cheers and applause cheers and applause announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, flynn flips. Plus stephen welcomes billy bush and Gwendoline Christie. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause cheers and applause stephen thank you very much from the heart. Please, have a seat youre very kind. Welcome. Welcome one and all to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. Well, it feels like christmas is here. Courtesy of Robert Mueller coming down the white house chimney with a sack full of subpoenas cheers and applause mr. President , i got you an early christmas gift, too. I just hope theyre not too big on you. cheers and applause because, in case you missed it, on friday, former National Security advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the f. B. I. , and it turns out, thats against the law. laughter did you know that . Lot of people dont know that. And most of them work for me. laughter but flynns not the only one in muellers crosshairs, because in court, flynn said that hes agreed to cooperate with the special counsels office. Woohoo he is singing like a canary well, actually, more like an angry shaved eagle. laughter and applause yes, flynn is turning on his old friends. Its like the old saying goes, snitches get significant time off their federal prison sentence. laughter because flynn was facing an all youcanserve jail buffet for charges including failing to register as a foreign agent, money laundering, and kidnapping. So, to save his own hide, he had to give somebody up. Who . Well, its beginning to look a lot like kushner cheers and applause because after the election, kushner is said to have ordered flynn to contact russia. Oh, that threestar general must have been honored to get orders from a nostar soninlaw. laughter kushner wanted russia to block a u. N. Resolution condemning israeli settlements. Now, at the same time, obama had just put sanctions on russia for tampering with the 2016 elections, and flynn called the Russian Ambassador and said, please dont respond to obamas sanctions, once we get in there, you know, wink, wink, nod, nod. And youre not supposed to make policy until youre the people in office. We only have one president at a time. Back then it was obama, now its vladimir putin. laughter piano riff and applause seems like a good guy. Strong leader. Very strong leader. Lucky to have him. laughter and not only okay. And not only that, flynn could avoid jail time by participating in covert Law Enforcement activities, such as wearing a wire. Michael flynn, a very good guy. Very good listener. Sometimes he asks me to say things two or three times, directly into his corsage. laughter very nice. So thoughtful. In fact, the white house is paranoid, and thinks theyre being recorded. Well, thats terrible, and flynn felt bad about it, so this morning he apologized by sending them an edible arrangement. laughter and applause many people say this situation cant get worse, to which donald trump said, hold my beer. laughter he doesnt even drink beer. On saturday, he tweeted, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the f. B. I. Okay, heres the thing trumps not supposed to have known that flynn lied to the f. B. I. , because, the day after he fired flynn, f. B. I. Director james comey says trump told him to go easy on flynn. That would be an admission to obstruction of justice. Its like cheers and applause big big obstruction of justice fans here tonight. laughter its like when youre trying to get out of one lie and you accidentally tell a much worse lie. laughter baby, i couldnt have been texting with my ex last night, i was too busy sleeping with your mom. laughter and you know mama dont let phones in the boom boom room. laughter but now trumps people are saying that he didnt write the damning tweet. Theyre saying it was written by trump attorney and norse god of sadness, john dowd. laughter jon oh, man wow. Stephen very powerful. So theyre saying trumps lawyer wrote a tweet in the voice of his client, without the clients permission or knowledge, and said tweet indicts the client for obstruction of justice. That is malpractice. I certainly hope john dowd has a lawyer. A lawyer way better than john dowd. laughter now, no one believes this. Even supporters of the administration called it sloppy and unfortunate. Sloppy and unfortunate, by the way, also eric and don, jr. S Secret Service code names. laughter and applause i like em. Everybody loves those boys. And now dowd is saying it dont matter who wrote the tweet because the president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief Law Enforcement officer and has every right to express his view of any case. audience reacts or, as nixon famously said, when the president does it, it is not illegal. Also, if youre using the same defense as me, youre totally screwed because i was a crook. laughter so Ahhh Ahhh Ahhh so the