Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, taylor devine. Plus teefn welcomes mindy kaling and former c. I. A. Director john brennan. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. Now live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody welcome to a late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. You might notice when the show is open these days im leaning back in the chair a lot. Im either very comfortable in this job these days or i no longer have the core strength to sit up. Lets figure out which it is. The coronavirus pandemic continues to rage in americas hot zone 1600 pennsylvania avenue. And reports say the west wing has turned into a ghost town. Previously, the only ghost haunting the mansion was mike pence. Hes at least a zombie. Why else is he attracting all those flies . Things have gotten especially tough for white house correspondents like cnns joe johns who had this happen to him during a broadcast. Get there he is roaring the damn, frickin raccoons, man. God. Again thats the second time jesus i guess the traps not working. Right. Hey, man. That frickin raccoon came back. It always comes around right about when i am going to go on tv. laughter stephen poor joe johns stuck there at the white house with that diseaseridden, garbage eating animal running around. Also that raccoon. But im not that surprised. Humans have retreated from their Natural Habitats because of the virus, and wildlife moves in. Ed sullivan theaters been empty for seven months. I wonder whats going on down there. Do we have a picture . That damn raccoon is at my desk and hes interviewing Bradley Cooper and theyre clearly having soun look at the camera straight of course, joe johns isnt the first newsman to be interrupted by an animal. It happened to cronkite. President nixon reportedly will announce his resignation, and Vice President ford will become the nations 38th president tomorrow, that word comes roaring screaming and thats the way it is stephen with covid running rampant throughout the executive branch, this morning the commission on president ial debates announced that the second president ial debate will be virtual. Virtual . Hows that gonna work . Hopefully it will be like tron. So instead of discussing the economy, theyll race around on recumbent lightcycles. Of course, theyll need to update their wardrobe. The decision didnt sit well with Trumps Campaign manager, bill stepien who, by the way, also has covid. Ssary cause trilew format is have posted multiple negative tests prior to the debate. You cant put all your faith in something that could happen down the line when the potential consequence is death. Thats like saying, look, i know your parachute isnt working now, but i have confidence that well get it up and running before we reach terminal velocity. Now hand me that scotch tape. So what will this virtual debate look like . We might never find out, because after it was announced, trump immediately called Maria Bartiromo of fox business and said this i am not going to do a virtual debate. I am not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. Stephen yes, trumps time is very precious. He said while calling fox business in the middle of a deadly plague. But it was no surprise to hear trumps main gripe about a virtual format. And then they cut you off whenever they want. Stephen hes afraid of having to follow the rules that he agreed to. as trump the referees have all these football rules. If they wont let me stab the quarterback, im going to take my bloodsoaked ball and go hom the subject shifted to covid and whether or not the president thought he was a disease vector you say you feel great, but the media is out there saying that youre contagious. But do you feel that you are . I mean, obviously you wouldnt feel that way if you say youre ready to go to a rally. No, i dont think im contagious. Stephen what kind of question is that . Do you feel contagious . Follow up, what does the economy smell like, and how high is when . Trump assured bartiromo that hes probably okay i will be tested very soon, but i am essentially very clean. They say its over a period of six, seven days, and i was i, you know, an amazing thing happened to me. I went in, and i didnt feel good. And that is okay. I expected at some point because i am out there, i got to be a leader, i cant, you know, Winston Churchill didnt stay in his basement for six months. Stephen thats exactly what he did its called a churchill bunker and its now a museum. You should know that because you were there with your family. as trump oh, right, sorry. My mind refuses to form memories viruso hard to stop look, its a tiny, tiny, liken it to a tiny microscopic piece of dust, and it gets into nose or your mouth or your eye frankly, or Something Else where you touch something. So i understand, and then get better. Stephen sounds like somebody very recently just explained to him how germs work. as trump and maria, the way we got here in the first place is that a mommy and a daddy love each other very, very much and gave each other a very special hug. Then daddy goes and gets spanked by a porn star. Of course, one of the reasons for trumps miraculous recovery is new developments in pharmaceuticals that he also thinks he didnt need we have i call them cures, i dont call them therapeutics. You take it, its an antibody drug, you take it, and it beats the hell out of it. And im telling you, i could have walked out 24 hours after i went in. I didnt have to go in, frankly, i think it would have gone away by itself. Its great. And what i am doing is i am going to supply this drug it made me better, i will tell you right now. I walked in, i didnt feel great, i think i would have done it fine without drugs, you know, you dont really need drugs. I stopped, i dont take them anymore. No, i dont take them anymore i think taking almost nothing. Stephen so, these drugs are great, but he doesnt need