cheers and applause its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, impeachments greetings plus, stephen welcomes Liev Schreiber Daniel Kaluuya and musical guest cold war kids 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 come on yeah the. Stephen felt that felt that come on welcome thank you, everybody. Welcome, one and all, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause i hope everybody out there is all bundled up, because 70 of the country is in the grip of an arctic blast. In new york, it dropped 40 degrees in 24 hours. Its so cold the Empire State Building shrunk from 102 stories to 63. Jon that thing went low. Stephen but a snap in the air means were headed into my favorite season, because its impeachment eve. cheers and applause like little children tomorrow is the first day of televised impeachment hearings. Im so excited, i wont be able to sleep.
The shakespeare theater hosted a mock trial in june based on a scenario of William Shakespeares play macbeth. Panel a federal Appellate Court judges and Supreme Court justices including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer heard oral argument in the case of the weird sisters versus kingdom of scotland. At issue is whether or not the sisters were guilty of using witchcraft to assist macbeth in the murder of king duncan of scotland. This event is one hour. [applause] thank you everyone, for joining us in this event which is not our 25th mock trial. [applause] this is one of the events that we do that is a labor of love and it is, that it becomes that way. This is produced and sponsored by the Bar Association which many of you are members and those are not i hope you will become. It is the Affinity Group of lawyers in washington, d. C. , Bard Association to try to sport not on arts in general but this terrific theater in specific. As you know tonight argument is based on the text when S
Many of you are members and those who are not, i hope you will become. It is the Infinity Group of lawyers in washington dc and elsewhere that strive to support, not only art in general, but this peter specifically. Tonights argument is based on William Shakespeares macbeth which is produced by the theater this spring and directed by on the thursdays. It was a wonderful event and i sure many of you attended. I want to start by thinking as the people that you will see on the stage and the people who are not on the stage but make this possible. This event comes together in large part because theres a group of people with whom i am honored to work. Who work on coming up with the ideas is coming up with which plate we will do and figure out what the legal questions can be. These are the people who year in and year out make it possible. After last winter, i think them in general, but i want them to be thanked specifically. They do the hard work. If you are in the house, i want to announce a
Many of you are members and those who are not, i hope you will become. It is the Infinity Group of lawyers in washington dc and elsewhere that strive to support, not only art in general, but this peter specifically. Tonights argument is based on William Shakespeares macbeth which is produced by the theater this spring and directed by on the thursdays. It was a wonderful event and i sure many of you attended. I want to start by thinking as the people that you will see on the stage and the people who are not on the stage but make this possible. This event comes together in large part because theres a group of people with whom i am honored to work. Who work on coming up with the ideas is coming up with which plate we will do and figure out what the legal questions can be. These are the people who year in and year out make it possible. After last winter, i think them in general, but i want them to be thanked specifically. They do the hard work. If you are in the house, i want to announce a
Good afternoon. I want to thank you for that very kind introduction. A lot of Research Went into that. You can go to the parishes we came from and that is good, that is real good. It is an honor for me to speak to an organization we need now more than ever and a point of personal privilege, we have with us someone whose name was mentioned before, the head of our civil rights division, mister gupta. [applause], head of the leadership conference, chiefly when i was attorney general, the prison continues into lead in the civil rights arena. Today i would like to discuss with you at that we all owe and an issue that threatens the integrity of this great nation and puts in peril the future welfare of our country. 50 years after the passage of the most significant civil rights legislation in our nations history the Voting Rights act in 1965, the most basic of american rights, the right to vote is under siege. President johnson said when he signed the Voting Rights act, the right to vote is t