applause stephen thats very sweet, thank you. But lets get back to the president. Do you know him well . I had a chance to travel all across the country with the president on Trump Force One. Stephen Trump Force One is not a thing. Youre insane. laughter look, you can be as condescending as you want. Stephen i can . Oh, good to know i love your forehead. Is it true its the inspiration behind the film three billboards . laughter and applause tell me, whats it like being a psychotic lapdog whos a mouthpiece for a mentally incompetent narcissist . Why dont you just give me three minutes to tell you the truth about the donald trump that i know . Stephen okay, fair enough. The floor is yours. Tell me about the donald trump that you know. Tragic and unfortunate. Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight president oprah . Plus, stephen welcomes liam neeson. Author Michael Wolff. And musical guests andra day and common. 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 band playing stephen how are you . Thank you very much hey, everybody cheers and applause thank you very much thank you thank you thank you, joe welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause lovely people here tonight. Let me ask you here something, did anybody here see last nights episode of oprah . cheers and applause laughter it was so great. Now, some people are calling it the golden globes. It was easily one of the most powerful, moving, meaningful nights of beautiful millionaires giving each other trophies. laughter and, oprah really her speech was so moving, even for oprah. I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon cheers and applause and when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight. cheers and applause and some pretty phenomenal men fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say me too again. cheers and applause stephen someone give that woman an award for winning an award. laughter cheers and applause piano riff people, of course did you hear this . People were immediately calling that speech president ial. And a year ago, i would have agreed. laughter jon whoa, whoa. laughter stephen but these days it played a little coherent. laughter now, oprah is denying any political ambitions, but two of her Close Friends told cnn she is actively thinking about running for president. Now cheers and applause now, ill tell you. Its interesting. I, for one, would love to hear that the state of the union is stroong laughter whoo cheers and applause but i offer a note of caution do we really want to elect another billionaire tv star . Granted, this one is actually a billionaire laughter and actually a tv star. laughter that said, one of the things that inspires me most about oprah is that i believe shes reasonable enough to consider the possibility that maybe being a billionaire tv star doesnt necessarily qualify you to have the launch codes. laughter then again, if we did ever go toetotoe with north korea, i believe she could calm kim jong un down just by helping him lose weight. laughter cheers and applause its a point system. Its all points, right . Its points. Jon its all points stephen you can eat anything you want i love pasta i love kim chi i love all of it jon yes stephen but listen, a lot of people think oprah belongs in government. For instance, donald trump does would you consider a woman for your running mate, and, if so, who . I threw out the name of a friend of mine, who i think the world knows of, shes great oprah. Id choose oprah winfrey. Shes really great. Stephen if you need any more proof that donald trump is delusional, he thinks oprah would take vice president. laughter no uhuh. Mmmm. applause speaking of delusional, a little bit later on, ill be talking to author of the Trump White House tellall of fire and fury, Michael Wolff, okay . cheers and applause and i believe, if im not mistaken, this is an exclusive this is the only interview hes doing for this book. laughter i think all his other appearances on tv over the last five days was promoting tonights appearance, where he will actually be interviewed on the book. Now, the book is just packed with nuggets of ohmygod. laughter if you have not read it yet, here are the cliff notes trump dumb. laughter staff worried. laughter for instance, heres one, when one of his advisers sat down with trump to explain the constitution, he says, i got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head. laughter cheers and applause piano riff boring boring get to the boring get to the part with the rapping and the music, okay . I cant believe this thing won a tony. Wheres pumbaa . laughter you know, Thomas Jefferson himself said, hakuna matata. laughter this book, this book has led a lot of people to question whether donald trump is mentally stable enough to be president. Spoiler alert laughter but, on saturday, trump slapped back the notion that hes incompetent, tweeting, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. laughter and applause jon laughter piano riff stephen being like really smart is not the same thing as being. Really smart, sir. laughter tootsie rolls are like chocolate, if chocolate was made of brown wax and disappointment. laughter not chocolate. Also, i think its worth mentioning that people who are mentally stable generally dont announce it. laughter if youre going under for surgery, the last thing you want your doctor to say is dont worry, im mentally stable and, like, really smart. laughter lets start stabbing cheers and applause piano riff he continued i went from very successful businessman, to top t. V. Star, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, to president of the United States on my first try. laughter i think that would qualify as not smart, but genius dot, dot, dot, dot, and a very stable genius at that laughter yes. Jon wow. Stephen yes, thats very important, extremely, extremely important, okay . Jon hes a smart guy stephen look, im a very stable genius. Now, if youll excuse me, its past my cheeseburgers bedtime. Lets go. laughter piano riff i love you so much. laughter and we all know geniuses spend most of their time talking about how smart they are. I believe it was Rene Descartes who said, i think, therefore, i am, like, really smart. laughter and, the trump tweettacular then swerved offroad to cite a flattering New York Post article his is turning out to be an enormously consensual presidency. laughter we did not consent. applause we had a safe word. cheers and applause sir, we agreed on a safe word. Its you lost the popular vote. applause now, if consensual seems like maybe the wrong word, thats because its the wrong word. The actual quote is, an enormously consequential presidency. laughter my presidency is very congenital. Life i believe life begins at consumption, and by the way, my mental stability is extremely conjunctivitis. laughter yeah. Of course, the biggest source for Michael Wolffs book is former white house advisor, steve bannon. And im worried about steve, because thats what he looks like when things are going well. laughter he has gotten a lot of heat, because, in the book, bannon called don jr. s trump tower meeting with the russians treasonous and unpatriotic. But after getting attacked by the president and threatened with losing his job, he folded like an origami cuck, writing, donald trump, jr. Is both a patriot and a good man. Well, there you have it. Don jr. Is a patriot, so that meeting wasnt treasonous and unpatriotic. 