And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen thank you very much thank you, thank you. Hey, everybody please have a seat, everybody please stephen welcome, welcome, one and all, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause thank you very much. A lot of excitement. Great audience. I cant blame first of all, happy hannukah, everbody. Todays the first night of hannukah, when good jewish boys and girls spring from their beds to see their parents going to work because they dont have the day off. Its also a big election day in alabama. And now its official roy moore is or is not our newest u. S. Senator. Long before the polls closed. One thing we do know is how roy moore got to the polls. He arrived on horseback yes and i just want to say to roy moore, hello you and the horse you rode in on. cheers and applause heres a bit of an eyebrow raiser the horses name is sassy. Well, i mean, that is a lovely name for a magazine targeted at teenage girls. Hiyo, sassy off to the mall clapping laughter cheers and applause object work apparently, riding to the polls on horseback is a family tradition. Oh, roy moore loves traditions from the 1800s, like child brides and the dred scott decision. Audience oooh jon whoa, whoa, whoa stephen hey, may be he lost. We dont know. And last night, moore made his final push at a rally featuring a speech by his wife, kayla. And she emphasized that her husband is a friend to all, no matter what the Mainstream Media says. Fake news would tell you that we dont care for jews, and i tell you all this because ive seen it all, so i just want to set the record straight while theyre here. cheers and applause one of our attorneys is a jew. Jon wow stephen wow. Were not homophobic because my hairdresser is a gay. I mean, really, really gay. I mean applause he rides a bike and everything. laughter mrs. Moore continued her torah portion. Weve had very Close Friends that are jewish and rabbis, and we also fellowship with them. Stephen oh, we fellowship all the time. I mean, jewish girls know, roy will show up at your bat mitzvah. Jon whoa stephen but the highlight of the night was one of moores old war buddies who vouched for moores character. This guy described a time when they were both in vietnam, and a friend of theirs treated them to a night on the town. He took us to this place which turned out to be a brothel. There were certainly pretty girls and they were girls. Some were young. Some were probably very Young Stephen iust want to pause it right there, pause it right there. And point out that man, describing roy moores visit to an underage brothel, is on his side. But, apparently, roy acted the perfect gentleman upon learning where he was. Roy said to me, we shouldnt be here. Im leaving, or words to that effect. Stephen yes, words to that effect. Like, im leaving. To go find an a. T. M. Hooo laughter speaking of shady characters, donald trump. laughter yesterday, we heard from three of the 19 women who have accused donald trump of sesual misconduct. Well, this morning, the president fired back. Despite thousands of hours wasted and many millions of dollars spent, the democrats have been unable to show any collusion with russia so they accusations and fabricated stories of women who i dont know and or have never met. And that is the absolute truth and or a complete lie. laughter applause because cheers and applause because because that is a lie. Included in the list of his accusers are a former business partner; women from the miss u. S. A. Pageant, which trump owned; and a contestant in season four of the apprentice. Your challenge is for me to sexually harass you and then you having to watch me become president of the United States. Enjoy well this afternoon applause . Stephen thank you. People magazine released a photo of natasha stoynoff, one of trumps accusers right next to him. In what scientists call the grope zone. So, you knew them. But yesterday, White House Press secretary, Sarah Huckabee sanders, defended trump. The president has denied any of these allegations, as have eyewitnesses, and several reports have shown those eyewitnesses also back up the president s claim in this process. Stephen how can you have eyewitnesses to say you didnt do something . laughter your honor, i specifically remember seeing him not murder that man on several occasions. I rest my case. Sorry. Wrong guy. Wrong story. I apologize. But you know its just too enjoyable. But you know who believes the women . The woman who led the call for al frankens resignation last week, new york senator kirsten gillibrand. Saying now these allegations are credible. They are numerous. Ive heard these womens testimony, and many of them are heartbreaking. President trump should resign. Stephen okay, maybe, but for that to work, you have to be