Announcement its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes Hillary Rodham clinton. And emma stone. 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 cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody please, have a seat. Welcome to the late show, everybody. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause now, folks thats nice. Weve been on the road for the past week. Its great to be back home. Speaking of traveling, donald trump donald trump is on a trip to a very hostile region new york city. cheers and applause hes hes applause they love a hometown boy. Hes in town because this morning, he gave his First Official address at i want to say, Starfleet Academy . laughter radical klingon extremists. They violated the neutral zone. We had no choice. Of course, the president gave us a preview of his u. N. Speech yesterday, telling reporters he plans to make the United Nations great. Not again. Make the United Nations great. So not maga. Its mungnumung. cheers and applause its not the name. Its no secret donald trump has never liked the u. N. Hes been very clear about it. Back in 2012, he tweeted the cheap 12inch square marble tiles behind speaker at u. N. Always bothered me. I will replace with beautiful large marble slabs, if they ask me. laughter theyre not going to ask you. laughter you know what they talk about at the u. N. , right . Theyre going to ask you to send soldiers to uganda, not sconces to the lobby. Of course, the u. N. Was founded after world war ii in the hopes of creating a lasting peace. So, naturally, the highlight of the president s speech was threatening thermonuclear war. The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, well have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. Stephen and, yes, yes, destroying north korea would also destroy south korea, which is why im encouraging everyone in south korea to evacuate to east or west korea. laughter immediately. And the and trump doubled down on his new nickname for kim jongun. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. Stephen rocket man . laughter mr. President , please dont give our enemies nicknames that make them sound cooler i will destroy commander jetpack and admiral ice cream sex machine. laughter and trump had a major complaint for the u. N. Were not getting our moneys worth. The United States is one out of 193 countries in the United Nations, and yet, we pay 22 of the entire budget, and more. The United States bears an unfair cost burden. But, to be fair, if it could actually accomplish all of its stated goals, especially the goal of peace, this investment would easily be well worth it. Stephen hes right. Were paying top dollar, and were nowhere near world peace. I mean, i just saw some guy at the podium say hes going to destroy north korea laughter and donald trump called on the world to look to america for inspiration. The greatest in the United States constitution is its first three beautiful words. Stephen hes only read the first three words. laughter lets see, lets see here. cheers and applause lets see what we got. Lets see what we got here. We the people how long is this . Is there an audio book or anything like that . Ill paraphrase it later. Now, the most awkward moment had to have been when he brought up venezuela. The problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. Stephen i said, faithfully implemented. is this on . Is this is this so, you know who was also there at the u. N. Today, because theyre there every year. Its trumps buddies from russia. And there are some stunning new developments in the investigation. We learned over the weekend that Trump Lawyers are clashing over how much to cooperate with the russia inquiry. If only those Trump Lawyers were around when he decided how much to cooperate with russia. According to sources, the battle russia fans no, thats all right. No saber dance. No saber dance. According to sources, this battle pits white House Counsel and bass player of your dads band, donald mcgann, against trumps personal lawyer and man leading highstakes zeppelin race to siam, ty cobb. Cobb wants to give mueller as many documents as possible in hopes of getting the investigation over with quickly, while mcgann worries about setting a precedent that would weaken the white house long after mr. Trumps tenure is over. Yes, thats how trumps going to weaken the white house too much honesty. laughter that is kind of interesting news. How did we learn this . How do we know this is true . Well, we learned it straight from the mouth of trump lawyer and frontier dentist whos all gussied up for the barn dance, ty cobb. A New York Times reporter overheard cobb talking about the russia probe at a washington steakhouse. Either that, or the reporter confused cobb with the steakhouses mascot. How careless is this guy . Youre a lawyer just out there mouthing off in public where anyone can hear you . Thats like your therapist going out in the waiting room and saying guess whos having sex dreams about his cousin again . Pretty racy stuff. laughter but running his mouth in public isnt the biggest mistake made by trump