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He made up these media awards last week and said hed be announcing the winners. Jon yeah. Stephen we coined the term for these, the fakeys, and we actually bought a billboard in times square, put it there for your consideration, all categories. But then, the only thing dumber than the president doing this would be him canceling it today and pushing it back to when . January 17th, a week from wednesday. For the president of the United States, again, if we survive that long jon right, yeah, you never know. Stephen so well be announcing it next wednesday. So were in it to win it, the billboard will be up till then, right . Just cut somebody a check, cbs. laughter so it will be up till then. Wish us luck. applause jon yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Stephen i tell ya i dont have it here. That book that fire and fury book that Michael Wolff hell be out here in a minute to talk about that that book really got under the president s skin. Because he thinks that thing is fake media, and the white house has had a tough week dealing with the allegations in that book. So this weekend they sent out Senior Policy Adviser and shaved pauly shore, Stephen Miller. applause laughter jon wow is that him . Stephen thats him. Seems like a happy guy. laughter miller went on cnns id tap that with jake tapper to discredit the book. One of the tragedies of this grotesque work of fiction is its portrayal of the president. The reality is the president is a political genius who won against a field of 17 incredibly talented people. Stephen yes, he is a political genius, who pioneered groundbreaking strategies like yelling, and having a hat. laughter eventually, miller started to get upset with tapper. Its subtle, but see if you can spot it. Why dont you just give me three minutes to tell you the truth about the donald trump that i know and all of our Campaign Staff know because its my show and i dont want to do that. So. crosstalk stephen, stephen, settle down. Settle down. Calm down. Stephen oh my god, hes talking to miller like hes a 5yearold. But everyone knows that millers actual age is. 38 . 61 . 15 . Theres no way to tell. laughter unfortunately, telling Stephen Miller to calm down. Doesnt work. No, you have 24 hours a day of antitrump material stephen, youre being and youre not going to give three minutes for the American People to hear the real experience of donald trump . I get it. Theres one viewer that you care about right now, and youre being obsequious, youre being a factotum in order to please him, okay . Stephen hold on. Did jake tapper just call Stephen Miller an obsequious factotum . laughter looks like somebody got a word aday calendar for the holidays laughter and applause you, sir jon laughs stephen you sir, are a sycophantic dogsbody, a lugubrious mountebank, a spurious, perfidious neerdo well laughter finally, tapper had to cut him off. You know who i care about . I think ive wasted enough of my viewers time. Thank you, stephen. As republican lawmakers call for attorney general Jeff Sessions to resign, in a major reversal. Stephen lets turn now to breaking news douchebag stops talking, news anchor questions career choices. Wolff . laughter but it turns out and this is true miller was not done. Because its being reported that miller was asked to leave the set multiple times but refused, after which he was escorted out by security. Or as they call it in washington, the omarosa goodbye. laughter well be right back with liam neeson. Release the neeson cheers and applause band playing discover card. Customer service maam. This isnt a computer. Wait. Youre real . With discover card, you can talk to a real person in the u. S. , like me, anytime. Wow. This is a recording. Really . No, im kidding. 100 u. S. Based customer service. Here to help, not to sell. I like yours too. Hair. Can i have some . Its not cool to ask that. Thanks, captain obvious. 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Do you know who Steve Mcqueen was . cheers and applause stephen of course they know who Steve Mcqueen was sure. You just made my day. Stephen really . Thank you. Stephen also tom brokaw can pull this off. And liam neeson, youre very similar, the three of you. Thanks. Stephen how have you been . Cant complain. Havent been found out yet. Stephen okay, yeah, havent been found out in what way . Is this that you feel like youre a fraud or something . Yes. Stephen join the club. laughter yeah, its called imposter syndrome. Its, its waking up every morning and think, im an actor, people are paying me still to do movies and to beat up bad guys and stuff and stephen yeah. Im 65 and. Its great. laughter and applause stephen and youre afraid that theyre going to find out . Theyre going to find out. Stephen find out that youre too great . I did a movie with Anthony Hopkins many years ago. And anytime i see him now, we give each other a hug and i say, hows it going, tony . He says, great, i havent been found out yet. laughter and he believes it. Stephen what was the first movie that you ever did . It was for the evangelical outreach, it was a film adaptation of the pilgrims progress, which is still running in missions in africa, believe it or not. Stephen really . That was in about 1977 i think. Stephen have you ever gone to africa and people go, pilgrims progress, youre the guy laughter hey, its the pilgrims progress guy i know. Ive been to africa a couple of times and kind of gone laughter stephen was there some star in movies when you were younger, like, talking about Steve Mcqueen, was there somebody when you went, i want to be that, thats my model, thats the person id like to learn from on screen . It was all that bunch of actors in the john ford films. Stephen oh, like john wayne . Wayne, victor mclaglen, ward bond, harry caray theres just that little repertoire of actors. Stephen have you done a western . Ive done three and im making one at the minute. Hence, ive got this horrible little beard. laughter stephen its not a horrible beard. Im done a little western for the coen brothers, two more days to do. Stephen are you allowed to tell us what the name of the movie is . Its called, the ballad of buster scruggs. Stephen okay. And its six little separate westerns, all different stories, and im in one of them. Stephen black hat or white hat . I have a bowler hat. laughter stephen hard to read, hard to read. And i dont have a sixgun, unfortunately. Stephen oh. Well, you recently got cast in really, one of the most high profile and prestigious jobs you can g