Texas, ohio,uple stand back and stand by, somebodys got to do something about antifa bark, bark and white supremacy. boing announcer its the daily distancing show with Stephen Colbert. Stephen welcomes ethan hawke and Mueller Investigation prosecutor around around, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. Now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater of this building in new york city. Stephen colbert stephen hi, everybody. Nice to see you. Weve got a little camera push tonight. Welcome to a late show. Im your shows Stephen Colbert lets get right to the breaking news there was a debate two days ago. Its been 48 hours, and ive rinsed almost all the blood out of my mouth. Tuesdays debate was a colossal waste of time that diminished everyone unfortunate enough to have watched it, just ask moderator and man demonstrating how much control he had over the debate, chris wallace. Yesterday, wallace described the experience as a terrible missed opportunity. Kind of a tame way to describe an unmitigated disaster. Id love to see you cover the hindenburg. And the frame is crashing to the ground not quite to the morning mast. Oh the missed opportunity laughter even trumps inner circle was shaken by the president s awful performance. As cnns dana bash reports i will tell you one person who is familiar with his debate prep, anderson, said they prepared him to be aggressive but not to be jason from friday the 13th. Stephen okay, not fair. They might both be giant lumbering maniacs who have a lot of blood on their hands, but at least jason wears a mask and the reactions in the Republican Party at large arent any better. G. O. P. Senators described the debate as awful and an embarrassment and apparently trumps performance stokes fears among republicans about november. Oh, now theyre worried . as senator i dunno. When he ignored a pandemic and paid no taxes and called dead soldiers suckers and losers, and asked ukraine to interfere in our elections and was credibly accused of multiple sexual assaults, i thought, thats my guy but then he interrupted chris wallace, and im starting to worry were backing the wrong horse. Also, did you hear what he did to that horse . Tuesday night was so bad that yesterday, the commission on president ial debates announced it will be making changes to the format of the remaining two debates. Oh, can i suggest a small tweak to the format where we never have them again . But instead, the commission suggests cutting off the microphones of President Trump and joe biden if they break the rules. Okay, but if you do, trumps just gonna use semaphore and come on, why are they pretending these changes are aimed at both candidates . as moderator okay, im gonna cut the mic, if either of you goes off on a deranged tangent about shower pressure or how hot you find your daughter, ivanka. Either of you biden hoped that something would change, but he wasnt optimistic i hope that this next debate will be in front of reallife people. Its going to be a town hall. I am looking forward to it, i hope we are able to get a chance to answer the questions that are asked by the persons in the room. But god only knows what he will do. Stephen is that true, god . Do you know what trumps gonna do . Hell if i know, stephen. Ive had your country on mute for the last year. Is it still infrastructure week . ding gotta go, thats my sourdough. Stephen god, everybody. But Donald Trumps debate performance polled really well with one demo narcissists age 7474 who are him. cause heres what he said last night in minnesota. I really enjoyed last nights debate with sleepy joe. The verdict is in and they say that we, we, all of us won big last night. Stephen as trump yes, it was we up on that debate stage, all of us were disgracing our democracy. And if we dont win in november, we all going to jail. Because we cheated on our taxes. Remember, theres no i in eric is the fall guy. despite trumps claims, polls show that six in ten say that biden won the debate. The other four said the winner was sleeve of oreos dunked in atavan. You can see why trumps nervous, because right now, the New York Times poll of polls has biden up by eight points. No surprise. Tuesday he gave voice to the message all americans have been longing to hear will you shut up, man . stephen so today his campaign released this ad shut up. shut up shut up shut the bleep up, donny im joe biden and i approve this message. Stephen of course, what really matters is the swing states. And right now, biden leads in michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, minnesota, nevada, new hampshire, arizona, ohio, north carolina, and iowa. From the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters this land is sick of d. J. T. Yeah, i took guitar for a month. Evidently, trump actually reads the polls, and thats what made him lose what was left of his mind at the debate. Maggie haberman tweeted, people close to him are blunt that the president knows hes losing and is scared of it. So he did what he does when afraid or anxious and tried to impose his will on the night. Yes, trump just reacted like a cornered animal as trump good question, chris, but before i answer it, im going to express my musk sac all over this podium. Its a gland. Want to guess where it is . Ill need a mirror. I never said anal. I never said anal. laughter plus, this week biden got another huge endorsement miracle on the hudson pilot and a. A. R. P. Magazines sexiest man