talking about someone with a sense of decency and a shred of decency. Donald trump doesnt have that. Instead, hes got a label on the back of his neck warning contains no shame. Its right below property of vladimir putin. cheers and applause , of course, yeah, looks good. Good work. Thats some nice ink. Of course, trump couldnt let that go, tweeting, lightweight senator kirsten gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office begging for Campaign Contributions not so long ago and would do anything for them is now in the ring fighting against trump. Very disloyal to bill crooked used laughter what . Im sorry, what happened . What . Crooked, used . What does that mean . Did his brain just break . Very disloyal to bill crooked. Used i smell toast. Maga maga cheers and applause hold on. Jim, how does he describe gill brand again . Someone who would come to my office begging for Campaign Contributions not so long ago and would do anything for them. That reminds me, melania, hows that anticyberbullying going . laughter it is anti, right . I just want to be clear. cheers and applause now that that description and implication offended a lot of people, so huckasands was asked about it. Is senator gillibrand owed apology for the misunderstanding of the president s tweet this morning, because many, including the senator, thinks that its about sexual innuendo . I think only if your mind is in the gutter would you have read it that way. Stephen yeah, get your mind out of the gutter. Thats disgusting. Now lets go back to talking about trump supporting serial teensqueezer. laughter of course, america is being torn apart by bitter partisan divide. But yesterday evening, members of congress put aside their differences and came together at the congressional dog holiday party. Isnt that adorable its the one place on capitol hill you can engage in heavy petting and not have to resign. cheers and applause the dogs are the ones humping your leg. And the party was very diverse, right . Theres a Little Christmas present pup playing with a hannukah hound. Or as kayla moore would put it, one of our canines is a jew. laughter applause cheers we have a great show for you tonight. Tom hanks is here stick around. But when we brought our daughter home, that was it. Now i have nicoderm cq. The nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release Technology Helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. Its the best thing that ever happened to me. Every great why needs a great how. Little girl and boy land while you dwell within it you are ever happy there daddy, its christmas childhoods joy land never let go of your dreams. The mercedesbenz winter event is back. Lease the glc300 for 449 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. You kis always behind the forchristmas tree . Tree well, heres an idea. Hey google, turn on my christmas tree. Brilliant its Google Home Mini, now only 29 can i get a glass of white wine and a Michelob Ultra . cracking rumbling Michelob Ultra. 55 fewer carbs than a glass of white wine. band playing cheers and applause stephen hey, welcome back, everybody jon batiste and stay human right there. Thank you, jon, that was beautiful. That was lovely its no secret, its no secret ive got the best band on television. But tonight, you all sound just, like, a little extra special. What is the magic ingredient tonight. Well, weve added a little mac demarco. cheers and applause stephen mac, hi, mac. Thanks for being here. Thank you very much for having me. God bless you. Stephen yeah, we cut off your mic, because we like to hear me talk. Macs got a new album called this old dog came out earlier this year. Thank you so much for being here, mac. Now, ladies and gentlemen, my first guest tonight is a great big movie star. Please welcome tom hanks applause cheers and applause thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Steve, steve, your eyesight always required grasses, right. Stephen since about 14 on. See, ive come late to the glass thing. Ive had so many in my pocket reading glasses, by and large. Stephen sure, sure. But i just decide, screw it, man, im just going to go stephen very distinguished. Thank you. Not only not am i only an actor, but im also a mildmannered reporter for a great me metropolitan newspaper. Laugh. Stephen tom, happy holidays. Thank you. Stephen merry christmas. Merry christmas. Happy hanukkah. Stephen happy kwanzaa. All the good stuff. Happy holiday s. Stephen are you going to be home with your lovely wife, reet afor the holidays . Yes, we will have our traditional trinsle war which we always had. Stephen whats the tinsel war. Heres the thing, i grew up with a christmas decoration scheme by way of woolworths, the five and dime more shiny objects on the tree, the better. My wife grew up