them, but they cured him right away, but hes going to fast track them, but he would have been fine without them, but hes not taking them. Why is it that he took the experimental drug, and were the ones experiencing dizziness, confusion, and nausea . Shortly after trumps phonein with fox business, he released a new video on twitter in which he bragged about how good hes been for the military. I took over a depleted military old equipment, broken equipment. Even in the army, all brandnew uniforms with the belt, everybody wanted the belt. Stephen what . what does that mean . Youre bragging about getting them a belt . By the way, ive gotten enough bad gifts in my life to know when somebody is just trying to be nice. Wow, its a belt thank you i was just saying how much i needed a belt with a. Is this a pewter cow skull buckle . So excited. Do you have the receipt . I want to frame it so i can remember the time i got this really great belt. Its not just the president , some pretty important white house staffers are testing r inance, tmps carrying the nucar football reportedly has cor but dont worry,fosomeone the e willing to step in. You know how the world is insane right now and every day you think, thats got to be it. Things cant possibly get more insane . Well, today get more. Because the f. B. I. Says it thwarted a plot to violently overthrow the government and kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. What . Also, whaaa . is this real life, or are we trapped in a new season of 24 . I was just getting used to being trapped in a crossover episode of the west wing and the walking dead and did they mean take over the government of michigan . Im not sure what that would do endanger our acdelco auto parts supply . Lower americas Strategic Reserves of fishing licenses . The good news is that these guys are in custody, and Governor Whitmer and her family are all safe. So, who were these numbskulls . Well, the Michigan Attorney general identified the group as the wolverine watchmen. So, the clarify, this anticovid rules militia named themselves after a guy who famously cant get sick, and people who famously wear masks. Apparently, these guys were angry about Governor Whitmers and the f. B. I. Were tipped off to their plans when one of the dummies posted a facebook video in which he complained about covid19 restrictions on gyms operating in michigan. So, the whole revolution couldve been avoided if he had just sprung for a peloton . That is the lamest reason to overthrow the government. Sure, i understand the necessity of state mandated health standards, but i draw the line at losing definition in my deltoids look at that. Im just counting the shreds, right here. Well, at least now they can all concentrate on getting ripped in jail. Between the daily hour in the yard and a steady diet of potatoes and expired taco meat, theyll get jacked. So the feds gathered all the evidence they needed against these maroons, thanks to an f. B. I. Confidential source who recorded the meetings in dublin, ohio. Talk about getting the short end of the undercover stick. And for our next assignment tim will be going to dublin. Ohio. Sorry, i shouldve lead with ohio. These dinguses were also planning to take out a bridge, which they felt would also hinder polices ability to follow them on water. Im gonna guess on surfboards . Or as they actually put it in an actual group chat which actually shows up in the actual court filing if the bridge emoji go finger pointing down emoji it also x emoji the wave emoji. And now every single last one of these eggplant emojis is totally screw emojied. The group met numerous times to make their plans, including in the basement of a shop in michigan that was accessible only through a trapdoor under a rug. Ooh, a trapdoor hideaway . Whats the matter, did the rope ladder break to timmys tree house . One of these militia morons was crashing with a friend, the owner of a vacuum store in grand rapids, michigan, who had given him a place to stay in the stores basement after he was kicked out of his girlfriends home. Must have been hard for that guy to get back into the dating scene. What do you say we head back to my place. The basement under a trapdoor in a vacuum store. Huh . Yeah. laughter after the f. B. I. Raided it, the vacuum store owner expressed disbelief, saying, i felt sorry for him, but i didnt know he was capable of doing this; this is almost insane. I knew he was in a militia, but theres a lot of people in a militia that dont plan to kidnap the governor. I mean, give me a break. First off, i knew he was in a militia, but theres a lot of people in a militia . Congratulations, you just won the award for most michigan sentence ever. Barely beating out if youre going up north for the summer to visit some yoopers you better pack a lot of pop. And secondly i just want to remind everybody in a militia youre not in a militia. Youre a bunch of buddies getting together with guns. If i play a game of catch in the front yard, i havent been signed by the yankees. But hey, just because theyre violent domestic terrorists doesnt mean they dont know how to have a good time. According to the undercover agent, at one point one of the milita said oh, no, were not kidnapping, thats not what were doing, which sparked general laughter. Amidst the laughter, another voice said were adult napping. laughs oh, i love a good homegrown terrorist joke, my favorite is knock knock, whos there . Its the f. B. I, youre all going to jail. Weve got a great show for you tonight. My guests are mindy kaling and former c. I. A. Director john brennan. But when we return, meanwhile 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. Moyour happy place. Warded. Find your breaking point. Then break it. Every emergenc gives you a potent blend of nutrients so you can emerge your best with emergenc. Im going to start the bidding at 5. Thank you, sir. 6 over there going once. Going twice. 