still alive, captain sully sullenberger. On tuesday, sully landed this ad right on trumps face. Leadership is not just about sitting in the pilots seat, its about knowing what youre doing and taking responsibility for it. Its in that highest calling of leadership that donald trump has failed us so miserably. Nearly a quarter million americans wont have a voice casualties of his lethal lies and incompetence. All we have to do is vote. Him. Out. Stephen man, sully brought it thats gonna get biden the suburban dad vote. Its as good as getting endorsed by selflocking grill tongs. To turn the brats. Im not saying trumps goose is cooked, but its definitely sucked into the starboard engine. With the things looking bad, trumps stopped running against biden and turned his attention to a new opponent, democracy were not going to lose this, except if they cheat. Ive been telling you, this whole ballot scam is going to cause a lot of problems for our country. Theyre going to try and steal the election. We have a big problem and you see it every day, you see it happening every day with ballots. When the ballots and when the system is rigged, which obviously it is, and the only one that knows that better than me are the democrats. They go into closed rooms and they must laugh like hell. Stephen laughing nervously yeah, im sure theyre all laughing. Reminds me of a joke why did the chicken cross the road . To escape to canada. I hear bill barr is turning dissidents into mcnuggets. Now, theres no proof that wide scale Election Fraud ever happens. Its so rare that even trumps Voter Fraud Commission couldnt find evidence. But that hasnt stopped trump from already filing lawsuits in north carolina, pennsylvania and elsewhere to restrict voting by mail. Its all part of his Public Service campaign bleep the vote. And during the debate, trump urged his followers to intimidate other voters by being a socalled poll watcher. And now don jr. s saying, im helping, dad the radical left are laying the groundwork to steal this election from my father, president donald trump. We cannot let that happen. We need every able bodied man, woman, to join army for trumps Election Security operation. Stephen yes, every able bodied man and woman, which does not include Donald Trump Jr. Because he is clearly hammered. as drunk Donald Trump Jr the rackal left is tryn to steal the election, but im not gonna let em cause i will fight the rackal left like i fought the store guy when wouldnt let me put my mouth on the slushie machine. And i dont know how those white claws got down my pants, officer. Babe cmere i want you guys to meet screamy kimmy. Say the best is yet to come thing say it laughter hello. But there are some heroes out there fighting to make sure all americans voices are heard. For instance, with just a month until the election, snapchat says its helped over one Million People register to vote. But the registration only lasts 24 hours, so be sure to take a screenshot. Of course, if you register through snapchat, you need two forms of i. D. one where youre a dog, and one where youre puking rainbows. Theres a new get out the vote drive called, get your booty to the poll, organized by exotic dancers. as trump how could you, cinnamon, cheyenne, candi with an i . Et tu, bootay . The dancers explain the importance of voting in this online video want trade and coding taught in our schools . Then vote for the school board that will prepare us for the job market. Want to end cash bail . Well, then vote for the sheriff and county officials that feel the same way you do. Dont let other people decide whos gonna run your community. Get your booty to the polls. Get your booty to the polls. Get your booty to the polls. Stephen that is democracy at twerk. The p. S. A. Ends with this call to action for information as well as information to find out whos running in your area getyourbootytothepoll. Com. Stephen we had to blur so much of the booty that you cant even read the url. Theres got to be a line here. I understand this is cbs and we cannot show everything that god gave her, but a url no . Nope. Stephen you know what, im not surprised the dancers did this. Im only surprised that the website get your booty to the poll was somehow not taken. Good for you ladies, but ill say this it seems like theyre trying to horn in on my turf of course, thats the late show website better know a ballot which has voter information for all 50 states and the district of columbia. Join the millions who have already checked out our helpful videos. But now that ive seen get your booty to the poll, i realize that better know a ballot needs more sex appeal. But im not an exotic dancer. Im a middleaged white guy. So i dont think im gonna take your buttocks out and vote you can take your powerboat, if its chilly wear a coat pull the leaver shake that rump you can vote out donald trump youve got the idea. We have a great show for you tonight. Ethan hawke is here. When we come back i might have to apologize for what i just did. And meanwhile a late show with Stephen Colbert, sponsored by nissan, innovation that excites. Not much, how about you . Are you answering my text in person . I am, yeah. Lol come on in. This is tech that helps you be there. The Nissan Altima now offering the most techadvanced engine in its class now any order can be rewarding when you use the app. No matter how you pay, youll be closer to earning rewards and getting more of your favorites for free. More