Then stay tuned for stupid and afraid. Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, baltimore problems plus, stephen welcomes idris elba, maude apatow and musical guest Perry Farrell, 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 theme song playing stephen hello whoo howdy howdy doody perfect perfect ready to wrestle. Do you wrestle . Do you wrestle . Have a seat, everybody thank you very much what a lovely crowd, what a lovely, lively crowd theyre alive on this planet. Welcome to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. Im going to start the show. cheers and applause im glad to hear it. I love the energy in this room right now. Im going to start the show tonight with some, and i hope im pronouncing this correctly, good news . laughter is that right . Its been a while, its been a while. laughter as you know, my friend jon stewart has been working with police and firefighters, and other advocates cheers and applause for a couple of years now, to try to get congress to permanently reauthorize health care for 9 11 First Responders. It was a nobrainer, and eventually, they got congress to wrap their nobrains around it. laughter piano riff today, donald trump held a ceremony in the rose garden to sign the bill. It was a good thing, done by a terrible person. laughter like when vlad the impaler would give each of his victims a starbucks gift card. laughter thoughtful. Jon oh wow. Stephen and, like he has in other recent speeches, trump ha sounds. In a few moments, i will sign the barpartisan to fully reauthorize the nineelective eleven Victims Compensation funds. Stephen as trump its like they always say about that terrible day, narver fahglep. laughter narver fahglep, jon. Jon thats what they say. Stephen never, narver, narver, fahglep. laughter trump told the First Responders he didnt only stand with them now, he also stood with them then. Many of those affected were firefighters, Police Officers and other First Responders. And i was down there also. But i am not considering myself a first responder. But i was down there. audience reacts stephen trump just cant help but insert himself into everything. as trump i just watched end game. Great movie. The iron man and the fat thor and, i was there, too. I dont consider myself, i dont consider myself an avenger. Because i was rooting for thanos. laughter he had some good ideas. cheers and applause piano riff to claim that, while youre not a first responder, you were down there with them after 9 11 has got to be the worst thing ive ever heard. If he hadnt already said this i was down there, and i watched our police and our firemen down on 711, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down. Everyone who helped clear the rubble and i was there, and i watched, and i helped a little bit. audience reacts stephen as trump yes, i helped out a little bit on 711. laughter of course that was in july, so things were fine. laughter so glad i wasnt there on 911, i hear it was not good, not good. laughter narver fagleb. laughter piano riff but i do think its remarkable that our president claimed to stand by the heroes of one of americas great cities. Because he spent the weekend trashing another Great American city. And ill tell you all about it in our ongoing segment is donald trump a racist . Episode three million. laughter cheers and applause stephen i dont know. Jon been going on for a long time. Stephen previously on is donald trump a racist . Yes. laughter and applause but some people, some people still arent convinced. Not even after his twitter attack this weekend on chairman of the House Oversight committee and man watching his white coworkers explain get out to him, Elijah Cummings. laughter cummings recently criticized the conditions at the mexico border, so trump took offense, tweeting, as trump rep. Elijah cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men and women of Border Patrol about conditions at the southern border, when actually his Baltimore District is far worse and more dangerous. His district is considered the worst in the usa dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot as proven last week during a congressional tour, the border is clean and efficient, well run, just very crowded. Cumming district is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place. audience reacts booing trump is president of the united states. Fun fact do you know where baltimore is located . The united states. singing as trump God Bless America except baltimore theyve got rats there no maga hats there i avoid it because they are poor cheers and applause humming now, a lot of people called trumps words racist, so he fired back on twitter there is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know, that Elijah Cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district, and of baltimore itself. Dems always play the race card when they are unable to win with facts. Shame oh, so the only reason to call somebody racist is because you cant win an argument with facts. Interesting. He continued, if racist Elijah Cummings would focus more of his energy on helping the good people of his district, and baltimore itself, perhaps progress could be made in fixing the mess that he has helped to create. as trump im not the racist, hes the racist. After all, i wouldnt have said anything racist at all if he was white laughter now, reverend al sharpton announced that he was going to do an event in baltimore today to protest trumps racist tweet, so trump fired out another one i have known al for 25 years. Went to fights with him and don king, always got along well. He loved trump he would ask me for favors often. Oh, thats nice. Theyre friends. Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing. Must have intimidated comcast nbc. Hates whites and cops heres how out of touch the president is, he thinks hates whites and cops is more damning than, hung out with donald trump and don king. laughter trump sent out, trump sent out staff and harry potter explaining that voldemorts got some good ideas. laughter Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney went on the fox news sunday, where a friend of the show, Chris Wallace brought up the pattern of trumps racism you say it has zero to do with race, there is a clear pattern here, mick. The president tweeted about john lewis, a black congressman that he should this is before his inauguration he should spend time in his crimeinfested district. Then, two weeks ago, he goes after these four members of the squad, all women of color, and says they should go back to the crimeinfested countries from which they come. Then he talks about Elijah Cummings and he says his district is rat and rodent infested. Infested. It sounds like vermin. It sounds subhuman. And these are all six members of congress who are people of color. I think youre spending way too much time reading between the lines. Does anybody crosstalk wallace, im not reading between the lines. Im reading the lines. cheers and applause stephen nicely done nicely done jon hey, thats the line cheers and applause stephen nicely done bravo bravo Chris Wallace just stepped up to Mick Mulvaney and said, hey, mick, read between these lines. One imagines, one imagines. cheers and applause mulvaney continued does anyone watching this program dispute the fact or the possibility that if adam schiff has said the same thing about the border, that the president would be attacking adam schiff the exact same way today . I dont think hed be talking about his crimeinfested, rodentinfested district. He very well could. It has zero to do with the fact that adam is jewish. audience reacts jon whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa stephen wow pro tip if youre trying to distance yourself from accusations of being a white supremacist, maybe dont use the excuse, Donald Trumps not racist hed say the same thing about jews laughter another trump defender on the sunday shows was florida senator rick scott. He was on nbcs chuck the meet, and his brain done broke. But that justifies a racial resentment tweet in response . Is that president ial leadership . Well, look, i, i, look, i didnt do the tweets, chuck. Stephen as scott uh, oh, ah, ehh, oh. Im just. stammering piano riff im just going to keep making sounds till you cut to commercial. Uh oh, ah, ehh, oh laug before that interview started, fun fact, rick scott had a full head of hair. laughter and it wasnt just baltimore. Trump also tweeted, as trump speaking of failing badly, has anyone seen what is happening to Nancy Pelosis district in San Francisco. It is not even recognizable lately. Something must be done before its too late. as trump San Francisco used to be a beautiful city where joe dimaggio would drive a cable car right up to your house with a hot ricearoni. laughter today, tony bennett left his heart there and it was stolen by a homeless guy. laughter ump r york, los angeles, and chicago, and called the people owstupid. At this rate, hes going to take the flag and replace half the stars with poop emojis. laughter weve got a great show for you tonight. Idris elba is here. applause but when we return, how many democratic president ial candidates can you name . Stick around cheers and applause band playing twentieth reunion. And these new highrise slim straights are it. Take that jane fineberg. Take what . Jane i see youre still a weirdo. Made a whole career of it babe. Shop fifty percent off all tees, forty off all dresses, and thirty off all jeans. Now at old navy. Applebees handcrafted burgers now starting at 7. 99. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood now starting at 7. 99. So chantix can help you quit slow turkey. Rkey. Along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. With chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, youll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. 