Ryneric middleaged white guys, man. This is humiliating. Ont me just tell you. No, no, no. We will get this before the credits roll. Is it steve bulloc its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Plus, stephen welcomes jeff daniels and katy tur and Jacob Soboroff 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 stephen wooo live, baby stephen wooo thank you, my friend. Hello hello, all my dear friend. Good to see you out there. Jon, good to see you. How is it going, sparkles . You doing good . Thank you for being here. Audience stephen stiffen stephen. Stephen i feel exactly the same way. Stephen soaked in electric dpals. You can feel it. You can feel it. Its coming up. Its coming up. Please, have a seat, everybody. Welcome. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. We are live after night one of the democratic debates, this is e e second round of debates, so debate night 2 many
Lets kick things off tonight with the puzzling decision by the president to return to the campaign trail starting tomorrow. Hes preparing for an inperson blitz of battleground states tomorrow. He is here in florida, tuesday its pennsylvania. Iowa wednesday. A threeday swing in states he grabbed in 2016 but appears to be losing hold of in 2020. The latest polling we have tonight shows trump with an uphill climb. The Washington Post abc news poll puts him down 12 nationally among likely voters. Ahead of his campaign sprint tomorrow, we got a small preview of what to expect from the white house balcony saturday where the president held a, quote, peaceful protest for law enforcement. Simply put, a Campaign Rally that we have now learned was put together by conservative activists. His son eric spoke about it this morning. Everybody who attended the white house event yesterday, they had their temperatures checked. It was outdoors. They were wearing masks. Anyone who goes within 500 yards of
Election. She asked me are you registered to vote . After seeing her for my appointment. I said no. She had a lan yard around her negative a neck and says pull out your phone and take a picture. Now shes encouraging others to vote. I have already tried to get my sisters to. And i talked to my parents about it. Thats all i can do. Hopefully they take action from there. Its the top of the hour. On josh johnson. In new york. This is the week. Glad youre with us. Theres plenty to talk about. With 23 days to election day. Thursday president ial debate is cancelled. Supreme Court Hearings begin tomorrow. Well talk to the Biden Campaign National Press secretary about the strategy going forward. Were catch up on the latest polling. And explore the differences between poll watching and voter intimidation. Whats allowed and whats illegal. Also, actor cal pen is here to talk about engaging young voters. After we explore what young voters are thinking, well talk to three senior voters from arizona
This republican pocket of liberal new york city where 57 of the 2016 vote went for donald trump. It went beyond the belief that trump was the better candidate. Voters here told me that joe biden wasnt really a candidate at all. Oh, hes a puppet. Hes just a puppet. The belief was widely held, but it wasnt rooted in evidence. Whos controlling him . The clintons. Aoc and all of them. Nancy pelosi. The voters i spoke with were committed to their version of events, even when that version departed from the Public Record. This country is in a big mess. If the democrats get in, god knows most of the people supports them are looting and burning down businesses. These guys are a bunch of thugs. You didnt hear joe biden condemn the violence . He should have done that from the beginning. Theres no place for violence, no place for looting or destroying property or burning churches or destroying businesses. I didnt hear anybody. In the absence of a Public Record in cases where one simply does not ex
Preparing to deliver his state of the union speech tonight under the cloud of his Senate Impeachment trial. Republicans are hoping he avoids that subject entirely. I think most of us are tired of impeachment. I think theres a lot of things that he needs to talk about. And before tomorrows final vote on the president s likely acquittal, signs that both sides are looking for a way out. Censure would allow a bipartisan statement condemning his unacceptable behavior in the strongest terms. The house could have pursued censure and not immediately jumped to the remedy of last resort. I cannot vote to convict. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where after failing to get any explanations last night, the campaigns are finally being briefed at this hour by iowas Democratic Party about the total failure to produce results. Now its onto New Hampshire for most of the candidates where the primary is a week from today. Joining me now, msnbc katy tur and Vaughn Hillyard in des m