president s lawyer seems its a fine line from this to Ahhh Ahhh Ahhh so the president s lawyer seems to be taking the fall for this damning tweet. But dowd isnt the only attorney who would do this for a client. I mean just take a look at this ad. Are you the president of the United States . And a moron who confessed guilt on twitter . Then you need the services of galino and farnes. We dont just defend you in court, well take your confession and say we wrote it for some reason. Well take the heat for the tweet and it doesnt stop there. Whatever crime you committed, well say we did it. Embezzling . That was us. Armed robbery . Guilty as charged. Caught standing over a dead body with a bloody knife in your hand . Thanks for holding my murder knife, frank, i would like it back. Wink, wink. So call galino and farnes today. Or send us a message on your own twitter account. Weve already got the password. Galino and barnes you know you can trust us to take the blame for obstruction of justice no Habla Espanol cheers and applause stephen good guys. Quality, quality legal counsel. Jon galino and farnes piano riff laughter applause stephen and trump wasnt done tweeting. He also threw his sizeable weight behind republican candidate and sheriff of teen town, roy moore, tweeting, democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive tax cuts is why we need republican roy moore to win in alabama. We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, border wall, military, pro life, v. A. , judges, Second Amendment and more. No to jones, a Pelosi Schumer puppet and nobody wants a puppet in the senate. But if moore gets elected, they will need a few more of those show me where he touched you dolls. audience reacts applause piano riff laughter stay. This administration has been super chaotic so far, and we know the Campaign Last year was just as crazy thanks to some new inside dish from former Trump Campaign manager and man being asked to leave the strip club, corey lewandowski. Lewandowski just wrote a book called let trump be trump. I dont want trump to be trump. At this point, im ready to let trump be pence lewandowski released an excerpt this week that depicts trump butting heads with Campaign Chairman and man who opened nursing home just to steal residents jewelry, paul manafort. Lewandowskis book describes one particularly Heated Exchange after manafort attempted to get trump to cut back on the tv appearances. He quotes trump as saying ill go on tv any time i bleep bleep want and you wont say another bleep word about me tone it down . I want to turn it up im a pro at life. laughter adding, i know guys like you, with your hair and your skin. Trumps so jealous of anyone who has their own hair and skin. laughter applause with your fingers and your feet, with the torso and the elbows. Lewandowski also recounted some fun stories from the campaign, like the time former press secretary hope hicks used a steamer to press trumps pants while he was still wearing them. It makes sense. Because come on what woman would ever want to say, mr. 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Stephen okay. laughter by the way, if thats i would also like to say thats not me on the bus. laughter you dont get to say that, because i was there and the last 14 months of my life i have been dealing with it. You dealt with it for 14 minutes and went on to. Be the president. Stephen all right. Dont give away the ending. laughter so remind us about the specifics of the tape. If you dont mind, im going to roll the tape and explain to us can we make a deal its the last time or no . Stephen well, heres the crazy thing thats actually a really good point because you have this new editorial you wrote in the New York Times printed today, and i dont know when you wrote it or wanted to say whats in here, because its a wellwritten editorial and you make a lot of points in here which its really worth reading, but no one would have printed this unless this story had come back around again by donald trump privately denying it. There wouldnt have been sort of the moment to bring this bus back, and i couldnt show this footage of the bus unless he denied it again, too. I dont think cbs would have let me. Thats right. No, look, he last week, for some reason came out with thats not my voice on the tape. Like i said, you cant say that. That is your voice. I was there, you were there, thats your voice on the tape. And what that does though is multiple i told you about my own personal problem with it, but then youve got 20 women at the time i dont know what the exact number is because there is more but 20 women who used their names. Weve got powerful people being held accountable now and sometimes theres anonymous sources. All of these women came out with their names and told their detailed accounts. So when he said this, it infuriated me on the personal front, and then i ended up googling, and i read an article