in a household where the kids were not allowed to decorate the tree. Her mom did twhile they were at school. They would come home and it would be all done. And she would say, honey, you wont do it good, so i have to do it. So rita has this thing about decorating the tree. And my thing had always been tinsel, oldschool tinsel. Stephen the individual strands. The icicle stuff. But remember when we were kids, before i needed glasses, it was made out of literally a toxic substance. Stephen sure, sure laughter . It should have had, do not use hands to decorate your tree with this. Stephen it was developed at los alamos. Yes. Had a halflife and it was a carcinogen, you could get diabetes from it. laughter it gave you zits. It was really bad stuff. Stephen and delicious. And it tasted good. Stephen yeah. Tasted like christmas. You know . It really did. And i i when we all i always put tinsel on the tree, even though now stephen do you do strands or do you justing chuck it . Well, now, you can only chuck it because its not the same carcinogen it had been. Its not the same controlled substance. Its strands of mylar that are susceptible to static electricity in the air and you cant get it to drape over the branches. Its like a series of rats nests that collect on it. We always say this year we alternate the years. There are some years they i is this an oddnumbered year . Stephen it is, yeah. I think in evennumbered years i cant remember but i get tinsel on the tree. Stephen yes. And its we negotiate it, but i have a feeling what has happened is, is every year, rita convinces me that last year we had tinsel on the tree. laughter so we we do not i think were not going to have tinsel on the tree cheers and applause . Stephen shes counting on this slipping. And i am i i start fighting, but then i honestly, hone, i dont remember, okay, no tinsel on the tree. Stephen then you have a happy christmas. Do you put the lights on yourself. I didnt this year. Stephen do you put them top to the bottom or bottom to the top. You have to start from the top. Stephen thats what i say. My wife says go bottom to the top. Thats nuts. Do you have multicolored lights or white lights. Stephen multicolored. Oh, interest expwrg. Stephen what what are you talking about . What are you talking about . I just think it cuts down on the on the look, i like them to flash. Do you have the flashing lights at least . Stephen thats insane flashing lights . Were not landing a plane. laughter were trying to get santa to stop by. I guess that would be if you have multicolored lights that youre not really sure what color the decorations are, blase blue one will be right fixture to a gold bulb, and youll say its a gold bulb, its a blue bulb. I dont know what color it is. Stephen are you saying you coordinate your lights and your bulbs . Absolutely, sir. Stephen they have medicine for that now cheers and applause look, if you want if you dont understand the beauty of a symmetrically designed and decorated christmas treerk get off my show. laughter cheers and applause stephen wait a second oh, wait a minute. Stephen sorry, it just you have such authority. And as well you should. Golden globe nod yesterday. Golden globe, congratulations on that. Thank you. Stephen and you have the oscars, you have the emmies, you have the grammys, you have the everything. You have maybe the classiest sounding, the most highstatus award i can imagine and you already have the Kennedy Centers award, the rainbow suspunders. But you got this yesterday can you explain . This is this is given out by the national. Stephen archives. Archives foundation. Stephen you dont even know who gave it to you to me it was dinner with ken burns. That was documentaria documentan burns. We had a great dinner, but the true great thing about it if youve never been to washington, d. C. , you might not realize it, if you go to the National Archives building they have a fantastic array of artifacts and documents that you really, really quite cant believe. Including the constitution not that. The constitution of the United States. They have the actual like, this was written down ink on parchment, constitution of the United States. Stephen wow. And the most important job in our nation, i believe, is one of the two outofshape bored cops who stand right next to that. laughter because they stand there all day. You know what theyre doing . Theyre preserving, protecting, and defending the constitution of the United States. cheers and applause they have done a hell of a job stephen wow. Because stephen do you get to touch it or anything . Its behind glass. You can lean over it. And they dont even allow photographs of it. You have to buy a 60 replica of the gift shop in order to know what your rights are as an american. Stephenwe the people of the United