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Stephen i will tell you this, my friend. On november 3, something is coming to an end. Jon thats right. That is a true statement. Stephen something is coming to an end on november 3, the question penning on the decision the American People make. I hope they make the right one. Jon we know what the right one is. We need to keep pushing toward that. Stephen thats right. Jon, have you got any music coming out of your fingers . Jon always in the mind and the heart and coming through the fingers. Stephen thank you, jon. Jon batiste, everybody. Stephen ladies and gentlemen, you know i spend a lot of time selecting the finest topical sterling silver serving spoons the biggest news fondue pots, and monogrammed washcloths, to carefully curate the williamssonoma wedding registry that is my monologue. 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It happens to all of us. We buy a new home, and we turn into our parents. What i do is help new homeowners overcome this. What is that, an adjustable spanner . Good choice, steve. Okay, dont forget youre not assisting him. You hired him. If you have nowhere to sit, you have too many. Who else reads books about submarines . My dad. Yeah. Oh, those are progressive cant protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. Look at that. Stephen hey, everybody, welcome back to a late show. My first guest tonight is the wonderful actor, writer, and producer behind shows like never have i ever, the mindy project, and the office. Please welcome back to a late show, mindy kaling mindy, so lovely to see you thank you, its great to see you virtually. Stephen yeah, ill take it any way i can. I see most people virtually these days, other than my family. Thats about it. How is your bubble going . Is it unsympathetic to say i have been having a great bubble . Stephen no, no. The fact that you have a bubble is all you need to say. Everything within the bubble is perfectly fine for that to be good, as long as you are keeping a bubble. My hermetically sealed bubble has been nice, i have to admit. Stephen and i understand that its actually growing because i got something i rarely get these days which is some good news, which, if you wouldnt mind sharing with your audience, i think they would be thrilled to find out something extraordinary that nobody knows up until this moment. Yes, im its im telling it for the first time now, i feel so strange, but i gave birth to a baby boy on september 3rd. Stephen no one even knew you were pregnant i know i know this is news to a lot of people. Its true. Stephen well, congratulations. Thats wonderful. Thank you. Thanks. Stephen so you said baby boy . Did you say baby boy . Baby boy. Stephen do we have a name yet . Yes, his name is spencer. I forgot the most important part of it. Stephen spencer kaling, lovely. How old is your daughter at this point . Shes almost three. Stephen and how is she receiving . Because my daughter was two and a half when her little brother was born, and at a certain point, she said send him back. Yes. Stephen how is she receiving spencer . She was werer ambivalent at first, i would say, to be generous. She was really worried about her toys getting taken. Stephen thats a reasonable fear. Yeah. And, so, it happened and i think, in her mind, because shes almost two and a half, almost three, she thought it would be another child that was her same size. But then she you know, she was delighted when he arrived home with me at the hospital and he was kind of a blob that couldnt take her toys. So shes a huge fan now that shes met him. Stephen how tid you keep this secret . People care and follow whats going on in Mindy Kalings life. How did no one know this was coming . Well, no one saw me. It felt weird to be you know, there was so much going on and so much heartbreak in the world that it felt strange to go out of my way to, you know, shine a light on some giant health information, you know. No one really saw me, except one time i did go to buy my daughte, and i got caught bipa by popi caught me. And i thought, they will know because i was eight months pregnant. Stephen is this from the daily mail . Yes, so they ran this photo of me and i look very pregnant, i would say. Stephen yeah, thats a pregnant person. I think this is whats funny, they were too nervous to claim that i was pregnant that it was almost more insulting. They were, like, mindy kaling just looks like this. Stephen what did they say . Did they say, like, mindy kaling out on the town . Yeah, they were, like, out on the town at a kids toy store. I think they said i was buying toys for my older kid. But i was so insulted. Like, if youre not pregnant, you need to go to the doctor if you look like that. Right . Stephen im not going to jump on that train. Thank you for invite meg on it, though. I think youre fantastic. You look fantastic. Im very diplomatic here. Stephen does it feel different to have a son . Obviously, having a baby when you haventhead a baby just changes everything, like your view of the world. But now, a, having a second child and having a son instead of a daughter, is that a different vibe for you . Well, i dont know, stephen. I dont know if you and your wife if you feel this way because you have both, but i think that saying my son feels very formal. Its, like, i dont know whether ive seen so many war movies and documentaries, but, i dont know, saying, like, my daughter feels contemporary and of the moment. But saying a son feels so old timey. I feel like if my daughter were to come home from spring break, i would be, like, my daughter just came home from cancun. But i would be, like, my son returned from overseas. laughter i dont know, it feels more normal. Stephen being a son it seems per feckly natural to me, to hear the word son. This is one plus, is that, when theyre a little bit older and you talk to them,eth weird to say, now, daughter thats weird. But to