ways to pay, more ways to get rewarded. Starbucks rewards. More ways to get rewarded. [phone rings] sore throat pain . Try new Vicks Vapocool drops in honey lemon chill for a fastacting rush of relief like youve never tasted in. Honey lemon ahh woo Vicks Vapocool drops now in honey lemon chill is now even more powerful. The stronger, lastslonger energizer max. Stephen welcome back. Lets say hello to jon batiste jon hello. You got the ink on the shirt. Whats that . Stephen i threw a pen at chris just now because he wasnt looking at me. Im not a fragile performer but i will not, not be looked at, so i threw a pen at him and got ink on his shirt so i think i have a drycleaning bill. Do you know why im in a good mood . Jon why is that . Stephen over the weekend i got my mailin ballot. Im really excited. I cant wait. Jon its time. Lets go. Stephen looking at the ballot gave me a feeling of agency, like i could actually have some say over the future of this country. I highly recommend it. Oh, yeah, you look at that ballot you know exactly what you want to do. Stephen vote. Jon thats right. Stephen jon batiste, everybody. You know, i spend a lot of time researching the most topical traditional maori tattoo designs of the day, developing a visual metaphor for a meaningful personal story, crafting needles out of albatross bones and meticulously applying a pigment made of burnt timber to create the elegant body art that is my monologue. But sometimes, sometimes i like to go to the part of the playground where the teachers cant see me, take the penknife my friend tommy stole from his dads glove compartment, carve half a portrait of speed racer in my arm because it hurts too much to keep going, and then rub some bic pen ink in there to form the adolescent d. I. Y. Mistake of news that is my segment quarantinewhile quarantinewhile, a melbourne, australia pilot took to the skies with three chickens to carry out a preyom kippur ritual. Its the sacred jewish tradition of confusing the hell out of livestock. Due to the ban on large gatherings, many Orthodox Jews were unable to perform the ritual of kapparot, which involves swinging a live chicken over ones head three times and reciting a prayer to transfer sins to the bird. Seems really unfair to the bird. No, honey, this extremely dizzy chicken is the one who cheated on you. Quarantinewhile, we here at meanwhile family entertainments and Weapons Systems incorporated sometimes come across so many fastfood related stories that we had to create our new quarantinewhile sub segment cuisinewhile. Cuisinewhile, as a fun way to soothe people under lockdown a brooklyn pizzeria is offering comforting words as a delivery menu item. I dont think they get how pizza works. Melted cheese on bread is the comfort. Words are an unnecessary topping, like vegetables. You say you want them, but come on. According to the pizzeria, for 1, our Delivery Driver will look you straight in the eyes and tell you everythings gonna be okay and youre doing the best you can. and for 2, they wont. By the way, everythings gonna be okay and youre doing the best you can. Cuisinewhile, in ireland, their highest court has ruled that subway sandwiches are too sugary to meet the Legal Definition of bread. Said subway in a statement, yes, this is the most controversial brush with the law subway has ever had. This sugar bread thing. Nothing else. So ireland is concerned that subways bread is too sugary. Ireland, youre adorable. America literally has a sandwich that is Fried Chicken between two donuts. You can get it with a side of fries and a defibrillator. And the defibrillator is between two donuts cause these colors dont run cuisinewhile, a mcdonalds fanatic in north dakota is enjoying widespread internet mcfame after she was spotted in the Mcdonalds Drivethru with her hmbrglr license plate. What a fun coincidence. Just like that time i went through the taco bell drivethrough with my license plate that says regret. Quarantinewhile, researchers are now asking, could cats hold the key to a covid19 vaccine . I hope not. I do not want humanitys fate in the hands of creatures that clearly dont care if we live or die. Scientists say cats develop a protective immune response to covid19, leading researchers to wonder whether its worth studying pets to aid in the development of a human vaccine. Sounds good. Because mingling human and cat d. N. A. Has never gone wrong. Release the butthole cut. laughter quarantinewhile, color experts pantone, in an effort to end the stigma associated with menstruation, have unveiled a new shade of red inspired by the color of womens periods. Which is just wrong. Anyone whos watched a maxi pad commercial knows the color of womens periods is electric blue. I think they would know. Quarantinewhile, in england, during a test run of the future of emergency medical services, a jetpackequipped paramedic was able to cover a normally 25minute trek up a mountainside to a simulated emergency in only 90 seconds. Now unfortunately, the jet pack isnt powerful enough to transport you to a hospital, so in many cases they cant save your life. 