States in order to form a to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare, do hereby guarantee these assure these stephen for ourselves and our posterity to hereby ordain and declare establish as president cheers and applause stephen that was the first draft. That was the first draft. Were you reading the same constitution that i was . Stephen yeah. Or were you downstairs with the magna carta . You tell me. Stephen my lat sin pretty good. Understand, this is the archive. They have the recordes of everything that has ever happened in america. And while i was there, they pulled this out for me stephen this is fantastic. This almost made me cry. Stephen who is this gentleman . You know who that is . My dad, on his 18th birthday 1942. That is himself joining the navy just a few months after pearl harbor. He joined the navy. cheers and applause or as or as he is known in the family as old 779159. Thats what our nickname was for him. Stephen he looks eye gotta say, he looks tough. I had no idea my dad was as badass as he was. Would you would you mess with that guy . Stephen no. I dont think so. Stephen this is how we won the war. They should have just published that picture in 1942 and we wouldnt have had to go to iwo jima. Stephen heroic, heroic unibrow. laughter . Can we see it up close . Can we see a shot. Stephen look at that. I guess so. Stephen i assume you pluck. Actually, people pluck for me. Stephen youre tom hanks, of course, you are. I have a staff. My crack staff. Stephen well, well be right back with more tom hanks. Stick around. applause tha. Oh, burnton gravy . Ie. Gotta rinse that. Nope. No way. Nada. Really . Dish issues . Throw it all in. Cascade platinum powers through even burnton gravy. Nice. Cascade. Before we hit the beach, ive we cant stay here why . Flat toilet paper ill never get clean way ahead of you. Aww. Compared to charmin ultra strong, other toilet paper. Falls flat. Its washclothlike texture helps clean better. Its four times stronger and you can use less. Beautiful view. Thanks to charmin. And you, honeybear awwwww. We all go. Why not enjoy the go with charmin . With tom hanks. Now, are you starring in a wonderful movie a Steven Spielberg movie with meryl streep and tom hanks called the post. Its about the post and the New York Times, racing to publish the pentagon papers. In all fairness and the historical record, the New York Times broke the story, they put this topsecret study. They had the papers and they put it they ran it i think a couple of days before the nixon administration, the Justice Department enjoined them, conjoined them enjoined them. Stopped them from publishing this this report that had been around an awful lot, about the history americas history record in vietnam. Stephen and the thing about it is the record shows that every Single Person said we should not be there. Stephen ever eisenhower, kennedy, johnson. They all said the war is not unwinnable. We should not be there, and yet we kept being there. By the time 1970 rolled around, 30,000, 40,000 troops had already been killed, never mind countless vietnamese. It was actually already five years old, robert mack namara, the secretary of defense, commissioned it, and it got out. And because of its really the week when Katherine Graham became Katherine Graham, and ben bradlee stephen who you play. Who i play. Its funny, though, the Washington Post at the time, certainly wanted to compete with the New York Times on a national level, but they also wanted to be the number one paper in washington, d. C. , which was called the washington star. That was the number one paper in d. C. At the time. And where is the washington star now, my friend is its on the ash heap of history. laughter . Stephen in this scene, the Washington Post, who was beaten you have a scene . Stephen we have a scene. We have a clip right here. I believe its after the Washington Post has acquired a large portion of the pentagon papers directly from daniel ellsberg, who is the man who had been a marine, worked for the rand corporation, and had stolen it from the rand corporation. He had spirited it away from the rand corporation. The problem was is that if they ran if the Washington Post ran the story, they could all be found guilty of treason and they could all have gone to jail. Stephen and Katherine Graham could lose the Washington Post. And her frooem, among other things. Ben, how are we spezzed to comb through 4,000 papers. Weve got less than eight hours. Hey, hey, the last six years weve been playing catchup, and now thanks to the president of the United States, who, by the way, has taken bleep all over the first amendment, we have the goods. We dont have any competition. Theres dozens of stories in here. The times has barely scratched the surface. We have 10 hours till