lawyer and Wilfred Brimley tribute head, ty cobb. Cobbs biggest blunder is that the steakhouse is on the same block as the New York TimesWashington Bureau. Its 171 steps away from the Washington Bureau of the New York Times. Dont go to the same place that people eat who are out to get you. Thats like shaving in a shark tank while wearing a vest of pork chops. Oh, and this is huge. This is huge. We also just learned that the government wire tapped former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort, both before and after the election. This means cheers and applause sure, sure, absolutely. You applaud until they wiretap you. laughter this means manafort was under federal investigation when he interviewed to become Trumps Campaign manager. Okay, mr. Manafort, what would you say is your biggest weakness . Well, sometimes i think i work too hard. Oh, and treason. laughter now, we already manafort fans here tonight, evidently. We already knew the f. B. I. Conducted a predawn raid of manaforts house back in july, but now weve learned that instead of knocking, federal agents picked the lock on his front door, which required prosecutors to persuade a federal judge that mr. Manafort was likely to destroy evidence. Were not sure what they presented to the judge to prove that, but im going to say it was this picture. laughter whos that . applause those documents . Yes, i think i left them in the furnace room. Ill be right back. Now, if this seems like an aggressive investigation, according to one expert, mueller is setting a tone. Its important early on to strike terror into the hearts of people in washington. Yeah, youve got to set a tone early in washington. Thats why, on the first day of every session, Mitch Mcconnell walks up to the biggest guy in the senate and just shivs him. laughter yeah. Yeah. Or else mitch is sweet meat, man. Yeah. Theyre making turtle soup. laughter legal experts legal experts its not a metaphor. Its actual soup. Legal experts say muellers investigation is moving with unusual speed. Okay, thats nice. Heres the thing. We dont need unusual speed. We need high speed. We need maximum warp. Im talking, im talking applause star trek call back is that what that is. Yeah. Im talking law order speed, okay, like this sir, i can ask you a few questions . Of course. Fruit stands open at 2 00 a. M. , just like everyone elses. What do you know about a man named Paul Manafort . Manafort . Never heard of him. Oh, wait. Was a guy come by last week with his buddy dont remember the name. Blond hair, president of the United States. Last name clump, or dump, Something Like that. Anyway, on his way out, he leaves behind this file labeled, secret russia collusion plan. Dont ask me. Im just a guy unloading cantaloupes. Guilty. cheers and applause stephen we have a great show for you tonight. Emma stone is here. But when we come back, i will sit down with Hillary Rodham clinton. Stick around. band playing when youre close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment . If you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. Taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. 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Stephen did you have fun . Did you have fun . Jon i had a great time. The weather was nice, but im glad to be back here doing the show. Stephen absolutely, im glad to be here. It was fun. Ive got to say, im lucky enough to go to a bunch of these. It was the most fun ive ever had at the emmys, and ive won emmys before. laughter we lost we lost the emmys on sunday night. But you know what . No, its okay, because we lost to a dear friend, john oliver at last week tonight. cheers and applause theyre an incredible show. If youve got to lose, you have to lose to somebody you really admire. A bunch of people in that category i wouldnt mind losing to. And i know i made a joke after he won, or they won, with jimmy kimmel, where i said, theyre so good, they can only do one a week. But the truth is, they only do one a week. laughter but thats not on them. Theyre not lazy. Theyre working hard. Were insane doing five a week. Weve got the problem. Not them. cheers and applause so mwah youre the best. Officially. Please, have a seat. Please, have a seat. Folks, i am terribly excited because she was first a first lady, then a senator, then secretary of state, and i would have bet anything the next president of the United States. Please welcome Hillary Rodham clinton cheers and applause cheers and applause cheers and applause stephen thank you so much oh, stephen, its good to see you. Stephen its good to see you. Its an honor to have you here. Thanks. Stephen you have a new book. Its called what happened. laughter and i dont know how else to start this interview, other than saying what happened . laughter wow. Stephen what what happened . Well, thats the question i try to answer. Stephen okay. Yeah, because it was a question i asked myself starting on Election Night. And i started stephen what time on Election Night . laughter well, as i write in the book, midnight. Stephen yeah. Midnight. Stephen i remember. The dark time of the soul, midnight. Stephen