go, listen, son that, that has got a real stab to it. Listen, son its got punch. Thats good. I like that. Stephen youve got an essay collection out now. Whats the name of this essay collection . Nothing like i imagined, except for sometimes. Stephen except for sometimes. In it you write that raising your daughter made you more connected to your hindu faith. Were you raised with, you know, sort of the ceremonies of the hindu calendar . Not at all, really. I was born here and im Indian American and my parents met in africa, so, like, we werent raised with and theyre from completely different parts of india, speak different languages, and, so, we werent really raised with a lot of religion. But what i write about in my book is i talk about my faith and how my mother passed away and that actually triggered me thinking about my faith in a new way, and when i had my daughter, we went through a hindu ceremony when you shave your childs hair within the first year of their life. Stephen and why do you do that . You do that because, for hindus, the hair that you are born with belongs to your past life. My daughter had a lot of hair so she had a lot of her past life with her. This is tricky. You have to do it in her first year or wait till her third year. So i thought if shes three, it would be more traumatizing for her to be bald. I decided to do it when she was ten months old. The way she reacted to it was like it was ten times worse than a circumcision. Stephen oh, my gosh. So she did not want to let go to have the past life. She tid not want to let go of her past life. Stephen she must have had a really good ride last time around. Yeah. Stephen you had this ceremony, right . I had the ceremony myself. laughter wait stephen thats a good look. Thats a good look. I think its a bad sign when the host laughs at a guest eshowing a photo. Stephen its adorable. Thank you for being adorable. I dont know if you feel this way when you go through doing ceremonies in your faith, but it made me feel about my mother because she had done that to me. So raising kids, i was triggered constantly by memories of my childhood and that made me feel connected to her because she felt i should get my haircut as a baby. Stephen i perceived my own childhood ceremonies when my children went through them and saw them as cultural gifts, almost like little love poems of how life can be lived or how we can connect to our community. They all became very important to me. And lets just sit in silence here for a moment and just enjoy that moment of connection that you and i just had. Dont ruin it. Dont ruin it by talking. laughter b. J. Novak is were back with our continuing coverage of mindy kaling. I want to warn our affiliates. B. J. Novak is god father to both of your kids. Traditionally the godfather plays a role in Spiritual Development and education of the child. Is he pitching in for you know, was he at the mundin . He was at the mundin but nothing more than that. It was hard because the concept of a god father is a christian thing. Stephen oh, yeah. O hes jewish, my kids are hindu, and, so, maybe he was not the right person to pick, actually. laughter stephen mindy, lovely to see you again. Nice to see you, thank you for having me. Thanks for sharing my news. Stephen thank you for sharing the news. Were honored to inform the world here on the late show. Her essay nothing like i imagined, except for sometimes is available now on amazon. Mindy kaling, everybody. Well be right back with former c. I. A. Director john brennan. 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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. When you take a it all begins to unravel. Ann ravels no reformer, shes backed by big corporations whove poured hundreds of thousands into her campaign. And she opposes ballot measures to make the economy more fair for working people. Only dave cortese is endorsed by the California Democratic party. Hes helping us battle the pandemic with a sciencebased approach. And expanding Health Services and child care to those in need. For state senate, Democrat Dave cortese. Stephen hey welcome back to a late show, everybody. My next guest has spent his career in National Security and served as the director of the c. I. A. From 20132017. He has just written a new memoir undaunted my fight against americas enemies, at home and abroad. Please welcome to a late show, director john brennan. Director, thanks for being here. Thanks to the invitation. Looking forward to the discussion. Stephen as am i. I want to ask you about something that was revealed today. You spent your career trying to help make this country and its citizens safe. Today 13 men were charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and put her on trial for treason and attack the State Capitol to overthrow the michigan government. How do you account for the emergence of antigovernment militia . When you were the c. I. A. Director, did you have any sense from the intelligence you saw that this was a growing problem in the United States . Well, absolutely. Even though it wasnt the area of c. I. A. Folks, focus, i kw the f. B. I. Was concerned about the white supremacist groups, the one who try to blame foreign influences as well as government oversight for their problems. They are hyper nativists that are react to what they perceive as Government Intervention in their lives andeth quite disturbing and i think the f. B. I. Has their hands full in terms of dealing with them. Stephen the president of the United States will sometimes retweet these nativist organizations or praise them. Is that itself a threat to our security is this. Absolutely. What a president of the United States says matters and it resonates far and wide, and Donald Trumps failure to denounce these groups in no Uncertain Terms has just fueled eiof corsou see similarities between whats happening here in this country and what happened in terms of the rise of naziism