with all of these womens accounts because, when that article first came out, it was 13 days after i had been fired, so i was in my own personal shock, fight or flight, um, and, so, i never really read it all the way, and as i read these, i said, 20 women dont get together and say, hey, you know what would be really fun . Lets take down a powerful guy together. Ha ha. No, they dont. And their names. And i said, okay, youre reopening wounds on them, too. Enough is enough. Stop playing around with peoples lives. cheers and applause that upset me. So i wrote. Stephen well, and as i said, this him saying that actually brought this particular subject around in conjunction with sort of the cultural moment were in right now right. Stephen where revelations of sexual abuse, Sexual Harassment and sexual impropriety are putting new spot light on the accusations of the president. And he stuck, im going to say his finger, in this door hinge by denying this. Its really the dumbest thing he couldve done. Hes a dumb, dumb person. I described it cheers and applause i described it stephen hold on to your describing. No, im trying to keep you from airing it. Stephen were going to air it no mater what and cut everything other than this clip. Jim . Stephen okay, whats your reaction when you hear it almost a year and a half later . Oh, it was well, the first time i heard it was three days before it leaked and, so, it was like a gut punch. Its a gut punch now. It will always be. At the time, you know, it was 2005, and his ratings were through the roof and he was the big star of nbc, and i sort of equated what he was saying to some kind of, you know, crass standup act, like a andrew standup act, like a Andrew Dice Clay performance, you figure thats not dice when hes home, he doesnt actually do those things. Stephen but the camera wasnt on him. Why did it seem like a performance to you . Because he was regaling the seven guys on there and doing this bit. Stephen so he was just sort of lying to impress you . If i thought it was a man detailing a Sexual Assault strategy to me i would have called the f. B. I. , not just reported it to my executive producer. So, you know, that was it for me. Stephen so why were you on the bus with him to begin with again . Well, it was season three, i guess, of the apprentice. I was with him a lot. I was with him all the time. Stephen nbc show, youre the host. Yes, like i wrote in the op ed, a lot of us were, the big word is complicit, but everyone has to kiss the ring a bit of the donald because he was making so much money for nbc. So i was with him all the time. Stephen and where was he wearing that ring . laughter laughter and applause piano riff i dont want to make too light of it because you state in here i dont know exactly the phrases you use, but you feel shame when you think of your behavior, being associated with donald trump, that you gave up some part yourself to a man that you didnt respect. Thats right. Well, i mean, no question, i feel like i sacrificed a little bit of who i am in the moment, and, like i said, i dont know if well ever get to the place where we advance the conversation, because right now were talking to victims and perpetrators and were seeing story after story after story. But eventually we all say in the media we would like to see the conversation elevate, and when we do, well get into how do you talk to boys in peewee hockey locker rooms and teach them when the conversation gets degrading, how do you either exit the conversation, change the topic or intervene in some way . Theres a lot that needs to be done on that front. I hope that we do get there, because ive spent a lot of time thinking about it. Stephen can i ask you a few of the things that he said that i didnt understand . Sure. Stephen i moved on her like a bitch, but i couldnt get there. I dont understand that sentence. laughter what does that mean . A lot of what he says i dont understand. Stephen no matter how i interpret it i dont understand. What did you take it to mean in the moment . I dont know, i think he was calling himself a right . I think he meant him, which is totally confused and backwards. You know, he gets going and i dont think he really knows stephen he said i took her furniture shopping. Does that seem like a common foreplay to you . laughter how could you resist an armoire . I mean, on top of the advances of donald. Stephen mmhmm. No, i moved on her that really confused me, too. But, you know i called him he was like a repeater. He repeats things twice, says them twice because his mind is catching up to where he went, you know what i mean . laughter its going to be beautiful. He says whats next . Im going to say beautiful again while i think of whats next. Thats what he does. Stephen you said youre not proud of your behavior on that bus. Youre laughing along with everybody else at the horrible things hes saying. Yeah. Stephen i would describe