Plus stephen welcomes Stacey Abrams and Thomas Middleditch, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody there you go welcome to a late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. I want to give my wife a glass of champagne. You have been a rock the last couple of weeks. Thanks so much. Ladies and gentlemen, joe biden did it hes our next president im so happy i want to share this moment with you, my audience, i wish we could all be together in the theater, instead of being stuck in this converted storage room but thats not going to stop me from firing the tshirt cannon come on chris, catch this. Come on, catch it okay, jimmy, thats enough. Ill fire that thing back up. Ready at a moments notice. Every time someone groans at one of my jokes, it is go time bleep . Hear that . That means its working. There you go. Finally, after four years, americans can exhale. Unless youre near
Testimony from the dhs regarding its decision to ban residents of new york state from trusted Traveler Programs like global entry. Like global entry. On february 5, senior ghs official chad wolfe wrote to new york officials to inform them of the ban, without notifying congress and the members of the new york state delegation who sit on this authorizing committee. Mr. Wolf cited new yorks green light law, a justification for the ban, stating that the law, quote, compromises cbps ability to confirm whether an individual applying for ttp membership meets Program Eligibility requirements. Mr. Wolf then stated, quote, because the act prevents dhs from accessing new york dmv records in order to determine whether a ttp applicant or reapplicant meets Program Eligibility requirements, new York Resident wills no longer be eligible to enroll or reenroll in cbps trusted Traveler Programs. After that announcement, this committee continued to receive inaccurate and misleading testimony that repeated
Lansing. She addressed the covid19 pandemic and her goals for getting residents of her state vaccinated. This runs 30 minutes. I am honored to welcome all of you for my hometown of detroit. Last year was tough. Theres no doubt about it. But when our backs were up against wall, we saw some truly remarkable things and michigander stepped up in incredible ways to help each other. When we do things together, we are unbreakable. Thanks for the to the conviction and work ethic that fuels the soul of every person in our state. Now it is time for us to look Forward Together to write our next chapter. As president of the 101st legislature, i officially called the 2020 one state of the state address to order. Please an out of me to introduce my partner, the 49 governor of the great state of michigan, governor gretchen whitmer. Whitmer is addressing her state of the state address. This is different because it has to be. Tonight, it is tonight is just me and a few speed a few people in my capital
Man hadnt democrats. I cant shake the feeling that some people here are pulling for me. [applause] im delighted to see her tonight hillary. I feel right at home here because it is often said i share the politics of alfred e. Smith and the ears of alfred newman. It is an honor to be here with al smith. I never knew your greatgrandfather. Everything senator mccain told me, the two of them had a great time before prohibition. [laughter] of course im delighted to testify on the 18th amendment. I felt all along that this matter was the rank and file about people they would readily see that it had no place in our constitution. It would be very difficult if not impossible to come to this country for the coming generations to make it their business to see that no such matter is this is ever again made the subject to federal constitutional law. And youve been listening to the 2008 president ial nominees talking at that years ill smith dinner. Followed by al smith himself talking about prohibiti
A House Homeland Security subcommittee is looking into the Homeland Security departments management of the trust and Traveler Program that expedites travel across u. S. Borders, such as, tsa pre and global entry. Some new york state residents have been banned from the programs due to state laws on sharing drivers license information with federal agencies. Will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. Good morning. We are convening today in our continued effort to understand why this Committee Received inact are the and misleading testimony inaccurate and misleading testimony from the dhs regarding its decision to ban residents of new york state from trusted Traveler Programs like global entry. On february 5, senior ghs official chad wolfe wrote to new york officials to inform them of the ban, without notifying congress and the members of the new york state delegation who sit on this authorizing committee. Mr. Wolf cit