announcer: it s a late show live with stephen colbert! tonight: land of opportunity. plus, stephen welcomes keanu reeves and alex winter and former congressman trey gowdy. featuring, live, jon batiste and stay homin . and now live from the ed sullivan theater office building in new york city, it s stephen colbert! stephen: welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to a late show i m your host, stephen colbert. we just walked in this room. we just literally finalized the script. i can t wait to find out what we just wrote. this is going to be really exciting, i haven t even had time to prep my eyeballs because they ve had quite a beating tonight. we are live for the second night of the republican national if you missed last night, congratulations. despite promises of positive message, it was a dark, angry propaganda with terrible production values. they should have called it triumph of the will this be over soon? one big problem is trump and the g.o.p. were in covid de
test garfield figures this out, goes up to new york and suddenly saves millions of dollars in his first week as president. lots of appointments we don t have time to go into. the one that i think is one of the more fun ones, we talked about him last week because he was one of the judges at the lincoln conspiracy trial and that is general lou wallace. garfield appoints him to be the ambassador to turkey. lou wallace wrote about the ben hur. and he tells lou wallace, i m appointing you to be an ambassador to a muslim country so you can write another book. he gets involved with an ohio senator by the name of george pendleton to try and draft civil supervisory form. sadly, it only passes after garfield s death. good point for us to stop here and shift to the second character in our story. and there is nothing more different than this absolutely brilliant latin and greek scholar, president of the university, lawyer who ar
no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. ( darya ) christmas is just days away. and a lot of people will be traveling through s-f-o.( james ) this week. more than 100-thousand fliers have passed thru each day. kron 4 s will tran joins us live from the airport. will. ( will ) with christmas just a few days away . more people are traveling through sfo to go home for the holidays.. this week has been the busiest ay sfo . with more than 100-thousand people traveling everyday. cancelations are not expected . but there are a few delays expected . due to weather in different locations. we talked to some passengers who say they are prepared for the travels. . ( darya ) thanks will. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( james ) and breaking news we are following from overnight. at least five buildings are destroyed in a series of fires overnight in antio
corner of the world. women s rights are human rights. men and women join together to demand an end to sexism and racism. a call for justice and equality. most people had a strong message to america s new commander in chief. president donald trump. we will not back down. live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10. good evening, everybody. i m joyce evans. thanks for joining us. i m dawn timmeney. here in physical the parkway was jam packed today with people out rallying in solely car r officials estimate more than 50,000 people took to our city streets. they danced, they chanted and rallied for unity and a equality. the women s march on philadelphia made its way from logan square to eakins oval. the event priding itself on its peaceful approach and participants say it promoted just that. it s amazing. absolutely amazing to see our communities, women, there are men here, there are children, older people, everybody come together for one g
christoff which triggered a conversation. many e wrote anhe wrote an article where he said many people rendered themselves unavailable or not asking questions that were relevant to the public and in some ways fostered a disconnect with the public that is necessary. he didn t say this is true of all intellectuals but he did argue they re a dying breed. others said there s many good, interesting voices out there. the point of today s panel is not so much to have a debate about whether he was right or wrong nor have a debate familiar at almost every oha conversation about the role of the public intellectual or should historians be tried to do this. i think most of us in the panel given what we do start and it s a good thing for those that what to do it. it has a lot of value. what i wanted to do when i put this together was bring together people who have been doing interesting work and ask them about their lives and their career and experience and give a little autobiography abo