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Ahh cheers and applause band playing Stephen Jon Batiste and stay human, everybody cheers and applause jon, i am super excited. Ive wanted an interview from our first guest for a long time. Jon hey. Idris elba is here tonight. Jon oh wow, oh yes cheers and applause jim one of the biggies. Cant wait to see him come out here. Jon yeah, yeah. Stephen first of all, folks, this is your official reminder that tomorrow and wednesday are the second round of Democratic Party primary debates. Thats right, its going to be a real and i believe im coining this term donkey show. laughter and, thats not all. Because the late show will be live after the debates, both nights, tuesday and wednesday. cheers and applause jon im on live, im on live stephen yes we will be live on tuesday. We will be live on wednesday, which means i will be dead on thursday. laughter theres going to be 20 candidates oh, hello. Theres going to be candidates onstage over the two nights. That is so many candidates, the Property Brothers are in there and you didnt even notice we put them in there. laughter right down over there right in the middle. cheers and applause im, even im having trouble remembering who they all are. Which is why id like to bring someone on the stage right now up here to help me get them straight. This is the late shows guess who. Is probably not going to be president. Okay, i need someone to come up here and help me. cheers and applause do we have a volunteer . Raise your hand, if you want i saw you first. There you go. Hey, come on up, come on up. Thanks very much. There we go come on up, well put a mic on you there. Have a seat right here. Please, thank you very much. All right. cheers and applause hi. Hi. Stephen whats your name . Im christie. Stephen im stephen. Thank you so much for being here. Where are you from. Im from seattle, washington. Stephen youreg way e. Om stephen do you come to new york often . No, this is our first trip. Stephen oh wow, who is we . My son is with me here tonight, and my husband and daughter, theyre out exploring the city now. Stephen okay, do you understand what were going to do now . A little bit. Stephen i am going to hold up actual photos of actual democratic candidates, these are people who are running for president , who will be in the debates, over the next few days, and i want to see if you can identify who they are. laughter all right. You ready for this . Do you vote . Yes. Stephen good for you. Well, you should, okay. cheers and applause so important. Okay, christie, can you tell me who this man is . Look at the monitor and youll see. Can you tell me name this candidate . No. Stephenau this is corado senator michael bennka fu gan is Michael Bennet 2020 a chicken in every pot, a sporty fleece on every dad. laughter now that ive told you his name, does it ring a bell . It rings a little bell. Stephen okay. But not the slogan. Stephen that is a death knell for his campaign. laughter can you name this woman . Shes a friend of oprah. Oh, yes, marianne . Stephen what . But i cant think of stephen her last name . Stephen she doesnt need a last name. She expresses everything through one sound. laughter this is marianne williamson. If youre having trouble remembering her, i recommend opening your heart chakra and inviting the universe to gift the name into your head. laughter cheers and applause im going to kick up the Difficulty Level here a little bit, okay . Im not doing well to begin. Stephen going to get a little tougher. Youre doing great. Again, you are like most americans, you dont know whalt. Which one of these two is democratic candidate and senator Kirsten Gillibrand and which one is kate sidly, the number one Real Estate Agent in putnam county, five years running . laughter cheers and applause no help, no help from the audience, please. Which one is which . Left is stephen which one is gillibrand and which one is dont, no help i dont know. Stephen which one is which is the Real Estate Agent and which one is gillibrand. Real estate agent. Stephen thats correct. This is the Real Estate Agent. This is kristen gillibrand. Oh, she won laughter i forgot, i forgot there was a point system. Im on the board . Stephen yes. But if youre looking for a modest three bedroom with good bones and good schools, dont wait, call kate. Okay . Okay, all right. cheers and applause heres a toughy. This is not fair. Who is this . No, i know. I know. Sorry. Stephen i dont know either. laughter cheers and applause i was hoping if you could tell me. I dont know. piano riff stephen okay. Heres a gimme. Who is this candidate . Who is that . Biden. Stephen i sorry, what . Joe biden. Stephen it is. Its joe biden. cheers and applause of course, this is Vice President joe biden. Of course, the photo he prefer i show you is this one. laughter thank you for playing our game cheers and applause thank you for having me. Stephen we have some gifts for you. We have some gifts for you. This is to help you get through the debates. laughter erso heres one, may i put this on you . Yes. Stephen heres one that just says i guessed randomly. laughter thank you so much. Well be right back with idris elba cheers and applause band playing somebody living with hiv . Keep being you. And ask your doctor about biktarvy. Biktarvy is a complete onepill, onceaday treatment used for hiv in certain adults. Its not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights hiv with three different medicines to help you get to undetectable. That means the amount of virus is so low it cant be measured in lab tests. Serious side effects can occur, including kidney problems and kidney failure. Rare, lifethreatening side effects include a buildup of lactic acid and liver problems. 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