Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, checks and unbalanced. Plus, stephen welcomes will smith and andrew scott 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 oh, my goodness hey, everybody, thank you so much. Welcome to the late show. I am your host, Stephen Colbert. Things arent going well for donald trump today. Half of Congress Absolutely hates him, and the democrats arent fond of him, either. laughter ill tell you all about it in tonights don and the giant impeach. I dont like to be the sucker. Stephen now a lot of people have been saying up tow this point, people have been musing publicly, when is the constitutional crisis coming . Well, mark your calendar, tattoo it on your forehead, and flip off your boss, because its here. This afternoon, the white house delivered on their previous obstruction of justice with an official letter telling the house of representatives that trump will not cooperate with their impeachment inquiry. Yes. booing dont get him wrong. Dont get him wrong. Trump would like to help with their inquiry into his conversation with ukraine but, tragically, he has phone spurs. laughter the white house cheers and applause the white house the white house made the announcement in an officially bitchy eightpage letter to congress, writing, given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections, the executive branch cannot be expected to participate in it. Wait, wait, wait, wait. You cant just not participate in your own impeachment. as judge sir, you are charged with assault and battery. How do you plead . as defendent uh. Pass . laughter can i buy a vowel . I would like to. The letter is full of absolutely bonkers arguments, telling the democratic leadership, you have denied the president the right to crossexamine witnesses. The witness is trumps incriminating phone transcript, which he released. If he wanted to, he could crossexamine himself. Where was i on the night of the phone call . I was on the phone ahha well, let me ask you this, if thats the case, did you get any dirt on joe biden . laughter applause now, the letter same letter applause the letter whines on, the president cannot allow your constitutionally illegitimate proceedings to distract him and those in the executive branch from their work on behalf of the american people. The president has a country to lead. Yes. And its ukraine. Hes leading them straight into putins arms. Come to papa. This letter came to the house, just hours after the house was all set to hear testimony from ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, seen here realizing, im going to jail for that guy . House democrats want to ask sondland about a series of texts he sent to the former ambassador to ukraine, which revealed that trump put pressure on the ukrainians to investigate joe biden. But sews lawyers learned the administration wouldnt let the ambassador testify, after the state Department Left a voice mail last night at telph 30 a. M. First off, state department, just text. Nobody wants to listen to voice mail. Also, anybody who calls that late only one one thing hi. Hey, gordon, its me. Its me, under secretary for trade negotiations. I was just calling because i was thinking how much i want you not to testify tomorrow. Gordon. Gordon. What are you not wearing . Notice, according to house intelligence chairman adam schiff, sondlands testimony is not the only thing the white house is blocking. We are also aware that the ambassador has Text Messages or emails on a personal device. The state department is withholding those messages as well. The failure to produce these documents we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress. Stephen and obstruction of an impeachment inquiry is itself grounds for impeachment. This whole thing is like that m. C. Escher print hands cuffing themselves. But trump, trump they love esher jokes. They love. But trump insists that he has nothing wrong, nothing to hide, tweeting i would love to send ambassador sondland, a really good man and great american, to testify. But, unfortunately, he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court. First,un this is congress and not a court, right . Second, you also know that there are no actual kangaroos. Theres also no koala bailiff, no dingo judge, the gavels not a boomarang, and the jury is not all crocodiles dundee. laughter i ask i ask because the whole kangaroo metaphor, this theme has been popular among republicans. Take florida representative and star of frat baby matt gaetz. What we see in this impeachment is a kangaroo court, and chairman schiff is acting like a malicious captain kangaroo. Stephen as gaetz chairman schiff is a malicious captain kangaroo. Trumps being railroaded by the terrifying thomas the tank engine. laughter this whole thing is a load of howdy doody, and its brought to you by the letters f and u. laughter cheers and Applause Congress no, im mad no, im still in character as matt gaetz jon put it down stephen Congress Still wants to hear from the original whistleblower