and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it s stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) stephen: hey! how are ya? woo! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) hey! thank you, sir! thank you, ma am! how s it going? please sit down, everybody! you re too kind! well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the late show. i m your host, stephen colbert. you know, i ( cheers and applause ) thank you, thank you. i need that love, i need that energy, because i come to you tonight a broken man. ( laughter ) because just this afternoon, i was shocked by this breaking nooch: the mooch is out. anthony scaramucci gone, after just a week and change on the job. the mooch is toast! stephen: yes, the mooch is toast! the front-stabber has been back- stabbed. ( laughter ) he said he was going to fire everybody, and i ve got to admit, he delivered. ( laughter ) that is thorough! ( piano riff ) ( cheers and applause ) that is that is thorough!
what about the lame-duck congress between now and then? they have a laundry list of housekeeping to take care of. ed henry is live for us at the white house. is there anything new coming up today? well, gretchen, you are right about republicans saying their agenda is about jobs. the president s lis list is wider. what i think is significant and you have to pay attention to here is not what the president is about to say in this clip, but the body language. republicans, if you look at them with the president, one of our colleagues told me privately, it looks almost like they re all in a waiting room of a dentist office. they re so far apart and stiff. particularly the body language not of the republicans, but the president s fellow democrats like harry reid who were want happy about results and are angry with the president. take a listen. republicans had a good night. i ve congratulated both mitch mcconnell as well as speaker boehner. for running a very strong campaign. as
meets with his national security and health teams in the situation room. it s happening right now. he is going over the strategy to combat a potential ebola outbreak here in the u.s. the president will also meet with health workers who have or will travel to help combat the disease in africa. that s going to happen about an hour from now. meantime, questions being raised over whether the military s new restrictions will be expanded to cover all nonmilitary workers returning home. jennifer griffin live at the pentagon, so, jennifer, what s going to happen? everybody going to be on the same page or not. we just learned there are now 42 u.s. soldiers in quarantine in italy after working in line ear wra. secretary hagel has decided to institute a mandatory 21-day quarantine for all service members returning from operations in west africa to combat ebola. the decision announced by secretary hagel this morning is a is controversial for two big reasons. first, it defies recommen
grandstanding and a 3 on capitol hill. one celebrity s story of survival aboard a plane with sick passengers that has the internet singing. fox and friends first starts right now. heather: good morning to you across the united states. you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. thank you for starting the day with us. donald trump demanding answers after the new york times publishes a scathing anonymous op-ed. the article supposedly written by a senior white house official the president is calling gutless. jackie ibanez joins us with more on how the white house is responding. reporter: the anonymous op-ed suggests the administration at success is in spite of the president and not because of him, the author saying white house officials are actively working against donald trump writing, quote, donald trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by modern american leader, the dilemma he does not fully grasp is many senior officials in his own
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