Please. Impeachment is a bunch of bull. Wow, a little over the top, isnt it she seems insane. Donald trump is my line . President. Sorry, it is a tough role. You are an actor, act like you like him. Okay, you got this. Can i just do something if guys dolls like sit down, sit down, sit down youre rockin the boat. Its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight no quid, no co, plus helen mirren and the kids from master chef, jr. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. Now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause . Stephen come on whooo hello, friends. Beautiful. Thanks. Welcome. Welcome one and all to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Folks, the hits keep oncoming and today we have more huge news from our nations capitol. The House Intelligence Committee has Just Announced it will hold its first open hearings as part of the impeachment inquiry on wednesday november 13th. Yes. applause there st. Boom. There you have it. The shif hits the schiff hits the fan, next wednesday, hump day wouldnt want to be trump day. And if the transcrypts theyve already released are any indication, this is going to be tres cay, bay bay, and i will till the latest in tonights edition of don and the giant impeach. Lets call up ukraine for help. Stephen now a couple of weeks ago remember a couple of weeks ago when republicans were freaking out that the testimony was all happening behind closed doors . Well, this week adam schiff cracked those doors open and i believe we have footage of the republican reaction. Today, today we got testimony from top american diplomat to ukraine and shaved grinch bill taylor, laughter . Stephen now taylor knows what he is talking about when can am comes to ukraine because mike pompeo personally recruited him to be the state department charge daffaires, yes, charge daffaires, as opposed to back over here where trump payed for his daffaireses by dcheck. Taylors testimony undermines every argument the president has made so far. For example, taylor testified my clear understanding was that Security Assistance month would not come until the president of ukraine committed to pursue the investigation. He was then asked so if they dont do this, they are not going to get that, was your understanding taylor answered yes, sir. Then was asked are you aware that quid pro quo literally means this for that. Taylor replied, i am. The president has been saying no quid pro quo. All this time and now his own diplomat is saying yeah huh proco. What else has the president been lying about. Is mexico not going to pay for the border wall . Would he not date ivanka if she wasnt his daughter . What do you believe any more. Taylor also made it clear he knew the political impact of this, as i understood the reason for investigating barisma was to cast Vice President biden in a bad light, which he went on to say benefited a Political Campaign for the reelection of president trump. Well, if it is for a Political Campaign, the law requires the standard candidate disclaimer. Im donald j trurch and i approve this. Corruption. Stephen yeah. Puts it out there, you got to know it. applause . Jon its corrupt. I dont mess with that. Stephen at one point taylor said the secretaries of state and defense as well as the head of the cia and the National Security were all trying to get a meeting with the president to convince him to release the ukraine aid that congress had lawfully appropriated to help ukraine fight the rushans who had invaded their country. But they konlt get their schedules to line up. Taylor testified it turns out, mr. Chairman, that those principals were on different trips at different times. I think this was also about the time of the greenland question about purchasing greenland which took up a lot of energy in the nfc. The chairman replied okay, that distishing for a whole different reason. Hmmmm. Yeah. applause . Jon this is what we are dealing with. Stephen no, same reason, and you are about to impeach him. And this is just the latest. Yesterday we heard from ambassador to the eu Gordon Sondland seen here saying his beloved catch phrase guuurrhh. laughter i got my job by giving a Million Dollar to the iugust racial fund. Inauguration fund. He testified under oath that he wasnt aware of any quid pro quo with ukraine but after other officials testified that he was the quid pro quo bagman, he rushed out to submit a supplemental declaration, officer, i dont have any drugs in my car. Oh, you found a baggie of white powder in my car. Then i would like to submit a supplemental deck laration that i am coked to the gills, but in my defense, do you want to party . No . The sondland sunday awareness that he didnt want to go to chail butt pumps de fenders in a bind. As one gop house member put it without a doubt this is the biggest political pickle trump has ever been in, yes strks a vlassic case of gherkin around an ally. Stand definitely not kosher. And someone, someone liked that joke more than shall thank you, thank you darling. Thank you, darling. When the facts arent on your side your only hope is ignorance. Enter South Carolina senator and man yelling at the waiter, i was told these bread sticks would be unlimited. Lindsey graham. Now just a few weeks ago graham told axios this. If you could show me that, you know, trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing. Stephen well, the transcrypt clearly show that. But. Im not going to read these transcrypts. How tragic. Stephen graham is clearly working through the fif stages of republican impoochment grief, anger, denial, wont read, cant read, no hablo ingles. Well, well. Thanks. applause lindsey, lindsey, lindsey, im sure you are watching so you dont have to read it i will just summarize the transcript in three little word, dont look away, dont look away, lindsey, dont look away, dont look away. Lindsey, dont dont laughter i dont have the i dont have the vertical. applause the impeachment hearings arent the only bad news trump is dealing with right now, because last night there were elections all over the country and america got hit by another blue wave. applause . Stephen yeah. Surfs up, democrats, grab your boogie boards and get ready for Bernie Sanders in a speedo. Oh there is no reason to he looks pretty good for a 145 year old man. One big win came in kentucky where apparently Democrat Andy beshear has