your behavior as boorish and sort of callow, but youre not the person bragging about assault, youre not the person accused of assault. No. Stephen one of you lost your jobs, and one of you became president of the United States. Its ironic. Stephen do you remember which one of those is at this point . laughter am i the president . Stephen no, youre not. No, i lost my job. Stephen what did you think, when you saw him get elected . That night. Because i had my own reaction, what was your reaction when you saw this guy get elected . Stephen, its an unbelievable irony. The very day that he was swearing in as the 45th president of the United States, i was checking in to this soul searching retreat in santa lena, california, nine days off the grid, no phone, you had to check in your phone. And you just kind of it was the beginning of me saying, all right, get up, stop being sorry for yourself, stop worrying about these things, theres life to live, lets go, get better. Be a better man, better person. So i passed the television in the office when i was checking in. Hes got the hand up and im going into my little cabin to do the work. Tough. Stephen yeah, yeah. Irony. Stephen how do you feel about nbc firing you . Especially in light of matt lauer being fired for allegations of actual sexual impropriety . Look, it was a difficult time. I think it was very hot emotionally in the country. A lot of people were not comfortable with the man who was close to winning the election, and a lot of things happened quickly, but my boss, later, months later, said publicly, i think we may have moved a little quickly, on stephen did they move on you like a bitch . Is that what they did . laughter cheers and applause i set myself up. Stephen but do you think you worked on the today show. You had just been recently a co host of the today show. Matt lauer controlled that show, he could have protected anybody and he did famously protect people from being fired from that show. Do you wish he would have protected you . We had a conversation about that. Um, and he told me that he went privately to the bosses and took that line. I said i appreciate it and accepted it and thanked him. Stephen okay, so you believed he did it . Yeah, i will say i would have liked a chance to have been able to address the audience that following monday, but it was right after the debate and i think the tape made it in time for the debate, so i didnt get that. I would have liked to have addressed the audience. Stephen would you like to do it now . Well, here we are. Stephen what do you think this means in the context of the cultural moment were in right now where women must be believed . Yeah, i agree with your question. Women must be believed, and we kind of have to find our way to have the dialogue. Im worried that the dialogue isnt going to be around because we have all these we get on to the next thing, we get on to our phones, the next outrage comes, we have to continue it all the way through, and i hope we do that. Stephen interestingly, this particular moment were in hasnt ended. No. Stephen it started with harvey weinstein, at least the latest iteration of it, and goes on to this moment. I think the bus ride was the tip of the iceberg. Stephen ive got one more thing to ask before we go, did you tweet this the other day . Put an instagram . What happened to you in this photograph . I was playing golf with some friends and i got hit in the face with a threewood one away from a driver from 60 yards and it went careening, a terrible slice right into the side of my head. Stephen and is there any chance donald trump hit that ball . laughter i did see a golf cart speeding away. It was a guy in a pair of pleated khakis, very high, white shirt, red hat, going quickly. Stephen giant ass . laughter terrible panty lines. applause but the doctor told me if it was half an inch higher you might have died. And i said, im finally lucky, this is great. Stephen wow. Well, thank you for being here and for this editorial. cheers and applause billy bush, everybody its worth reading Gwendoline Christie is coming up, but when we come back, everybodys favorite subject taxes. 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The president wasnt there, so everybody was kind of free to be. laughter stephen oh, okay. Jon you know . Stephen yeah, i would normally host. Jon i know, they were asking a lot about you. They were saying wheres stephen . Whats going on . And i told them you had a big interview to prepare for today. Stephen yeah, i did, yeah. And people would like to keep me away from washington as much as possible. laughter jon i think you should have gone. Stephen really . Jon i think you could have said a lot of nice things about whats going on in the world. Stephen i could say nice things Lionel Richie and l. L. Cool j. Were on this week. Did you say hi for me . Jon yeah i did, i told them hello and then i told them