who started this whole thing. And theyre taking every precaution. In fact, House Democrats are considering masking the identity of the whistleblower from trumps g. O. P. Allies in congress. Hold on. The whistleblower is defending democracy and gets to wear a mask. Is it this guy . cheers and applause thank you, cap i dont know who it is. I dont know who it is. The democrats are also considering having the whistleblower alter his voice, possibly with modification technology. Possibly with modification technology. What other way would they possibly do it . President trump has betrayed our nations core ideals and turned his back on all that we stand for he must be removed from office before democracy erodes beneath our feet. I say this not just as a patriot but as a member of the Lollipop Guild the holly pop guild the Lollipop Guild i represent the Inspector General and wed like to go and drag your ass to jail oh, thats good. Thats a high. Thats a high. Jon get it all in. Loving you is easy because youre beautiful thank you. applause cheers lets turn now to trumps recent phone call with turkish president erdogan, in which trump sold out our kurdish allies. And a National Security official with direct knowledge of the call said trump got rolled. Thats not hard. Get him to the top of any hill and give him a little shove. The official also argued that abandoning the kurds sets a dangerous precedent, and hurts American Foreign policy in the long term, saying, we are telling the world we will use you and throw you away. Which, coincidentally, were also trumps wedding vows. Now, trump fired back based on a true story. That joke is based on a true story. Trump fired back at his critics on twitter, we may be in the process of leaving syria but in no way have we abandoned the kurds, who are special people and wonderful fighters. Doesnt being in the process of leaving mean the same thing as abaoning . Its like a father saying, im not abandoning you kids. Im just in the process of leaving for a pack of cigarettes and never coming back. Youll be fine. Youre wonderful fighters. laughter but he applause all right. But the president tweeted on, likewise, our relationship with turkey, a nato and trading partner, has been very good. Turkey already has a large kurdish population and fully dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot understands that while we only had 50 soldiers remaining in that section of syria, and they have been removed, any unforced or unnecessary fighting by turkey will be devastating to their economy and to their very fragile currency. We are helping the kurds financially weapons laughter applause as trump hey, kurds, id like to help you financially weapons le me give you a few bucks guns and a Little Pocket change bullets ill throw in some coupons nunchucks laughter trump also cheers and applause trump also wanted to remind everyone that turkey is our friend, tweeting, so many people conveniently forget that turkey is a big trading partner of the United States. Also remember, and importantly, that turkey is an important member in Good Standing of nato. He is coming to the u. S. As my guest on november 13. He . Laugh what the thats confusing. Is the he turkish president erdogan . So does that mean trump calls other World Leaders by their countrys name . as trump we are america. Nice to meet you, turkey, france, bleep hole. laughter now, trumps decision to abandon the kurds has upset even some of his most loyal supporters, like televangelist and Discount Halloween decoration, Pat Robertson. laughter robertson was on the 700 club and he said this i am absolutely appalled that the United States is going to betray those Democratic Forces in northern syria, that we possibly are going to allow the turkish to come in against the kurds. The president of the United States is in danger of losing the mandate of heaven if he permits this to happen. Stephen what the huh . The mandate of heaven. I wonder if he really has lost the mandate of heaven. Lets ask the main man of heaven himself. God, everybody god, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Hey, stephen hello, all of you made in my image. Looking good stephen hey, lord, its been a while. Yeah, sorry, ive been busy. Im a consulting producer on god friended me, sundays at 8 00, 7 00 central. Only cbs. laughter stephen yeah, i hear good things. But did you hear that statement from Pat Robertson claiming that trump is in danger of losing the mandate of heaven . Oh, he is. Im seriously considering not voting for him this time. Stephen wait, what . You voted for trump . Yeah. Im his core demographic angry, old white man living in a gated community. Also, hes been really good for my 401 k . laughter applause stephen well, why would you be turning on him . I dont think hes fit to be commander in chief. Last night during prayers he asked for dirt on joe biden. This time im voting for andrew yang. I really need that 1,000. Thats the sound of the lord voting for the yang gang stephen god, everybody. Weve got a great show for you tonight. 