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He now stars in a series he created and executive produces called the good lord bird. Please welcome to a late show, ethan hawke ethan, thanks for being here thanks for having me. Its a pleasure. Stephen well get into this a little later in the interview. I just wanted to start off by saying how much im loving the good lord bird. Its based on a true man, its crazy at the same time, its taraji, funny, a lot to talk about. First, i want to talk about theater because i know youre a theater guy. Toby nominated, directed broadway. What did you make to have the theater of the debate the what did you make of the theater of the debate the other night . How would you deconstruct that as a director . Thats a great question. My First Response is it kind of seemed like the moment in star wars at the generally reviewls hes a centhor. So thats my first thought. Youre asking about cinema. If it was theater, if david mammoth did 14 lines of crystal meth, stayed up all night and wrote a short play about the downfall of the United States of america but couldnt get dinero and pacino so had to get two understudies from Burt Reynolds dinner theater and shove them on and said, go thats the theater i thought it was. Stephen there are still undecided voters out there. And im from south carolina. Ive got friends back home who are fans of the president. Do you still stay in touch . You have roots in texas. Do you have friends back home who supported the snpt. Supported the president . Of course. My familys from texas and whenever we get into this thing that we think somebody else is evil, weve lost our path, really. The truth of the matter is what i hear from my family is immense sadness, even from the familiar members that voted for trump, about the level of misinformation and how much they are preying on peoples fear and greed, and theres a kind of sadness coming from my family that hes not who they had hoped he was. And it doesnt mean that they like the democratic party, but its if nothing else, i hate to say it, theres an overriding sadness. Stephen i agree. Theres a sense of grief and loss for a lot of americans even for people who supported the president because they see him as someone whos precious to them being attacked. Yeah, you cant be a serious christian and respond to some of the things that he says, not really. You cant. You cant accept that kind of leadership. Hes broken down political parties. You know, my family members you know, george h. W. Bush was a very serious person. Thats a formidable human being whos educated and dedicated his life for what he believed was the betterment to have the United States of america and he did a lot of great things. See, thats when youre talking aboutrooms anabout republicans. Were not talking about that right now. Were talking about someone fanning the flames of our inability to see each other. Take the pandemic for example, were kind of given this false argument like we have to decide between the economy and our health, as if were grownups. Were responsible adults and parents and we have to do both. We have to keep people healthy and keep the economy going. Its a false argument that one side of the team is for something, and it creates this chaos of, you know, dualistic thinking that makes everybody smaller than what we really are. Stephen all of that is a per feck leadup so the show that youre on here to talk about, the good lord bird, where you play john brown. Here is a photo of you playing john brown. I havent gotten this far in the show yet but you will eventually look like this in it, right . So heres a guy who is in a time of chaos, took his bible very seriously, was fine with dividing people. For the people who dont know, who was john brown . Okay. Well, thats a good question. John brown was a nonviolent abolitionist until he was about 51 years old. His grandfather fought with george washington. He had a big problem with the constitution and its relationship to the equality of man kind. So he became a staunch abolitionest. So john brown was this mans grandson. His father and he was an abolitionist. When his sons went down to settle in kansas, because kansas was a territory, right, and this is a brief history, but kansas was a territory, and it was about to become a state, and if it went proslave that would throw the senate one way, and if it was a free state it would throw the Senate Another way. The abolitionists were moving to kansas to vote for slavery. And poor people in missouri, theyre settling them to kansas to vote for slavery. This turned into bloody kansas. People started attacking john browns son. After a lifetime of being a nonviolent abolitionist, sometimes you have to force people to understand the truth. He was a calvinist and a very serious christian who took the idea we were made by the same make tore heart and he went to remind everybody and was willing to get into a fight. To hes great surprise i played the man, i thought he was going to get killed quickly. To his great surprise, he was great add gunfighting. He led a raid. He took over the nations largest armory, harpers ferry, with a bunch of black and white folks working together, they took it over hoping to incite a revolution. He failed at that but what he succeeded to do was to wake up and shame the White Christian north americans, you know the americans of the north. And about 16 months after he was hung, the civil war started. Stephen this is an incredibly in some ways a very dark story, incredibly dramatic story. Its also funny at the same time. How did you what did you intend i know you intended. What i meant to say is did you know that you could get away with this to make john brown not only a dramatic sort of profeck figure but also an extremely flawed and funny one at the same time. You know this