goodbye. laughter stephen that works out. Jon actually thats wrong. I said, hello, they said, wheres stephen . And then i said, hes not here. Goodbye. laughter applause stephen thank you. Jon thats how that went. Stephen well, i wish i could have been in washington, d. C. Just to congratulate the Senate Republicans because they finally did it, and by it, i mean anything. Because, on saturday morning at 2 00 a. M. , they passed a tax bill. Its called the tax cuts and jobs act, shortened from the original name the billionaire strokejob act. laughter you might remember how trump unveiled the plan last week. With trump as your president , we are going to be celebrating Merry Christmas again, and its going to be done with a big, beautiful tax cut. Stephen yes, this bill celebrates the true meaning of christmas a poor Family Living in a barn after being spurned by a hotel owner. Because see, in the story of the nativity, they cant get into the inn. laughter read the bible. Because all my jokes are better if you read the bible first. laughter because when they said this tax cut would help millions of people, they meant people with millions. Though, republicans say the bill will lead to a middleclass miracle, and theyre right because it will be a miracle if we still have a middle class. The bill will cut the tax rate for big businesses from 35 to 20 , the biggest reduction ever for corporations. But they promise itll be good for you because of trickle down economics. Now, if youre not familiar with how trickle down economics works, thats cause it doesnt. laughter but never has. cheers and applause piano riff but the idea is that cutting taxes for the wealthy and big corporations will spur them to invest and create new jobs. As you can see from this informal poll of Business Leaders at a forum last month with white house economic adviser gary cohn. Can i ask you all a quick question . If the tax reform bill goes through, do you plan to increase investment uh, your companys investment, capital investment, just a show of hands, if tax reform goes through . Okay. Why arent the other hands up . laughter stephen come on, guys, why arent your hands up . We talked about this. Stop drinking champagne and slapping orphans there are cameras here. laughter now, this bill comes at a price. That price . Money. The c. B. O. Estimates that the tax bill will increase the deficit by 1. 4 trillion. That is a huge loss well, trump did say hed run the country like he ran his business. audience reacts applause really . Thats it . Dont make fun of the mans casinos. Hes someones little boy. laughter but the bill is unpopular with one segment of the population people. laughter because just onequarter of americans approve of the g. O. P. Tax plan, with 49 of people who are aware of the measure saying they opposed it. But its still polling very well amongst unawareamericans, like the lobbying group coma patients for whatevers going on right now. laughter so, how did the republicans pass something so unpopular . Well, as quickly as popular laughter piano riff as possible. Look at this video posted late friday night by montana senator john tester. Its the night were going to be voting on the tax bill. I just got the tax bill 25 minutes ago. This is the tax bill. See how thick it is . Heres the modifications that are in it. I can read one word, its called add this language. Can you tell me what that word is . Stephen okay, ill try. Attrib attribadablix. Attribadablix. Yes. Its a common word as in, this bill is going to hit the middle class right in the attriba dablix. laughter applause well be right back with Gwendoline Christie. cheers and applause band playing resolution 1 binge more. Join the uncarrier, and get four unlimited lines for only forty bucks each. Plus, netflix for the whole family. On us. So, they get their shows. Lets go, girl youre gonna love this bit and you get yours. Watch however you want. On your phone, tablet, or tv. For just forty bucks per line. With no extra charges. 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Obviously for the few people who may not know, theres brienne of tarth. cheers and applause okay, and here is captain phasma right there. cheers and applause let me ask you something, the last movie, you know, i really enjoyed it, im looking forward to the next one, but i kept on waiting for you to take this damn helmet off so i could see Gwendoline Christie. Did you think you would be taking the helmet off in the last movie . Well, when i was lucky enough to be cast in star wars, it was a tiny, tiny role. It was only a couple of days. And a few things evolved, actually, which was disney found that the character was really working for them. J. J. Created this character, and what they loved, and i particularly loved about it, is in all the Mainstream Media and entertainment, we are not used to relating to a female character based on, conventionally, much other than