won the race for governor over republican governor and man smiling over commercial voiceover lists of rectal side effects matt bevin. Bevin lost by about 5,000 votes and as of this morning he refused to concede defeat. Yeah. He will not, proving once again that republicans are the party of men who wont go away after you say no. Bevin has long applause beferin has long been unpopular in kentucky so on monday night trump went down that person leand made this promise. If you lose, theyre going to say trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the worlds. This was the greatest. You cant let that happen to me. Stephen how could you do this to me, kentucky. We both worship the same god. Chicken bucket. In the name of the biscuit and the slaw and the extra crispy. Of course now now applause of course now that bevin has lost trump never met the guy. Last night he tweeted hashtag election night, one five out of six elections in kentucky including five great candidates that i spoke for and introduced last night. Wow, imagine hearing that from your surgeon. Hi, mrs. Oneill, your husband did not make it. But i have five other patients who are doing fine. Because they were never sick. He tweeted on matt bevin picked up at least 15 points in last days but perhaps not enough. Winning in mississippi governor race. Oh, come on, hes taking credit for a republican winning in mississippi. Thanks to me, a republican won in mississippi, and a catholic has been elected pope. laughter but i i applause father, son, extra crispy. But for democrats kentucky was just the appetizer because a few miles to the east virginia is now officially a blue state. applause . Stephen democrats control both chambers in the state legislature and the Governors Office for the First Time Since 1993. Oh yeah, baby the 90s. The 90s are back, baby. 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Tiffany announced they are selling a 112,000 dollar holiday advent calender containing 24 pieces of jewelry like a tiffany t twohinged bangal in sl carat rose golds with pave diamonds valued at 15,000. It is the perfect way to say im sorry you had to be the first baddee. But its not just jewelry. The Tiffany Ender also has the every day object sterling silver paper cut. The tiffany every day object sterling silver clothes pin and the 400 dollar every day object sterling silver harmonica perfect for blaiing the blues because you dont have a gold clothes pin. You might be saying 112,000 for an advent calender. Konlt that be more expensive . Yes, yes, it could. Thanks to my luxury lifestyle brand covetton house. Bar okay simplicity, shabby elegance, give me money. Covetton house. applause . Stephen here at covetton house we know the reason for the season. But were ignoring it and selling jewelry instead. 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Stephen please welcome helen mirren and ian mckellen. applause applause . Stephen come now. Well, it is so lovely to see you both. I dont know who is going to enjoy this anywhere in the world more than me. Because i have interviewed both of you individually but never together. I feel i should be wearing a sunscreen or something. We have never done an interview like this before together either. Stephen you have never done a movie before together, i find that so hard to believe. Yes. Stephen two giants in your own craft, both who live in london, why is this the first thing you have ever done together . You know, it is just the way it happens, isnt it we have been swimming in the same river for a long time, all of our careers, obviously. Ian has always been a hugely admired actor for my whole life, you know. And i was following along, watching him be bril yent. Brilliant. applause we did do a play together on broadway. Stephen on stage, right here. Dancing away. But never it a movie. Stephen an are you both renowned shake speersian actors, is there a part you never got to play in shakespeare that you still think oh, i want to be. Jude as and im looking for romeo. Julyette and im looking for a romeo. Stephen rise fair son. Im ready. Also, probably also juliette, i never played juliette but also hamlet. Stephen americas next juliette. Maybe we do it a romeo and juliette. You want to play juliette, that is an interesting one. Anyway, hamlet, lear, corialane surks. I played all of those parts. Of course you have, you are a man, you get to play those. Stephen you played prosph, ra. I did play. Stephen my apologies for my you also each have some very interesting individual projects of your own. I know that you helen are playing katherine the great in the new hbo mini series that premiered last month. Yes, yes. We are reinstating her reputation, she was very maligned by history. Stephen terrible rumors. Really bad, you probably all heard them. But absolutely untrue. And what very often happens to successful women in power is that they get de meaned and diminished often through sexuality and that is exactly what happened to katherine. Katherine was actually an unbelievably brilliant. Stephen what made her great. The fact that she expanded the empire of russia that is why she became stephen that is happening again. And she wasnt russian. She was german. Yes, she was. She she was an extraordinary woman and you know, watch t find out more about her. It is brilliant. Stephen and ian, of course, me ow. Are you playing gus the theater cat in the highly anticipated cats. Now we are idris all ba on awhile back talking about his training that he went to what they call cat school, he said. Yeah. Stephen to learn to you to move like a cat, how did cat school go for you. He is a professional. I didnt bother going to school. I just found my inner pussy. applause and you found it. And i found it, yes, i did. Well, the thing about cats is if you saw the joe, did you ever see it on stage. Have i not. Well, its all about cats but the. Hence the title. Although i prefer to see a show called dogs, wouldnt you like to see that. Stephen i would. Wouldnt that be lovely. But the point is these are actors who are playing cats, they are not cats. And so we. Stephen hold on, let me. Process that for a moment, you got a little technical for me. It means we walk on two legs rather than four, for example. And i promise you, judi i dench does not vey tail, nor do i. Though i would rather like one, dont you think it is terribly rather fun. St