in germany in world war ii, the strengthening of the aryan nation and trying to again rid society of these influences. So these are groups that have no sense of social responsibility or no sense of allegiance to anybody other than themselves, and the one who are aligned with their views, including donald trump. Stephen what would you say a fairly broad question but what would you say are the threats to our National Security on the near term, middle term and far term . I think the near term is no question that the next 100 days is ve ettled period and a fraught period for the United States. What donald trump might do in trying to steal the election and how he exercises the powers of the presidency before and after the election, when hes a lame duck. Im quite concerned about what he might resort to and do during that period of time. Stephen like when hes saying in the debates, stand back and stand by. Absolutely. And his refusal to acknowledget that hes going to accept the results of the election. I think this is a very dangerous time and its clear that donald trump will resort to any tactic. I think he has demonstrated time and time again he has no respect for the rule of law and principles in this country and the fact that the republicans are bowing to his every whim makes me very concerned. In the meantime, joe biden will have his hands full when hes taking over in january in terms of addressing the challenges we face, covid, the economic downturn, social justice, the tensions in this country, the polarization taken place under donald trump. So i think 2021 will be a challenge for joe biden on the domestic as well as the international front. Hes going to have to repair alliances and partnerships that helped to strengthen our National Security over the last 75 years. Hes also going to have to send an unmistakable signal to adversaries that trump is gone so Vladimir Putin and kim jong un and others really have to take note that joe biden is a different president than donald trump. Over the longer term, Climate Change. You know, the impact on our weather and how thats going to, you know, lead to the rise of the oceans and the encroachment on coastal communities and migration flows and how urban centers will be overwhelmed, the cyber realm, digital domain, genetic engineering. There were so many longerterm issues that while we were so obsessed with these political problems at home, were not taking the time and were not dedicating the effort and the resources to address what i think is going to be the challenges for the next generations of americans. Stephen because while were all fighting each other here, were not being aware of the wave thats cominerhe horizon of these other challenges. Yeah, were ignoring it and were not doing whats necessary because were not going to be able to reverse Climate Change overnight. This is a concerted effort over the long term that the United States has to be the leader we once were and i think we soon be after joe biden becomes present. 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I want to talk about the the stability of the United States government given our president is sicnow and has so much distrust of government institutions that have sort of maintained the americana of the last few decades. The United States has been accused, quite credibly, of destabilizing governments around the world over the last 50 years. As someone who wants ran the c. I. A. , do you see patterns of foreign behavior in the United States that is helping to destabilize our government the way the United States has destabilized governments around the world . Do you see the russians playing games against us that we played . Well, i think the advent of the technical andithas givewell th chinese and others a great opportunity to try to carry out these influence operations and really shape the attitudes and views of the american public. We saw that in the 2016 election and they are very sophisticated cyber actors. I believe our adversaries look for opportunities here in the United States including the freedoms and the liberties we enjoy to operate here. Thats why the f. B. I. And the rest of the Intelligence Community really, you know, have to be on the top of their game to unearth, uncover and stop these activities from taking place. As you point out now, in the midst to have the pandemic, and we have a person in the white house, who even on the best of days, is reckless, impulsive and unstable, layer on top of that his covid diagnosis as well as the medications and the steroids hes under, thats why im really concerned about what he might do during this period of time when, you know, theres a combination of factors that looks like a very dangerous cocktail for the white house. Stephen the book is undaunted, and its really a memoir, as you say my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad. It is well known the russians are trying to influence our elections now. We do a better know a ballot. Com where people can go and learn everything they need to. Our voting is so decentralized and so fragmented, my change county by county around the United States. Is the fact we have such a fractured and decentralized Voting System a benefit when a Foreign Government is trying to hack into our elections . A blessing and a curse, given that states control Voting Systems. Unfortunately i think weve seen government officials in various states try suppress voting, but as far as the technical architecture in the United States, the fact that you have that distribution among the various states that are not interconnected, it makes it much more difficult for foreign add veeadversaries to have strategic impact to change voting tallies. Russians have navigated the systems, we knew in 2016 they may have taken town some Voter Registration roles. But im worried institutions that have a ability to shape votes in key states. 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