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You come into my house, and they love you more than me . You know, i was just backstage jealous you were getting all the love. I said i need some of that on my face. Stephen thank you for being here. Youre a busy man. I know, im doing a lot. Stephen besides the premiere of gemini man this weekend. Yup, absolutely. Stephen but you also and i love this. You were down in atlanta. Oh, yeah, down in hotlanta. Stephen tyler perry has created his own studio. His own studio. Stephen on 330 acres just outside of atlanta. Absolutely, yeah. applause . Stephen people are call. People are calling it black hollywood. Yeah, black hollywood. Already. He better make some movies to pay for it. Stephen i found out there are, like, 12 sound studios. It was spectacular. Stephen film studios. And one is named after you. Yeah. Stephen the will smith soundstage. Yeah, it was fantastic. Yup. applause . Stephen what did that mean to you . You know, it was so beautiful. It was, like, you know, everybody that showed up for him. The soundstages are set on what used to be a Confederate Army base, right . You know, so, its like, tyler was, you know, 20 years ago was homeless, you know. So for him to make that transition and to create this place, and everybody that showed up, you know there was me, and halle berry and denzelle, and oprah oh, yeah, there you go. Stephen oprah and steadman right there. applause you know, it was it was just really a spectacular evening. And oprah got oprah got the big stage at the end. Thats the one, the Oprah Winfrey sound studio. Shes open rarks you know. Because i was happy with mine, you know,. Stephen yes. laughter . And then i saw oprahs. laughter stephen you know what . Ive had that receipt experience very similar. Im very happy with my house. Yeah. Stephen then i saw oprahs. Yeah, you know. laughter yeah, oprah just got and you know whats interesting about oprah. Like, oprah has been famous so long, that whoevers there, when oprahs there, youre her assistant, right . laughter you just have to help oprah. Stephen sure. Like, oprah will just start walking, and, hey, miss winfrey. You just feel like you have to assist. Stephen yeah, happily though. Yeah, very happy, you know. Ive seen barack get oprah something to eat, yeah. laughter applause yeah. Stephen wow. Okay, lets talk about your new film gemini man. I saw it last week in, i think, ang lees in his screening room. Yes. Stephen here in manhattan, which is, like, best possible situation to watch it. 120 frames. Per second. Stephen 4k. 3d. Stephen 3d, unbelievable. Ang lee what, he did with this film is really spectacular. Hes trying to he realized that home systems are you know, your Television Sound and screen at home are spectacular now. So hes trying to create a new reason for people to go to a movie theater. So with the 120 frames per second meaning its super clear. The cameras are so crystal clear, and he wants it to respond like you see real life. And youre being immersed into the 3d. You have to see it in 3d. I know you can see it on the regular screens, but you have to see it in 3d, because it is really its not old school. Its not your daddys 3d. Stephen i kind of want to see it twice. Ive seen it once now in the maxed out everything, and now i want to see it, like, in 2d, like 24 frames per second, just to see the experience. It really felt like i was in the film. It was like i was young will smith. laughter . That seems that seems that seems strange, mr. Colbert. So this character this is the first time im sorry, i didnt mean to cut you off on your own show. Stephen no, no, no, youre the guest. You actually can cut me off. I can only cut you off you always get to talk first. Good, because i come in and im stealing all your love. Stephen no, no, i dont want to interrupt you ever. Please go, please go. One more thing though laughter okay. Sorry, go ahead. Oh, man. No, so this character is the first ever 100 digital human. The young will smith so when you see it it isnt deaging. So its not me playing the character and they just stretch out my face and make me look younger. It actually is a 100 digital character, right. Its the first time ever. Stephen right. So ang you know, the technology that he created stephen but you fight yourself. I fight gliez how do you fight a purely digital like facetoface press and slamming each other into walls. How do you fight purely digital there has to be something there. There are stunt people. So do you it with stunt people. Stephen okay. And then they totally replace the stephen person. The person there, and then they put in the young will. Stephen how did you how did you pick the young will actually, before we do that, lets see a little clip of you and young will. So they can know what were talking about. Thats why youre you. You saw that the audience, we were getting above their head, right . And you said you decided in the moment. I saw it happen in your eyes. Stephen right. You said, lets show them a cl