Plus stephen welcomes Sarah Paulson and john hodgman, 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 band playing stephen whoo hi, everybody how are ya how are ya . good to see ya whats going on, everybody . Welcome one and all, children of all ages to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause thank you very much big news from the trumprussia investigation. Yesterday, we finally got congressional testimony from donald trump jr. His grilling by the House Intelligence Committee lasted roughly eight hours, making it the first time a trump has put in a full work day. laughter don, jr. Was there answering questions about his infamous meeting with russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya. laughter as you recall, don, jr. Was there looking for dirt on hillary clinton. Back in june of 2016, right . Thats what the meeting was about. And everybody was there paul manafort, Jared
Privilege. Plus stephen welcomes Sarah Paulson and john hodgman, 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 band playing stephen whoo hi, everybody how are ya how are ya . good to see ya whats going on, everybody . Welcome one and all, children of all ages to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause thank you very much big news from the trumprussia investigation. Yesterday, we finally got congressional testimony from donald trump jr. His grilling by the House Intelligence Committee lasted roughly eight hours, making it the first time a trump has put in a full work day. laughter don, jr. Was there answering questions about his infamous meeting with russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya. laughter as you recall, don, jr. Was there looking for dirt on hillary clinton. Back in june of 2016, right . Thats what the meeting was about. And everybody was there paul mana
Pretty good ones. We had sarah battle earlier this year, john hodgman, last semester, these three great stuff planned for next semester already. Also, tonights forum is being filled by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and also, hopefully state your name in your question another reason we ask you to state your name is because we then do a write up of all the forum afterward which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on a website which is [inaudible] in the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at mit. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three it is a different three than we initially thought would be here because just called me up a little past five because his daughter was puking as the father of gms kids myself i said stay home and fortunately chris couch who writes a lot about technology is a brilliant journalist in their own right and ha
John hodgman, welcome. Thank you so much, its wonderful to be here. Good to see you and welcome back, and congratulations on this. Thank you, this is my book, vacationland. Its a lovely book. You know that, were gonna talk almost exclusively about this we can talk about whatever you like. The cover is one of the great book covers of the year. Its a great design. I think the design is fantastic. And may i credit the genius of Aaron Draplin of portland, oregon, an amazing designer who works in this kind of 70s, what he calls thick line style. He designs logos and corporate identities. He also created field notes, those little notebooks you can get at bookstores. So hes an amazing guy. Hes got a book called pretty much everything, which is a beautiful collection of his designs. Are you doing his cover . Oh sure, ill do his cover. Itll just be called good job draplin. But i love him and im so thrilled that he was able to do it. I love this book but i just wanna say, i loved your previous b
We are going to get started here tonight. My name is seth mnookin im the director of the Communications Forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start. First Communications Forums are held three times a semester, six times a year. If you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over their. Put your name and email and we promise we will only send you information about our six events a year. We had judge john hodgman last semester. We have great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights form is being filmed by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and hopefully state your name and your question. Another reason we ask you to state your name is we then go right up to the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our web site and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at m. I. T. I am t