yeah. Im waiting for it to not be midnight soon. Yeah, right. And so i i was asking it like you just said, what happened and i figured, maybe id better try to find out and figure it out. So thats why i dove into this book. It was very painful and difficult. But at the end, i really feel like ive done my very best to lay out what happened so that it doesnt happen again. I mean, thats my primary goal here that it doesnt happen again. applause stephen well, a lot of people have said, oh, boy, i wish Hillary Clinton would just go away. Yeah. Stephen just go away. Well, you know, if theyd take up a collection and send me somewhere really nice. Stephen really . I might consider it. Stephen obamas on David Geffens yacht a lot. You could go with him. Well, i am not going anywhere. cheers and applause stephen well, im glad youre not. cheers and applause cheers and applause i agree. At first, i could understand some of those calls. People saying, like, the republicans are tearing themselves apart. Dont give them someone to rally around in opposition to, because you were a convenient figure for them to unite against. Right. Stephen but i actually do not think thats how what is happening to our government is going to be stopped. I think its people who are willing to be civically engaged and believe in the promises of the progress of the last 50 years that will save this country. Thank you so much. I agree completely. Absolutely completely. Stephen but, wait a second. It must not have been easy. No. Stephen it must not have been easy to write this book. It wasnt easy. I mean, it was painful. It was horrible reliving it. And, you know, being as candid, open as i could be about the mistakes i made and talking about those. But, also, trying to come to grips, as i write in the book, about everything from, you know, sexism and misogyny, to voter suppression, to the unusual behavior of the former director of the f. B. I. , and the russians, and the russians. And you have been sounding the alarm about this, because i believe so strongly that they think they succeeded in messing with our democracy. And i just cant abide that. So stephen do you think they succeeded in messing with our democracy . Yes, i do, i do, i do. Stephen to what degree, influencing the vote or influencing opinion . Influencing voters, and, therefore, influencing opinion i think is becoming clearer and clearer. I dont know what the congressional investigation and i dont know what the special counsel investigation are going to find. Im going to wait for that. But i dont think anybody can with a straight face say that the russians did not set out to influence our election, and they did so. This latest revelation about the way they bought ads on facebook and targeted them, were going to find out a lot more, stephen. And i am saying as clearly as i can i feel like im a bit of a, you know, paula revere. Im trying to sound the alarm about this. Is that applause you know, youve got to understand what putins strategy is. He really doesnt like democracy. He thinks its an inconvenient, messy process. And he doesnt like us, and he wants to destabilize our country, sow doubt about our democracy. These latest revelations where you had russians pretending to be americans. Fake americans with fake news and fake stories and fake demonstrations. That wasnt just because hes bored and has nothing to do. He wants to undermine how we see each other, how we respect each other, how we support our institutions and our society. So i think that they believe they had a good outing in 2016, and i think they will be back in 2018 and 2020, unless we stop them. Stephen now you mentioned applause . That putin doesnt like democracy and he doesnt like america. Part of the speculation is that he specifically doesnt like you. Do you think this was personal on a certain level . I think it was mostly about the role i played as secretary of state, which he did morph into a grudge against me because i would say things like, you know, the russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy. Stephen questioning the legitimacy of his election in 2011. The parliamentary elections, thats right. And so our Intelligence Community and others have said that he did have a personal grudge against me. You know, i dont take it personally. I think its part of his world view which is all tied up with his anger, his disappointment in the collapse of the soviet union, and his feeling that were his number one rival. He wants to really undermine the europeanamerican alliance. And so i see it as you know, i was doing my job. I was honored to do my job, to stand up and speak out on behalf of American Values and our democracy. And partly because im a woman, which does seem to get him a bit agitated. laughter applause and he actually has said that. Some things about that. Stephen did he ever say anything to you personally that demonstrated his well, he demonstrated as i write in the book, you know, theres an expression, we certainly know it in new york, called man spreading. laughter stephen yes. applause and every time i met with him, it would be. Okay. The whole deal. A