Get worried, really worried. David pogue will report our cover story. Reporter in case there was any doubt, 2020 has offered some pretty good evidence that the climate is changing. We always put Climate Change on the back burner, thinking we can do it later. But were out of time for that. Reporter but 2020 has also offered some tiny signs of hope. In one generation weve taken the planet from basic stability to the brink of catastrophe. But it means we are the authors of our faith. Reporter Climate Change, an update, coming up on sunday morning. Pauley Christopher Cross is a singersongwriter with some of musics most memorable hits to his credit. But for him, this year has been anything but smooth sailing. Not far down reporter Christopher Cross sa fivetime grammy awardwinner. This year he is also Something Else. What were some of the things you were saying to yourself in those darkest moments . I can tell you that i had a few conversations with whoever he or she is, and just saying, if
Dont touch your face. Goodnight, everybody [ cheers and applause announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers chat and music from keith urban. From mo willems and the story time allstars, actress and comedian, Rachel Dratch featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth good evening, im seth meyers. This is late night. We hope youre all doing well tonight and lets get to the news President Trump said in an interview yesterday that a Coronavirus Vaccine would be available, quote, within a matter of weeks. Yeah, but how many weeks is this like one of those deals when parents talk about their babies now how old is caden hes 59 weeks. Thats right, President Trump said in an interview yesterday that a Coronavirus Vaccine would be available, quote, within a matter of weeks. Trump loves to talk about everything in weeks. The vaccine is coming in weeks his Healthcare Plan is coming in weeks. Pretty soon his rally crowds will be chanting 208 more weeks im just kidding abo
[inaudible] im ready when you are. Are you live . Are we going . Senator whitehouse. Thank. , you can take a bit of a breather on your return to the committee. What i want to do is go through with the people who are watching the conversation that you and i had when we spoke on the telephone. You were kind enough to hear out a presentation that i made and i intend to have some questions in that area. It does not make sense if i have not laid the predicate particularly for our viewers who are watching this. I guess the reason i want to do this is because people who are watching this need to understand that this small hearing room and the little tv box you are looking at, the little screen you are looking at are a little bit like the frame of a puppet theater. If you only look at what is going on in the puppet theater, you are not going to understand the whole story, you are not going to understand the real dynamic of what is going on here. You are certainly not going to understand forces
My pleasure to be here with the author and really, wonderful person to talk about history and race, and just challenges during this time, Erica Armstrong dunbar. She is the author of one of my new favorite books. She came to sleigh. It is the life and time of Harriet Tubman. Thank you so much for doing this. Your book is really groundbreaking. And cute and first of all let me thank you for inviting me on. I really taken the time to have this conversation. I love to talk about history. But more importantly about the lives of africanamerican women during the 19th century. And harriet have one just became very clear early on that it was time to kind of do a bit of a refresher on Harriet Tubman. And to think about her as a person. Hennepin as an activist bird right now were thinking about about what social justice and activism looks like. I think theres no better representation of it, at least in the 19th century than Harriet Tubman. Its wonderful to be able to talk about her. Host what is
Books as a historian what is your contemporary view of how our world will be viewed . We have so little perspective on this moment is quite impossible to say but the perceptionptio t many peopln the United States and around the worldha have the extraordinary initial time. In a way that was experiencing. Host thinking about today do compared to any other period of history . Guest know. As a historian i think we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to be thing like anotherre f. And then to say that looks just like my great grandma with the baby but then also with my need for familiarity so as my career as a historian that is a journalistic tick to understand theres a whole crop leftparenthesis president ial beyond the one biographers as a way to contain that chaos as a way to avoid with that moment in time. Host you gave a talk on your book what do we mean in American History . How do we reckon that it is two different as to share a common ancestry as a people and it seems a fair