the deadline, so we dig in. Stephen we dig in. cheers and applause he was like a mold of a newsman. He was like a model of a newsman, like a lot of oh, he lived and died for it. Ben bradlee there was a great, there was all sort of actually, i met the man. I had dinner with him. And he was just like that. He said, you know, you gotta make sure if youre going to put it on the front page of the paper, youve got to make sure its right, because if youre wrong, you gotta eat it for the next 24 hours and it doesnt taste good laughter stephen you know, a lot of people trust you and. And one of the people who truftz you is your costar meryl streep. Who this morning in a buzzfeed can i say you mean merrill High Maintenance streep. Stephen oh, really . Really . Yeah . Diva . Look, the shoes alone, man, the big deal no, i i am so i am so joking. Shes shes fabulous. You know whats scary about merrill . She comes in and does it just like everybody else does, you know. Youre expecting french horns before she enters the stage. You expect a guy in livery to come out, ladies and gentlemen, the actress known as meryl streep. And then dadada little flags hanging down. And she comes in and waves to the crew the way the royals used to, you know. She doesnt go like this. She kind of like waves like, hello, hello. Shall we run the scene . Shall we run the scene . She was mad at me because i didnt her her that stephen doesnt rehearse. Stephen spielberg doesnt rehearse . He doesnt rehearse. Stephen why . She hee just wants to he wants to figure it out as he goes along. He says, i have no idea how to shoot the scene. I need you guys to help me. Do you have any ideas . And i say, yes, stephen, as a matter of fact i i do. I think ill be sitting here like this. And i do the whole scene. Now hes a very hes almost like a guerrilla filmmaker. He has the set and he has the space and he wants to fill it up as something he hasnt imagined before. I dont mean that he is not prepared. Hes the most prepared man in the world. Bob owen, kirk, keri a murderers row. Stephen if you work on a spielberg film, everybody is good. They show up hes not going to hire somebody who isnt good. He makes this thing where gue according to as he knows it hes going to deliver a shoe box, and hes going to say, i think i have something. Thats the only line he has in the script, i think i have something. Well, the fellow that did it, we thought we were doing a scene about us the cast talking abouting the paper together. We thought it was all about us. And then we started shootin shon your office. Youll be saying your lines there. And we thoug us and get big closeups of me, and Bob Oden Kirk it turned up on the the camera was following a guy with a shoe box. Hes the star of the scene now because the shoe box holds 200 pages of the pentagon papers. And this was what weve been waiting for. Sohought was about ben bradlee laughter it was instead guy with shoe box. laughter but thats what he does. Youll think you think youre just a guy in a movie, and the nexthitephen will say, heres what i want you to do. It turns out to be great i wish i knew the guys name. But i dont learn anybodys nape in the course of movies. Stephen, of course,. Its all skipper and and captain. And if i dont know their names its always, there you are there you are. laughter stephen tell you what, were g to take another break. Well be right back with more tom hanks, everybody. Ill never get clean aper way ahead of you. avo charmin ultra strong. It cleans better. Its four times stronger and you can use less. Enjoy the go with charmin. But it might be hard to handle like the flame that burns the candle the candle feeds the flame topped steak twisted potatoes at applebees. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. 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When it comes to frequent heartburn, trust nexium 24hr. cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody. Thats tom haifngs. We have a new boch here by tom hanks called uncommon type. Some stories. I did not know you short stories. I did there. Stephen 17 short stories. I had i had a story published in 2014, and they called up and they said, you got any more in yet . And i said, well, how many . They said meeh, 15. 