laughter its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, trumps twitter tear. Plus stephen welcomes jordan peele alia shawkat and comedian paul mecurio. 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 wooo hey how are you . Thank you, joe thank you, louis. Thank you, matty. Whats going on . Pleads, have a seat, everybody. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause well, folks, donald trump is back in the u. S. A. , and he went on tv today to brag about how great his asia trip was. And it turns out it wasnt just attention he was thirsty for. Japanese companies have announced investments in the United States worth more than 8 billion, 17,000 jobs. They dont have water . Thats okay. laughter what . Thats okay. Oh. laughter stephen wow. That is hard to watch. laughter you know that, after watching that, i need a drink. Where is the where is the they
laughter its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, trumps twitter tear. Plus stephen welcomes jordan peele alia shawkat and comedian paul mecurio. 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 wooo hey how are you . Thank you, joe thank you, louis. Thank you, matty. Whats going on . Pleads, have a seat, everybody. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause well, folks, donald trump is back in the u. S. A. , and he went on tv today to brag about how great his asia trip was. And it turns out it wasnt just attention he was thirsty for. Japanese companies have announced investments in the United States worth more than 8 billion, 17,000 jobs. They dont have water . Thats okay. laughter what . Thats okay. Oh. laughter stephen wow. That is hard to watch. laughter you know that, after watching that, i need a drink. Where is the where is the they
Senate is ready to meet with executive nominations, votes coming up at noon eastern. Live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. Reverend brooks let us pray. O god, we first thank thee for another day of life. We thank you for the chance to bring joy and opportunity to someone elses journey. Lord, guide these Public Servants within the United States senate. Please lead them as they lead us to a better and more peaceful landscape. Create, o god, within all of us the zeal to make our communities around this country more stable. Remove from us, o god, any personal animosity that might prevent us from acting as my brother or sisters keeper. We ask your healing on those members of this legislative body who are injured or sick. We ask, o lord, that you would extend comfort and peace to those families that have been affected by the tragedy in sutter link springs, texas, even in the midst of this tragedy. We thank you, that those 26 fellow sojourners are in your loving presence, a celestial pl
The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Lankford mr. President , i want to be able to address this body to talk about an issue that we dont talk about enough, the deficit. Its an issue for whatever reason weve stopped talking about in washington, d. C. Were talking about tax policy, as we should. Were talking about Disaster Relief areas, which we should. Talking about health policies, which we should. A lot of other things. We have stopped talking about debt and deficit. I think thats a mistake for us. See, as the trend has moved, since 2011, at a high point when the deficit spending that year was 1. 3 trillion in overspending in a single year. Since that point, deficits have gone down a little bit each year until 2015. In 2016, our deficit number, thats a single year overspending started going back up. It went up in 2016. It went up again in 2017. Turning the wrong direction. As you will recall and as many people in this body would recall, deficits were a major topic for us starting in
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff all eyes are on alabama today as voters choose their next senator in a special election. It was supposed to be a little noticed race with no real competition. But as john yang reports, due to state politics and Sexual Misconduct claims, the race between republican roy moore and Democrat Doug Jones has come down to the wire. Yang Embattled Republican Senate candidate roy moore saddled up today, going on horseback to vote at the fire station in gallant. Moore was asked if he had a message for the multiple women who have accused him of Sexual Misconduct when they were teenagers, moore replied tell the truth. He also had a message for alabamians. I think they oughta go out and vote their conscience and we have a tremendous turno