better than anybody. If you talk if you yell at people and preach at them and tell them theyre wrong and try to teach them whats the right thing to do, nobody wants to hear that. If you make them laugh, they can see the truth oft what youre saying and dont feel attacked. And the genius magic trick of james mcbride, the author of this story, he won the National Book award in 2013, is he makes you laugh and makes your heart throb with love and healing over our cons greatest our countrys greatest wound. Stephen it has been so long since john brown was hanged in 1859, but what do you think this story speaks to in our present time of racial reckoning in 2020 . Well, what i hope is that people can see is that our country has been here before. The blood has already been shed. We knocked down this doorway. Theres a line in the show that mcbride writes about Harriet Tubman says, the doorstep of change is open, you know, freedom is there, we just have to walk through it. And i think people like Harriet Tubman and john brown and Frederic Douglas and sojourner truth, these people would be heart broken to see that young people today have to march, and they have to. We have to. We have to demand social justice. We have to walk through this door, you know. And i think they would be shocked. None of these people wanted that bloodshed anymore than you or i dosm none of these people wanted violence. But we already did this, you know, and the john brown story puts a microscope you know, this expression everybody throwing around, systemic racism, john brown, if you lookt at his story, it turns the microscope to the dna with which this country was built, and its got some design flaws, you know, from the zoning of our cities to our School System to our police force to the waytt that we think and treat each other. You know, its got some fundamental design flaws, and if we cant talk about it and laugh about it and say the wrong thing and forgive each other and work towards it, then the dialogue keeps shutting down and when the dialogue shuts down, nothings going to get better. Thats my thought. Thats my soapbox. Stephen well done. Well done. The good lord bird premieres sunday night on showtime. Ethan hawke, everybody. Well be right back with former lead prosecutor for the Mueller Investigation, Andrew Weissmann. 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Taking california for a ride. Companies like uber, lyft, doordash. Breaking state employment laws for years. Now these multibilliondollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. To deny drivers the rights they deserve. No sick leave. No workers comp. No unemployment benefits. Vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. One ride california doesnt want to take. Stephen welcome back. Joining me tonight is an n. Y. U. Law professor and former lead prosecutor in the office of special counsel Robert Mueller. He has just written a book about the Investigation Called where law ends. Please welcome, Andrew Weissmann. Mr. Weissmann, thank you so much for being here. Nice to be here. Stephen well, where does the law end . laughter okay, how much time do you have . So that tile comes from a john law quote, english philosopher. Stephen sure. But the main reason for it sex personsing what i experienced for 22 months what i experienced for 22 months investigating the president and attorney general barr. Stephen this is abwhere the law ends. Is the white house one of them . The white house and attorney general barr presented a number of obstacles to our investigation, absolutely. Stephen a recap for the people who may not know who you are. You were one to have the lead prosecutors for the Mueller Investigation. For almost two years we heard muellers name just about every day. Not always yours but sometimes yours. A couple of years later, mueller, mueller, the guy with the russia thing. Right . What job wa were you supposed to do. Rod rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel and he was supposed to investigate what russia did in terms of interfering with our election and whether there was anybody in the Trump Campaign who participated in that and also whether the president obstructed justice. Stephen okay. Now, early in te book, you write, quote, as proud as i am of the work our team did, we could have done more. What more could you have done, and if you could have done it, why didnt you do it . Timely question because we all are reading the New York Times and hearing about finish nance about finances of the president , and thats an area where its a long, complicated story, but it will yo but ul, we did not do a full investigation of the president s finances and there are a lot of Unanswered Questions there. Stephen who did he owe 420 million to . Wouldnt that have been handy, to ask that question . Thats a good question. But heres partly the reason there was a decision not to go there, and this is pretty telling, which is the white house called up and said are you looking into the finances . Thats a red line. And the decision the special counsel had to made early in the investigation was do you put that aside for now and pursue the investigation into other things, which was incredibly successful, or do you just risk getting fired right at the outset . Stephen but, listen, i dont know anything about how to run a criminal investigation or a National Security investigation, but if a guy is accused of murder and says, hey, dont look in the crawl