15 how long do they have to be . Er and my question was, is there any money to be made in short stories . And they said, yeah, quite a bit. And its its been on i must say, its been on the bestsaler list for a while. Stephen very nice. Stephen thank you, thank you. And i have made enough money to buy a new set of snow tires. Ad. Not bad. So its day job no, it was really it was wonderful and stephen the dedication, for rita and all the kids, because of norah. Yes. On sleepless in seattle met norah, and i was i was i was cloc l the left field fence there. I was doing pretty good in the old careerwise thing. Stephen you got a necklace. Di. I said i was a big shot and people should fear me, even though they didnt. So norah had directed one movie they actually liked, and we were we met, you know, and i met norah, and she had written the screen play with her sister, dealia. And i said things like, its cute. Its a cute screen play. I like it, i like it. I could see i could see what youre doing with this. Yeah, i could see what youre going for. There are some problems with it. And she said, what are the problems with it . And i said, ill share them with you. We started working on it, and she was a magnificent collaborator. There was one there was one day when we were talking about a thing for the script. And said, dealia, norah, you dont know squat about being a man laughter what i meant was being a father. They had written this scene where the father was going to go off for eye weekend with a lady that he met. And the son didnt want him to go because he wanted her him to stay and talk to the lady on the radio. Stephen weve all seen the movie. laughter . Anyway. So, so stephen its on right now on tbs. Might be on the grid. So i say the, look, no guys guys, guys, guys no man does that no father does that no way would they do that what would a father do . I said ill tell you what the father would do. You dont want me to go away for the weekend. Im going out with carla. You know why, because im going to get laid this weekend you squirt. Ive only been laid eight times. And they says, well, lets put that in the movie. And they sort of did. When it all came out and a few other beats like that. And i said to norah, that really worked. She said, you wrote that. I said, i complained during rehearsals. She said, thats what it is. You come up with things, and you didnt type it but you actually wrote it. Stephen thats where it again. She and i from that moment on, we exchanged everything we were sort of working on and going back and forth saying this is a thing. I sent her a piece i had written on my makeup man that ran in the New York Times, and i said, is this is this anything . And she said, yes, it is, but remember, voice, voice, voice, voice, voice. Which means she saw what i was going for. It was kind thereof, but it had no voice. And she knew how that a writer needs to establish something more than you gotta have you gotta have a cadence. You gotta have a percussion. Youve got to have a melody to your voice that i did not have. I was just writing down some things. So she she told me that i was a writer long before i thought such a thing would be possible, so the book is for her. applause . Stephen great. Thank you. Stephen well, i can keep this one . Lovely it see you again. The post opens next friday. Tom hanks, everybody applause . Studying to be a dentist and she gave me advice. She said. My daughter is. 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Hey google, order a Lego Batman Movie set. Your order will arrive on friday. Phew. Back to the sheep. Its Google Home Mini now only 29 a shift without a disaster. To get through my bargain detergent couldnt keep up. It was mostly water. So, i switched to tide pods. Theyre super concentrated, so i get a better clean. I mean, i give away water for free. Im not about to pay for it in my detergent. 1 trusted. 1 awarded its got to be tide. And for a plantbased clean, try tide purclean welcome back to the show the president of these United States has called my next guest everything from not a very good reporter to a great reporter, sometimes. Please welcome, katy tur applause stephen please, have a seat. Now, for the people out there, the few who may not know, youre an anchor on msnbc from 2 00 to 3 00. Yes. Stephen the name of the sh . Live on msnbc with katy tur. Stephen there it is, keep it simple. I watch it every day because thats the period of time im preparing to come down here. And i give you tip s. Stephen i have you on in the background. The Alabama Senate race was today. And, again, we dont know what happened yet, because its too heoyed early. Were pretaping this interview right now. Candidate havent destroyed you followed trump for 500 days, care . Trump, anmaave Something Like that. 510. Stephen 510 days. It ists worst. And he had his own share of its people just deciding, i like this person. I want him in office. Sexual harassment, sexual abuse i dont care what he did. Im going to find any excuse i scandals. You talked to the voters who can to to excuse his behavior. I was talking to a lady outside of a rally in florida, and this access hollyod nice older woman she was ch wearing a flowery dress, grandmother and one lone protester was playing the access Hollywood Tape on repeat. Grab them by the grab them by the and i said, what do you think