, you guys back me up, im not entirely sure what were going to read even though weve read all of it because we had to change the order of everything minutes ago. The president ial election is only 15 days away. I cant wait for this to just be over. Its like an upcoming surgery, in that im planning on being anesthetized for the event. You know who could use some painkillers . Donald trum
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers senator cory booker, star of the trial of the chicago 7 actor Yahya Abdul Mateen ii, an allnew closer look, featuring the 8g band with Todd Sucherman and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening, im seth meyers. This is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Im glad to hear it. Lets get to the news. President trump ended a heated interview yesterday with lesley stahl of 60 minutes after he became irritated with the line of questioning. Apparently, he didnt like that there was one. While being interviewed by lesley stahl yesterday, President Trumps told aides that he thought the interview would be cut up to make him look bad for example, they could make him really stupid by cutting from one of her questions to his answer it was a revealed today that Rudi Guiliani was caught on video with his pants down his pants while alone in a hotel room with a woman he thought was a conservative journalist as part of the filming of borat 2. This was a la
Yale women graduating class. Please welcome and gardner perkins. Anne gardner perkins. Can you tell us about your book yale needs women and the history of coeducation in this country, and in the ivy league in particular . Yes. Thank you, mark. Over the next hour, we will all explore together that moment in American History when yale and its peers, when americas most prestigious colleges, finally admitted women students. For those of you who have not read the book yet, that moment was just 50 years ago, close enough that we can touch it, which is why we are so likely tonight to be able to include Elizabeth Vann and Connie Royster, two of yales first women undergraduates. Two facts are in order. Museum,schmidt and the who have been terrific sponsors, it has been delightful to work with you. And to eight cousins bookstore. I know in my community how important the independent bookstore is and independent bookstores have taken a real hit economically over the last three months, so i would r
Around the world in the wake of the murder of george floyd many are now asking how the Political Movement it catalyzed conformant true change and perhaps even revolution one woman who knows exactly how hard the struggle against systematic oppression and racial capitalism is the legendary black panther activist professor angela davis whos fight for equality in the sixtys and seventys led then president Richard Nixon to refer to her as a dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor angela davis coming on going on the ground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridors of the gas chamber. Well of course James Baldwin was. Not only with a scent writer but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open l
To see this nation is far from healthy that our Police Departments are the most dramatic expression of Structural Racism that our prisons are full of black people and latinos that. That we have to have an abolitionist imagination if we want to guarantee a future for our city i was standing nation and for the world what does that mean for ill get on to abolitionists as regards the Prison Industrial Complex and the police but obviously the f. B. I. Targeted you set in media circles people know about watergate do you think itll take a lot longer to know about cointelpro well increasing numbers of people are aware. The extent to which show the government attempt it to wipe out all of those who were resisting those who actually represented the possible future of democracy in this country it usually takes a very long. Long time for radical change to begin to be made but then on the other hand there are moments such as the current conjunct show were bringing together. A range of struggles a r