stephen: welcome to everybody. thank you for joining us, in the studio and all around the world. you are joining us for an historic evening. this is the second edition of the c-olbert book club. tonight, we are stepping away from the conflict in syria, because apparently that was the united states. a lot of details still to be worked out and we will get into those tomorrow, but the upshot is that america will not attack syria for gassing its citizens if they give up their chemicals weapons. it is like if you decapitate add co-worker, so they are taking away your ax. but you get to keep your job and your hatchett. be good now! be good! okay. anyway, forget that stuff. it is a downer. let s get to the book club. already in progress. now, as you know, i am a powerful media mogul. i have got my own show, i have got my best selling book. i have got an award winning twitter feed! and, of course, i have my massive daily e-mail blast of the internet best forwards. critics h
agree more. and if the underlying facts that the intelligence community brings us are incorrect we should call that out. i just have not seen any evidence indicating that in this case. oftentimes we come to different strategic or policy points of view based on that information but that s an entirely different thing. director clapper, i want to go to a little bit more of not just the classified information, but the relevance of publicly available information, of the whole picture of russia s activities within the context of this election. can you talk a little bit about the activities of the russian government s english language propaganda out lets and how they complete a complete picture that is supplemental with what we saw to the hacking in this case. i appreciate you raising that. there hasn t been a lot of focus on the packing, this was actually part of a multi-faceted campaign that the russians mounted. of course, rt, which is heavily supported by funded by the russi
than by cutting down your own christmas tree. jesse and emily went on the little adventure to a local tree farm to show us how it s done. take a look. jesse: we are here at the head and pond christmas farm in new jersey with christian nicholson, the owner. emily: i m so excited. i ve never cut down a christmas tree before. this is like a lifelong dream of mine. it s not so much about the tree. it s about the memories and the spirit of christmas when you come out to a real christmas tree farm. jesse: we will take a drive out to the field. do you know how to drive a stick? emily, how about you? you know how to drive a stick shift? emily: yes, i do. try to keep it under the speed limit. [laughs] stig allots a really tree right there. jesse: what you think the perfect tree would look like for the five? [laughter] he needs a few more years. emily: this one is leading a little to the left. jesse: that s juan. [laughter] emily: all of the trees are like, p
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