of this . And she said, who hasnt said that . And i said, gosh, i havent said that. And she got very condescending. Oh, well arent you so so special. And i said, well, have you said it . And she looked at me like i had asked the her if she killed a puppy. No, of course, i havent said it, and she walked through. It underscores that people were willing to give him any excuse because they just liked him. They were entertained by him. They didnt like the system. They thought he was going to be a champion of their values whatever it was. Stephen sure. And thats why roy moore is enjoying some of the same support in alabama not, you know, statewide, but a lot of it. Stephen well, the old saw, the aphorism now made famous, you know, by the 1992 campaign is that its the economy stupid. Are these people all voting on economic interests essentially, and the democrats are dumb to run on things like these character issues because it doesnt work for them . Thats what steve bannon says. Thats his whole idea Stephen Steve and i are very close. I heard. He said so long as the democrats are running on identity politics, were going to win, because were talking about the economy. And that did resonate with a lot of donald trump voters, especially in the upper midwest, where he broke down that blue wall. So there is an aspect of that, absolutely. But it was also some voter apathy during 20 16. It was a dislike for Hillary Clinton and there were people who just didnt like the way the country was going, as in the way the country looked, as in who the president was in 2008 to 2016. Stephen as in was there anything about him that they didnt like particularly . Draw your own conclusion. Stephen what color crayon would i use to draw that conclusion . cheers and applause dont dont paint with a broad brush. But there was definitely a lot of that. Stephen well, again, 510 days on the road with donald trump. And now youve got a book of that experience called unbelievable my front row seat to the Craziest Campaign in american history. Thats an understatement. Stephen it is. So what is it like to be in the front row or even the back row because the press was often in the back row at these rallies, and he would use you guys as props. Stephen as props. Yeah. Stephen you were the bogeyman at the back of the room. We were actually in the center of the room. We would go to these arenas, and there would be thousands of people around us, up in the stands, and we would be dead center in the room, almost like a roman coliseum. And donald trump at one point he was talking about vladimir putin, how much he admired him, and he had been asked about vad pirmutein killing journalists and he waved it way, i would never kill journalists well, maybe, im not sure, but i really hate them. And were, meanwhile, in the center of this arena, with 500,000 people around us and turn on us and boo and laugh, laugh at the idea of us getting murdered. So it was surreal. It was bizarre. It was scary. It was disheartening, and it was also just completely thrilling because nobody in this country or even the world had seen anything qiek qooit like this. And i got to see it every single day up close for the good, bad, and the ugly. Stephen now, youve said that everybody covering trump needs to tone the rhymes with a duck down. What do you mean by that . With ydo people need to calm down covering him . I think if you take everything at a if screwer screaming about everything, and everything is the end of the world and a lot of it is very, very serious. Im not trying to diminish whats going on out there with the russia investigation, with the allegations of sexual misconduct. Stephen possible nuclear war with north korea. Possible nuclear war with north korea, thank you for remind meeg. I think those are very serious things but i think we need to pick and choose what we get breathless about, because if you get breathless about everything, even a ridiculous tweet, people arent going to take you seriously and you give fodder to the idea the media is all out to get donald trump and were looking for any reason to criticize him, i think thats a bad idea. I dont think its healthy. So thats why i say tone down. I dont mean it when were talking about north korea and nuclear war because i think thats terrifying. Stephen youre not always looking for ways to criticize president trump. No, were not. Stephen so Say Something nice about him. Hisitize are very long. Stephen they didnt hear you. What is it . His ties are very long. Stephen yes, hes well endowed in that area. Thank you so much for being here. Thank for having me. Stephen unbelievable is out now. You can its softer than ever. Charmin ultra soft is twice as absorbent so you can use less. And its softer than ever. 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