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Show with Stephen Colbert. Tonights covid. Plus stephen welcomes Sacha Baron Cohen and jeff tweedy, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now live on tape at 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. Im here from the lovely ed sullivan Theater Office building. My lady joins me over there. Hello. Stephen we are eight days from the election and excitement is spreading across the cou...

Professor farber now teaches at the university of kansas. Offersan history tv students a seat in the classroom. This fall semester marks the 10th anniversary of its debut. Prof. Farber so weve been talking these last few weeks out loud about a few core issues that have in many ways given thematic intensity to the 1960s era. Weve been trying to think about the meaning and reality of equality in the United States in the 1960s era. Weve been pondering what Democratic Practice could and should look ...

Point where president johnson has decided by early 1965 to begin a forthright military intervention by the United States in vietnam. And the reasons have been fairly compellingly laid out by johnson between 1964 and 1965. With the gulf of tonkin resolution in 1964, the president made his case that there was aggression coming from North Vietnam pointed at the south, and pointed at the United States as well in the attack on u. S. Ships in International Waters on that gulf of tonkin. And remember i...

To see nowadays. Before 1972, there were few primaries. Most of the delegates to both conventions, republicans and democrats, were elected through as we call it back channels, small party conventions, back room meetings, among various politicians. In 1968, 73 of democratic delegates to the convention had been elected this way. Less than 25 were elected in the way we normally do it now. Ly Lyndon Johnson had taken himself out of the race. He was not up for reelection in 1968, which initiate ad a ...

And the law, and it is interesting, but those who know me, i like the history. I think it would have been very good for the country if more historians were weighing in frequently, and the people who write about politics in the historical vein, and people who are thinking of what is coming before, and not enough of it, and so this is our meager attempt to do that. Before we are started, i wanted to say that this is recorded by cspan and you know the routine. So that means that when you get the mi...

Welcoming billin dinges. [applause] doctor dinges ok, thank you. Good evening, everyone. , anddelighted to be here im delighted you are here on muggy, welcome, to washington, d. C. In august evening. I am going to start this with this image. Up anoriginally conjured image of rough water everson. Ralph waldo emerson. I doctored it with long hair and beads and a headband. I looked at it a while and came to the conclusion this would probably verge on sacrilege. Thisad, i am starting with particular...

Television Companies Support cspan2 as a public service. Douglas you describe yourself survival of the richest is a humanist who writes about the impact of Digital Technologies but not a w futurist whats the difference between the two . Futurist is usually someone they come to to tell you what is going to happen in the future. I have been right about that a lot. So the call me futurist but im really a present just im more interested looking at describing accurately what is happening right now th...

Bet getting up Way Too Early on this monday morning. Morning joe starts now. My weekend coanchor was going to join me, but in solidarity with President Biden, i decided to lose all my black support. Nothing makes sense anymore. The candidate who is a famous New York City playboy took Abortion Rights away, and the guy who is trying to give you your Abortion Rights back is an 80yearold catholic. How does that make sense . Im not saying both candidates are old, but you know jimmy carter is out ther...

just. close in ohio, mayors on marijuana and abortion rights are on the ballot. reproductive rights are also the center the ballot for control of the state legislature, both houses in virginia. in all of tonights elections will be a test of a fascinating and defining political dynamic of the biden era, where we have seen democrats reliably outperforming against all odds. first, the incumbent party controlling the white house is usually at a disadvantage. boaters nationally react agains...

trying to appease other people. they tried to present it as him being, you know, a bold leader on this issue. i think in reality he knows that hes losing and donald trump is setting the tone on this issue, and i dont see that changing any time soon. >> well certainly watch the fallout in the weeks and months ahead. msnbc political analyst brendan buck, thank you as always. thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" on this wednesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. r...