the way the woman looks. So in films, you know, i always used to get very frustrated when i was little about the fact that the woman seemed to be the girlfriend character, the mother, or nonessential to the plot and often would be scantly clad in some way. So the idea of a genderless suit of armor for a female character in a Star Wars Film where youre not forming a relationship with her based on how she looks, on how her body looks felt exciting to me. It was a practical suit of armor and that air of mystery in an age we live in where there is just an avalanche of information actually felt really refreshing to me. Stephen i like practical suit of armor. cheers and applause practical suit of armor stephen you are known both of these, because thats a practical suit of armor right there. Yeah. Stephen and thats a practical suit of armor that is in space stephen i know. Its not like the princess leia. God bless princess leia. But just like the brass up here and down there. Yeah. Stephen normally women are given a breast plate and not much of one at that. And you dont need anything more. Stephen exactly, and a thong or Something Like that. Yeah, youve got your thong to keep you warm, love laughter stephen let me ask you this, how funky does it get inside these helmets . What are you trying to say . Stephen it must be get kind of sweaty in there. Oh, you mean that, not that ive got a disco going on inside it. laughter stephen no, i dont mean funky like disco beat oh, thats what i thought you meant no, im in there enjoying myself, doing a sort of egyptian stephen how sweaty . If you think for one second that i perspire, you are wrong. laughter applause thats the first thing. Stephen you glow. I didnt glow, captain phasma glows stephen j. J. Said youre his favorite character in the new star wars movies. What is it thats so special about captain phasma . Is there anything i guess what im saying, is there anything you can tell us about what captain phasma does . And i should have you know that ive already spoken to mark hamill, ive talked to j. J. And theyve told me about the big surprise. Yeah. laughter stephen and whats your impression of that big surprise in the movie . Well, let me just go ahead and tell you what happens in the end. Stephen oh, that would be great. Well turn off the cameras. laughter can you tell me anything about captain phasma . What i can tell you stephen does she have a happy childhood . What do you think . Someone like that . Stephen no, i dont think she had a happy someone who likes to Wear Clothing that devoids them of any senses clearly had a very happy childhood, feels comfortable and relaxed with the world, no issues here. laughter um, i think what i can tell you stephen yes. Is that well, weve seen a trailer. Do you know what . Im feeling spicy. Weve seen a trailer. Stephen yes. And in that trailer there appeared to be some kind of conflict. laughter have you watched the trailer . Stephen yeah, i have. Sure, sure. You and finn. Okay, now i know you watched the trailer. Stephen what do you think im going to lie to one of my guests . I dont know, weve just met stephen i see every movie, i read every book. Okay, now i know that. Stephen im lying. I dont really laughter who are you . Youre as mysterious as captain phasma laughter stephen you grew up in the english countryside, i understand. Yes, i did. Stephen what was the own town you grew up in . I grew up in a tiny village at the foot of the downs stephen the foot of the downs . Yes, which are hills. A down is a gentle, rolling hill, where i come from. Stephen okay. Thats where a young, tall girl grew up and was released into the world, and spent her days in forests and fields. That is all true. Stephen this is all true. This is true stephen your parents would release you into the world . Go forth, child go forth and frolic in the woods laughter stephen are there things that you could do like do you still live in the country . No, sorry. Stephen do you miss it . No, sorry. laughter stephen did you study in london . I did. Stephen okay. Where did you go . I went to drama center london, which is a classical methods school. Stephen okay, as opposed to. . Just a classical school. laughter stephen and was this sort of method acting is like stanislovski. That sort of thing . He said an actor no less than a soldier must be subject to iron discipline. Were they iron disciplinarians there . I actually remember, in our very first year, you had to help out in the thirdyear productions, and they kind of broke you down and made something out of you in a way where you put yourself back together. We had to work on the third year productions and we had to dismantle the stage after theyd done the agent showcase. And i walked in and said, hello, what can i do . They handed me a scaff spanner and said, get down on the floor and start dismantling the stage. 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