space, that is crossing a red line, doesnt that tell you that thats where the body is buried . So huge red flag, and where we are right now is you know from the New York Times that theres a huge amount of unexplained debt, and you know that the white house has said i dont want anyone investigating it. And you know one more thing which is theyre fighting like crazy not to turn over accounting records. So this seems to be as an investigator, you know, my my ay antennae are up. Stephen i assume they must have been up when they said thats a red line. Did you guys butt heads over whether you should, a, go for the finances and, b, as respectably as possible haul the president in by the scruff of the neck and put his hand on a little black book and say do you swear to tell the truth . One of bob muellers lines is were here to defend democracy, not to practice it. He would hear from everybody but then he made the judgment calls about what to do. Stephen oh, okay. S the democracy that theyre not practicing is that the special counsels office is not a debating society, he actually just gets to make the decision at the end of the day. Exactly. Stephen was it all just if we push too far hell kill the investigation . There was that. That was a piece of it. There was a concern i think thats probably the main piece of it is doing that, and then theres a concern of no getting into not getting into a protracted legal fight that could take years because, as youve seen, the president is quite litigious. Stephen right. In retrospect, how much did that take the teeth out of the investigation if, as you got closer to things that you thought perhaps had some information that you needed, you had to back away because the guy you were investigating could stop you from doing so . It just seems like an odd investigation, though, doesnt get to follow the facts. So i totally agree. Two things that are really worth noting that make this so different than when i investigated enron or even organized crime which is that the person that we were investigating had the power to fire us, and they also have the power to pardon people, meaning that it was very hard to get people to cooperate because he could just dangle a pardon that would deter them. But the reason i wrote the book is to sort of lay out the issues and also the disagreements internally as to what we did so that people would have a sort of candid discussion about the investigation and also think about is this the way we want things to work in the future. Stephen now, bob mueller has recently pushed back not violently, but he has said i dont think he called you up by name, but i think he said that you were, quote hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm incomplete information . Is that what he described as incomplete information . Yeah. Stephen do you know what hes talking about . What you perhaps were not privy to . Well, obviously, if its something i dont know, by definition, i cant say what it is that i dont know. But its certainly the case that i cant say that i know everything. But, you know, i tried to give a truthful, candid recitation of the facts i did know. Stephen when we come back, Andrew Weissmann and his teams reaction to bill barrs fourpage summary of their report. Well be right back. This is the feeling of total protection now that we protect your identity, mobile phone, auto, home and life youve never been in better hands allstate click or call for a quote today youve never been in better hands allstate imagine the places well go. 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This is just us sitting on two bar stools. Did the president commit any crimes . There was a lot of discussion about whether we should just come out and say it in the report as opposed to saying the phrase that you just said, which is very convoluted. My view, my personal view is that any prosecutor worth their salt hopefully im one of them would say that the president obstructed justice. Stephen so when barr went out there with his fourpage summary of your voluminous report, did you know that he was going to absolutely sandbag the American People . Because i read a lot of your report and you do state in there team states in there in the name of mr. Mueller that if he wasnt president , he would have been prosecuted, not so many words but definitely in that meaning. What did it feel like to hear you get sold up the river by barr . Going back to your first question, thats where law ended. Stephen when barr stepped out there. Yep. That was really soul crushing. Stephen well, if the president loses in november, would it be reasonable for him to be prosecuted . Complicated question. It would be reasonable, but, on the one hand, you dont want to be a third world country where were just prosecuting the next president , your political opponent. On the other hand, you dont want to have sort of a license for somebody to commit a crime while theyre in office or previously and feel like they will never be held to account just because they became president. So the next attorney general, hes going to have a hard decision. Stephen well, thank you so much for being here. Where law ends is available now. Andrew weissmann, everybody. Well be right back. Stephen thats it for a late show. James corden is next, but first, lets say good night with some music from jon batiste and stay human. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. 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